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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

How SimGAN architecture works


Apple previously released a paper titled Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.07828.pdf), in which authors coined the architecture type SimGAN. As set out in the paper, SimGAN allows users to refine simulated data to make it look more realistic. In this section, we'll discuss how SimGAN architecture works.

Getting ready

The only thing you'll need in this section is the paper previously mentioned, which can be downloaded and read at: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.07828.pdf titled Learning from Simulated and Unsupervised Images through Adversarial Training.

How to do it...

In the SimGAN paper, authors set out to create a refiner network that can accurately improve the realism of synthetic images in an unsupervised manner. In the past, it has been quite hard to find matched simulation and real data for training such networks, but SimGAN has changed the existing landscape thanks to its focus on a simulated...