Master the innovative world of deepfakes and generative AI for face replacement with this full-color guide

Key Features

• Understand what deepfakes are, their history, and how to use the technology ethically
• Get well-versed with the workflow and processes involved to create your own deepfakes
• Learn how to apply the lessons and techniques of deepfakes to your own problems

Book Description

Applying Deepfakes will allow you to tackle a wide range of scenarios creatively.

Learning from experienced authors will help you to intuitively understand what is going on inside the model. You'll learn what deepfakes are and what makes them different from other machine learning techniques, and understand the entire process from beginning to end, from finding faces to preparing them, training the model, and performing the final swap.

We'll discuss various uses for face replacement before we begin building our own pipeline. Spending some extra time thinking about how you collect your input data can make a huge difference to the quality of the final video. We look at the importance of this data and guide you with simple concepts to understand what your data needs to really be successful.

No discussion of deepfakes can avoid discussing the controversial, unethical uses for which the technology initially became known. We'll go over some potential issues, and talk about the value that deepfakes can bring to a variety of educational and artistic use cases, from video game avatars to filmmaking.

By the end of the book, you'll understand what deepfakes are, how they work at a fundamental level, and how to apply those techniques to your own needs.

What you will learn

• Gain a clear understanding of deepfakes and their creation
• Understand the risks of deepfakes and how to mitigate them
• Collect efficient data to create successful deepfakes
• Get familiar with the deepfakes workflow and its steps
• Explore the application of deepfakes methods to your own generative needs
• Improve results by augmenting data and avoiding overtraining
• Examine the future of deepfakes and other generative AIs
• Use generative AIs to increase video content resolution

Who this book is for

This book is for AI developers, data scientists, and anyone looking to learn more about deepfakes or techniques and technologies from Deepfakes to help them generate new image data. Working knowledge of Python programming language and basic familiarity with OpenCV, Pillow, Pytorch, or Tensorflow is recommended to get the most out of the book.

Table of Contents

1. Surveying Deepfakes
2. Examining Deepfake Ethics and Dangersand Ethics
3. Acquiring and Processing Data
4. The Deepfake workflow
5. Extracting faces from the video
6. Training a Deepfake Model
7. Swapping the Face Back into the Video
8. Applying the lessons of Deepfakes
9. The future of Deepfakes

About the authors

Bryan Lyon is a seasoned AI expert with over a decade of experience in and around the field. His background is in computational linguistics and he has worked with the cutting-edge open source deepfake software Faceswap since 2018. Currently, Bryan serves as the chief technology officer for an AI company based in California.

Matt Tora is a seasoned software developer with over 15 years of experience in the field. He specializes in machine learning, computer vision, and streamlining workflows. He leads the open source deepfake project Faceswap and consults with VFX studios and tech start-ups on integrating machine learning into their pipelines.