360-Degree Image Completion by Two-Stage Conditional Gans
Naofumi Akimoto, Seito Kasai, Masaki Hayashi, Yoshimitsu Aoki · 2019
The latest generative adversarial networks (GANs) can generate realistic high resolution images. However, to the best of our knowledge, there are no GANs for generating 360-degree images. Therefore, this paper proposes the novel problem setting that by using a known area from the 360-degree image as an input, the remainder of the image can be completed with the GANs. To do so, we propose the approach of two-stage generation using network architecture with series-parallel dilated convolution layers. Moreover, we present how to rearrange images for data augmentation, simplify the problem, and make inputs for training the 2ndstage generator. Our experiments show that these methods generate the distortion seen in 360-degree images in the outlines of buildings and roads, and their boundaries are clearer than those of baseline methods. Furthermore, we discuss and clarify the difficulty of our proposed problem. Our work is the first step towards GANs predicting an unseen area within a 360-degree space.