Normal similarity network for generative modelling

J Nandy, W Hsu, ML Lee - 2018 25th IEEE International …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gaussian distributions are commonly used as a key building block in many generative
models. However, their applicability has not been well explored in deep networks. In this
paper, we propose a novel deep generative model named as Normal Similarity Network
(NSN) where the layers are constructed with Gaussian-style filters. NSN is trained with a
layer-wise non-parametric density estimation algorithm that iteratively down-samples the
training images and capture the density of the down-sampled training images in the final …
Gaussian distributions are commonly used as a key building block in many generative models. However, their applicability has not been well explored in deep networks. In this paper, we propose a novel deep generative model named as Normal Similarity Network (NSN) where the layers are constructed with Gaussian-style filters. NSN is trained with a layer-wise non-parametric density estimation algorithm that iteratively down-samples the training images and capture the density of the down-sampled training images in the final layer. Additionally, we propose NSN-Gen for generating new samples from noise vectors by iteratively reconstructing feature maps in the hidden layers of NSN. Our experiments suggest encouraging results of the proposed model for a wide range of computer vision applications including image generation, styling and reconstruction from occluded images.
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