<p>As you know, GauGAN is the following (from <a href="https://www.iotworldtoday.com/2021/11/25/nvidia-launches-latest-gaugan-ai-landscape-generation-model/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this post</a>):</p>
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<p>GauGAN was a Microsoft Paint-style platform that let uses create landscape images, with the model then able to turn them into photorealistic images.</p>
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<p>So, it is a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create images. As it works like an artist, its authors named it GauGAN after &quot;Paul <strong>Gau</strong>guin&quot; who was a French Post-Impressionist artist (refer into <a href="https://ddg.wiki/gaugan/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this post</a>).</p>

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<p>GauGAN is a neural network architecture from NVIDIA that can create realistic images from semantic maps (and nowadays also textual descriptions).</p>

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What does "Gau" in GauGAN stand for?
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# What does "Gau" in GauGAN stand for?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2021-12-11)

GauGAN is a neural network architecture from NVIDIA that can create realistic images from semantic maps (and nowadays also textual descriptions).

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### Answer by username_1 on 2021-12-12. Score: 2 | Accepted answer

As you know, GauGAN is the following (from [this post](https://www.iotworldtoday.com/2021/11/25/nvidia-launches-latest-gaugan-ai-landscape-generation-model/)):

> GauGAN was a Microsoft Paint-style platform that let uses create landscape images, with the model then able to turn them into photorealistic images.

So, it is a generative adversarial network (GAN) to create images. As it works like an artist, its authors named it GauGAN after "Paul **Gau**guin" who was a French Post-Impressionist artist (refer into [this post](https://ddg.wiki/gaugan/)).


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