ArcaneGAN by Alex Spirin

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Changelog

• 2022-04-04 Added a new image2image model training url
• 2021-12-27 Added colab for videos
• 2021-12-25 ArcaneGAN v0.4 is live
• 2021-12-14 Added Video demo on huggingface
• 2021-12-12 ArcaneGAN v0.3 is live
• 2021-12-09 Thanks to ak92501 we now have a huggingface demo

ArcaneGAN v0.4

The main differences are:

• lighter styling (closer to original input)
• sharper result
• happier faces
• reduced childish eyes effect
• reduced stubble on feminine faces
• increased temporal stability on videos
• reduced mouth\teeth artifacts

Image samples

v0.3 vs v0.4

Video samples

ryan.mp4

obama.mp4

ArcaneGAN v0.3

Videos processed by the huggingface video inference colab.

obama2.mp4

ryan2.mp4

Image samples

Faces were enhanced via GPEN before applying the ArcaneGAN v0.3 filter.

ArcaneGAN v0.2

The release is here

Implementation Details

The model is a pytroch *.jit of a fastai v1 flavored u-net trained on a paired dataset, generated via a blended stylegan2.

• Model architecture: fastai v1 u-net
• Stylegan2 implementation used: stylegan3 repo
• Stylegan blending example: stylegan3 blending
• Paired image2image training: fastai v1 superres notebook