Download ETL9 dataset from http://etlcdb.db.aist.go.jp/.
You need registration to download.
After registration, download ETL9G.zip, extract it, and put ETL9G_nn files into dataset directory.
$ python convert_dataset.py dataset dataset
It takes about 10 minutes. After this, you get dataset/etl9g.pkl as training dataset file.
$ python src/train_dcgan.py -g 0 -o model/dcgan --out_image_dir image/dcgan
It takes about 25 minutes for 1 epoch on GTX 970.
$ python src/generate_dcgan.py -m model/trained.gen.model -t あいうえお -c utf-8 -o image/gen.png
Generated after 50 epoch training
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