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 If you find this repository useful for your research, please use the following.
 
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+```bibtex
 @inproceedings{zhang2018perceptual,
   title={The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Deep Features as a Perceptual Metric},
   author={Zhang, Richard and Isola, Phillip and Efros, Alexei A and Shechtman, Eli and Wang, Oliver},