A Study of DCGAN-Based Generative Models for Anime Character Face Generation

Year : 2026 | Volume : 13 | Issue : 01 | Page : 31 41
    By

    Aaditya Mittal,

  • Harsh Bathija,

  • Yamini Sharma,

  • Shreya Agarwal,

  1. Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  2. Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  3. Student, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  4. Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JECRC University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India

Abstract

Artificial intelligence, or AI, has in recent years moved from simple rule-based systems to models that are now fully capable of creative content generation and are referred to as generative AI. One such approach for content generation, introduced in the year 2014, is called generative adversarial networks (GANs), which consists of training a generator to create fake content that tries to mimic real content as closely as possible and a discriminator that tries to differentiate whether the content is real or fake, both contending against each other. Although GANs did show great potential for content generation, they lacked any stable way to generate images since their shallow architecture led to high volatility in training, with poor convergence, and poor image quality. To overcome these challenges, deep convolutional generative adversarial networks (DCGANs) were introduced in the year 2015, which were built upon traditional GANs by including convolutional and batch normalization layers in their architecture that allowed for stable and spatially coherent training for image generation. This project will research deeply into the performance of DCGAN and its advanced versions, with further optimizations in its architecture to overcome the limitations of GANs in generating images. In this study, a DCGAN model was trained to generate anime character images, exploring the benefits of convolutional architectures that allow stable training of adversarial models to improve the generated output qualitatively.

Keywords: Deep convolutional generative adversarial network, discriminator, generator, mode collapse

[This article belongs to Journal of Multimedia Technology & Recent Advancements ]

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Aaditya Mittal, Harsh Bathija, Yamini Sharma, Shreya Agarwal. A Study of DCGAN-Based Generative Models for Anime Character Face Generation. Journal of Multimedia Technology & Recent Advancements. 2026; 13(01):31-41.
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Aaditya Mittal, Harsh Bathija, Yamini Sharma, Shreya Agarwal. A Study of DCGAN-Based Generative Models for Anime Character Face Generation. Journal of Multimedia Technology & Recent Advancements. 2026; 13(01):31-41. Available from: https://journals.stmjournals.com/jomtra/article=2026/view=242125


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Regular Issue Subscription Original Research
Volume 13
Issue 01
Received 12/01/2026
Accepted 09/02/2026
Published 20/03/2026
Publication Time 67 Days
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