Neural network as a service. Online image styling services

Recently, Open Source has laid out a pre-trained neural network that can generate images based on a style sample from another image. Thus, from a pencil sketch, you can create an artistic masterpiece in the style of Renoir or Monet. The technology is based on the convolutional neural network developed last year at the University of Tübingen (which was also told at Geektimes). It plausibly forges the artistic style of famous artists, accepting any photos as input for processing.

Interesting scientific studies have led to the fact that now on the Internet opened several services designed for the mass public. Now you don’t need to install Python 3.4+, the libraries, download the neural network and set up the environment on the local PC, just upload photos to the server - and we get the result.

One of these sites is Instapainting . On the site you need to upload a photo for "coloring", and then a sample of the style. The procedure is resource intensive, so processing takes up to several minutes.
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The copyright of the generated pictures belong to the author, that is, to the person who showed creativity and creatively uploaded two photos for the operation of the neural network.

Instapainting earns from the sale of paintings, which draws a professional artist on the client's photography.

Russian clone - Ostagram . In the gallery there are quite beautiful work.









The free version generates images of no more than 600 pixels on the long side with one pass of the filter. In the paid version - up to 1000 iterations. There is a service of printing images on canvas.

It is very pleasant that the latest scientific developments reach the mass public so quickly. Someone even tries to make money on them.