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Man Combines Random People’s Photos Using Neural Networks And The Results Are Amazing
If you're not sure what you're looking at when you look at the pictures below, don't worry, you're probably not alone. But rest assured, your eyes don't need testing and your screen doesn't need fixing. Because these bizarre images, created by users via Russian website Ostagram, are the product of an art technique known as Inceptionism, where images are combined using neural networks to generate a single mind-bending picture.
A neural network is a computational model based on the structure of a biological neural network. In other words, it works like a human brain. Conventional software operates within strict parameters but artificial neural networks have the ability to "learn" by being fed more and more data over time.
The images are possible thanks to DeepDream software, which finds and enhances patterns in images by a process known as algorithmic pareidolia. It was pioneered by Google and was originally code-named Inception after the film of the same name. And looking at these pictures, it’s easy to see why.
If you understand Russian then head over to Ostagram to make your own crazy Inceptionist artwork!
More info: Ostagram
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Ivan Scherbinin 9 years ago
https://periscope.com.ua/redaktory/vinci-prilozhenie-fotoredaktor-ili screenshot...06-png.jpg 
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VictoriaBerdon 9 years ago
Yes, that's what I thought, too! That app was going around about 2 months ago, no?
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anna hoholi 8 years ago
we used the same tachnique and model in a short video clip! Hope you like it as well :) https://vimeo.com/215673070
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MatejSedláček 9 years ago
Are these pictures accesible in higher resolution? I would LOVE to print them on my wall!
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CleverFool 9 years ago
I see a beautiful symbol of the beautiful interconnectedness of life and death.
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FrancescoNoferi 9 years ago
source of the pic http://www.zerochan.net/1233243 anime: carnival phantasm
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GaryBradski 9 years ago
I think you can all do the very same thing by going to: https://dreamscopeapp.com
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Somasundaran Mylath 9 years ago
Inceptionism - New art technique of combining images using Neural Network
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AmieBrownfield 9 years ago
This looks like an Iris Scott painting...https://www.facebook.com/IrisFingerpaintings/?fref=ts
AmieBrownfield 9 years ago
This one looks like an Iris Scott painting: https://www.facebook.com/IrisFingerpaintings/?fref=ts
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CleverFool 9 years ago
2 brilliant works of art, by 2 brilliant artists, combined by technology.
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NinaSawicka 9 years ago
sausage pasta was creepy enough before it transformed
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BitterVoid 8 years ago
Ew . This is disgusting and lowlife. Lowlife people who do dtugs are worthless and should die
Raz N'emmy 5 years ago
I made an account just to tell you that this was super prejudice and those people need to be healed, not slandered against. Comments like yours aren't helping and further drives them to use drugs even more.
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Victoria Rey Piuma 9 years ago
Not necessarily. Artists in the future may choose to fotograph/paint both elements themselves, to influence the composition.
Load More Replies... PhyllisSteging 9 years ago
No--You have to start with something to merge. You will always have the painters and the photographers, etc. Would hate to lose that.
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KathleenWoodworth 9 years ago
This picture would be better with brussels sprouts instead of watermelon...
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LeonGatys 9 years ago
those guys basically copied the stuff we invented - if you want to get HD images you should check out the original: http://deepart.io/ Best Leon
DouglasEck 9 years ago
Leon is absolutely correct. This work is by him and his team. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576. It differs from Deep Dream in that it takes two inputs, a "style" image and a "content" image and it reproduces the content image in the target style.
Martin Franěk 9 years ago
You are correct, Ostagram - wich is linked is published on github as https://github.com/SergeyMorugin/ostagram relies on https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style wich cites Leons original work
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Eros Nicolau 9 years ago
Why use such a CRAPTACULAR and FAKE title, when you perfectly know that it's craptacular and fake? Just for the sake of click bait?
Vlad Svoka 9 years ago
If you don't understand Russian, there is english locale http://ostagram.ru/?locale=en
LeonGatys 9 years ago
those guys basically copied the stuff we invented - if you want to get HD images you should check out the original: http://deepart.io/ Best Leon
DouglasEck 9 years ago
Leon is absolutely correct. This work is by him and his team. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576. It differs from Deep Dream in that it takes two inputs, a "style" image and a "content" image and it reproduces the content image in the target style.
Martin Franěk 9 years ago
You are correct, Ostagram - wich is linked is published on github as https://github.com/SergeyMorugin/ostagram relies on https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style wich cites Leons original work
Load More Replies... Eros Nicolau 9 years ago
Why use such a CRAPTACULAR and FAKE title, when you perfectly know that it's craptacular and fake? Just for the sake of click bait?
Vlad Svoka 9 years ago
If you don't understand Russian, there is english locale http://ostagram.ru/?locale=en
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