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Just when you thought that anime character designs couldn't get any more generic, machine learning comes to the rescue:
A collaborative team from Fudan University, Carnegie Mellon University, Tongji University and Stony Brook University have created a generative adversarial network (GAN) that can generate high-quality anime character drawings with just minimal input from humans. You can check the demonstration website and make your own anime renders by inputting some basic preferences.
You can choose hair and eye color and then decide on what accessories you might like such as glasses, hats or ribbons. The site will then generate a character for you based on your inputs. There are some things that could be improved for sure, but overall, it's a really fun application.
Researchers used a technique called DRAGAN to train the AI. The demo site was built on ReactJS. The scientists have summed up the full process in more detail in this technical report. The source code is also available from here.
Of course, designing a character is only the first step. How about a custom Gatebox holographic waifu? Or import your character into an advanced VR fantasy world powered by petaflops GPUs. Which is just a stopgap measure until you jack into the Matrix directly, allowing you to caress your loved one (as far as your brain is concerned).
Is this what happens when you poach Carnegie Mellon University's top scientists?
"Moe" (pronounced "mo-ayyy") refers to "kawaii"/cute characters.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:09AM (11 children)
Well, feminists, here's who to blame. These are the people you hold accountable. Took me two seconds. Is holding individuals accountable for their own actions really that hard?
How long should I give this until it's part of the misogynerd narrative? 2 weeks? 2 months? Should I start a betting pool?
I admit I don't have the data to gender these people based on name. I can extrapolate from other data sets, even finding a good-sounding motivation for this research, though mostly the data point that men really are stupid enough to publish this shit during a resurgence of the misogynerd narrative. >.<
A pox on both your fucking houses!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:24AM (2 children)
<sarcasm>Nah dude, only heteronormative white males are sexist. This is why I've decided to give my self a chance in the leftist / progressive world by converting to Islam. This way I can beat and rape my wife at will without any mention of patriarchy.</sarcasm>
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Saturday August 19 2017, @03:07AM
Is that how it works now? Maybe my knowledge really is out of date. I remember there used to be quite a lot of anger among feminists about Islam, particularly about how it's culturally comorbid with routine infant female genital mutilation. Heh, I used to be with them, until I figured out that what happened to me was perhaps worse but that feminists would systematically shut down any dialogue about routine infant male genital mutilation with “OMG Mooooooooslims!” How things change.
Either that or I can go with my previous data point about men really being that stupid and guess you're a man and you've even less an idea what you're talking about than I do.
I haven't bashed men in a while. This feels kinda good. If you men weren't such fucking idiots, I wouldn't run into nearly half the problems I do with feminists. maybe none at all. After all, everything I end up getting held accountable for in that collectively and severally way is something one of you dumbassed men did.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:13PM
No, feminists are against Asians too. They have privlidge because they are too smart.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:08AM (4 children)
Huachun is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Uranus
Zhihao is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Uranus
Yingtao is a male name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Sun
Minjun is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Mars
Yanghua is a unisex name. [themeaningofthename.com] Ruling planet: Mercury
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @05:31AM (2 children)
Those are the family names...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 19 2017, @07:58AM
Doesn't having a unisex family, you know, prevent you from ever being conceived?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 21 2017, @06:19AM
Wrong. And some ignorant fool modded you informative.
Those are Chinese names and the majority (not all) of Chinese family names are single syllable. The odds of all of these being family names are very low.
Even lower odds of all of them being compound family names AND none of them being any of these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_compound_surname [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 1) by nitehawk214 on Saturday August 19 2017, @12:16PM
You can stick your ruling planet up Uranus.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 19 2017, @01:44AM (1 child)
Oh gods, I graduated from Stony Brook. Ick, ick, ick. This makes me feel gross and greasy just to read about.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday August 19 2017, @02:34AM
Hahahahahaha.
Wait a sec, gotta take it to the next level.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🐙
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(Score: 2) by Rivenaleem on Monday August 21 2017, @10:38AM
You were about to presume their gender based on name? Words fail me.