Image generation step by step: animation generation-image translation

Generative adversarial networks play an important role in image generation, but the successful generation of high-resolution images from complex data sets remains a challenging goal. In this paper, we propose the LGAN (Link Generative Adversarial Networks) model, which can effectively enhance the quality of the synthesized images. The LGAN model consists of two parts, G1 and G2. G1 is responsible for the unconditional generation part, which generates anime images with highly abstract features containing few coefficients but continuous image elements covering the overall image features. Moreover, G2 is responsible for the conditional generation part (image translation), consisting of mapping and Superresolution networks. The mapping network fills the output of G1 into the real-world image after semantic segmentation or edge detection processing; the Superresolution network super-resolves the actual picture after completing mapping to improve the image’s resolution. In the comparison test with WGAN, SAGAN, WGAN-GP and PG-GAN, this paper’s LGAN(SEG) leads 64.36 and 12.28, respectively, fully proving the model’s superiority.