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Re: This Sneaker Does Not Exist

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Post by injidup »

StanvdVossen wrote: post #7
soulmerge wrote: post #6

Wow, I think this would be pretty useful as a shopping guide in an online shop: Let the user pick a few models they like and render more items based on the chosen ones. Present actual sneakers you have in stock at the last step.

That's definitely a cool idea! I might ask around different webshops to see if they're interested in something like this.

Too many of those shoes look like they have a munged Nike logo which means that any company trying to ship them would soon be receiving a kindly call from the Nike megacorp lawyers. You would have to improve the training to avoid generating trademark / logo infringing designs. Could this be trivially done?

Re: This Sneaker Does Not Exist

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Post by BBC-vs-neolibs »

StanvdVossen wrote: post #5
StatFallacieSuk wrote: post #4

Shame it's dead right now. You can see some of the gen'd sneaks on: https://web.archive.org/web/20211011073927/https://thissneak...

Yeah, it looks like the server was not able to handle the visitors. I'm completely new to webhosting, but I will try to get everything back online soon. Thanks for the archive link!

Some are pretty dirty :)

Re: This Sneaker Does Not Exist

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Post by StanvdVossen »

5350-uiop-1130 wrote: post #15

maybe i'm oversimplifying. i had the same thought about the "thispersondoesnotexist" site...but are these not just composites of things that do exist? or maybe that's the point.

You’re somewhat right. The machine learning algorithm tries to replicate the general patterns on the images it’s trained on (so in this case, images of a lot of sneakers). If the algorithm is trained on enough images, it should, to an extent, learn to generalize and “understand” what a sneaker should look like and generate new ones rather than copying images. In my case, there is definitely some memorization going on, based on some shoes looking suspiciously similar to existing shoes, but there is also definitely some design going on not copied from other sneakers.

But it builds the images “pixel by pixel” rather than e.g. taking the sole of one shoe with the upper of another if that’s what you’re asking.

Re: This Sneaker Does Not Exist

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Post by jstx1 »

soulmerge wrote: post #6

Wow, I think this would be pretty useful as a shopping guide in an online shop: Let the user pick a few models they like and render more items based on the chosen ones. Present actual sneakers you have in stock at the last step.

Maybe I'm not getting it. What's the benefit of showing people the imaginary sneakers? Why not show them what they can actually buy?

Re: This Sneaker Does Not Exist

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Post by samwhiteUK »

injidup wrote: post #11
StanvdVossen wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's definitely a cool idea! I might ask around different webshops to see if they're interested in something like this.

Too many of those shoes look like they have a munged Nike logo which means that any company trying to ship them would soon be receiving a kindly call from the Nike megacorp lawyers. You would have to improve the training to avoid generating trademark / logo infringing designs. Could this be trivially done?

Only real shoes would be shipped...
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