I was curious about how researchers were using Deep Neural Networks in the context of creative work. When I discovered a paper on Artistic Style Transfers, I knew I had to give it a try. The above image is my attempt at applying the artistic style of Claude Monet to a wonderfully composited image from the the magicians at ILM for the movie "The Phantom Menace" (a film I spent a number of years working on in R&D.)

To achieve the above image the software implementation uses neural representations to separate and recombine content and style of arbitrary images. The implementation is from this gentleman's work: artistic-style-transfer

He provides an implementation based on a paper from Cornell and using the libraries from Berkeley's Vision and Learning Center. The inputs I provide (from right to left) would be the style and content source images, with the last image being the output from the technique.

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