GauGAN turns sketches into realistic digital art

NVIDIA has released a new demo that might make some CG artists break out in a nervous sweat. GauGAN is the latest in an increasingly long line of demos that show simple paintings turned into more accomplished artwork. In this example, like several of the others,  the tool uses generative adversarial networks or GANs, to convert segmentation maps into images using a deep learning model trained on a million images. Read more on NVIDIA’s blog.