Deep Learning Reveals The Essence of Matt Damon

An adventure in searching for the true essence of Matt Damon, George Clooney, and most important of them all, Irmak Sirer.

In 2016, right after the initial development of generative adversarial networks (GANs), which create incredibly realistic images purely hallucinated by computers, I did some exploration. I was curious about doing math with human faces, and if I could use this new framework to somehow feed my vanity and ego.

The results were...interesting.

 
This talk was given at PyData Ann Arbor in 2018.

The code behind this talk can be found at github.