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Deepart.io – Generate images styled like your favorite artist

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For those curious, someone has made a public implementation, using the same source material as the linked site: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style

Awesome find :thumbsup:

I don't want to wait forever for their service to generate pictures that are nowhere near printable :)

I wrote up some easy instructions for doing it on ec2: http://dmd.3e.org/2015/09/Neurally-Stylin/

Did you ever try with a g2.8xlarge instance? 600px seems a little low res for printing.

How much GPU ram does the g2.8xlarge have? For printing an A4 at 300dpi you'd want 2480 x 3508px. If that doesn't fit in the GPU ram, and you are just doing this for yourself/friends it might be a better idea to run neural-style in CPU mode.

An order of magnitude slower but you'll have a lot more ram at your disposal

Of course I had to see that after I'm done doing everything by hand...

Did you try any of the other implementations of the paper?

Deep learning could become this decade's equivalent to the fractal craze of the 1990s.

It will have arrived when the next Jurassic Park remake-sequel features a Jeff Goldblum look-a-like who is an expert in "deep computing" and has lines like this:

"Of course the dinosaurs can rewrite computer programs! All this time, they've been watching, and their neural networks have been adapting... I told you it would happen."

The results from this are incredible. I'd happily pay for a high-res image that I could have printed.

How do you know? I need to wait 70 hours. Did you donate?

EDIT: Just noticed Latest submissions. Ignore this. :)

Maybe you can contact them?

http://www.deepart.io/page/about/

"deepart.io is the first online service which allows you to generate images styled to your favorite artist!

We apply an algorithm based on convolutional neural networks to combine the content of one image with the style of another image. The algorithm was introduced by Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, and Matthias Bethge in the research paper entitled 'A neural algorithm of artistic style'.

We are two researchers, trying to give the access to novel machine learning techniques to larger audience. Unfortunatelly the server costs a lot and we cannot afford many... Thus, if you like our work, please consider helping us with a small donation for covering server costs.

It's about art. We don't like ads (and they wouldn't cover expensive servers anyway). We also don't want to reduce the quality of the pictures. Your donation is our only hope :)

Questions? E-mail us at admin@deepart.io

Łukasz Kidziński & Michał Warchoł"

I had a similar project in progress, but paper author's university declined to licence technology. Did you somehow managed to convince them, or did you register as non-profit?

did they make a patent on that algorithm?

It is pending.

So what would happen to these guys if the patent is granted? And do you think it is likely it will be?

Hm, this is a nice example why software patents are wrong.

This seems like a great application to use AWS Lambda. It would allow you to do things like charge PayPal for sub-minute results, or perhaps show multiple ads until you generate enough revenue to pay for the usage.

Too many dependencies to fit into Lambda.

In case you miss the thread here at HN that mentions you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10526572

Thanks, I might have missed that.

The image I submitted is not the image shown to me on the submitted page (https://deepart.io/image/submissions/). Instead it appears to be someone else's.

Same thing happened to me. I wonder if I'll get my image ? Wait time is 300 hours so it'll be a while.

"Estimated waiting time: more than 58 hours"

It's going to be a long, long time before being able to comment on the results (of a photo I submitted), but the latest submissions look fantastic!

>We are two researchers, trying to give the access to novel machine learning techniques to larger audience. Unfortunatelly (sic) the server costs a lot and we cannot afford many... Thus, if you like our work, please consider helping us with a small donation for covering server costs.

Yep, I did read that right below the ETA line :-) still it's a long time, isn't it? It doesn't diminish the quality of the results anyway, I know it was a great effort to put everything together (and it is even greater to maintain). I just don't feel compelled to pay for it yet.

If you met the two guys who'd produced this, would you consider buying them a coffee? If so, the $1.99 to support some researchers and technology is hardly a big ask. You don't have to think of everything as 'paying for a good or service' - supporting folks doing something cool is just as valid (just don't tell the capitalist overlords).

This looks exactly like a hacktx Hack I saw http://devpost.com/software/filter-me

Could add Romero Britto? (http://www.britto.com/front/originals)

You can upload your own image as the template, on the right side next to your target image.

$ curl http://deepart.io/

curl: (7) Failed to connect to deepart.io port 80: Connection refused

It's up for me, just really slow.

Great service, a suggestion: You may provide small thumbnails of processed images so we can make a better decision before donation to speed up :)

It be cool if you could add the name of the artist who's work your uploading. So excited to see my Manet-mashup!

Can't wait to see those pop up as facebook profile pictures. Sarcasm aside, some of them really look fantastic!

I was just writing the same comment, then said to myself: "hey don't wake up hackers, do it yourself :p" and i continue to my boring paid job like nothing happened.

I got a certificate revoked error, then I realized it was signed by WoSign.

if you like Warhol, instead of waiting 213hrs - you could get a hand-made "poptrait" in 1 hr : http://popteam.io

That's a lot of overhead for some otherwise very simple work in Photoshop.

waiting time for my submission was 106h... that's insane. And if I'd donate €2.99 it would get reduced to 96h...

(I know..., HN produced a lot of load on their servers...)

Current wait time: "more than 263 hours"

I cannot sign up, there is a 500 error

It doesnt work for IOS Safari

Isn't bootstrap just amazing?

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