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AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by cinntaile »

csande17 wrote: post #60
cinntaile wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

People keep stating these look like photoshop filters. This is a very shallow dismissal imo. Why don't you prove it instead by applying some Photoshop filters and achieving a similar effect? Include how long it took as well.

Here's a tutorial I found online that achieves a similar effect in under 15 minutes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XojsUNBLfic It takes the presenter about seven minutes to go from "image opened in Photoshop" to "comic-style effect applied to image", and that includes a verbal explanation of each step. (The rest of the video talks about things like making sure the image is an adequate size, and adding extra elements li…

Thanks for looking. I don't think that effect is similar enough though, but maybe that's just me?

After I wrote my original comment I thought about the filters. If Photoshop had a similar effect available as a filter, I'd assume it was achieved using a similar architecture as the OP presented.

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by DrSiemer »

Excellent, I was hoping something as accessible as this would appear to play around with this type of model!

Those that dismiss this as nothing more than a few filters are missing the finer details of what it actually does. There is a lot of targeted tweaking, like removing double chins and other old age artefacts. There are small embellishments, like adding a twinkle to the eyes or lip gloss where none was present before. The direction of a gaze is fixed towards the camera. And of course, although it's more cartoon style than anime, the eyes do become bigger.

The quality of your results depends on how appropriate your input is. Try something that has the potential to be Disney and you will get great results.

Sure, you could (with enough practice) get similar results by manually editing a photo. But the beauty of this type of conversion is that it allows for near instant effortless experimentation and (after some other improvements) application to sequenced frames.

The active model does lean towards feminizing and westernizing the subject. Mustaches are removed and an Asian subject will receive wide open blue eyes every now and then.

Re: AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

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Post by imtringued »

zinclozenge wrote: post #4
aliabd wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right, see 100s of examples posted by users here: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...

I guess it's impressive you can train a network to do that, but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop filter.

It wouldn't surprise me if those filters already use ML.
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