Conditional Image Generation with PixelCNN Decoders

Aaron van den Oord, Nal Kalchbrenner, Lasse Espeholt, koray kavukcuoglu, Oriol Vinyals, Alex Graves

Neural Information Processing Systems 

Top: PixelCNNs have a blind spot in the receptive field that can not be used to make predictions. Bottom: Two convolutional stacks (blue and purple) allow to capture the whole receptive field.