I'm gonna need a big priest and a little priest!
This is absolutely mindblowing from MyHeritage (www.myheritage.com). First, the announcement...
I’m excited to announce the release of our latest feature for historical photos, Deep Nostalgia™! Deep Nostalgia™ animates the faces in still photos, and gives family history a fresh new perspective by producing a realistic depiction of how a person could have moved and looked if they were captured on video.
The technology for animating the faces in photos was licensed by MyHeritage from D-ID, a company that specializes in video reenactment using deep learning. Deep Nostalgia™ uses several pre-recorded driver videos, which direct the movements in the animation and consist of sequences of real human gestures. A preferred driver is automatically selected for each face based on its orientation, and then seamlessly applied to the photo. The result is a short, high-quality video animation of an individual face that can smile, blink, and move. To achieve optimal results, the photos are enhanced prior to animation using the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer, which brings blurry and low-resolution faces into focus and increases their resolution.
To try the feature out visit www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia/
COMMENT: Clears throat: Ho-ly sh*t balls with little animated bells on...!!!!
First, here's my great grandfather David Hepburn Paton (1864-1916), after I had previously processed him through MyHeritage's enhancement and colourisation tools:
Now this is David after MyHeritage evolved its toolkit from the realms of genealogy into digital sorcery!
I genuinely don't know whether to fetch a priest to yell "The power of Christ compels you" at it, or to just drop everything immediately and play with this new toy for the rest of the month...!
It really takes a lot to impress me, but I'm properly impressed with this. And just a little freaked...
Nice one!
(With thanks to Daniel Horowitz)
Chris
Just out, Sharing Your Family History Online is on sale at https://bit.ly/SharingFamHist. Tracing Your Scottish Family History on the Internet, at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scottish2 is also out, as are Tracing Your Irish Family History on the Internet (2nd ed) at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Irish1 and Tracing Your Scottish Ancestry Through Church and State Records at http://bit.ly/ChrisPaton-Scotland1. Further news published daily on The Scottish GENES Facebook page, and on Twitter @genesblog.
Freaky indeed. Now I may spend more time on this than I should.
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