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Gigapixel AI Accidentally Added Ryan Gosling’s Face to This Photo
- grenoire 6y agoHilarious; now that I look at the original photo, I could see myself making the same mistake, perhaps not in such detail!
- jasode 6y agofyi of related terminology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareidolia
- virgilp 6y agoIt's only now that we fully realize how bad the depicted policing was in all those TV shows where they zoomed & "enhanced" the photo evidence.
- Elte 6y agoWell, this does explain the disproportionate amount of actors that are arrested in CSI after reviewing the video evidence.
- lawlessone 6y agoThink that's bad? Somewhere there are cops using this thing for real
- Zenst 6y agoIndeed, that may very well be the case. I know we have all seen mugshots of persons of interest that are pulled from CCTV and have less pixels than minecraft avatar faces, along with the colour pallet of a ZX81/C64. How AI and visual processing adapts too face-coverings is sure going to be interesting in many avenues, let alone humans.
- eitland 6y agoOften it doesn't take much for someone who knows a suspect to recognize them from a few blurry frames of video or a drawing. I am constantly surprised by how extremely bad surveillance cameras are and also how they still sometimes make it obvious who was or wasn't at the scene because of minor (and slmetimes not so minor) details in clothing, shoes, face or gait. See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/08/a-witness-drew-this-terrible-sketch-to-help-police-identify-a-suspect-it-actually-worked/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/08...
- rangibaby 6y agoThat’s the 5G conspiracy theory “they” don’t want you to think about: 5G will allow pervasive surveillance with quality much better than today’s potatocams
- gruez 6y ago>See also https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/08.. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/02/08.... Isn't that more of a case of "a broken clock is right twice a day"?
- bArray 6y agoI suspect Ryan Gosling might be the perpetrator in many future crimes! Almost as scary as the prospect of an AI that can "predict future criminals" based on their facial features!
- murbard2 6y agoNot quite. Super-resolution from face prior is probably a bad idea if you're looking to identify someone, but super-resolution from video works. It doesn't make up information based on what it expects the face to be, but collects and aggregates information from multiple frames.
- _visgean 6y agosauce?
- morsch 6y agoLiterally the first Google result for super-resolution from video: https://paperswithcode.com/task/video-super-resolution https://paperswithcode.com/task/video-super-resolution
- murbard2 6y agoLots of neural-network approaches for this which work quite well but are also likely to learn priors from the data which can introduce tricky issues for police work. There are however approaches which aren't based on machine learning at all, for example https://www.di.ens.fr/~mallat/papiers/whitepaper.pdf https://www.di.ens.fr/~mallat/papiers/whitepaper.pdf
- codetrotter 6y agoIMO it’s still nice to provide links. For one, readers won’t know ahead of time if it’ll be the first result or not. Aside from that, search results can vary from person to person what with Google filter bubble. And on top of that, if I find a source I still don’t know if it’s the same thing that was being talked about. Worst case I might find a bad source instead and then disregard the information because the source I found for it was bad while there existed good sources for the information unbeknownst to me.
- _visgean 6y agoYeah thats not a source at all. Its a collection of paper on the relevant topic. The claim of the parent comment was > but super-resolution from video works. It doesn't make up information based on what it expects the face to be, but collects and aggregates information from multiple frames. So I was simply interested in hearing where this claim comes from. Has any of these papers mentioned that this is the case? I briefly went through some of them but did not see any such guarantee.
- dirtnugget 6y agoActually I felt a lot like I was using just that Software when I enhanced a low res picture with this software. Give it a try, it works absolute magic.
- PoissonVache 6y agoIt's like robots are now like human, seeing faces everywhere ! https://www.reddit.com/r/facesinthings/ https://www.reddit.com/r/facesinthings/
- invalidusernam3 6y agoAlso https://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Pareidolia/
- Zenst 6y agoI wonder what AI would make of some Martian landscapes - certainly been the case of humans seeing faces in it before, AI would probably take that up a whole new level.
- eternalban 6y agoWait till they start getting religion.
- tzs 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(short_story) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reason_(short_story)
- mensetmanusman 6y agoThat would require the computers being surprised that something exists when nothing should.
