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MET 2021
Wed 2 Jun 2021
co-located with ICSE 2021

Synthesising photo-realistic images from natural language is one of the challenging problems in computer vision. Over the past decade, a number of approaches have been proposed, of which the improved Stacked Generative Adversarial Network (StackGAN-v2) has proven capable of generating high resolution images that reflect the details specified in the input text descriptions. In this paper, we aim to assess the robustness and fault-tolerance capability of the StackGAN-v2 model by introducing variations in the training data. However, due to the working principle of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), it is difficult to predict the output of the model when the training data are modified. Hence, in this work, we adopt Metamorphic Testing technique to evaluate the robustness of the model with a variety of unexpected training dataset. As such, we first implement StackGAN-v2 algorithm and test the pre-trained model provided by the original authors to establish a ground truth for our experiments. We then identify a metamorphic relation, from which test cases are generated. Further, metamorphic relationships were derived successively based on the observations of prior test results. Finally, we synthesise the results from our experiment of all the metamorphic relationships and found that StackGAN-v2 algorithm is susceptible to input images with obtrusive objects, even if it overlaps with the main object minimally, which was not reported by the authors and users of StackGAN-v2 model. The proposed metamorphic relations can be applied to other text-to-image synthesis models to not only verify the robustness but also to help researchers understand and interpret the results made by the machine learning models.

Wed 2 Jun

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12:00 - 13:20
Session 2: Safety and Security and Metamorphic RelationsMET 2021 at MET Room
Chair(s): Xiaoyuan Xie School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, China
12:00
30m
Long-paper
Robustness Evaluation of Stacked Generative Adversarial Networks using Metamorphic Testing
MET 2021
Hyejin Park School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Taaha Waseem School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Wen Qi Teo School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Ying Hwei Low School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Mei Kuan Lim School of Information Technology, Monash University Malaysia, Chun Yong Chong Monash University
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12:30
30m
Long-paper
MT4NS: Metamorphic Testing for Network Scanning
MET 2021
Zhirui Zhang University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Dave Towey University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Zhihao Ying University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Yifan Zhang University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Zhi Quan (George) Zhou University of Wollongong, Australia
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13:00
20m
Short-paper
Follow-up Test Cases are Better Than Source Test Cases in Metamorphic Testing: A Preliminary Study
MET 2021
Zenghui Zhou Beihang University, Zheng Zheng Beihang University, Tsong Yueh Chen Swinburne University of Technology, Jinyi Zhou Beihang University, Kun Qiu Beihang University
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