Meta has released an open source project called Animated Drawings that allows artists, creators and developers to add movement and animations to characters they have drawn or created.
This initiative, from the team of Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) of the division for the Artificial Intelligence Meta AI, started in 2021 as part of the work on computer vision. They applied models for object detection, posture estimation, and image processing and segmentation. “to quickly create a digital version of the drawing.”
The company has explained in a statement that, once these parameters were assessed, they thought about the ability to deform these drawings and animate them using traditional computer graphics techniques.
So, they proposed a demo “with the hope of collecting 10,000 drawings” to be able to train their machine learning model (‘machine learning’) with these samples. The opening of this system had a response “overwhelmingly positive”to the point that, in the first months, users had uploaded more than 1.6 million images.
Although in this first demo it was indicated that the drawings should be of human people, some users shared creations of brand logos, animals such as birds and fish, and other shapes that this tool did not initially support.
In this sense, the company has commented that, although it warned that “there was interest in more experiences based on drawing and animation”, instead of including all the requested functions, it chose to publish an open source version of the models used. in the demo of Animated Drawings. Thus, Meta has recognized that it has done so to inspire other developers to create experiences that use resources from animation from drawings.
Consequently, the developers have created a publicly accessible web page where users can upload their creations from the device. This tool scans the drawing and allows users to narrow down the characters they want to animate, in case a drawing with multiple characters is shared.
Once recognized by this system, several options are offered animationwhich are collected in the section ‘All’ and they are classified according to what each one proposes in sections such as ‘Dancing’, ‘Fun’, ‘Jumping’ and ‘Walk’.
Once the desired animation has been chosen, the platform allows you to either download it or share it through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter or the WhatsApp messaging platform. Also includes the option to send this animation by email.
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