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Nijigenka (二次元化) is Japanese for “2D- ification .” It’s a term for when artists take photos of people and turn them into anime characters. But now researchers are starting to have A I do the image-to-image translation.


At a recent workshop about deep learning in Tokyo, a researcher from Fudan University gave a presentation on creating anime characters with artificial intelligence. Researchers are using deep learning to produce anime versions of real photos. (For more image-to-image translations, watch this clip.)


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This poses challenges for anime because there are certain features that are specific to characters.



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Some results haven’t been that successful, which is why the researchers had to tune their method.


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For greater success.

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Expect this tech to get better and better.

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