amanikiruga / emojigan

A project to explore the imaginative capabilities of GANs

emojigan

Emoji Dataset I compiled (4000+ emojis) 🤩😫 link

emoji_face_train.mp4

Motivation

This project was to explore just what happens when you train a simple GAN model (DCGAN) on a toy dataset that you know pretty much how every data sample looks like. Will the GAN create completely novel emojis? Or will it memorize? How will it create these emojis? Will it vary the color? Compose two or more emojis together? These are the types of questions I wanted to find out... I discovered several examples of both memorization and completely new emojis shown here:

1. Tired and disgusted with three eyebrows

2. Are you talking to me!!!???

3. Exploding head, really happy

Hope you can retrain these models or try a different dataset with the same questions in mind!