Style conversion of hand-written digits using a variational autoencoder. The objective is to have a disentangled representation (to separate the identity of the digit from its style in the latent vector)
💡 The idea is to start from an entangled representation as shown in the first figure and transform it into a disentangled representation as shown in the second one, to perform a style conversion (the handwriting style) while keeping the identity of the digit (the number).
Entangled Representation
Disentangled Representation