Google's Creatism AI creates landscape photos from Street View
Google researchers Hui Fang and Meng Zhang have developed a neural network called Creatism that can generate original landscape photographs by learning from professional images. The system was trained on 1,500 photos from 500px.com and uses Google Street View panoramas of locations like the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and Yellowstone as subjects. In a Turing test, six professional photographers evaluated 173 images without knowing their origin: 41% were judged semi-professional or professional, and 13% were rated superior. The control test with real photos scored only slightly higher, indicating the AI nearly matches human skill.
Key facts
- Google researchers Hui Fang and Meng Zhang created Creatism, a neural network for artistic content creation.
- The system was trained on 1,500 professional photos from 500px.com.
- Creatism uses Google Street View panoramas of the Grand Canyon, Big Sur, and Yellowstone.
- In a Turing test, 41% of 173 AI-generated images were rated semi-professional or professional.
- 13% of AI images were rated superior by six professional photographers.
- The control test with real photos scored only slightly better.
- The study was published in 2017.
- The project aims to emulate a landscape photographer's workflow from framing to post-production.
Entities
Artists
- Valentina Tanni
Institutions
- Artribune
- Politecnico di Milano
- NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Locations
- Grand Canyon
- Big Sur
- Yellowstone National Park