The researchers used this painting by Kristen Stewart as the "style" they wanted to transfer
to their reference image.
Credit: copyright 2017 Starlight Studios LLC & Kristen Stewart
Actor Kristen Stewart, known for her portrayal of Bella in the "Twilight" movie franchise and director of "Come Swim" at the Sundance Film Festival, now has another line on her résumé: co-author of a computer science paper.
The paper, published online in the preprint journal ArXiv, is called "Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim." The authors describe a set of programming shortcuts that can make movie shots look as though they were painted or drawn in a certain style, such as impressionism or pointillism.
The process relies on machine learning, a type of artificial intelligence, and gave certain shots in the film short, which uses allusive images to follow a man through his day, the look of an impressionistic painting. The shot described in the paper is about 15 seconds long, and the painting is by Stewart herself. [5 Intriguing Uses for Artificial Intelligence (That Aren't Killer Robots)] https://www.livescience.com/57607-kristen-stewart-authors-artificial-intelligence-paper.html
