Digital Artist Brings Faces In Famous Portraits To Life With Neural Network
Video screenshot by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission
History’s most prominent artists have succeeded in creating subjects that continue to mesmerize today. An example would be the Mona Lisa (1503) by Leonardo da Vinci.
The painting has been residing in the Louvre Museum since 1797. Since then, many people have come in droves to awe at the stunning artwork, and some might even wonder what the famed lady with enchanting eyes and a mysterious smile would’ve looked like in real life.
Well, you might be close to finding out because artist Denis Shiryaev has reimagined the Mona Lisa as well as other people in iconic paintings to appear as a real person using artificial intelligence.
Shiryaev collated people’s facial expressions from YouTube and TikTok videos and used neural network technology, a computing system loosely based on the biological brain, to create realistic appearances.
Shiryaev released a video showing the making of his reimaginations. He went above and beyond to bring the portraits to life by displaying the AI-generated faces with lifelike movements.
Although the digitally-created appearances may resemble the portraits, Shiryaev reminded that “we can’t consider those faces as historically accurate.” Rather, the project was simply “a fun thing to do.”
The video features a total of seven famous paintings: Frida Kahlo’s Self-portrait, Grant Wood’s American Gothic, Rembrandt van Rijn’s The Night Watch, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Leonardo da Vinci’s Lady with an Ermine and the Mona Lisa.
To discover more works by Shiryaev, check out his website Neural Love, or follow him on Instagram and YouTube.
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Video screenshot by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission
The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
Video screenshot by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission
American Gothic by Grant Wood
Video screenshot by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission
Self-portrait by Frida Kahlo
Video screenshot by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission
Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci
Video screenshot by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission
[via Bored Panda, images by Neural Love / Denis Shiryaev and featured with permission]
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