Disney develops AI capable of rejuvenating and aging the faces of its actors in movies

Disney has developed a new neural network that rejuvenates or ages the appearance of people in a faster and more precise process, in order to use it in film or television recordings.

Disney’s system is called FRAN, for the acronym of Face Re-aging Network or face aging network and unlike other techniques based on artificial intelligence (AI), it offers an automatic age readjustment process.

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FRAN offers artists a set of tools to adjust the effect of age on a person’s face precisely and directlyimportant in film or television production, where sometimes the same actor plays his character at different stages of life.

Other AI-based systems rely on three-dimensional modeling of the face, which is animated and rendered to impersonate the actual face of the actor, or frame-by-frame digital retouching on a two-dimensional model.

“For all we know, FRAN is the first method to provide high-resolution, time-stable aging results in videos that show faces in different expressions and under conditions of free point of view, depth, movement and lighting.have expressed those responsible for this project in the text of the investigation.

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The system “offers a realistic and continuous aging in an age range between 18 and 85 years”and has the potential to enhance current age realignment work “reducing the time it takes to re-age entire takes from a matter of days to just a few hours or even minutes”.

It is not, for the moment, a perfect system, since FRAN presents difficulties in adjusting very young ages and large image changes. Even so, its use can have negative purposes, something that its developers are aware of, who, however, emphasize its use for entertainment purposes.

Source: Elcomercio

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