The submitted URL was <a href="https://waifu.lofiu.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">https://waifu.lofiu.com/index.html</a>. Since the thread is filling up with complaints about redirects, spam, and malware, we've changed the URL for now to the one mentioned here: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032129" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032129</a>. If the original site settles down, we can change it back.
I get redirected to a spam website from this page.<p><a href="https://postimg.cc/svwnR4rK" rel="nofollow">https://postimg.cc/svwnR4rK</a>
<i>> The selfie dataset contains 46,836 selfie images annotated with 36 different attributes. We only use photos of females as training data and test data. The size of the training dataset is 3400,and that of the test dataset is 100, with the image size of 256 x 256. The size of the training dataset is 3400,and that of the test dataset is 100, with the image size of 256 x 256. For the anime dataset, we havefirstly retrieved 69,926 animation character images from Anime-Planet1. Among those images,27,023 face images are extracted by using an anime-face detector2.</i><p>These seem tiny, don't NNs need more samples to achieve decent quality?
One day people will have computers embedded into their optic and auditory nerves.<p>They will quite literally see a fantasy world, with filters and augmented reality changing everything they perceive.<p>Deep fakes and 3D transforms will mean any horny people can see anyone they want to naked. Other people will be able to live in a complete Lord of the Rings fantasy world with dragons, magic, elves and orcs.
The Github page has a lot more information: <a href="https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT</a><p>Might be worth changing the link to this.
I would be very careful with sending data here as the website has no Privacy Policy. We don't know how this data is being used.<p>This website however, present a Privacy Policy: <a href="https://selfie2anime.com/" rel="nofollow">https://selfie2anime.com/</a><p>I am not promoting one site or another. I did not read the PP of the selfie2anime.com either.<p>You can check the other implementations here (currently only two):<p><a href="https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT#web-page" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT#web-page</a>
The results: I wasn't impressed with the results, it seemed like I could have done better using some OpenCV and first principle algorithms. The examples they give are excellent, but when trying them they are awful.<p>The viruses: I didn't see all these viruses people were talking about, the software worked "as intended" for me without the redirects. There was no advertising on the page either... I run with uBlock Origin in Chromium.<p>The dataset: Where do these images come from? These seem like the sorts of pictures that might be uploaded to some older social media website, like Bebo or something.<p>2 cents: Personally I would like to try and do some work with a dataset that has a 1:1 mapping of person to character, but that would require artists and quite a bit of money. I was thinking that you could build out such a database for free by randomly matching anime characters and real pictures together and have a human rate closeness - then train a network based on these ratings.
Mine looks really good.<p>One wonders if sites like this exist to link faces to IP addresses, though. Get someone to upload a selfie from their computer, then you can add it to your database. Share on Facebook and Twitter, and they know your socials. Next time you walk into a store (post-mask era anyway), they find you in the database, and can see if you've visited their website or not, who your friends are, what sort of things you're interested in, etc.<p>I'm almost surprised that this isn't more common, now that I think about it.<p>Edit to add: I had to flag this link. The site is now redirecting to malware. I guess people did in fact want that database!
I couldn't try because it has some of the most aggressive ads i've ever seen. After I upload a pic it says my phone needs cleaning and sends me to a cleaning app on the play store. No time to check the results.
Somewhat related someone made this anime character generator I think it's pretty impressive make.girls.moe<p>Can be a time sink as you keep pressing generate over and over.
Put some donation links (PayPal/bitcoin/patreon), try using teir 1 ad companies like Google AdSense and if they don't accept you, try something like native ads (outbrain)<p>I can understand how such GPU intensive website can be difficult to support for a creator.
I gave both of them a whirl[0]. The second one is OK?<p>[0]: <a href="https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/04/30/ML" rel="nofollow">https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/04/30/ML</a>
A few casual observations:<p>* Looks like the expression is almost always the same.<p>* The backgrounds seem remarkably well replicated in many of these.