Paul Debevec animates a photo-real digital face

[lightandbeautiful]

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[hamaka]

Come on people you see its still crappy 3d, and the guy running ? in 1999 3d modelers where allready making this stuff...

[jk19studios]

Anyone thinking AVATAR?

[VideoUploaderTester]

Can't wait when they implement the technology into porn industry...

[abbegrabbe]

8.14 two and a half men Charlie copy.

[CO2Junkie]

It's kind of alarming. Now we won't be able to tell the difference between special effects & reality. Video can no longer be considered as proof of anything.

[spinynorman1982]

You know who is really going to hate this? George Lucas. NOT!

[natsgrant]

great animation... but i also loved the new bmw at the end.

[KrakenZero]

your their target customer

[Muphlon]

i'm sorry, my what?

[KrakenZero]

you're

[gusphraba]

The running at the end is too smooth.

[bornearth]

That indeed is photorealism. She was nearly perfect. I'm not sure why they added the guy walking at the end because the combined images did not look remotely real. The put so much engery into the fine and gross detail of her face, yet did not consider the nuances of multiple people walking in the same space. Realistically, they could not all be the same height, moving exact body parts at same pace, etc.

[Cylamus]

... it is a digital demonstration. At the end the multiple running persons is a demonstration from multiple angles and proof that it is indeed a digital rendering for those people who say 'Gods, no! It can't be done'

;)

[Swidhelm]

They weren't trying to make a realistic crowd. Just the one guy. They just for the sake of interest had two lines of them walking crossing though each other. Not a crowd sim.

[PestVolk]

wow.

[iSOBigD]

Those are pretty amazing diffuse and specular maps they get with that. :o Very nice results.

[hoplahey]

I am so looking forward to playing my game console at my retirement home in a few decades.

Should be better than real life. :)

[1schwererziehbar1]

the future of computer graphics looks great.

[TimeTravelerTN]

Kind of a MRI of light surfaces combined with animations.

[NietzscheanMan]

Shadowshorts, study some economics and stfu while you're at it.

[ShadowShorts]

What about economics is supposed to change my mind about public-funded television? No matter how you slice it, profit motive corrupts programming. Since Murrow's day, fifty years have passed, in which the current system has gotten progressively worse. And, if not for the words of great men like him, it would be even worse!

Meanwhile, wanks like you are championing a corrupt system just to score points on YT.  Please explain. Was it my tone that made you speak up, or your own stupidity?

[NietzscheanMan]

You have no idea what you're talking about and confuse corporatism (made possible by socialists like yourself) with capitalism.

[BallinTrollin]

Videogame designers should watch this vid high.

[ChariotRider]

this technology could be used with another piece of software that is showcased on the Science Channel's "Future Of..." that is a database of sorts that is meant to render a real person and can be used to recreate a conversation with the real person it is trying to emulate, cool stuff!

[cannoir]

i knwo which one you are rferring to but it nowhere near as realistic as this technology.they plant to recreate Winston Churcl and Hitler for historic purposes those characters will be animated. I like this clip bu the fella whos is doing the presentation thinks everyone works in the 3d industry "shader, texture, colour matrices" WTF! can't those people adapt their lingo to the audience? not everyone uses Maya and Mocap.this video is boring for people outside of the industry.

[gothicowl]

wtf is bmw doing at the end!!!

[MonsterLopes]

Sad to see something as wonderful as TED hijacked by BMW...

Can't we ever get away from the greasy fingers of business? Seems anything can be bought or sold these days, including integrity.

[Drey4ltur]

"hijacked"?

pretty sure if you go back a couple years, it was still BMW ads.

[jwd2003]

Sponsors are a necessary evil. They allow TED to keep running at the high quality we've all come to enjoy.

[hwn000]

Fuck you. BMW gives TED the money to hold these conferences, and in exchange wants a short OPTIONAL ad attached to the video. Hardly a crime.

[ShadowShorts]

That certainly makes sense. But before long, advertising becomes a de facto standard in our lives, which is not how it should be.

All media should be publicly owned. That would solve more of today's problems than just about anything else. I hope someone gives a TED talk about *that*...

[hwn000]

"Publicy owned" as in "governmentally owned"? What a world that would be if the White House controlled all media outlets.

[ShadowShorts]

No, not government owned. Publicly owned... by the people. As in not-for-profit. Think how many problems that would solve almost overnight, if broadcasters were not dependent on advertising revenue.

Edward R. Murrow noted decades ago how the integrity of the media was being undermined by the need to make money. Search for "Edward Murrow speech comfortable complacent". Or rent Good Night and Good Luck.

[hwn000]

Then the media will reflect the interest of rich investors rather than corporations. I fail to see how this solves anything.

[ShadowShorts]

You're right. You fail.

[hwn000]

Thanks for the free win. I thought I had an actual argument on my hands, but apparently I just had a half-baked liberal college yuppy fuck who likes to spout out whatever he remembers from his freshman political science course.

[ShadowShorts]

I cheated a little by standing on the shoulders of giants (Edward R. Murrow). Anyway, the point was made. Why should I waste my time educating you when you can go look up his speech yourself?

[hwn000]

Is that what they teach you in university these days? You don't have to actually defend your point so long as somebody famous agrees with you? What if mommy and daddy disagree? Who's right then?

[ShadowShorts]

I'm trying to be nice here, but W-T-F are you talking about?!?

1) I'm not a university student.

2) Only a loser resorts to throwing labels around to win an argument anyway. It's doubly stupid if it's the wrong label. Desperate much?

3) I'm the only one here so far who's actually made a point.

4) Talking tough means nothing if you can't back it up.

5) Edward Murrow wasn't just some celebrity with a blog. He was a journalist. His opinion carries some weight. (Unlike yours.)

[colquitt2010]

I'm not buying it. The technology shown is at the level we have today accept for a few things. Now, I was hoping to see more footage of the face animation. It look really good. As for the body animation, we all seen better.

[princeofexcess]

seen it before.

we still fall short but this is a step closer

[NegativeNick]

she's hot

[KingAssmar]

What's the hardware on which they're running this?

[NegativeNick]

Mac OSX

[Amosdudley]

What do you mean, running on? It's non-realtime rendering, and it's computed on a render-farm somewhere.

[KingAssmar]

Thought it was running on something like ATI stream. This really isn't all that impressive.

[araless]

wow. I love living in the future.

[googoo120]

as aposed to the other time where you lived in ;p? :D

[hlehnerer]

cool!

[celsius233]

Wow, impressive. The only thing that really gives it away in that video is the blink.

[KeriOwen]

hmmm, so they created a photoreal digital image by....photographing a model.

[jussts]

Yes.

[espn1337]

Hmmm... Porn anyone?

[RichieW]

They can barley afford decent cameras these days with all the piracy...

[chikotube]

i saw her demo a few months back.

[timabad]

nice!

[whoiswhite]

Wow, this is really impressive. I could not tell the difference between the digital version of her face and the real one. Incidentally, while the technology is marketed as an improvement to CGI, the research will likely advance other areas of science, especially in research on what visual cues humans respond to. I'm sure Paul Ekman could use computer models where he can realistically manipulate individual muscles and measure the psychological effect. Just a thought...

[n3rdbear]

This technology could be used to hoax news reports and interviews.

[YouKnowWhereThisEnds]

And knives could be used to kill people.

Quick, ban them!

[sh4dow83]

indeed it could... somewhere i've read that even today, visual effects are sometimes used to "spice up" news footage. don't know if it's true but... can't really see why it wouldn't be.

the whole thing reminds me of something that i think somebody else said during a TED conference... that technology evolves way faster than society and since humans on average still are pretty immoral and corruptable, this will result in major problems...

[ArtOfPhire]

You're an idiot.

[BENGALtiger87]

the last animation could've been more detailed.

[eloquentdiamond]

I hope they make Tintin with this.

[uberzwitter]

I don't see why people are so hostile to CG being improved upon. It's already used in so many ways, but we should stop advancing because your all too xenophobic? Special effects have been around since the beggining of movie making as one form or another, CG is an art in itself, and properly used is very effective...so get over yourselves. Lots of good intelligent and entertaining movies would not have been the same without it, and more will benefit from this.

[planetdarwin]

why do they keep trying to make realistic CGI characters when audiences have consistently indicated that simple human emotion is more important than fancy tech tricks? you'd be better off making a movie with a home camcorder than with phony million-dollar CGI characters.

[tarohoa]

it may not be as important but it is still a contributing factor. pushing only one boundary isn't gonna get u to perfection or similiar

[Kevmcgo]

finally. now i can see the pain in your faces when i pwn you in any videogame

[latestranger]

Um... Benjamin Button anyone?

[LordoftheJamesClan]

Light stage 7, captures entire cities

[rowanrockhopper2]

Oof thats a lot of cameras...

[file83]

Meh, I was doing this with an Commodore 64 & VHS camera back in the 80's.

[SayChickpeas]

Not like that you weren't

[PFCAhammed]

lol

[codbug]

Highly detailed, animated displacement maps. I wonder just how much processing power that requires to run in realtime. Unless they have some amazing proprietary software that handles it efficiently, I can only see it being practical in use for raster renderings, which would still be useful for CG in films. Though with Moore's Law, who knows what this could mean for gaming!

[ShadowofCatron]

Using various caching techniques I am sure it would be possible to render this at 30 FPS on modern gaming computers.On top of that, level of detail systems reduce the need for such a highly detailed displacement map at all times.

[codbug]

With the current acceptable standard of LOD in high-end games, the effect would probably be really subtle outside of cutscenes with closeups of faces which could just be as easily pre-rendered. As it is, it almost seems like it'd be an unnecessary component and performance bog to the current generation of games and the hardware that runs them. My hope is that hopefully our average gaming hardware will catch up to the point where this absurd level of detail becomes standard. :)

[dormurbone]

thank you TED for not having pre-emptive ads.

