Day 2

Today we started our routine- first we had a morning meeting (and got our prizes from yesterday’s video), and then we split up to each of our labs for the rest of the day. I got four more papers today- they were all about image-to-image translation, which is an application of generative adversarial networks. Reading them made the topic make a lot more sense and it’s really interesting. A couple examples of image-to-image translation: turning a painting of a landscape into a photograph, turning an outline into an entire picture, turning a daytime scene into a nighttime one, and even turning a horse into a zebra.

Besides the main article about image-to-image translation with conditional adversarial networks, there was one about using cycle-consistency loss and unpaired data, one focused on translating artwork by using patches and memory banks, and one on using multimodal image-to-image translation to get several different but still realistic outputs. I have to write a short summary paper about them (an introduction, a description of the architecture, and some related works)- I mostly finished the introduction today, and hopefully I'll finish the rest tomorrow. 

Overall, it was another good day. 

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