This year, the trend of AI repairing ancient videos and restoring historical figures is extremely popular at home and abroad, making the majority of netizens overwhelmingly addicted.
Previously, the Weibo blogger @大谷Spitzer, who became popular because of the restoration of the street view in the Republic of China (click this article to review "AI Repairs the Street View of Beijing in the Republic of China, and the fire will take you across the entire network"), fundamentally on the way to restore and restore historical data can not stop.
No, from December 6th to 7th, he successively released his latest work: using AI to restore portraits of emperors of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties. As soon as the video was launched, it was quickly searched. Weibo has been viewed 7.86 million times. All netizens have experienced the feeling of being "face to face" with the emperors.
AI What is the emperor's appearance of brain supplement? In the latest installment of
, Dagu selected eight Ming and Qing emperors: Zhu Di (Emperor Yongle), Zhu Gaochi, Zhu Qizhen, Zhu Youjian (Emperor Chongzhen), Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Guangxu, and a female Fucha The pure empress Xiaoxian, and four emperors of the Song Dynasty: Song Taizu, Song Taizong, Song Zhezong, Song Huizong, and AI restoration.
Emperor of the Ming Dynasty: The national character face
of the Qing Dynasty has experienced twelve and sixteen emperors. Otani selected four representative emperors to restore their appearance. Netizens read it and said: The family of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, at first glance, looks rugged.
The left picture is the AI restoration picture, and the right picture is the historical portrait
Qing emperor: the emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty are one of the most common emperors in film and television dramas. Obviously different from the Ming Dynasty, the faces of the Qing emperors were "slanted and long."
In addition, Otani also restored Emperor Qianlong's life love, Empress Fucha, which looks gentle and dignified.
Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin: a military officer, dark skin
Song Taizu, the founding emperor of the Song Dynasty (Northern Song Dynasty), ancestral home in Baosai County, Zhuo County (now Baoding City, Hebei Province), Han nationality, reigned for 16 years. During his reign, he strengthened the centralization of power, promoted literati politics, and created a flourishing era of Chinese culture.
Song Taizu fought all the year round, so he had dark skin
Song Zhezong Zhao Xu: The Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty played the role of
Song Zhezong reigned for 15 years. He died at the age of only 23 and was buried in Yongtai Tomb in Gong County, Henan today. Although he was not in power for a long time and passed away young, he was highly regarded by later generations, who believed that he was a naturally intelligent and decisive emperor.
Song Huizong Zhao Ji: The artist who was detained by the dragon chair
Song Huizong can be described as a literary youth. He is not only an emperor, but also a painter, calligrapher, poet, poet, and collector. He has a wide range of hobbies and is good at Guqin, Cuju, and Juju. , Hunting, and create the "Skinny Golden Book" font.
People often describe him as an "artist who was held back by a dragon chair". As the eighth emperor of the Song Dynasty, Song Huizong reigned for 25 years. During his lifetime, he experienced the catastrophe of Jingkang. In the end, he was captured and tortured to death.
compare facial features and accurately calculate the similarity of actors
After seeing the "true faces" of the emperors, which actors do you think are the most similar in previous film and television dramas? Otani used AI to rate the similarity of the actors.
Otani uses SeetaFace, an AI facial recognition open source project developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, to rank the similarity of the restored emperor and its actors by extracting and comparing facial features. Among them, the highest score is the star face closest to the target person.
After AI analysis, among the actors of Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, Chen Jianbin ranked first with a similarity of 40.42%. However, by comparison, it is possible that most of the similarity score is contributed by the beard.
Among the actors of Emperor Kangxi, Chen Daoming finally became the most similar actor with a similarity of 48.8%:
The emperor of the Qing Dynasty has a relatively slender face, and this version of Chen Daoming does have a higher similarity
Artbreeder: an AI artifact that generates images online
According to Otani, he used PaddleGAN, AI Studio, Artbreeder and the face recognition technology SeetaFace developed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in the process of restoring the portrait of the ancient emperor.
Among them, Artbreeder is a tool often used when domestic and foreign engineers restore portraits of historical figures.
A foreign designer, Daniel Voshart
, also used this technology when restoring portraits of ancient Roman emperors. Model, its algorithm analyzes a large number of images to model more realistic facial shapes, features, hair and skin, and add bright colors.
On the Artbreeder official website, users can create different styles of portraits and animations online through parameter settings of up to 34 different dimensions. These parameters include age, gender, race, skin color, hair color, mouth shape, etc. Changing the parameters will cause the portrait to change accordingly.
also has a face-changing gameplay, which can merge two different faces. In addition to the usual adjustment of character facial details and face-changing gameplay, users can also freely perform image fusion and creation. For example, choose any number of pictures and merge them as you want:
four landscape pictures can be merged into a variety of renderings
Artbreeder originally originated from an experimental project Ganbreeder by an artist Joel Simon, which is a collaborative art tool used to explore images. After that, in continuous optimization, it has become a new creative tool, allowing users to take advantage of the power of AI to create the images they want.
Current users of Artbreeder have created more than 70 million images in total. Some netizens even said that they have been addicted to Artbreeder, using it to generate avatars, album covers, landscape pictures and two-dimensional avatars online.
The application of these technologies is not only for entertainment. While refreshing the screen on social platforms, it has also played an important role in video restoration and historical data restoration.
In 2019, "The Wandering of San Mao" restored by AI technology was screened at the Shanghai International Film Festival. In the same year, the "Founding Ceremony" also adopted AI technology in the restoration process (see "High-definition color founding ceremony will be screened: With the blessing of technology, history will not fade").
believes that these technologies will further generate more new value in the fields of art creation, film and television in the future.
Artbreeder official website portal:
https://www.artbreeder.com/
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