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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

Evaluation – how do we know it worked?


Okay, it's time to take a deep breath. You now have your results, but how do you know it worked? In this recipe, we are going to qualitatively look at our results and discuss the methods that are available for investigating them.

We want to understand the inputs and outputs of the training script, so the following screenshot is an example of a 128 image input batch:

The following screenshot is an example of our generator output early on in training:

So, what are the practical results of hours of training? Check out the next section to find out!

Getting ready

Your code will need to be running. If it is not, go back to previous recipes and make sure that you have followed all of the instructions correctly.

How it works...

The following diagram shows shows our results in one spot:

As you may have noticed, these results show us that there's some work left to do. You can see that we stopped our process intentionally at epoch 50, rather than 100. Why? Well, there...