A Simple yet Effective Way for Improving the Performance of GANs

This paper presents a simple but effective way that improves the performance of generative adversarial networks (GANs) without imposing the training overhead or modifying the network architectures of existing methods. The proposed method employs a novel cascading rejection (CR) module for discriminator, which extracts multiple non-overlapped features in an iterative manner. The CR module supports the discriminator to effectively distinguish between real and generated images, which results in a strong penalization to the generator. In order to deceive the robust discriminator containing the CR module, the generator produces the images that are more similar to the real images. Since the proposed CR module requires only a few simple vector operations, it can be readily applied to existing frameworks with marginal training overheads. Quantitative evaluations on various datasets including CIFAR-10, Celeb-HQ, LSUN, and tiny-ImageNet confirm that the proposed method significantly improves the performance of GANs and conditional GANs in terms of Frechet inception distance (FID) indicating the diversity and visual appearance of the generated images.