I would assume that the name was chosen, because I already have an old project online called "cat generator" [0], which used the same underlying technique (GANs

I would assume that the name was chosen, because I already have an old project online called "cat generator" [0], which used the same underlying technique (GANs), dataset and landmark-based normalization. Reusing the name would have resulted in confusion. [0] https://github.com/aleju/cat-generator https://github.com/aleju/cat-generator