animegan/README.md

# Animating using AnimeGanV2
*author: Filip Haltmayer*



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## Description

Convert an image into an animated image using [`AnimeganV2`](https://github.com/TachibanaYoshino/AnimeGANv2).



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## Code Example
Load an image from path './test.png'. 

 *Write the pipeline in simplified style*:

```python
import towhee

towhee.glob('./test.png') \
      .image_decode() \
      .img2img_translation.animegan(model_name = 'hayao') \
      .show()
```

<img src="./results1.png" height="150px"/>

*Write a pipeline with explicit inputs/outputs name specifications:*

```python
import towhee
      
towhee.glob['path']('./test.png') \
      .image_decode['path', 'origin']() \
      .img2img_translation.animegan['origin', 'facepaintv2'](model_name = 'facepaintv2') \
      .img2img_translation.animegan['origin', 'hayao'](model_name = 'hayao') \
      .img2img_translation.animegan['origin', 'paprika'](model_name = 'paprika') \
      .img2img_translation.animegan['origin', 'shinkai'](model_name = 'shinkai') \
      .select['origin', 'facepaintv2', 'hayao', 'paprika', 'shinkai']() \
      .show()
```

<img src="./results2.png" alt="results1" height="150px"/>



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## Factory Constructor

Create the operator via the following factory method

***img2img_translation.animegan(model_name = 'which anime model to use')***

Model options: 
- celeba
- facepaintv1
- facepaintv2
- hayao
- paprika
- shinkai



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## Interface

Takes in a numpy rgb image in channels first. It transforms input into animated image in numpy form.


**Parameters:**

​	***model_name***: *str*

​	Which model to use for transfer.

   ***framework***: *str*

​	Which ML framework being used, for now only supports PyTorch.



**Returns**: *towhee.types.Image (a sub-class of numpy.ndarray)*

​	The new image.



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## Reference

Jie Chen, Gang Liu, Xin Chen
"AnimeGAN: A Novel Lightweight GAN for Photo Animation."
ISICA 2019: Artificial Intelligence Algorithms and Applications pp 242-256, 2019.