AI Retouching artifact Prisma: Filters that do not want to be artists are not good AI

Recently, the circle of friends was swiped by a retouching application.

This magical app, Prisma, was developed by Alexey Moiseenkov, a 25-year-old Moscow team, and a team of nine people, a retouching application that turns ordinary photos into "art masterpieces." The application has rapidly swept from Russia to the globe since its launch in June this year. It has reached the top of the app store of 6 countries including Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus in just a few weeks; the first week of downloading has exceeded 1 million; In July, Prisma already had more than one million active users and became a hot topic in the photo social market. Even Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has “turned its brand” and posted a picture of Moscow on the Instagram map filtered by Prisma.

Why Prisma is so hot?

Unlike Instagram, which merely superimposes filters on photos, Prisma “re-creates” the user’s photos like a real artist. The most amazing thing about it is that it can turn a common picture into a different style of modern art in a matter of ten seconds. From the beauties of Raul Dufy's still life to the Cubistism of the modernist master Picasso, Prisma included 35 different painting styles. As long as the user uploads a photo, Prisma can turn it into a very Western painting with artistic features in more than 10 seconds.

(Source: Washington Post)

In fact, Prisma is not the first application to transform ordinary photos into paintings through photo editing. But its uniqueness lies in its use of artificial intelligence technology Convolutional neural network (known as convolutional neural network) so that the processed image is more like a man-made art works, the effect is very realistic.

Of course, this is by no means a simple algorithm. There are three artificial neural networks on Prisma, each responsible for handling different tasks.

In the first step, the system automatically analyzes the photos passed by the user. In the second step, the art style of the photos is extracted from all Prisma's classic paintings. The final step, combined with photos and background art techniques, completely creates a picture. The new works are the final ones.

It takes about five seconds for Prisma to complete an editing operation, which is a bit slower than the instant editing of Instagram, but if you contact the complex process, you will feel that this is not slow. Because the user's photos need to be uploaded to Prisma's server first. However, there is also a drawback. Because Prisma's image processing requires deep learning and artificial intelligence calculations on the remote server, and then it is transmitted back, the user must be able to use the network with good network connection status and fast network speed. , otherwise its filter may not load.

In fact, this algorithm is not Alexey's first, and there have been similar applications before this, such as deepart. But no application has gained such a powerful effect. The reason is probably Prisma is very convenient and fast in operation, in line with the user's psychology. It took several hours for a similar application to complete a single image processing in the past, whereas Prisma only takes a few seconds.

(Source: Washington Post)

Interestingly, Prisma said that based on the user's data, delete the most unpopular filter styles, and add more cool new styles. Maybe users will regret the disappearance of some special filters, but Prisma hopes to maintain the recognition of it by most people around the world by maintaining quality filters.

When Prisma was launched, it could only be used on Apple mobile devices. Recently, Prisma officially announced that the APP has officially landed on Android. This means that the Prisma effect will continue to expand, but does not indicate that Alexey Moiseenkov will continue to own it. There are rumors that he will sell this app to Snapchat or Facebook.

Via WashingtonPost

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