For this assignment, I chose to explore deep dream further and observe what sort of effects I could create. I was really inspired by the Memo Atkan video and wanted to create something similar to that.
After going through a bunch of tutorials, I came across this guide to creating multiple deep dream images and then chaining them into a video using openCV.
The concept I used for this project was a picture of Billie Eilish from her album titled, “When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?” It seemed very appropriate to use Deep Dream here because of the recurring theme of ethereal elements in the songs in her album.
The tutorial explained which tensor layer, account for which effects, which I’ve replicated below for reference.
layer 10: Monkies, lizards, snakes, duck
I thought it would be cool to control the different layers that go into the video, so I added a chunk of code to control which tensor layers are considered for a given image frame.
Here are some reference images:
The final video is here:
Reversed Video :