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A Learned Representation for Artistic Style (arxiv.org)
43 points by EvgeniyZh on Oct 29, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | 2 comments on HN

In plain words: A single network learns to compress each painting's style into one point in a shared map, so styles can be mixed freely to make new looks. It handled many different painting styles at once, instead of needing a separate setup for each one.

Abstract · A Learned Representation For Artistic Style

The diversity of painting styles represents a rich visual vocabulary for the construction of an image. The degree to which one may learn and parsimoniously capture this visual vocabulary measures our understanding of the higher level features of paintings, if not images in general. In this work we investigate the construction of a single, scalable deep network that can parsimoniously capture the artistic style of a diversity of paintings. We demonstrate that such a network generalizes across a diversity of artistic styles by reducing a painting to a point in an embedding space. Importantly, this model permits a user to explore new painting styles by arbitrarily combining the styles learned from individual paintings. We hope that this work provides a useful step towards building rich models of paintings and offers a window on to the structure of the learned representation of artistic style.

Vincent Dumoulin, Jonathon Shlens, Manjunath Kudlur
arXiv:1610.07629 · cs.CV, cs.LG · submitted Oct 24, 2016 · updated Feb 9, 2017
abstract · pdf · html · 9 pages. 15 pages of Appendix, International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2017

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It seems a bit odd that they credit the Golden Gate Bridge picture, but not the other two pictures that they use as example content images. I looked through the whole thing but couldn't find any relevant citation.

Interesting read though.

Interesting article but that PDF is 39 MB and took an awful lot of time to load on my browser.