Selfie 2 Waifu

[guu]

Twitter thread with examples:

https://twitter.com/tkasasagi/status/1250427941567094786

[jchw]

As usual for this sort of thing, the results vary all the way from “impressive” to “absolutely horrific.” I will say it seems to work quite well for many of the women in the thread.

[jagged-chisel]

Well that's terrifying:

https://twitter.com/jonathan1moore/status/125044976841907404...

Shadows seem to fool this thing.

[skavi]

Wow, this is way better with women’s faces. Facial hair in particular seems to trip it up.

[dang]

The submitted URL was https://waifu.lofiu.com/index.html. Since the thread is filling up with complaints about redirects, spam, and malware, we've changed the URL for now to the one mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23032129. If the original site settles down, we can change it back.

[uvw]

I get redirected to a spam website from this page.

https://postimg.cc/svwnR4rK

[hkmurakami]

The creator wrote on their FB page:

"Sooooo many people here. Thank you for visiting :) Gotta upgrade my servers. GPU server is the bottle-neck, but my credict card billing is flying Sigh ~"

And someone replied "put some ads on there", so the creator hastily slapped some ads on there to help with the server bills, and... this happened it seems.

[Tinyyy]

Me too. It seems that the site is compromised and issues redirects to malware without user interaction. Maybe @dang can consider changing this to an archived version of the site until it’s fixed?

[selfie2waifu]

Sorry for that, already get it clean.

[qubex]

So do I. Do you have any idea what it was meant to be?

[tarikozket]

same here.

[the8472]

> The selfie dataset contains 46,836 selfie images annotated with 36 different attributes. We only use photos of females as training data and test data. The size of the training dataset is 3400,and that of the test dataset is 100, with the image size of 256 x 256. The size of the training dataset is 3400,and that of the test dataset is 100, with the image size of 256 x 256. For the anime dataset, we havefirstly retrieved 69,926 animation character images from Anime-Planet1. Among those images,27,023 face images are extracted by using an anime-face detector2.

These seem tiny, don't NNs need more samples to achieve decent quality?

[rrobukef]

The CycleGAN datasets [1] all have less than 10k images. The two largest have 10,345 images and 5,129 images, the rest (like the famous horses2zebras) have less than 3k.

[1] https://github.com/junyanz/CycleGAN#datasets

[bloopernova]

One day people will have computers embedded into their optic and auditory nerves.

They will quite literally see a fantasy world, with filters and augmented reality changing everything they perceive.

Deep fakes and 3D transforms will mean any horny people can see anyone they want to naked. Other people will be able to live in a complete Lord of the Rings fantasy world with dragons, magic, elves and orcs.

[slowmovintarget]

...and all of that will be illegal hacks to the official form of the tech, which is supposed to show what the content pushers intended you to see.

The right to run ad-blockers, which would, in passing, enable content alteration like you suggest, would be something we'd actually have to fight for.

Most people wouldn't understand, and would be stuck in a world where they can no longer control what they see or hear, or how what they see or hear gets changed before their brain is allowed to perceive it.

There will be a person on the street corner crying out that the world isn't real... but only the people running hacks and filters will hear her.

I love those science fiction stories where everything is shiny and all the tech is amazing and just works. But, there's no future I can see that goes from here to there.

[verall]

Have you started writing yet or is this just teaser?

[krapp]

>Deep fakes and 3D transforms will mean any horny people can see anyone they want to naked.

A VR porn version of deepfakes... this is already close enough to possible that I would be shocked if someone weren't already working on it.

[lanius]

This concept is very entertaining. The PS3 game Haze and Black Mirror episode Men Against Fire have similar premises. Are there any other works of media exploring this?

[ssalazar]

C.f. Ghost in the Shell, Rainbows End, and certainly many others.

[selfie2waifu]

Already clean some inappropiate ads, sorry for that. Should be clean to visit now.

[colanderman]

I am still getting tons of spanmy popups when I click "take a selfie".

[Dimo24]

Attention! This is a dangerous site. Don’t click it as it linked to numerous malware applications— at least 6 viruses there. For public interest.

[chance_state]

The Github page has a lot more information: https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT

Might be worth changing the link to this.

