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Facebook, Israeli Researchers Develop Technology To Simulate Facial Expressions Using Single Photograph
Creating videos from photos is something that Apple and Google have been working on with their respective offerings such as Live Photos and Motion Photos. A new research has now suggested a way to use photos more diversely -- by creating several images from just one selfie. Researchers from Tel Aviv University, Israel, have developed a software that can automatically animate a still portrait and needs only a single frame to do that. They use what they call a "driving video" of a subject to map out facial expressions and add them to any photo. All the user needs is one input photo to create animated pictures with myriad expressions such as happiness, sadness, anger or surprise.