Facebook's AI can open closed eyes again

Thursday 12 July 2018, 20:02 by Michelle Peeters | 6,192 views | 4 comments

This article was translated from Dutch with the help of AI. Read the original.

'Take another one, I blinked.' That is something people often say after photos have been taken. It may soon be a thing of the past. Facebook researchers have created a programme that can automatically open closed eyes in your photos.

The scientists trained the programme, which uses artificial intelligence (AI), with photos of people with their eyes open, teaching it what the eyes of the people being photographed should normally look like.

Once the AI has learned what a person's shape and features should look like, it can replace closed eyes with artificially generated eyes in photos where the person is blinking.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 2018 also includes a feature called 'Open Eyes', which opens closed eyes by copying open eyes from other photos of roughly the same subject. But these results left quite a lot to be desired compared with Facebook's results.

Some results are better than others. Some are reasonably realistic, while others produce cold and creepy stares. Photos you probably don't want to share with friends and family on Facebook.

Further development of this kind of 'eye-opening AI' will undoubtedly produce better and more realistic results as time goes on. But for now, this is an interesting (and creepy) look at what the future could mean for our casual snapshots.

Source: PetaPixel

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4 comments

patrick180 wrote on Friday 13 July 2018 at 11:09 | reply
What nonsense sorry
Translated from Dutch.

Huub wrote on Friday 13 July 2018 at 13:18 | reply
This kind of AI software can at most make a guess as to what the eyes might possibly look like on a particular face. The next step is surely that you can add a face to a photo you take of the back of a head
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Elja Trum wrote on Friday 13 July 2018 at 13:50 | reply
@Huub; I think the software works by using other photos of the same person to open the eyes in this photo.

Facebook of course often has hundreds of photos of the same person at its disposal. The eyes can therefore be added quite accurately.

@Patrick: You can think it's all nonsense, but I think this is where we're increasingly heading in the future: a photo that can be completely optimized -whether or not automatically-.

You as a photographer may not think much of that, but the average person taking a group photo will probably be quite happy if their smartphone automatically opens eyes.

I have also discarded a photo because the eyes were just (half) open in the shot, while the rest of the pose and expression were actually just exactly right. I could therefore also find this quite a nice option to have in Lightroom.
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Huub Sanders wrote on Friday 13 July 2018 at 18:04 | reply
@Elja: I don't call that AI but it it more the smart use of "deep data" analysis. Facebook is also making it easy because a great many users keep tagging themselves and others in photos over and over again. That's useful information for Facebook to use.
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