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Generating Furry Cars: Disentangling Object Shape and Appearance across Multiple Domains

This is an interesting paper about learning and combining representations of object shape and appearance from the different domains (for example, dogs and cars). This allows to create a model, which borrows different properties from each domain and generates images, which don't exist in a single domain.
The main idea is the following:
- use FineGAN as a base model;
- represent object appearance with a differentiable histogram of visual features;
- optimize the generator so that images with different shapes but similar appearances produce similar histograms;

Paper: https://openreview.net/forum?id=M88oFvqp_9
Project link: https://utkarshojha.github.io/inter-domain-gan/
Code will be available here: https://github.com/utkarshojha/inter-domain-gan

A detailed unofficial overview of the paper: https://andlukyane.com/blog/paper-review-furrycars

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