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Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« on: Friday 26 February 21 14:04 GMT (UK) »
I have just spent about 3 or 4 hours animating old family photos using the new My Heritage Photo Animate software.
The software scans a photo and picks out the individual faces (head and shoulders) of the people in it. It then animates the resultant image.
It is quite amazing to see a person who died in 1888 move their head about and even smile at you, when all you have ever seen before is a still image.
The software is not always perfect but it is still amazing.
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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #1 on: Friday 26 February 21 14:06 GMT (UK) »
Sounds creepy.

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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #2 on: Friday 26 February 21 14:25 GMT (UK) »
Sounds creepy.

No it is just like looking at a video of someone rather than a photo, it is only creepy if you imagination is allowed to run wild.
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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #3 on: Friday 26 February 21 14:35 GMT (UK) »
Someone did a couple for me a few months ago here on RootsChat.  They were excellent - very amusing.  I'll try to find them.
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis


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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #4 on: Friday 26 February 21 14:39 GMT (UK) »
Phooey.  This is the thread but, alas, the animations are no longer available.  They were excellent.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=827429.18
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #5 on: Friday 26 February 21 15:38 GMT (UK) »
You can see it in action here.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #7 on: Friday 26 February 21 18:33 GMT (UK) »
You can see it in action here.

https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

These are amazing.

What is also amazing is the way the software picks out each face on the image and animates that face individually. It is not perfect and varies according to whether the face is front on or at an angle to full face, but for something that require no setting up it is brilliant.
I have used it for all sorts of photos, both black & white and colour, drawings and even sketches.
Some appear almost like videos others have slight thickening in places as the image moves. The most disconcerting one I did was my great, great grandmother who was wearing a bonnet, as her head and hair moved the bonnet stayed where it was.
Strangely that was the only photo that did that.
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Re: Deepfake - or Deep Nostalgia bringing back your ancestors with MyHeritage
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 27 February 21 07:52 GMT (UK) »
The Daily Mail had an article on this yesterday. The animated images are amazing.

I went to put the link on here but the Mail have removed the animations. :-\

Ok, found an example on Twitter, hope it’s allowed on here.

https://www.rootschat.com/links/01qcw/
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