AI&Creativity: Alien Elements with Style.
Back to my innocent childhood, as I discovered the magic power of image processing with an image editor, I was eager to build in Mona Lisa portrait faces of my friends. Just for fun. Admittedly, it was amateurish work of mine, because, you know, you had to
- cut out from a photo your friends face shapes
- place it properly on the Mona Lisa image
- make colors and (un)sharness appropriate
…and nobody can Sfumato, besides of Maestro Leonardo.
I didn’t knew, that one day you just need some couple of clicks — and you’ll get it. With help of Artificial Intelligence and the process called “Deep Painterly Harmonization”.
Fujun Luan and a group of researchers experimented with Deep Learning — and developed this method. Here you can see results. And results are unbelievable.
How does it work?
Step 1. Take one famous paiting. Say, ask Pointillists:
Step 2. Now paste there an alien element, like a Grand Piano (because why not)
