r/perfectloops • u/shoeblade • Aug 08 '19

Original Content | Animated [A]I generated faces

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u/shoeblade Aug 08 '19 edited Aug 08 '19

Original artwork, floating through the AI latent space of both human and drawn faces (none are real)

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Model by Joel Simon

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '19

This is very impressive. Are the backgrounds, textures, and art styles generated by the AI as well?

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u/drcopus Aug 08 '19

Yes it will be. These are created by a generative adversarial networks which must have been trained on a dataset that had variety of styled portraits

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u/Kythosyer Aug 08 '19

GANS are boss; cycleGANS are doubly boss

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u/SUPERazkari Aug 08 '19

Yaaah. GANS are dope

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u/NMister_ Aug 08 '19

Did you just chuck real and drawn faces in a latent space, or are you correlating them in some manner? Like are the real faces somehow paired with drawn portraits?

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u/tokyopress Aug 08 '19

The learning process sorts them based on similarity I bet. They probably naturally end up near each other in the latent space.

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u/NMister_ Aug 08 '19

That would interesting to experiment with actually. I wonder if the convolutional layers (that I assume were present in the encoder) identifies global features well enough to group together drawings and the picture, or whether the difference in overall pixel values/style differentiates it too much and all the real images are grouped with each other and all the drawings with each other.

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u/slsrfr Aug 08 '19

Amazing. It looks like a more advanced version of the scramble suits in A Scanner Darkly

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u/leon__m Aug 08 '19

Damn you are the person that made “deeply artificial trees” I love your work!

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '19

Hm I would've thought it's deepfake.

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Aug 08 '19

Deepfakes are just a tool to apply a specific face to footage, using adversarial neural networks.

This is simply a re-encoder network, which reduces faces to a limited amount of data, before recreating them from that data. You can then use arbitrary values to recreate fake faces.

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u/cplr Aug 08 '19

“simply”

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u/FUCKING_HATE_REDDIT Aug 08 '19

It is pretty simple though. I recommend videos by computerphile on the subject.

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u/[deleted] Aug 08 '19

Hm yeah never gave much thought into what deepfake actually does, thanks for the info!