When will CGI people match people?

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  1. Aleksander Ulyanov

    Aleksander Ulyanov Well-Known Member

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    I'm talking unable to tell from real. No "uncanny valley" So far I've not seen it, though I have seen close.

    If you think it has been done, please post it

    Which sorta baffles me, computer photos are, basically, just a CGI image themselves, yes? So why can't they generate the image without the reality the photo is copying?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nA3_X5rQLP0
     
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    I think static images can get pretty close, especially if the pose and lighting favours it. Moving images are a whole different issue with infinitely more to get right. In either case, I think there is a big step to get from almost there to impossible to tell the difference. They can get to a point where something obviously looks lifelike but we still have that subconscious sense that it isn't quite right, which is very difficult to quantify and fix. A key element is, somewhat ironically, getting the right kind of flaws and imperfections that reality has, something it's difficult to get computers to do.
     
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    CGI never gets the eyes right, they look dead. Maybe one day.
     
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    One of my daughters who works in that media tells me its only a matter time/hours spent, they can fool you now ....she told me they deliberately degrade images to make it look less real...
     
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