Disney Demonstrates NEW Face Swapping Visual Effects And It’s CRAZY!
Disney is working on new technology that needs to be seen to be believed! In a recently published paper, Disney Research Studios just released details about a new bit of Facial Swapping technology that the company hopes to employ in the future!
It uses an AI algorithm that alters a person’s facial features and here’s the crazy part – in HIGH-RESOLUTION! As a recent piece in the Daily Mail highlights, the technology isn’t new but the fact that it can produce hi-res images is! Just check out this video below:
In the paper that was released by the company, the researchers said, ‘To the best of our knowledge, this is the first method capable of rendering photo-realistic and temporally coherent results at megapixel resolution.” While other algorithms focus on smooth facial transitions, Disney’s algorithm focuses on increasing megapixels, allowing it to produce videos with a resolution of 1024 x 1024.
So what does that mean exactly? It means that this technology can now be employed to make images look better on bigger screens! The technology can automatically adapt to different facial expressions. However, it still requires faces are forward-looking and lit well.
So how could this be used in the future? The most obvious choice would be to enhance the believability of CGI technology but its still early stages for the product with more work needed to be done before you’ll see it on the big screen.
‘While those results are impressive, they are expensive to produce and typically take many months of work to achieve mere seconds of footage,’ write the researchers.
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Source: DailyMail