Neural Style Transfer, Classically
It so happened that for the covers of my works, I use style transfer based on a painting I really like. A free web app has been helping me with this. But sometimes its responses are poor. Plus, I worry that at some point it might go paid or bombard me with ads. So I started looking for a more reliable alternative.
My first thought was to use ChatGPT and its built-in tools. But no matter how promising the results seemed, sometimes the resources weren't enough, or it suspected me of improper use of photos. I could’ve tried another AI service or found a specialized solution, but then a second thought hit me.
The second thought - why not build my own? The task seems simple: apply the style from one image to another. The result would be an in-house solution and a better understanding of how it works “under the hood”. Long story short,
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