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Want to jump on the latest TikTok dance trend, but don’t have time to learn the moves? Now, an artificial intelligence (AI) can create a video of you dancing from a single still image.
Tan Wang at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and colleagues, including researchers at Microsoft, developed a model they call Disentangled Control for Referring Human Dance Generation in Real World (DisCo), which splits an image into three parts: the background, the foreground and the pose of the person in the shot.
Their AI …