DeepDream Animator

This tool helps to create animations with deepdream. Extract frames from videos, process them with deepdream and then output as new video file. Frame blending option is provided, to ensure "stable" dreams across frames. A preview function make rapid iterations possible. Optionally guided dreaming & optical flow can be used.

How to

Extract Video
python dreamer.py --input myvideo/video.mp4 --output myvideo --extract 1
Run DeepDream
python dreamer.py --input myvideo --output myvideo/frames
Create Video
python dreamer.py --input myvideo/frames --output myvideo/deepdreamvideo.mp4 --create 1

(change "myvideo" to your directory/file name)

(change the path of the caffe model inside dreamer.py to where your model is )

Settings

Use Optical Flow & Guided Dreams & GPU
python dreamer.py --input myvideo --output myvideo/frames --octaves 4 --octavescale 1 --iterations 10 --jitter 32 --zoom 1 --stepsize 1.5 --blend 0 --layers inception_3b/output --gpu 1 --flow 1 --guide guide/flowers.png

Create a preview (currently does not work with flow)
python dreamer.py --input myvideo --output myvideo/frames --preview 600

Tweak settings
python dreamer.py --input myvideo --output myvideo/frames --preview 600 --octaves 4 --octavescale 1.4 --iterations 10 --jitter 32 --zoom 1 --stepsize 1.5 --blend 0.5 --layers inception_3a/output inception_3b/output

(Preview changes Images to width of choice, original files not changed)

(Try using multiple layers, it will cycle through them from frame to frame.)

Batch Processing

Use the above commands and stack them by putting a ";" inbetween commands.
python dreamer.py --input myvideo --output myvideo/frames;python dreamer.py --input myvideo2 --output myvideo2/frames