Photo Wake-Up: 3D Character Animation from a Single Photo

It’s so frustrating when the code or a binary isn’t released and we can’t play with this ourselves.<p>What’s the point of publicly releasing a paper with no real proof of work? They could be faking the algorithm.

At first I thought it was something that could be done in real time. Like, you walk up to any painting with the AR glasses on, do the gesture and it would extract a figure and animate it. On closer inspection, the artworks are also virtual in their example videos. I was hoping they would be real, it feel less impressive when none of it is really present.

It&#x27;s amazing but also creepy because characters still retain the non-animated face and&#x2F;or limbs like in Messi example; making faces moving seems to be logical next step for this technology.

I&#x27;m wondering how they texture the backside of animated characters?

did they release code also? I could not find any link anywhere?

Very impressive. Not to be a cynic, but how long before someone starts turning people inappropriately into frog marching saluting Nazis?! Or giving them an unfortunate Fortnite &quot;bounce&quot;.<p>I haven&#x27;t read the paper, but am curious how they get the face profile right (given the information is absent in the 2D source). Perhaps they set that manually or some kind of average face, but if it&#x27;s off it would be quite noticeable.

This is neat. Very neat, good implementation and interesting applications.

I was surprised at how quickly I went from slack-jawed amazement to wondering why the creators were so enamored with making a character run out of the frame that they never demonstrated using this to animate in context.

Looks super cool. I wonder if multiple subjects in the same photo could be animated. I sorta expected that from the picture with the Beatles ( assuming that gang of 4 Brittish looking guys was them )

a-ha - Take On Me (Official Music Video) <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=djV11Xbc914" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=djV11Xbc914</a>

I don&#x27;t know if anyone else here has seen _The Ring_, but the little girl walking out of the screen kind of freaked me out!

Oh great. Now we can make The Ring scene come alive. Merry Christmas.

Great, now you can have your own custom video game avatar from a single picture of yourself... gaming industry will love this

Am I the only one who is scared from these technological advances?

This is a series of known techniques assembled in a visually engaging manner, but is ultimately just a dumb gimmick. * Ability to go from image to model - multiple open source options * Ability to to from image to rigged figure model - multiple open source options * motion capture animation playback - trivial Unless this is instantaneous, which it is not, it&#x27;s an attention seeking toy with no original ip.