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PhotoGAN: A Novel Style Transfer Model for Digital Photographs

Qiming Li¹, Mengcheng Wu¹, Daozheng Chen^1,2,*

1 College of Information Engineering, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China
2 Informatization Office, Shanghai Maritime University, Shanghai, 201306, China

* Corresponding Author: Daozheng Chen. Email:

(This article belongs to the Special Issue: The Latest Deep Learning Architectures for Artificial Intelligence Applications)

Computers, Materials & Continua 2025, 83(3), 4477-4494. https://doi.org/10.32604/cmc.2025.062969

Received 31 December 2024; Accepted 24 February 2025; Issue published 19 May 2025

Abstract

Image style transfer is a research hotspot in the field of computer vision. For this job, many approaches have been put forth. These techniques do, however, still have some drawbacks, such as high computing complexity and content distortion caused by inadequate stylization. To address these problems, PhotoGAN, a new Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) model is proposed in this paper. A deeper feature extraction network has been designed to capture global information and local details better. Introducing multi-scale attention modules helps the generator focus on important feature areas at different scales, further enhancing the effectiveness of feature extraction. Using a semantic discriminator helps the generator learn quickly and better understand image content, improving the consistency and visual quality of the generated images. Finally, qualitative and quantitative experiments were conducted on a self-built dataset. The experimental results indicate that PhotoGAN outperformed the current state-of-the-art techniques. It not only performed excellently on objective metrics but also appeared more visually appealing, particularly excelling in handling complex scenes and details.

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