#MyHeritage offers a new #AI tool to turn #photos of the dead into ‘creepy’ #videos
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Genealogy website MyHeritage has unveiled a new tool, called DeepNostalgia, based on artificial intelligence (AI) that animates the faces in photographs. According to MyHeritage, the site has licensed the technology from an Israeli company D-ID that specializes in video reenactment using “deep learning”. The tool uses several drivers prepared by MyHeritage to animate the faces in photographs.
“Each driver is a video consisting of a fixed sequence of movements and gestures. Deep Nostalgia can very accurately apply the drivers to a face in your still photo, creating a short video that you can share with your friends and family. The driver guides the movements in the animation so you can see your ancestors smile, blink, and turn their heads,” says the website.
Since the feature requires a high-resolution face to apply the animation, MyHeritage has combined it with a photo enhancer to increase the resolution and sharpen the faces of small and blurry images, as is the case with old and historical photographs. The firm said that the technology doesn’t include speech to avoid the creation of “deepfake people”, however, they did create a voice for a reanimated Abraham Lincoln, the former president of the United States.
In its FAQs about the technology, the company admitted that the results of the feature can be controversial, adding that it’s “hard to stay indifferent to this technology.” “Some people love the Deep Nostalgia feature and consider it magical, while others find it creepy and dislike it,” the firm wrote. It has also requested people to use the feature in their own historical photos and not on photos featuring living people without their consent.
Meanwhile, social media users have been sharing reanimated videos, which many have deemed unnerving, using the tool on the photographs of historical figures. They have shared the reanimated videos of Indian freedom fighter Bhagat Singh, philosopher Aurobindo Ghosh, and American scientist Rosalind Franklin among others.
Getting started:
According to a tutorial on the platform's website, to animate new photos that haven’t been uploaded to MyHeritage yet, users can upload and animate them link given in the description
Click “Upload photo” to choose a file from your computer. Or, drag and drop a photo of your choice into the photo frame.
Once users upload a photo, they will be asked to sign up to MyHeritage to animate the photos. Signing up is free. If users already have a MyHeritage account and aren’t logged in, they can select the “Log in” option on the bottom of the popup.
Once the photo has been uploaded, users can select a face to animate from among the individual faces that have been detected in the image.
Animating one face in a photo typically takes between 10 to 20 seconds, depending on the length of the driver video that we’re applying to it. Videos that consist of a longer sequence of gestures take longer to create.
Once the animated video is ready it will start playing immediately. Hover over it to pause the video at any point.
Once complete, users will be able to watch the output video of the animation.
"Seeing our beloved ancestors’ faces come to life in a video simulation lets us imagine how they might have been in reality, and provides a profound new way of connecting to our family history."
