{"id":10218,"date":"2017-01-26T18:17:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T23:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/?post_type=cool-stuff-found&#038;p=10218"},"modified":"2017-01-26T20:23:08","modified_gmt":"2017-01-27T01:23:08","slug":"faceapp-neural-net-add-smiles-young-old-gender","status":"publish","type":"cool-stuff-found","link":"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/nl\/cool-stuff-found\/faceapp-neural-net-add-smiles-young-old-gender\/","title":{"rendered":"FaceApp Uses Neural Net to Add Smiles, Make You Old or Young, Change Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, folks, I honestly don&#8217;t know how I feel about this, but it&#8217;s definitely interesting. A company called Wireless Lab has a new app called FaceApp. It uses the power of a neural net to modify photographs. They can add a smile to a portrait where the subject wasn&#8217;t smiling. Other filters make\u00a0a face young\u00a0or\u00a0old, or\u00a0change the gender from male to female or vice versa.\u00a0In a statement, the company\u00a0said,\u00a0&#8220;Prisma changes the style of a photo, but keeps the content. FaceApp changes the content, but keeps the style.&#8221;\u00a0Wireless Lab is using a neural net, meaning your image is uploaded to their servers where a bunch of computers apply the filters. In my quick tests, I found the Smile filter works stunningly well. You&#8217;ll see me and Jeff Gamet below both look like women with the Female filter, but it doesn&#8217;t handle our facial hair very well. And\u2014much to my chagrin\u2014neither of us look any\u00a0older with the &#8220;Old&#8221; filter, but their own examples are markedly different. The short version is that FaceApp isn&#8217;t perfect, and it&#8217;s little more than a\u00a0novelty at this stage, but humans are getting really, <em>really<\/em> good at altering images in stunning ways. FaceApp is free. [<strong>Update:<\/strong> I reached out to\u00a0Yaroslav Goncharov, the founder and CEO of Wireless Lab, who told me the underlying technology with use. He said, &#8220;Users already sent us photos some of our filters struggle with and it helps us to fine tune our neural nets.&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":10223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-10218","cool-stuff-found","type-cool-stuff-found","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FaceApp Uses Neural Net to Add Smiles, Make You Old or Young, Change Gender - The Mac Observer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wireless Lab has a new app called FaceApp that uses a neural net to modify photographs, adding smiles, changing genders, or making you old.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/nl\/cool-stuff-found\/faceapp-neural-net-add-smiles-young-old-gender\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FaceApp Uses Neural Net to Add Smiles, Make You Old or Young, Change Gender\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Wireless Lab has a new app called FaceApp that uses a neural net to modify photographs, adding smiles, changing genders, or making you old.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/nl\/cool-stuff-found\/faceapp-neural-net-add-smiles-young-old-gender\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"The Mac Observer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MacObserver\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-01-27T01:23:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.macobserver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/bryan-chaffin-jeff-gamet-faceapp-wide.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@MacObserver\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Geschatte leestijd\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minuut\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/nl\\\/cool-stuff-found\\\/faceapp-neural-net-add-smiles-young-old-gender\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.macobserver.com\\\/nl\\\/cool-stuff-found\\\/faceapp-neural-net-add-smiles-young-old-gender\\\/\",\"name\":\"FaceApp Uses Neural Net to Add Smiles, Make You Old or Young, Change Gender - 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