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A new deep learning algorithm can generate high-resolution, photorealistic images of people — faces, hair, outfits, and all — from scratch.
The AI-generated models are the most realistic we've encountered, and the tech will soon be licensed out to clothing companies and advertising agencies interested in whipping up photogenic models without paying for lights or a catering budget. At the same time, similar algorithms could be misused to undermine public trust in digital media.
The algorithm was developed by DataGrid, a tech company housed on the campus of Japan's Kyoto University, according to a press release.
In a video showing off the tech, the AI morphs and poses model after model as their outfits transform, bomber jackets turning into winter coats and dresses melting into graphic tees.
Specifically, the new algorithm is a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). That's the kind of AI typically used to churn out new imitations of something that exists in the real world, whether they be video game levels or images that look like hand-drawn caricatures.
Source: https://futurism.com/ai-generates-entire-bodies-people-dont-exist
Generative Adversarial Network
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Monday May 06 2019, @11:49PM (3 children)
Check out This Person Does Not Exist [thispersondoesnotexist.com] as well. The page shows still images of faces generated by Nvidia's StyleGAN [wikipedia.org]. Most of them would fool just about anyone but what's even creepier is the uncanny valley where it sometimes gets it a bit wrong--often apparently on the eyes or sometimes a young persons neck seems to have weird sort of smoothed out artifacts that look like they belong on the saggy features of an elderly neck!
I'm normally pretty cynical about how truly significant technical advancements are but seeing this stuff, woah, Singularity here we come!
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 2) by deimtee on Tuesday May 07 2019, @01:45AM
The funny thing about the uncanny valley is that I find many people I meet in real life fall into it.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by deimtee on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:14AM (1 child)
I think there is something askew with their training data. I looked at about 20 (reload for new one) and it seemed to quite often mess up the heads' right eye. Most individual photos seem ok, but when you look at a series the right eyes are slightly darker and often a bit distorted, especially the outside corner of the eye.
If you cough while drinking cheap red wine it really cleans out your sinuses.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jbWolf on Tuesday May 07 2019, @03:22AM
It is weird. I found an adult ear on a toddler (complete with piercing), an adult with an earring that didn't attach to the ear, a person with three front teeth, and a person who had someone else's hand in his shoulder. I only went through about 7 or 8 "photographs". It didn't take long to find these weird things.
www.jb-wolf.com [jb-wolf.com]