Nvidia AI turns sketches into photorealistic landscapes in seconds
Today at Nvidia GTC 2019, the company unveiled a stunning image creator. Using generative adversarial networks, users of the software are with just a few clicks able to sketch images that are nearly photorealistic. The software will instantly turn a couple of lines into a gorgeous mountaintop sunset. This is MS Paint for the AI age.
Called GauGAN, the software is just a demonstration of what's possible with Nvidia's neural network platforms. It's designed to compile an image how a human would paint, with the goal being to take a sketch and turn it into a photorealistic photo in seconds. In an early demo, it seems to work as advertised.
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(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday March 19 2019, @10:34PM (3 children)
Game studios can now let go another wave of artists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Disagree) by takyon on Tuesday March 19 2019, @11:41PM (2 children)
2D landscapes don't make a game.
In general though, machine learning algorithms could help to make larger, more populated, and more complicated game worlds, or lay off game designers. Or both.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:21AM
2d makes is for skyboxes, for far away things. And he said another wave, this time those doing matte painting or even concept artists, not all of the artists. Just draw some zones, and bam! you got a quick concept for a space city with thing filled by the machine learning (artificial dumbness, not intelligence). It's just a set of waves, we can make a poll about what will be the next one. Maybe next they will try to replace basic 3D asset creation (textures and shapes).
Personally I think they suck in some cases, with crappy halos and weird textures. But that will not mean cuts will not be made soon, 4 overworked painters instead of 5, trying to fix the results of automatic tools supposed to help. Just like the rushed "photoshops" seen in magazines in last 10-20 years, with people having the wrong number of limbs because someone got a bit happy with the clone tools and nobody had no time to check. Profit over quality, and remember, time is money.
BTW, the demo video shows screen with Ubuntu?
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(Score: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Wednesday March 20 2019, @02:39AM
On top of the insightful notes in the comment above [soylentnews.org] (including the "automatic nightmare" one), consider these:
- Google’s DeepMind develops AI that can render 3D objects from 2D pictures [venturebeat.com] (static case)
- A New AI-Powered System Creates Impressive 3D Animations From Still Images [gizmodo.com.au] (3D extraction and rigging)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by ensigndna on Wednesday March 20 2019, @12:25AM (1 child)
Holy cum guzzling gutter sluts, Batman.... this sure is neat!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Wednesday March 20 2019, @02:05PM
Your comment brings to mind a potential application for this technology.
Looking at the UI in TFA, I would imagine you replace the buttons: Trees, Rock, River, Sky, etc, with new buttons having imaginative titles like Press Secretary, Chief of Staff, White House Counsel, etc.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 20 2019, @01:21AM (1 child)
What's next, creating photorealistic images of people from sketches? Police sketch artists are going to have some fun with that.
(Score: 2) by legont on Wednesday March 20 2019, @10:14AM
Yeah, photo-realistic pussy galore.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 21 2019, @12:49AM
Wow, this could be fun. I see the are running it on Ubuntu. I want copy for local install, please. Pretty please. 8)
I would feed it all my images and then have a load of fun creating arty landscapes.