Stitch it in Time: Facial Editing of Real Videos
Last Updated on July 20, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Louis Bouchard
Originally published on Towards AI.
AI-based face manipulations in high-quality talking head videos

Originally published on louisbouchard.ai, read it 2 days before on my blog!
You’ve most certainly seen movies like the recent Captain Marvel or Gemini Man where Samuel L Jackson and Will Smith appeared to look like they were much younger. This requires hundreds if not thousands of hours of work from professionals manually editing the scenes he appeared in. Instead, you could use a simple AI and do it within a few minutes.
“oldify” example. Image from the paper.
Indeed, many techniques allow you to add smiles, make you look younger or older, all automatically using AI-based algorithms. They are mostly applied to… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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