NFTGAN: Non-Fungible Token Art Generation Using Generative Adversarial Networks

Sakib Shahriar, Zayed University
Kadhim Hayawi, Zayed University

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Source of Publication

2022 7th International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies (ICMLT)

Publication Date

6-10-2022

Abstract

Digital arts have gained an unprecedented level of popularity with the emergence of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFTs are cryptographic assets that are stored on blockchain networks and represent a digital certificate of ownership that cannot be forged. NFTs can be incorporated into a smart contract which allows the owner to benefit from a future sale percentage. While digital art producers can benefit immensely with NFTs, their production is time consuming. Therefore, this paper explores the possibility of using generative adversarial networks (GANs) for automatic generation of digital arts. GANs are deep learning architectures that are widely and effectively used for synthesis of audio, images, and video contents. However, their application to NFT arts have been limited. In this paper, a GAN-based architecture is implemented and evaluated for novel NFT-style digital arts generation. Results from the qualitative case study indicate that the generated artworks are comparable to the real samples in terms of being interesting and inspiring and they were judged to be more innovative than real samples.

Publisher

ACM

First Page

255

Last Page

259

Disciplines

Computer Sciences

Scopus ID

85132432908

Indexed in Scopus

yes

Open Access

yes

Open Access Type

Green: A manuscript of this publication is openly available in a repository

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