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VToonify: Controllable High-Resolution Portrait Video Style Transfer
- mas-ev 4y agoI'm terrified of our current and future problems around this and similar tech.
- ArekDymalski 4y agoI'm intrigued. Can you provide some examples of current vs future problems?
- stemlord 4y agoSeems like a form of virtual eugenics, a sensorship or the body in a way that's oppressively homogenizing. I feel like this is part of why zuck leverages cartoons to market metaverse for corporate settings, or why all the retail-safe anodyne pop muzak is full or autotune and flawless software-based overproduction. Not to be overly dramatic but imagine you are enraged but all anyone can see is a tranquil smile and your words replaced by positive endorsement; you have no mouth and you must scream On the plus side I can see this being used to self-anonymize by individuals who want to protect themselves from facial recognition or other forms of id from undesirable parties, but that's more of a coping tactic for a society that fails to incorporate any honest ethical QC into product development to begin with.
- woodruffw 4y agoI don't think this is directly more homogenizing than (say) makeup, which has the added property of being cemented by centuries of public presentation and beauty expectations. That being said, I think there are probably lesser social ills that come from these technologies, ills that we'll have to adapt to. For example, we know that human interaction and emotional feedback are an important part of child development; it's as of yet unclear what effect this will have.
- krapp 4y agov-tubers must fill you with existential terror. Like, you look at Korone but all you see is Moloch.
- mas-ev 4y agoCurrent example would be the filters that modify appearance that's used a ton on influencer platforms. We've been photo shopping for years but now anyone can create a false identity online. The bad side of this is like catphishing and unrealistic body standards causing non obvious mental health issues across generations. Future would be continuing to push the boundaries of auto formatting filtering styles based on your preference or the populations preference. Scamming, impersonation, money to be made from gullible people. This is just the surface. I'm sure there are tons of fictional books exploring this or people with more destructive ideas. Just because I'm terrified and am listing the bad, that doesn't mean I don't recognize the good that can come from it. I'm not sure if that out weighs the bad yet.
- Scaevolus 4y agoStaring at a filtered, "beautified" version of yourself trying to capture the perfect selfie directly causes facial dysmorphia by making the you in the mirror look ugly compared to the you in the phone display.
- amelius 4y agoUnrealistically large eyes, like in Disney's Frozen. There is a name for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal_stimulus
- stemlord 4y agoCreepy, offensive, dehumanizing
- echelon 4y agoMagical, limitless, empowering. I've never been so excited for our future. We won't have to spend 10,000 hours to get good at something. We'll no longer be required to specialize and be locked into our choices. I can't wait for this to pan out. We're turning into beings of thought, where expressing ourselves will be as easy as speech.
- stemlord 4y agoFair enough, I envy your optimism!
- _dain_ 4y ago>I can't wait for this to pan out. We're turning into beings of thought, where expressing ourselves will be as easy as speech. But who will listen to us, when AIs can speak better than we can?
- jamiek88 4y agoExpressing yourself doesn’t require an audience does it?
- flir 4y agoWere you around when the internet was going to bring people together in a more decentralized, democratic, and free society?
- nl 4y agoYou mean that time when how people appeared wasn't supposed to matter? Seems like this brings that closer.
- amelius 4y ago> I can't wait for this to pan out. The virtual world will look better than the real world. People will look better in the virtual world, and become afraid to show their real image. People will stay inside, behind their computer screens. Movies will all become like cartoons (because, in our daily environment people look like cartoons already). etc. etc.
- nickphx 4y agoThat's pretty cool, thanks for sharing
- endisneigh 4y agoLooks awesome. Will make making toons easier.
- nico 4y agoStays stuck on a loading screen forever on mobile Safari.
- malf 4y agoThe built-in Readability fork in Safari is impressive - even the embedded videos survived.
- Kerbonut 4y agoCan this be turned into a video game shader?
- Hamcha 4y agoAs someone who is in touch with a lot of people acting as VTubers in order to keep privacy while being able to express themselves, I'm very happy to see this! EbSynth gave Joel Haver a trademark style[1], and I feel this might be the next step. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tq_KOmXyVDo
- O__________O 4y agoAgree in principle, though this likely might be easily reverse engineered to extract the masked face, so might actually be dangerous if someone was depending on it to hide their identity.
- lastdong 4y agoAmazing set of projects with open source release. Amazing to see!
- globalnode 4y agoagree, is it a university creating all this? from what i can see it looks like it. will have a look at their stuff when i get some more time.
- ec109685 4y agoMake sure to click on the video link to get the full feel of how this performs: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OmVhDgYuY https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0_OmVhDgYuY
- dannyw 4y agoFantastic to see more open source ML.
- intelVISA 4y agoQuite excited for the eventual application of AI art like this into game dev and film. Will be a very interesting time when a solid programmer and artist combo can generate, with AI tools, an entire studio's worth of content (animation, 2D/3D, etc) for their projects.