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One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing

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Re: One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Those license terms seem to me like they'd allow using someone's picture in unlimited advertising, for free. They also sound like they'll definitely be using them to train models. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that means they can sell them to advertisers for whatever nonsense.

My take is that they are limiting their liability in case anyone is overly letigius, or if they mishandle the data. Yes, they could do the things you describe, but my guess is they don't want to get sued by people they are providing a free service to.

That doesn't really change what the license they wrote allows though.

Re: One-Shot Free-View Neural Talking-Head Synthesis for Video Conferencing

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Wow, this works pretty well. Makes me think of that chapter in Infinite Jest where videoconferencing gets popular, until people start using "optimized" computer-rendered images instead of showing their actual faces, at which point everyone goes back to audio-only.

My phone already has a video call beautification setting built into the OS at the camera level. We've been skirting the line for a while. If I could, right now I absolutely would prefer to be sending a synthesized avatar then the real me - my desktop setup doesn't allow very optimal camera placement with large monitors, but for maximum impact I ideally want to send my face making direct eye contact with the camera.

Is there a filter available that just fixes the apparent direction of the pupil, so the image is looking at the camera, without doing any other edits? That would be really useful.
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