scholarly journals Improvement of Learning Stability of Generative Adversarial Network Using Variational Learning

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 4528
Author(s):  
Je-Yeol Lee ◽  
Sang-Il Choi 
Keyword(s):  
Generative Models ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Secondary Network ◽  
Variational Autoencoder ◽  
Variational Learning

In this paper, we propose a new network model using variational learning to improve the learning stability of generative adversarial networks (GAN). The proposed method can be easily applied to improve the learning stability of GAN-based models that were developed for various purposes, given that the variational autoencoder (VAE) is used as a secondary network while the basic GAN structure is maintained. When the gradient of the generator vanishes in the learning process of GAN, the proposed method receives gradient information from the decoder of the VAE that maintains gradient stably, so that the learning processes of the generator and discriminator are not halted. The experimental results of the MNIST and the CelebA datasets verify that the proposed method improves the learning stability of the networks by overcoming the vanishing gradient problem of the generator, and maintains the excellent data quality of the conventional GAN-based generative models.

Towards Accuracy Enhancement of Age Group Classification Using Generative Adversarial Networks

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Khaled ELKarazle ◽  
Valliappan Raman ◽  
Patrick Then
Keyword(s):  
Age Estimation ◽  
Super Resolution ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Age Group Classification ◽  
Facial Images

Age estimation models can be employed in many applications, including soft biometrics, content access control, targeted advertising, and many more. However, as some facial images are taken in unrestrained conditions, the quality relegates, which results in the loss of several essential ageing features. This study investigates how introducing a new layer of data processing based on a super-resolution generative adversarial network (SRGAN) model can influence the accuracy of age estimation by enhancing the quality of both the training and testing samples. Additionally, we introduce a novel convolutional neural network (CNN) classifier to distinguish between several age classes. We train one of our classifiers on a reconstructed version of the original dataset and compare its performance with an identical classifier trained on the original version of the same dataset. Our findings reveal that the classifier which trains on the reconstructed dataset produces better classification accuracy, opening the door for more research into building data-centric machine learning systems.

scholarly journals Learning Representations of Natural Language Texts with Generative Adversarial Networks at Document, Sentence, and Aspect Level

Algorithms ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aggeliki Vlachostergiou ◽  
George Caridakis ◽  
Phivos Mylonas ◽  
Andreas Stafylopatis
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Real World Data ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Feature Representations ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Learning Tasks ◽  
Potential Applications

The ability to learn robust, resizable feature representations from unlabeled data has potential applications in a wide variety of machine learning tasks. One way to create such representations is to train deep generative models that can learn to capture the complex distribution of real-world data. Generative adversarial network (GAN) approaches have shown impressive results in producing generative models of images, but relatively little work has been done on evaluating the performance of these methods for the learning representation of natural language, both in supervised and unsupervised settings at the document, sentence, and aspect level. Extensive research validation experiments were performed by leveraging the 20 Newsgroups corpus, the Movie Review (MR) Dataset, and the Finegrained Sentiment Dataset (FSD). Our experimental analysis suggests that GANs can successfully learn representations of natural language texts at all three aforementioned levels.

scholarly journals Empirical Analysis of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network for Ultrasound Image Synthesis

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-77
Author(s):  
Dheeraj Kumar ◽  
Mayuri A. Mehta ◽  
Indranath Chatterjee
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Ultrasound Imaging ◽  
Ultrasound Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Ultrasound Images ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Synthetic Images

