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This Program Will Make You Invisible (to Your Webcam):
Have you ever fantasized about pulling a vanishing act? One minute you're there, the next you're not. It's a fantasy that comes on especially strong, for me, when I'm stuck in a remote meeting. I'm sitting on my webcam, waiting for everyone to say their piece, and wishing I could just remove myself from the picture. Now, there's a program that will let you do just that.
It's called Disappearing People and it's the work of Google web engineer Jason Mayes. "This code attempts to learn over time the makeup of the background of a video such that I can attempt to remove any humans from the scene," Mayes wrote on his GitHub. "This is all happening in real time, in the browser, using TensorFlow."
[...] It's not perfect. When playing with it, I'd often see the bricked outline of my body moving across my room. It didn't remove me from the picture so much as cover me over with glitchy looking copies of my room. But it happens in real time, and that's still impressive.
Go here if you'd like to try removing yourself from the equation.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Tuesday March 03 2020, @07:26AM (2 children)
proves the engineer paradox. All IQ is spent on details and none on the real world. This is why engineers are the second most dangerous kind after lawyers.
What people wants is not to be made invisible. It is to go away and have an AI simulate your presence! It's even easier. Just do some precomputed deep fakes of yourself appearing to agree, to disagree, to say bye, to look. BAM instabillions for whoever taps into this huge market. In fact you should be running to the patent office by now and give me royalties in wd-40.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @08:35AM
Just needs the tech to get good enough.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 03 2020, @12:08PM
Not really. The guy just did this for fun.