New Deepfake app enables you to remove any person from a video

Google employee Jason Mays has developed a new video retouching app.The tool allows you to remove a person from any video you’ve captured.

Everyone knows how it feels when you take a fantastic photo, but it’s spoiled by a random passerby who gets caught in the frame. Many of us, at some point, would like to remove former partners from our joint videos; however, until recently, there was no technical way to achieve this.

A machine intelligence specialist from Google Jason Mays tried to solve this problem. Using Javascript and TensorFlow, he developed a tool to remove unwanted objects from a video. You can test this now in the Disappearing People app.

Artificial intelligence calculates how much space a person occupies, and can replace any pixels, removing them from the frame completely. The tool has one ‘exception’: for everything to work perfectly, the user must have other images of the same area that the video originally captured, without a person being there - the application needs an idea of the space visible in the frame.