There has been a joke recently: Half of the world is using Pokemon GO to catch elf while the other half is using Prisma to retouch it. Did you follow this rhythm?
On June 11th, Prisma launched the iOS platform. It quickly swept the world in four days and conquered users in more than 40 countries around the world. It has occupied the top spot in many countries and has rapidly exceeded 1.6 million downloads. Out of Andriod version), daily live up to 1.5 million. According to App Annie, Prisma has now reached the 10th free application list in the United States, and the third in the category of photography and video. At the same time, it has exploded Facebook, Twitter, and even has more than 920,000 photos on Instagram. "Prisma" is a photo of the label. What the hell is it? Â
Similar to the other Mito software, but the difference is that the application of artificial intelligence, the use of the current hottest convolutional neural network (Convolutional Neural Network), which is the machine deep learning method completely reinterpreted the user's photos, and use Like ordinary Mito software, open the software, take a photo or select an existing photo, and then “re-paint†the user’s uploaded photos with famous painters such as Van Gogh, Monet, and Picasso to make the photos look cool. Hyun.
How cool is it? Map for you to feel (left original / middle template / right effect):
Poisoning is not only an ordinary person like you and me. Medvedev uploaded a Moscow cityscape on Instagram with 2.3 million followers. The commentary was "Moscow in the filter." This picture uses one of Prisma's filters to give the entire picture a rich pencil drawing effect, and received more than 78,000 points.
"I think we have already occupied Russia."
After seeing the prime minister also becoming its own user, Prisma founder Moiseenkov updated this status on his Facebook page.
Background
The team from Moscow is composed of 4 people. The 25-year-old founder Alexey Moiseenkov graduated from St. Petersburg Technical University and is a staff member of Mail.ru. He once worked at My.com and Yandex, Russia’s largest search engine. In fact, Moiseenkov has successfully completed some compelling products before, including Yandex.Maps, Yandex.Transport and Mail.ru's MyMail.
For Prisma's achievements, Alex also felt unexpected. On the first day of the launch, although there were 2,000 people downloading, it seems that no one used it at the beginning. However, none of the following incidents could be explained, and Prisma became so popular overnight.
The idea of ​​doing Prisma first appeared in early 2016, inspired by an algorithm on the web that converted photos into famous painting styles. However, its processing is very slow. It takes 10 minutes to get it fast, and it takes even an hour to slow it down. Thus, he and three other founding members began to discuss how to shorten the processing time and began formal production in mid-April. Finally, they spent two months making the initial version of Prisma.
Prisma's approach is not new, even in the field of photo filters. Germany's DeepArt.io offers similar services, and Ostagram from Russia is no exception.
But Prisma is the first application to use this method on mobile devices.
According to Moiseenkov:
Prisma has three layers of artificial neural networks, each tasked with handling different tasks, including analyzing user-uploaded photos, refining its artistic style from a classic artwork, and applying it to uploaded images. These processes require artificial intelligence and Deep learning technology provides support.
Unlike other companies waiting for global promotion before launching cash-out plans, Prisma has already made a profit by selling brand filters. But Prisma is also looking for a way to break the spell that quickly cools the pictures after socializing overnight. It is reported that Prisma is in contact with investors to discuss financing issues. But industry insiders believe that the company's more reasonable approach is to be acquired by Facebook/Instagram, Twitter or Snapchat.
Experience
The foreign media Mashable counts pictures uploaded by the user on the photo social application Instagram with the labelprisma in the latest 24 hours and finds that most of the pictures processed by Prisma are very good, especially the portraits. They picked up a few photos uploaded by Instagram users. Can you imagine that these were originally self-portraits on social accounts?
The author is not unwilling to be lonely, test several big brothers, I believe there must be all users to recognize:
In the course of the experience, I only feeling is processing speed is too slow.
If it is a high-pixel photo + subway use, then wait a few minutes is not surprising. Because the photos need to be uploaded to the server through networking, they are reconstructed and processed and returned. Therefore, the processing time of a photo is very long, and it is affected by the speed of the Internet. When there is no network, it cannot be used. If you use too many people, there will be infinite loading.
So ah - after I finished using Prisma, I firmly believe that it will not be a fire in China.
“There is always someone who will give up because the team is too long.†- People who are not willing to wait for traffic lights will wait for you for such a long time.
The app has now ended its Android beta and launched the official Prisma on Google Play. According to The Next Web news, "Prisma" will also support video in the future . You can directly add art filters like the various paintings above when you shoot a video.