DeepDream
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
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External links
- Deep Dream, Ipython notebook at GitHub
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