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Generative Adversarial Networks Cookbook

By : Josh Kalin
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Generative Adversarial Networks Cookbook

By: Josh Kalin

Overview of this book

Developing Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) is a complex task, and it is often hard to find code that is easy to understand. This book leads you through eight different examples of modern GAN implementations, including CycleGAN, simGAN, DCGAN, and 2D image to 3D model generation. Each chapter contains useful recipes to build on a common architecture in Python, TensorFlow and Keras to explore increasingly difficult GAN architectures in an easy-to-read format. The book starts by covering the different types of GAN architecture to help you understand how the model works. This book also contains intuitive recipes to help you work with use cases involving DCGAN, Pix2Pix, and so on. To understand these complex applications, you will take different real-world data sets and put them to use. By the end of this book, you will be equipped to deal with the challenges and issues that you may face while working with GAN models, thanks to easy-to-follow code solutions that you can implement right away.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Dedication
Contributors
Preface
Dedication2
Index

Data types


In computer science, data types will represent the way the data is stored in the program. For this section, we are going to discuss the structure of the MNIST data and demonstrate how to simply manipulate the data.

 

Getting ready

Focusing on data types is where we will begin the data processing journey. Each step in this process is crucial to understand. Data types refer to the structure in which the data is held in Python. Think of a dictionary, array of floats, and so on. These are the data types that we would like to understand and consider. The example that we are going to explore in this set of recipes is going to be a parsing example for images since the first few recipes in this book will revolve around the usage of two-dimensional imagery. We're going to start with a simple and small dataset called the MNIST dataset. This data is used across all kinds of ML and for good reason. it's a set with 60,000 handwritten images that're labeled and easy to understand. Also, the data...