/DeepAA

make ASCII Art by Deep Learning

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DeepAA

This is convolutional neural networks generating ASCII art. This repository is under construction.

This work is accepted by NIPS 2017 Workshop, Machine Learning for Creativity and Design The paper: ASCII Art Synthesis with Convolutional Networks

Web application (using previous version model) (by tar-bin)

image sample

Change log

  • 2017/12/2 added light model

Requirements

  • TensorFlow (1.3.0)
  • Keras (2.0.8)
  • NumPy (1.13.3)
  • Pillow (4.2.1)
  • Pandas (0.18.0)
  • Scikit-learn (0.19.0)
  • h5py (2.7.1)
  • model's weight (download it from here and place it in dir model.)
  • training data (additional, download it from here, extract it and place the extracted directory in dir data.) )

How to use

please change the line 15 of output.py

image_path = 'sample images/original images/21 original.png' # put the path of the image that you convert.

into the path of image file that you use. You should use a grayscale line image.

then run output.py . converted images will be output at output/ .

You can select light model by change the line 13, 14 of output.py into

model_path = "model/model_light.json"
weight_path = "model/weight_light.hdf5"

License

The pre-trained models and the other files we have provided are licensed under the MIT License.