Introduction
StyleGAN2 addresses visual artifacts in StyleGAN and improves the mapping from latent representations to images. It strengthens techniques for inversion, editing and attribute manipulation, helping develop a workflow in which an image can be generated, mapped back into a model's representation and edited within that space.
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Diagnosing a generator through its visible artefacts.
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Method and contribution
The StyleGAN2 paper diagnoses characteristic artefacts, redesigns normalisation and revisits progressive growing. Path-length regularisation improves the conditioning of the mapping from latent codes to images. The authors also examine inversion and the use of output resolution, treating visible defects as evidence about the generator’s organisation.
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Art-historical interpretation
For art history, artefacts are more than defects to be eliminated: they can reveal the visual conditions of a generation of systems. Appearance alone nevertheless cannot reliably identify a model version. Code, weights and production records remain necessary supporting evidence.
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