What are the main ideas of StyleGAN?
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- (1) Map input latent z to an intermediate 'style' space W with an MLP — disentangles factors of variation.
- (2) Inject style at every layer of the generator via adaptive instance normalization (AdaIN) — controls features at multiple scales.
- (3) Noise injection at each layer adds fine-grained stochastic detail (hair, freckles).
- (4) Progressive growing (StyleGAN1) or top-down architecture (StyleGAN2/3) for high resolution.
- Produces photorealistic 1024×1024 faces and enables style mixing.
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- Same as vanilla GAN
- Mapping network to W space + AdaIN per layer + noise injection → disentangled styles + photorealistic outputs
- Removes latents
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StyleGAN: W-space + AdaIN + noise → disentangled, controllable, photorealistic generation.
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