Watch Star Wars: Return of the Jedi as a German expressionist painting

Neural networks have shown they can turn a standard photo into a work of art, mimicking the style of a famous artist. A team of German researchers has developed a way to apply distinct styles to any given video, to transform everything from Star Wars to Ice Age into a moving Picasso. The researchers introduced a temporal constraint that'penalized' deviation between two frames, meaning it considers the flow of the original video to preserve smooth transitions. In order to improve the method's consistency over larger periods of time, they incorporate long term motion estimates. They also developed a multi-pass algorithm to work around the'artefacts' created during style transfer.