Google Launches Service That Creates GIFs Based On Your Pose
Google is moving very fast with Artificial Intelligence, and it has already come up with some very cool ideas. Google loves to experiment with any technology, and Artificial Intelligence is no less. Google already has a ton of working ideas, but now it has come up with a fun project that analyses your poses and compares it with other people who have struck the same pose!
Called Move Mirror, this Google project uses a catalogue of almost 80,000 photos doing the same pose. So, how does this actually work? On its official website, Move Mirror accesses the computer’s webcam and uses a computer vision model called Pose Net. What does this is it detects ones body and identifies the positions of the joints.
The body position is analyzed in real time, and it is compared to a set of 80,000 photos. The Move Mirror analyzes all the photos and groups them to a slide show. You can either save them just as photos, or you could save them as a GIF file too. There is also an option to share the GIF file with others too.
Opportunities
There are various opportunities for a service like this. There are already companies who are using Artificial Intelligence to help customers try out certain dresses online before buying the dress. This service could also be used in a similar manner to further improve the process and to make the who process far more accurate.
What the Artificial Intelligence does is that one it identifies your joints, it plots them out and compares to various other pictures which might have the same plot and joint points. So what does Google want to prove with Move Mirror? The company wants to show that computer vision techniques like pose estimation and the lost can be made available to anyone and everyone who has access to a computer or at least a webcam.
Easy Process
This also shows that Artificial Intelligence does not need a lot of hardware and software, but something as simple as a computer and a webcam is enough. But there is also a concern of privacy. Where do these pictures get stored?
Well, Google has assured that since privacy is of a huge priority, these images would not be sent to a server, nor would they be stored anywhere else. This process would entirely be done directly from the browser, and would not be interfered with the cloud.
