Materials for ITP Making Art With GANs Taught by Derrick Schultz
View the Project on GitHub dvschultz/itp-making-art-with-gans-feb2020
Instructor: Derrick Schultz
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Standing office hours will be established during the first week of class. Individual sessions ca be set up with Derrick on Calendly
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the current state of the art machine learning technology to synthesize imagery. In Making Visual Art with GANs students will use popular deep learning models to create images, videos, and interactive experiences. The focus will be on hands-on experimentation with style transfer, CycleGAN/Pix2Pix, and StyleGAN2-ADA in RunwayML and Google Colab. The course will cover the theory behind deep learning and GANs, using pre-trained models, dataset creation, and training custom models. We’ll look at ways to generate images and videos using Python, p5.js, as well as reacting to sound and motion inputs. Coding in Python is not required for this course, but a general knowledge of programming basics is encouraged.
Due to the short schedule of this class, there will be no final project. There will be a Show N Tell at the end of the class but you do not have to create work specifically for this session. Grading therefore will rely on participation and completion of the weekly homework assignments
This section will be updated over the course of the class with recordings, slides, and links.
Play with the models in Runway
Play with the models in Colab
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