AnimeGANv2: Convert Face Portraits into Anime

https://huggingface.co/spaces/akhaliq/AnimeGANv2

by aliabd • 5 years ago

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snvzz• 5 years ago

A gallery of examples would be nice.

Else, it's too much effort. People are gonna just close the browser tab, like I did.

aliabd5• 5 years ago

You're right, see 100s of examples posted by users here: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...

zinclozenge• 5 years ago

I guess it's impressive you can train a network to do that, but it doesn't look much better than a photoshop filter.

villasv• 5 years ago

Those definitely don't look like the anime I watch

l33tman• 5 years ago

To be honest, it looks pretty weird... the eyes are asymmetrical..

The Snap filter that does something similar to this looks much better, is live, and doesn't use a ton of deep learning I think :)

sschueller• 5 years ago

Waisted resources by not providing pre rendered versions of the 7 examples. I had to wait 3 minutes to render one.

aliabd5• 5 years ago

This was built on top of the Pytorch implementation [0] of AnimeGANv2, using gradio [1] and HuggingFace Spaces [2]. See the 100s of examples [3] posted by users.

[0] https://github.com/bryandlee/animegan2-pytorch [1]: https://gradio.app [2]: https://huggingface.co/spaces [3]: https://twitter.com/ak92501/status/1457033482115420160/retwe...

karaterobot• 5 years ago

Does the app keep any data after generating the image?

aliabd5• 5 years ago

Nothing is saved by default. Clicking 'flag' saves the input and output (only accessible to the space owner). More info on flagging: https://gradio.app/getting_started/#flagging

remram• 5 years ago

Waited 10min then got an error.

Minor49er• 5 years ago

Same for me

aliabd5• 5 years ago

Sorry we had to restart the interface - can you try again?

ur-whale• 5 years ago

I'd be curious to see how well / stable this behaves under animation.

zellyn• 5 years ago

Found this under that twitter thread mentioned above: https://twitter.com/AIconference/status/1457622949901574149

ALittleLight• 5 years ago

That's really good. I could see this being a popular filter.

amelius• 5 years ago

Nice, but the problem I have with this and similar techniques is that if you zoom out sufficiently far, then you don't see a difference with the original image. This is not how "anime" is supposed to work.

fxtentacle• 5 years ago

Yes, it learns to replace the high-frequency features while leaving low frequencies intact, just like all those other style transfer CNNs.

peterthehacker• 5 years ago

Tried with Elon and Gates, but both threw this error

  Error occured while trying to proxy: hf.space/

aliabd5• 5 years ago

Sorry, we had to restart the interface for a separate issue. Please try again

webmaven2• 5 years ago

Like many other comments, I don't see much resemblance to anime styles, but dismissing the results as a Photoshop filter is nuts.

The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone.

MisterTea• 5 years ago

The animation style this does look like is that of 2006's A Scanner Darkly, or 2019's Undone.

Rotoscoping is the technique. Basically, you film real life and trace over the frames by hand yielding an animated version of your irl footage.

erichocean• 5 years ago

The first animated films to do this were the animated LOTR film and Fire and Ice shortly thereafter, both by the same director.

Logically, very similar during production to how Avatar was made, but doing the rendering "by hand" (and being unable to change the camera after capture).

Pretty impressive results given the budget and time requirements.

dakom• 5 years ago

American Pop is a hidden gem that uses this technique. Fantastic movie.

xgulfie• 5 years ago

If you've seen what photoshop can do you wouldn't say that's a dismissive statement.

ksec• 5 years ago

May be those examples should have instant results? I guess most people are just clicking them to see what it looks likes instead of waiting 100s.

Most of them look like photoshop filter as per other comments, but IU and Billie Eilish definitely looks good.

cinntaile2• 5 years ago

People keep stating these look like photoshop filters. This is a very shallow dismissal imo. Why don't you prove it instead by applying some Photoshop filters and achieving a similar effect? Include how long it took as well.

csande17• 5 years ago

Here's a tutorial I found online that achieves a similar effect in under 15 minutes: https://youtube.com/watch?v=XojsUNBLfic

It takes the presenter about seven minutes to go from "image opened in Photoshop" to "comic-style effect applied to image", and that includes a verbal explanation of each step. (The rest of the video talks about things like making sure the image is an adequate size, and adding extra elements like borders and dialogue balloons.)

ardit33• 5 years ago

I think it is pretty impressive, and dismissing it a simply a photoshop filter is not right.

While they don't look true anime style, they look properly very cartoonish, like someone would have drawn them.

Good job to the op.

dogma1138• 5 years ago

They don’t look anything like filters it’s actually super impressive just how clean the results are.

coldacid• 5 years ago

Tried a headshot of myself framed like the example pictures and all I got was something that looked like it was bombed by effects out of Paint.NET. Definitely looked nothing like an anime character.

warning26• 5 years ago

Even the example pictures don't really look like anime, they just look like some kind of unrealistic "drawing" filter.

