PyTorch implementation of the CVPR 2020 paper "A U-Net Based Discriminator for Generative Adversarial Networks". The paper and supplementary can be found here. Don't forget to have a look at the supplementary as well (the Tensorflow FIDs can be found there (Table S1)). The code allows the users to reproduce and extend the results reported in the study. Please cite the above paper when reporting, reproducing or extending the results.

Create the conda environment "unetgan" from the provided unetgan.yml file. The experiments can be reproduced with the scripts provided in the folder training_scripts (the experiment folder and dataset folder has to be set manually).

This implementation of U-Net GAN is based on the PyTorch code for BigGAN (https://github.com/ajbrock/BigGAN-PyTorch). The main differences are that (1) we use our own data-loader which does not require HDF5 pre-processing, (2) applied changes in the generator and discriminator class in BigGAN.py, and (3) modified train.py and train_fns.py. If you want to turn your own GAN into a U-Net GAN, make sure to follow the tips outlined in how_to_unetgan.pdf.

The inception metrics (FID and IS) are measured in the same way as in the parent repository (https://github.com/ajbrock/BigGAN-PyTorch). They can be computed on-the-fly during training, using the pre-computed inception moments (see original BigGAN repository). We included the pre-computed inception moments for CelebA and FFHQ in this repository for convenience. This means when the model trains it will automatically read the npz files in the main folder and calculate the FID. The on-the-fly FID scores are saved in the logs folder in the output directory as a pickle named inception_metrics_<experiment_name>.p. Note that for CelebA training is perfectly stable, but for FFHQ we observe frequent collapse (which is also the case for the underlying BigGAN, which is unstable for FFHQ). The FID curve for a successful FFHQ run will look like the one on the left, while the more common failed runs will look like the curve on the right. The collapse occurs early in training and is easily detectable (in contrast, for BigGAN it usually occurs later).

First, download the checkpoint for FFHQ from https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7vql1ao1u853wwf/AAABs7JO27da49_GveaEXl4Ma?dl=0 and copy the files into the folder pretrained_model. To load the pre-trained model for FFHQ, execute sh training_scripts/load_pretrained_ffhq.sh. The script will load the checkpoint and resume training from this point. Of course, you still need to set the path to the dataset and the desired output folder in this script. If you quickly want to check the outputs of the pre-trained model, set te --sample_every to a small number of training steps, like 30.

While our method is based on BigGAN, this repository combines the U-Net discriminator with StyleGAN2: U-Net StyleGAN-2 https://github.com/lucidrains/unet-stylegan2. Check it out!

If you use this work please cite

@inproceedings{schonfeld2020u,
  title={A u-net based discriminator for generative adversarial networks},
  author={Schonfeld, Edgar and Schiele, Bernt and Khoreva, Anna},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  pages={8207--8216},
  year={2020}
}

U-Net GAN PyTorch is open-sourced under the AGPL-3.0 license. See the LICENSE file for details.

For a list of other open source components included in unetgan, see the file 3rd-party-licenses.txt.

This software is a research prototype, solely developed for and published as part of the publication. It will neither be maintained nor monitored in any way.

If you have questions or need help, feel free to write an email to [email protected].