Computer Generates Human Faces

5:51 To skip to the results.

This is another fun project I came up with using the same data set as my other video. This time, I experiment with unsupervised learning to see what the computer can learn about faces, and try to generate some new ones.

[TheOfficialCzex]

The most important aspect of a face: shirt color.

[codinginflow]

I will have horrible nightmares from this

[bjorndoescubesnstuff]

is this the yearbook of Chernobyl High?

[kaioxys]

I think it’s interesting that slider 2, male/female, also controls smile/frown so that males frown and females smile.

[asmrcraft]

7:33
"Let her head be Large...."
**Eye pops out**
"...or actually just give her a smaller head"

[carykh]

FIRST!!! It's amazing how each slider is so logical and describable, when you're sliding them around it almost feels like you're customizing your player in The Sims. But it was all chosen by a computer?

8:06 <- My reaction to how cool this video is

[amoghskulkarni]

5:55
Moral from the video: An *average* person is nobody.


Be someone.

[BS-bduq]

5:54 If you want an average person you get nothing

[jonathanxdoe]

Computer Generates Human Faces... 10 years after car crash

[grivar]

The next step is is get a bunch of people to rate the attractiveness of each face and see how attractiveness correlates to each of those sliders. Maybe we don't realise but a slider that changes very little has a large effect on how we perceive that face!

[四季-ik]

“Well I’m not sure, I can’t tell what this is doing, but it’s doing something”
Basically every invention/discovery ever
And also a quote from my uncle describing his dog

[henryzhang]

Try using mugshots instead and you actually could make a police sketching thing. Though I suppose the head position of the suspect wont matter too much

[dembonez]

8:38 - That ended up being super clear!

[kittadyne]

This video gives me a reason to learn more math.

[samuelpalfreyman]

this is actually kind of creepy looking at those faces

[aaronwarwick]

6:55 was lateral facial symmetry. As the slider went more to one side that side of the face became larger in features compared to the other side. Maybe a shortened name would be something like 'facial slant' or something like that.

[CodeParade]

Several of you have asked for a way to play with the sliders yourselves.

I'd love to provide that, but its a little tricky. First of all, the data set is not public and there are privacy concerns with releasing it. Second this demo currently has dependencies with python and other ML libraries that require a GPU that take a lot of machine-specific setup, definitely something too difficult for the average person. Another idea is to provide a web interface, but I don't have any experience with designing interactive web GUIs, I'm not much of a web guy.

If someone out there IS a web developer and is willing to remake a GUI and host this on their site, then I could provide the backend and make this accessible to everyone.

[dougthedonkey]

6:10
“Obviously, hair length is highly correlated to gender”
Me, a long haired guy: Damn

[piereligio_ds]

I miss the times when this was a breakthrough

[ToastingInEpicBread]

Yesterday was nostalgic. The future is unprecedented.