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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

Introduction to iGAN

We are now familiar with using generative models such as pix2pix (see Chapter 4, Image-to-Image Translation)to generate images from sketch or segmentation masks. However, as most of us are not skilled artists, we are only able to draw simple sketches, and as a result, our generated images also have simple shapes. What if we could use a real image as input and use sketches to change the appearance of the real image?

In the early days of GANs, a paper titled Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold by J-Y. Zhu (inventor of CycleGAN) et al. was published that explored how to use a learned latent representation to perform image editing and morphing. The authors made a website, http://efrosgans.eecs.berkeley.edu/iGAN/, that contains videos that demonstrate a few of the following use cases:

  • Interactive image generation: This involves generating images from sketches in real time, as shown here:
Figure 6.1 – Interactive image generation, where an image is generated only from simple brush strokes (Source: J-Y. Zhu et al., 2016, "Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold", https://arxiv.org/abs/1609.03552)

Figure 6.1...