The company called MyHeritage specializes in making automatic enhancements to old, damaged photos, with the help of artificial intelligence. Now it is offering a new service that is also related to Artificial Intelligence. Is about animate people portrayed in old photos, creating a short video that looks like it was recorded while they were posing for the portrait.
The process of animating people in the photos is very simple, you just have to upload a black and white or color photo to the page MyHeritage, wait a couple of seconds for the Artificial Intelligence to do its work, to be able to download the video with the animation.
The steps MyHeritage takes to animate the photo They are the following; first improve and refine the photo, then analyze the orientation of the person, to determine the direction of his head and eyes. The final step is to select a video from your database, of a modern recording of a face making movements in the same orientation as the person in the photo.
Video and photo come together to create a photograph where the person portrayed comes to life, with movements in the eyes, head, eyebrows and mouth. There are some photos where the characters give you a very realistic smile.
Animated photos with the help of Artificial Intelligence
It is important to mention that if you publish a photo where more than one person portrayed appears, Artificial Intelligence will only animate the face of one of the people in the photo that you choose.
If you want to download the video with the animation you must open an account on the page. You can “encourage” up to 5 photosIf you want to continue making animations, you must create a full account. I recommend that you do so, so you have access to all the photos and videos that you upload to the page, so that you can download them to your computer whenever you want.
The animation of the photos works best if you publish photos in high resolution, as you can see in the photos that I used to test this tool. The picture of Pancho Villa it doesn’t look as good as Pedro Infante, wave of Frida Kahlo.
Just a couple of days ago I was reviewing the page that does very good online photo restorations, with the help of Artificial intelligence and now I find this cool tool.
If you combine the two tools you will get amazing results. It’s amazing what Artificial Intelligence can do right now. As its name says, it learns every time a user publishes a photo, so it will be necessary to visit at the end of the year to see all the improvements in this tool, after having learned for months.
I recommend that you enter the MyHeritage page, upload photos of your family, friends or historical figures so that you can make them come to life, even if only for a couple of seconds and they are very basic movements of the head.
What historical character would you like to come to life using this tool? I looked for portraits of UK kings and queens to cheer them up, and of people who weren’t videotaped.