initial setup

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
from scipy.optimize import fmin_l_bfgs_b
from scipy.misc import imsave, imread, imresize
from keras.applications import vgg16
from keras.preprocessing.image import load_img, img_to_array
from keras import backend as K
import time
import numpy as np

root_dir = os.path.abspath('.')
base_path = os.path.join(root_dir,'dog.jpg')
ref_path = os.path.join(root_dir,'style2.jpg')

EPOCHS = 5

img_nrows = 300
img_ncols = 300

style_wt = 0.5
content_wt = 0.025
total_var_wt = 0.5