Cannygan: Edge-Preserving Image Translation with Disentangled Features

Abstract

The image-to-image translation task often associates with the problem of missing texture and edge information. In this paper, we proposed a framework to translate images while preserving more realistic textures and details. To this end, we disentangle the samples into shared content space and domain-specific style domain. Then, according to the blurred outlines and textures in the source domain, we introduce the classic canny edge detection algorithm to encode the boundary and edge information in the content latent space. We test the proposed method in the thermal to visible image translation scenario and the experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms several other state-of-the-art models.