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DeepDreaming in Docker

Google recently published a mind-blowing paper exploring what neural networks interpret when processing an image. The results are a dreamscape of hallucinations and patterns that pretty much answers the question on whether Androids dream on electric sheep.

My quick contribution: easy #deepdreams

You can feed the network and see the results over your own images using the IPython Notebook Google released too. I found setting up all the dependencies on a Mac particularly painful, so after some tinkering, I got it working on a Docker container, directly on the command line. All you need to do to process an image is run the container:

docker run -i -t -e INPUT=your_file.png -v /path/to/your/folder:/data herval/deepdream

The source is on Github, in case you want to venture around turning that into a SaaS or adding GPU support!

If you prefer running the original IPython Notebook, someone released another Docker container which works beautifully too - there’s also an attempt to “dreamify” Youtube videos in the works. Looking forward for someone to combine this with the Oculus Rift and live-feed video!

Enjoy - and sweet #deepdreams