TikTok Developers Erasing Faces for Augmented Reality Applications
ByteDance, the Chinese multinational internet company behind TikTok, has developed a new method for erasing faces in video so that identity distortion and other bizarre effects can be imposed on people in augmented reality applications. The company claims that the technique has already been integrated into commercial mobile products, though it does not state which products.
Once faces in video have been ‘zeroed’, there’s enough ‘face canvas’ to produce eye-boggling distortions, as well as potentially superimposing other identities. Examples supplied in a new paper from ByteDance researchers illustrate the possibilities, including restoring the ‘erased’ features in various comical (and certainly some grotesque) configurations:
See the full story, with details of the process, here: https://www.unite.ai/tiktok-developers-erasing-faces-for-augmented-reality-applications/
