Nvidia GANimal uses A.I. To Make Animals Smile in Pictures Digital Trends

Can't get your dog or that tiger at the zoo to smile for your Instagram? A new artificially intelligent program developed by researchers from Nvidia can take the expression from one animal and put it on the photo of another animal. Called GANimal -- after generative adversarial networks, a type of A.I. -- the software allows users to upload an image of one animal to re-create the pet's expression and pose on another animal. GAN programs are designed to convert one image to look like another, but are typically focused on more narrow tasks like turning horses to zebras. GANimal, however, applies several different changes to the image, adjusting the expression, the position of the animal's head, and in many cases, even the background, from the inspiration image onto the source image.