Can #AI make me look (more) presentable? The jury is out I think. 
This is called style transfer, where the style/technique from a kind of painting (could be a photos too) is applied to an image, to create a new image. I took this using the built-in camera on my machine sitting at my desk and then applying the different kind of ‘styles’ on it. Each of these styles are is a separate #deeplearning model that has learned how to apply the relevant style to a source image.
Style – Candy
Style – Feathers
Style – Mosaic
Style – Robert
Specifically, this uses a Neural Network (#DeepLearning) model called VGG19, which is a 19 layer model running on TensorFlow. Of course you can export this to a ONNX model, that then can be used in most other run-times and libraries.
This is inspired from Cornell universities paper – Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution. Below is a snapshot of the VGG code that.
def net(data_path, input_image):
layers = (
'conv1_1', 'relu1_1', 'conv1_2', 'relu1_2', 'pool1',
'conv2_1', 'relu2_1', 'conv2_2', 'relu2_2', 'pool2',
'conv3_1', 'relu3_1', 'conv3_2', 'relu3_2', 'conv3_3',
'relu3_3', 'conv3_4', 'relu3_4', 'pool3',
'conv4_1', 'relu4_1', 'conv4_2', 'relu4_2', 'conv4_3',
'relu4_3', 'conv4_4', 'relu4_4', 'pool4',
'conv5_1', 'relu5_1', 'conv5_2', 'relu5_2', 'conv5_3',
'relu5_3', 'conv5_4', 'relu5_4'
)
data = scipy.io.loadmat(data_path)
mean = data['normalization'][0][0][0]
mean_pixel = np.mean(mean, axis=(0, 1))
weights = data['layers'][0]
net = {}
current = input_image
for i, name in enumerate(layers):
kind = name[:4]
if kind == 'conv':
kernels, bias = weights[i][0][0][0][0]
# matconvnet: weights are [width, height, in_channels, out_channels]
# tensorflow: weights are [height, width, in_channels, out_channels]
kernels = np.transpose(kernels, (1, 0, 2, 3))
bias = bias.reshape(-1)
current = _conv_layer(current, kernels, bias)
elif kind == 'relu':
current = tf.nn.relu(current)
elif kind == 'pool':
current = _pool_layer(current)
net[name] = current
assert len(net) == len(layers)
return net
def _conv_layer(input, weights, bias):
conv = tf.nn.conv2d(input, tf.constant(weights), strides=(1, 1, 1, 1),
padding='SAME')
return tf.nn.bias_add(conv, bias)
def _pool_layer(input):
return tf.nn.max_pool(input, ksize=(1, 2, 2, 1), strides=(1, 2, 2, 1),
padding='SAME')
If you have interest to play with this, you can download the code. Personally, I like Mosaic style the best.
