Mindblowing Visualisation! Dive Into Many Abstraction Layers And Enjoy "Noisedive" By Johan Nordberg - Steemfest [Part4]

Let me tell you about a talented and very interesting young steemian I met in Lisbon who sat next to me at one of the well organised dinners @steemfest in Lisbon. 

How much better can it be to enjoy a delicious meal with green pea soup and Portuguese fish, next to @sneak @timcliff and Johan Nordberg from Sweden who works with STINC. He calls himself "Contemporary JavaScript and Grapefruit Engineer".

Our wonderful chat was one of my highlights! 

It's rare that I meet people I enjoy talking that much. Sorry Johan that I might have kept you away from your other dinner neighbours for too long with all my questions. I had a great time and wanted to thank you, wish you a great future ahead with your lovely family. It was more than a real pleasure meeting you and I can't wait to hear from you again because you still owe me a present and teach me how to be a "hacker". Hahaha! Joke aside....

I don't even know if you have a steemit account. If so, give me a sign because I hope you don't mind to call you my newest "Steemian Crush'es" :) You are special and your art projects even more. 

Johan likes to do things on the internet with computers, as he says and please take time to watch all of his awesome videos  to know what he makes! 

I was impressed about his kind and charismatic personality but blown away when he told me about his mad cool project and art installations. He showed me only one videoclip called NOISEDIVE, one of his creations and since then I couldn't get it out of my mind to write an article to let you know about it.

Here is the VIMEO link in case the video doesn't show in this post. 

All images rendered on amazon EC2 using their g2.2xlarge GPU instance, total render time was 38!! hours. Based on the work by Google researches Alexander Mordvintsev, Christopher Olah and Mike Tyka - Website/Vimeo 

bubblegum world

This is what emerges when you recursively feed noise to a artificial neural network trained to recognise places (e.g. you give it an image and the response is something like 90% beach , 20% desert, 2% swimming pool).The familiar shapes you see floating past is abstractions the network has made for the different categories. Some categories feature more prominently because the amount of images used to train them differ. For example the "fountain" category contains 111,496 images compared to only 883 in the "nuclear_power_plant" one. So that's why you see a lot more fountain like shapes than big chimneys. There's a lot more to it than that of course, and this visualisation only shows you one of the many abstraction layers the network uses.- Johan Nordberg

Here is his Twitter account  and some of Johan's favourite places/images from this dive.

blueberry fall

great gatsby
iceberg caves

Inside another artificial brain by Johan Nordberg

Thanks again! Steemfest3 it is! 

 

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