iGAN: Interactive Image Generation via Generative Adversarial Networks

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Overview

iGAN (aka. interactive GAN) is the author's implementation of interactive image generation interface described in:
"Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold"
Jun-Yan Zhu, Philipp Krähenbühl, Eli Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros
In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2016

Given a few user strokes, our system could produce photo-realistic samples that best satisfy the user edits in real-time. Our system is based on deep generative models such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) and DCGAN. The system serves the following two purposes:

Please cite our paper if you find this code useful in your research. (Contact: Jun-Yan Zhu, junyanz at mit dot edu)

Getting started

Requirements

The code is written in Python2 and requires the following 3rd party libraries:

Python3

For Python3 users, you need to replace pip with pip3:

Interface:

See [Youtube] at 2:18s for the interactive image generation demos.

Layout

User interaction

Model Zoo:

Download the Theano DCGAN model (e.g., outdoor_64). Before using our system, please check out the random real images vs. DCGAN generated samples to see which kind of images that a model can produce.

bash ./models/scripts/download_dcgan_model.sh outdoor_64

We provide a simple script to generate samples from a pre-trained DCGAN model. You can run this script to test if Theano, CUDA, cuDNN are configured properly before running our interface.

THEANO_FLAGS='device=gpu0, floatX=float32, nvcc.fastmath=True' python generate_samples.py --model_name outdoor_64 --output_image outdoor_64_dcgan.png

Command line arguments:

Type python iGAN_main.py --help for a complete list of the arguments. Here we discuss some important arguments:

Dataset and Training

See more details here

Projecting an Image onto Latent Space

We provide a script to project an image into latent space (i.e., x->z):

Script without UI

We also provide a standalone script that should work without UI. Given user constraints (i.e., a color map, a color mask, and an edge map), the script generates multiple images that mostly satisfy the user constraints. See python iGAN_script.py --help for more details.

THEANO_FLAGS='device=gpu0, floatX=float32, nvcc.fastmath=True' python iGAN_script.py --model_name outdoor_64

Citation

@inproceedings{zhu2016generative,
  title={Generative Visual Manipulation on the Natural Image Manifold},
  author={Zhu, Jun-Yan and Kr{\"a}henb{\"u}hl, Philipp and Shechtman, Eli and Efros, Alexei A.},
  booktitle={Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  year={2016}
}

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Acknowledgement