[HN Gopher] AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime
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AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime
Author : aliabd
Score : 124 points
Date : 2021-11-09 14:34 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| wodenokoto wrote:
| I thought the selfie to waifu generator created much more
| interesting and anime like results.
|
| It does look like it doesn't work anymore though.
|
| https://waifu.lofiu.com/
| coldacid wrote:
| Tried a headshot of myself framed like the example pictures and
| all I got was something that looked like it was bombed by effects
| out of Paint.NET. Definitely looked nothing like an anime
| character.
| warning26 wrote:
| Even the example pictures don't really look like anime, they
| just look like some kind of unrealistic "drawing" filter.
| messo wrote:
| The example with Bill Gates at the bottom is wild! The "teardrop"
| under one of his eyes makes it slightly gangster, and the smooth
| face and awkward smile reminds me of a much younger Bill.
| Fascinating.
| chillingeffect wrote:
| at first the result disappointed me (emotionally, not
| technically), but after a few minutes I went back to it and was
| struck by the feel the image brought out. It really reflected
| some of the wistfulness and sadness I feel with a tiny touch of
| optimism. I'm not well-versed in anime, but that does seem to be
| a little bit of the feel that I get from it. bravo.
| bobobob420 wrote:
| Unless this is open source and I can run all of the code locally
| with no internet connection I am not doing this. Am I too
| paranoid?
| ShamelessC wrote:
| It is and you can.
| webmaven wrote:
| Like many other comments, I don't see much resemblance to anime
| styles, but dismissing the results as a Photoshop filter is nuts.
|
| The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A
| Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone.
| MisterTea wrote:
| > The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A
| Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone.
|
| Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and
| trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of
| your irl footage.
| erichocean wrote:
| The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR
| film and _Fire and Ice_ shortly thereafter, both by the same
| director.
|
| Logically, very similar during production to how _Avatar_ was
| made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to
| change the camera after capture).
|
| Pretty impressive results given the budget and time
| requirements.
| webmaven wrote:
| _> The first animated films to do this were the animated
| LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the
| same director._
|
| Although rotoscoping is a venerable technique, the results
| we're looking at with this service don't bear much
| stylistic resemblance to early works like Fire and Ice or
| Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (or more recent rotoscoped
| works like The Little Mermaid either). If they did, I'd
| have given them a pass on the 'anime' claim, even though
| calling the Disney house style -- or Bakshi's -- 'anime' is
| still a stretch.
| Pxtl wrote:
| Actually while Bakshi was the first to make a movie that
| went all in on rotoscoping (particularly Fire and Ice where
| it was 100% rotoscoped while LOTR was a mixed bag) the
| first animated film to heavily leverage rotoscoping was
| Snow White.
| wodenokoto wrote:
| There was a lot of rotoscoping going on in Disney's
| Snowwhite
| bj-rn wrote:
| Remided me of "Waifu Synthesis- real time generative anime":
| http://everyoneishappy.com/portfolio/waifu-synthesis-real-ti...
| peterthehacker wrote:
| Tried with Elon and Gates, but both threw this error
| Error occured while trying to proxy: hf.space/
| aliabd wrote:
| Sorry, we had to restart the interface for a separate issue.
| Please try again
| dryst wrote:
| Lol @ the Bill Gates to middle aged woman with teardrop tattoo.
| snvzz wrote:
| A gallery of examples would be nice.
|
| Else, it's too much effort. People are gonna just close the
| browser tab, like I did.
| aliabd wrote:
| You're right, see 100s of examples posted by users here:
| https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...
| villasv wrote:
| Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch
| hiccuphippo wrote:
| Yes, Anime has many different kinds of aesthetics but not
| what this generates. Perhaps it should be renamed
| PaintingGAN or CartoonGAN?
| jackorange wrote:
| Surely the primary reason for the name is much fewer
| people would click and share otherwise. It's clickbait
| with software.
| jackorange wrote:
| Right, I don't see the "anime" part. This just looks like
| one of the thousands of nameless photo editing software
| filters.
| l33tman wrote:
| To be honest, it looks pretty weird... the eyes are
| asymmetrical..
