MyHeritage Deep Nostalgia Animates Faces In Old Photos
Many people worldwide look at old family photos of relatives who are long gone and wonder what they might look like had video been available decades ago. MyHeritage has developed a new technology called Deep Nostalgia that it calls a groundbreaking new photo feature and allows people to animate the faces in old family photos. The tool provides a realistic depiction of how people in old photos could have moved and looked if they were captured on video.
Deep Nostalgiauses deep learning algorithms to produce results that look very much like short video clips. Any faces in photos can be animated, allowing them to move, blink, and smile. The tool works on both black and white images and pictures taken in color. It also works for colorized photos or photos that are stored using MyHeritage In Color tools.
Deep Nostalgia offers the ability to share links of ancestors smiling, blinking, and turning their heads with friends and family. MyHeritage licensed the technology from D-ID, a company that specializes in video reenactment via deep learning. Photos submitted to Deep Nostalgia are automatically enhanced using other MyHeritage tools before being processed into a video animation.
The company says the enhancement is required to achieve as high-resolution an image as possible for the video conversion. The company says several possible gesture sequences can be applied to photo, with each originating from a pre-recorded driver video prepared in advance. Those driver videos guide the animation’s movements, allowing users to see ancestors smile, blink, and turn their heads.
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