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"Can you make this image more neoclassical?"
Practical uses of Style Transfer in the creative industry
Marco Marchesi
Head of Technology
Happy Finish

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Summary
● So far…
● Yinka Shonibare VR
● Other approaches: GAN’s
● Deep Retouching
● This year
● Conclusions
from “Come Swim” (2017)

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So far...
Gatys, Leon A., Alexander S. Ecker, and Matthias Bethge. "A neural algorithm of artistic style." arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.06576 (2015).
https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/artistic-style-transfer

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So far...
Jing, Yongcheng, et al. "Neural style transfer: A review." arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.04058 (2018). https://github.com/ycjing/Neural-Style-Transfer-Papers

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Royal Academy - Yinka Shonibare VR
“The Townley Venus”
(1-2 century AD)
Shonibare’s
“Townley Venus”
(2017)
Gavin Hamilton’s “Venus
giving Helen to Paris as his
wife” (1782-1784)

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Royal Academy - Yinka Shonibare VR

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Texture Synthesis
Wilmot, Pierre, Eric Risser, and Connelly Barnes. "Stable and controllable neural texture synthesis and style transfer using histogram losses." arXiv preprint
arXiv:1701.08893 (2017). https://github.com/ycjing/Neural-Style-Transfer-Papers

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First Tests
Test 1 Test 2 Test 3
Style Mask
Mask Content

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Image Analogy...
Champandard, Alex J. "Semantic style transfer and turning two-bit doodles into fine artworks." arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01768
(2016).https://github.com/DmitryUlyanov/fast-neural-doodle
Liao, Jing, et al. "Visual attribute transfer through deep image analogy." arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.01088 (2017).
https://github.com/awentzonline/image-analogies

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...that actually makes art!

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Our Process
CONTENT
TEXTURE IMAGE
STYLE
IMAGE
CONTENT
MASK
STYLE
MASK
NEURAL STYLE TRANSFER
TARGET
IMAGE
CONTENT
MASK
TARGET
TEXTURE IMAGE
video

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Final Result
video

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Another Approach: Generative Adversarial Networks
Zhu, Jun-Yan, et al. "Unpaired image-to-image translation using cycle-consistent adversarial networks." arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.10593 (2017).
https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN
Huang, Xun, et al. “Multimodal Unsupervised Image-to-Image Translation”. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.04732 (2018)) https://github.com/NVlabs/MUNIT
CycleGAN (2017) MUNIT (2018)

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Deep Retouching (Happy Finish, 2017)
Patent Pending

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Deep Retouching (Happy Finish, 2017)
Patent Pending

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Deep Retouching (Happy Finish, 2017)
Patent Pending

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This year: Deep Painterly Harmonization
(Cornell U., Adobe, 2018)
Luan, Fujun, et al. "Deep Painterly Harmonization." arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.03189 (2018). https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization

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This year: Fast Photo Style (NVIDIA, 2018)
Li, Yijun, et al. "A Closed-form Solution to Photorealistic Image Stylization." arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.06474 (2018). https://github.com/NVIDIA/FastPhotoStyle

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The semantic limitations of style transfer

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This year: Photo Style Transfer (theprintspace, 2018)
Patent Pending
ContentStyle Cornell U., Adobe 2017 NVIDIA 2018 theprintspace 2018

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This year: Photo Style Transfer (theprintspace, 2018)
Patent Pending
ContentStyle Cornell U., Adobe 2017 NVIDIA 2018 theprintspace 2018

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Conclusions
Patent Pending
● Semantically consistent results
● Really Hi-Res
● More content transformation
What’s next?

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Marco Marchesi| Head of Technology
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