FaceTime 2 - New Samsung AI can convert single images into fake videos

[rcmaehl]

Source:
Vice

Whitepaper
 

Summary:
Samsung's new AI algorithm now only needs as little as one photo to convert a photo of a person into a "deepfake" video

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Samsung AI Center in Moscow developed a way to create "living portraits" from a very small dataset, as few as one photograph. The researchers call this few, and one-shot learning, the model can be trained using just one image to create a convincing, animated portrait. With a few more shots...the realism improves even more. Because they only need one source image, the researchers were able to animate paintings and famous portraits, with eerie results. These "photorealistic talking head models" are created using convolutional neural networks: They trained the algorithm on a large dataset of talking head videos with a wide variety of appearances...they used the...VoxCeleb databases. This trains the program to identify what they call "landmark" features of the faces: eyes, mouth shapes, the length and shape of a nose bridge. This...is a leap beyond what even deepfakes and other algorithms using generative adversarial networks can accomplish. Instead of teaching the algorithm to paste one face onto another using a catalogue of expressions from one person, they use the facial features that are common across most humans. The researchers write in the paper that they recognize the applications for realistic face-avatars in video conferencing, gaming, and special effects, but the uncanny valley often holds us back from fully embracing widespread use of face-avatars of real people. They hope that this work changes that, with its low source requirements and "perfect" realism.

 

My Thoughts:

We're only a short time away from this technology progressing in which you may soon see a realistic version of Einstein teaching a science lesson in a video, or Van Gogh teaching in an art video. Definitely be interesting to see.

[Guest]

Every time this tech advances, I just know I'm going to get framed for murder lol.... 

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, rcmaehl said:

you may soon see a realistic version of Einstein teaching a science lesson in a video, or Van Gogh teaching in an art video. Definitely be interesting to see.

Politically correct thought if you ask me... we all know that porn is among the first things people will try using this for... imagine being able to use a crush's photo and make a private porn video out of it? Just another day on today's world.

[IAmAndre]

Then maybe we'll have Harry Potter style animated pictures in newspapers.

[IAmAndre]

3 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

Politically correct answer if you ask me... we all know that porn is among the first things people will try using this for... imagine being able to use a crush's photo and make a private porn video out of it? Just another day on today's world.

And even more fake news since you ca literally make anyone say anything.

 

Totally unrelated question: why do you have two rigs? Did you pay for both?

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, IAmAndre said:

Totally unrelated question: why do you have two rigs? Did you pay for both?

The i9 + V is actually my brother's but I get to mess around with it

[IAmAndre]

4 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

The i9 + V is actually my brother's but I get to mess around with it

Rich kids

[Ardu]

This is scary, someone hold me?

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

The i9 + V is actually my brother's but I get to mess around with it

No one needs that much power. You should have just built 2 normal computers. 

 

[Taf the Ghost]

It's not that Fakes are new, it's just that it's gotten so cheap & easy that video & audio evidence is about to be mostly worthless.

 

Though what we're really seeing is the death of so my idioms. Now, you too can be the Queen of Sheba. 

[rcmaehl]

4 hours ago, Princess Luna said:

we all know that porn is among the first things people will try using this for

Absolutely. If/when any semi professional porn producers use this I'm sure the tech will rapidly advanced. People getting their knocks off have been a driving factor for various tech from VHS to the Mobile Internet

[williamcll]

So, Live2D but 3D people.

[IAmAndre]

On 5/24/2019 at 2:10 PM, VegetableStu said:

i wonder if the later harry potter movies dealt with how the magic folk reacted to the iPad, LOL

Actually the story takes place in the 90's.

[WereCat]

5 minutes ago, VegetableStu said:

"but muh politics and fake videoz"

"POLITICIAN PORN"

 

*silent room staring*

"Oh yeah, put that money deeper into my pocket, Mr. President!"

[Drak3]

31 minutes ago, IAmAndre said:

Actually the story takes place in the 90's.

Nah it only seems like that because it takes place in England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s

[IAmAndre]

6 hours ago, VegetableStu said:

i haven't read/watched The Deathly Hallows... not sure of the time period of muggle tech at the time ,_,

 

although the book was first published at 2001, so yeah uhh dang

 

6 hours ago, Drak3 said:

Nah it only seems like that because it takes place in England.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

/s

Yeah the books were published in the 2000's but the story takes place a decade earlier. I used to be a library rat as a teenager and would dig into details like that. IIRC the last book takes place in 1998.