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       HyperStyle: StyleGAN Inversion with HyperNetworks for Real Image
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       Author : Hard_Space
       Score  : 84 points
       Date   : 2021-12-01 07:25 UTC (15 hours ago)
        
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       | mdrzn wrote:
       | This looks really interesting, I just wish there was an easier
       | way to use colab for a total novice.
        
         | moflome wrote:
         | Disclaimer, sister team but what are the friction points you
         | have when using Colab?
        
       | Mizza wrote:
       | It's crazy how much research attention is going into creating
       | Animorphs book covers.
        
         | fxtentacle wrote:
         | It's relatively easy* research with visually pleasing results,
         | so it kind of makes sense to look into it if you have lots of
         | GPUs and need to publish a paper to justify purchasing them.
         | 
         | * = The general field of GAN, encoders, decoders and StyleGAN
         | in particular has lots of working source code examples in a
         | variety of languages. Plus for us humans, it is really easy to
         | judge the resulting face images. And there's an abundance of
         | curated data sets and pre-trained models. So this is like the
         | ideal best-case scenario for doing AI research: All the
         | difficult and/or expensive tasks have already been done by
         | others.
        
       | eMGm4D0zgUAVXc7 wrote:
       | Are there websites where you can try such GAN-magic image editing
       | conveniently online with a GUI, so without having to install
       | software, needing programming knowledge or having to pay?
        
         | songeater wrote:
         | https://old.pollinations.ai/
        
         | cabalamat wrote:
         | Artbreeder (https://www.artbreeder.com/), though it's limited
         | in what it can do.
        
         | knicholes wrote:
         | There's this: http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/
        
         | Aliabid94 wrote:
         | Huggingface spaces has most trending models (including all the
         | GANs) accessible online, e.g.
         | https://huggingface.co/spaces/nateraw/animegan-v2-for-videos
        
         | dave_sullivan wrote:
         | Not really, you need to install things, know how to program,
         | and probably pay for GPU compute. Even with Colab (which is an
         | ok choice if you don't own a beefy GPU; the consumer Nvidia
         | cards--if you can get them--don't have enough RAM these days so
         | colab seems most subsidized).
         | 
         | The real (fatal) problem with Colab is you write a bunch of
         | code that needs decent system specs and they suddenly bump you
         | down to a shitty system and now your code doesn't work, even
         | when you're paying their newest "Plus Plus Max" membership.
         | They keep adding membership tiers and it barely works. Still
         | the cheapest option.
        
         | astrange wrote:
         | Using Colab isn't that bad - you can figure it out with some
         | basic Python at worst, assuming their notebook extracts faces
         | automatically.
         | 
         | I wish these tools would work with StyleGAN3; the earlier
         | versions have some obvious artifacts where eyes/nose/mouth look
         | 2D/"pasted on" even if the face is at an angle. Also, you can
         | see in the examples here that the hair style editing is not
         | good.
        
           | ArtWomb wrote:
           | If StyleGAN3 is just StyleGAN with anti-aliasing, I feel
           | there should be post-processing effect pass to smooth
           | discontinuities. Lots of commercial 2D image filters in the
           | wild exhibit pixel artifacts. And a simple averaging blur is
           | enough to compensate. I wonder if there is something
           | equivalent ;)
        
             | astrange wrote:
             | It is anti-aliased StyleGAN, but the anti-aliasing happens
             | in the latent space inside the network (on concepts rather
             | than pixels, sort of.)
             | 
             | I forget how it works exactly, but it causes the image to
             | look more like it's made of flat textures.
        
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