Create Anime Characters with A.I.

[duj]

It's copy-pasting parts of the training images over and over.

In figure 8 of the technical report [0], compare the hair in images (0,0), (2,0), (3,0), (3,3), (4,4).

The paper suggests their method generates copyright-free images, yet they are very obviously derived from the input images and you can identify the parts of individual input images that are mashed together to form the output.

All in all their method seems to be performing "obfuscated memorization," in the sense that the generated images are scrambled up enough to fool their plagiarsim-detector loss function.

[0] http://make.girls.moe/technical_report.pdf

[yohui]

You can also view Figure 8 online: http://make.girls.moe/news-img/fixed_noise.jpg

But as the online article states, that figure represents a case where the model is explicitly set to "generate images [which] have similar major visual features with different attribute combinations": http://make.girls.moe/#/news

So some degree of repetition is to be expected, since you've turned off random noise. And despite that the images do still exhibit some variation if you look closely.

[indescions_2017]

That is an awesome choice of domain name ;)

For the uninitiated: (form Wikipedia) Moe (萌え, pronounced [mo.e]) is a Japanese slang loanword that refers to feelings of strong affection mainly towards characters in anime, manga, and video games.

http://nic.moe/en/

[ReverseCold]

This is what the domain name was created for IIRC.

[ue_]

I have a .moe domain, partly because of my hobbies and also beacuse it was surprisingly cheap. Unfortunately szyslak.moe was taken :)

[King-Aaron]

I just seem to end up generating pictures that look like smashed crabs: http://imgur.com/4PbYuEt

[navs]

Or a perfect villain

[asr1191]

Maybe it's the hidden heterochromia feature

And short hair seems to produce male characters

[theemathas]

Is there a reason it doesn't generate images as pretty as the samples on the news page? (http://make.girls.moe/news-img/samples.jpg)

By the way, the Getchu and illustration2vec links on the news page are broken.

Edit: This part from the Tips page might be why it initially didn't generate great images:

The input of the model consists of two parts, the random noise part and the condition part. If you generate a good image, you could try to fix the noise part and use random conditions to get more good images. We have observed that a good random noise is important for the better generation.

Edit 2: Actually, no. According to the news page, if the noise is fixed, the generated pictures would be all similar.

[hiepph]

Wow, the quality of generated face is pretty nice. It's not ugly as I usually see of GAN.

[hatsunearu]

http://imgur.com/a/A5gID i sometimes get this moetron monstrocity :P

[hardmaru]

Amazing this works entirely inside the web browser.

[hatsunearu]

Yeah, came to ask--so the GAN model is loaded into the Javascript engine and run locally?

I thought DNN models are fucking huge?

[codedokode]

Not every.

In Cromium 46 (released in 2015) there is an error:

> Error during service worker registration: DOMException: Only secure origins are allowed (see: https://goo.gl/Y0ZkNV).(anonymous function) @ main.4188687f.js:1 descriptor_runner_webassembly.ts:172 ErrorEvent {isTrusted: true}worker.onerror @ descriptor_runner_webassembly.ts:172

> Uncaught RangeError: Invalid array buffer length math.ts:55 Model loading failed for webassembly backend. Trying next backend: Uncaught RangeError: Invalid array buffer length

In Firefox 45 (released in 2015) there is an error

> InternalError: uncaught exception: out of memory

(the necessary amount of memory is not reported)

[brudgers]

The paper, http://make.girls.moe/technical_report.pdf

[mollusk]

Props for the domain name.

[grondilu]

The algorithms generates very obvious and non-aesthetics artefacts: http://imgur.com/a/hxBop

[mindw0rk]

Shouldn't it generate different avatars everytime? I get the same picture when I generate a new one with same non-random params.

[ldjb]

If you've selected the 'Noise: Random' option, it should, yes.

[jacquesm]

Create anime girls. Doesn't anime have boys?

[yohui]

Well, "make.girls.moe" is the URL and name of the tool.

According to the technical report [1], they used character portraits from Getchu [2] for training data. A cursory glance shows that the overwhelming majority of the characters are female. As a result, the characters the tool generates are likely to appear female to our eyes.

After the code is open sourced, perhaps someone should try to create make.boys.moe using character portraits from otome games [3].

[1]: 12.8 MB PDF, http://make.girls.moe/technical_report.pdf

[2]: example from report (possibly NSFW?), http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=933144

[3]: games with a female protagonist and many male characters, https://vndb.org/g542

[chobytes]

are you sure none of them are boys? :^)

[thowfaraway]

Maybe some of the girl programmers that Google hasn't hired should make a site that generates sexy anime boys?

[sanxiyn]

Probably a matter of dataset.

[tatami]

You don't need much of an A.I. to create the ordinary high school student :)

[type-2]

It generated a boy for me once.

[aw3c2]

Please don't propagate that sexist, binary view on gender. If you make the effort to criticise non-equal treatment, please always also include genderless, non-binary bigender or trigender, pangender, trans woman, trans man and any other-gendered.

[shp0ngle]

Yeah but 95% of HN are white heterosexual males so there you go

[redwhitemiko]

How about trap generator?