Gimp-ML – Machine Learning Python plugins for GIMP

I think we are on the first steps of a very interesting road related to using DL for image processing:

- Automatically cutting a person or an object https://www.remove.bg/

- Turning 2d photos in 3d perspective videos https://shihmengli.github.io/3D-Photo-Inpainting/

- Artistic style transfer for videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khuj4ASldmU

- Super-resolution for old games https://www.resetera.com/threads/ai-neural-networks-being-us...

Etc, etc.

Highly compressed Youtube videos don't really seem like a good medium by which to demonstrate an image scaling algorithm..

I think the plugins are very interesting. The videos demoing the features are pretty annoying. I can turn down the music, but most of the video is sat there waiting for the effect to finish. That should be skipped. More importantly, that gray out effect to highlight the cursor is way too heavy. It made me lose the context of where it is in GIMP and was very confusing. I would hope most people are like me and only need a some subtle highlighting to track the cursor rather than hitting us over the head with it and losing the surrounding context.

It's great that the author has posted running code, so others can try it out and learn from it. That is great.

To run this code on debian, I had to install python2, python2 pip, python2 virtualenv, and the gimp-python plugin. The init code for the plugin dumps around 1GB of cache files into your ~/.cache directory, mostly in ~/.cache/pip/http , which then get built into a virtualenv in the git tree for the project.

Unfortunately there is no obvious license, so nobody can build on it directly, although some of the underlying codes have permissive licenses.

I tried out the super-resolution plugin on several test images; it didn't give good results. Motion deblurring had problems also. Both worked poorly on dealing with input compression artifacts, and on dealing with blurry low-resolution inputs. Both performed reasonably well on relatively clear high-resolution inputs (and where I already knew that blind deconvolution could easily recover the blur kernel), with no obvious artifacts in the output.

By watching the videos I'm sure I'm not grasping the magnitude of what this plugin achieves. I'll try to do some tests myself. If it is as good as advertised, then congratulations, very impressive!

The videos should show before/after for a longer time and without the fancy transition (which makes it harder to see the difference.)

Other than that, wow, cool!

I really wanted to do this with rawtherapee! I'm glad someone else beat me too it, I can't wait to try this out.

these days people have lots of insecurity about their looks and voice, we must make software which let people hide their real voice and manipulate their own face to something they consider more attractive.

Not only this, all people should work from home. That will make the body language dominance thing disappear and the people who have good brain will get chance to come forward (the real meritocracy)