[HN Gopher] HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
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       HeadSculpt: Crafting 3D Head Avatars with Text
        
       Author : lnyan
       Score  : 65 points
       Date   : 2023-06-06 04:00 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | EGreg wrote:
       | What's on the back of Dali's head?
        
       | jofinjoseph wrote:
       | Pretty cool!
        
       | ImprobableTruth wrote:
       | Arxiv link seems to be broken, here is the correct one:
       | https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.03038.pdf
        
       | paulluuk wrote:
       | This is very cool. Once we can generate good 3d models (possibly
       | even rigged ones) we're so much closer to ai-generated
       | videogames.
        
         | echelon wrote:
         | Not so fast. These aren't game ready by a long shot. The
         | topologies are crude and inefficient, and moreover they do not
         | deform with classical animation tools.
         | 
         | There's clearly a lot of promise, but we're still a long way
         | out from this working.
        
           | paulluuk wrote:
           | Actually Neuralangelo from NVidia looks pretty cool too:
           | https://research.nvidia.com/labs/dir/neuralangelo/
        
           | gabereiser wrote:
           | Don't dismiss it just yet, all it takes is a retopo with a 3D
           | artist and you have something game ready.
        
           | paulluuk wrote:
           | I totally agree, hence the "once we can.."
        
         | throwaway743 wrote:
         | The closest thing I can think of is reallusion. Used it for a
         | project once a few years ago for generating a model from images
         | and audio to lip animation. It was okay, but not great for
         | real-time audio as it kept crashing. It might've gotten better
         | tho since
        
       | jeffbee wrote:
       | "A DSLR portrait of..." means nothing and if the phrase
       | influences the output of a generative model, in a way different
       | from "A photograph of...", that implies the model has learned
       | something stupid.
        
         | ch71r22 wrote:
         | I was confused by this too. The photography term seemed so out
         | of place to me that I assumed this was some new other meaning
         | of DSLR, like deep spherical latent representation or
         | something. but Ctrl+F didn't find anything.
        
         | KineticLensman wrote:
         | > "A DSLR portrait of..." means nothing
         | 
         | I'd agree that DSLR vs. mirrorless isn't a significant
         | distinction but DSLR vs. smartphone suggests possible
         | differences in format, technical quality, bokeh, etc.
        
       | malf wrote:
       | The mustache beefed up to fill in for Homer's nose in profile.
       | Mwah.
        
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