{"id":3733,"date":"2016-04-15T08:10:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-15T15:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2016-04-10T20:17:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T03:17:38","slug":"realtime-face-puppeting-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/15\/realtime-face-puppeting-tech\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;We have ways of making you talk&#8221;: Realtime facial puppeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>I don&#8217;t know karate, but I know ka-reepy&#8230;<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Looks super cool, though the idea of modifying lip syncing makes me envision a car cresting a hill into a desert in which a giant billboard reads &#8220;WELCOME TO THE UNCANNY VALLEY.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"453\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ohmajJTcpNk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>Quartz\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/654669\/nothing-is-real-german-scientists-figured-out-a-way-to-make-putin-and-trump-say-anything\/\">notes<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The project is a collaboration between computer scientists at Stanford University, the Max Planck Institute, and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany. The same team produced a similar study last year, but that iteration required data from special 3D cameras. Their new system works with any camera and any recorded video.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m also tempted to run the lip sync enhancer in reverse, causing a disconnect between actors &#038; the words they spoke. I&#8217;d then dub-aware fill the resulting gaps with awkward coughing &#038; grunting, a la classic chopsocky.<\/p>\n<p>In a related vein, see previous:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2015\/12\/30\/apple-now-owns-this-facial-animation-technology\/\">Apple now owns this facial animation technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ohmajJTcpNk\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Kevin McMahon]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know karate, but I know ka-reepy&#8230;\u00a0 Looks super cool, though the idea of modifying lip syncing makes me envision a car cresting a hill into a desert in which a giant billboard reads &#8220;WELCOME TO THE UNCANNY VALLEY.&#8221; \u2028 Quartz\u00a0notes, The project is a collaboration between computer scientists at Stanford University, the Max [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}