StyleGAN2 Deep Dive Week 1 Class Notes

Taught by Derrick Schultz & Lia Coleman

🔗 Links

• Class Slides
• Class video
  • First half
  • Second half, re-recorded
    • What is a GAN?
    • A Brief History of GANs
    • StyleGAN2 Inspiration

💥 Class Objectives

• Learn StyleGAN through making
• The ins and outs of the community surrounding StyleGAN
• How to stay up to date with new GAN developments

👩‍🏫 Expectations

• 6-10 hours of homework every week.
• The more time you put in, the more you'll learn!
• 1.5 hours of live class lectures, but there is a wealth of other materials available on Derrick's youtube channel.

💪 Class Approaches

• Follow along each week, do every homework assignment, OR
• Follow along each week, think of one big project, OR
• Soak it in, ignore homework (don't recommend, but!)

⚙️ Requirements

1. Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
   • You get $300 in free credits! = ~250 hours, at least 1 model trained, if not more.
   • ~1-click-install
   • 16GB GPUS (P100, V100)
   • Recommend 1 GPU to start with for this class, but you can set up 2 GPU or 4 GPU training as well.
   • How to set up video.
2. GitHub