[HN Gopher] Nvidia Vid2vid-Cameo Demo
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       Nvidia Vid2vid-Cameo Demo
        
       Author : jonbaer
       Score  : 51 points
       Date   : 2021-06-28 19:20 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | kevingadd wrote:
       | Surprisingly flexible algorithm. I threw a headshot illustration
       | of a comic villain into it and it was able to successfully do all
       | the rotations and even manipulate the eyes despite it not being
       | photorealistic.
        
         | thebruce87m wrote:
         | There was an app going around a few months ago called
         | "wombo.ai" that will make a headshot sing. It had the same
         | outcome when given non human pictures as a source. Easily
         | killed an afternoon trying out different things.
        
       | arriu wrote:
       | I'm getting a "Failed to load resource: the server responded with
       | a status of 500 (INTERNAL SERVER ERROR)". Looks like we broke it?
        
       | EthanHarv wrote:
       | While the client-side has input validation, it appears that the
       | server-side does not, as I can edit the request body freely and
       | it'll return accordingly.
       | 
       | It's interesting to see how the model fails at extreme values. I
       | can see why they chose the cutoffs they did!
        
       | krylon wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | godelski wrote:
         | Permutation City has another take, where people virtually meet
         | one another but use masks to hide their emotions.
        
         | wongarsu wrote:
         | I wouldn't mind video conferencing with computer generated
         | avatars. I don't video conference to know what the other person
         | looks like, and in fact knowing what they look like just
         | creates lots of unnecessary bias. I do it for the cues from
         | their gestures, facial expressions, the direction they are
         | looking, etc. With a good tracking setup that works perfectly
         | well today with digital avatars.
        
       | knicholes wrote:
       | I'm getting connection refused errors on the request to
       | http://54.186.34.220:443/face_vid2vid_rotate port 443 on http?
       | Hm.
        
       | msoad wrote:
       | This makes a request to server to get the result back. Hacker
       | News hug of death has already happened.
       | 
       | I wish this was deployable to browsers so it was fully stand
       | alone.
        
       | thedudeabides5 wrote:
       | The side by side against other algos is pretty cool:
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLYg9Waw72U&t=125s
        
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