image-dreamer

"Dreams" images, such as shown in the Google Research blog post on "Inceptionism".

What's it do?

Using a deep neural network, it turns images like this:

Into this:

Read the Google Research blog post on "Inceptionism" to learn more about how it works.

Installation

Install Vagrant
Clone this repo
cd image-dreamer
vagrant up
Go grab a coffee, this will take a while

Usage

Copy any JPEG images you want to "dreamify" into the image-dreamer directory
vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
ipython dreamify.py <input JPEG filename> <output PNG filename>
Freak out!

Credits

Thanks to the great work of Google's deepdream team!

The Vagrant file and Vagrantbox are based on those provided by Data Science Toolbox. Big thanks to them for providing the scientific Python bootstrap I needed to get this going!

Contributing

Have fun, hack, contribute! This is just a starting point, I'd love to see where people take this!

If you make changes, please consider issuing a pull request. I'm happy to oblige.