In this week’s assignment, I tried with CycleGAN, monet2photo model. The model trained around 3.5 days. But the download process from Intel Cloud is very frustrating. I have downloaded around 15 times, and for almost 2 days. Every time, the connection is broken, or because of the network, it stalled.
Finally, I downloaded it. And by following the instruction, I convert the model and freeze the model graph. Then I used this model for different pictures as an experiment. So I first tried several of Monet’s paintings. Some of them work pretty well, but some of them have bad results. Then I also tried with some other impressionism artists’ paintings. Finally, I tried with paintings from other artists who are not impressionism.
Results:
Monet’s Painting with good results
Monet’s paintings with bad results:
Other Impressionism artists’ paintings:
Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
Alfred Sisley:
J.M.W. Turner:
Other Artists’ paintings:
Vincent Van Gogh:
Katsushika Hokusai:
We can clearly see, for other impressionism artists, their paintings have some elements partially convert to photos. Such as the clouds, or the field. But for other artists, clearly we can see there are style transferred, but not into photos.