Re:Image Synthesis from Yahoo's open_nsfw (2016)
by helpme3 on Sunday November 25, 2018 @11:26PM
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The purpose of this work isn't to generate realistic NSFW images. The purpose is to visually represent what a neural network "looks for" when classifying NSFW content. It is very interesting that these generate images strike the viewer as grotesque even though there isn't anything specific in the images that could be called vulgar. This indicates there is some similarity between how a neural network and our brains classify things.
The generation of images using GANs has improved a lot since then. It would be interesting to see what the latest and greatest methods can do given this data set.