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Face2Face: Real-Time Face Capture and Video Reenactment

Matthias Niessner · Demo · 7 min · 2016 · YouTube title: Face2Face: Real-time Face Capture and Reenactment of RGB Videos (CVPR 2016 Oral)
Why it's here

HN uses it as a reference point in deepfake and fake-news discussions, showing that convincing real-time video manipulation was already possible in 2016.

What it covers

The CVPR 2016 oral demo of Face2Face, a system that captures a person's face and reenacts another video's face in real time using only RGB video. The authors frame it as research on modern vision and graphics.