Will Hoover

Week of April 21 – 28, 2024

This week has been a very busy week for myself, and I know for the other members of my team. We were hit early in the week with some user error issues that were not solved for a few days. I attempted for a few days to get my laptop up on to the docker build so it could train in the background while I still worked on various features that I would like to get out regarding FaceCraft. This has turned into a very long ordeal with trying to get my system to accept and build the docker image, but also to get visual studio code to open the container for the docker workspace. I have been able to fix this issue after a while, but next week it should be up to training a model in the background while I work on polishing the features I am working on currently and getting ready to implement the next wave of features for our AI Face Generator.

On top of the technical issues, I got started on implementing a feature that allows the user to upload a image and have the model try and recreate the image, then rate itself on how similar the images are from each other. Currently until I train the model with the encoder I had to create for this function and the generator together the model will only push out random color blobs like red, but when the training has been started, I should be getting much more interesting images from the model.

 The way I went about creating the function that would compare the images, is by loading our pre-trained model that we already ran through a few epochs to get a baseline started, then I created an encoder that would take a image, flatten it and then feed it into a copy of the original generator that would then take that image, the encoder, the generator and the checkpoint and then start training that checkpoint on creating images and comparing them against each other.

Thank you for reading this weeks report, and I will see you next time

-Will Hoover