Natural video synthesis with Generative Adversarial Networks

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) are the state of the art neural network models for image generation, but the use of GANs for video generation is still largely unexplored. This thesis introduces new GAN based video generation methods by proposing the technique of model inflation and the segmentation-to-video task. The model inflation technique converts image generative models into video generative models, and experiments show that model inflation improves training speed, training stability, and output video quality. The segmentation-to-video task is that of turning an input image segmentation mask into an output video matching that segmentation. A GAN model was created to perform this task, and its usefulness as a creative tool was demonstrated.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2019

Author dc:creator

• Egan, Nicholas R.(Nicholas Ryan)

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Antonio Torralba.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/123076

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/123076