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Startups Are Racing to Commercialize DeepFakes’ Powerful, Internet-Breaking AI - "A slew of startups are using AI to push the boundaries of media manipulation—and they all promise to have ethics in mind"
The AI is trained on what real-world mages tend to look like, so it adds the extra details by using what a real-world image would likely have.
Related to this is style transfer, giving images the stylistic features of other images: Prepare Yourself For Super-Powerful Photoshop AI and Watch This “Van Gogh” Filter Turn A Time-Lapse Into An Impressionist D - make pictures look like Van Gogh paintings.
There is now an audio version called Modulate. It can take one's voice and give it the features of other people's voices. The company attempts to address the issue of fraudulent audio by watermarking its output, by putting in very low-level audio information.
Meograph, Inc. does yet another variation, projecting 2D images onto 3D models, thus giving a 3D-model head a skin from a portrait picture. Thus, one can have a computer-game avatar that looks realistic from all directions, and that is realistic-looking when it talks.
Startups Are Racing to Commercialize DeepFakes’ Powerful, Internet-Breaking AI - "A slew of startups are using AI to push the boundaries of media manipulation—and they all promise to have ethics in mind"
Topaz Labs – Photography software powered by machine learning -- offers noise removal, sharpening, and enlarging with AI.For more than a decade, son-father team Eric and Albert Yang have run a small but successful software firm called Topaz Labs, which builds various stand-alone image-editing tools along with plug-ins for software like Adobe’s After Effects. They spent years developing their algorithms, hiring image enhancement PhD researchers to do laborious, highly specialized work to craft their software — which can pull exceptionally sharp images from video, or add an electrical glow to a moving image.
Then the machine learning revolution happened. Suddenly, they could train neural nets to do the hard work of sharpening images: “One of our biggest surprises . . . was seeing we could just throw away our 10 years of hard work instantly.” So, over the last year, the studio has more or less rebuilt itself around machine learning. “It’s almost like a new startup,” says Eric.
The AI is trained on what real-world mages tend to look like, so it adds the extra details by using what a real-world image would likely have.
Related to this is style transfer, giving images the stylistic features of other images: Prepare Yourself For Super-Powerful Photoshop AI and Watch This “Van Gogh” Filter Turn A Time-Lapse Into An Impressionist D - make pictures look like Van Gogh paintings.
There is now an audio version called Modulate. It can take one's voice and give it the features of other people's voices. The company attempts to address the issue of fraudulent audio by watermarking its output, by putting in very low-level audio information.
Meograph, Inc. does yet another variation, projecting 2D images onto 3D models, thus giving a 3D-model head a skin from a portrait picture. Thus, one can have a computer-game avatar that looks realistic from all directions, and that is realistic-looking when it talks.