Reservoir model data assimilation is a key step to properly estimate the final recovery of an oil field and, in the last decade, the ensemble smoother with multiple data assimilation method (ES-MDA) has stood out among all available strategies to perform this task. However, this method achieves better results when model parameters are described by an approximately Gaussian distribution and hence presents reduced performance when dealing with categorical parameters, such as geological facies. An alternative to deal with this issue is to adopt a deep learning based approach, particularly using image-to-image translation (I2I) networks and taking into account the analogy between the matrix representation of images and the reservoir model grid properties. Thus, it is possible to adapt I2I network architectures, training them to generate the categorical parameter (facies) from its correlated continuous properties modified by the ES-MDA method (such as porosity and permeability), similar to semantic segmentation tasks in an image translation context. Therefore, the categorical parameter would be indirectly updated by the ES-MDA method, with its reconstruction carried out by the I2I network.