Deepdream

What do you like best about Deepdream?

I like the ease to add a photo, with just two clicks I can add a new photo, and with another couple of clicks I can modify with a variety of settings and scenes.

What do you dislike about Deepdream?

I would like the photo process to be faster, although it has many scenes, I would like more scenes to choose from, to be able to integrate it with social networks faster.

Recommendations to others considering Deepdream:

I recommend having good photos to modify, they can be your pets or your yard, you must also play and explore to learn how to use it better

What problems is Deepdream solving and how is that benefiting you?

I can make decorations in the hotel with this application,

It has helped me a lot to create an image gallery and place them in the screen saver of my smart TV, so it is a personalized gallery and a great visual enjoyment

What do you like best about Deepdream?

This app allows anyone to explore artistic stylizing of their images without having to be an artist or even have creative ability.

What do you dislike about Deepdream?

It takes a while to generate a stylized image, up to 10 minutes or more.

Recommendations to others considering Deepdream:

Try multiple types of styles and use it for inspiration.

What problems is Deepdream solving and how is that benefiting you?

I'm exploring creative use of imagery. I'm using it for inspiration to build my own photography filters in Lightroom and Photoshop. This software also created an interesting trend that expanded the type of content bring put out on social media.

What do you like best about Deepdream?

Deep Dream sets some of Google's AI loose on your photos, and the results are baffling, to say the least. For this reason alone, it's worth checking out.

What do you dislike about Deepdream?

What I don't like about Deep Dream is that I just don't understand what the heck it's doing and how it's making the changes its making. It's also a little redundant, with the photo edits all looking a little similar, like you're trapped in the same circle of Dante's hell with each one.

Recommendations to others considering Deepdream:

This is a baffling product, but in a good way. The only way to attempt to figure it out is to give it a try.

What problems is Deepdream solving and how is that benefiting you?

I don't think Deep Dream is designed to solve business problems. I mean, it's not, period. That said, a creative photographer could go down the DD rabbit hole and come out the other end with some surprising results.

What do you like best about Deepdream?

The fact that here lies an engine that mimics the brain in terms of how we dream, or more precisely, how we hallucinate, is in fact, cool. It gives us an insight on how a Convolutional Neural Network works, by giving a vague visualization of its layer to layer activations. And the source code, it's in fact short ( and sweet ! )

What do you dislike about Deepdream?

Well, since this engine relies on a pre-trained Convolutional Neural Network, that was trained on ImageNet data, and boosts any activations at the layer we are "dreaming", it usually ends up activating dogs more often than anything else. It would have been much more cooler if the network was exposed to more objects and training data.

Recommendations to others considering Deepdream:

Train the "Inception" network on more data, with more classes, and compare the results of the "trippy" activations.

What problems is Deepdream solving and how is that benefiting you?

I have been trying to realize the working of the human brain since quite a while, and never quite bumped into the idea of hallucinating !! If the engine is tweaked further with more real world training data and "classes", I guess it would be possible to generate more "data" with help of these dreams.

What do you like best about Deepdream?

Google's Deep Dream repo on GitHub is exceedingly well documented. The code is in Python, which is easy to read, and they have included a write-up in an iPython Notebook (now called Jupyter). It is easily accessible and modifiable by those with an intermediate understanding of Python and machine learning. It's also fairly amusing to put disturbing cats into the background of every photo.

What do you dislike about Deepdream?

Though it is a good case study for new technology, Deep Dream probably won't solve any *immediate* business problems or meet any customer needs (besides really fun web apps). In my opinion, it functions best as a learning tool for those who actually want to dive into the documentation, code, and presentations of Deep Dream, and then apply their learning elsewhere.

What problems is Deepdream solving and how is that benefiting you?

In some computer vision problems (e.g. image classification) it can be difficult to get a sense of what feature vectors are, and what changing them does to the model. So, its really fun to play around with Deep Dream, where there is a bit of visual feedback.