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My layperson understanding makes this baffling to me. Isn't motion inherently analog, and haven't we've developed high performing analog compression already? Mo

My layperson understanding makes this baffling to me. Isn't motion inherently analog, and haven't we've developed high performing analog compression already? Motion seems significantly more amenable to lossy compression as well, and I could imagine a use-case for ML-based decompression to fill in between the keyframes.

dmwallin 4y ago
You also have to consider that faces are one of the things that we have the strongest perception of, with lots of our neurons dedicated to the task, so when you get things wrong it's far more noticeable than many other bodily animations would be.
- jon_richards 4y ago
  One of my favorite “weird” conjectures is that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point it was evolutionarily advantageous for us to recognize something that looked human, but wasn’t… and to be afraid of it.
  - rjeli 4y ago
    neanderthals?
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    - giantrobot 4y ago
      Think also about face-like things we perceive because of pareidolia but might in fact be dangerous. One part of our brain is opportunistic about finding patterns while another is a sanity check on those patterns telling us not to just trust them outright.
  - shwoopdiwoop 4y ago
    Is there any further reading on this topic in particular that is not leading to wild conspiracy theories?
ricardobeat 4y ago
I had the same reaction (note: I actually got things mixed up, the one in question is the Unity "Enemies" demo [1], not Unreal), but if you consider the amount of detail - the saliva 'sticking' to the corners of the mouth, the 40+ muscles of the face, lips, eyelids, the iris, etc - it makes sense that it would be a ton of data. IIRC they are working on some kind of ML-powered compression so that this becomes actually possible to ship (the demo is not available to download, presumably it's too big and would barely run on a 3090TI). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYUNrgqWUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYUNrgqWUU

dmwallin 4y ago

You also have to consider that faces are one of the things that we have the strongest perception of, with lots of our neurons dedicated to the task, so when you get things wrong it's far more noticeable than many other bodily animations would be.

jon_richards 4y ago
One of my favorite “weird” conjectures is that the existence of the uncanny valley implies that at some point it was evolutionarily advantageous for us to recognize something that looked human, but wasn’t… and to be afraid of it.
- rjeli 4y ago
  neanderthals?
  - deleted 4y ago
    [deleted]
  - giantrobot 4y ago
    Think also about face-like things we perceive because of pareidolia but might in fact be dangerous. One part of our brain is opportunistic about finding patterns while another is a sanity check on those patterns telling us not to just trust them outright.
- shwoopdiwoop 4y ago
  Is there any further reading on this topic in particular that is not leading to wild conspiracy theories?

ricardobeat 4y ago

I had the same reaction (note: I actually got things mixed up, the one in question is the Unity "Enemies" demo [1], not Unreal), but if you consider the amount of detail - the saliva 'sticking' to the corners of the mouth, the 40+ muscles of the face, lips, eyelids, the iris, etc - it makes sense that it would be a ton of data. IIRC they are working on some kind of ML-powered compression so that this becomes actually possible to ship (the demo is not available to download, presumably it's too big and would barely run on a 3090TI). [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYUNrgqWUU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXYUNrgqWUU