Make a 3D model of your face from a single photo with this AI tool

[M8bravo]

"Remember how Apple unveiled its $1,000 iPhone X with facial recognition software that allows you to unlock your phone with your face? Well good news, people who don’t have enough to worry about in the realm of cybersecurity already! Now there’s a neural net that can take just about any 2D face picture and model it as a 3D face. And while any security threats the tech poses are probably not imminent, it’s still pretty easy to imagine this technique being used for something nefarious." https://nerdist.com/neural-net-3d-face-2d-creepy/

 

https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/18/16327906/3d-model-face-photograph-ai-machine-learning

 

Try it here: http://cvl-demos.cs.nott.ac.uk/vrn/

 

Can we get some 3D printed Linus Masks?

 

This is not breaking news but after the WAN show discussion I was surprised no one brought this up. Considering this type of tool in conjunction with the massive private and public sector facial databases, the iphone X and facial id ingeneral does not seem secure.

Smile, you’re in the FBI face-recognition database   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/smile-youre-in-the-fbi-face-recognition-database/

 N.S.A. Collecting Millions of Faces From Web Images   https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/01/us/nsa-collecting-millions-of-faces-from-web-images.html

 

  Walmart’s Use of Sci-fi Tech To Spot Shoplifters Raises Privacy Questions  http://fortune.com/2015/11/09/wal-mart-facial-recognition/

 

[waterjug]

this is great

http://cvl-demos.cs.nott.ac.uk/vrn/view.php?name=05aec27d43e5daa4e6203e42891899cc

[Matu20]

Wow, my face came out relatively accurate. Glad to see stuff like this

[InertiaSelling]

Holy crap, it works with my drawings.

 

Spoiler

They're alive.