Facebook is bringing artsy neural networks to a phone near you

The social network’s mobile app will transform video into art using machine learning in real time. A rendering shows Facebook’s style transfer system filtering an image into the style of Vincent Van Gogh’s “Starry Night.” Credit: Facebook Facebook users will be able to record smartphone videos that ape the style of famous artworks with a new feature unveiled Tuesday. Using a technique called style transfer, the feature takes live video and turns it into something that resembles the work of Van Gogh, Picasso and other artists. That effect is probably familiar to people who have used the app Prisma, which uses similar techniques to change the look of photos. Prisma’s app can’t perform live filtering, and some filters require a connection to the internet. Facebook’s system can work offline and…


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