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Style Transfer Sample Application in Python

Merge the power of Watson Machine Learning with an image of your choice to see transfer of styles.

Requirements:

• python 3
• pip
• Cloud Foundry Command Line Interface (cf CLI)

User also should have account on IBM Cloud with active us-south region. In us-south region the following services should be prepared:

• IBM Watson Machine Learning (WML). Please note that Lite (free) plan is offered.

• IBM Cloud Object Storage (COS). Lite plan is offered. After you create COS instance:

  • go to your COS instance in IBM Cloud Dashboard,
  • in Service credentials tab, click on New Credential and add inline configuration parameter: {"HMAC":true},
  • and click Add.

  This configuration parameter will add section below to instance credentials which will be used later on,

       "cos_hmac_keys": {
             "access_key_id": "722432c254bc4eaa96e05897bf2779e2",
             "secret_access_key": "286965ac10ecd4de8b44306288c7f5a3e3cf81976a03075c"
        }
  

Deployment

Initial configuration

1. Clone repository and enter cloned project directory:

   git clone https://github.com/pmservice/style-transfer.git
   cd style-transfer

2. Update with your services credentials the folowing files:

• vcaps/wml.vcap (WML)
• vcaps/cos.vcap (COS).

Deployment and run on local environment

Run:

pip install -r requirements.txt
python server.py

Application will be available at 127.0.0.1:8080.

Deployment and run on IBM Cloud (Bluemix)

1. Modify bx_manifest.yml by choosing unique name for your host and passing it in place of <your host name>.

Important: You should update domain regarding your region (It is set for US-South). For example for UK region value should be eu-gb.mybluemix.net.

2. Install CF command line interface: https://docs.cloudfoundry.org/cf-cli/install-go-cli.html

3. Run:

   cf api https://api.ng.bluemix.net
   cf login
   cf push -f bx_manifest.yml

Important: You should update API URL regarding your region (https://api.ng.bluemix.net for US-South). For example for UK region URL should be https://api.eu-gb.bluemix.net/.

Application will be available on IBM Cloud.