Technology is cool and all, but I’m sort of on the fence about this one. A research team in Germany has come up with what they call “deep learning” algorithms, allowing a normal picture to be adapted/morphed into the various styles of classic artist. Although using it to create art is a new application, the technology has been in use for quite some time. Used by companies such as Google for image recognition and other applications.
“The system uses neural representations to separate and recombine content and style of arbitrary images, providing a neural algorithm for the creation of artistic images,” the researchers wrote in their paper. “Here we introduce an artificial system based on a Deep Neural Network that creates artistic images of high perceptual quality.”
