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Man Combines Random People’s Photos Using Neural Networks And The Results Are Amazing

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If you're not sure what you're looking at when you look at the pictures below, don't worry, you're probably not alone. But rest assured, your eyes don't need testing and your screen doesn't need fixing. Because these bizarre images, created by users via Russian website Ostagram, are the product of an art technique known as Inceptionism, where images are combined using neural networks to generate a single mind-bending picture.

A neural network is a computational model based on the structure of a biological neural network. In other words, it works like a human brain. Conventional software operates within strict parameters but artificial neural networks have the ability to "learn" by being fed more and more data over time.

The images are possible thanks to DeepDream software, which finds and enhances patterns in images by a process known as algorithmic pareidolia. It was pioneered by Google and was originally code-named Inception after the film of the same name. And looking at these pictures, it’s easy to see why.

If you understand Russian then head over to Ostagram to make your own crazy Inceptionist artwork!

More info: Ostagram

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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LizJones 8 years ago

Love this one!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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Monika 8 years ago

#creepykitty

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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GaryBradski 8 years ago

https://dreamscopeapp.com

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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MatejSedláček 8 years ago

Are these pictures accesible in higher resolution? I would LOVE to print them on my wall!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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KädiAgu 8 years ago

That's my favorite :)

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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PawełSzczepański 8 years ago

I want something like that on my wall. So bad!

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#7

Neural Networks

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LuisMilian 8 years ago

sure love Van Gogh

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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JanetZane 8 years ago

surfboarding the waves!

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#9

Neural Networks

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CleverFool 8 years ago

I see a beautiful symbol of the beautiful interconnectedness of life and death.

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Neural Networks

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MollyDanzinger 8 years ago

Venus on a half shell meets Tim burton

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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TessaKrellner 8 years ago

dats wowie

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EladStern 8 years ago

Are these the women warriors of the ancient Amazon tribes, revealed inside the contemporary reflective eye?

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Neural Networks

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DeniseBynum 8 years ago

I love this one!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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FrancescoNoferi 8 years ago

source of the pic http://www.zerochan.net/1233243 anime: carnival phantasm

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Neural Networks

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AndreaRundell 8 years ago

Starry Deathnote

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GarrethJohnson 8 years ago

Blizzard

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#17

Neural Networks

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LindaCollier 8 years ago

Remote mind

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Neural Networks

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TaidaMarczak 8 years ago

Amazing! I want that framed on my wall!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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DariaB 8 years ago

Vincent Van Dog

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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AnHuynh 8 years ago

2010-12-13...200547.jpg

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Neural Networks

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ДианаХърлечанова 8 years ago

beautiful

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Neural Networks

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LindaCollier 8 years ago

Fantasy food

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JanetZane 8 years ago

Da Gough Vincent Van Vicci

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Pemberton 8 years ago

sausage pasta turned into creepy monsters :o

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#25

Neural Networks

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CleverFool 8 years ago

Hey, look it's Weedog!

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Neural Networks

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Jhoa 6 years ago

What's the original painting?

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Neural Networks

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PhyllisSteging 8 years ago

Boy does that really fit him.

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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Neural Networks

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PandaBear 8 years ago

MATRIX!

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Neural Networks

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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AhmadFathillah 8 years ago

this is nice. i imagine some movie using this style of graph

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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raimei 8 years ago

looks like the electric guitar of Zeus

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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Neural Networks

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DillonMacEwan 8 years ago

Francis Sausage!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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MadzWiden 8 years ago

...... this be the stuff nightmares are made of....

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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AlgirdasStockunas 8 years ago

Astonishing and this could be the end of ordinary artists,.

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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Megan Greathouse 6 years ago

What's the lower-left pic?

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RosaLin 8 years ago

weird!!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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Neural Networks

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FrancescoNoferi 8 years ago

source doujin: http://nhentai.net/g/62331/

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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DariaB 8 years ago

If Picasso did anime...

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Константин Новиков 7 years ago

ОХРЕНЕТЬ!!!!

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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AngelOrtiz 8 years ago

Meatboy IRL

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Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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PandaBear 8 years ago

Truly, who would want to eat bread looking like that?

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#53

Pictures Combined Using Neural Networks

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Victoria Rey Piuma 8 years ago

Of course not!

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#54

Ihuddy Carrot

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Millicent Tendency

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Times Square Man By Kathy Libraty

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Blue Door

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#57

Fintastic Surfer Girl

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#58

Superman

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CallanHustler 8 years ago

This aint even edited, just a badly cropped image

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#59

Arquitecture

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#60

Zizek

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#61

Fintastic Surfer Girl

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-12points

LMA

This lazy panda forgot to write something about itself.

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What do you think ?

LeonGatys 8 years ago

those guys basically copied the stuff we invented - if you want to get HD images you should check out the original: http://deepart.io/ Best Leon

8points

MikeChua 8 years ago

So you guys created this? From Google? Or?

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DouglasEck 8 years ago

Leon is absolutely correct. This work is by him and his team. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576. It differs from Deep Dream in that it takes two inputs, a "style" image and a "content" image and it reproduces the content image in the target style.

3points

Martin Franěk 8 years ago

You are correct, Ostagram - wich is linked is published on github as https://github.com/SergeyMorugin/ostagram relies on https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style wich cites Leons original work

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AntonZanimonets 8 years ago

Where can i find it in hd definition

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LeonGatys 8 years ago

those guys basically copied the stuff we invented - if you want to get HD images you should check out the original: http://deepart.io/ Best Leon

8points

MikeChua 8 years ago

So you guys created this? From Google? Or?

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DouglasEck 8 years ago

Leon is absolutely correct. This work is by him and his team. http://arxiv.org/abs/1508.06576. It differs from Deep Dream in that it takes two inputs, a "style" image and a "content" image and it reproduces the content image in the target style.

3points

Martin Franěk 8 years ago

You are correct, Ostagram - wich is linked is published on github as https://github.com/SergeyMorugin/ostagram relies on https://github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style wich cites Leons original work

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AntonZanimonets 8 years ago

Where can i find it in hd definition

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