More evidence of terrible mainstream scientific reporting. For some reason, bloggers love to blow every achievement and finding completely out of proportion.
Thanks for the links, the two things that are really interesting to me are taking the makeup style from the example and applying it to the picture (preview the made up version of the face) and taking famous actors and morphing into something "like" them. This would be useful at creating props on screen where there are pictures from someone's "earlier" life, that could make them look much more realistic. Fascinating stuff.
I don't think they can successfully copyright their style. Art is all about using and recycling other people's works. The art would not progress if there wasn't derivation. Wan't it Picasso who said "Good artists copy, great artists steal (ideas)"?
Also, artists tend to evolve over time. Few artists like to remain stuck in one style for fear of being thought as unimaginative or lazy (you could look into all the flak Ansel Adams gets). Also some like Kinkade made their style into a business and people expected a certain style so he could not get away from that.
Most successful photographers evolve their style over time --Winogrand, Friedlander, Eggleston, Atget, Frank, Moriyama, etc.
Do you have any plans for future improvements which might reduce the really distracting color ringing artifacts you get in this current work?
Are there any photographers whose style doesn’t transfer as well? (The ones you chose all use very high contrast and harsh lighting, with an emphasis on fine structure detail.)
Both papers use multi-scale approach to capture textures in different scales. While Bae's work is global transfer, this paper uses local transfer. This paper first uses a technique called "sift flow" in computer vision to compute the correspondences between example face and input face, and then transfer the image statistics locally, based on the correspondences.
We are looking at gain maps to see if we can reduce the artifacts. Styles with hard shadow are more challenging. eg Olaf Blecker http://i1.dripimg.com/t/460000/6554/96/450324_500_8a28bd.jpg
(Note that high contrast doesn't mean hard shadow)
In the beginning of the article I thought it was just some instagram-like filters with some buzzwords like "selfie" added. But when I saw the video showing that it can apply the style of one image to the other, that was where I started to find it awesome! Neat!
Right. If you want something not entirely dissimilar, and available right now for your photos, visit http://vsco.co or look for the VSCO Cam app on the app store.
It doesn't do based-on-image-X matchy-matching but it does good film emulation.
It's not just that this can emulate the second. Sometimes VSCO Film is the second, or at least the foundation for the second. It's kind of swept the modern photography world by storm.
That said, to the grand-parent poster: I realize that it isn't the same thing as described in the paper! However, it is available now, and I was using phrases such as "not entirely unlike" which shouldn't exactly inspire a sense of precise equivalence...
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These people must have the best imaginations ever.
low-res pdf - http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/publications/2014_portrai...
hi-res pdf - http://www.connellybarnes.com/work/publications/2014_portrai...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibovitz_v._Paramount_Pictures....
[edit] that apparently HN lops off. I haven't found a way around it.
Also, artists tend to evolve over time. Few artists like to remain stuck in one style for fear of being thought as unimaginative or lazy (you could look into all the flak Ansel Adams gets). Also some like Kinkade made their style into a business and people expected a certain style so he could not get away from that.
Most successful photographers evolve their style over time --Winogrand, Friedlander, Eggleston, Atget, Frank, Moriyama, etc.
(Another of Frédo Durand’s grad students who graduated a while back, http://people.csail.mit.edu/soonmin/photolook/)
Do you have any plans for future improvements which might reduce the really distracting color ringing artifacts you get in this current work?
Are there any photographers whose style doesn’t transfer as well? (The ones you chose all use very high contrast and harsh lighting, with an emphasis on fine structure detail.)
It doesn't do based-on-image-X matchy-matching but it does good film emulation.
Celebrated photographers "styles" can be two things:
a) a way of seeing (composition, sense of space, etc, etc)
b) a specific look, based on favorite film stock, preferred lighting schemes, post-processing etc.
This can immitate the second. Which you can also get, with a more manual process, from global filter/film emulation, like VSCO.
The local vs global application of the filter doesn't have as much impact in the final output. It's just a slightly more accurate (b).
That said, to the grand-parent poster: I realize that it isn't the same thing as described in the paper! However, it is available now, and I was using phrases such as "not entirely unlike" which shouldn't exactly inspire a sense of precise equivalence...
You'd might see something in Gimp long before there's any imagemagick implementation.
And usually those come from proprietary sources first.