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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)

Architecture of StackGAN

StackGAN is a two-stage network. Each stage has two generators and two discriminators. StackGAN is made up of many networks, which are as follows:

  • Stack-I GAN: text encoder, Conditioning Augmentation network, generator network, discriminator network, embedding compressor network
  • Stack-II GAN: text encoder, Conditioning Augmentation network, generator network, discriminator network, embedding compressor network
Source: arXiv:1612.03242 [cs.CV]

The preceding image is self-explanatory. It represents both stages of the StackGAN network. As you can see, the first stage is generating images with dimensions of 64x64. Then the second stage takes these low-resolution images and generates high-resolution images with dimensions of 256x256. In the next few sections, we will explore the different components in the StackGAN network. Before doing this, however, let...