Facebook demonstrates Prisma like photo processing for live video

fvideoFacebook demonstrated Prisma like photo filters for live video in a Live panel discussion hosted by the Wall Street Journal.

Prisma is a photo enhancement application that turns every day images into artworks in the styles of famous painters using artificial intelligence and neural networks. Prisma was based on already existing open source technology, the brilliance was in making it as fast and seamless as slapping on an Instagram filter to a photo.

The Prisma CEO Alexey Moiseenkov has tried out a Facebook live with co-operation with Facebook, that added prismatic effects in real time. He did not comment on any plans by Facebook to acquire Prisma. In the Wall Street Journal panel discussion, Facebook demonstrated a prototype application to show the direction they want to go head in while implementing augmented reality tools to enhance video streams.

The art filters are similar to Prisma in the sense that instead of slapping on filters to the images, the image is redrawn using artificial intelligence. The idea here is that machines are made to learn the styles of famous painters, and then the machines redraws images in the same style as the artists.

Facebook has not developed its own technology for this. The image processing is based on a paper called style transfer, which was in turn based on a paper called A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style. Convolutional neural nets and computer vision together take an image and turn it into something that looks like The Starry Night.

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