[bentcorner]

So, as someone with literally no experience with using this type of software, how do I go about self-hosting this? What are the hardware requirements?

[kaskavalci]

I would be very careful with sending data here as the website has no Privacy Policy. We don't know how this data is being used.

This website however, present a Privacy Policy: https://selfie2anime.com/

I am not promoting one site or another. I did not read the PP of the selfie2anime.com either.

You can check the other implementations here (currently only two):

https://github.com/taki0112/UGATIT#web-page

[sneak]

The public sidewalk has no privacy policy, either, and I show my face there all the time. Same goes for the airport, restaurants, every ATM, and every convenience store that takes videos of my face.

Face imagery isn’t secret.

[codegladiator]

> We don't know how this data is being used

what can possibly go wrong ? or just paranoid ?

[eanzenberg]

Every photo I upload keeps getting rotated the wrong way. Oh well.

[TheCoreh]

If you're on your phone, take a screenshot of the photo to "bake" the rotation in

[gagege]

Let me guess, you're using some kind of Samsung Galaxy?

[bArray]

The results: I wasn't impressed with the results, it seemed like I could have done better using some OpenCV and first principle algorithms. The examples they give are excellent, but when trying them they are awful.

The viruses: I didn't see all these viruses people were talking about, the software worked "as intended" for me without the redirects. There was no advertising on the page either... I run with uBlock Origin in Chromium.

The dataset: Where do these images come from? These seem like the sorts of pictures that might be uploaded to some older social media website, like Bebo or something.

2 cents: Personally I would like to try and do some work with a dataset that has a 1:1 mapping of person to character, but that would require artists and quite a bit of money. I was thinking that you could build out such a database for free by randomly matching anime characters and real pictures together and have a human rate closeness - then train a network based on these ratings.

[zimpenfish]

> it seemed like I could have done better using some OpenCV and first principle algorithms

I am happy to volunteer a whole bunch of images (of me, sadly) as a test when you get this up and running.

[jrockway]

Mine looks really good.

One wonders if sites like this exist to link faces to IP addresses, though. Get someone to upload a selfie from their computer, then you can add it to your database. Share on Facebook and Twitter, and they know your socials. Next time you walk into a store (post-mask era anyway), they find you in the database, and can see if you've visited their website or not, who your friends are, what sort of things you're interested in, etc.

I'm almost surprised that this isn't more common, now that I think about it.

Edit to add: I had to flag this link. The site is now redirecting to malware. I guess people did in fact want that database!

[JPKab]

Not necessarily as nefarious, but just using sites like this to collect training data is probably a very common occurrence.

[ALittleLight]

They link to their GitHub project. I hope to try it out locally this weekend.

[dudus]

I couldn't try because it has some of the most aggressive ads i've ever seen. After I upload a pic it says my phone needs cleaning and sends me to a cleaning app on the play store. No time to check the results.

[ge96]

Somewhat related someone made this anime character generator I think it's pretty impressive make.girls.moe

Can be a time sink as you keep pressing generate over and over.

[softwarejosh]

thiswaifudoesntexist is better me thinks

[ravenstine]

My waifu has a beard.

[inetsee]

My waifu merged my moustache with the shadow under my nose. That part is horrible; the rest is OK?

I'm tempted to edit my photo some, then resubmit it to see if it turns out better. It looks like it could be quite amusing.

[duxup]

I'm not going to judge you for it.

[mikewhy]

Would love to get a chance to actually see the result, each time I scroll down to it on mobile I'm sent to a disgusting chain of ad redirects.

[chrisweekly]

On iOS (FF or Safari) this site is a spammy nightmare.

[econcon]

Put some donation links (PayPal/bitcoin/patreon), try using teir 1 ad companies like Google AdSense and if they don't accept you, try something like native ads (outbrain)

I can understand how such GPU intensive website can be difficult to support for a creator.

[Dimo24]

Attention! This is a malware page— don’t click it. It directs to host of viruses, to me at least 6.

[RyJones]

I gave both of them a whirl[0]. The second one is OK?

[0]: https://blog.ryjones.org/2020/04/30/ML