I have not cropped the images, the norm for face images is that they are aligned so that face features can be correlated. I will try out random cropping and see how it affects the results. Thanks
Pls let me know whether this solves the issue. Do you need to do image segmentation? If not or if you are open to different approaches, you can try this: StyleALAE. If you pick the right size of the latent space, you can rather easily do image segmentation, too. If you are keen, I can send my/our implementation of the above presented paper with a little add on so that the latent space is more disentangled.