Dmitry Ulyanov: Image artistic style transfer, neural doodles and texture synthesis,

A recent advances in image style transfer allowed incredible end-user applications. At first, Gatys et al. demonstrated that deep neural networks can generate beautiful textures and stylized images from a single example. The core idea of the method was used then to create so-called neural doodles. While the visual quality of both style transfer and neural doodles was astonishing, the methods required a slow and memory-consuming optimization process, which limited their usage. We lately improved the speed of