Jason Antic

Here's something a lot of people still don't know: The latest DeOldify doesn't use GANs anymore. And I'm not being cute with terminology- NoGAN isn't used either. We needed something more production worthy and controllable and it just wasn't cutting it. 1/

It's been a year since we last used GANs. You may have been lead to believe that GANs are -the- way to get realistic results but believe me, there's actually better ways IMHO. I can't tell you exactly what we're doing now but I can tell you this: 2/

It was a good thing I got past my ego (after some time) and listened to @jeremyphoward and @fastdotai when they said they that they are getting "better than GAN" results using perceptual loss in super resolution :) 3/

GAN generates details in its way. I feel like the result with GAN is better but quantitatively worse. I usually consider perceptual loss firstly rather than GAN. Since plausible colors can be different from the ground-truth, how did you evaluate your results?