BBC: Mona Lisa ‘Brought to Life’ With Deepfake AI
From the BBC:
The subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa painting has been brought to life by AI researchers.
The video, achieved from a single photo, shows the model in the portrait moving her head, eyes and mouth.
The latest iteration of so-called deepfake technology came out of Samsung’s AI research laboratory in Moscow.
Some are concerned that the rise of convincing deepfake technology has huge potential for misuse.
Samsung’s algorithms were trained on a public database of 7,000 images of celebrities gathered from YouTube.
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Research Article/Preprint: Few-Shot Adversarial Learning of Realistic Neural Talking Head Models (via arXiv)
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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