This is a series of known techniques assembled in a visually engaging manner, but is ultimately just a dumb gimmick.
* Ability to go from image to model - multiple open source options
* Ability to to from image to rigged figure model - multiple open source options
* motion capture animation playback - trivial
Unless this is instantaneous, which it is not, it's an attention seeking toy with no original ip.
Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
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Re: Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
#22It's amazing but also creepy because characters still retain the non-animated face and/or limbs like in Messi example; making faces moving seems to be logical next step for this technology.
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
How long? 17 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63goXc5MyU&t=17s That's probably meant to be cute or optimistic, I know they're not making fun of anything, but I still find it very tasteless. Why not just use your own drawings and photos? I generally don't like how art is often used for these kind of things.
That artwork is basically saying kids should be flying kites, rather than being bombed by drones while they cry in terror. I find playing around with that tasteless, to put it mildly and charitably, and I said nothing about it, after seeing it and puking into my mouth a little -- if walking on egg shells, and calling it tasteless to be generous, is punished anway, I may as well be honest, and I'm still biting my tong…
FWIW I think you’re completely correct. The use of that image was near as tone deaf as I can imagine. It almost seems intentional.
With a very charitable interpretation it could be said that it’s a warning, a harbinger of the callousnness with which this tech will be used - but the reaction of this crowd to your comment is bizarre, and concerning.
Wtf HN. Any of ye silent downvoters want to outline where you’re coming from?
Re: Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
#24I was surprised at how quickly I went from slack-jawed amazement to wondering why the creators were so enamored with making a character run out of the frame that they never demonstrated using this to animate in context.
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#25Looks super cool. I wonder if multiple subjects in the same photo could be animated. I sorta expected that from the picture with the Beatles ( assuming that gang of 4 Brittish looking guys was them )
The sequence beginning at 1:58 is (I think) a still from the Hard Day's Night movie. The sequence beginning at 4:29 uses the Help! album cover
Which is a movie starring... the Beatles... so why did I get corrected/downvoted?
Re: Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
#26Very impressive. Not to be a cynic, but how long before someone starts turning people inappropriately into frog marching saluting Nazis?! Or giving them an unfortunate Fortnite "bounce". I haven't read the paper, but am curious how they get the face profile right (given the information is absent in the 2D source). Perhaps they set that manually or some kind of average face, but if it's off it would be quite noticeabl…
How long? 17 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63goXc5MyU&t=17s That's probably meant to be cute or optimistic, I know they're not making fun of anything, but I still find it very tasteless. Why not just use your own drawings and photos? I generally don't like how art is often used for these kind of things.
I think you're being downvoted because it wasn't clear at all what you were talking about, if someone is not familiar with the picture. It just seems like you went on a random rant. Your follow up comment was much more informative about your point of view.
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#27It’s so frustrating when the code or a binary isn’t released and we can’t play with this ourselves. What’s the point of publicly releasing a paper with no real proof of work? They could be faking the algorithm.
It's a magic show.
Re: Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
#28This is a series of known techniques assembled in a visually engaging manner, but is ultimately just a dumb gimmick. * Ability to go from image to model - multiple open source options * Ability to to from image to rigged figure model - multiple open source options * motion capture animation playback - trivial Unless this is instantaneous, which it is not, it's an attention seeking toy with no original ip.
Have you read the paper?
Re: Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo
#29a-ha - Take On Me (Official Music Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
How long? 17 seconds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63goXc5MyU&t=17s That's probably meant to be cute or optimistic, I know they're not making fun of anything, but I still find it very tasteless. Why not just use your own drawings and photos? I generally don't like how art is often used for these kind of things.
I think you're being downvoted because it wasn't clear at all what you were talking about, if someone is not familiar with the picture. It just seems like you went on a random rant. Your follow up comment was much more informative about your point of view.
Okay, fair enough, I should have thought of that.
I think it's one of the lowest aspects of our modern civilization, and engineers and scientists simply cannot be ostriches anymore. Though again, I actually think they may have meant it as some kind of "saving the child" thing... I just cannot imagine them working on a high res version of that photo and just making a funny. I don't think that for a second. But in a way, that they maybe thought this was a nice thing to do, makes me sadder. I'd rather be angry and offended, than just... at a loss, you know?
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/saddest...
> "I no longer love blue skies. In fact, I now prefer grey skies. The drones do not fly when the skies are grey" [..] Being afraid of a blue sky is the inevitable trauma that comes with the recovery process Zubair and his sister are going through — the two were injured when a drone attack hit their home, and blew their grandmother to bits while she was working in the garden.