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Day 83 – Watercolor Painting Under 5 Mins Using Stylized Neural Painting Artificial Intelligence

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Day 83 – Watercolor Painting Under 5 Mins Using Stylized Neural Painting Artificial Intelligence

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In our previous post, we have seen how to do an oil painting for an image under 5 mins using Stylized Neural Painting.

In this blog, we do watercolor painting and see how it comes.

Let’s copy the code from Github Stylized Neural Painting and run it in my local Google Colab with minor tweaks.

Citation

@inproceedings{zou2020stylized,
title={Stylized Neural Painting},
author={Zhengxia Zou and Tianyang Shi and Shuang Qiu and Yi Yuan and Zhenwei Shi},
year={2020},
eprint={2011.08114},
archivePrefix={arXiv},
primaryClass={cs.CV}
}

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# settings
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='STYLIZED NEURAL PAINTING')
args = parser.parse_args(args=[])
args.img_path = 'good_image.jpg' # path to input photo
args.renderer = 'watercolor' # [watercolor, markerpen, oilpaintbrush, rectangle]
args.canvas_color = 'black' # [black, white]
args.canvas_size = 512 # size of the canvas for stroke rendering'
args.keep_aspect_ratio = False # whether to keep input aspect ratio when saving outputs
args.max_m_strokes = 500 # max number of strokes
args.max_divide = 5 # divide an image up-to max_divide x max_divide patches
args.beta_L1 = 1.0 # weight for L1 loss
args.with_ot_loss = False # set True for imporving the convergence by using optimal transportation loss, but will slow-down the speed
args.beta_ot = 0.1 # weight for optimal transportation loss
args.net_G = 'zou-fusion-net' # renderer architecture
args.renderer_checkpoint_dir = './checkpoints_G_watercolor' # dir to load the pretrained neu-renderer
args.lr = 0.005 # learning rate for stroke searching
args.output_dir = './output' # dir to save painting results
args.disable_preview = True # disable cv2.imshow, for running remotely without x-display

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# Define some helper functions for downloading pretrained model
# taken from this StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/39225039
import requests

def download_file_from_google_drive(id, destination):
    URL = "https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download"

session = requests.Session()

response = session.get(URL, params = { 'id' : id }, stream = True)
    token = get_confirm_token(response)

if token:
        params = { 'id' : id, 'confirm' : token }
        response = session.get(URL, params = params, stream = True)

save_response_content(response, destination)

def get_confirm_token(response):
    for key, value in response.cookies.items():
        if key.startswith('download_warning'):
            return value

return None

def save_response_content(response, destination):
    CHUNK_SIZE = 32768

with open(destination, "wb") as f:
        for chunk in response.iter_content(CHUNK_SIZE):
            if chunk: # filter out keep-alive new chunks
                f.write(chunk)

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def optimize_x(pt):

pt._load_checkpoint()
    pt.net_G.eval()

print('begin drawing...')

PARAMS = np.zeros([1, 0, pt.rderr.d], np.float32)

if pt.rderr.canvas_color == 'white':
        CANVAS_tmp = torch.ones([1, 3, 128, 128]).to(device)
    else:
        CANVAS_tmp = torch.zeros([1, 3, 128, 128]).to(device)

for pt.m_grid in range(1, pt.max_divide + 1):

pt.img_batch = utils.img2patches(pt.img_, pt.m_grid, pt.net_G.out_size).to(device)
        pt.G_final_pred_canvas = CANVAS_tmp

pt.initialize_params()
        pt.x_ctt.requires_grad = True
        pt.x_color.requires_grad = True
        pt.x_alpha.requires_grad = True
        utils.set_requires_grad(pt.net_G, False)

pt.optimizer_x = optim.RMSprop([pt.x_ctt, pt.x_color, pt.x_alpha], lr=pt.lr, centered=True)

pt.step_id = 0
        for pt.anchor_id in range(0, pt.m_strokes_per_block):
            pt.stroke_sampler(pt.anchor_id)
            iters_per_stroke = int(500 / pt.m_strokes_per_block)
            for i in range(iters_per_stroke):
                pt.G_pred_canvas = CANVAS_tmp

# update x
                pt.optimizer_x.zero_grad()

pt.x_ctt.data = torch.clamp(pt.x_ctt.data, 0.1, 1 - 0.1)
                pt.x_color.data = torch.clamp(pt.x_color.data, 0, 1)
                pt.x_alpha.data = torch.clamp(pt.x_alpha.data, 0, 1)

pt._forward_pass()
                pt._drawing_step_states()
                pt._backward_x()

pt.x_ctt.data = torch.clamp(pt.x_ctt.data, 0.1, 1 - 0.1)
                pt.x_color.data = torch.clamp(pt.x_color.data, 0, 1)
                pt.x_alpha.data = torch.clamp(pt.x_alpha.data, 0, 1)

pt.optimizer_x.step()
                pt.step_id += 1

v = pt._normalize_strokes(pt.x)
        v = pt._shuffle_strokes_and_reshape(v)
        PARAMS = np.concatenate([PARAMS, v], axis=1)
        CANVAS_tmp = pt._render(PARAMS, save_jpgs=False, save_video=False)
        CANVAS_tmp = utils.img2patches(CANVAS_tmp, pt.m_grid + 1, pt.net_G.out_size).to(device)

pt._save_stroke_params(PARAMS)
    final_rendered_image = pt._render(PARAMS, save_jpgs=False, save_video=True)

return final_rendered_image

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The output of the watercolor painting generated by Stylized Neural Painting as below.

cart_on_beach_oil_painting2

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By Gopi Chandrakesan|2021-07-19T18:59:55+00:00July 10th, 2021|Artificial Intelligence|0 Comments

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