Creating Portraits with Artbreeder

Like many people who saw designer Daniel Voshart's Roman emperor portraits created in Artbreeder and Photoshop, I was impressed with the results. Using the neural-net tool Artbreeder, Photoshop and historical references, I have created photoreal portraits of Roman Emperors. For this project, I have transformed, or restored (cracks, noses, ears etc.) 800 images of busts to make the 54 emperors of The Principate (27 BC to 285 AD). Artbreeder uses a machine learning method called generative adversarial network (GAN) to manipulate images. Voshart tweaked images from Photoshop to Artbreeder and back again until he got what he wanted.