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Turn Selfies into Classic Portraits
MIT Technology Review ^ | 7/23/19 | Charlotte Jee

Posted on 07/23/2019 10:02:57 AM PDT by 3161J410

The tool lets users upload their photos, then view a classical-style faux watercolor, oil, or ink portrait based on the photo a few seconds later. Each one is unique. The tool’s creators at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab used generative adversarial network (GAN) models, a popular AI technique. It involves getting two neural networks to duel each other to produce an acceptable outcome: a generator, which looks at examples and tries to mimic them, and a discriminator, which judges if they are real by comparing them with the same training examples. In this case, they used 45,000 portrait images to train the program, including paintings by Titian, van Gogh, and Rembrandt.

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1 posted on 07/23/2019 10:02:57 AM PDT by 3161J410
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This is racist, right?


2 posted on 07/23/2019 10:10:40 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: 3161J410

This is racist, right?


3 posted on 07/23/2019 10:10:41 AM PDT by mbarker12474
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To: 3161J410

Interesting.


4 posted on 07/23/2019 10:29:29 AM PDT by Sans-Culotte (If it weren't for fake hate crimes, there would be no hate crimes at all.)
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5 posted on 07/23/2019 10:35:28 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Hello, Dali!...................


6 posted on 07/23/2019 10:36:21 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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“...the researchers have promised the pictures are immediately deleted after processing by their servers, and they won’t be used for any other purpose.”

From MIT, the home of Jonathan Gruber. Just sayin’.


7 posted on 07/23/2019 10:36:32 AM PDT by D_Idaho ("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
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To: Red Badger

Site is down already.


8 posted on 07/23/2019 5:39:59 PM PDT by Salamander (Death makes angels of us all, and give us wings where we once had shoulders, smooth as ravens' claws)
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Goodbye, Dali!....................


9 posted on 07/24/2019 6:12:31 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain......................)
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