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Poster
Improving 3D-aware Image Synthesis with A Geometry-aware Discriminator
Zifan Shi · Yinghao Xu · Yujun Shen · Deli Zhao · Qifeng Chen · Dit-Yan Yeung

Thu Dec 01 09:00 AM -- 11:00 AM (PST) @ Hall J #203
in Poster Session 5 »

3D-aware image synthesis aims at learning a generative model that can render photo-realistic 2D images while capturing decent underlying 3D shapes. A popular solution is to adopt the generative adversarial network (GAN) and replace the generator with a 3D renderer, where volume rendering with neural radiance field (NeRF) is commonly used. Despite the advancement of synthesis quality, existing methods fail to obtain moderate 3D shapes. We argue that, considering the two-player game in the formulation of GANs, only making the generator 3D-aware is not enough. In other words, displacing the generative mechanism only offers the capability, but not the guarantee, of producing 3D-aware images, because the supervision of the generator primarily comes from the discriminator. To address this issue, we propose GeoD through learning a geometry-aware discriminator to improve 3D-aware GANs. Concretely, besides differentiating real and fake samples from the 2D image space, the discriminator is additionally asked to derive the geometry information from the inputs, which is then applied as the guidance of the generator. Such a simple yet effective design facilitates learning substantially more accurate 3D shapes. Extensive experiments on various generator architectures and training datasets verify the superiority of GeoD over state-of-the-art alternatives. Moreover, our approach is registered as a general framework such that a more capable discriminator (i.e., with a third task of novel view synthesis beyond domain classification and geometry extraction) can further assist the generator with a better multi-view consistency. Project page can be found at https://vivianszf.github.io/geod.

Keywords: Generative Adversarial Network · 3D-aware image synthesis
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Author Information

Zifan Shi (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Yinghao Xu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Yujun Shen (Ant Research)
Deli Zhao (Xiaomi AI Lab)
Qifeng Chen (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Dit-Yan Yeung (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

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