Delivering real-time AI in the palm of your hand

As video becomes an even more popular way for people to communicate, we want to give everyone state-of-the art creative tools to help you express yourself. We recently began testing a new creative-effect camera in the Facebook app that helps people turn videos into works of art in the moment. That technique is called "style transfer." It takes the artistic qualities of one image style, like the way Van Gogh paintings look, and applies it to other images and videos. It's a technically difficult trick to pull off, normally requiring the content to be sent off to data centers for processing on big-compute servers -- until now.