Image transformations are applied through fast style transfer. Let's dig deeper into how style transfer works before the implementation of our mobile application. Everyone loves to see their work in an artistic style. Artistic neural style transfer helps us see our own images in an art form that involves mixing your content and a style in order to introduce a unique visual experience. Before now, there was no AI-based system capable of implementing such a system.
Look at the following screenshot for an example of how an artistic style is applied on a normal image:
The application we will be creating in this chapter is based on the implementation of a system similar to that shown in the preceding screenshot. There have been multiple papers published that prove its near-human performance of facial and object recognition. Deep...