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Jianlu Cai
Jianlu Cai

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Multi-Style Cartoonization: Leveraging Multiple Datasets with GANs
Jianlu Cai
Frederick W. B. Li

Jianlu Cai

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June 14, 2024
Scene cartoonization aims to convert photos into stylized cartoons. While GANs can generate high-quality images, previous methods focus on individual images or single styles, ignoring relationships between datasets. We propose a novel multi-style scene cartoonization GAN that leverages multiple cartoon datasets jointly. Our main technical contribution is a multi-branch style encoder that disentangles representations to model styles as distributions over entire datasets rather than images. Combined with a multi-task discriminator and perceptual losses optimizing across collections, our model achieves state-of-the-art diverse stylization while preserving semantics. Experiments demonstrate that by learning from inter-dataset relationships, our method translates photos into cartoon images with improved realism and abstraction fidelity compared to prior arts, without iterative re-training for new styles.

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