[francisleech]

freakin' awesome! Now we can believe one day CGI will be impossible to distinguish from reality.

[crackyflipside]

We can only hope!

[spinynorman1982]

A porn company would soon be making photo realistic slave dolls rather than movies I'd guess.

[mrkvamaster]

well this is just very advanced motion capture, if they would be able to make the clip where she's talking WITHOUT her performing it first, that would really be something

[eb352mm]

damn shes hot, can u turn her into a latex doll.

[bakagajin]

Amazing technology. What a lame audience btw.

[arbide2]

Still not perfect.

[smexTTS]

lol give it two years

[RyanB0011]

Computer games are going to look so realistic 5 years from now it will be insane, borderline impossible to tell the difference between reality and computer generated characters. This will result in more immersive gaming experiences to get every possible emotion that you would experience in real life in a digital environment.

[BinaryReader]

duh

[RyanB0011]

duh what? BinaryReady. You can still tell the difference between real and digital in mainstream video games today and even a couple years from now you will still be able to.

[BinaryReader]

sorry dude, the "duh" was in response to you stating the obvious.

[neil73]

Imagine what it'll be like in 30 - 50 years from now. Holodecks maybe?

[crankthetoto]

maybe ill get laid finally

[neil73]

You could get laid tonight: go see a prostitute!

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Interesting... I think it's becoming almost impossible to distinguish the difference... at least sometimes :P

[mastershake1000]

He got no claps... I bet if gamers were there he would have.

[VexRiot]

The CIA could use this technology to make more Osama Bin Laden videos and scare the public. And release tapes whenever there's an important election in order to influence them whether it's in Germany or the US.

[bakagajin]

Lol, they would have to capture him first to make the digital scans.

[drealm]

I wonder how this will affect the pay structure for actors.

[BaileysBeads]

Or stuntmen, rather.

[Clausfarre]

What is impressive here? She is scanned and then remade digitally. Big whoop.

But I'm sure with time they can create photo realism without having to do all this modelling. Hmmmm.....

[GMLSX]

Hm.. No sub surface scatering?

[tellmewhatsahappenin]

this is awesome. i'm so excited for the future of video games/movies :)

[liquidminds]

couple years.. couple of CPU-Generations, couple of GPU-Generations and we will play games that are looking so real, that i'm shitting my pants just thinking about it....

scary....

guess when i have children one day, they wont know the difference between movie and animation anymore...

[Boehoehuahoei]

Yes!!! grand theft auto 5!!! Killing real people, and we wont know the difference. WooHooo

[DrewEl2]

this is pretty old....why are they uploading it now?

[Sc0tt08]

The thought of how powerful/accessible this technology will become is pretty damn scary, but it's interesting nonetheless.

[ThanatosBeMyGuide]

holy crarp

[Mongo8Bongo]

Awesome. Its like. Games after 2020 :P!!

[ddnguyen278]

This technology he is showing is used in a game coming out in 2010. Look up Heavy Rain, that's the game they are working on.

[rackslap]

her eyes look weird when she blinks. but other than that it's AMAZING.

[FannySMUDGE]

Not really what a was hoping...

[PoisonedAntidote]

in 15 or 20 years time, when 12 year old kids have access to this technology and even more refined version of it.

will video footage still count as evidence in a court of law?

[DSBrekus]

It's hard to say, even now it is hard to count audio as evidence because all you need is clips of someones voices and a good enough program to make them say anything you want.

[Waranoa]

Video footage should not count as evidence in a court of law for most cases. It is allready very easy to forge it and most of all surveillance should be limited to private property.

[Bercik87]

Wow, stunning. I hope this will get implemented into games ASAP.

btw she's cute :3

[lakermangmx]

bitch must sleep a bit look at those eyes

[SpacedTime]

Anyone listen to the advert after? 80 minute standing ovation?

Anyone know what for? And who the idiots were who clapped for an hour and a half?

[Cainer666]

Apparently:

On June 30, 1991 Placido Domingo received an 80 min standing ovation including 101 curtain calls after singing Otello in Vienna.

[flyhead2]

Great. Now Hollywood and games manufacturers can make even more realistic scenes of people being killed in horrific ways.

[HayteStreet]

I concur.

[bendtx]

Can't WAIT for the next Generation of gaming consoles, it is going to be TOO real...

[FannySMUDGE]

Search for the Cry Engine 3...

[HiAdrian]

Hey, it's Paul Debevec! Didn't expect to see him at TED, very cool.

I bet the porn industry is most eager to get their hands on this technology :f

[Panpiper]

Yes, we are. ;-)

[graphicism]

Unbelievable, this is brilliant!

... I'm not buying another graphic card until games start using this technology.

[CantBlockProxies]

Ya, Emily: we could definitely bang. I'll render your face in photo-ready man sauce.