Image Manipulation with Your Mouse! Drag Your Gan Explained
Last Updated on July 17, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
Drag anything from point A to point B

Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
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If you thought generating new images was cool, or editing them with some funny filters or inpainting into them, removing objects, or adding others with correct lighting, wait until you see this amazing new research.
Called Drag Your GAN, this new paper by Pan et al. allows you to edit images directly. Here, they used a GAN, which is a known AI architecture that takes images as inputs to generate new images, often used as some kind of style transfer application.
Examples of points being dragged in images. Red are starting… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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