Those who still have doubts about the revolutionary possibilities of Artificial Intelligence should take a look at the video embedded below. What we see here is the control of static facial expressions driven by a video of another actor.
The facial expressions are not only transferred as in morphing, but missing image content is intelligently replaced or synthesized. The user only has to contribute the driving video and does not have to intervene manually.
The results are still mixed, from rather uncanny to WFT. However, the successful motifs show what will be possible with this technology in the near future. Not only that we are likely to be confronted with artificially animated portrait icons in the social networks. For actors, too, this technique should make it increasingly clear that synthetic facial expressions will also work for everyone in the future in postproduction. Oh my ....
