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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)

Preparing the data

In this chapter, we will be working with the Facades dataset, which is available at the following link:

http://efrosgans.eecs.berkeley.edu/pix2pix/datasets/facades.tar.gz.

This dataset contains facade labels and ground truth facade images. A facade is generally the front side of a building, and facade labels are architectural labels of a facade image. We will learn more about facades after we download the dataset. Perform the following commands to download and extract the dataset:

  1. Download the dataset by executing the following commands:
# Before downloading the dataset navigate to data directory
cd data

# Download the dataset
wget http://efrosgans.eecs.berkeley.edu/pix2pix/datasets/facades.tar.gz
  1. After downloading the dataset, extract the dataset using the following command:
tar -xvzf facades.tar.gz

The file structure of the downloaded dataset is as follows...