Facebook is testing video style transfer on Android and iOS using Caffe2go deep learning framework

In conjunction with the Web Summit conference in Lisbon today, Facebook is unveiling artificial intelligence (AI) software that it's using in order to let users apply and switch artistic styles for live video streams on Android and iOS. After demonstrating the technology at a conference last month, Facebook is now testing the video style transfer technology on mobile in a few countries, and it will be deployed more widely in the near future. The Caffe2go technology Facebook developed in the past three months is an implementation of a hot type of AI called deep learning, which typically involves training on lots of data, like images, and then making inferences about new data. In this case, Facebook has developed pre-trained neural networks that can then make inferences about new data on the fly on mobile. Google did something similar with a part of Google Translate last year, but Google also recently demonstrated neural style transfer technology of its own, although it's not yet been shown to run on mobile devices.