What Are AI Generated Avatars?

To get started, we’ll have a look at exactly what avatars are. Avatars have different definitions when applied in different fields but basically, they are graphical representations of a user or entity.

For instance, the guy running around with a rifle in an arcade game, or an animated baby elephant in a diaper commercial is an avatar.

AI generated avatar just means the avatars are made by AI, artificial intelligence. AI has been taking over every industry with endless applications, from text to AI video conversion to the aforementioned generation of avatars, cybersecurity to AI face tech which I will circle back to later.

Getting technical with the term AI generated avatars, they refer to human-like bits created and powered by AI to increase human interaction. They not only are human-like but they can also communicate with people.

Where They Are Used

Gaming

If you are an avid gamer or know a thing or two about games, avatars are not a new concept. The gaming industry has been perhaps the most popular with AI avatars. Avatars in games can be customized, giving players personalized service, which is important for any business.

Avatars in games have been around for a while and they constantly improve in quality as well as capabilities. Most games out there today are more realistic and offer more options depending on how you interact with them.

Training

In the corporate world, avatars have been used to do some employee training – cutting down on the human resource cost. The avatars could as well be used for online learning and training. Employee performance is consequently improved.

Virtual Assistance

Almost every application or website needs a virtual assistant to help users navigate through their products. Using AI avatars, the users can communicate with AI tools more comfortably and improve the human-like interaction they offer.

AI avatars could also be used in marketing to do voice overs in text to video conversion or do the video itself.

Communication

This is perhaps the most funky of the lot. People can create their own fun avatars by taking photos and using different emojis on their avatars then sending them to friends when chatting.

AI Face Tech

Facial recognition is technology that works with a bunch of algorithms that work together to identify people in a video or static image. AI has become so well evolved that a typical face tech system delivers 99.5% accuracy rates on standard data sets.

How It Works

To begin with, each person’s face is divided into numerous data points, even yours. These data points could be anything like the distance between your eyes or the height of your nose and many others.

AI face tech searches on those data points and tries to account for variables like the distance from the camera as well as the camera angle. The system then tries to find a match between the face it has scanned and an existing data set (a database of faces). If a match is found, it will have recognized the face, and vice versa.

It however isn’t exactly fool-proof. Even the best of systems could be thrown off by something as simple as a pair of sunglasses and a hat.

Applications of Facial Recognition

Law Enforcement

Without a doubt, law enforcement is the most common use of facial recognition. Law enforcement agencies use the technology to identify lawbreakers from surveillance footage like that from CCTVs and compare it to all the mean mugs in their bad-guys-album collection.

Businesses and Corporations

Businesses and corporations can use face recognition as an alternative to keycards and other biometric recognition methods like fingerprints when going to work or accessing restricted areas.

This could as well be applicable to learning institutes instead of learners having to flash their student IDs or scan them for that matter.

Mobile Phone Makers

If you have face unlock on your phone and have been wondering how it works, I hope you have your answer. Granted, yours is the only face in your phone’s data set. No other face can unlock your phone, bar your twin sibling perhaps or your doppelganger.

Airport Security

Airport authorities quite extensively use facial recognition for a number of reasons. It goes a long way in keeping airports safe.

Some uses of face tech in airports could be monitoring suspicious activity and parties in the airport. It could be used to pinpoint the latter which is quite helpful because they could be wanted or have overstayed their visas.