Research Blog: Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs

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Using Deep Learning to Create Professional-Level Photographs

Posted by Hui Fang, Software Engineer, Machine Perception Machine learning (ML) excels in many areas with well defined goals. Tasks where th…

via Google AI Blog: https://research.googleblog.com/2017/07/using-deep-learning-to-create.html

To explore how ML can learn subjective concepts, we introduce an experimental deep-learning system for artistic content creation. It mimics the workflow of a professional photographer, roaming landscape panoramas from Google Street View and searching for the best composition, then carrying out various postprocessing operations to create an aesthetically pleasing image. Our virtual photographer “travelled” ~40,000 panoramas in areas like Alps, Banff and Jasper National Parks, big sur in California, and Yellowstone National Park, returned with creations that are quite impressive, some even approaching professional quality — as judged by professional photographers.