Introduction: Recent research on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the biomedical field has proven the effectiveness in generating synthetic images of different modalities. Ultrasound imaging is one of the primary imaging modalities for diagnosis in the medical domain. In this paper, we present an empirical analysis of the state-of-the-art Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Network (DCGAN) for generating synthetic ultrasound images. Aims: This work aims to explore the utilization of deep convolutional generative adversarial networks for the synthesis of ultrasound images and to leverage its capabilities. Background: Ultrasound imaging plays a vital role in healthcare for timely diagnosis and treatment. Increasing interest in automated medical image analysis for precise diagnosis has expanded the demand for a large number of ultrasound images. Generative adversarial networks have been proven beneficial for increasing the size of data by generating synthetic images. Objective: Our main purpose in generating synthetic ultrasound images is to produce a sufficient amount of ultrasound images with varying representations of a disease. Methods: DCGAN has been used to generate synthetic ultrasound images. It is trained on two ultrasound image datasets, namely, the common carotid artery dataset and nerve dataset, which are publicly available on Signal Processing Lab and Kaggle, respectively. Results: Results show that good quality synthetic ultrasound images are generated within 100 epochs of training of DCGAN. The quality of synthetic ultrasound images is evaluated using Mean Squared Error (MSE), Peak Signal-to-Noise Ratio (PSNR), and Structural Similarity Index Measure (SSIM). We have also presented some visual representations of the slices of generated images for qualitative comparison. Conclusion: Our empirical analysis reveals that synthetic ultrasound image generation using DCGAN is an efficient approach. Other: In future work, we plan to compare the quality of images generated through other adversarial methods such as conditional GAN, progressive GAN.

scholarly journals Single Image De-Raining Using Spinning Detail Perceptual Generative Adversarial Networks

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (7) ◽  
pp. 811-819
Author(s):  
Kaizheng Chen ◽  
◽  
Yaping Dai ◽  
Zhiyang Jia ◽  
Kaoru Hirota
Keyword(s):  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Perceptual Quality ◽  
Training Procedure ◽  
Single Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Real World Datasets ◽  
High Level

In this paper, Spinning Detail Perceptual Generative Adversarial Networks (SDP-GAN) is proposed for single image de-raining. The proposed method adopts the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework and consists of two following networks: the rain streaks generative network G and the discriminative network D. To reduce the background interference, we propose a rain streaks generative network which not only focuses on the high frequency detail map of rainy image, but also directly reduces the mapping range from input to output. To further improve the perceptual quality of generated images, we modify the perceptual loss by extracting high-level features from discriminative network D, rather than pre-trained networks. Furthermore, we introduce a new training procedure based on the notion of self spinning to improve the final de-raining performance. Extensive experiments on the synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves significant improvements over the recent state-of-the-art methods.

scholarly journals GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS TO GENERALISE URBAN AREAS IN TOPOGRAPHIC MAPS

2021 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B4-2021 ◽  
pp. 15-22
Author(s):  
A. Courtial ◽  
G. Touya ◽  
X. Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Topographic Maps ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Topographic Map ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Inner Cities ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. This article presents how a generative adversarial network (GAN) can be employed to produce a generalised map that combines several cartographic themes in the dense context of urban areas. We use as input detailed buildings, roads, and rivers from topographic datasets produced by the French national mapping agency (IGN), and we expect as output of the GAN a legible map of these elements at a target scale of 1:50,000. This level of detail requires to reduce the amount of information while preserving patterns; covering dense inner cities block by a unique polygon is also necessary because these blocks cannot be represented with enlarged individual buildings. The target map has a style similar to the topographic map produced by IGN. This experiment succeeded in producing image tiles that look like legible maps. It also highlights the impact of data and representation choices on the quality of predicted images, and the challenge of learning geographic relationships.

scholarly journals Human Face Generation using Deep Convolution Generative Adversarial Network

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 114-120
Author(s):  
Chaudhary Sarimurrab, Ankita Kesari Naman and Sudha Narang
Keyword(s):  
Random Noise ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Data Generation ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Face Generation ◽  
Human Faces

The Generative Models have gained considerable attention in the field of unsupervised learning via a new and practical framework called Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) due to its outstanding data generation capability. Many models of GAN have proposed, and several practical applications emerged in various domains of computer vision and machine learning. Despite GAN's excellent success, there are still obstacles to stable training. In this model, we aim to generate human faces through un-labelled data via the help of Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks. The applications for generating faces are vast in the field of image processing, entertainment, and other such industries. Our resulting model is successfully able to generate human faces from the given un-labelled data and random noise.

scholarly journals Tag Disentangled Generative Adversarial Network for Object Image Re-rendering

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chaoyue Wang ◽  
Chaohui Wang ◽  
Chang Xu ◽  
Dacheng Tao
Keyword(s):  
Input Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Single Image ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Training Strategy ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Adversarial Training ◽  
Realistic Images

