Hi again, Something that I forgot to mention in the last email, here is a link for fun: https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/04/teaching-machines-to-draw.html M. On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 6:43 PM Maitraya Bhattacharyya < maitraya.linux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Alexandre, > > I have yet to compile an exhaustive list of algorithms but I am going to > mention two at the moment. We can compile a list later too: > > 1. Assisted background removal: The paper on this from Facebook is > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.06870.pdf . The ability to identify different > objects in an image including foreground objects can assist users in > removing the background object. I am specifically interesting in the > removal of hair (which poses to be a really big problem). I believe there > are already a few trained models on this already available in python > libraries (TensorFlow). > > 2. Deep Style transfer: The relevant paper is at > https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576.pdf . This can be used to create 'Prisma > like' transfer of style from one painting to another. I believe we may also > have pretrained models already available here but we could try training the > network specific to our needs. > > I think the idea is to do something along the lines of what Adobe is doing > with Photoshop or in the wider context for their entire product line. > Although we lack the funding or infrastructure to be a serious competitor, > there are several researchers in the image processing/Machine Learning > community who've written amazing papers over the years and open sourced > their datasets. We should still be able to get something respectable using > their research as reference. > > If there is nobody on the Machine Learning side in GIMP, I suggest you let > me read a few papers and make some implementations but specific to what the > GIMP users want. I am not an ML guy but there are people in my community > who are using ML for science and there is a possibility I will be able to > talk to some of them (who do image processing, but with sunspots instead of > pictures of puppies). > > ML is a strange and wonderful thing, and people have tried doing > everything with it. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. But we have > to know what the GIMP community wants, then I will try to be organize our > collective thoughts in a more technical document. > > Thanks, > Maitraya. > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:01 PM Alexandre Prokoudine via > gimp-developer-list <gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 2:14 PM Maitraya Bhattacharyya wrote: >> > >> > Dear devs, >> > >> > I have recently joined the mailing list because I wanted to contribute >> my >> > two pennies to GIMP development (since I use it for my work). I had a >> look >> > at the proposed plan for GIMP and wondered if people would be >> interested in >> > including some popular AI algorithms for several image processing tasks. >> > >> > I would be interested in writing implementations of some of these >> > algorithms into gimp if someone can commit to writing a frontend/GUI >> for it. >> > >> > It would be great if we can make a list of these algorithms to implement >> > and rank them according to priority. >> > >> > As for my background, I am a theoretical physicist making simulations >> for >> > HPCs (in C/C++) and interpreting their data (in Python). I have a >> > reasonable workstation to train neural nets, if necessary. Be warned >> that I >> > have never written a GUI software in my life and I don't know the GIMP >> > codebase at all. I envision these to be standalone scripts which can be >> > called in from the GIMP interface. >> > >> > Please let me know what you think. >> >> Hello and welcome :) >> >> What algorithms in particular are you thinking of? >> >> Alex >> _______________________________________________ >> gimp-developer-list mailing list >> List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx >> List membership: >> https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list >> List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list >> > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
