Fake It Till You Make It (Microsoft) | Paper Explained

Опубликовано: 15 Апрель 2026
на канале: Aleksa Gordić - The AI Epiphany
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In this video I cover Microsoft's "Fake it till you make it: face analysis in the wild using synthetic data alone" paper.

They introduce synthetic (face) data that is realistic enough to enable trivial generalization to real data!

Disclaimer: I was a part of this team while back at Microsoft, and even had some contributions to this project, but in this video, I only talk about the stuff that can be deduced from the paper itself.

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✅ Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.15102
✅ Demo video:    • Fake It Till You Make It: Face Analysis In...  
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⌚️ Timetable:
00:00 The domain gap problem
04:20 The paper deals only with human faces
06:05 Data-centric approach is short-sighted?
08:50 Building 3D human faces (high-level explanation)
09:30 Pros and cons of the approach
11:45 Building 3D human faces (in-depth)
16:15 Results on landmark localization and sem seg
20:45 Better generalization?
21:25 Outro

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