- pmiller2 6y agoMy thoughts exactly. This is just a case of an ML algorithm describing the face it sees on the Martian surface[0], kind of like a "machine vision Turing test." It's not that it isn't interesting; it's just that it's kind of the expected result when you train a neural net on zillions of images, some of which include faces. --- [0]: https://www.space.com/11947-photos-mars-illusions-martian-face-images.html https://www.space.com/11947-photos-mars-illusions-martian-fa...
- polskibus 6y agoThat just shows how far away from the expectations is the quality assurance for AI-supported projects. Black-box methods like NN will at some point produce weird results. Now we need an AI to check AI if a random face was added to the image in the process.
- hellofunk 6y agoThat does not look like Gosling to me. Why does the photographer think it is him?
- gibolt 6y agoFor the headline!
- ChrisMarshallNY 6y agoIt wasn't Rick Astley? Times, they are a' changin'...
- AmVess 6y agoI just tried it with his images and did not come close to replicating his results. I am using the current version of Gigapixel AI on Windows. My first thought when I saw the image was that he photoshopped it. Looks like I am not wrong. Why? Who knows. Bored, I suppose.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoI reckon it's like that one paper that shows a neural network swinging from 1.0 confidence that a picture of a lion is a picture of a lion to 1.0 confidence that it's actually a baseball bat once a single pixel had been changed. So to repro, you would need the original image, not this zoomed in crop nor his final retouch.
- Hnrobert42 6y agoWait. Because you couldn’t replicate the results, the author is a liar. And then you go on to speculate why they lied?
- amelius 6y agoThe main problem I see here is that the inserted image is much sharper than the original. I'd guess that the result would be more acceptable and less of a problem if the "blurriness" was preserved. Perhaps they should train on this aspect; it shouldn't be too difficult.
- londons_explore 6y agoI have a feeling the "detect faces" feature is a hand-engineered feature. It isn't end-to-end ML like the rest of the software. I guess they run a face detector over the whole image, then cut out faces, pass them through a system to generate a similar but sharp and clear face, and then blend that back into the original image.
- wongarsu 6y agoIf Gigapixel AI works like other state of the art upscaling networks it upscales patches at the time, not the whole image at once. If the only context you have is small enough, scaling it up as Ryan Gosling's face seems completely reasonable. After all I see a face there too. When looking at the larger context(some kind of building) it becomes clear that there isn't supposed to a face, but the AI likely didn't have that much context.
- WillPostForFood 6y agoIt's like the AI is replicating the same mistake a human brain on LSD makes.
- murbard2 6y agoBefore casting stones, have they checked with Ryan Gosling to make sure that wasn't him behind a giant magnifier at that window?
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoI started posting IFOTD - Inanimate Face Of The Day on social media a few weeks back. When you start looking you see faces everywhere. The Gigapixel AI is a fair bit more detailed in this example though.
- Judgmentality 6y agohttp://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ http://facesinplaces.blogspot.com/ Hasn't been updated in forever but I used to love this.
- TheSpiceIsLife 6y agoThat's great! I'm here if you want to have a look: https://www.facebook.com/amosrust https://www.facebook.com/amosrust
- runeks 6y agoExactly. Perhaps the AI is just smarter than us. After all, there’s really no correct way to upscale — it’s all just making up data that isn’t there based on presumptions.
- blauditore 6y agoPretty sure that's not Ryan Gosling. Just a random face, but adding a celebrity to the headline probably generates more clicks.
- jonplackett 6y agoYeah it's just some dude's face. Excellent headline writing to take advantage though.
- chrisco255 6y agoTurns out the article was written by a GPT-3 bot optimized for clicks. Welcome to the future.
- jonplackett 6y agoIt's like a kind of virtual grey goo EOTW scenario where all the world's resources are consumed writing increasingly effective clickbait. The Utopian version of the story has the clickbait getting so good that it actually evolves into a high form of art and expression.
- vadarvariu 6y agoCelebA is a relatively standard dataset that is used to train DL-based CV models, it's around 200k of celebrity faces. While the article title is no doubt clickbait, it wouldn't surprise me if Gosling is indeed lurking in those model weights somewhere.
