GauGan: Generating Photorealistic Images from Drawings

Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) have shown to be extremely powerful in producing amazing generative models that can make music, write poetry and even generating incredibly real-looking faces. GANs have been very popular in the past few years, since it was introduced by Ian Goodfellow in 2014. I believe one of the main factors contributing to GAN's popularity (besides its effectiveness duh) is the simplicity and intuitiveness of its design. The training process can be thought of as "a competition between counterfeiters and police," Goodfellow said. "Counterfeiters want to make fake money and have it look real, and police want to look at any particular bill and determine if it's fake."