# ajbrock/Neural-Photo-Editor

A simple interface for editing natural photos with generative neural networks.

Repository: https://github.com/ajbrock/Neural-Photo-Editor
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/neural-photo-editor
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: machine-learning, deep-learning, gans, computer-vision, interfaces, convolutional-neural-networks
Last push: 2017-03-22T11:38:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 32/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3633, "days_push": 3451, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2074, forks 193 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:10.708353+00:00)

## What it is
A GUI application for editing natural photos using generative neural networks (GANs/VAEs), implementing the Introspective Adversarial Networks paper. Users paint on images and in latent space to regenerate photo content.

## Use cases
- edit photos with generative neural networks
- paint in GAN latent space
- research demo for introspective adversarial networks
- interactive image editing with VAE or ALI-based GAN models
- explore generative model reconstructions of faces

## When to choose
- you want to experiment with latent-space photo editing research code
- you need a reference implementation of the IAN paper
- you have a legacy Python 2 / Theano environment

## When to avoid
- you need a maintained, production-ready photo editor
- you use Python 3 or modern deep learning frameworks
- you lack a GPU or legacy Theano/Lasagne setup

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: image-processing, machine-learning, deep-learning, gui
- domain: machine-learning, deep-learning, computer-vision, image-processing
- platform: python, windows
- tags: gans, photo-editing, theano, lasagne, research-code, python2, latent-space, linux, macos, gpu

## Member repositories
- ajbrock/Neural-Photo-Editor (main) score 32

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:10.708353+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:56:22.155061+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/ajbrock/Neural-Photo-Editor (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:10.708353+00:00, sha ece2bed13e05)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.