Twilight and Personal Shopper Kristen Stewart has co-authored a research paper on “neural style transfer”, an arcane technique that uses artificial intelligence to reconfigure an image in the style of another.
Written with Bhautik J Joshi, a research engineer at Adobe, and producer David Shapiro, Stewart’s paper is related to work done on her short film directing debut Come Swim, which received its world premiere at the Sundance film festival on Thursday.
Called Bringing Impressionism to Life with Neural Style Transfer in Come Swim, the paper was submitted on Wednesday on Cornell University library’s open-access arXiv.org website, an online repository for scientific research papers.
The paper describes the 17-minute Come Swim as “a poetic, impressionistic portrait of a heartbroken man underwater”, which is “grounded in a painting [by Stewart] of a man rousing from sleep” that “evokes the thoughts an individual has in the first moments of waking”.