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Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (CVPR 2016 Oral)

Matthias Niessner · 5M views · 2016-03-17 · 6:36

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The CVPR 2016 oral demo of Face2Face, a system that captures a person's face and reenacts another video's face in real time using only RGB video. The authors frame it as research on modern vision and graphics.

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HN uses it as a reference point in deepfake and fake-news discussions, showing that convincing real-time video manipulation was already possible in 2016.

Discussed on HN; no positive recommendation is recorded in this export · HN mentions 2016–2021

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LLMs & generative AIComputer vision, speech & NLPComputer graphics & rendering
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0xx · 2021-05 · Reference

Founder here Maybe – one of my co-founders is Prof Matthias Niessner who's been behind a large chunk of the seminal and widespread research in this space. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK]

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0xx · 2021-05 · Reference

Founder here. AMA :) To answer a few recurring questions in the thread ---> Use case. Video is a way more effective way to communicate than text. Not for the HN crowd, but if you're a blue collar worker a 2 minute video in your native language is much preferred to a 5 page pdf for training. Anyone who has tried to record a simple corporate video know the pain of cameras, film crews, 25 takes to get one that works and post production. Cumbersome, slow and multidisciplinary. By the time the video is done the content is out of date. Synthetic video is not yet at the quality of real video. Eventually it will be. But the mistake many are making here is comparing it to real video; it should be compared with text. In X years we'll be able to make Hollywood films on a laptop without needing anything but time and imagination. Just like we can digitally compose music in Ableton, create images in Photoshop and type novels on keyboards rather than with pen and paper. My (obviously biased;)) belief is that synthetic media will eventually become foundational technology that will move media production from cameras/microphones to API's. We'll be able to do all kind of things we couldn't do before. Eg. personalized and interactive rich media, video-driven chatbots and eventually Hollywood blockbusters made by your favourite YouTuber from his or her bedroom. ---> Uncanny valley Simulating real video is incredibly hard. We're constantly improving and launching more expressive synthesis soon. Fr

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cwkoss · 2018-08 · Reference

[VIDEO] Face2Face would defeat this: anyone with enough images of the victim (and copy of ID) could impersonate them in this scheme.

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