This AI lets you move a portrait like Animoji

A team of researchers recently developed an AI that can transfer your real-time facial expressions, eye movements, and poses to a portrait – making it appear as though the person in the image is actually talking and moving. The AI, called HeadOn, was developed by the same people who brought you last year's jaw-dropping Face2Face. In fact, HeadOn is a bit of an upgrade to that one. The project's white paper calls it the "first real-time source-to-target reenactment approach for complete human portrait videos that enables transfer of torso and head motion, face expression, and eye gaze." It combines several technologies – most of which were either pioneered or perfected by this very research team. The original work done on Face2Face provided the framework for a large portion of HeadOn's capability, but what's changed is the transfer of torso and head motion to go along with the original's facial expression translation.