|
| The Snap filter that does something similar to this looks
| much better, is live, and doesn't use a ton of deep learning
| I think :)
| zinclozenge wrote:
| I guess it's impressive you can train a network to do that,
| but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop filter.
| handrous wrote:
| Now that AI figured out how to press the "posterize"
| button, the singularity is surely just around the corner.
|
| Yeah, glad there were examples, saved me trying it. Results
| are nowhere close to what I expected. Zero of them looked
| like anime at all, for one thing. Many truly did look like
| one or two basic Photoshop filters had been applied, and
| that was it.
| onion2k wrote:
| _I guess it 's impressive you can train a network to do
| that, but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop
| filter._
|
| I'm not sure if you're saying it's bad because you're
| underestimating how powerful some Photoshop filters are, or
| if you're saying it's good because you aren't.
| civilized wrote:
| The Squid Game one looks kind of okay but the rest are
| uninspired.
| bnjms wrote:
| There is one further down for a Comic-Con and it looks
| really good. The rest less so. But it's a good filter.
| sschueller wrote:
| Waisted resources by not providing pre rendered versions of the
| 7 examples. I had to wait 3 minutes to render one.
| ur-whale wrote:
| I'd be curious to see how well / stable this behaves under
| animation.
| zellyn wrote:
| Found this under that twitter thread mentioned above:
| https://twitter.com/AIconference/status/1457622949901574149
| ALittleLight wrote:
| That's really good. I could see this being a popular filter.
| remram wrote:
| Waited 10min then got an error.
| Minor49er wrote:
| Same for me
| aliabd wrote:
| Sorry we had to restart the interface - can you try again?
| codein wrote:
| Did not manage to get any result. Is the service down?
| TulliusCicero wrote:
| Interesting, you can see how it feminizes faces quite clearly in
| the examples of Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Gates looks kind of
| like Ellen DeGeneres to me in the anime version.
| kroltan wrote:
| Great, now I can generate random cartoon portraits by combining
| this with https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/
|
| I do second the observation that this isn't nearly "Anime" style
| by any definition or sample of the style I've ever seen. I would
| expect to see these results in a GTA 5 loading screen.
| Pxtl wrote:
| Ugh, it doesn't properly respect EXIF rotation tags so if I try
| to post from my phone it gets mangled. EXIF rotation has got to
| be the most absurdly poorly supported feature of a common file
| type like jpeg.
| aliabd wrote:
| This was built on top of the Pytorch implementation [0] of
| AnimeGANv2, using gradio [1] and HuggingFace Spaces [2]. See the
| 100s of examples [3] posted by users.
|
| [0]: https://github.com/bryandlee/animegan2-pytorch [1]:
| https://gradio.app [2]: https://huggingface.co/spaces [3]:
| https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...
| karaterobot wrote:
| Does the app keep any data after generating the image?
| aliabd wrote:
| Nothing is saved by default. Clicking 'flag' saves the input
| and output (only accessible to the space owner). More info on
| flagging: https://gradio.app/getting_started/#flagging
| amelius wrote:
| Nice, but the problem I have with this and similar techniques is
| that if you zoom out sufficiently far, then you don't see a
| difference with the original image. This is not how "anime" is
| supposed to work.
| fxtentacle wrote:
| Yes, it learns to replace the high-frequency features while
| leaving low frequencies intact, just like all those other style
| transfer CNNs.
| ksec wrote:
| May be those examples should have instant results? I guess most
| people are just clicking them to see what it looks likes instead
| of waiting 100s.
|
| Most of them look like photoshop filter as per other comments,
| but IU and Billie Eilish definitely looks good.
| cinntaile wrote:
| People keep stating these look like photoshop filters. This is
| a very shallow dismissal imo. Why don't you prove it instead by
| applying some Photoshop filters and achieving a similar effect?
| Include how long it took as well.
| GhettoComputers wrote:
| Who decided this was anime? It doesn't look like any anime I have
| ever seen, it just looks like a smoothing filter. It looks more
| like a toonme but not as good and maybe more private? For
| referece look at this waifu generator, nobody would call these
| portrait conversions anime. http://thiswaifudoesnotexist.com/
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