Artificial Intelligence Hybridizes Humans With Cartoon Animals, Vegetables And Trolls.

The process starts by building a 3D mesh of the user’s head from a selfie shot.

Then 3 other neural networks master the personalization. The first one draws eyebrows, the second detects and matches eye color.

The third neural network detects and draws glasses if a person is wearing them.

Only the restricted area of a character is morphed because humans and animals have very different face topologies. Creating the look-alike characters, developers wanted to avoid giving them a creepy look.

Here’s what the avatar would look like if the whole face was morphed.

Developers decided to implement this technology in their mobile app Chudo. It is a messenger with personalized avatars.

I installed it and morphed celebrities with Chudo's characters. Here are the results: