The general procedure for adding a new image is to use it as the content image, and the image preceding it as the style image. Most images in have been run through the deep dream generator 3-4 times. This does not, itself, result in a properly obscured image. This image of water can be seen throughout the animation. This was created by taking a starter image, and using it as our content image, along with a simple picture of water as our style image. ![]() No image in this final version is of the original content. The speed of the animation, and the extent to which images overlap, can be controlled via variables at the top of the animation.js file. It uses a Javascript animation to fade through these images.Ĭurrently, it can be modified via adding and removing images from both the final_order folder, and to the html file. ![]() You controlled what information went into it, you can understand what is being created with it, and no one is trying to sell you anything. This is machine learning, stripped of the elements of spam. A stranger should see only a haze of vague shapes which occasionally contains the suggestion of a face. The user themselves are able to recognize what they see, but after losing track of what images they've entered, should lose their certainty in their identifications. The resulting images are then overlaid into a video which never fully solidifies into any one image, but instead is always several at once. Images, curated by the user for their nostalgic emotional impact, and dreamed over one another using a neural style algorithm. Nostalgia Box is a continually shifting soup of it's user's memories. This is a prototype of an extension on the paper A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style by Leon A. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record.An extension of the neural style algorithm This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. KING: So who would you want blinking and smiling at you?Ĭopyright © 2021 NPR. So whatever gets them using it, we're happy. And I think it's also been applied in quite creative ways, as you sometimes only see on social media. MENDELSOHN: I don't think I've seen "Mona Lisa" in quite the same way. One user animated Michelangelo's famous statue, "David." Somebody else brought a terrified face to life on a movie poster of "A Nightmare On Elm Street." And others couldn't resist using famous paintings. INSKEEP: Or just a gateway into zaniness. And that sparks of conversation and being the gateway into family history. They're trying to find those images in their basement, you know, in storage. And so people are contacting their family members. But on a very initial level, when we see our users interacting with it, we often see the response of, I need to get more images. KING: People on social media testify it's amazing. MENDELSOHN: What it does is it really brings your ancestors to life in a kind of really wow moment. Rafi Mendelsohn is with and says Deep Nostalgia has had nearly 5 million users in its first five days. ![]() And it, you know, pretty much looks like a normal person as they're posing for an image. It enables the head to move from side to side. You upload a picture, and AI software breathes life into the image. A new feature on a genealogy website can bring pictures of your ancestors to life.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |