Last Updated on September 1, 2020 The Cycle Generative Adversarial Network, or CycleGAN, is an approach to training a deep convolutional neural network for image-to-image translation tasks. Unlike other GAN models for image translation, the CycleGAN does not require a dataset of paired images. For example, if we are interested in translating photographs of oranges to apples, we do not require a training dataset of oranges that have been manually converted to apples. This allows the development of a translation […]

Progressive Growing GAN is an extension to the GAN training process that allows for the stable training of generator models that can output large high-quality images. It involves starting with a very small image and incrementally adding blocks of layers that increase the output size of the generator model and the input size of the discriminator model until the desired image size is achieved. This approach has proven effective at generating high-quality synthetic faces that are startlingly realistic. In this […]

The progressive growing generative adversarial network is an approach for training a deep convolutional neural network model for generating synthetic images. It is an extension of the more traditional GAN architecture that involves incrementally growing the size of the generated image during training, starting with a very small image, such as a 4×4 pixels. This allows the stable training and growth of GAN models capable of generating very large high-quality images, such as images of synthetic celebrity faces with the […]

Last Updated on September 1, 2020 Generative adversarial networks, or GANs, are effective at generating high-quality synthetic images. A limitation of GANs is that the are only capable of generating relatively small images, such as 64×64 pixels. The Progressive Growing GAN is an extension to the GAN training procedure that involves training a GAN to generate very small images, such as 4×4, and incrementally increasing the size of the generated images to 8×8, 16×16, until the desired output size is […]

Last Updated on May 10, 2020 Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short, are effective at generating large high-quality images. Most improvement has been made to discriminator models in an effort to train more effective generator models, although less effort has been put into improving the generator models. The Style Generative Adversarial Network, or StyleGAN for short, is an extension to the GAN architecture that proposes large changes to the generator model, including the use of a mapping network to […]

Last Updated on August 21, 2019 Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short, were first described in the 2014 paper by Ian Goodfellow, et al. titled “Generative Adversarial Networks.” Since then, GANs have seen a lot of attention given that they are perhaps one of the most effective techniques for generating large, high-quality synthetic images. As such, a number of books have been written about GANs, mostly focusing on how to develop and use the models in practice. In this […]

Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs, are perhaps the most effective generative model for image synthesis. Nevertheless, they are typically restricted to generating small images and the training process remains fragile, dependent upon specific augmentations and hyperparameters in order to achieve good results. The BigGAN is an approach to pull together a suite of recent best practices in training class-conditional images and scaling up the batch size and number of model parameters. The result is the routine generation of both high-resolution […]

Generative adversarial networks, or GANs for short, are an effective deep learning approach for developing generative models. Unlike other deep learning neural network models that are trained with a loss function until convergence, a GAN generator model is trained using a second model called a discriminator that learns to classify images as real or generated. Both the generator and discriminator model are trained together to maintain an equilibrium. As such, there is no objective loss function used to train the […]