neural-style by jcjohnson

Torch implementation of neural style algorithm

Verdict 53/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 2/5 setup difficulty

Self-host neural-style on hetzner CAX11 for $4.13/mo.

Health score
53 /100
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Difficulty
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GitHub stars
18k
2.7k forks

About neural-style

From the project's README at github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

This is a torch implementation of the paper A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style by Leon A. Gatys, Alexander S. Ecker, and Matthias Bethge.

The paper presents an algorithm for combining the content of one image with the style of another image using convolutional neural networks. Here's an example that maps the artistic style of The Starry Night onto a night-time photograph of the Stanford campus:

Applying the style of different images to the same content image gives interesting results. Here we reproduce Figure 2 from the paper, which renders a photograph of the Tubingen in Germany in a variety of styles:

<img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jcjohnson/neural-style/master/examples/ou

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
71
maturity
30
community
54
security
70
sustainability
53
adoption
40

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

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GitHub stars 18k github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style
GitHub forks 2.7k github.com/jcjohnson/neural-style

Release & maintenance

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Project age10.7 yearssince Sep 2015
Last commit8.2 years agoFeb 23, 2018

Self-hosting cost across providers

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