CrispySalmon-FinalPhase2.

Project overview
- I want to train my own GAN with images from this Instagram account: subwayhands.
Related work
- GANshare: Creating and Curating Art with AI for Fun and Profit
- Kishi Yuma: GAN trained on pictures of hands

- Mario Klingemann: Turn finger drawings into a GAN generated image

- Gloomy Sunday

Technical Implementation:
- Instagram Scraping Tools/Tutorials
  - Apify – Instagram Scraper: I played around with this tool for a bit. Overall, it’s really easy to use. Pros: fast, easy, I don’t need to do much other than inputting the Instagram page link. Cons: It crapes a lot of information, some of which are irrelevant to me. This requires me to filter/clean up the output file. And is doesn’t directly output the pictures, instead, it provides the display URL for each image, and the URL expires after a certain amount of time.
  - GitHub – Instagram scraper :
    - There is a youtube tutorial showing how to use this.
    - I simply could not get this one to work on my laptop, though it sees to work for others. Need to play around with this a bit more.
  - Python library – BeautifulSoup:
    - stack overflow post
    - Will need to parse the rendered with something like Selenium.
  - Alternative method: Manually screenshot pictures
    - Although this is boring, redundant work, it gives me more control on what pictures I want to use to train my GAN.
- Pix2Pix: If time allows, I want to look into using webcam to record hand posture and generate images based on realtime camera input.