- jayd16 6y agoThe irony of a human seeing Ryan Gosling in a random face is pretty good.
- Ruhrbaron 6y agoWhy not Nicolas Cage though?
- numlock86 6y agoYes, just like any camera since cameras have a "detect and focus face" feature like to see faces in things like curtains or other seemingly random structures, just without trying to match a specific known face to it and replacing it. So how's this news? Because of a celebrity name? Surely it's not because it's screaming "ad for Gigapixel AI" in my face. My Sony Ericsson C905 did this over 10 years ago. But looking at the other comments its at best entertaining a little because it's just silly.
- morsch 6y agoYes, just like any camera since cameras have a "detect and focus face" feature like to see faces in things like curtains or other seemingly random structures, just without trying to match a specific known face to it and replacing it. So how's this news? It's news because it's trying to match a specific known face to it and replacing it.
- drusepth 6y agoIt doesn't seem like it's matching a "specific known face". The face only marginally looks like Ryan Gosling; more realistically it just inserted a face that happens to look like a random celebrity and the site ran away with it for clicks.
- fierarul 6y agoEnhance! Enhance! I bet the Pentagon pays good money for such unblur features.
- diegoperini 6y agoNow you a have a fractal of faces as you go deeper!
- anentropic 6y agoEveryone is guilty of something
- jonplackett 6y agoThis is just fantastic. Also, red dwarf's enhance sequence must be added to any commentary about photo enhance, just in case someone hasn't seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aINa6tg3fo
- scott31 6y agoBesides the added face, rest of the upscaling done seems to be terrible as well. I wonder why the photographer is using the software
- stan_rogers 6y agoUpscaling is always a problem, no matter how you approach it - weighted neighbours of various sorts, fractals, vector transformations... they all do some things reasonably well and look like poop at least half of the time. When Gigapixel AI works well, it works really well. When it's the wrong program to use, it leaves you no room for doubt about that.
- sudosysgen 6y agoThe image is likely zoomed in 800% or more. It's normal that it looks terrible from that close. When you see the images at a normal scale using Gigapixel AI they often look much more detailed (but not always). Your phone also does this, but even more poorly.
- hombre_fatal 6y agoYep. You can find the finished product here https://retoucher.fi/mercedes-benz-eq https://retoucher.fi/mercedes-benz-eq (first image), and the Gosling-area in question on the right where the tiny green dot is.
- atkbrah 6y agoIt's not just Ryan Gosling. It's Ryan Gosling with "Charlie Chaplin mustache".
- cpach 6y agoReminds me of this: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/phallus-purposely-added-artwork-little-mermaid-vhs-cover/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/phallus-purposely-added-ar... [NSFW]
- Jabbles 6y agoThis is an AI-supercharged version of this bug, which just changes numbers when photocopying: https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_means_dodgy_numbers_and_dangerous_designs/ https://www.theregister.com/2013/08/06/xerox_copier_flaw_mea...
- taneq 6y agoYep, Xerox was hallucinating different numbers way before it was cool!
- eplanit 6y agoRyan Gosling is the new Rick Astley. You can now get Ryan Rolled!
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- coryfklein 6y agoI'm sorry, but that does not look like Ryan Gosling.
- dewey 6y agoThat sounds like a classic Submarine article (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html).
- ffhhj 6y agoThere are lots of crossing lines, if the AI took those geometrical shapes into account it should have placed lines in front of his eyes and mouth. That would have been more accourate, incidentally avoiding the match with Goslin. Is that possible to implement in Gigapixel? Asking as a CV enthusiast that tailored a volume recognition solution in OpenCV years ago.
- perlpimp 6y agothis for some reason triggers recall of jesus on a toast from a while back.
- renewiltord 6y agoWow, this software is amazing. The results are great. The moon landing videos linked there are remarkable.
- dghughes 6y agoThe day in the life of AI "Meh, close enough. Nobody will notice."
- mrlonglong 6y agoPerhaps the AI has a crush on Ryan Gosling