We propose a novel lightweight generative adversarial network for efficient
image manipulation using natural language descriptions. To achieve this, a new
word-level discriminator is proposed, which provides the generator with
fine-grained training feedback at word-level, to facilitate training a
lightweight generator that has a small number of parameters, but can still
correctly focus on specific visual attributes of an image, and then edit them
without affecting other contents that are not described in the text.
Furthermore, thanks to the explicit training signal related to each word, the
discriminator can also be simplified to have a lightweight structure. Compared
with the state of the art, our method has a much smaller number of parameters,
but still achieves a competitive manipulation performance. Extensive
experimental results demonstrate that our method can better disentangle
different visual attributes, then correctly map them to corresponding semantic
words, and thus achieve a more accurate image modification using natural
language descriptions.

我们提出了一种新颖的轻量化生成对抗网络，使用自然语言描述来进行有效的图像操作。我们提出了一种新的单词级别鉴别器，为生成器提供细粒度的单词级别训练反馈，以便训练一个轻量级生成器，该生成器具有少量参数，但仍然能够正确地关注图像的特定视觉属性，然后进行编辑，而不会影响其他未在文本中描述的内容。与现有技术相比，我们的方法具有更少的参数数量，但仍然实现了有竞争力的操作性能。广泛的实验结果表明，我们的方法能够更好地解耦不同的视觉属性，然后正确地将它们映射到相应的语义词汇，从而使用自然语言描述实现更准确的图像修改。