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Hands-On Image Generation with TensorFlow

You're reading from   Hands-On Image Generation with TensorFlow A practical guide to generating images and videos using deep learning

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838826789
Length 306 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Soon Yau Cheong Soon Yau Cheong
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section 1: Fundamentals of Image Generation with TensorFlow
2. Chapter 1: Getting Started with Image Generation Using TensorFlow FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: Variational Autoencoder 4. Chapter 3: Generative Adversarial Network 5. Section 2: Applications of Deep Generative Models
6. Chapter 4: Image-to-Image Translation 7. Chapter 5: Style Transfer 8. Chapter 6: AI Painter 9. Section 3: Advanced Deep Generative Techniques
10. Chapter 7: High Fidelity Face Generation 11. Chapter 8: Self-Attention for Image Generation 12. Chapter 9: Video Synthesis 13. Chapter 10: Road Ahead 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Generating faces with VAEs

Now that you have learned the theory of VAEs and have built one for MNIST, it is time to grow up, ditch the toy, and generate some serious stuff. We will use VAE to generate some faces. Let's get started! The code is in ch2_vae_faces.ipynb. There are a few face datasets available for training:

In this exercise, we will only assume the dataset contains RGB images; feel free to use any dataset that suits your needs.

Network architecture

We reuse the MNIST VAE and training pipeline with some modifications given that the dataset is now different from MNIST. Feel free to reduce...

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