2020 in Review: 10 AI-Powered Art Projects
As part of our year-end series, Synced highlights 10 AI-powered art projects that inspired and entertained us in 2020.
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ChipGAN Style Transfer Masters Chinese Ink Wash Painting
In the paper ChipGAN: A Generative Adversarial Network for Chinese Ink Wash Painting Style Transfer, a team of researchers from Peking University and Tsinghua University propose an end-to-end GAN-based architecture that can transfer input photos into the style of Chinese ink wash paintings.
AI Beatbox and Self-Awareness: A Night of Artistic Intelligence
Hundreds of artificial intelligence researchers, UN staff and curious locals listened, watched and tapped their feet as London-born composer and human beatboxer Reeps One “battled” against an AI-powered real-time music generator trained on his own riffs.
Everyone Is an Artist: GauGAN Turns Doodles Into Photorealistic Landscapes
At the recent NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2019, Synced reported on a ‘magical brush’ app that could transform simple line drawings and sketches into realistic landscapes.
AI Brush: New GAN Tool Paints Worlds
The digital painting tool GANpaint has gone viral on social media. The product of a team of high-profile researchers from MIT, IBM, Google, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong, GAPpaint allows anyone — even those with little knowledge of digital painting or photoshop — to “paint” incredibly complex and detailed photorealistic scenes.
Google AI Music Project Magenta Drops Beats Like Humans
Magenta Studio is a Google Brain project “exploring the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process.” The Google Brain team created the open-source music-making package using machine learning models.
How Artists Can Use Neural Networks to Make Art
David Aslan uses neural network “Deep Style” to transform original photos or paintings into images with other styles.