Understanding Generative Adversarial Networks – Naoki Shibuya – Medium

The above image is from one of the Siraj Raval's YouTube video on GAN. The video is good but when I saw the above image for the first time, I was a bit confused about what GAN really is. However, similar images are often used to explain GANs as they show the overall structure of such networks. In this article, I explain what GAN actually does using a simple project that generates hand-written digit images similar to the ones from the MNIST database. After reading this article, you should be able to understand the above picture very clearly.