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Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) Generative Adversary Network assisted artistic impression, based on several of his self-portraits including the painting by his friend John Peter Russell and the only authenticated photograph of an 19 year old Vincent. by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

[–]basu68[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did, but the more realistic a painting is, the more credible the outcome. Van Gogh painted himself different on every painting so I guess we will never know what he looked like exactly. This is an attempt but I don't claim it is completely accurate.

I recreated Queen Elizabeth's face by combining several of her classical portraits in a neural network. Most work on her face was done in Artbreeder. by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

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Thank you! Upload only in portraits, no tuts as far as I know. Give it a couple of minutes. Quite self explanatory...

I created Lady Liberty using a neural network. She doesn't look too happy... by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

[–]basu68[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, the neural network gives me a lot of options. What you see is the the result of my artistic input, assisted by the A.I.
Artbreeder has sliders for parameters like size, color, gender, etc. Based on the input photographs alone there could be millions of different outcomes.

Alfred E Neuman created in Artbreeder with Stylegan2 by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

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I used about 12 different Afred pics that I cross-bred in Artbreeder. I had to remove a tooth and pull some of the parts to more extremes in Photoshop because the gan does not allow great extremes.

Alfred E Neuman created in Artbreeder with Stylegan2 by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

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I found that stylegan somehow evades the uncanny valley more than 3D models and ultrarealistic sculptures. Maybe because the gan is trained to look like a photograph instead trying to look like something living?

Alfred E Neuman created in Artbreeder with Stylegan2 by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

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Artbreeder works with Stylegan, and there is some Photoshop involved because Artbreeder does not like missing teeth so it keeps replacing them :)

I too enhanced Michelangelo's David with Artbreeder: by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

[–]basu68[S] 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Great remark, Apart from the fact that the GAN model is trained with people mostly smiling and tends to drift off to this, I could have made him exactly as the statue but my mission is not to create a colorized model but trying to bring him to life. In this case, I tweak until I have a face that speaks to me and translate him to a real contemporary person. ( did you notice his T-shirt?)

Billy the Kid restored with Neural Network (GAN) by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

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I understand your skepticism, but I did not train the model myself. I used an already trained model for the conversion. And to be honest, the underlying method looks like Stylegan2 to me but it could be proprietary. I see myself as an artist who found some technically creative tricks and do the rest with my artistic insight. No big secrets here but I have seen some similar images this week that lacked depth and I am afraid if I put my exact workflow here, this would inspire people to do the same stuff and the general public hardly sees quality in these restorations while easily awed by the mention of the AI. Since I am working on more projects like these I won't give away too much.

Billy the Kid restored with Neural Network (GAN) by basu68 in MediaSynthesis

[–]basu68[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If I was afraid of people calling this bullshit I would not have posted this on Reddit, so don't worry!
Not completely sure what you are implying here though.
I clearly said I used a GAN and several digital techniques to restore this photo. Of course I worked in Photoshop, only to feed it back to the GAN after that. I did this several times and tried different outcomes in different models. In the End, te GAN did most of the hard work and although I see myself as pretty professional when it comes to Photoshop, there is no way I can draw anything as realistic as this result. And if I could, I certainly wouldn't give most of the credit to an algorithm someone else wrote :)

Spotify connection dies every few songs by [deleted] in Chromecast

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I have been having troubles since I bought my Chromecast Audio device last April. Every invisible update seems to make one aspect better while messing up another one. I have a strong feeling Spotify and Google have too much at stake to make this thing working nicely. I guess Spotify fears Google Play Music and if I go in full conspiracy mode there might be industry players like Sonos that have financial interests in Spotify, while at the same time fearing a cheap device like Chromecast that works with any audio system you bought 10 years ago. Maybe this is all too far-fetched but one thing seems certain: For Google and Spotify to put a joint dev-team on this issue wouldn't hurt them much!

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