{"id":9731,"date":"2023-10-21T14:29:13","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9731"},"modified":"2023-10-21T14:29:13","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T21:29:13","slug":"ai-backflip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9731","title":{"rendered":"AI Backflip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Animator\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nikitadiakur.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nikita Diakur<\/a>\u00a0thought it would be safer to have a digital stand-in do a backflip after he failed to do a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/backflip.training\/\" target=\"_blank\">backflip<\/a>\u00a0in real life. <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/m_schneider\" target=\"_blank\">Maximilian Schneider<\/a>\u00a0helped him use machine learning tech to create a photorealistic avatar of himself, use a voice simulator trained for 15 minutes on his actual voice, wire the voice to the mesh on his face, and a few other techniques from the paper\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/xbpeng.github.io\/projects\/DeepMimic\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Deep Mimic<\/a>. He then tried to train the avatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s an interesting way to tell a story &#8211; especially when he puts the avatar into his tiny apartment and proceeds to virtually receive what would be numerous serious head traumas, bone breaking collisions, and likely tons of broken furniture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1zUJzzRu-xs?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Animator\u00a0Nikita Diakur\u00a0thought it would be safer to have a digital stand-in do a backflip after he failed to do a\u00a0backflip\u00a0in real life. Maximilian Schneider\u00a0helped him use machine learning tech to create a photorealistic avatar of himself, use a voice simulator trained for 15 minutes on his actual voice, wire the voice to the mesh on his face, and a few other techniques from the paper\u00a0Deep Mimic. He then tried to train the avatar. It&#8217;s an interesting way to tell a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9731\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2wX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9732,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions\/9732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}