MOSCOW, August 1, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
Mail.Ru Group has released Artisto, the world's first app that
uses neural networks for editing short videos, processing them in
the style of famous artworks or any other source image. The app is
available on App Store and Google
Play globally.
Artisto now processes 5-second videos and offers 14 filters to
choose from. New filters are now being tested that will be added
later on.
"Neural networks are booming right now, and we were also eager
to test out stylization capabilities they provide. Considering that
there are a few very neat solutions for redrawing photos, it was
only logical to try our hand at video," says Anna Artamonova, Vice-President of Mail.Ru
Group, Head of Email and Portal business unit. "We got the
first result quite fast: the beta version was ready within a couple
of weeks, and today the app is available for both the leading
platforms on stores all over the world. We can already see that our
experiment is successful: a number of big name brands and
celebrities have shared the videos redrawn by Artisto on social
networks. The most popular filters right now are BlueDream based on
a Pablo Picasso painting, and In the
Fire."
Sample video repainted by Artisto can be viewed here.
The app development team consists of machine learning experts
from various departments of Mail.Ru Group. Almost all of Mail.Ru
Group's products, including advertising, anti-spam system and
search engine, use neural networks and machine learning
technologies.
Neural networks are one of the hottest areas of artificial
intelligence development. An artificial neural network is a
mathematical model that tries to simulate a human neural network.
Neural networks are used extensively in image recognition, data
science, forecasting, and many more.
Mail.Ru Group (LSE:MAIL, listed since November 5, 2010) is a leading Internet company
in Europe and is the 1st largest
Internet business globally, based on the average minutes per
visitor (comScore, top 100 properties, April
2016, worldwide).
In line with the communitainment (communication plus
entertainment) strategy, the Company is developing an integrated
communications and entertainment platform. The Company owns
Russia's leading email service and
one of Russia's largest internet
portals, Mail.Ru. The Company operates two of the major Russian
language social networks, VKontakte (VK), Odnoklassniki (OK), and
Russia's largest online games
(including Warface, Armored Warfare, Skyforge and Perfect World).
The Company's portfolio also includes Agent Mail.Ru and ICQ - two
instant messaging services popular in Russia and CIS. In November 2013, The Company launched My.com in the
US and later worldwide to provide communication and entertainment
products and services for the global audience.
SOURCE Mail.Ru Group