AI researcher turns his face into the Doomguy, unleashes hell

The Doomguy. Stoic, silent, flickering eyes on the backside of the display. He’s not likely the talkative kind, is he? Who would’ve guessed his first phrases weren’t “death” or “murder” or “double-barrelled”, however a Russian-language rationalization of complicated neural community modelling methods? This week, developer Denis Malimonov unleashed his personal form of hell – changing his common human face with the Doom Slayer’s low-fidelity visage with machine studying.

Without additional ado – I’m sorry for inflicting this in your stainless screens.

Face Image Motion Model.

I rebuilt the favored mannequin, including interpolation and upscale frames. Detailed DoomMan with Remini and StyleGan2 (from my construct).

🐱GitHub: https://t.co/JiLNthiu67

📒Colab: https://t.co/UvKaLTCvWc

P.S. Colab is predicated on the https://t.co/2Kq3J0o3rg. pic.twitter.com/iFqIIWWBfh

— Bomze (@tg_bomze) March 13, 2020

Thanks, I hate it. Oh, it’s very spectacular know-how, however I retch when it turns into extra detailed, twisting Doomguy right into a working dad. One who seems actual impressed with the deal he simply landed on his dwelling insurance coverage. The method the pixellated unique strikes and twists in three dimensions is extra horrifying than any of hell’s denizens.

The mannequin Malimonov labored from is given a short run-down over on it’s Google Collab page. That system can take a sq. video and a picture file, merging the previous’s movement onto the latter by AI-powered shenanigans. Malimonov then provides interpolation frames to clean out the video, and upscales the end result.

Granted, it’s the form of AI-driven tech that instantly raises alarm bells. Yes, it’s humorous to make fictional characters say cuss phrases. It’s not fairly so laughable when malicious actors begin faking up movies of political actors, celebrities or in any other case to unfold misinformation.

The clean, fiscally-conscious Doomguy seen above isn’t a results of this course of, thoughts – Malimonov has merely sourced this uncomfortable picture from Redditor Zergling103, which was itself was created from a number of makes an attempt to upscale the unique Doom portrait with machine studying.

With Doom Eternal arriving this coming Friday, let’s hope some expert modder will get this man’s face behind the Praetor masks ASAP.