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This AI Turns Pics Into 15th Century Portraits And Here’s What 30 Celebs Look Like
Everybody loves to see a good "then and now" photo comparison of popular celebrities but what about a photo that is from both the "past" and the present? Thanks to the technology of the researchers at MIT-IBM Watson artificial intelligence Lab, people can transform photos into 15th-century oil paintings.
The site aiportraits.com uses an algorithm trained on 45,000 classical portraits to render any face into faux oil, watercolor, or ink. Ever wondered what today's stars would look like if they had their portrait done by done in the style of the Renaissance artists? Scroll down below to check out some museum-worthy masterpieces of current famous faces and don't forget to upvote your favorite celebrity photos!
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Keanu Reeves
The MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab uses what's called generative adversarial network (GAN) models, a popular AI technique which can be observed in deepfakes. GAN works by getting two neural networks to compete each other in order to produce an acceptable outcome: a generator, which looks at various examples and tries to mimic them, and a discriminator, which judges if they are real by comparing them with the same training examples. In the case of this face filter, they used 45,000 classical portraits to train the program, including paintings Titian, van Gogh, and Rembrandt.
Adam Driver
Lady Gaga
Previous AI methods have created similar AI photo filters, but this algorithm does not merely “paint over” your face in a new style. GAN generates new features from scratch and certain elements in the photo prompts the algorithm on which style to use. Researchers say the algorithm “decides upon a Renaissance painting style, highlighting the elegance of the aquiline nose, the smoothness of the forehead.”
Jared Leto
Ed Sheeran
“With AI Portraits Ars anyone is able to use GAN models to generate a new painting, where facial lines are completely redesigned. The model decides for itself which style to use for the portrait. Details of the face and background contribute to direct the model towards a style. In style transfer, there is usually a strong alteration of colors, but the features of the photo remain unchanged. AI Portraits Ars creates new forms, beyond altering the style of an existing photo.”
Kit Harington
Dwayne Johnson
You might notice that in these portraits stars flashing their pearly whites don't appear in paint - there is a reason for that. “Portrait masters rarely paint smiling people because smiles and laughter were commonly associated with a more comic aspect of genre painting, and because the display of such an overt expression as smiling can seem to distort the face of the sitter,” they write. “This inability of artificial intelligence to reproduce our smiles is teaching us something about the history of art.”
Snoop Dog
Jack Nicholson
With anxiety over privacy implications after the recent FaceApp debacle, people might be less inclined to play with their portrait. The researchers promised users that the pictures uploaded are immediately deleted after processing by their servers and that they won’t be used for any other purpose other than some really old-fashioned fun.
Elon Musk
Beyonce
Woody Allen
The Ai version of him made the 'glasses' look like a make-up incident...
James Earl Jones
John Travolta
Elon Musk
Tessa Thompson
Denzel Washington
Natalie Portman
Jared Leto
Jennifer Lawrence
Kehlani Parrish
Lizzo
Jason Momoa
Tom Cruise
Jungkook
Benedict Cumberbatch
Robin Williams
Dwayne Johnson
Mark Hamill
Donald Trump
Note: this post originally had 34 images. It’s been shortened to the top 30 images based on user votes.
While some of the displayed pictures seems to "resemble" the celebrity mentioned somewhat... while the majority just seems to be random renaissance pics with random celebrities. Some of them are so completely off, it looks like AI bots are now doing BP posts :-(
So what makes a portrait Renaissance-like is basically the eyes too round (bulging) and skin too pale?
https://aiportraits.com/ seems to have gone viral in the last few days and it's down for maintenance. Oh dear...
This is such a waste of space. Most look nothing like the originals, but for one small feature.
So the people of the Renaissance weren't as ugly as their portraits make them out to be, the Masters just had an unrealistic way of painting them. Basically, they sucked at copying faces... ?? 🤷♀️
And another example why AI is only what you programm it to be - if the programmers are racist (and having only white as skin color is racist) - the AI will be racist too
While some of the displayed pictures seems to "resemble" the celebrity mentioned somewhat... while the majority just seems to be random renaissance pics with random celebrities. Some of them are so completely off, it looks like AI bots are now doing BP posts :-(
So what makes a portrait Renaissance-like is basically the eyes too round (bulging) and skin too pale?
https://aiportraits.com/ seems to have gone viral in the last few days and it's down for maintenance. Oh dear...
This is such a waste of space. Most look nothing like the originals, but for one small feature.
So the people of the Renaissance weren't as ugly as their portraits make them out to be, the Masters just had an unrealistic way of painting them. Basically, they sucked at copying faces... ?? 🤷♀️
And another example why AI is only what you programm it to be - if the programmers are racist (and having only white as skin color is racist) - the AI will be racist too