This version of famous StyleGAN2 is intended mostly for fellow artists and students, who rarely look at scientific metrics, but rather need a working creative tool. At least, this is what I use daily myself. Tested on Tensorflow 1.14, requires pyturbojpeg for JPG support. For more explicit details refer to the original implementations.

• inference (image generation) in arbitrary resolution (may cause artifacts!)
• non-square aspect ratio support (picked from dataset; resolution must be divisible by 2**n, such as 512x256, 1280x768, etc.)
• transparency (alpha channel) support (picked from dataset)
• freezing lower D layers for better finetuning (from Freeze the Discriminator)

Windows batch-commands for main tasks, such as ::

• video rendering with slerp/cubic/gauss trajectory smoothing (requires FFMPEG)
• animated "playback" of saved latent snapshots, direction vectors, etc.

also, from Data-Efficient GANs ::

• differential augmentation for fast training on small datasets (~100 images)
• support of custom CUDA-compiled TF ops and (slower) Python-based reference ops

also, from Peter Baylies and skyflynil ::

• non-progressive configs (E,F) with single-scale datasets
• raw JPG support in TFRecords dataset (dramatic savings in disk space & dataset creation time)
• conditional support
• vertical mirroring augmentation

• Put your files in data as subfolder. If needed, crop square fragments from source video or directory with images (feasible method, if you work with patterns or shapes, rather than compostions):

 multicrop.bat source 512 256 

This will cut every source image (or video frame) into 512x512px fragments, overlapped with 256px shift by X and Y. Result will be in directory source-sub, rename it as you wish. Non-square dataset should be prepared separately.

• Make compact TFRecords dataset from directory with JPG images data/mydata:

 prepare_dataset.bat mydata 

This will create file mydata-512x512.tfr in data directory (if your dataset resolution is 512x512). For images with alpha channel remove --jpg option from this bat-file, and also --jpg_data option from train.bat or train_resume.bat files.

• Train StyleGAN2 on prepared dataset:

 train.bat mydata 

This will run training process, according to the options in src/train.py. If there's no TFRecords file from previous step, it will be created here. The training results (models and samples) are saved under the train directory, similar to original Nvidia approach. Only newest configs E and F are used in this repo (default is F; set --config E if you face OOM issue).

Please note: we save both full models (containing G/D/Gs networks for further training) as snapshot-baseresolution-config-kimg.pkl, and compact models (containing only Gs network for inference) as dataset-baseresolution-config-kimg.pkl, e.g. mydata-512-f-0360.pkl. For non-square dataset, the name will be extended to dataset-baseresolution-config-initialXY-kimg.pkl (e.g.mydata-512-f-3x4-0360.pkl). Changing this naming may break other scripts behaviour!

For small datasets (100x images instead of 10000x) one may add --d_aug option to use Differential Augmentation for more effective training. The length of the training is defined by --lod_step_kimg XX option. It's kind of legacy from progressive GAN and defines one step of progressive training. The network with base resolution 1024px will be trained for 20 such steps, for 512px - 18 steps, et cetera. Reasonable lod_step_kimg value for big datasets is 300-600, while in --d_aug mode 20-40 is sufficient.

• Resume training on mydata dataset from the last saved model at train/000-mydata-512-f directory:

 train_resume.bat mydata 000-mydata-512-f

• Uptrain (finetune) trained model on new data:

 train_resume.bat newdata 000-mydata-512-f --finetune 

--finetune option only sets fixed learning rate and some fake high-kimg steps (it's also legacy from ProGAN/StyleGAN). There's no specific schedule in this case, you may stop when you're ok with the results (it's better to set low lod_step_kimg to follow the process). There's also --freezeD option, supposedly enhancing finetuning (not tested).

• Reduce full model (containing G/D/Gs networks) to a compact one (Gs only) for inference:

 reduce_model.bat snapshot-512-f-xxx.pkl 

The result is saved in models directory. Useful for foreign downloaded models.

• Generate smooth animation between random latent points:

 gen.bat ffhq-1024-f 1280-720 500-20 

This will load ffhq-1024-f.pkl from model directory and make a looped 1280x720 px video of 500 frames, with interpolation step of 20 frames between keypoints. Please note: omitting .pkl extension enables custom resolution. Using full filename with extension will load the network params from PKL (useful to test foreign downloaded models). There are --cubic and --gauss options for animation smoothing, and few --scale_type choices. Besides video/sequence output, this command will also save all traversed dlatent points as Numpy array in *.npy file.

• Project external images onto StyleGAN2 model dlatent space (ensure first that vgg16_zhang_perceptual.pkl is downloaded from Git LFS to models/vgg):

 project.bat yourmodel.pkl imagedir 

The result (found dlatent points as Numpy arrays in *.npy files, and video/still previews) will be saved to _out/proj directory.

• Generate smooth animation between saved dlatent points:

 play_dlatents.bat ffhq-1024-f mynpy 50 1920-1080 

This will load saved dlatent points from _in/mynpy and produce a smooth looped animation between them (with resolution 1920x1080 and interpolation step of 50 frames). mynpy may be a file or a directory with *.npy files. To select only few frames from a sequence somename.npy, create text file with comma-delimited frame numbers and save it as somename.txt in the same directory (check examples for FFHQ model). You can also "style" the result: setting --style_npy_file blonde458.npy will load dlatent from blonde458.npy and apply it to higher layers, producing some visual similarity. --cubic smoothing is also applicable here.

• Generate animation from saved dlatent point and feature directions (say, aging/smiling/etc for faces model):

 play_vectors.bat ffhq-1024-f.pkl blonde458.npy vectors_ffhq 

This will load base dlatent point from _in/blonde458.npy and move it along latent direction vectors from _in/vectors_ffhq, one by one. Result is saved as looped video.