  We propose a new method for producing color images from sketches. Current
solutions in sketch colorization either necessitate additional user instruction
or are restricted to the "paired" translation strategy. We leverage semantic
image segmentation from a general-purpose panoptic segmentation network to
generate an additional adversarial loss function. The proposed loss function is
compatible with any GAN model. Our method is not restricted to datasets with
segmentation labels and can be applied to unpaired translation tasks as well.
Using qualitative, and quantitative analysis, and based on a user study, we
demonstrate the efficacy of our method on four distinct image datasets. On the
FID metric, our model improves the baseline by up to 35 points. Our code,
pretrained models, scripts to produce newly introduced datasets and
corresponding sketch images are available at
https://github.com/giddyyupp/AdvSegLoss.
