I wonder how this deals with the stippling seen in black and white printed pages. As someone familiar with digital drawing/editing, any slight imperfection in the pattern becomes super obvious and it's even worse with stippled gradients. I'm sure it'll be a useful tool with refinement, but this is still a solution to an artificial problem. There's no reason for Japan's current censor laws to exist in 2018.
FAQ says they currently make no attempt to deal with that and it straight up won't work if you try.
There should be NSFW examples in the Readme. I saw some practical (NSFW) examples on 4chan and it doesn't seem to work very well. Most hentai doesn't contain simple lines and blobs covering homogenous skin area. There is detail under those areas that the algorithm does not reproduce at all.
On the contrary, the examples I saw on /h/ looked pretty impressive for the most part.
I suggested that to deeppomf a while ago (I was thinking of simply using unlabeled anime images from https://gwern.net/Danbooru2017 with random area deletions to simplify the model & training process as much as possible) and his belief is that because genitals are such a small fraction of any images, and the rest of images vary so much while genitals are a fairly small narrow domain, a generic inpainting/denoising CN…
So do you know what exactly the model was trained on? Unless I missed it, there's no training code in the repo, or any other indication of how data was prepared.
I'm not sure. I suggested Danbooru2017, as I mentioned, and I thought he was using it, but double-checking his Reddit comments he seems to imply he's using a custom private dataset only at this point. Maybe he hand-extracted a lot of censored/original pairs from various places.
I believe "Image Inpainting for Irregular Holes Using Partial Convolutions" has been superseded by "Free-Form Image Inpainting with Gated Convolution", especially for interactive use cases? https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.03589.pdf http://jiahuiyu.com/deepfill2/ I think the most interesting part of this project would be generating the dataset. That is a lot of manual redrawing of vaginas/penises. Or the reverse, where you…
Hentai is censored only for the Japanese marked, because it is a legal obligation. When it is exported, the uncensored version is normally used. So you just need to find both versions in order to make your dataset. Add the large amount of decensored artwork and it is not that hard to build a huge dataset. It may even be automatable by parsing imageboards.
Are you sure about this? How much hentai is actually exported? I get the impression that it's very little, and very little of the Japanese releases, due to the fact that most hentai sites have English translations provided by fan groups, and they're scanned translations of what's sold in Japan.
In most Western countries, the content can be illegal independent of the real-world event being legal or not, or even if there's no real-world event at all (i.e. fictional depictions). It's not illegal for a teenager to pose in the nude, but it might be considered illegal for them to take a photo of themselves and post it on the internet. I think linking illegal depictions to illegal events would be saner, but that's…
Interesting. Yeah I agree that it would make sense for the link to be clear. Come to think of it, a couple of years ago there was this app called FaceApp which came out which used neural networks to modify selfies in funny ways (like making you older/younger/of the opposite sex). I wonder if anyone has ever run a pornographic image with the "younger" filter in the app. Would that be illegal?
Under some jurisdictions, I imagine so, since even purely computer-generated images are illegal, and there are other laws which criminalise purely drawn material. It may hit a gray spot in the law, but I doubt a judge would have trouble interpreting the existing law. This is in reference to English and Welsh law, by the way. The exact wording of the law concerns a depiction of someone who "conveys the predominant impression of a child".
There's tens of thousands of manually decensored manga, you could download and compare them to original to identify censored regions and use as training I suppose.
Is it bad form to share one of these "datasets" here?
i'm not aware of an actual organized dataset, but you could start hitting up e-hentai.org and with the right searches (look for decensored or english, and then find the matching original japanese versions on there), you could get together hundreds or thousands of images in an evening.
Hentai is censored only for the Japanese marked, because it is a legal obligation. When it is exported, the uncensored version is normally used. So you just need to find both versions in order to make your dataset. Add the large amount of decensored artwork and it is not that hard to build a huge dataset. It may even be automatable by parsing imageboards.
Are you sure about this? How much hentai is actually exported? I get the impression that it's very little, and very little of the Japanese releases, due to the fact that most hentai sites have English translations provided by fan groups, and they're scanned translations of what's sold in Japan.
I think some hentai doujins are licensed by Fakku, and they seem to be uncensored. I've never used Fakku though. Note that their website is NSFW.
I predict that the porn industry will be the first industry to suffer mass unemployment due to AI. Phase I: Deep learning combined with realistic physics simulation will eventually replace human actors. At some point amateurs can record their movements, then use variational autoencoders to improve their features (bigger boobs, thinner waist, smooth skin) and replace professionals. This is 'Uber phase' for porn and dr…
"Diamond Age" has a subplot to the tune of this
More than just my age is diamond after reading OPs post