ConditionalVAE is a project realized as part of the Deep Learning exam of the Master's degree in Artificial Intelligence, University of Bologna. The aim of this project is to build a Conditional Generative model and test it on the well known CelebA dataset.
We implemented from scratch a Conditional Variational Autoencoder using Tensorflow 2.2 (in the figure below there is a diagram of our architecture).
We trained the model using Google Colab and we explored the conditioning ability of our model by generating new faces with specific attributes, and by performing attributes manipulation and latent vectors interpolation.
If you are interested, here you can find a brief report about this project.
- Download the repository.
- Open the Train_ConditionalVae notebook on Google Colab.
- Run the notebook with your own configuration.
- Train the model.
- Open the Image_Generation notebook on Google Colab.
- Run the notebook with your own configuration.
An example of new images generated with specific attributes (listed on the side):
The vector interpolation in the latent space is a method to generate new images which simulate the transition between two images.
In the figure below, we report 4 examples of images interpolation: in each row the first and the last images are the original ones, while the 6 images in the middle are the new ones.
Starting from a batch of images, we can reconstruct it modifying some face attributes.
For example, we can transform all the subjects into men with moustache:
- Python 3
- Jupyter Notebook
For more details: see our report
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE.md file for details.
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