Facebook?s focus on artificial intelligence may soon help users turn their videos into ?works of art.?
The social network announced that it began testing a new creative-effective camera feature within its flagship mobile application that applies ?style transfer? technique to users? videos via a Facebook-developed deep-learning technology called Caffe2Go.

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}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));Research scientists Yangqing Jia and Peter Vajda explained the test in a blog post: We recently began testing a new creative-effect camera in the Facebook app that helps people turn videos into works of art in the moment. That technique is called ?style transfer.? It takes the artistic qualities of one image style, like the way Van Gogh paintings look, and applies it to other images and videos.
It’s a technically difficult trick to pull off, normally requiring the content to be sent off to data centers for processing on big-compute servers–until now.
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