LivePortrait

LivePortrait is an AI tool that animates still images, transforming them into realistic, moving videos. It supports various media types, including actual photos, animated designs, and artistic portraits.

Video generation is quick, with the duration depending on the image's complexity and system workload. The software offers high-quality animation and precise control of movement for accurate, realistic expressions, a range of style options, and customized animation designs.

Images can be improved before animation to achieve the best results, including options to restore, colorize, or enhance the resolution of images. Using a combined image-video training approach, enhanced network design, better motion transformation, and modules for stitching and retargeting, LivePortrait has a wide array of potential uses.

These uses include animating classic artwork, renewing old family photos, improving personal images, animating still anime art, and making historical figures appear alive.

To use it, users upload a clear static portrait image, choose a driving video to dictate the image's movement, adjust settings, and create the animated portrait.

Users can utilize custom videos or provided presets as the driving video. While the software creates highly realistic animations, the level of realism depends on various image and video characteristics.

Kuaishou Technology has open-sourced the platform.