Ask HN: I want to create new human faces with Deep Learning. Where do I start?

#1

Post by eaenki » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 12:29 AM UTC

Is there some free or, way better, an open source repo/project that it’s ready out of the box or just rough around the edges?

It doesn’t matter if they’re created “from scratch” from a large dataset or its just a mix of two or so faces.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Ask HN: I want to create new human faces with Deep Learning. Where do I start?

#2

Post by souljaboytylem » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 12:52 AM UTC

I bet if you poke around on Google for GAN and face generation you’ll stumble upon some sources. I wasn’t able to find any particular packages or pre-trained models but these types of papers are a good start and typically reference related works and other similar projects

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/42f6/f5454dda99d8989f981498...

Re: Ask HN: I want to create new human faces with Deep Learning. Where do I start?

#3

Post by sharemywin » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 1:05 AM UTC

https://towardsdatascience.com/implementing-a-generative-adv...

Re: Ask HN: I want to create new human faces with Deep Learning. Where do I start?

#4

Post by Someone » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 1:06 AM UTC

Mixing: Google “opencv face morphing” (probably won’t use deep learning, but _if_ you’re in it for the results, that doesn’t matter)

Better: https://research.nvidia.com/publication/2017-10_Progressive-... (source available with license “Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International”)

Re: Ask HN: I want to create new human faces with Deep Learning. Where do I start?

#5

Post by p1esk » Fri, Dec 07, 2018, 1:18 AM UTC

All of generated faces I've seen recently are based on CelebA dataset. So the results tend to be very good looking people. If you want to generate something more realistic you need to find of build a large dataset of "more realistic" faces.