Neural City

Neural City is my first attempt to create a video using a machine learning algorithm. Using NVIDIA's pix2pixHD machine learning script, I took a simple animation and completely transformed it. The dataset used to train this model is the Cityscapes dataset, hence the German looking features. Find links to the resources below:

PROCESS

All of the images in the video were generated by outputting color block images of digitally modeled cityscapes. I first tested this workflow by mocking up images using stock vector in illustrator. While the fidelity of the image is low, it was successful as a proof of concept. I continued to test various outputs against the algorithm to see how much variance it could handle.

Additional Links

https://www.cityscapes-dataset.com/‍

https://www.cityscapes-dataset.com/wordpress/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/cordts2016cityscapes.pdf

https://github.com/NVIDIA/pix2pixHD