How to create your work of art from your photo, using your PC

Earlier I wrote idea how to monetize your GPU on the example deepart.io

Now I want to tell you how to create your work of art, using your PC processor and neural networks

All you need:

1. Medium-power processor(ofcourse, than CPU power is greater, the faster will go processing)
2. 4GB RAM min, prefer 8 GB or more(size of the output image will depend)
3. OS Linux: Ubuntu 64bit V.12.04 or 14.04(if you use Windows, install a virtual machine Oracle VM VirtualBox with Ubuntu 64bit V.12.04 or 14.04)
4. Follow the instructions below

I will not explain what makes each command, the majority of people is useless and only complicate the process

I Just write a sequence of commands that must be entered on the command line (Terminal)

So, let's begin! Just copy an command:

1. sudo apt-get install git
2. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
3. sudo apt-get update
4. sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9
5. sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 60 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-4.9
6. sudo apt-get install lua5.2
7. sudo apt-get install luarocks
8. sudo apt-get install luajit
9. sudo apt-get install curl
10. curl s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/torch/ezinstall/master/install-all | bash (It takes a lot of time, You can relax :))
11. sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev protobuf-compiler
12. sudo luarocks install loadcaffe
13. sudo luarocks install image
14. luarocks install nn Now you need create folder on Home directory, in Terminal enter:
15. mkdir workart (or name what you want)

Now you need open this folder, in Terminal enter: 17. cd workart (or your folder name) 18. sudo git clone https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style.git 19. sudo sh models/download_models.sh (It takes a lot of time, You can relax again :))

Thats all, all components installed

Copy your photo and painting style image, to the neural-style folder

Open neural-style folder in terminal: cd path/neural-style

Enter comand: th neural_style.lua -style_image paintingstyle.jpg -content_image YourPhoto.jpg -gpu -1

Do not expect good results immediately, if the result does not suit you, you can change options the most important of them

-content_weight: How much to weight the content reconstruction term. Default is 5e0. -style_weight: How much to weight the style reconstruction term. Default is 1e2. -original_colors: If you set this to 1, then the output image will keep the colors of the content image. Change the size of the output image: image_size 800 (default 512 ) more options: https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style

Some image :)

Some result:)

Have a nice day!