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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id journal-id-type="aggregator">72010604</journal-id>
      <journal-title>Electronic Imaging</journal-title>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">2470-1173</issn><issn pub-type="epub"></issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Society for Imaging Science and Technology</publisher-name>
        <publisher-loc>IS&amp;T 7003 Kilworth Lane, Springfield, VA 22151 USA</publisher-loc>
      </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.2352/ISSN.2470-1173.2021.15.COIMG-023</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="sici">2470-1173(20210118)2021:15L.231;1-</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">ei_24701173_v2021n15_Input/s2.xml</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="other">/ist/ei/2021/00002021/00000015/art00002</article-id>
      <article-categories>
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          <subject>Articles</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Extreme Face Inpainting with Sketch-Guided Conditional GAN</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Pandey</surname>
            <given-names>Nilesh</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib>
          <name>
            <surname>Savakis</surname>
            <given-names>Andreas</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date>
        <day>18</day>
        <month>01</month>
        <year>2021</year>
      </pub-date>
      <volume>2021</volume>
      <issue>15</issue>
      <fpage>23-1</fpage>
      <lpage>23-6</lpage>
      <permissions>
        <copyright-year>2021</copyright-year>
      </permissions>
      <abstract>
        <p>
          <italic>Recovering badly damaged face images is a useful yet challenging task, especially in extreme cases where the masked or damaged region is very large. One of the major challenges is the ability of the system to generalize on faces outside the training dataset. We propose to tackle
 this extreme inpainting task with a conditional Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) that utilizes structural information, such as edges, as a prior condition. Edge information can be obtained from the partially masked image and a structurally similar image or a hand drawing. In our proposed
 conditional GAN, we pass the conditional input in every layer of the encoder while maintaining consistency in the distributions between the learned weights and the incoming conditional input. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method with badly damaged face examples.</italic>
        </p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <kwd>Image Inpainting</kwd>
        <kwd>Conditional GAN</kwd>
        <kwd>Face Analysis</kwd>
      </kwd-group>
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