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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

Training your first GAN


Training is the life blood of your model. You've created something, but without a way to train and show it to the world, it is meaningless. This class is going to provide your model with a way to train and a method for you to spot check the training.

 

Getting ready

Remember to complete all of the steps up until this point! Once you get that done, you need to create the train.py and run.py files in the full-gan folder. Also, if you haven't done so already, go ahead and create the data folder inside of the full-gan folder. Ensure that you have put the full-gan folder at the $HOME/full-gan location, or you might need to update your run.sh script.

How to do it...

There are two big parts to training a GAN—the training class that we will define and describe and the script that runs that training class. There are two main sections, training class definition and run script definition, and they will cover the basics of each of these pieces.

Training class definition

Let's walk through...