The GAN Book: Train stable Generative Adversarial Networks using TensorFlow2, Keras and Python

- Learn generative learning approach of ML and its key differences from the discriminative learning approach.

- Understand why GANs are difficult to train, and key techniques to make their training stable to get impressive results.

- Implement multiple variants of GANs for solving problems such as image generation, image-to-image translation, image super- resolution and so on.

Book Description

Generative Adversarial Networks have become quite popular due to their wide variety of applications in the fields of Computer Vision, Digital Marketing, Creative artwork and so on. One key challenge with GANs is that they are very difficult to train.

This book is a comprehensive guide that highlights the common challenges of training GANs and also provides guidelines for developing GANs in such a way that they result in stable training and high-quality results. This book also explains the generative learning approach of training ML models and its key differences from the discriminative learning approach. After covering the different generative learning approaches, this book deeps dive more into the Generative Adversarial Network and their key variants.

This book takes a hands-on approach and implements multiple generative models such as Pixel CNN, VAE, GAN, DCGAN, CGAN, SGAN, InfoGAN, ACGAN, WGAN, LSGAN, WGAN-GP, Pix2Pix, CycleGAN, SRGAN, DiscoGAN, CartoonGAN, Context Encoder and so on. It also provides a detailed explanation of some advanced GAN variants such as BigGAN, PGGAN, StyleGAN and so on. This book will make you a GAN champion in no time.

What will you learn

- Learn about the generative learning approach of training ML models

- Understand key differences of the generative learning approach from the discriminative learning approach

- Learn about various generative learning approaches and key technical aspects behind them

- Understand and implement the Generative Adversarial Networks in details

- Learn about some key challenges faced during GAN training and two common training failure modes

- Build expertise in the best practices and guidelines for developing and training stable GANs

- Implement multiple variants of GANs and verify their results on your own datasets

- Learn about the adversarial examples, some key applications of GANs and common evaluation strategies

Who this book is for

If you are a ML practitioner who wants to learn about generative learning approaches and get expertise in Generative Adversarial Networks for generating high-quality and realistic content, this book is for you. Starting from a gentle introduction to the generative learning approaches, this book takes you through different variants of GANs, explaining some key technical and intuitive aspects about them. This book provides hands-on examples of multiple GAN variants and also, explains different ways to evaluate them. It covers key applications of GANs and also, explains the adversarial examples.

Table of Contents

1. Generative Learning

2. Generative Adversarial Networks

3. GAN Failure Modes

4. Deep Convolutional GANs

4(II). Into the Latent Space

5. Towards stable GANs

6. Conditional GANs

7. Better Loss functions

8. Image-to-Image Translation

9. Other GANs and experiments

9(II). Advanced Scaling of GANs

10. How to evaluate GANs?

11. Adversarial Examples

12. Impressive Applications of GANs

13. Top Research Papers