Watch a Computer Algorithm Transform Videos into Moving Van Goghs

Deep neural networks have progressed immensely in recent years. Far from being moonshots, they are now at a point where they are better than humans at several tasks. They are capable of understanding text without previously encountering the words, of translating different languages, they can even cut transcription errors by half. And now, it seems they can recognize and replicate art (and a number of art styles). A team from the University of Freiburg in Germany have used deep neural networks to copy the artistic style of famous painters and paste them into video clips from movies and TV shows.