If you’ve ever wondered what a loaf of bread would look like as a cat, edges2cats is for you. The program that turns sketches into images of cats is one of many whimsical creations inspired by Phillip Isola’s image-to-image translation software released in the early days of generative adversarial networks, or GANs.
Over the past year MIT CSAIL has worked with Novartis to test a novel technology for passive, contactless monitoring of physiological signals that may be used to monitor clinical trial patients in their homes.