Bumped into this about a week ago and after quite a few tries it looked pretty good.
Figured to toss a few dollars to the person who created this via the paypal link at their site. But then paypal told me: "Currently PayPal accounts in China are only able to send payments. This recipient is not eligible to receive funds."
Meh..
Emailed the author to inform them and they mused about using bitcoin, but that the threshold is too high for casual users.
Perhaps time to reconsider.
People with clean lines and smooth gradients on their faces came out better.
https://twitter.com/jonathan1moore/status/125044976841907404...
Shadows seem to fool this thing.
They will quite literally see a fantasy world, with filters and augmented reality changing everything they perceive.
Deep fakes and 3D transforms will mean any horny people can see anyone they want to naked. Other people will be able to live in a complete Lord of the Rings fantasy world with dragons, magic, elves and orcs.
The right to run ad-blockers, which would, in passing, enable content alteration like you suggest, would be something we'd actually have to fight for.
Most people wouldn't understand, and would be stuck in a world where they can no longer control what they see or hear, or how what they see or hear gets changed before their brain is allowed to perceive it.
There will be a person on the street corner crying out that the world isn't real... but only the people running hacks and filters will hear her.
I love those science fiction stories where everything is shiny and all the tech is amazing and just works. But, there's no future I can see that goes from here to there.
A VR porn version of deepfakes... this is already close enough to possible that I would be shocked if someone weren't already working on it.
The core plot of the game then assumed that once a critical percentage of people had these, it was a viable tool for criminal organizations to engage in massive campaigns of thought control and overthrow the governments of countries all over the world, essentially replacing states entirely.
They know it's not the truth, but for all intents and purposes, while wearing the magical eyeglasses it becomes the truth.
The rest of the book is hilarious and I fully recommend it.
"Sooooo many people here. Thank you for visiting :) Gotta upgrade my servers. GPU server is the bottle-neck, but my credict card billing is flying Sigh ~"
And someone replied "put some ads on there", so the creator hastily slapped some ads on there to help with the server bills, and... this happened it seems.
This website however, present a Privacy Policy: https://selfie2anime.com/
I am not promoting one site or another. I did not read the PP of the selfie2anime.com either.
You can check the other implementations here (currently only two):
Face imagery isn’t secret.
what can possibly go wrong ? or just paranoid ?
Ever heard of browser fingerprinting? If this site is doing it, now it has my IP, my browser fingerprint, and my face (as well as some friends' faces...). Search for my face on Facebook and they have my name too. Sell to marketer.
Spoiler: Clearview already did this. And possibly others we haven't yet heard of because they've been smart.
Might be worth changing the link to this.
Install pyenv[0] and pyenv-virtualenv[1]. Clone the repo and set up an environment:
git clone https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT
cd UGATIT
pyenv install 3.6.10 # [2]
pyenv virtualenv 3.6.10 UGATIT
pyenv local UGATIT
pyenv activate
pip install opencv-python==4.2.0.34 tensorflow==1.14.0
tar xf ugatit100.tar.xz
mkdir checkpoint
mv UGATIT_selfie2anime* checkpoint
mkdir -p dataset/selfie2anime/{train,test}{A,B}
python main.py --dataset selfie2anime --phase test
[0] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv#installation
[1] https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv#installation
[2] Other versions may work, but this is the version mentioned in https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT#requirements
One wonders if sites like this exist to link faces to IP addresses, though. Get someone to upload a selfie from their computer, then you can add it to your database. Share on Facebook and Twitter, and they know your socials. Next time you walk into a store (post-mask era anyway), they find you in the database, and can see if you've visited their website or not, who your friends are, what sort of things you're interested in, etc.
I'm almost surprised that this isn't more common, now that I think about it.
Edit to add: I had to flag this link. The site is now redirecting to malware. I guess people did in fact want that database!
Can be a time sink as you keep pressing generate over and over.
I don't know in the back of my mind if I ever really get into that personal assistant thing and want a wrapper/face around it, this would be interesting. Sadly many of the voices are bad... but there are those services you can sample a voice and get a voice to use for TTS, that could be something. Then licensing issues but yeah and latency from API trips
* Looks like the expression is almost always the same.
* The backgrounds seem remarkably well replicated in many of these.
These seem tiny, don't NNs need more samples to achieve decent quality?
The viruses: I didn't see all these viruses people were talking about, the software worked "as intended" for me without the redirects. There was no advertising on the page either... I run with uBlock Origin in Chromium.
The dataset: Where do these images come from? These seem like the sorts of pictures that might be uploaded to some older social media website, like Bebo or something.
2 cents: Personally I would like to try and do some work with a dataset that has a 1:1 mapping of person to character, but that would require artists and quite a bit of money. I was thinking that you could build out such a database for free by randomly matching anime characters and real pictures together and have a human rate closeness - then train a network based on these ratings.
I am happy to volunteer a whole bunch of images (of me, sadly) as a test when you get this up and running.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Waifu
I'm guessing the author wanted this to be aimed at people who get the joke and/or say that the project shouldn't be taken too seriously by using a meme in the title.
I can understand how such GPU intensive website can be difficult to support for a creator.