first-order-model VS Thin-Plate-Spline-Motion-Model

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

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

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

This project was originally released 2 years ago, it allows for fast motion transfer from a video to a still image

Exactly what I was thinking, looks a lot like thin plate spline motion, maybe with some layers/composition for the wings and hair.

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 - yoyo-nb/Thin-Plate-Spline-Motion-Model: [CVPR 2022] Thin-Plate Spline Motion Model for Image Animation.

Use https://github.com/yoyo-nb/Thin-Plate-Spline-Motion-ModelHuggingface demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/CVPR/Image-Animation-using-Thin-Plate-Spline-Motion-ModelGoogle Colab: https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1DREfdpnaBhqISg0fuQlAAIwyGVn1loH_?usp=sharing

Spent the weekend building an AI Twitter bot that responds to your questions with a talking head avatar video using open-source models, including Wav2Lip and the Thin-plate Spline Motion model. It’s pretty incredible to see what high quality results look like with pure open-source!

The core of this uses https://github.com/yoyo-nb/Thin-Plate-Spline-Motion-Model but I've been making lots of effort to get past some of its limitations. I'm trying to make an app to make it simple for anyone to do. If you want to join the waitlist, you can go to https://www.elbo.ai/

You could set up and run thin plate spline motion model for image animation. It's a bit more technical than you might want, but you can always follow a guide.