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Computers cannot take images and produce output in the style of major artists. If you think they can, give them realistic art and watch them embed eyes from the

by yosefk 10y ago

Computers cannot take images and produce output in the style of major artists. If you think they can, give them realistic art and watch them embed eyes from the source image into your mouth. This is not to say that it can't ever be done, just that right now it isn't done by people claiming they can do it. That articles with results similar to 100x cheaper random texture synthesis from 15 years ago get published and hyped in the general press tells you how much of an AI bubble we live in right now.

notahacker 10y ago
Yup. The linked image gallery is actually a pretty good argument against computers being able to take images and produce output in the style of major artists. If you asked a human to paint the Golden Gate bridge in the style of Matisse's "Woman with a hat", they probably wouldn't interpret the request as "make part of the sky look like a hat"[1]. If you asked a human to draw a group of buildings by a canal in the style of JMW Turner, they wouldn't make the buildings look like abstract waveforms[2], even if they were only familiar with his stormy seascapes and had never seen how he actually drew groups of buildings by a canal[3] [1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/11848836/Computer-algorithm-creates-Instagram-like-filters-in-the-style-of-famous-artists.html?frame=3431606 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/1184... [2]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/11848836/Computer-algorithm-creates-Instagram-like-filters-in-the-style-of-famous-artists.html?frame=3431572 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/1184... [3]https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jmw+turner+venice&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc0KGvlYjPAhVHBMAKHfrvC5sQ_AUICCgB https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jmw+turner+venice&source=l...
- WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
  heh a decent point, but to be fair the task really isn't "make a picture in the style of <artist>" but "make a picture in the style of this one other picture". I'm not particularly convinced an otherwise naive human could separate style from motif in such a limited setting. It mainly demonstrates that the network learns rather abstract characteristics of the original picture, to be possible to factor them out. Hardly a way to create new masterpieces, but a nice demo of computer vision advancement.
flashman 10y ago
Style transfer is just a complicated method for tracing one picture onto another.
WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
what? eyes?? really? aren't you confusing the deep dream work with the style transfer work? I remember the dreams thing having eyes everywhere. Can you show me an example? I'm thinking of something like this: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style though I think there was a webapp to upload your own and try it out that I couldn't find now...

by yosefk 10y ago

notahacker 10y ago

Yup. The linked image gallery is actually a pretty good argument against computers being able to take images and produce output in the style of major artists. If you asked a human to paint the Golden Gate bridge in the style of Matisse's "Woman with a hat", they probably wouldn't interpret the request as "make part of the sky look like a hat"[1]. If you asked a human to draw a group of buildings by a canal in the style of JMW Turner, they wouldn't make the buildings look like abstract waveforms[2], even if they were only familiar with his stormy seascapes and had never seen how he actually drew groups of buildings by a canal[3] [1]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/11848836/Computer-algorithm-creates-Instagram-like-filters-in-the-style-of-famous-artists.html?frame=3431606 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/1184... [2]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/11848836/Computer-algorithm-creates-Instagram-like-filters-in-the-style-of-famous-artists.html?frame=3431572 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/picture-galleries/1184... [3]https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jmw+turner+venice&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjc0KGvlYjPAhVHBMAKHfrvC5sQ_AUICCgB https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=jmw+turner+venice&source=l...

WilliamDhalgren 10y ago
heh a decent point, but to be fair the task really isn't "make a picture in the style of <artist>" but "make a picture in the style of this one other picture". I'm not particularly convinced an otherwise naive human could separate style from motif in such a limited setting. It mainly demonstrates that the network learns rather abstract characteristics of the original picture, to be possible to factor them out. Hardly a way to create new masterpieces, but a nice demo of computer vision advancement.

flashman 10y ago

Style transfer is just a complicated method for tracing one picture onto another.

WilliamDhalgren 10y ago

what? eyes?? really? aren't you confusing the deep dream work with the style transfer work? I remember the dreams thing having eyes everywhere. Can you show me an example? I'm thinking of something like this: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style though I think there was a webapp to upload your own and try it out that I couldn't find now...