This talk by Marco Marchesi from Happy Finish on "Can you make this image more neoclassical? Practical uses of Style Transfer in the creative industry" was presented at the Style Transfer event on 18th April at TechHub as part of the Creative AI meetup.

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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
marco.marchesi@happyfinish.com