Google began testing a new feature for Youtube that allows you to replace the background in the video is as simple as, for example, choose a filter to a photo in Instagram. The app, created with the use of artificial intelligence capable of doing it on the fly, bypassing the need to use green screen and other sophisticated devices. The editing tool is already available for smartphones, but so far only in beta and for a small range of users.
Engadget reports that while the function test in the new video, “history”, reminiscent of the same function in Snapchat or Instagram. Below you can see an example of how the new AI app.
“The development of the used machine learning to solve the problem of semantic segmentation using neural networks. We have created a network architecture and a training procedure that is suitable for smartphones. We wanted the app was easy and fast, so we initially set ourselves the task to get it to work 20-30 times faster than other segmentation models of photos. This allowed us to achieve a result in which all this “flies” with a speed to 30 frames per second,” — explain the experts working on the application.
The result, while hardly ideal, but application development is far from complete. Now when you select dark backgrounds you can notice a slight glare and “halos” over the girl’s head, demonstrating a new function. Surely, the release of a public version of the algorithm will learn to be more careful, careful trimming and fitting the edges of the layer of the video and background. It would be great if the developers dobova in utility and other possibilities such as allowing paste to the background own images, but it will be known closer to release.
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New app for Youtube is able to change the background on the video
Vyacheslav Larionov