{"id":"https://openalex.org/W4312179781","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","title":"Multi-feature contrastive learning for unpaired image-to-image translation","display_name":"Multi-feature contrastive learning for unpaired image-to-image translation","publication_year":2022,"publication_date":"2022-12-26","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W4312179781","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","pdf_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S3035462843","display_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems","issn_l":"2198-6053","issn":["2198-6053","2199-4536"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319900","host_organization_name":"Springer Science+Business Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319900","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Springer Science+Business Media","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems","raw_type":"journal-article"},"type":"article","indexed_in":["crossref","doaj"],"open_access":{"is_oa":true,"oa_status":"gold","oa_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1.pdf","any_repository_has_fulltext":true},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5008747201","display_name":"Yao Gou","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0105-3377"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210130660","display_name":"Xi'an High Tech University","ror":"https://ror.org/03vt7za95","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Yao Gou","raw_affiliation_strings":["Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5040771051","display_name":"Min Li","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3009-279X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210130660","display_name":"Xi'an High Tech University","ror":"https://ror.org/03vt7za95","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Min Li","raw_affiliation_strings":["Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5083417267","display_name":"Yu Song","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8591-6867"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210130660","display_name":"Xi'an High Tech University","ror":"https://ror.org/03vt7za95","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yu Song","raw_affiliation_strings":["Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}]},{"author_position":"middle","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100321794","display_name":"Yujie He","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6984-3052"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210130660","display_name":"Xi'an High Tech University","ror":"https://ror.org/03vt7za95","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Yujie He","raw_affiliation_strings":["Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}]},{"author_position":"last","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5100716060","display_name":"Litao Wang","orcid":"https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7142-456X"},"institutions":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/I4210130660","display_name":"Xi'an High Tech University","ror":"https://ror.org/03vt7za95","country_code":"CN","type":"education","lineage":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}],"countries":["CN"],"is_corresponding":false,"raw_author_name":"Litao Wang","raw_affiliation_strings":["Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China"],"affiliations":[{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi\u2019an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi\u2019an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]},{"raw_affiliation_string":"Xi'an High-Tech Research Institute, Xi'an, 710025, China","institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"]}]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":1,"institutions_distinct_count":5,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5008747201"],"corresponding_institution_ids":["https://openalex.org/I4210130660"],"apc_list":{"value":1320,"currency":"GBP","value_usd":1619},"apc_paid":{"value":1320,"currency":"GBP","value_usd":1619},"fwci":2.2781,"has_fulltext":true,"cited_by_count":25,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.90196199,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":true},"cited_by_percentile_year":{"min":96,"max":99},"biblio":{"volume":"9","issue":"4","first_page":"4111","last_page":"4122"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10515","display_name":"Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research","score":0.9976999759674072,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1306","display_name":"Cancer Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/13","display_name":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/1","display_name":"Life Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10515","display_name":"Cancer-related molecular mechanisms research","score":0.9976999759674072,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1306","display_name":"Cancer Research"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/13","display_name":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/1","display_name":"Life Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T10775","display_name":"Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis","score":0.9922000169754028,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11105","display_name":"Advanced Image Processing Techniques","score":0.984499990940094,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1707","display_name":"Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/17","display_name":"Computer Science"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/3","display_name":"Physical Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/overfitting","display_name":"Overfitting","score":0.8770138025283813},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/discriminator","display_name":"Discriminator","score":0.8751382827758789},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computer-science","display_name":"Computer science","score":0.7351970672607422},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/feature","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","score":0.7000635862350464},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-intelligence","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","score":0.6448240280151367},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/image","display_name":"Image (mathematics)","score":0.6042294502258301},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/code","display_name":"Code (set theory)","score":0.5641725659370422},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/translation","display_name":"Translation (biology)","score":0.5541698336601257},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/computational-intelligence","display_name":"Computational intelligence","score":0.5375224351882935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/pattern-recognition","display_name":"Pattern recognition (psychology)","score":0.5029744505882263},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/stability","display_name":"Stability (learning theory)","score":0.500831127166748},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/field","display_name":"Field (mathematics)","score":0.4733272194862366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/machine-learning","display_name":"Machine learning","score":0.27634501457214355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/mathematics","display_name":"Mathematics","score":0.14248406887054443},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/artificial-neural-network","display_name":"Artificial neural network","score":0.09636116027832031}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C22019652","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q331309","display_name":"Overfitting","level":3,"score":0.8770138025283813},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2779803651","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5282088","display_name":"Discriminator","level":3,"score":0.8751382827758789},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41008148","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21198","display_name":"Computer science","level":0,"score":0.7351970672607422},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776401178","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q12050496","display_name":"Feature (linguistics)","level":2,"score":0.7000635862350464},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C154945302","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11660","display_name":"Artificial intelligence","level":1,"score":0.6448240280151367},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C115961682","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q860623","display_name":"Image (mathematics)","level":2,"score":0.6042294502258301},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2776760102","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5139990","display_name":"Code (set theory)","level":3,"score":0.5641725659370422},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C149364088","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q185917","display_name":"Translation (biology)","level":4,"score":0.5541698336601257},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C139502532","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1122090","display_name":"Computational intelligence","level":2,"score":0.5375224351882935},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153180895","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7148389","display_name":"Pattern recognition (psychology)","level":2,"score":0.5029744505882263},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C112972136","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7595718","display_name":"Stability (learning theory)","level":2,"score":0.500831127166748},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C9652623","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190109","display_name":"Field (mathematics)","level":2,"score":0.4733272194862366},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C119857082","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2539","display_name":"Machine learning","level":1,"score":0.27634501457214355},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C33923547","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q395","display_name":"Mathematics","level":0,"score":0.14248406887054443},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C50644808","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192776","display_name":"Artificial neural network","level":2,"score":0.09636116027832031},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C41895202","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8162","display_name":"Linguistics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C199360897","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9143","display_name":"Programming language","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C94915269","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1834857","display_name":"Detector","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C177264268","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1514741","display_name":"Set (abstract data type)","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C202444582","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q837863","display_name":"Pure mathematics","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C55493867","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7094","display_name":"Biochemistry","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C138885662","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5891","display_name":"Philosophy","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C105580179","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q188928","display_name":"Messenger RNA","level":3,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C104317684","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7187","display_name":"Gene","level":2,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C185592680","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2329","display_name":"Chemistry","level":0,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C76155785","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q418","display_name":"Telecommunications","level":1,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":2,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","pdf_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S3035462843","display_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems","issn_l":"2198-6053","issn":["2198-6053","2199-4536"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319900","host_organization_name":"Springer Science+Business Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319900","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Springer Science+Business