Think about the dreadful scenario in which, after making some herculean efforts in gathering the family members together for a group photo, several of them simply kill the fun by happily closing their eyes right when you tapped on the snap button to capture the image.
Some brilliant minds at Facebook have come up with a new tool that can help you rectify this scenario and ‘open up’ people’s eyes in pictures.
This technology is still in its infant stages of development, therefore you shan’t expect to be using in on your smartphone anytime soon. However, once it is rolled out, it is bound to be a huge favorite.
This technique does not use AI to remake the eyes entirely, instead, they employ sophisticated algorithms to simply recreate a/ several specific part(s) of the human face.
A few days ago, a research paper was published by some Facebook engineers. This research paper dwelled into a new method of remaking eyes by making use of a method known as Exemplar Generative Adversarial Network or ExGAN. This method is very similar to the technique that is already in use to generate and remake pictures of faces from scratch. Also, Facebook has plans to start using this technique to help you fix your selfies.
Researchers point out that regular deep neural networks can learn to remake eyes in photos, but there is a method that is intelligent and handy enough to help the users remake the person’s eyes exactly as the person’s eyes in real life are.
This technique has already proved itself to be utterly helpful and proficient in creating imagery, and it has been widely used to create fake celebrities, changing the weather in videos, and even designing clothes. So, blinking is will not be a difficult challenge at all for this technology.
In order to edit the picture with success, the system has to first learn about how the human eye looks like in normal circumstances. This means that it has to be first trained by using images of people with their eyes open. By doing this the software gets an idea of the shape and color of the person’s eyes and then uses that data to fix blinking images. This process is, by the way, referred to as ‘in-painting’.
Even after acquiring this remarkable technology, Facebook‘s AI has still got a long way to become perfect. These AI techniques are still unable to fix images in which the users have glasses on or pictures captured from unusual angles. It is still not confirmed if Facebook ever will utilize this method for fixing photos on its social network.
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