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Hands-On Image Generation with TensorFlow

By : Soon Yau Cheong
Book Image

Hands-On Image Generation with TensorFlow

By: Soon Yau Cheong

Overview of this book

The emerging field of Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) has made it possible to generate indistinguishable images from existing datasets. With this hands-on book, you’ll not only develop image generation skills but also gain a solid understanding of the underlying principles. Starting with an introduction to the fundamentals of image generation using TensorFlow, this book covers Variational Autoencoders (VAEs) and GANs. You’ll discover how to build models for different applications as you get to grips with performing face swaps using deepfakes, neural style transfer, image-to-image translation, turning simple images into photorealistic images, and much more. You’ll also understand how and why to construct state-of-the-art deep neural networks using advanced techniques such as spectral normalization and self-attention layer before working with advanced models for face generation and editing. You'll also be introduced to photo restoration, text-to-image synthesis, video retargeting, and neural rendering. Throughout the book, you’ll learn to implement models from scratch in TensorFlow 2.x, including PixelCNN, VAE, DCGAN, WGAN, pix2pix, CycleGAN, StyleGAN, GauGAN, and BigGAN. By the end of this book, you'll be well versed in TensorFlow and be able to implement image generative technologies confidently.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
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Section 1: Fundamentals of Image Generation with TensorFlow
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Section 2: Applications of Deep Generative Models
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Section 3: Advanced Deep Generative Techniques

Building a DeepFake model

The deep learning model used in the original deepfake is an autoencoder-based one. There are a total of two autoencoders, one for each face domain. They share the same encoder, so there is a total of one encoder and two decoders in the model. The autoencoders expect an image size of 64×64 for both the input and the output. Now, let's build the encoder.

Building the encoder

As we learned in the previous chapter, the encoder is responsible for converting high-dimensional images into a low-dimensional representation. We'll first write a function to encapsulate the convolutional layer; leaky ReLU activation is used for downsampling:

def downsample(filters):
    return Sequential([
        Conv2D(filters, kernel_size=5, strides=2, 			padding='same'),
        LeakyReLU(0.1)])

In the usual autoencoder implementation, the output...