Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have been extremely successful in various application domains such as computer vision, medicine, and natural language processing. Moreover, transforming an object or person to a desired shape become a well-studied research in the GANs. GANs are powerful models for learning complex distributions to synthesize semantically meaningful samples. However, there is a lack of comprehensive review in this field, especially lack of a collection of GANs loss-variant, evaluation metrics, remedies for diverse image generation, and stable training. Given the current fast GANs development, in this survey, we provide a comprehensive review of adversarial models for image synthesis. We summarize the synthetic image generation methods, and discuss the categories including image-to-image translation, fusion image generation, label-to-image mapping, and text-to-image translation. We organize the literature based on their base models, developed ideas related to architectures, constraints, loss functions, evaluation metrics, and training datasets. We present milestones of adversarial models, review an extensive selection of previous works in various categories, and present insights on the development route from the model-based to data-driven methods. Further, we highlight a range of potential future research directions. One of the unique features of this review is that all software implementations of these GAN methods and datasets have been collected and made available in one place at https://github.com/pshams55/GAN-Case-Study.

综述文章介绍了生成对抗网络(GANs)在图像合成领域的各种应用，包括图像到图像的转换、融合图像生成、标签到图像映射和文本到图像生成，并总结了基于模型、特定于架构、约束、损失函数、评估度量和培训数据集开发思路等各种领域进展和具体实现，并提出了未来发展的潜在方向。

使用对抗网络进行图像合成：一份综述和案例研究