How to animate your old photos: MyHeritage's 'Deep Nostalgia' Feature is going viral

Genealogy platform MyHerit has released a feature called 'Deep stalgia' that animates faces in still photos using video reenactment techlogy. According to MyHerit, techlogy for animating faces in photos was licensed from D-ID, a company that specializes in video reenactment using deep learning.

Deep stalgia uses several pre-recorded driver videos prepared by MyHerit, which direct movements in animation and consist of sequences of real human gestures. A preferred driver is automatically selected for each face based on its orientation, and n seamlessly applied to photo. result is a short, high-quality video animation of an individual face that can smile, blink, and move. To achieve optimal results, photos are enhanced prior to animation using  MyHerit Photo Enhancer, which brings blurry and low-resolution faces into focus and increases ir resolution, according to MyHerit website.

Getting started:

According to a tutorial on platform's website, to animate new photos that haven’t been uploed to MyHerit yet, users can uplo and animate m at myherit.com/deep-stalgia. 

• “Uplo photo” to choose a file from your computer. Or, drag and drop a photo of your choice into photo frame. 

• Once users uplo a photo, y will be asked to sign up to MyHerit to animate photos. Signing up is free. If users alrey have a MyHerit account and aren’t logged in, y can select “Log in” option on bottom of popup. 

• Once photo has been uploed, users can select a face to animate from among individual faces that have been detected in im. 

• Animating one face in a photo typically takes between 10 to 20 seconds, depending on length of driver video that we’re applying to it. Videos that consist of a longer sequence of gestures take longer to create. 
• Once  animated video is rey it will start playing immediately. Hover over it to pause video at any point.

Animating photos alrey on MyHerit

• Users can also animate any photo that is alrey on MyHerit by visiting “My Photos” section of website.

• Select one of photos, and new “Animate” button.

• If only one face is detected in your photo, platform will begin animating it right away.

• If re is more than one person in photo, users can choose which face to animate by selecting from bar below photo which shows all individual faces detected in im.

• Once complete, users will be able to watch output video of animation. 

Animating your photos using mobile app

Deep stalgia is also available on free MyHerit mobile app, which can be downloed from  App Store or Google Play. If users alrey have app, y will need to update it first to make sure y are using latest version. Users can animate photos from Photos section in app or uplo new photos to be animated. platform recommends using mobile app’s built-in scanner.

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According to a blog post on MyHerit, over 1 million photos were animated in first 48 hours alone, since February 25. Deep stalgia is newest AI-based photo tool on MyHerit and comes on heels of two highly-acclaimed features that company released last year, MyHerit Photo Enhancer and MyHerit In Color, which colourizes black and white photos and was recently expanded to also restore colours in fed colour photos.

"You’ll have a ‘wow moment’ when you see a treasured family photo come to life with Deep stalgia," said Gil Japhet, Founder and CEO of MyHerit. "Seeing our beloved ancestors’ faces come to life in a video simulation lets us imagine how y might have been in reality, and provides a profound new way of connecting to our family history."

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