In this paper, we propose a principled Tag Disentangled Generative Adversarial Networks (TD-GAN) for re-rendering new images for the object of interest from a single image of it by specifying multiple scene properties (such as viewpoint, illumination, expression, etc.). The whole framework consists of a disentangling network, a generative network, a tag mapping net, and a discriminative network, which are trained jointly based on a given set of images that are completely/partially tagged (i.e., supervised/semi-supervised setting). Given an input image, the disentangling network extracts disentangled and interpretable representations, which are then used to generate images by the generative network. In order to boost the quality of disentangled representations, the tag mapping net is integrated to explore the consistency between the image and its tags. Furthermore, the discriminative network is introduced to implement the adversarial training strategy for generating more realistic images. Experiments on two challenging datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art performance of the proposed framework in the problem of interest.

Synthesizing Designs With Inter-Part Dependencies Using Hierarchical Generative Adversarial Networks

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Chen ◽  
Ashwin Jeyaseelan ◽  
Mark Fuge
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Design Exploration ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Latent Space ◽  
Latent Representations

Real-world designs usually consist of parts with hierarchical dependencies, i.e., the geometry of one component (a child shape) is dependent on another (a parent shape). We propose a method for synthesizing this type of design. It decomposes the problem of synthesizing the whole design into synthesizing each component separately but keeping the inter-component dependencies satisfied. This method constructs a two-level generative adversarial network to train two generative models for parent and child shapes, respectively. We then use the trained generative models to synthesize or explore parent and child shapes separately via a parent latent representation and infinite child latent representations, each conditioned on a parent shape. We evaluate and discuss the disentanglement and consistency of latent representations obtained by this method. We show that shapes change consistently along any direction in the latent space. This property is desirable for design exploration over the latent space.

scholarly journals Data Augmentation for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition Using Generative Adversarial Networks

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangcheng Bao ◽  
Bin Yan ◽  
Li Tong ◽  
Jun Shu ◽  
Linyuan Wang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Data Augmentation ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Training Samples ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Effective Models

One of the greatest limitations in the field of EEG-based emotion recognition is the lack of training samples, which makes it difficult to establish effective models for emotion recognition. Inspired by the excellent achievements of generative models in image processing, we propose a data augmentation model named VAE-D2GAN for EEG-based emotion recognition using a generative adversarial network. EEG features representing different emotions are extracted as topological maps of differential entropy (DE) under five classical frequency bands. The proposed model is designed to learn the distributions of these features for real EEG signals and generate artificial samples for training. The variational auto-encoder (VAE) architecture can learn the spatial distribution of the actual data through a latent vector, and is introduced into the dual discriminator GAN to improve the diversity of the generated artificial samples. To evaluate the performance of this model, we conduct a systematic test on two public emotion EEG datasets, the SEED and the SEED-IV. The obtained recognition accuracy of the method using data augmentation shows as 92.5 and 82.3%, respectively, on the SEED and SEED-IV datasets, which is 1.5 and 3.5% higher than that of methods without using data augmentation. The experimental results show that the artificial samples generated by our model can effectively enhance the performance of the EEG-based emotion recognition.

scholarly journals Recent Advancement in Generative Adversarial Network Models

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-32
Author(s):  
Rounit Agrawal ◽  
Sakshi Seth ◽  
Niti Patil
Keyword(s):  
Network Models ◽  
Generative Models ◽  
Generative Adversarial Networks ◽  
Generative Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Network ◽  
Adversarial Networks ◽  
Deep Model ◽  
Conventional Machine ◽  
Zero Sum ◽  
Work Done

GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) have recently gained a lot of attention in the research community. GANs are based on the zero-sum game theory, in which two neural networks compete for the resources. The results of deep model is capable of producing data that is close to any given data distribution. It employs an adversarial learning method and is much more efficient than conventional machine learning models as learning features. In this paper, firstly discusses the introductory detail about GAN followed by the brief literature survey of work done with GAN models and then followed by its different approaches and discusses how they differ. The analysis then goes on to list of the various applications such as computer vision, image classification and processing of language etc. before coming to a conclusion. As well as, compare this GAN model with other generative models and also mentioned the limitation of GAN.

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