Transforming Pictures with Amazing Art Styles

Since deep neural networks took off in 2012 with the winning ImageNet challenge of AlexNet, AI researchers have been applying deep learning technology, including pre-trained deep CNN models, to more and more problem domains. What can be more creative than creating art? One idea that has been proposed and implemented, called neural style transfer, allows you to take advantage of a pre-trained deep neural network model and to transfer the style of an image, or any Van Gogh or Monet masterpiece, for example, to another image such as your profile picture or a picture of your favorite dog, thereby creating an image that mixes the content of your picture and the style of a masterpiece. There's actually an iOS app called Prisma that won Best App of the Year in 2016 that does just that; in just a few seconds, it transforms your pictures...