How is your experience with re-seeding images to the system going from small resolution to a larger one? When I tried it, results were not as good as starting a high res image from scratch.
Looks like they're both new apps, so they've done well to get everything up and running so quickly! I already had a lot of the groundwork laid for NightCafe Creator, so it was much easier for me to get this done. There's a lot involved, especially if you're going to charge for use (which is a must if you expect to have any sort of volume in the long run).
These are cool. I wish it was possible to move beyond Colab for generative type ML as the UX is horrible and there is no practical way to use them on mobile. Unfortunately it seems to be a problem of who has the hardware and who doesn't. Hopefully as time passes it will be easier to host these kinds of services, and not have to feel hopeless after the next AI Dungeon-type corporate implosion.
Yep, NightCafe has struggled for years with the expense of running algorithms on GPUs. It started out free, but as soon as you start to get any kind of volume, costs balloon.
I almost gave up on NightCafe when I was trying to make money from selling prints to people. Then, one user generated 3,000 creations in a week, which cost him nothing and me $300. I decided to spend the weekend implementing a credit system to prevent abuse, and was surprised to find that more people were willing to pay for credits than I expected.
It's still not much and I've had to spend a lot of effort on reducing costs in various ways just to be able to break even. But I love working on this app and have high hopes that _one day_ it will become profitable enough for me to work on it full time.
Interesting. I suppose if it takes minutes on a GPU, it might take ages to generate one on a mobile ML/NN chip? If it were able to be optimized to somewhat-less-than-ages, it would be a different business model w/o the need to manage credits and worry about abuse.
Yeah it would, but aside from the cost there are other benefits to cloud computation. It can be done in the background (i.e. it's ok to close your tab) and you can run multiple at once.
Style transfer on NightCafe has a bulk-create mode that has been used in the past to create 500+ creations at once and they all finished in 10 mins.
Is the option to buy prints still there? Some services offer the possibility to buy prints on canvas tied on a wooden frame, possibly manually retouched, which look much like an actual picture you can hang in your living room
Thanks for pointing this out. Actually NeuralBlender.com was not to be released to the public yet, but the topic in this thread kind of invited it. I will clarify that and improve the UX.
I think it works well :) Which architecture is this based on? Did you consider any trips or fine-tuning to generate images that are perceptually similar to art?
It is based on VQGAN (trained on imagenet) and Open AI's CLIP.
To make it more similar to art you would need to do some "prompt engineering. Try: "painting of ..." or "... painted by Van Gogh"
Ha ha, good one. I had a Palm V and a Palm Zire. Both were very good devices. One of the best features was the instant-on and you're back in the app you were last using, after power-on. No booting period of even a few seconds. And of course, the Graffiti handwriting system (with the stylus) was great too. I even tried using Pippy, a port of Python to the Palm. Would have been great for writing small snippets of code on the go, at a restaurant, bus stop, train station, beach, etc. Unfortunately it was buggy and crashed a lot.
Working on bringing this (os5) back on modern cheap microcontrollers. For fun. So far, I have it booting on an STM429 Dev board. I post occasional updates in /r/palm
Part of the #NeurIPS2018 Creative Art gallery currently in Montreal.
This machine artist creates a new piece of art every few seconds - indefinitely.
Inside, the particular neural network developed an affinity for depicting portraits of people with one blind eye. Once in a while this is compensated with a face having a third eye.
