Its striking how similar CNNs are to good old JPEG compression. Makes me think you would get better results by chopping up input into blocks, and slapping few m

Its striking how similar CNNs are to good old JPEG compression. Makes me think you would get better results by chopping up input into blocks, and slapping few more layers on top. From the article description I get that VGG16 tries to guess whole picture content from existence of particular patterns totally ignoring their location and arrangement, hence nonsensical magpie prediction. Photoshop magpie with a beak sticking out its ass and it will pass as genuine because all prerequisite patterns are there.