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Where is the photographer's skill necessary in the process? Eventually, all the "photographer" will need to do is to take a 8K video recording of the subject a
by The_Colonel 3y ago
Where is the photographer's skill necessary in the process?
Eventually, all the "photographer" will need to do is to take a 8K video recording of the subject and AI will generate a set of great looking pictures (it already knows what people like).
- senko 3y agoAI work much better with high quality data (and that's not just resolution and noise level), and need boatloads of them.
- zirgs 3y agoVideos aren't a very good source for training data, because they usually contain compression artifacts and motion blur. I've experimented with AI training using video screencaps and, unfortunately - the resulting quality isn't as good as using high resolution still photos. Another issue with using videos is overfitting, because video frames look too similar to each other. So you can get an inflexible model that always generates a similar background as that in the video. Good AI training dataset is the opposite of that. It needs to contain different backgrounds and different lighting conditions. And as many different angles and poses as possible. Can't really get that from a single video.
- pbhjpbhj 3y agoOk, but that's the least pertinent part of what they said. It seems you're busy arguing at different FPS -- a person takes endless stills ... that's still relatively low skilled?
- The_Colonel 3y agoI don't mean this in the context of training, but a "photographer" already using a trained model to apply on the video. What the AI/model then needs to do is to extract the subject - person specific features and combine that with trained data. For that, artifacts/motion blur isn't a huge problem.
- mym1990 3y agoGood/great photographers have an eye for things like composition and color balance, which can help in refining training data to a place where AI can produce indistinguishable products from actual photographs.
- nerdbert 3y agoImages generated by these systems look nice because the models were trained on photos that had already made it through curation filters before being published or distributed. Most people toss out their garbage photos and don't share them online. Without that, computer-generated images would be far uglier and weirder. And if the computers had to get their new material from, say, a bunch of webcam feeds, the composition of their output would be terrible.