Pikazo. Cloud based rendering

The phrase neural network is used, and there are certainly some elements involved. The video is quite good and the app itself is intriguing. The output is great if you only want to see results on a smart phone, -it's not really useful for anything else. The results can be brilliant and also be crap. But even SA suffers from that :) Here's the video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=FzvTLEB_3KY&feature=youtu.be

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  • This is fascinating. Could you explain more...I am not a techie. Thanks

    • Very basically: you supply a picture and a "style" you would like the output rendered in. A cloud based application takes both pieces and blends them into one. The process is very compute-intensive and the results are either very interesting or "not so much"

      What this link points to is an experimental version. The commercial versions haven't gotten to the point where video is economically viable, simple because with the present software and hardware, it would be hugely expensive to implement.

      There are various versions of the process. I play with one called Pikazzo. The output is very small unfortunately, so even if it looks great on your smartphone, that's where it will remain.  

  • Thanks Tony, for this post. Pictures will follow....

  • I personally was able to run DeepStyle on my Macbook pro. Later on AmazonEC2 with varying results. There are a couple more papers that appeared since then that refined on the technique allowing for larger images and more quality. While the program is command-line and totally not for the faint of heart, requiring you to have a decent set of CPUs (slow) or GPUs (4 recommend), the output is captivating.

    Image below is a picture of my cat mixed with some stuff I did in StudioArtist.

    Neat thing about this is that Deep Style can learn from samples and readapt them to pretty much anything. This means you can replicate almost anything and anybody. The github stuff I linked below shows a more interactive which can synthesize images based on definitions. You can make your doodles into masterful works of art with relative ease. And since quality looks like it's going up by the day, I see this being very popular.

    https://github.com/alexjc/neural-doodle

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