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 […]

Last Updated on October 11, 2019 Generative Adversarial Networks, or GANs for short, is a deep learning neural network architecture for training a generator model for generating synthetic images. A problem with generative models is that there is no objective way to evaluate the quality of the generated images. As such, it is common to periodically generate and save images during the model training process and use subjective human evaluation of the generated images in order to both evaluate the […]

Last Updated on October 11, 2019 The Frechet Inception Distance score, or FID for short, is a metric that calculates the distance between feature vectors calculated for real and generated images. The score summarizes how similar the two groups are in terms of statistics on computer vision features of the raw images calculated using the inception v3 model used for image classification. Lower scores indicate the two groups of images are more similar, or have more similar statistics, with a […]

The generative adversarial network, or GAN for short, is a deep learning architecture for training a generative model for image synthesis. The GAN architecture is relatively straightforward, although one aspect that remains challenging for beginners is the topic of GAN loss functions. The main reason is that the architecture involves the simultaneous training of two models: the generator and the discriminator. The discriminator model is updated like any other deep learning neural network, although the generator uses the discriminator as […]