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AI Can Generate a 3D Model of a Person After Watching a Few Seconds of Video (sciencemag.org)
An anonymous reader shares a report: A new algorithm creates 3D models using standard video footage from one angle. The system has three stages. First, it analyzes a video a few seconds long of someone moving -- preferably turning 360-degree to show all sides -- and for each frame creates a silhouette separating the person from the background. Based on machine learning techniques -- in which computers learn a task from many examples -- it roughly estimates the 3D body shape and location of joints. In the second stage, it "unposes" the virtual human created from each frame, making them all stand with arms out in a T shape, and combines information about the T-posed people into one, more accurate model. Finally, in the third stage, it applies color and texture to the model based on recorded hair, clothing, and skin.
It's a scan without a scanner. Again, though more convenient, we already have this, I'm failing to see the 'revolution'.
Assuming that it can be made to run on home computers, that is.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
"preferably turning 360-degree to show all sides"
So it's a 3D scanner where the object rotates rather than the camera.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_reconstruction_from_multiple_images
Based on the video, what we should really be working on is how to make such models move like a real human.
Doesn't seem like it has much to do with artificial intelligence.
Neat scanner program, though.
And next it shows you killing Kennedy.
Yup, Slashdot is nothing but a garbage outlet for AI hype. Guess msmash is using this site as their thesis for their A.S. in Marketing.
...In the next stage the system uses the phenotype information shown in the video combined with the 99.9999% shared genetic information between all humans to create a nearly exact genome for the person. ...In the final step the AI system uses your likes, preferences, cookie trails and other information gleaned from your online life to fill in the life experience portion and recreate your personality.
This all allows the marketers to then pinpoint your exact weaknesses to advertising so that you BUY, BUY, BUY, BUY!!!!
Jesus... Everything is AI these days. That's like calling a newborn baby making fart noises a classical musician. At best, the baby could be employed for background music in mumble rap songs. A classical musician? Heavens no.
This is one step closer to the computer generated porn.
Please, 911 attacks definitely happened and were carried out by Saudis. The proof that it happened is : two enormous planes flew into two enormous towers.
The last thing we need is that people seeking truth and denouncing the crimes of the US, UK and France get smeared as WTC conspiracy lunatics.
In fact, being skeptical of unsubstantiated conspiracies is maybe what's needed to denounce real conspiracies.
My take : WTC wasn't an inside job. Iraq didn't have chemical weapons. Syria never used chemical weapons in the current war.
Watching a video and from that being able to build a 3d model of a person.... ....is something that normally requires intelligence. Rocks can't do it. Neither can plants. Nor steam engines.
This fits the definition of Artificial Intelligence exactly.
You just have some kind of chip on your shoulder.
This is actually one of the advances I had predicted many years ago. The next steps are interesting but ultimately you end up with what I refer to as "Rapid Physical Modeling" where in you can take an object, do a quick 360 view of it and then capture it's physical properties by manipulating it. A simple example is demonstrating how a potted plant can bend and it's ability to bend and spring back are inferred. The obvious benefit of this is that you can quickly model things with complex interactive response. With a little data regarding the material, clothing for your character could quickly be modeled and react properly (think folding) to the characters physical movements.
I'm looking forward to characters in Final Fantasy XVIII having to constantly adjust their clothing because it's construction patently absurd. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Even the summary describes it as a [learning] algorithm. Yes, it's bloody impressive, but it's an algorithm tuned to execute one specific task. If anything it's an Artificial Savant.
Then generate the 3D model, then 3D print a sex doll of her.
A new algorithm creates 3D models using standard video footage from one angle. The system has three stages. First, it analyzes a video a few seconds long of someone moving -- preferably turning 360-degree to show all sides
That's not one angle, then, is it?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
I don't see the word "revolution" that you are citing and disagreeing with anywhere in the article, where is it?
So we could model Trump, and calculate his true weight? I mention it, because his doctor Ronny L. Jackson, says he is 6 foot 3, and 239 pounds. Which he isn't. But is it a big lie or a little lie?
Normally lying like this wouldn't matter, its just vanity, but Trump appointed his doctor as head of the Veterans Affairs, so this mans lying for Trump is now a government matter. His government VA job requires he tell the truth even if Trump wants him to lie.
Photogrammetry is called AI now? Cyber cloud AI coders come and get your BS right here!
What is artificial and intelligent about this?
Nope, I know the perils of NERV gear, and I certainly do not want two years worth of semen to glop into my hand.