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A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks [pdf] (arxiv.org)
78 points by cgtyoder on Dec 13, 2018 | hide | past | pdf | 6 comments on HN

In plain words: The generator injects a style at every layer of image building, so it controls big traits like pose and small details like freckles separately without labels. It made more realistic faces than earlier designs, with smoother transitions and cleaner separation of traits.

Abstract · A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks

We propose an alternative generator architecture for generative adversarial networks, borrowing from style transfer literature. The new architecture leads to an automatically learned, unsupervised separation of high-level attributes (e.g., pose and identity when trained on human faces) and stochastic variation in the generated images (e.g., freckles, hair), and it enables intuitive, scale-specific control of the synthesis. The new generator improves the state-of-the-art in terms of traditional distribution quality metrics, leads to demonstrably better interpolation properties, and also better disentangles the latent factors of variation. To quantify interpolation quality and disentanglement, we propose two new, automated methods that are applicable to any generator architecture. Finally, we introduce a new, highly varied and high-quality dataset of human faces.

Tero Karras, Samuli Laine, Timo Aila
arXiv:1812.04948 · cs.NE, cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted Dec 12, 2018 · updated Mar 29, 2019
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Video: https://youtu.be/kSLJriaOumA?t=26

The quality and diversity of these images is incredible.

The "other datasets" section starting at 5:04 is very interesting. Aside from the disruptive effects of facial recognition, this tech seems destined to become a go-to tool for automotive design.
I believe that best of these generated faces will have a 90% match in training dataset.

If you go through the generated faces you can see all of them have different background. These are not generated from scratch, only picked from memory to match the requirements.

Each face has totally different hair and hairstyle.

Have the published the training dataset?

This is just phenomenal. Can see this being a a fairly disruptive force in the media industry.

Also, sock puppet factories could use this to create endless numbers of fake personas for social media astroturfing.

Watch this space..
The improvements in GANs from 2014 are amazing. From coarse 32x32 pixel images we have gotten to 1024x1024 images that can fool most humans.