I sometimes fantasize about hanging an enormous painted portrait of yours truly on my bedroom wall. Visitors would be forced to genuflect before the picture and leave a gift beneath it as a token of respect.
Unfortunately, I have neither the money to buy artworks nor the skills to paint one myself. But those barriers will no longer stop me from fulfilling my dream.
A team of researchers has developed a tool that will paint your portrait for you.
This is the original pic & the final painting! pic.twitter.com/6hYC6HqQA3
— clem ? (@ClementDelangue) August 11, 2021
Dubbed Paint Transformer, the system predicts the parameters of a stroke set with a feed-forward network.
“This way, our model can generate a set of strokes in parallel and obtain the final painting of size 512 × 512 in near real-time,” the researchers wrote in their study paper.
There are already plenty of AI tools that turn photos into artworks, but this one has a unique style that could surely grace Le Louvre.
You can also watch the artificial brushstrokes bring the painting to life.
You can try the tool out for yourself here and read the pre-print study paper on arXiv.
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