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In this paper, we tackle the problem of synthesizing a ground-view panorama image conditioned on a top-view aerial image, which is a challenging problem due to the large gap between the two image domains with different view-points. Instead of learning cross-view mapping in a feedforward pass, we propose a novel adversarial feedback GAN framework named PanoGAN with two key components: an adversarial feedback module and a dual branch discrimination strategy. First, the aerial image is fed into the generator to produce a target panorama image and its associated segmentation map in favor of model training with layout semantics. Second, the feature responses of the discriminator encoded by our adversarial feedback module are fed back to the generator to refine the intermediate representations, so that the generation performance is continually improved through an iterative generation process. Third, to pursue high-fidelity and semantic consistency of the generated panorama image, we propose a pixel-segmentation alignment mechanism under the dual branch discrimiantion strategy to facilitate cooperation between the generator and the discriminator. Extensive experimental results on two challenging cross-view image datasets show that PanoGAN enables high-quality panorama image generation with more convincing details than state-of-the-art approaches. The source code and trained models are available at \url{https://github.com/sswuai/PanoGAN}., Comment: Accepted to IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

Visible-infrared person re-identification (VI Re-ID) aims to match person images between the visible and infrared modalities. Existing VI Re-ID methods mainly focus on extracting homogeneous structural relationships in an image, i.e. the relations between local features, while ignoring the heterogeneous correlation of local features in different modalities. The heterogeneous structured relationship is crucial to learn effective identity representations and perform cross-modality matching. In this paper, we model the homogenous structural relationship by a modality-specific graph within individual modality and then mine the heterogeneous structural correlation with the modality-specific graph of visible and infrared modality. First, the homogeneous structured graph (HOSG) mines one-vs.-rest relation between an arbitrary node (local feature) and all the rest nodes within a visible or infrared image to learn effective identity representation. Second, to find cross-modality identity-consistent correspondence, the heterogeneous graph alignment module (HGAM) further measures the relational edge strength between local node features of two modalities with routing search way. Third, we propose the cross-modality cross-correlation (CMCC) loss to extract the modality invariance of feature representations of visible and infrared graphs. CMCC computes the mutual information between modalities and expels semantic redundancy. Extensive experiments on SYSU-MM01 and RegDB datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-arts with a gain of 13.73\% and 9.45\% Rank1/mAP. The code is available at https://github.com/fegnyujian/Homogeneous-and-Heterogeneous-Relational-Graph.