Baidu flaps its lips

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For an artist, lips are often the most difficult thing to draw. AI video programs, it seems, are facing the same problem.

Baidu is working on tech to help mouth movements leap over the uneasy, uncanny valley feeling that AI-generated 3D videos commonly give. Baidu's system uses two neural networks: One network to first create a 3D video from audio data, and a second network to correct and refine the lip movements created by the first network. The Chinese search giant noted that the neural networks are trained in a host of different AI concepts, such as "computer vision, augmented/virtual reality and deep learning."

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Source Fool.com