Yahoo News Kristen Stewart co-authored a paper on artificial intelligence in her spare time, NBD
In between starring in a Rolling Stones music video, being a full-time celebrity and gearing up to premiere her directorial debut Come Swim, Kristen Stewart managed to find the time to co-author a paper on artificial intelligence.
Yep, artificial intelligence.
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The paper, titled Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim, tackles the artistic elements of artificial intelligence used in her upcoming film, and was co-authored along with the film's producer and a research engineer from Adobe.
Published on online archive arXiv, the paper lets the three authors reveal the methodologies used behind the Neutral Style Transfer, a new technique that takes "neural networks to artistically redraw an image in the style of a source style image." Essentially it is taking the artistic elements of an image and transfer it to another image, all in film post-production.
While Come Swim isn't widely available yet, the film (which was also written by Stewart) does revolve around a man's day through impressionist and realist portraits—making this the perfect film to explore this burgeoning technology.
I used to tell Twilight jokes in my Intro to AI class. I take it all back.
— Mark Riedl 😧 (@mark_riedl) January 19, 2017
It's an unexpected and fascinating glimpse at how artists are using technology to continue to bring machine learning into pop culture—and it's definitely a better love story than Twilight.