Media","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems","raw_type":"journal-article"},{"id":"pmh:oai:doaj.org/article:95e67662365d47a6a8eaf0876ae16915","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doaj.org/article/95e67662365d47a6a8eaf0876ae16915","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S112646816","display_name":"SHILAP Revista de lepidopterolog\u00eda","issn_l":"0300-5267","issn":["0300-5267","2340-4078"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":false,"host_organization":null,"host_organization_name":null,"host_organization_lineage":[],"host_organization_lineage_names":[],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"submittedVersion","is_accepted":false,"is_published":false,"raw_source_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems, Vol 9, Iss 4, Pp 4111-4122 (2022)","raw_type":"article"}],"best_oa_location":{"id":"doi:10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","is_oa":true,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1","pdf_url":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40747-022-00924-1.pdf","source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S3035462843","display_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems","issn_l":"2198-6053","issn":["2198-6053","2199-4536"],"is_oa":true,"is_in_doaj":true,"is_core":true,"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310319900","host_organization_name":"Springer Science+Business Media","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310319900","https://openalex.org/P4310319965"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["Springer Science+Business Media","Springer Nature"],"type":"journal"},"license":"cc-by","license_id":"https://openalex.org/licenses/cc-by","version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Complex & Intelligent Systems","raw_type":"journal-article"},"sustainable_development_goals":[{"id":"https://metadata.un.org/sdg/10","score":0.7099999785423279,"display_name":"Reduced inequalities"}],"awards":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/G2087396116","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"China","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G3317480652","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"Science","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G5994120800","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"Natural","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"},{"id":"https://openalex.org/G6248946439","display_name":null,"funder_award_id":"62006240","funder_id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","funder_display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China"}],"funders":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/F4320321001","display_name":"National Natural Science Foundation of China","ror":"https://ror.org/01h0zpd94"}],"has_content":{"pdf":true,"grobid_xml":true},"content_urls":{"pdf":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4312179781.pdf","grobid_xml":"https://content.openalex.org/works/W4312179781.grobid-xml"},"referenced_works_count":36,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W1903029394","https://openalex.org/W2108598243","https://openalex.org/W2326925005","https://openalex.org/W2331128040","https://openalex.org/W2340897893","https://openalex.org/W2475287302","https://openalex.org/W2593414223","https://openalex.org/W2798278116","https://openalex.org/W2798876216","https://openalex.org/W2798991696","https://openalex.org/W2891158090","https://openalex.org/W2896240508","https://openalex.org/W2962753688","https://openalex.org/W2962793481","https://openalex.org/W2962850830","https://openalex.org/W2962974533","https://openalex.org/W2963073614","https://openalex.org/W2963444790","https://openalex.org/W2963470893","https://openalex.org/W2963522749","https://openalex.org/W2963800363","https://openalex.org/W2963890275","https://openalex.org/W2964019233","https://openalex.org/W2969810168","https://openalex.org/W2989045104","https://openalex.org/W3034600949","https://openalex.org/W3034839660","https://openalex.org/W3035524453","https://openalex.org/W3035574324","https://openalex.org/W3046095786","https://openalex.org/W3108316907","https://openalex.org/W3116616514","https://openalex.org/W3159890710","https://openalex.org/W3173268697","https://openalex.org/W3174265363","https://openalex.org/W4224326657"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W4362597605","https://openalex.org/W1574414179","https://openalex.org/W4297676672","https://openalex.org/W3009056573","https://openalex.org/W2922073769","https://openalex.org/W4281702477","https://openalex.org/W3200695403","https://openalex.org/W4288087796","https://openalex.org/W2982339091","https://openalex.org/W2387995142"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"Abstract":[0],"Unpaired":[1],"image-to-image":[2],"translation":[3,119],"for":[4,116],"the":[5,22,25,41,45,60,63,67],"generation":[6],"field":[7],"has":[8,105],"made":[9],"much":[10],"progress":[11],"recently.":[12],"However,":[13],"these":[14],"methods":[15],"suffer":[16],"from":[17],"mode":[18],"collapse":[19,71],"because":[20],"of":[21,24,44,62,69,98],"overfitting":[23],"discriminator.":[26],"To":[27],"this":[28],"end,":[29],"we":[30],"propose":[31],"a":[32,37,96],"straightforward":[33],"method":[34,58,87,112],"to":[35],"construct":[36],"contrastive":[38,53,75],"loss":[39],"using":[40],"feature":[42],"information":[43],"discriminator":[46,64],"output":[47],"layer,":[48],"which":[49],"is":[50,113,122],"named":[51],"multi-feature":[52],"learning":[54],"(MCL).":[55],"Our":[56,86],"proposed":[57,111],"enhances":[59],"performance":[61],"and":[65],"solves":[66],"problem":[68],"model":[70],"by":[72],"further":[73],"leveraging":[74],"learning.":[76],"We":[77],"perform":[78],"extensive":[79],"experiments":[80],"on":[81],"several":[82],"open":[83],"challenge":[84],"datasets.":[85],"achieves":[88],"state-of-the-art":[89],"results":[90],"compared":[91],"with":[92],"current":[93],"methods.":[94],"Finally,":[95],"series":[97],"ablation":[99],"studies":[100],"proved":[101],"that":[102],"our":[103,110],"approach":[104],"better":[106],"stability.":[107],"In":[108],"addition,":[109],"also":[114],"practical":[115],"single":[117],"image":[118],"tasks.":[120],"Code":[121],"available":[123],"at":[124],"https://github.com/gouayao/MCL.":[125]},"counts_by_year":[{"year":2026,"cited_by_count":1},{"year":2025,"cited_by_count":7},{"year":2024,"cited_by_count":12},{"year":2023,"cited_by_count":5}],"updated_date":"2026-04-18T07:56:08.524223","created_date":"2025-10-10T00:00:00"}