Gene

Image translation

Messenger RNA

Computer security

Image processing

Biochemistry

Computer science

Image segmentation

Translation (biology)

Segmentation

Mathematics

Image (mathematics)

Domain (mathematical analysis)

Mathematical analysis

Data science

Artificial intelligence

Chemistry

Computer vision

Key (lock)

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Image-to-image translation (I2I) aims to transfer images from a source domain to a target domain while preserving the content representations. I2I has drawn increasing attention and made tremendous progress in recent years because of its wide range of applications in many computer vision and image processing problems, such as image synthesis, segmentation, style transfer, restoration, and pose estimation. In this paper, we provide an overview of the I2I works developed in recent years. We will analyze the key techniques of the existing I2I works and clarify the main progress the community has made. Additionally, we will elaborate on the effect of I2I on the research and industry community and point out remaining challenges in related fields.

Image-to-Image Translation: Methods and Applications