Unreal birds
These birds don't exist, just like any other.
27 November 2022
This is an image generation model that creates previously undiscovered bird species paired with a text generation model that creates new bird names.
I created the images by training StyleGAN2-ADA on over 1000 bird illustrations from the 18th and 19th century. I had to edit every image by hand, removing backgrounds and fixing alignment issues so that the generated images were consistent. To create the names I finetuned GPT2 on the complete Wikipedia list of bird names.
↑ Interpolation video generated with StyleGAN 2.
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0315.png)
↑ Singuan roller
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0174.png)
↑ Wedge-tailed drongo
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0040.png)
↑ Black-thighed tanager
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0305.png)
↑ Rusty-fronted foliage-gleaner
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0195.png)
↑ Many-colored woodpecker
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0184.png)
↑ Southern deezer
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0149.png)
↑ Torrent duck
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0049.png)
↑ Thick-billed gnatcatcher
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/c_scale,h_600,q_69,w_600/v1705328888/birds/seed0033.png)
↑ Neblina stipplethroat
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/v1705328888/birds/seed0006.png)
↑ Stoical wedge-billed malkoha
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/v1705328888/birds/seed0040.png)
↑ Suffle-necked siskin
![](https://res.cloudinary.com/dhcgic4ld/image/upload/v1705328888/birds/seed0024.png)
↑ Martian catbird