FEBRUARY 23, 2017
Imagine what this could be used for.
The world of technology just got a little more
interesting. Researchers have developed a pretty mind blowing new piece of
video technology that allows a person the ability to transfer their facial
expressions on to another person in real-time – creating a video that looks
real enough to convince almost anyone.
The technology comes out of a collaborative
effort between Germany’s University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, the Max-Planck
Institute for Informatics, and Stanford University in California. The
incredible technology has already being tested on George W Bush, Donald Trump,
Barack Obama, and Vladimir Putin.
The study, Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture
and Reenactment of RGB Videos, “animates the facial expressions of the
target video by a source actor and re-renders the manipulated output video in a
photo-realistic fashion,” according to the researchers.
The way the technology works can be explained
simply, it tracks the facial expressions of both the source and target
video and addresses details like teeth by finding the mouth interior that best
matches the re-targeted expression and warping it to produce the right fit.
Watch below as the technology is put into
action in live demonstrations.
Do you think this technology is safe to have?
Given the implications of what this could be used for with the proper voice
tone recreation technologies out there, couldn’t this make anyone say anything
someone wanted?
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