Answers.Body: <p>There are several <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_model" rel="nofollow noreferrer">generative models</a> that have been proposed before or roughly at the same time of the <a href="https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-nets.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GAN</a> (2014). For example, the <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v5/salakhutdinov09a/salakhutdinov09a.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deep Boltzman machine</a> (2009), <a href="http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/bengio14.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">deep generative stochastic network</a> (2014) or <a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6114.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">variational auto-encoder</a> (2014).</p>
  
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Body: <p>Can you please point me to some resources about image genereation besides GANs?
  Are there any other techniques throughout history?
  How did idea of image generation evolved and how it started?</p>
  
  <p>I tried googling "image generation before gans" and similar alternatives but without any success.</p>
  
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Title: Other deep learning image generation techniques besides GANs?
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ThreadText: # Other deep learning image generation techniques besides GANs?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-05-30)
  
  Can you please point me to some resources about image genereation besides GANs?
  Are there any other techniques throughout history?
  How did idea of image generation evolved and how it started?
  
  I tried googling "image generation before gans" and similar alternatives but without any success.
  
  **Tags:** deep-learning, reference-request, generative-model, image-generation
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-05-30. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  There are several [generative models](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_model) that have been proposed before or roughly at the same time of the [GAN](https://papers.nips.cc/paper/5423-generative-adversarial-nets.pdf) (2014). For example, the [deep Boltzman machine](http://proceedings.mlr.press/v5/salakhutdinov09a/salakhutdinov09a.pdf) (2009), [deep generative stochastic network](http://proceedings.mlr.press/v32/bengio14.pdf) (2014) or [variational auto-encoder](https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6114.pdf) (2014).
  
  
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