Comparison of Deep Convolutional GAN and Progressive GAN for facial image generation

Abstract

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have generated realistic and diverse facial images with promising results. This work demonstrates a technique for creating facial pictures using GANs and evaluates the effectiveness of several GAN designs and training approaches. The CelebA dataset is leveraged for training and evaluating the GAN model, and employ a variety of evaluation metrics, such as the Structural Similarity Index (SSIM) to assess the quality and diversity of the generated images. Progressive GAN outperforms Deep Convolutional GAN in terms of image quality and diversity, and conditional GAN training is more effective than standard GAN training for generating facial images with specific attributes. The combination of Progressive GAN and conditional GAN training produces facial images of the utmost quality and diversity. The findings contribute to a broader comprehension of the use of GANs for generating facial images and have ramifications for a variety of applications, from facial recognition to virtual reality.