What happens if you run it against pictures of regular people? :) Damn these beauty standards!
I kid, I kid.
Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
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#12This is a perfect problem if you're able to tackle it. I'm super curious on the approach.
YOLO style object detection on a manually created dataset would be my first pass at this problem.
Re: Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
#13This seems pretty useful for companies generating images at scale. Are you at all worried that generative models will get so good that you don't need to check for deformities?
Is there any model that doesn't output deformed hands?
Re: Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
#14This is a perfect problem if you're able to tackle it. I'm super curious on the approach. YOLO style object detection on a manually created dataset would be my first pass at this problem.
Its part of the process used in some existing SD workflows in popular open-source consumer tooling use to detect and automatically correct deformities, so I’d agree its a useful approach, but I’d also be skeptical of someone using it as the core of a startup they are launching that is selling only the first half of that.
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#15This seems pretty useful for companies generating images at scale. Are you at all worried that generative models will get so good that you don't need to check for deformities?
I can't see this ever happening. Every new genAI model and finetune I've seen brings fun new classes of distortion.
We'll probably need higher resolution models. SD 1.5 is 512x512 and it usually outputs deformed faces in full body shots simply because its resolution is too small.
SD XL is 1024x1024 and that no longer happens there.
We'll see how outputs from 2048 and 4096 models are going to look like. But those models will need lots of VRAM.
Re: Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
#16What happens if you run it against pictures of regular people? :) Damn these beauty standards! I kid, I kid.
Posting communities will inevitably try to find false positives, and it'll be fun to see if there are any.
I'm wondering about real photos that have deliberately been shot to screw with normative standards of photo composition, like Weston's headshot of Igor Stravinsky. Another genre of photo that may be flagged are sci-fi and/or fantasy film set candid shots, such as photos featuring an actor (or actors) partially out of costume.
Come to think of it, various photography hall of fame galleries could be great testing suites.
Re: Launch HN: Rubbrband (YC W23) – Deformity detection for AI-generated images
#17For anything that is not Midjourney you can just flag as deformed :) Jokes aside, Midjourney is far far ahead of all the others in what it can generate.
Midjourney still straight up ignores prompts. From my experiments it seems that SD XL follows my promts much better.
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#18The male astronaut with coffee [1] (that I believe you're using as a "verified" example) has an extra finger on his right hand
[1] https://www.rubbrband.com/static/media/astronaut_with_coffee...
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#19Cool idea. I do think that filtering large batches AI-generated data is potentially a huge market, especially if you get it to filter for certain characteristics. I.e., remove images that are a specific color or contain certain background elements.
I use Midjourney quite a bit and I end up using the creation process itself as an ongoing filtering process, but on a per image basis. It would be a lot more efficient to generate 1,000 images at once, filter out the images that are deformed/not fitting the requirements, then see what you've got to work with.
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#20The male astronaut with coffee [1] (that I believe you're using as a "verified" example) has an extra finger on his right hand [1] https://www.rubbrband.com/static/media/astronaut_with_coffee...
And his cup backwards