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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 use the 3D ShapeNets dataset, available at http://3dshapenets.cs.princeton.edu/3DShapeNetsCode.zip. It was released by Wu and Song et al. and consists of properly annotated 3D shapes for 40 object categories. We will use the volumetric data available in the directory, which we will discuss in more detail later on in this chapter. In the next few sections, we will download, extract, and explore the dataset.

The 3D ShapeNets dataset is for academic use only. If you intend to use the dataset for commercial purposes, request permission from the authors of the paper, who can be reached at the following email address: [email protected].

Download and extract the dataset

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