Multi-Domain Image-to-Image Translation via a Unified Circular Framework

The image-to-image translation aims to learn the corresponding information between the source and target domains. Several state-of-the-art works have made significant progress based on generative adversarial networks (GANs). However, most existing one-to-one translation methods ignore the correlations among different domain pairs. We argue that there is common information among different domain pairs and it is vital to multiple domain pairs translation. In this paper, we propose a unified circular framework for multiple domain pairs translation, leveraging a shared knowledge module across numerous domains. One selected translation pair can benefit from the complementary information from other pairs, and the sharing knowledge is conducive to mutual learning between domains. Moreover, absolute consistency loss is proposed and applied in the corresponding feature maps to ensure intra-domain consistency. Furthermore, our model can be trained in an end-to-end manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on several complex translation scenarios, such as Thermal IR switching, weather changing, and semantic transfer tasks.