Show HN: Face Generator • Hacker News Board

Not the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in angles and proportions in a human face makes the difference between recognizable and unrecognizable.

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Post by chrisseaton » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 9:09 PM UTC

mysterypie wrote: post #26

Not the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in an…

I heard that they deliberately try to not make them too realistic, as it then over-fits. They aren’t sure, so a bit of abstraction helps to overlook where it doesn’t quite match.

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Post by gecko39 » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

mkagenius wrote: post #16

Thank god, atleast some "face" related project that does not use 100s of gpu.

I was just going to suggest piping this into a pix2pix / CycleGAN trained on face edges for some creepy looking results.

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Post by bhouston » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 9:16 PM UTC

Plug this into the deep face stuff and this will be really cool.

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Sep 02, 2019, 9:23 PM UTC

mysterypie wrote: post #26

Not the same thing, but this reminded me of forensic face drawing software like Identi-Kit. It's been many years since I experimented with such software, but I found it almost impossible to make a believable match to a known face. Working with a photo of Jennifer Aniston or Tom Cruise right beside me, I could not make a convincing match to either actor despite hours of effort with a guided UI. The tiniest shift in an…

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