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Neural network “Deep Nostalgia” will bring old photos to life
A new service offers new life to the past by using artificial intelligence to transform static pictures into moving videos.
Called Deep Nostalgia, the service makes animations by using deep learning to analyze a single facial photo. Then, the system animates the facial image through a “driver” a pre-determined sequence of movements and gestures, like winking, smiling, and head-turning. The process is fully automated, and the service enhances the images to make the spirits run more smoothly.
Embarked in February by the Israeli genealogy company My Heritage, some of Deep Nostalgia’s early effects are impressive.
But for a free deep-fake service, Deep Nostalgia is pretty impressive, especially considering you can use it to create deep fakes of any face, human or not.
With the help of this neural network, you can “revive” the faces of long-gone people, including those who have never been recorded on video.
Technically, the way Deep Nostalgia works is very simple: it has a set of prepared mimic templates on which the face from the selected image is superimposed. The neural network has not been trained for a long time, it works according to averaged criteria, and the result largely depends on the quality of the original photo.
