Don't get along with Photoshop ? You won't need to with Nvidia's latest. The company has unveiled new software capable of transforming your 6-year-old drawings into real photographs , thanks, of course, to artificial intelligence , and it's absolutely insane. Here's how it works.
GauGAN, Nvidia's new 'magical' editor
Taking advantage of the Nvidia GTC 2019 conference, the Californian company has presented its new image editor, a solution called GauGAN that uses artificial intelligence to, in just a few clicks, transform your Paint-style strokes into incredibly realistic photos.
Nvidia's neural network is responsible for identifying your drawings— this platform "understands" how a human draws—with the goal of creating a photorealistic image from that sketch in just a few seconds, explains TechCrunch . To feed the platform and train this network, Nvidia used one million images from Flickr , all with the necessary Creative Commons permissions, the company clarifies.
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The interface is incredibly simple and allows you to select a few key parameters to help the system with creation using three essential tools : a paint bucket, a pen, and a pencil. If you paint an area of ​​your canvas with the brown color "rock," GauGAN will transform it into realistic rocky mountains; if you click on "water" and paint a vertical blue line across the brown area, a waterfall will appear. You also have access to sky, trees, clouds, plants, and sand, among many other realistic "objects."
This explanation might make it a little hard to understand or visualize, so there's nothing better than watching an Nvidia demonstration video to understand and see for yourself the possibilities of their new software:
Imaging is also not always the same. If two users create the same sketch with the same arrangement of areas, the platform ensures that the software generates results with different real images.
For the GauGAN demonstration at the conference, a rather special PC configuration was used, employing the beast of a graphics card, the Titan RTX , which allowed for almost instantaneous image capture after the strokes were made. Even so, an Nvidia representative assures that with the appropriate modifications, the software could run on any platform and with many different configurations, which would imply a waiting time of a few seconds to obtain the images.
For now, Nvidia has clarified that it has no plans to release a commercial version of this software, but that doesn't mean you won't be able to try it: the Santa Clara-based company has promised to release a public version soon, allowing anyone to use the software and test its tools. Don't worry, we'll let you know here as soon as it's available. Stay tuned.