ARArtWomb·Oct 6, 2020
In Ask HN: What are the most fun-to-play-with open source deep learning projects?deepfakes
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deepfakes / faceswap
faceswap
Deepfakes Software For All
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| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 1 | 7 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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12 sourcesSome recent links and models and code, updated early 2020 Q1
https://github.com/iperov/DeepFaceLab ("More than 95% of deepfake videos are created with DeepFaceLab. DeepFaceLab is used by such popular youtube channels as Ctrl Shift Face, Sham00k, Collider videos, VFXChris Ume")
https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
https://faceswap.dev/
https://forum.faceswap.dev/
https://dfblue.com/
https://pub.dfblue.com/pub/2019-10-25-deepfacelab-tutorial
In Pinscreen Deepfake Live Prototype [video]A different git repository has a "manifesto" of sorts explaining why they think it is ethical to release:
https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap#faceswap-has-ethical-u...
In DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videosThere is also:
https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
With a big development community and interesting results.
In DeepFaceLab: A tool that utilizes ML to replace faces in videosA moderator changed it because of the tendentious use of the word 'censors'. Initially we changed it to the title of this issue that addresses the topic: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392, but it turns out that wording was a bit unclear, so we modified it to be clearer.
In Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in usersThis is apparently github's doing, and not the people behind faceswap: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392
Github has an infamous history with imposing their feelings on projects they don't like.
In Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users`git clone https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap.git` still works without login...
In Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in usersThis behavior was around since before the acquisition [3].
[3] https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap/issues/392
In Github restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in usersGithub restricts public Faceswap repo to logged-in users
299 points · Open discussionTo add a data point, a friend and I made one of these over the weekend (with Trump and Michael Scott https://youtu.be/0Rexuh-VY6E)
It was shockingly easy to do. We're technical, but neither of us know a lick about machine learning. It took a couple hours to collect training data (we turned speeches/interviews from each of them into thousands of photos), and 20 hours to train the model.
In the future you could automate the data collection for a person even more, to the point where they just need to film a selfie of themselves for a couple of minutes in a couple of different lightnings, and boom, after you train their decoder, you could put them on any celebrity.
EDIT: This is what we used https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap Would be happy to walk anyone through how to do this
In Family fun with deepfakesInteresting: https://github.com/deepfakes/faceswap
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