Computer Vision News - June 2020

2 Summary Research 1 Introduction We all knew that the time of a more powerful type of fake news would eventually arrive, and that, in some way, it was behind the corner thanks to the advancement in AI. The days where anybody from home can decide what their favourite paintings or politicians would say. And it did indeed arrive, not only with one simple experiment, but bringing together a whole field developing day by day. Therein you can find the paper we are reviewing today which tackles the problem of image animation by also performing a thorough comparison with state-of-the-art methods and imposing itself as a must-read in this fascinating domain. A domain which, until very recently, only included object-specific methods and relied too strongly on pre-trained models and Every month, Computer Vision News reviews a research paper from the AI field. After a few medical imaging choices, let’s focus on another interesting topic and get the chance to review First Order Motion Model for Image Animation. We are indebted to the authors (Aliaksandr Siarohin, Stéphane Lathuilière, Sergey Tulyakov, Elisa Ricci, Nicu Sebe), for allowing us to use their images to illustrate this review. You can find their paper at this link and a very nice explanatory video here below. by Marica Muffoletto