One of my favorite machine learning applications, neural style transfer is an example of Machine Learning synthesis. What do I mean by that? Well, instead of training a machine learning model to predict something we instead train a model to create something new. In this case an image!
This simple project demonstrates a method of training an ML model to learn and apply style from one photo (the style image) to another (the content image).
This is a super fun project that you can use to stylize your own photos!
Make sure you’ve signed up for a JetML account and that you have enough credits to run the project, then click the “Launch on JetML” button below.
Make sure you keep the project in Python 3. Also, I highly recommend using a GPU server to help speed up the training time.
Training the Model
When your server is ready and in the “running” status (about 5-10 min), click to open your server’s Jupyter notebooks.
Open the artistic_style_transfer.ipynb notebook and click the run button.
And that’s all you need to do!
You should start seeing the output of the model as it trains.
Since the neural network starts from a random state, the initial outputs are pure static over your content image. However, the GPU will make quick work of training the network.
Within a few batches, the network has already started learning how to apply the style to your content image.
After about 1 minute of training, the network starts generating an impressive rendition of your original image.
How to Adapt This Project
Try replacing the content and style images with your own!