first-order-model VS RobustVideoMatting

First Order Motion Model/Thin Plate Spline (Animate Single images realistically using a driving video) https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model (FOMM - Animate still images using driving videos) https://github.com/yoyo-nb/Thin-Plate-Spline-Motion-Model (Thin Plate Spline - Likely just a repost of FOMM but with better documentation and tutorials on YouTube) https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PyQJmkdCsAkOYwUyaj_l-l0as-iLDgeH (FOMM/Thin Plate Checkpoints) https://disk.yandex.com/d/lEw8uRm140L_eQ (FOMM/Thin Plate Checkpoints mirror) -------3D ANIMATION--------

GitHub - AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model: This repository contains the source code for the paper First Order Motion Model for Image Animation

Not sure about whatever bot op is specifically using, but you can use this software to achieve the same result https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

I think the novel and interesting tech is still happening, its just that without the colorful ads for it on TV, and without the software being packaged up and sold with pretty box art that you can physically hold, it doesn't feel as much like a capital-E Experience. It's probably the Internet's fault that we don't do things like that anymore, but the upside is that we now have access to so many ideas and applications from all over, even ones that aren't commercially viable.

Some that look exciting to me are: an AI that lets you animate still photos realistically [1], a simple website that guides you to discover new parks, eateries, and other places near you [2], an AI that colorizes old black-and-white photos/video [3], a Street View style map of the game world from "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild", with some 1st person 360 degree photos [4], and a tiny game engine that lets you distribute your whole game physically via printed QR codes [5].

If marketing and graphic design people ever felt like getting together to do some 'side projects', I vote that they should make print ads for apps/websites that they like :)

[1] https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

[2] https://randomlocation.xyz (https://randomlocation.xyz/help.txt for customization)

[3] https://github.com/jantic/DeOldify

[4] https://nassimsoftware.github.io/zeldabotwstreetview/

[5] https://github.com/kesiev/rewtro

Ai Used https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

First Order Model

First Order Motion Model (Easy): You can give it an input image and a source video, and the movements from the video will be copied to the image. It has some janky-ness and I would recommend using an ai upscaller afterwards because the resolution isn't that high https://github.com/AliaksandrSiarohin/first-order-model

Robust Video Matting/Background Remover (Remove Background from images and videos, useful for compositing) https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting (RVM - Remove backgrounds from videos) https://github.com/nadermx/backgroundremover (BackgroundRemover - works well on single images) -------VOICE GENERATION--------

Looks like runway is packaging a bunch of AI tools like stable diffusion and other opensource tools into a paid package. The matting tools it is using looks like this tool https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting which can be run off your computer for free if you can figure out the geeky side of installing this stuff. I've tried it out and it sometimes works well but most of the time the results aren't as good as the examples on their github. Still a good tool to have in the toolbox though.

OR this separate application looks promising, if you can work out Google Collab (I couldn't unfortunately): https://github.com/PeterL1n/BackgroundMattingV2 https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting

I have done a bit of coding and I will use pretrained models only. Looking at things like depth and segmentation. Like this as an example. I am using it on a collab now but its so cumbersome. https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting

I do not know much about Machine learning, and I am not sure if I can ask question here. But if yes, I need help with either choosing best libraries to do Video Editing like Background Removal and similar. Some of the ones that I found is RVM: https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting (which currently seems like the best choice)

First of all I would ask if somebody retrained Robust Video Matting model on own data? I am trying to, but with all the models I end up getting bad quality result as the ones attached to the post. So my data is some objects rotating on 360 and with white backgrounds, The task seems to be pretty simple as the model just has to remove white bgr and keep colorized object. I have masks on every 10th frame of my videos. The masks are 0 - bgr, 255 - fgr. I have tried Robust Video Matting model, MODNet, PaddleSeg and several segmentation models and every of them failed to show consistent results on that data. What should I do in the case?

I have found a github with a project like this but it is tedious to use: https://github.com/PeterL1n/RobustVideoMatting