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Generative Adversarial Networks Projects

By : Kailash Ahirwar
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Generative Adversarial Networks Projects

By: Kailash Ahirwar

Overview of this book

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have the potential to build next-generation models, as they can mimic any distribution of data. Major research and development work is being undertaken in this field since it is one of the rapidly growing areas of machine learning. This book will test unsupervised techniques for training neural networks as you build seven end-to-end projects in the GAN domain. Generative Adversarial Network Projects begins by covering the concepts, tools, and libraries that you will use to build efficient projects. You will also use a variety of datasets for the different projects covered in the book. The level of complexity of the operations required increases with every chapter, helping you get to grips with using GANs. You will cover popular approaches such as 3D-GAN, DCGAN, StackGAN, and CycleGAN, and you’ll gain an understanding of the architecture and functioning of generative models through their practical implementation. By the end of this book, you will be ready to build, train, and optimize your own end-to-end GAN models at work or in your own projects.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)

CycleGAN - Turn Paintings into Photos

CycleGAN is a type of Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for cross-domain transfer tasks, such as changing the style of an image, turning paintings into photos, and vice versa, photo enhancement, changing the season of a photo, and many more. CycleGANs were introduced by Jun-Yan Zhu, Taesung Park, Phillip Isola, and Alexei A. Efros in a paper entitled: Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks. This was produced in February 2018 at the Berkeley AI Research (BAIR) laboratory, UC Berkeley, which is available at the following link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf. CycleGANs caused a stir in the GAN community because of their widespread use cases. In this chapter, we will be working with CycleGANs and, specifically, using them to turn paintings into photos.

In this chapter, we will cover the following...