Generative Adversarial Networks - Part IV

This is the Part 4 of a short series of posts introducing and building generative adversarial networks, known as GANs. Previously: Part 1 introduced the idea of adversarial learning and we started to build the machinery of a GAN implementation. Part 2 we extended our code to learn a simple 1-dimensional pattern 1010. Part 3 we developed our code to learn to generate 2-dimensional grey-scale images that look like handwritten digits In this post we'll extend our code again to lean to generate full-colour images, learning from a dataset of celebrity face photos. The ideas should be the same, and the code shouldn't need much new added to it. Celebrity Faces A popular dataset for human faces is the celebA dataset which contains 202,599 photos, annotated with some features. A revised version was developed, called the aligned celebA dataset, where the location of the eyes is consistent across the dataset and the orientation of the heads is vertical so the mouth is below the eyes were possible. The following shows 6 samples from the dataset.