AI has been doing wonders in literally every industry it has touched. In multimedia, AI has made strides big enough to allow autonomous creation of images with literally zero human input – no camera, no camera operator, nothing.
Resulting images are identical to even the best of photographs from photogenic folk. Media with some or full input of artificial intelligence is what is referred to as AI generated media.
You’re probably wondering how live portraits and AI generated media are related. Well, here’s how:
Creation
Before I get to where they intersect in a hypothetical Venn diagram, a brief introduction.
Regular photos are great for memories and all but what if it was possible to add a spin to them? Imagine pointing your camera at a static photo and it comes to life – well not literally. They eliminate how static regular photos are. With live portraits, the photo could start dancing, singing, basically anything. How, you ask?
They allow the fusion of a static image to a pre-recorded short video. To the naked eye, the photo just looks like a regular photo but upon further inspection, scanning with a live portrait app, the recorded video starts playing. The recorded video should be under 20 seconds and less than 25 MB in size.
Just think of how much more fun family photos will be at Christmas with everyone yelling Merry Christmas in their ugly sweaters.
Trends in the Market
A couple of years ago, the next big thing in the field was VR and 3D visuals. Now, the focus is on AI generated media and in particular AI generated images. AI generated images are just pictures created by Ai software through creative reality.
This latest trend lets anyone create super realistic photos that you’d swear are real and shot with a camera or painted by a Leonardo Da Vinci reincarnation. All the user has to do is type in text descriptions and Ai and creative reality takes over to produce incredibly realistic not-real photos.
AI generated images have been a breath of fresh air in the media industry, posing new challenges and creating market gaps for software makers to fill.
Here are a couple of things you need to know:
The Potential Is Limitless
AI generated images all rely on creativity, with the core value of the AI photos being the potential it opens for creative minds. You never know, your perfect description of an oil painting just could be the next Mona Lisa. It could be that you have never left your town since you were born but you could generate a photo that so resembles the great wall of China – so much so that it’s almost impossible to tell them apart.
The fact that it relies on creativity has made it possible for AI generated art to thrive. Practically everyone can be a visual artist and no image is out of bounds – if you can think it and find a way to train a computer to analyze it, AI can generate it.
It’s an Entirely New Media Format
AI generated images create a whole new concept in visual creation and that is synthetic images. Synthetic images refer to images created not from a camera or painter’s brush but from intelligent software.
In lieu of drawing, painting or taking a photo with a camera, you can train a computer to learn the qualities of a certain object and produce new, realistic instances of that object.
Real Game Changer in Photography
Like I had mentioned, no image is out of bounds, literally none.
Photographers are masters of their art and some of their photos of real people end up being best sellers. It’s impossible to understand how much trouble a photographer went through before they were finally able to snap that magazine-cover worthy photo. Perfect masterpieces of real people are much harder to create. On top of that, you need licensing to take and use photos of models and even so, sometimes image misuse still happens.
That is where AI generated images of people come in. They are seemingly real pictures of fake people – I hope that made sense. The photos are very realistic although they are photos of people who don’t exist – not in this plane at least. Advanced solutions like d-id ai video are enabling the creation of highly realistic AI-generated media.
