GauGAN Can Turn MS Paint-Like Sketches Into Photorealistic Masterpieces

Everyone has spent a lot of time in MS Paint when first learning to use a computer, creating basic pieces of art using simple tools. Now, NVIDIA has come up with a demonstration of their latest research, which can create a simplistic image into a photorealistic landscape. Known as GauGAN, this neural network has an interface to input what the user wants to see in a very basic sketch. This sketch is then converted to a photorealistic landscape using generative adversarial networks. How does this technology work, and what is the research behind it? An Introduction to GANs GAN stands for Generative Adversarial Networks, and are a type of neural network that first came to prominence in 2014. Today, the rise of GAN has enabled unsupervised ML to come to the forefront of AI research. The ba