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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

Is data that important?


Data is the lifeblood of ML algorithms. Your models will only be as good as the data you provide to them. After all, you are what you eat. We have to focus on developing a good, clean dataset for learning. This begins with getting an environment set up and preparing the data to be ingested into an algorithm. We do have a fundamental advantage within this process because GANs can take considerably smaller sets of data than other techniques. This advantage comes with the explicit caveat that we will need to ensure that the data we're using encompasses the entire trade space of possibilities for our application.

Getting ready

One of the deep dark secrets they don't teach you about this field is that you're going to spend a large chunk of your time preparing the data (sometimes as much as 75% of a project). I've had people ask me over the years why data preparation can absorb so much time and the answer really is simple:

Garbage in -> Garbage out

Data will drive your project...