Given a single image x from domain A and a set of images from domain B, our
task is to generate the analogous of x in B. We argue that this task could be a
key AI capability that underlines the ability of cognitive agents to act in the
world and present empirical evidence that the existing unsupervised domain
translation methods fail on this task. Our method follows a two step process.
First, a variational autoencoder for domain B is trained. Then, given the new
sample x, we create a variational autoencoder for domain A by adapting the
layers that are close to the image in order to directly fit x, and only
indirectly adapt the other layers. Our experiments indicate that the new method
does as well, when trained on one sample x, as the existing domain transfer
methods, when these enjoy a multitude of training samples from domain A. Our
code is made publicly available at
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本篇论文讨论了单张图片从 A 领域转换到 B 领域的问题，提出了一种使用变分自编码器的训练方式，即先训练 B 领域自编码器模型，再根据待转换图片 x 创建 A 领域自编码器模型进行训练，本研究表明，该方法在只有一张样本图片 x 的情况下也能达到与现有领域转换方法相同的表现。