susan-shu-c / GANde

GAN to generate faces of the American singer Ariana Grande (trained on Google Colab GPU)

GANde

Process of gathering data and training GAN to generate faces of the American singer Ariana Grande

Steps

1. Use OpenCV face_recognition to box face of Ariana Grande from full sized pictures
2. Crop face into training set
3. Set up GAN architecture, train, and save process

Box face from full size or zoomed out images

Save face only to training set

Example GAN outputs

Main tools

• Google Colab - free GPU!!!
• OpenCV
• Tensorflow

Resources

• Download pretrained model and weights (for face boxing portion) from OpenCV source GitHub
  • https://github.com/opencv/opencv/tree/master/samples/dnn/face_detector
  • https://github.com/opencv/opencv/blob/master/samples/dnn/face_detector/weights.meta4
• For the GAN portion - followed amazing tutorial by Yumi Kondo
  • https://fairyonice.github.io/My-first-GAN-using-CelebA-data.html