{"id":714,"date":"2020-10-27T18:13:01","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/?p=1325603"},"modified":"2020-10-27T18:13:01","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T18:13:01","slug":"zombify-your-face-for-halloween-with-this-creepy-ai-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=714","title":{"rendered":"Zombify your face for Halloween with this creepy AI app"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Halloween is fast approaching, but you\u2019ll probably have to postpone the parties this year and instead spend a lonesome evening at home with a bottle of scotch. Well, that\u2019s my plan anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the social restrictions don\u2019t mean you can\u2019t experiment with&nbsp;devilish new looks from the comfort of your home. Thanks to the magic of AI, you can now transform yourself \u2014 or anyone else whose picture you\u2019ve purloined \u2014 into a revolting zombie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1325632 size-full lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-280x140.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-270x135.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-796x398.jpg 796w\"><figcaption>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/makemeazombie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Make Me A Zombie<\/a><\/figcaption><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/27\/zombify-your-face-for-halloween-with-this-creepy-ai-app\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2020%2F10%2F27%2Fzombify-your-face-for-halloween-with-this-creepy-ai-app%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: A marked improvement.\" data-title=\"Share A marked improvement. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share A marked improvement. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>A marked improvement.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/makemeazombie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">The app\u2019s<\/a> creator Jose Brown Kramer built the system by first transfer-learning a StyleGAN2 zombie generator. He then tweaked it to develop a hybrid model comprised of earlier layers from a human generator and later ones from the zombie generator.<\/p>\n<p><em>[Read:&nbsp;<span dir=\"auto\"><a class=\"c-link c-message_attachment__title_link\" href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/politics\/2020\/10\/16\/what-audience-intelligence-data-tells-us-about-the-2020-us-presidential-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-qa=\"message_attachment_title_link\">What audience intelligence data tells us about the 2020 US presidential election<\/a>]<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI dumped 50,000 pairs of images \u2014 the first from the human StyleGAN2 generator, and the second with the same latent space representation, but passed through the zombie generator,\u201d Kramer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/MachineLearning\/comments\/jhl36y\/p_turn_yourself_into_a_zombie_with_a_neural\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">explained on Reddit<\/a>. \u201cI then used Pix2PixHD to learn a mapping from the pairs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kramer says the system stores no record of your image, so your transformation into a zombie should be fairly painless.<\/p>\n<p>The results are pretty impressive. Just check out this terrifying creature:<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-image post-mediaBleed aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1325688 lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-3.jpg\" alt width=\"1024\" height=\"512\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-lazy=\"true\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-3-280x140.jpg 280w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-3-540x270.jpg 540w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-3-270x135.jpg 270w, https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2020\/10\/human2Zombie-3-796x398.jpg 796w\"><figcaption>Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ninian_reid\/29703791796\/in\/photolist-MfPGrj-2aDbau-VYXpv2-rWKnwC-JPD6EQ-2hn5Ect-8jwYJc-8thhtF-3jjRn-kEGvd-8BwhsW-RcN4N7-9oAUAU-9oxR6p-UDLSoR-9oAUoh-9oxQZV-9oAUqq-9oAUn3-9oAUkY-9oAUCQ-9oAUxN-9oxRbZ-9oxR5z-9oAUuy-9oxR9x-rUZnCR-GFNJAs-rWKfRJ-28acS1f-KoGywf-5HZc8c-rWJfw5-rWHUgf-Ypu3nj-7RNqLN-BRTGBS-edbQaJ-7ittqe-UsYgfZ-RryALD-PwGAmm-RrAeoD-bRA1hZ-26HjcNy-LngGuc-B3ScnE-NVcjTY-KrVwJ8-fUXjKs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ninian Reid<\/a><\/figcaption><figcaption><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/27\/zombify-your-face-for-halloween-with-this-creepy-ai-app\/#\" data-url=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthenextweb.com%2Fneural%2F2020%2F10%2F27%2Fzombify-your-face-for-halloween-with-this-creepy-ai-app%2F&amp;via=thenextweb&amp;related=thenextweb&amp;text=Check out this picture on: Sometimes real life\u2019s scary enough.\" data-title=\"Share Sometimes real life\u2019s scary enough. on Twitter\" data-width=\"685\" data-height=\"500\" class=\"post-image-share popitup\" title=\"Share Sometimes real life\u2019s scary enough. on Twitter\"><i class=\"icon icon--inline icon--twitter--dark\"><\/i><\/a>Sometimes real life\u2019s scary enough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But if the glut of hackneyed zombie movies has put you off walking corpses, you could instead try an AI-powered transformation into <a href=\"https:\/\/myevildoll.com\/r\/ARQhYJ88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">an evil doll<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below to see another handy old&nbsp;man transform into a demon spawn of Chucky.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Halloween!<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-post-pubDate\"> Published October 27, 2020 \u2014 18:13 UTC <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/neural\/2020\/10\/27\/zombify-your-face-for-halloween-with-this-creepy-ai-app\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is fast approaching, but you\u2019ll probably have to postpone the parties this year and instead spend a lonesome evening at home with a bottle of scotch. 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