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Artificial neural networks were inspired by the human brain and simulate how neurons behave when they are shown a sensory input (e.g., images, sounds, etc). They are known to be excellent tools for image recognition, any many other problems beyond that – they also excel at weather predictions, breast cancer cell mitosis detection, brain image segmentation and toxicity prediction among many others. Deep learning means that we use an artificial neural network with multiple layers, making it even more powerful for more difficult tasks.
This time they have been shown to be apt at reproducing the artistic style of many famous painters, such as Vincent Van Gogh and Pablo Picasso among many others. All the user needs to do is provide an input photograph and a target image from which the artistic style will be learned.
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I promised some links, so here they come!
The paper “A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style” is available here:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576v1
Disclaimer: I was not part of this research project, I am merely providing commentary on this work.
Recommended for you – Two Minute Papers episode on Artificial Neural Networks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCWTOOgVXyE&index=3&list=PLujxSBD-JXgnqDD1n-V30pKtp6Q886x7e
Picasso meets Gandalf:
http://mashable.com/2015/08/29/computer-photos/
A nice website with many results:
https://deepart.io/
More examples with Picasso and some sketches:
http://imgur.com/a/jeJB6
Google DeepMind’s Deep Q-learning algorithm plays Atari games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1eYniJ0Rnk
The first implementations / source code packages are now available:
1. http://gitxiv.com/posts/jG46ukGod8R7Rdtud/a-neural-algorithm-of-artistic-style
2. https://github.com/kaishengtai/neuralart
3. https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style
A great read on Deep Dreaming Neural Networks:
http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html
Many of you have asked for the code. Some people were experimenting with it in the Machine Learning reddit. Check it out:
https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/3imx1m/a_neural_algorithm_of_artistic_style/
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Hola Károly quiero comunicarme con usted para un proyecto.
Yo se que usted es la persona correcta.
And they say the arts will never be automated!
I'm so hyped to experiment with this OMG
Luar biasa!
Everything you can do, AI can do better.
All hail our new machine overlords
Praise the machine god
The first implementation of the technique seems to be out! 🙂 Check this:
http://gitxiv.com/posts/jG46ukGod8R7Rdtud/a-neural-algorithm-of-artistic-style
Update: more are popping up! Added them to the description box.
Fascinating!
Now there NEEDS to be a competition, between artists and this neural network, with blind-judging to see who creates the better art.
They should get some present day artists, and have them paint their version of a scene, then use this algorithm to paint the same scene, using some of those artist's past works as examples to base on. I bet the results would be interested, at the very least, and might even be useful for improving the neural network's abilities.
Wow, this is terrific!
cant wait to see a more user friendly way to use this
For the handful of you that think this is somehow competition for artists, robots aren't creative the people who made the program are. On top of that the program doesn't create new style, it merely rehashes it in a new form. I think artists will use programs like this probably to great effect. But it's another tool. AI can never compete with humans when it comes to visual art, literature, music, etc. etc.
that's terrific ! awesome, great job
I've been playing with an implementation of this algorithm. There are a few problems with current implementations but the results are still really fun. http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk/lloyd/blog-2015-09-01-neural-art.html and http://imgur.com/a/N7Jsk
Ez nagyon tetszik, a kérdésem az, hogy ez a program(?) bárki számára hozzáférhető lesz vagy már az? Ha igen, akkor hogyan lehet ehhez hozzájutni?
Speaking as an artist,I find this really interesting but could a computer as splodges of oil to a canvas the way a human does? Perhaps,but perhaps not, we shall see.
Hi Károly Zsolnai-Fehér. Do you have a email address I can contact you with? I writing on behalf of a film school that is about to make their first year film project.
– Melanie
I'm must say that I'm VERY impressed.
Automation threatens fork lift and truck drivers now, next maybe the creative arts and programing itself. "Learning" rather than "programming" results in "analog" look rather than "digital". Output from a process. When I fumble around with a creative thing I often enjoy the process more than the output. Hey strong, general A.I. of the future learn to "enjoy" learning this process and I grant "you" the right to vote. Wonder what artificial neural netwerks are being tasked with behind the scenes? Apply this to music? Deep feedforward neural networks will maybe even help understanding of our own wetware. In the meantime the U.N. is seeing discussions on the non-proliferation of A.I. and progressives are suggesting a universal basic income to offset massive displacement in a future of massive abundance. Wish I could wake up when it's all over . . no l'd miss out on the process.
Don't miss out-please vote.
Amazing, nice video. Tried it myself, tweaked the parameters a bit, check the results on: https://www.facebook.com/artifai/?ref=bookmarks
Great video, but it makes me pensive. The photo you took to show examples is exactly the city I live in (Tübingen, Germany). I think this could be a compliment 😀
Thanks for sharing. Great motivation. But I think It's better to explain more about how the paper's method or model works.
Today the general public call it prizma… n now I know where it came from… Thanks a lot… 😀 BTW ..liked and subscribed.. 😉
is there a set of instructions on where to download this and use it on your own photos?
I read the paper but it's really unclear how they capture the style information in an image. Pretty much all they say is that they 'compute the correlations between the different filter responses'. Can anyone explain how it works or point me to something that explains it?
Amazing! Thanks for the heads up!
Has anyone tried imputing a painting to another? The Mona Lisa to the stylings of Picasso, for example?
Wow since then it became kind of trivial with all the apps out there that do this (Prisma for instance).
Reminds of a TED talk about a neural network learning to perceive previously learned images in the contours and detail of larger images, like a formulaic way of encapsulating a kind of fractal creativity.
However, this is more like a stylistic rendering algorithm
@Two Minute Papers:
absolutely awesome // are you a resident of Tübingen in Germany?
The animals on desert picture is the most important work in my opinion… This is exactly how my etyes works in… simplified way…
Hey! Thank you for constantly uploading amazing content! I am a philosopher in training and was in part inspired by your channel. Channel art came from your influence. This one might be relevant to you – peripherally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsFn4tGSCN0
crazy
I can't wait what's to come ?
this will impress people who dont know anything about art but its just a parlor trick, practically.
While impressing im not blown away to be honest, it looks like a cheap copy 'in the style of'' without any of that stylistic choice making contextual sense it remains a superficial appropriation. It is interesting though and I would love to see more developments in painting neural networks, though what I see here this approach I do not think it will achieve great results they seem focused on superficial copying of the style which doesnt elevate it much beyond a tacky photo filter letting it do multiple very different artistic styles. Id be much more interested in a in-depth study of one specific style of painting (the technique of 1 artist) but really working towards a deep understanding of that technique I think this in time can achieve very interesting results. Impressionistic paintings like that van Gogh for example are all about how to render a image of the world in a specific medium (painting) and ideas that the artist has about choices that are to be made in this rendering, I think its very applicable for this type of neural network study, would love to see a in-depth project concerning Cezanne with this, I think his still lives would be a very good subject for such a study. Not only interesting on the computer research side of it but also as opening up a whole new field of artistic/art theory research.
when i see this i hope i'm still alive when AIs take over the DanceFloors and rock the human race to another dimension. 😀
!!! PARTY ON !!!
Extremely beautiful.
The results are pretty bad …
We're all so screwed…
Social credit, replacing money with digital currency, intrusive and constant surveillance, diagnoses which change a citizen's status making them second-class citizens, rampant unemployment which also changes a person's status, a global market which has wages drop and reduce each individual's buying power, government-imposed restrictions on how much someone can earn, not being able to make money under the table, social media filtering offensive thinking and descent… not being able to escape the watchful and critical eye of our oppressors and colleagues. "OBEY!".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=eViswN602_k