Deep Nostalgia uses video reenactment technology to animate faces in still photos

[ItsjustMe]

https://news.yahoo.com/deep-nostalgia-uses-video-reenactment-175615597.html

Those family photos hung on the wall might soon take on a new life.

The genealogy platform MyHeritage released a feature that animates faces in still photos using video reenactment technology.

The feature, called Deep Nostalgia, produces a realistic depiction of how a person could have moved and looked if they were captured on video.

Deep Nostalgia, licensed from the AI face platform D-ID, uses pre-recorded driver videos prepared by MyHeritage. The pre-recorded videos direct the movements in the animation and consist of sequences of real human gestures.

Users can upload a picture regardless of the number of faces in it. The photos are enhanced prior to animation using the MyHeritage Photo Enhancer.

Animate your family photos
https://www.myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia

[jmbar2]

1. omg that is amazing

Now I want to delete it and I can't. WTF!

[jmbar2]

2. OK, figured it out

[cayugafalls]

3. That is wild.

Gonna have to hunt down some of grandmas photos...

[lamp_shade]

4. That is absolutely fascinating. I just brought my mother to life......

A picture she sent my father in 1944-45 while he was in Europe during WWII.

[Frasier Balzov]

5. I just animated Abraham Lincoln.

How emancipating!

[Wednesdays]

6. Cool!

Now we'll have Hogwarts-style newspapers!

[Lucinda]

7. There are a ton of videos on youtube using this or a similar process with early photography and

portraits - pretty cool stuff