Reproducing Japanese Anime Styles with CartoonGAN AI

Gah, I hate posting such low-info, high-noise comments but... I can't wait for the day where I can finally claim to walk around "an anime world" with a AR/VR headset. They told me anime isn't real - and someone out there is doing their best to make it real.

This work is really awesome, it only saddens me that CartoonGAN, or anything like it, will probably be outside of public reach for a while and I don't think I could reimplement it from the research paper - I also had never heard of many of the competing/comparison software which also had some good results for certain images (though CartoonGAN seemed consistently the best out of the example images, but those may have been cherrypicked because they were the best of course)

I'd love to run photos I've taken of Japan through such a filter - especially areas of Japan that, already, were "anime-ized" that I've taken pictures of. Like "the lab" building from Steins;Gate or the turtle stepping stones in Kamo river in Kyoto.

This is really cool - thanks for sharing it!