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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

Pseudocode – how does it work?


This recipe will focus on dissecting the internal pieces of the CycleGAN paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf)—the structure they propose, simple tips they suggest throughout their development, and any potential metrics that we may want to use in our development for this chapter.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you will simply need to create a folder for this chapter's code in your home directory. As a reminder, ensure that you've completed all of the prerequisite installation steps such as installing Docker, Nvidia-Docker, and the Nvidia drivers. Last, grab the CycleGAN paper (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf) and make sure to read it before you go on to the next section.

How to do it...

As with every chapter, I'd like to encourage you to begin by reading the paper that this particular algorithm was derived from. The paper provides a foundation for implementing the paper and grounds assumptions that we make during the development. For instance, we won...