Image editing based on a Variational Autoencoder.
For usage and explanation consult this youtube video:
Install guide for ubuntu based systems. Windows/Mac can deviate slighty.
This will keep changes to your python installation contained in the virtual enviroment.
python3 -m venv venv-feature-transfer
source venv-feature-transfer/bin/activate
Some libraries used require additional build tools. Install them with
sudo apt-get install build-essential cmake pkg-config
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install libgtk-3-dev libboost-python-dev
Install python packages listed with
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
Start the program with
python3 main.py
If you used a virtual environment to install the dependencies, you need to activate it with source venv-feature-transfer/bin/activate before each program start.
To add your own images, place them in the directory additional_images. All common image file formats are accepted. Images should only contain one face. On program startup, the images are preprocessed. Sucessfully processed images are placed in the directory additional_images_preprocessed. If no face / more than one face is found in the image, it is ignored.