DeepDream

Standard photograph before and after undergoing partial DeepDream processing
Late stage DeepDream processed photograph of three men

DeepDream is a computer vision program created by Google which uses a convolutional neural network to find and enhance patterns in images via algorithmic pareidolia, thus creating a dreamlike hallucinogenic appearance in the deliberately over-processed images.[1][2][3]

Software

The DeepDream software, initially codenamed "Inception" after the film of the same name,[3][1][2] was developed for the ImageNet Large-Scale Visual Recognition Challenge (ILSVRC) in 2014[3] and released in July 2015. The software is designed to detect faces and other patterns in images, with the aim of automatically classifying images.[4]

When reiterations are run to tease out the found imagery even further, a form of pareidolia results by which psychedelic and surreal images are generated algorithmically. The oft-cited resemblance of the imagery to LSD- and psilocybin-induced hallucinations is suggestive of a functional resemblance between artificial neural networks and particular layers of the visual cortex, a matter which merits further study.[5]

After Google published their techniques and made their code open source,[6] a number of tools in the form of web services, mobile applications, and desktop software appeared on the market to enable users to transform their own photos.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Mordvintsev, Alexander; Olah, Christopher; Tyka, Mike (2015). "DeepDream - a code example for visualizing Neural Networks". Google Research. Archived from the original on 2015-07-08.
  2. 1 2 Mordvintsev, Alexander; Olah, Christopher; Tyka, Mike (2015). "Inceptionism: Going Deeper into Neural Networks". Google Research. Archived from the original on 2015-07-03.
  3. 1 2 3 Szegedy, Christian; Liu, Wei; Jia, Yangqing; Sermanet, Pierre; Reed, Scott; Anguelov, Dragomir; Erhan, Dumitru; Vanhoucke, Vincent; Rabinovich, Andrew (2014). "Going Deeper with Convolutions" (PDF). Computing Research Repository. arXiv:1409.4842.
  4. ↑ Rich McCormick (7 July 2015). "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is terrifying through the eyes of a computer". The Verge. Retrieved 2015-07-25.
  5. ↑ LaFrance, Adrienne. "When Robots Hallucinate". The Atlantic. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  6. ↑ deepdream on GitHub
  7. ↑ Daniel Culpan (2015-07-03). "These Google "Deep Dream" Images Are Weirdly Mesmerising". Wired. Retrieved 2015-07-25.

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