(Amazing!) Construction of peoples Faces from their voice alone.

[Bellbeaking]

https://arxiv.org/abs/1905.09773

How much can we infer about a person's looks from the way they speak? In this paper, we study the task of reconstructing a facial image of a person from a short audio recording of that person speaking. We design and train a deep neural network to perform this task using millions of natural Internet/YouTube videos of people speaking. During training, our model learns voice-face correlations that allow it to produce images that capture various physical attributes of the speakers such as age, gender and ethnicity. This is done in a self-supervised manner, by utilizing the natural co-occurrence of faces and speech in Internet videos, without the need to model attributes explicitly. We evaluate and numerically quantify how--and in what manner--our Speech2Face reconstructions, obtained directly from audio, resemble the true face images of the speakers.

this is the intesting stuff, they reconstruct faces just from audio! The camera shots are contructions of a profile shot from one other image (the ones on the left)





Scary stuff if you are concerned about a Police State

[Bellbeaking]

Also possible to create sound from a still image by measuring movements created by the sound source.