[HN Gopher] Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflo...
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Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with Tensorflow.js
Author : headalgorithm
Score : 120 points
Date : 2020-09-25 16:20 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| dhritzkiv wrote:
| The blinking is a nice touch.
| jianshen wrote:
| I'm still stunned we're able to achieve all this in a web browser
| today (not the processing power but how accessible this is to
| people). Great job, Emily!
| TensorFlowJS wrote:
| Check out #MadeWithTFJS on Twitter/LinkedIn to see what others
| have made for even more inspiration!
| freedomben wrote:
| Really neat. That's some really great work there.
|
| Maybe an off-topic comment, but as an older developer I'm
| increasingly feeling left-behind by newer advances, especially
| AI/ML. I remember the feeling of being a student and junior dev
| and feeling that a lot of code and frameworks and such was
| "magic." When I got more experience/education it stopped being
| magic and started being brilliant. I'm almost back to where
| everything new and cool is "magic" again.
| muglug wrote:
| You never _need_ to stop learning. I can say with some
| confidence that the author of this article had not used
| TensorFlow.js 12 months ago.
| grugagag wrote:
| Yes but one needs some time away from the computer especially
| when they have a family, eg. young children to spend time
| with. I personally accept that I'll never catch up with all
| the new technologies but hope get to toy with the most
| significant parts in the future. At the same time I want to
| give the offline life a chance, there are old technologies
| such as acoustic instruments and phisical medium painting
| that are rewarding as the new stuff and they offer a
| different perspective into processes, sometimes deliberately
| slow and deep
| TensorFlowJS wrote:
| You can if you can find just 10 minutes. See my reply
| above.
| akiselev wrote:
| That's how I felt until I watched a few videos about the low
| level details of neural networks. It's just basic statistics
| and calculus! Not just in a "it's turtles all the way down"
| kind of way, but in a "18th century king could have hired
| Leibniz and a thousand monks to run training on papyrus" kind
| of way.
|
| Relative to impact, no other field of CS has implementation
| details as underwhelming as deep learning IMO. The magic is in
| the GPU and the high level libraries that let you make entire
| models with a few lines of Python.
| TensorFlowJS wrote:
| Anyone who reads this can recognize any object in their room
| right now in less than 5 minutes of their time if they want to
| using TensorFlow.js model creation in the browser. ML is not so
| hard to get started with these days. Check this short tutorial
| on how to make a custom object classification model in minutes
| for a quick prototype if you are up for the challenge (5 mins
| of your time):
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z05bjEEgVQc&feature=youtu.be...
| bryan0 wrote:
| cool. reminds me of this simpler project which my kids had fun
| playing around with: https://github.com/yemount/pose-animator
| TensorFlowJS wrote:
| Shan's pose animator is totally awesome. New updates coming ;-)
| echelon wrote:
| This is awesome! Great work on getting this running in
| tensorflow.js !
|
| Question on business / strategy for my "startup" (actually just a
| side project) in this space.
|
| I was just working on a server side streaming implementation of
| first-order-model for https://vo.codes
|
| I'm trying to build a 1-stop shop for deep fake memes, and first-
| order-model and wav2lip are two of the video processing
| facilities I want to add.
|
| My product pipeline is to add the video tools, a Twitter/Discord
| bot, and voice conversion (which I have working). I'm hoping to
| draw enough traffic that I can run a Kickstarter to give me
| runway to build a client-side real time voice and video
| conversion app for gamers, Twitch streamers, Discord, etc.
|
| I already have real time voice conversion working, I'm just
| struggling with the time to do it as this is still in the "side
| project" phase.
|
| Does anybody think this is a sound strategy? Does Kickstarter
| work well for product funding? I've demonstrated lots of interest
| (millions of uses of vo.codes, and growing), but my marketing
| strategy is still weak. How can I fix this?
| zachthewf wrote:
| I first saw vo.codes in the huge pandemic project thread and
| have been following it since then. Very exciting to see your
| user base and the Discord community around it grow.
|
| Regarding monetization, have you considered either having a
| paid API tier or simply licensing the models for use?
| Anecdotally it seems like there are many hobbyists and
| companies messing around with synthetic voice projects and
| providing all the vo.codes voices could be a big value add for
| many of them.
| etaioinshrdlu wrote:
| This would be a really great physical product, although
| exceedingly silly.
| sweetheart wrote:
| Ive been rewatching all the Harry Potter movies recently, and
| have kept a very small list of cool things I'd like to try to
| replicate in the HP universe with software. So it's funny to see
| this in the front page of HN, as it's a perfect example of doing
| just that! I'd love to see some classic Renaissance paintings
| brought to life to display in the house, like the paintings which
| line Hogwarts.
| crooked-v wrote:
| Samsung's pricey but interesting "The Frame" line of TVs is
| designed to blend in as wall art when not in active use,
| including what's supposed to be brightness adjustment to match
| room light levels (though I haven't seen one in person to tell
| how much it works). Hook something like that up and you could
| probably have some fairly convincing 'living art'.
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