Vietnamese Lunar New Year Portraits
Vietnam shares its own set of lunar new year traditions, cultures, and practices that have survived thousands of years. In light of the past lunar year year, I wanted to use the neural style transfer to generate stylized portraits for different years.
Staring with the source of the style transfer:
This painting style is famous amongst traditional Vietnamese artists, with very distinct strokes and colors making it a good candidate for style transfer. Using the intel devCloud we can train using this as the source image to generate a model to apply to other images.
Here are some examples:
Year of the Rat – 2020
Year of the Monkey – 2016
Year of the Horse – 2014
You’ll notice that the context of the last image best matches that of the source image, making it a better candidate for generating a portrait. The two prior examples were isolated images that don’t have a background which may lessen the consistency of our style transfer.