Manipulate Images with Blobs! BlobGAN Explained
Last Updated on July 18, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
A GAN model that uses simple blobs to manipulate objects in images…

Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
If you think that the progress with GANs was over, you couldn’t be more wrong. Here’s BlobGAN, and this new paper is just incredible.
BlobGAN examples of moving all objects. Image from the authors' project’s page.
BlobGAN allows for unreal manipulation of images, making super easily controlling simple blobs. All these small blobs represent an object, and you can move them around or make them bigger, smaller, or even remove them, and it will have the same effect on the object it represents in the image. This is so cool!
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