Genealogy site MyHeritage has introduced a new device based on artificial intelligence (AI) that converts old images into critical videos.
The recently launched AI tool is called Deep Nostalgia and uses technology to animate images licensed by the Israeli company D-ID, which specifically uses video reactivation using deep learning. Deep Nostalgia uses the company’s technology to animate the faces in historical images and to create very high and true video scenes.
In fact, it paints a true picture of how someone from an old photo might have moved and watched if they were captured on video.
As well as bringing to life the old black-and-white images, Deep Nostalgia can also be used to animate colorful illustrations. “It works just as well on black and white and original color photographs. It also works well on color and color-coded images using MyHeritage In Color, ”explained MyHeritage in a blog post.
Using this new AI tool is very simple. All you have to do is go to myheritage.com/deep-nostalgia, upload a picture and follow the on-screen instructions. MyHeritage says there are several sets of possible gestures that can be applied to a photo, each coming from a pre-programmed driver video pre-prepared. The driver videos direct movements in the animation so users can see their ancestors laughing, pushing, and turning their heads.
The company said in their blog post that it monitors the direction of the head and the direction of the eyes, and automatically selects which driver is best and applies it to the face that has been fitted. election. The result is a high quality video animation of an individual face that can smile, bend, and move.