Understanding neural style transfer
Neural style transfer is the process of applying the style of a reference image to a specific target image, such that the original content of the target image remains unchanged. Here, style is defined as colors, patterns, and textures present in the reference image, while content is defined as the overall structure and higher-level components of the image.
Here, the main objective is to retain the content of the original target image, while superimposing or adopting the style of the reference image on the target image. To define this concept mathematically, consider three images:theoriginal content(denoted asc), thereferencestyle(denoted ass), and the generated image(denoted asg). We would need a way to measure how different images c and g might be in terms of their content. Also, the output image should have less difference compared to the style image, in terms of styling features of the output. Formally, the objective function for neural style transfer...