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The app was created by the team led by Alexey Moiseenkov who also founded the Prisma Labs, based in Sunnyvale, California.[13] Moiseenkov previously worked at Mail.Ru and later resigned from his job to dedicate his time to the development of the app.[14] He has said that the development of the app took one and a half months and the team did not do anything to promote the app.[15]

The algorithm that powers the app is based on the open source programming and algorithms behind DeepArt.[16]

The research paper behind the Prisma App technology is called "A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style" by Leon Gatys, Alexander Ecker and Matthias Bethge and was presented at the premier machine learning conference: Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in 2015.[24] The technology is an example of a Neural Style Transfer algorithm. This technology used in Prisma was developed independently and before Prisma, and both the university and the company have no affiliation with one another.

Further recent work developed by Stanford University, titled Perceptual Losses for Real-Time Style Transfer and Super-Resolution by Justin Johnson, Alexandre Alahi and Li Fei-Fei, has also been able to create real-time style transfer through video.[25]

The code for the previous papers is available at no charge at GitHub for research purposes.[26]