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TikTok Dancer's Worst Nightmare Just Came True.
Okay, that’s hyperbole. But what if instead of having to record a carefully choreographed dance routine, you could just upload a single image and let technology handle the rest?
MagicAnimate, a new diffusion-based human animation framework built by ByteDance (the owners of TikTok) is getting a lot of hype on social media for doing exactly this.
MagicAnimate takes any static image and turns it into a full-blown animation. Imagine the Mona Lisa, and now imagine if da Vinci had the technology to record her dancing. The team behind MagicAnimate made that a reality.
Want to know how it works? According to the team*, “MagicAnimate employs a video diffusion model and an appearance encoder for temporal modeling and identity preserving”* for the sample image. For the animation process, it uses a “simple video fusion strategy that produces smooth video transition during inference.”
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I’m not sure what all of that means either, but the results speak for themselves.
ByteDance isn't the only company working on turning images into video. Alibaba is building a tool called Animate Anyone that will be released in the future.
So the next time you want to show off your dancing skills, skip the recording, snap a photo, and try…
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