Summary

In this chapter, we learned about an important network architecture known as self-attention. The effectiveness of the convolutional layer is limited by its receptive field, and self-attention helps to capture important features including activations that are spatially-distanced from conventional convolutional layers. We have learned how to write a custom layer to insert into a SAGAN. The SAGAN is a state-of-the-art class-conditional GAN. We also implemented conditional batch normalization to learn different learnable parameters specific to each class. Finally, we looked at the bulked-up version of the SAGAN known as the BigGAN, which trumps SAGAN's performance significantly in terms of both image resolution and class variation.

We have now learned about most, if not all, of the important GANs for image generation. In recent years, two major components have gained popularity in the GAN world – they are AdaIN for the StyleGAN as covered in Chapter 7, High Fidelity...