[HN Gopher] CLIPasso: Semantically-Aware Object Sketching
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       CLIPasso: Semantically-Aware Object Sketching
        
       Author : lnyan
       Score  : 75 points
       Date   : 2022-02-14 09:18 UTC (1 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (clipasso.github.io)
 (TXT) w3m dump (clipasso.github.io)
        
       | mcphage wrote:
       | Like most people, I've got piles of old photos that I'd like to
       | be able to label who is who in the person. For some family
       | photos, I've doodled sketches of the photo, labelled the sketch,
       | and attached it to the back. But I've often thought there had to
       | be a way to get the computer to take the photo and generate the
       | sketch from it. This seems exactly like it!
        
       | yeldarb wrote:
       | Continually amazed by how versatile CLIP is. I'm keeping a
       | compendium of cool use-cases I run across here[1]. I'll add this
       | to it today!
       | 
       | [1] https://blog.roboflow.com/openai-clip/
        
         | chrisweekly wrote:
         | Thanks for sharing, @yeldarb! Your blog is even more
         | interesting to me than the OP.
        
       | pizza wrote:
       | related: I had an idea to make a CLIP paint.NET image editing
       | plugin. You would make a new layer, add some green ('towards')
       | and red ('away from') splotches to the layer, and give a prompt
       | to CLIP. Wherever there was green, CLIP would 'nudge' the image
       | along the direction of the gradients towards the semantic goal,
       | keep it constant where there was nothing, and nudge it in the
       | opposite direction where there was red. And you could do this
       | over and over again, w/ different CLIP prompts all the while
       | editing the semantic masks as you like. The end result would be a
       | feedback process to use CLIP + feedback as an extremely creative
       | and controllable image manipulation tool. But then I realized
       | that I didn't know how to make a paint.NET plugin :) so here is a
       | free idea for anybody who does
        
         | yeldarb wrote:
         | It doesn't use CLIP but check out NVIDIA's Canvas[1] (powered
         | by GauGAN[2] which has a pretty poor UI but is usable in your
         | browser).
         | 
         | [1] https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/studio/canvas/
         | 
         | [2] http://gaugan.org/gaugan2/
        
           | pizza wrote:
           | Yep, seen Canvas - probably where I Picasso'd (read: stole
           | :^) ) the original idea! The nice thing about making it a PDN
           | plugin based on CLIP is that it could plug into the existing
           | PDN plugin system, PDN is pretty solid image editing
           | software, and also CLIP could make it extremely versatile -
           | no more limitation to primarily landscapes - including the
           | fact that there are newer and vastly better CLIP tools coming
           | out, e.g. diffusion model based CLIP - but I don't think I
           | had actually seen the GauGAN UI before, thank you!
        
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