Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters
Arts

Different Strokes for Robot Folks: Transformer-Based Image Generator Imitates Painters

A neural network can make a photo resemble a painting via neural style transfer, but it can also learn to reproduce an image by applying brush strokes. A new method taught a system this painterly skill without any training data.

October 20, 20212 min read
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Arts

Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.

October 13, 20212 min read
Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony
Arts

Roll Over, Beethoven: AI Completes Beethoven's 10th Symphony

Ludwig van Beethoven died before he completed what would have been his tenth and final symphony. A team of computer scientists and music scholars approximated the music that might have been.

October 13, 20212 min read
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
Arts

CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models

Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

July 14, 20211 min read
CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models
Arts

CLIP Art: Creating AI art by pairing CLIP with GAN models

Creative engineers are combining deep learning systems to produce a groundswell of generated imagery. Researchers, hackers, and artists are producing new works by pairing CLIP, a pretrained image classifier, with a generative adversarial network (GAN).

July 14, 20211 min read
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
Arts

Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.

Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.

June 23, 20211 min read
Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.
Arts

Sorting Shattered Traditions: Archaeologists use machine learning to classify pottery.

Computer vision is probing the history of ancient pottery | What’s new: Researchers at Northern Arizona University developed a machine learning model that identifies different styles of Native American painting on ceramic fragments and sorts the shards by historical period.

June 23, 20211 min read
Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
Arts

Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.
Arts

Crouching Beggar, Hidden Painting: How Oxia Palus used AI to recreate a lost Picasso painting.

Neural networks for image generation don’t just create new art — they can help recreate works that have been lost for ages. Oxia Palus, a UK startup dedicated to resurrecting lost art through AI.

April 21, 20212 min read
New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.
Arts

New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.

Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical. Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported.

April 7, 20211 min read
New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.
Arts

New Life for Old Songs: Audio demixing algorithms are pulling voices and instruments from music recordings.

Neural networks can tease apart the different sounds in musical. Companies and hobbyists are using deep learning to separate voices and instruments in commercial recordings, Wired reported.

April 7, 20211 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Arts

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.
Arts

How Art Makes AI Feel: How an AI model feels about art.

An automated art critic spells out the emotional impact of images. Led by Panos Achlioptas, researchers at Ecole Polytechnique, King Abdullah University, and Stanford University trained a deep learning system to generate subjective interpretations of art.

February 17, 20212 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
Arts

Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read
Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity
Arts

Harry Shum: Tsinghua University’s Harry Shum on how AI is changing creativity

In 2021, I envision that the AI community will create more tools to unleash human creativity. AI will help people across the globe to communicate and express emotions and moods in their own unique ways.

December 30, 20202 min read

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