Designing an encoder for StyleGAN image manipulation

🤖 Plain-English Summary

Recently, there has been a surge of diverse methods for performing image editing by employing pre-trained unconditional generators. We present an encoder based on our two principles that is specifically designed for facilitating editing on real images by balancing these tradeoffs.

🔑 Key Findings

• Applying these methods on real images, however, remains a challenge, as it necessarily requires the inversion of the images into their latent space.
• To successfully invert a real image, one needs to find a latent code that reconstructs the input image accurately, and more importantly, allows for its meaningful manipulation.
• In this paper, we carefully study the latent space of StyleGAN, the advanced unconditional generator.

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