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Unified GAN for Image-to-Image translation
- Cyberdog 9y agoWell, this is horrifying. Thank you. Now everyone that has one photo of me to match against now has several of them.
- CGamesPlay 9y agoWell, no, you can't create information that doesn't exist. They don't have any better source to match against your blonde-hair picture than their imagination. The novelty here is that they may outsource that imagination to the machine now.
- nerdponx 9y agoIs this useful for simulated celebrity and fanfiction porn yet? Would be very interested in that PoC.
- candiodari 9y agoThe article doesn't point this out, but in GANs, the parameters actually move on a continuous range. In other words, they don't just have several of your pictures, they've got all sorts of movies : A movie where your face starts out "neutral" and becomes angry. A movie where you start out angry, go to surprised and end happy. And so on. Excellent progress, I must say.
- visarga 9y ago> they've got all sorts of movies Here it is: one glorious hour of walk through the latent space of faces. You can "feel" the geometry of the latent space and its meanderings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lE9tV9vm0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36lE9tV9vm0 Generated with Progressive GAN in high resolution. The quality is mind blowing, highest ever attained in any GAN. Author: NVIDIA
- bitL 9y agoThis is fantastic! Great work! Thanks for sharing!
- oh_sigh 9y agoIs it possible to download a pre-trained model?
- rememberlenny 9y agoYes. There are many pre-trained model. You can then use transfer learning to build on a pre-trained model to benefit from the existing computational effort.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoWhere are the pre-trained models?
- randoman 9y agoThis is so awesome, thank you. Can't wait to play around with it
- ClassyJacket 9y agoCool as hell. Is this flexible enough that it could realistically be applied to generic selfies and not just these very uniform photos? Make this into an app and you could have the next Prisma!
- cycrutchfield 9y agoYou mean FaceApp?
- awake 9y agoracial bias in computer vision strikes again!
- bambax 9y agoIn the examples, the source images are very very uniform (Caucasian, young, healthy). Does this work with other images? Can it age photos of people who are already over 50 for example? Or non-whites? Or children? Etc.
- IanCal 9y agoI'd like to see it applied to completely different things, what does it do to animals, a grid, a brick wall, a car, etc. Is a trained model available anywhere?
- amelius 9y agoI wish researchers showed a random mix of results, not just their best results ...
- IshKebab 9y agoSome do - they show failure modes.
- bitL 9y agoI frankly don't see why it couldn't add more years to 50y. Moreover, it could likely "unage" over 50y to 20y, just by inverse of their aging method. GANs are unbelievably powerful.
- luckystarr 9y agoI think this (or something like this) can be used as a way to transmit a video chat on a very low bandwidth (think tens of bytes/second) level.
- rahimnathwani 9y agoYou're talking about an animated avatar that just happens to be of an actual person? And only in 2D?
- luckystarr 9y agoFor a start, yes. A proof of pricinple would be nice. Would probably look very shitty, but would use very little bandwidth. I read about a fictional system like this in "A fire upon the deep" by Vernor Vinge a long time ago but never thought it would be feasible. There a scene of an entire room of people interacting was being deconstructed/reconstructed for a video chat using low bandwidth.