NEURAL STYLE TRANSFER AS AN ARTISTIC METHODOLOGY
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https://doi.org/10.29121/shodhkosh.v6.i4s.2025.6844Keywords:
Neural Style Transfer, Computational Creativity, Artistic Stylization, Deep Learning, Visual Aesthetics, Human–AI Co-CreationAbstract [English]
Neural Style Transfer (NST) has become a disruptive artistic process bridging the gap between computational intelligence and artistic expression, allowing the combination of content structures with styles inspired by a wide range of visual art pieces. The given research examines NST not as a technical algorithm, but as a modern aesthetic practice that widens the scope of digital art-making. The paper initially reviews the basic and advanced methods in artistic style transfer, which include algorithmic differences like Gram-matrix-based models, adaptive instance normalization, transformer based stylization and fast feed forward structures. It also compares these approaches and compares them with traditional fine-art methods to put the re-definitions of authorship, originality and artistic work into context. It uses a systematic approach to curating datasets, the choice of selection criteria of artistic exemplars and the design of neural architectures that trade-off style richness and content fidelity. In TensorFlow and PyTorch, the analysis of several style content trade-offs is performed focusing on the role of parameter optimization, selection of layers, and style-weight scaling in influencing the quality of expressions generated. The visual outcomes reveal how NST makes it possible to reinterpret artworks with delicate nuances of forms, textures, and coloration to create the artworks which are semantically consistent but stylistically abstract. The paper ends by critically analyzing limitations of NST, which can be summarized as, resolving of stylization, high computational cost, and inability to implement in real-time or generalized stylization in various artistic fields.
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