Artistic Model Training
NOTES:
This is "NoGAN" based training, described in the DeOldify readme.
This model prioritizes colorful renderings. It has higher variation in renderings at different resolutions compared to the "stable" model
Setup
Create black and white training images
Only runs if the directory isn't already created.
Pre-train generator
NOTE
Most of the training takes place here in pretraining for NoGAN. The goal here is to take the generator as far as possible with conventional training, as that is much easier to control and obtain glitch-free results compared to GAN training.
64px
128px
192px
Repeatable GAN Cycle
NOTE
Best results so far have been based on repeating the cycle below a few times (about 5-8?), until diminishing returns are hit (no improvement in image quality). Each time you repeat the cycle, you want to increment that old_checkpoint_num by 1 so that new check points don't overwrite the old.
Save Generated Images
Pretrain Critic
Only need full pretraining of critic when starting from scratch. Otherwise, just finetune!
GAN
Instructions:
Find the checkpoint just before where glitches start to be introduced. This is all very new so you may need to play around with just how far you go here with keep_pct.