For this week’s assignment, we are asked to train the style transfer by ourselves and do some inference.
I chose a picture with colorful geometries so I named it as “colorfulgeo”.
Training
As for the training part, I simply followed the instructions. The obstacle I met is about the setup step because I originally operated in the login node. And there were also some problems with unzip which caused results like these.
Inference
After figuring out those problems, I successfully ran the task and finally got the training result. Firstly, I tried the style transfer in webcam and got screenshots of myself like these:
Later, I replaced the video input with some images and got these results:
I think when the input has a certain main object, it works better than when there is only some similar colors or patterns. Maybe it is also because my original image is not so large and has less information. However, at least I have a basic understanding of how style transfer works and there still remain a lot of aspects that we can explore to improve the visual effect at last.