Coursework


Topic Presentation

- Select a paper [1-12] to present in class. Must be approved by instructor.

- Deadline: 23/09

Presentation

- Prepare slides (30 min.) for a class presentation (dates are on Schedule).

- Focus on: i) key ideas; ii) contribution to SoTA.

- Deadline: 21/10

Themes

Papers


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I - Improving GANS

=== Quality / Resolution 

---* Unsupervised Representation Learning with Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial Networks (DC-GAN) [1]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.06434
https://github.com/Newmu/dcgan_code

---* Progressive Growing of GANs for Improved Quality, Stability, and Variation (Pro-GAN) [2]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.10196v3.pdf
https://github.com/tkarras/progressive_growing_of_gans

=== Stability / Metrics

---* Wasserstein GAN (W-GAN) [3]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.07875
https://github.com/martinarjovsky/WassersteinGAN

---* Spectral Normalization for Generative Adversarial Networks (SN-GAN) [4]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1802.05957
https://github.com/godisboy/SN-GAN

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II - Content

== Conditional

---* Gan Dissection: Visualizing And Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks [5]
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=Hyg_X2C5FX
https://github.com/CSAILVision/GANDissect
https://gandissect.csail.mit.edu

---* Large Scale GAN Training for High Fidelity Natural Image Synthesis (BigGAN) [6]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.11096
https://github.com/ajbrock/BigGAN-PyTorch

== Structure / Style

--* A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networks (StyleGAN) [7]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.04948
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan

--* Analyzing and Improving the Image Quality of StyleGAN (StyleGAN2) [8]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.04958
https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2-ada-pytorch

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III - Authoring

== Transformation / Self-Supervision

---* Image-to-Image Translation with Conditional Adversarial Networks (pix2pix) [9]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.07004
https://phillipi.github.io/pix2pix/

---* Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks (CycleGAN) [10]
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.10593.pdf
https://github.com/junyanz/pytorch-CycleGAN-and-pix2pix 

== Editing

---* Semantic Image Synthesis with Spatially-Adaptive Normalization (GauGAN) [11]
https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.07291
https://github.com/nvlabs/spade/

---* Anycost GANs for Interactive Image Synthesis and Editing [12]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.03243
https://github.com/mit-han-lab/anycost-gan

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IV - 3D

---pi-GAN: Periodic Implicit Generative Adversarial Networks for 3D-Aware Image Synthesis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.00926
https://github.com/marcoamonteiro/pi-GAN

---Image GANs meet Differentiable Rendering for Inverse Graphics and Interpretable 3D Neural Rendering
https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.09125

----Deep View Synthesis via Self-Consistent Generative Network
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.10844

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Etc.

---* A Learned Representation For Artistic Style (Conditional) 
https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.07629
https://github.com/joelmoniz/gogh-figure


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