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ArtGAN: Artwork Synthesis with Conditional Categorical GANs

11 Feb 2017arXiv:1702.03410archive 2025-07-28

Wei Ren Tan, Chee Seng Chan, Hernan Aguirre, Kiyoshi Tanaka

This paper proposes an extension to the Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), namely as ARTGAN to synthetically generate more challenging and complex images such as artwork that have abstract characteristics. This is in contrast to most of the current solutions that focused on generating natural images such as room interiors, birds, flowers and faces. The key innovation of our work is to allow back-propagation of the loss function w.r.t. the labels (randomly assigned to each generated images) to the generator from the discriminator. With the feedback from the label information, the generator is able to learn faster and achieve better generated image quality. Empirically, we show that the proposed ARTGAN is capable to create realistic artwork, as well as generate compelling real world images that globally look natural with clear shape on CIFAR-10.

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aliciafmachado/artgan-implementation mentioned on GitHubpytorch report
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