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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)

Implementing a DCGAN using Keras

In this section, we will write an implementation of a DCGAN in the Keras framework. Keras is a meta-framework that uses TensorFlow or Teano as a backend. It provides high-level APIs for working with neural networks. It also has pre-built neural network layers, optimizers, regularizers, initializers, and data-preprocessing layers for easy prototyping compared to low-level frameworks, such as TensorFlow. Let's start by writing the implementation of the generator network.

Generator

As mentioned in the Architecture of DCGAN section, the generator network consists of some 2D convolutional layers, upsampling layers, a reshape layer, and a batch normalization layer. In Keras, every operation...