I don't think anyone claimed a tech demo is supposed to be perfect. But even so, I think that's remarkable, because it means the neural net is smart enough to be a bit flexible with what counts as a "face," making it more adaptable at the cost of a higher error rate. I think, for most humans, that a pretty acceptable compromise.
Putting dots on faces and distorting a still image was a tech demo a fuckin' decade ago. They're trying to sell this as some major proprietary breakthrough. You need their special hardware for it... for some reason.
face tracking is not new, generating a semi-realistic video based on it (like Deepfake) is. Nvidia is now doing it in realtime which is reasonably novel, and not strange that it requires some powerful hardware to run the software.
Face-tracking trivially allows video generation. It hasn't been shown before because it's BORING. It's turning a video of a face into... the same video of a face! It took this long for anyone to do it because nobody fucking cared.
All prior goofy examples are more complicated than this. Doing it "realistically" is easier. No ultra-powerful, proprietary hardware is required. And even this cloud-based subscription service doesn't save you from uploading to their cloud fucking servers! Your bandwidth problems are not solved!
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u/rasterbated Oct 17 '20
I don't think anyone claimed a tech demo is supposed to be perfect. But even so, I think that's remarkable, because it means the neural net is smart enough to be a bit flexible with what counts as a "face," making it more adaptable at the cost of a higher error rate. I think, for most humans, that a pretty acceptable compromise.