Vincent AI Sketch Demo Draws In Throngs at GTC Europe The Official NVIDIA Blog

Cambridge Consultants showed off an deep-learning driven application this week at GTC Europe in Munich that lets you pick up a stylus and sketch out a few lines, and watch, in real time, as the application turns your squiggles into art in one of seven styles resembling everything from moody J.M.W Turner oil paintings to neon-hued pop art. It's a demo that stunned the more than 3,000 attendees during NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang's keynote speech Tuesday at the show. Huang even climbed down from the stage to pick up a stylus and sketch a stylized NVIDIA logo and a profile of a man -- which the application transformed into a Picasso-esque painting as he worked -- grinning as the audience applauded. The story behind the story: a finely tuned generative adversarial network that sampled 8,000 great works of art -- a tiny sample size in the data-intensive world of deep learning -- and in just 14 hours of training on an NVIDIA DGX system created an application that takes human input and turns it into something stunning. Building on thousands of hours of research undertaken by Cambridge Consultants' AI research lab, the Digital Greenhouse, a team of five built the Vincent demo in just two months.