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Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2

By : Joseph Babcock, Raghav Bali
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Generative AI with Python and TensorFlow 2

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By: Joseph Babcock, Raghav Bali

Overview of this book

Machines are excelling at creative human skills such as painting, writing, and composing music. Could you be more creative than generative AI? In this book, you’ll explore the evolution of generative models, from restricted Boltzmann machines and deep belief networks to VAEs and GANs. You’ll learn how to implement models yourself in TensorFlow and get to grips with the latest research on deep neural networks. There’s been an explosion in potential use cases for generative models. You’ll look at Open AI’s news generator, deepfakes, and training deep learning agents to navigate a simulated environment. Recreate the code that’s under the hood and uncover surprising links between text, image, and music generation.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
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Index

Re-enactment using pix2pix

Re-enactment is another mode of operation for the deepfakes setup. It is supposedly better at generating believable fake content compared to the replacement mode. In earlier sections, we discussed different techniques used to perform re-enactment, i.e. by focusing on gaze, expressions, the mouth, and so on.

We also discussed image-to-image translation architectures in Chapter 7, Style Transfer with GANs. Particularly, we discussed in detail how the pix2pix GAN is a powerful architecture which enables paired translation tasks. In this section, we will leverage the pix2pix GAN to develop a face re-enactment setup from scratch. We will work toward building a network where we can use our own face, mouth, and expressions to control Barack Obama's (former US president) face. We will go through each and every step, starting right from preparing the dataset, to defining the pix2pix architecture, to finally generating the output re-enactment. Let's...