Generative adversarial network for classifying an image by masking and globally pooling a feature map

Abstract

A generative adversarial network. The generative adversarial network includes: a generator configured for generating an image and a corresponding label map; a discriminator configured for determining a classification of a provided image and a provided label map, wherein the classification characterizes whether the provided image and the provided label map have been generated by the generator or not and determining the classification comprises the steps of: determining a first feature map of the provided image; masking the first feature map according to the provided label map thereby determining a masked feature map; globally pooling the masked feature map thereby determining a feature representation of the provided image masked by the provided label map; determining a classification of the image based on the feature representation.