Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, released source code on Thursday that allows it to animate hand-drawn drawings of human characters, like those made by children, with artificial intelligence (AI).
The company has open-sourced animation and published the first-of-its-kind database of nearly 180,000 fan drawings to help other AI researchers and creators continue to innovate, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and chief executive, said in a statement. .
Meta released the prototype of this animation tool in 2021 and has now shared the code.
“Our researchers have developed the first method of its kind to use AI to automatically animate figures of people and human characters drawn by children’s hands, that is, a character with two arms, two legs and one head,” said Zuckerberg, quoted in the note. press
According to Meta, by sending the drawings to this system, “parents and children can see how their drawings are transformed into moving characters that dance and jump.”
“By teaching AI to work effectively with children’s drawings, we hope this project will bring us closer to building an AI capable of understanding the world from a human point of view,” the technology giant stressed.
Source: TSF
