[HN Gopher] Reshaping Human Body Types with AI
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       Reshaping Human Body Types with AI
        
       Author : Hard_Space
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2022-03-31 11:29 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | d--b wrote:
       | The picture resolution of the examples is really poor...
       | Difficult to see if it works well or not...
        
       | irrational wrote:
       | Oh, I was hoping this would be something about AI helping me
       | change my body from an overweight type to an in-shape type.
        
         | YeGoblynQueenne wrote:
         | And I was hoping for a pair of bat wings and a pair of horns.
         | 
         | :shrug:
        
       | xwdv wrote:
       | With all the face filters out there I wondered why there weren't
       | any whole body filters yet that would allow people to form their
       | bodies into whatever shape they want. Guess we won't have to wait
       | much longer.
        
       | uniqueuid wrote:
       | This is a quite interesting area because it sits between the more
       | traditional (pure 3d mesh based) models [1] (which are wonderful
       | for 3d contours and precision, but typically don't handle
       | textures, lighting etc) and modern GANs which "simply" deform
       | images (i.e. deep fakes, style transfer).
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       | The challenge is that the deformation is not straight-forward at
       | all! That's why it truly helps (as this paper shows) to use some
       | 3d knowledge in aiding the deformation.
       | 
       | But yes, I'd love to see the code for this. Shame it's not
       | available.
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       | [1] i.e. something like STAR from MPI:
       | https://star.is.tue.mpg.de/
        
       | abrichr wrote:
       | Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.10496
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       | Unfortunately the source code does not appear to be available.
        
       | aantix wrote:
       | Are there any clothing retailers currently utilizing this?
        
         | AuryGlenz wrote:
         | It's fairly standard practice to do this sort of thing in
         | Photoshop, but there are also enough models out there with
         | various body types that you don't need to go crazy.
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         | That said I'm sure they'd love to automate the process, though
         | in an age where plus sized models are everywhere it probably
         | wouldn't be used as much as it would have 10 years ago.
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         | I don't do (much) commercial work so I usually just get asked
         | to slim down the mother of the bride/groom.
        
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