Facebook AI Scans Videos of Real People to Turns Them into Game Characters
Facebook has developed an artificial intelligence system that is capable of making your favourite friends from real-world turn into playable characters of a game.
California [USA], April 19 (ANI): Facebook has developed an artificial intelligence system that is capable of making your favourite friends from real-world turn into playable characters of a game.The system, called Pose2Pose is a framework that uses the references from the real-world videos to build novel image sequences for a virtual character that can be controlled using joystick or keyboard, Venture Beat reports.To train the system, the researchers used real videos of a tennis player, a person swinging sword indoors, and a person walking. Using the reference, the system was able to successfully produce dynamic elements such as varied camera angle and character clothing.The researchers believe the Pose2Pose can pave way for a new generation of video games with realistic graphics. (ANI)
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