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This is super impressive and something that I didn't think would be possible without someone very skilled in photoshop going over the images. As a photo enthus
by dvcrn 10y ago
This is super impressive and something that I didn't think would be possible without someone very skilled in photoshop going over the images.
As a photo enthusiast, I am very excited about this, but also a little worried that soon very simple apps are capable of doing the craziest of edits through the power of neural nets. Imagine the next 'deep beauty transfer', able to copy perfect skin from a model onto everyone, making everything a little more fake and less genuine.
The engineer in me now wants to understand how to build something like this from scratch but I think I'm probably lacking the math skills necessary.
- peteretep 10y agoI suspect it's not going to be long until there's a rather creepy "nudity from source image" generator.
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoThere's your killer app. Feed it a million or so porn images of people with all kinds of different body types. Then have it guess the closest match. Finally run this. Presto change-o! It's those x-rays glasses kids everywhere wanted for years. I could easily imagine it being done live-motion and 3-d. Run the whole thing on a set of AR glasses.
- peteretep 10y agoOr morph a face onto existing footage. I'm surprised this doesn't more obviously exist already, although I guess I haven't been actively looking for it.
- DanielBMarkham 10y agoThe tech is there to do a rough approximation of a dozen combinations of this. I could imagine an intermediate step where a wire-frame mesh is constructed around the image. As I understand (And I know nothing of this stuff), there was already an app to take a picture of breasts and jiggle them. I think it's just that nobody has put all of the pieces together yet. (Or if they have, the mainstream media hasn't heard about it)
- throwaway29292 10y agoAmazing how technology comes together, this seems like the type of thing people were dreaming about just a mere 10 years ago.
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- snerbles 10y agoIt's all fun and games until someone feeds it pictures of children. Now you have an illegal information firehose.
- knicholes 10y agoI'm okay with creepy. Let me know when this comes out if you find it first!
- knicholes 10y agoLooks like I can't edit this to avoid gaining more down votes. I'm not sure if I'm losing points for asking to be informed of technological advancements or that I'm okay with being creepy. Any insight is appreciated.
- sah2ed 10y agoIt might not be obvious, but there are actual people whose lives are impacted negatively by creeps who will go to any length to get their fix. Your comment would have been fine without the "I'm okay with creepy" part.
- gwern 10y agoI can't help but think that DiscoGAN (https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05192 https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.05192 "Learning to Discover Cross-Domain Relations with Generative Adversarial Networks", Kim et al 2017) would be perfect for this. Simply feed it a ton of photos of regular clothed people and other naked people (don't have to be the same people), and it'll learn a mapping on its own. Scale that up, refine it for a few years...
- lucidrains 10y agoDiscogan is amazing and the name, lol
- cr0sh 10y agoCue John Travolta?
- hnarayanan 10y agoHere is an (in progress) article I am working on that might help you: https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/artistic-style-transfer/ https://harishnarayanan.org/writing/artistic-style-transfer/ Repository of explanatory notebooks: https://github.com/hnarayanan/artistic-style-transfer https://github.com/hnarayanan/artistic-style-transfer
- dvcrn 10y agoOh sweet, thanks! I'm definitely bookmarking this
- akshay4126 10y agoThis is excellent blogpost, thanks! Edit: most comprehensive, best illustration, so far I have seen on this topic.
- goldenkey 10y agoYou need to make a correction. The map isnt linear with the addition of the b vector. Its an offset linear map.
- nojvek 10y agoI predict cameras with some built in style transfer filters. This specific blog post made me realize how great some of the pictures look after the edits on colors.
- chestervonwinch 10y agoa.k.a., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine_transformation
- goldenkey 10y agoYes thank you for the proper name!
- Dragonai 10y agoThis is awesome, thanks!
- golergka 10y ago> able to copy perfect skin from a model onto everyone, making everything a little more fake and less genuine Everybody will do it for a couple of years, then it will get old and people will have to think of something original. Just like autotune.
- coldtea 10y agoOnly we still have autotune everywhere. And 20+ years on, all cover shots etc are still photoshopped.
- rishabhparikh 10y agoYes but autotune is a style choice for artists. It's a not something every musician uses. It hasn't taken over music, and it's not like anyone can become a musician because autotune exists.
- coldtea 10y ago>Yes but autotune is a style choice for artists. It's a not something every musician uses. It hasn't taken over music, and it's not like anyone can become a musician because autotune exists. You'd be surprised on both fronts :-) On the first because autotune is prevalent regardless of genre and style choices (even in rock, country, etc). It's just the Cher/T-pain effect that has been toned done, but autotune is very much in use in the industry for vocal correction. On the second, because almost any crap singer pop idol with nice looks can pretend to be in tune and pass out bearable results because of autotune.
- bsaunder 10y ago> I didn't think would be possible without someone very skilled in photoshop going over the images And this is similar how deep learning will likely erode the need for programming (IMHO). Deep learning won't necessarily write programs (any more than this AI manipulates images via photoshop). Folks that say, don't worry, we can't write programs easily with AI are missing the vector. Writing programs isn't necessary for there to be widespread disruption. Most programming is essentially hooking up I/O (of which UIs are a subset) to APIs, data stores and data manipulation. The "goal" of programming is not the code, but the functionality it provides. AI's don't need to learn to code any more than they need to learn to use photoshop. They need to learn to provide functionality (or in this case manipulate image data).
- skanderbm 10y agoThe are many scenarios where we still need provable code/security, i.e. health and safety related matters. Not sure I would fully entrust a trained AI to control even an elevator door, where failure could result in bodily harm.
- sudhirj 10y agoNo, but AIs will override all elevator scheduling code. It just need to keep tuning all the knobs until everyone gets to their floor as fast as possible.
- foota 10y agoPlease don't build an elevator whose ai is instructed to get people to their floor "_as fast_ as possible"
- spacemanmatt 10y agoThe planning an AI could take over from existing elevator controllers already uses constrained access to the motors. Nothing about AI demands stupid system design.
- michaelmior 10y ago