StanvdVossen

Thank you for all your support, guys! I was not expecting this much traffic. I am currently in the process of moving my site to a better server.

While this is in progress, only the images cached by Cloudflare can be loaded. This means that the editor for most shoes will not work. I apologize for the inconvenience!

I have seen your project. However, I think claiming "first" is disingenuous. There are many projects like ours that date back at least 3 years. We just happen to undertake these projects at a time when algorithms are better and results are palatable.

Thanks!

The training set included pretty much all sneakers I could find online. However, the algorithm tends to bias towards patterns that are more common e.g. hundreds of colorways of Air Jordans.

BUT I can fine tune the model by training on a small subset of sneakers. So if you have any types of brands or sneakers that you would like to see generated, please feel free to mail me some examples at stan@thissneakerdoesnotexist.com and I will see what I can do.

In general this would not be easy.

One way this can be accomplished is by removing all shoes with such logos from the training data. But Nike and Adidas are disproportionally large parts of my training set, so this would not be feasible.

The other option would be to train a machine learning model to recognize said logo's and to use this model to remove sneakers with logo's from my generated images. This could however greatly reduce the variety of images on the website.

You’re somewhat right. The machine learning algorithm tries to replicate the general patterns on the images it’s trained on (so in this case, images of a lot of sneakers). If the algorithm is trained on enough images, it should, to an extent, learn to generalize and “understand” what a sneaker should look like and generate new ones rather than copying images. In my case, there is definitely some memorization going on, based on some shoes looking suspiciously similar to existing shoes, but there is also definitely some design going on not copied from other sneakers.

But it builds the images “pixel by pixel” rather than e.g. taking the sole of one shoe with the upper of another if that’s what you’re asking.

That's definitely a cool idea! I might ask around different webshops to see if they're interested in something like this.

Yeah, it looks like the server was not able to handle the visitors. I'm completely new to webhosting, but I will try to get everything back online soon.

Thanks for the archive link!