Photo Wake-up AI turns still photos of humans into living beings

The latest leap forward in visual AI is downright mesmerizing

A new algorithm, developed by University of Washington and Facebook, can “wake up” people in still photos.

via Fast Company: https://www.fastcompany.com/90362225/the-latest-leap-forward-in-visual-ai-is-downright-mesmerizing

It’s one more crack in the fabric of reality as we know it: Researchers at the University of Washington and Facebook have described their work on software that can take any image containing a human body—whether in a painting or a photograph—and automatically create an animated character that walks through the still image.

Appropriately, they call it Photo Wake-Up.