GhettoComputers• 5 years ago

Who decided this was anime? It doesn't look like any anime I have ever seen, it just looks like a smoothing filter. It looks more like a toonme but not as good and maybe more private? For referece look at this waifu generator, nobody would call these portrait conversions anime. http://thiswaifudoesnotexist.com/

codein• 5 years ago

Did not manage to get any result. Is the service down?

bj-rn• 5 years ago

Remided me of "Waifu Synthesis- real time generative anime": http://everyoneishappy.com/portfolio/waifu-synthesis-real-ti...

bobobob420• 5 years ago

Unless this is open source and I can run all of the code locally with no internet connection I am not doing this. Am I too paranoid?

ShamelessC• 5 years ago

It is and you can.

messo• 5 years ago

The example with Bill Gates at the bottom is wild! The "teardrop" under one of his eyes makes it slightly gangster, and the smooth face and awkward smile reminds me of a much younger Bill. Fascinating.

Pxtl2• 5 years ago

Ugh, it doesn't properly respect EXIF rotation tags so if I try to post from my phone it gets mangled. EXIF rotation has got to be the most absurdly poorly supported feature of a common file type like jpeg.

chillingeffect• 5 years ago

at first the result disappointed me (emotionally, not technically), but after a few minutes I went back to it and was struck by the feel the image brought out. It really reflected some of the wistfulness and sadness I feel with a tiny touch of optimism. I'm not well-versed in anime, but that does seem to be a little bit of the feel that I get from it. bravo.

wodenokoto2• 5 years ago

I thought the selfie to waifu generator created much more interesting and anime like results.

It does look like it doesn’t work anymore though.

https://waifu.lofiu.com/

kroltan• 5 years ago

Great, now I can generate random cartoon portraits by combining this with https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

I do second the observation that this isn't nearly "Anime" style by any definition or sample of the style I've ever seen. I would expect to see these results in a GTA 5 loading screen.

TulliusCicero• 5 years ago

Interesting, you can see how it feminizes faces quite clearly in the examples of Bill Gates and Elon Musk. Gates looks kind of like Ellen DeGeneres to me in the anime version.

the_only_law• 5 years ago

This one didn’t do me too bad, but a lot of the “anime filters” I’ve seen will completely feminize my face into an obviously female character despite the facial structure and beard, I assume because I have long hair.

dryst• 5 years ago

Lol @ the Bill Gates to middle aged woman with teardrop tattoo.

encryptluks2• 5 years ago

Bill Gates being Hillary Clinton confirmed.

grammarnazzzi• 5 years ago

Viewing these images remind me a lot of caricature portraiture.

As with real artwork, the eye is drawn to embelishments, exagerations, and simplification and directed by composition.

In pieces by a competant artist, these add a new level of interest and dimension to the piece.

With these images, following what makes each image is always a dead end. There is no composition and the embelishments are mechanical, random and uninteresting.

For example, I find myself wondering why the the artist chose to paint the mouth so asymetrical. Is the artist trying to express an emotion? Who is the subject, and why have the been rendered as they have. It's confusing and a challenge to critique the artwork... until I realize its just bit of randomness generated by algorithm incapable of any creativity beyond how the programmer applied generic and randomizing programming methods.

There isn't and cannot be anything unique to any of the images. Once you've studied any one of them, you've really experienced most of what the programmer/artist has contributed.

esjeon• 5 years ago

One big mistake is that this is not anime. This is obviously comic-style, which is more realistic, and, in turn, closer to automated filtering.

Note that Japanese anime normally uses a much simplified style to increase the production speed. This naturally results in a highly distorted(?!) depictions that even humans often find disturbing. This makes anime-style difficult to mimic.

wintermutestwin• 5 years ago

I found that it did an awesome job on some photos and messed up some. When it messed up, it generally made mouths look way too distorted. I also thought it was funny that it turned obviously green eyes blue. Overall, I think it is a fun implementation, but it would be much better to have a larger output file.

DrSiemer• 5 years ago

Excellent, I was hoping something as accessible as this would appear to play around with this type of model!

Those that dismiss this as nothing more than a few filters are missing the finer details of what it actually does. There is a lot of targeted tweaking, like removing double chins and other old age artefacts. There are small embellishments, like adding a twinkle to the eyes or lip gloss where none was present before. The direction of a gaze is fixed towards the camera. And of course, although it's more cartoon style than anime, the eyes do become bigger.

The quality of your results depends on how appropriate your input is. Try something that has the potential to be Disney and you will get great results.

Sure, you could (with enough practice) get similar results by manually editing a photo. But the beauty of this type of conversion is that it allows for near instant effortless experimentation and (after some other improvements) application to sequenced frames.

The active model does lean towards feminizing and westernizing the subject. Mustaches are removed and an Asian subject will receive wide open blue eyes every now and then.

rbobby2• 5 years ago

Bill Gates comes out looking a bit like Ellen DeGeneres.

rbobby2• 5 years ago

I did my "corporate" picture and it came out looking like I had been badly beaten and with really bad teeth (100 years of coffee and cigarettes). Bit of a blow to the self-esteem.

Just not anime material I guess.

Mumps• 5 years ago

Not anime _per se_, but the toon-me [0] project gives much more stylistic outputs. I've really enjoyed making some home art with it (and the prior ArtLine).

[0] https://github.com/vijishmadhavan/Toon-Me

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