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Published inDec 2020
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Soon Yau Cheong
Soon Yau Cheong
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Soon Yau Cheong

Soon Yau Cheong is an AI consultant and the founder of Sooner.ai Ltd. With a history of being associated with industry giants such as NVIDIA and Qualcomm, he provides consultation in the various domains of AI, such as deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and big data analytics. He was awarded a full scholarship to study for his PhD at the University of Bristol while working as a teaching assistant. He is also a mentor for AI courses with Udacity.
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Improving style transfer

The research community and industry were excited about neural style transfer and wasted no time in putting it to use. Some set up websites to allow users to upload photos to perform style transfer, while some used that to create merchandise to sell. Then people realized some of the shortcomings of the original neural style transfer and worked to improve it.

One of the biggest limitations is that style transfer takes all the style information, including the color and brush strokes of the entire style image, and transfers it to the whole of the content image. Using the examples that we just did in the previous section, the blueish color from the style image was transferred into both the building and background. Wouldn't it be nice if we had the choice to transfer only the brush stroke but not the color, and just to the preferred regions?

The lead author of neural style transfer and his team produced a new algorithm to address these issues. The following...

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Published in: Dec 2020Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781838826789

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Soon Yau Cheong

Soon Yau Cheong is an AI consultant and the founder of Sooner.ai Ltd. With a history of being associated with industry giants such as NVIDIA and Qualcomm, he provides consultation in the various domains of AI, such as deep learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and big data analytics. He was awarded a full scholarship to study for his PhD at the University of Bristol while working as a teaching assistant. He is also a mentor for AI courses with Udacity.
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