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This AI Turns Pics Into 15th Century Portraits And Here’s What 30 Celebs Look Like
Everybody loves to see a good "then and now" photo comparison of popular celebrities but what about a photo that is from both the "past" and the present? Thanks to the technology of the researchers at MIT-IBM Watson artificial intelligence Lab, people can transform photos into 15th-century oil paintings.
The site aiportraits.com uses an algorithm trained on 45,000 classical portraits to render any face into faux oil, watercolor, or ink. Ever wondered what today's stars would look like if they had their portrait done by done in the style of the Renaissance artists? Scroll down below to check out some museum-worthy masterpieces of current famous faces and don't forget to upvote your favorite celebrity photos!
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Keanu Reeves
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab uses what's called generative adversarial network (GAN) models, a popular AI technique which can be observed in deepfakes. GAN works by getting two neural networks to compete each other in order to produce an acceptable outcome: a generator, which looks at various examples and tries to mimic them, and a discriminator, which judges if they are real by comparing them with the same training examples. In the case of this face filter, they used 45,000 classical portraits to train the program, including paintings Titian, van Gogh, and Rembrandt.
Adam Driver
Lady Gaga
Previous AI methods have created similar AI photo filters, but this algorithm does not merely “paint over” your face in a new style. GAN generates new features from scratch and certain elements in the photo prompts the algorithm on which style to use. Researchers say the algorithm “decides upon a Renaissance painting style, highlighting the elegance of the aquiline nose, the smoothness of the forehead.”
Jared Leto
Ed Sheeran
“With AI Portraits Ars anyone is able to use GAN models to generate a new painting, where facial lines are completely redesigned. The model decides for itself which style to use for the portrait. Details of the face and background contribute to direct the model towards a style. In style transfer, there is usually a strong alteration of colors, but the features of the photo remain unchanged. AI Portraits Ars creates new forms, beyond altering the style of an existing photo.”
Kit Harington
Dwayne Johnson
You might notice that in these portraits stars flashing their pearly whites don't appear in paint - there is a reason for that. “Portrait masters rarely paint smiling people because smiles and laughter were commonly associated with a more comic aspect of genre painting, and because the display of such an overt expression as smiling can seem to distort the face of the sitter,” they write. “This inability of artificial intelligence to reproduce our smiles is teaching us something about the history of art.”
Snoop Dog
Jack Nicholson
With anxiety over privacy implications after the recent FaceApp debacle, people might be less inclined to play with their portrait. The researchers promised users that the pictures uploaded are immediately deleted after processing by their servers and that they won’t be used for any other purpose other than some really old-fashioned fun.
Elon Musk
Beyonce
Woody Allen
The Ai version of him made the 'glasses' look like a make-up incident...
James Earl Jones
John Travolta
Elon Musk
Tessa Thompson
Denzel Washington
Natalie Portman
Jared Leto
Jennifer Lawrence
Kehlani Parrish
Lizzo
Jason Momoa
Tom Cruise
Jungkook
Benedict Cumberbatch
Robin Williams
Dwayne Johnson
Mark Hamill
Donald Trump
So when we see Renaissance paintings we can assume that most of them look nothing like the subject?
I’ll bet the results would be fascinating if those same AI algorithms could process the painted images in reverse.
Load More Replies...Why the AI? The Donald already owns several genuine Renaissance portraits of himself, proudly on display at Mar-a-Lago, and they are the best portraits ever in the history of painting.
Note: this post originally had 34 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
While some of the displayed pictures seems to "resemble" the celebrity mentioned somewhat... while the majority just seems to be random renaissance pics with random celebrities. Some of them are so completely off, it looks like AI bots are now doing BP posts :-(
Bored panda content is going downhill. Where's all the things we could say "oh I didn't know that that's so interesting", or the relatable and funny comics that no one gets triggered, or the cute little animals and heartwarming stories, the faith in humanity posts... It's more like triggered depressed panda nowadays. All about the influencers and dumb politics, racist and xenophobic rants and boring and or fake or disappointing posts. That and the downvotes loool what's that all about, no one really cares if you like being a moody cow and intentionally try to spoil someone's day by pressing an arrow loool it won't change facts and won't bother anyone in all seriousness. Sad sad, I'm with you DP, bored panda is now on autopilot and AI has taken over lool
Load More Replies...So what makes a portrait Renaissance-like is basically the eyes too round (bulging) and skin too pale?
https://aiportraits.com/ seems to have gone viral in the last few days and it's down for maintenance. Oh dear...
This is such a waste of space. Most look nothing like the originals, but for one small feature.
I might be the same during the renaissance. So we'll look at portraits of that period in another way from now.
Load More Replies...So the people of the Renaissance weren't as ugly as their portraits make them out to be, the Masters just had an unrealistic way of painting them. Basically, they sucked at copying faces... ?? 🤷♀️
Just before renaissance there was the bizantine art, that has no intentions to be "realistic" (as we take the concept nowadays). So, the idea of painting something just as the way we see it was just being developed (starting with Piero della Francesca). Those artist where literally starting a new way to capture the reality, so maybe it'd not be hipperralistic as we are accustomed today, but it was a gigantic step at that time :)
Load More Replies...A couple of days ago there were actually 3 or 2 (& like everything else "Kardashian", they were kinda well, you know...). I guess "the author" has been editing again, I guess nowadays publishing rules are: finished work but still changeble ;-)
Load More Replies...And another example why AI is only what you programm it to be - if the programmers are racist (and having only white as skin color is racist) - the AI will be racist too
While some of the displayed pictures seems to "resemble" the celebrity mentioned somewhat... while the majority just seems to be random renaissance pics with random celebrities. Some of them are so completely off, it looks like AI bots are now doing BP posts :-(
Bored panda content is going downhill. Where's all the things we could say "oh I didn't know that that's so interesting", or the relatable and funny comics that no one gets triggered, or the cute little animals and heartwarming stories, the faith in humanity posts... It's more like triggered depressed panda nowadays. All about the influencers and dumb politics, racist and xenophobic rants and boring and or fake or disappointing posts. That and the downvotes loool what's that all about, no one really cares if you like being a moody cow and intentionally try to spoil someone's day by pressing an arrow loool it won't change facts and won't bother anyone in all seriousness. Sad sad, I'm with you DP, bored panda is now on autopilot and AI has taken over lool
Load More Replies...So what makes a portrait Renaissance-like is basically the eyes too round (bulging) and skin too pale?
https://aiportraits.com/ seems to have gone viral in the last few days and it's down for maintenance. Oh dear...
This is such a waste of space. Most look nothing like the originals, but for one small feature.
I might be the same during the renaissance. So we'll look at portraits of that period in another way from now.
Load More Replies...So the people of the Renaissance weren't as ugly as their portraits make them out to be, the Masters just had an unrealistic way of painting them. Basically, they sucked at copying faces... ?? 🤷♀️
Just before renaissance there was the bizantine art, that has no intentions to be "realistic" (as we take the concept nowadays). So, the idea of painting something just as the way we see it was just being developed (starting with Piero della Francesca). Those artist where literally starting a new way to capture the reality, so maybe it'd not be hipperralistic as we are accustomed today, but it was a gigantic step at that time :)
Load More Replies...A couple of days ago there were actually 3 or 2 (& like everything else "Kardashian", they were kinda well, you know...). I guess "the author" has been editing again, I guess nowadays publishing rules are: finished work but still changeble ;-)
Load More Replies...And another example why AI is only what you programm it to be - if the programmers are racist (and having only white as skin color is racist) - the AI will be racist too