TY - JOUR AU - Liu, Bingchen AU - Song, Kunpeng AU - Zhu, Yizhe AU - de Melo, Gerard AU - Elgammal, Ahmed PY - 2021/05/18 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - TIME: Text and Image Mutual-Translation Adversarial Networks JF - Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence JA - AAAI VL - 35 IS - 3 SE - AAAI Technical Track on Computer Vision II DO - 10.1609/aaai.v35i3.16305 UR - https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/16305 SP - 2082-2090 AB - Focusing on text-to-image (T2I) generation, we propose Text and Image Mutual-Translation Adversarial Networks (TIME), a lightweight but effective model that jointly learns a T2I generator G and an image captioning discriminator D under the Generative Adversarial Network framework. While previous methods tackle the T2I problem as a uni-directional task and use pre-trained language models to enforce the image--text consistency, TIME requires neither extra modules nor pre-training. We show that the performance of G can be boosted substantially by training it jointly with D as a language model. Specifically, we adopt Transformers to model the cross-modal connections between the image features and word embeddings, and design an annealing conditional hinge loss that dynamically balances the adversarial learning. In our experiments, TIME achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance on the CUB dataset (Inception Score of 4.91 and Fréchet Inception Distance of 14.3 on CUB), and shows promising performance on MS-COCO dataset on image captioning and downstream vision-language tasks. ER -