AKA Vocational Mimicry
Google's Art Transfer allows users to transform photos as if they were painted by famous artists
Apr 2020, phys.org
"Art Transfer" is a new Google Deep Mind project - users can have their photographs reinterpreted as if they had been painted by a famous artist. They used to do this on the boardwalk; you throw a dollar into the machine, it takes your picture, and then you watch it "draw" you like Michelangelo. Things are a bit different now, as you can see.
As an art history major in college, and an art teacher in adulthood, Style Transfer was pretty much the craziest thing I had ever seen when it came out a few years ago. But like the early days of computing, if you wanted to smash together an American Post-Modernist with a Prehistoric Cave Painting, you had to first assemble your database of examples, and then rent someone else's neural network for a day so it could "learn" those two styles.
Now it takes only seconds, and there are entire server farms dedicated to deep learning (and bitcoin mining, can't forget bitcoin). It's been a convergence of cloud computing, artificial intelligence and graphics processing units (and a little bit of botnet perhaps).
Image Credit: Harmonographs of All Sorts by Thomas B Greenslade, 2018
A system that automatically generates comic books from movies and other videos
Feb 2021, phys.org
Researchers at Dalian University of Technology in China and City University of Hong Kong have recently created an innovative framework that can automatically generate manga comic books, which are typically designed by highly skilled professional artists and require extensive work: Automatic comic generation with stylistic multi-page layouts and emotion-driven text balloon generation. arXiv:2101.11111 [cs.CV].
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