AI Helps You Paint Like Van Gogh – NVIDIA Developer News Center

Product design and development firm Cambridge Consultants developed a deep learning-based system that turns human sketches into paintings that resemble Van Gogh, Cézanne and Picasso. "What we've built would have been unthinkable to the original deep learning pioneers," said Monty Barlow, director machine learning at Cambridge Consultants in reference to their interactive system that call Vincent. "By successfully combining different machine learning approaches, such as adversarial training, perceptual loss, and end-to-end training of stacked networks, we've created something hugely interactive, taking the germ of a sketched idea and allowing the history of human art to run with it." Using an NVIDIA DGX-1, they trained their Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) on thousands of paintings from the Renaissance period to the current day to study the works and build an understanding of where contrast, color and texture. Once trained on nearly 200 million parameters, Vincent is able to understand the important edges in paintings and uses this understanding to produce a complete picture.