Meitu launches AI app for photos

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2017
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Meitu Inc, publisher of the photo-editing app Meitu, is making a foray into artificial intelligence and has created its first-ever AI painting robot – Andy, the ArtBot.

Unlike other photo-editing functions that add effects to original photos, Andy breaks up and reconstructs photos, then turns them into paintings within 5 seconds. Its segmentation technique recognises humans in photos and is able take them out from the backgrounds behind them, and turn into a new painting.
As Andy continues to learn, more painting styles created through AI will be developed, said Meitu, whose apps generate 6 billion photos from month globally.
Andy may not be comparable to any of the great painters like Pablo Picasso, Vincent van Gogh, and other masters, but it will certainly lead a different art trend for the future, Meitu said.