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How much better can I expect?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:37 pm
by smonaghan
This is my first deepfake attempt. I'm trying to put the FLOTUS' face into a super silly old music video. The music video is a VHS rip and unfortunately that's the best quality available. That said, I'm going for humor more than photo-realism here, so I want it to look good enough to be recognizable and funny.
I've been training for a few days using the villain model. For the A>A and B>B should I expect much more improvement? For example, smiling teeth are just sort of a white line. Do teeth get better fidelity? Does the airbrushed smoothness of the skin eventually resolve to sharper? And then I assume once the fidelity of those models increase, the A>B and B>A will begin to improve as well.
I'm definitely open to any tips!

Re: How much better can I expect?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:13 pm
by bryanlyon
Unfortunately you've chosen a poor source. Your best bet here is going to be to find more sources for A. Ideally they shouldn't be VHS quality Even if your final swap will be. Right now you're training the model that A is full of noise and poor quality. That simply wont work well even with a good quality B.
Re: How much better can I expect?
Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2019 9:20 pm
by smonaghan
Thanks Bryan! I updated the image above with the current state of my model from my google drive. Let me know if you think I can expect any improvement or if I should cut my losses and do my best with what I've got.
So far it's doing better than I originally expected.