IML // Style Transfer
In this style transfer exercise, I wanted to try creating a model that would turn natural landscapes, such as mountains, into synthetic and artificial ones. The image I decided to use for my style transfer was this:
Content:
Style:
I tried to train the model using the tutorial from the class slides. I prepared all the files, made the train shell script and tried to qsub it. However, every time I tried to add it to the queue, I got the message along the lines of:
XXXX-qsub-07-ai-builder
Nothing happened afterwards, and immediately I got redirected to bash. No training logs or error files were present.
After at least 10 attempts to train the network, I concluded that there is some other technical issue with my neural network setup.
I decided to follow a different tutorial instead. I found a style transfer algorithm in an IBM Watson neural network set. There is an algorithm that enables users to train a neural network to transfer styles. The tutorial is available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29S0F6GbcxU
These are the results:
