For generations, scholars and art patrons have pondered the meaning of Mona Lisa’s smile. The mystery may have recently acquired new depth, thanks to digital animations created by Samsung’s AI researchers.
Their video, viewed over one million times (and counting) on YouTube, shows the Mona Lisa realistically moving and talking. But this is no Hollywood CGI character created and controlled by human animators. It was achieved purely by AI – specifically, a deep neural network trained via image banks to recognise and replicate the relationships between “facial landmarks” across a range of expressions. The facial movements of the “Mona Lisa” were derived from videos of three human subjects.
