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The first step to digitally preserving family photos stored in photo albums and shoe boxes is to scan them. To meet this need, Reimagine is a one-stop-shop where you can scan, improve, and share your photos, and indulge that sweet sense of nostalgia. Reimagine comes with a state-of-the-art, multi-page scanner feature developed by MyHeritage’s AI team. This enables quick and easy scanning of entire album pages or multiple standalone photos in a single tap. The scanner then uses cutting-edge, cloud-based AI technology to automatically detect the individual photos and crop them, saving hours of work traditionally required with other scanners. Scanned photos are saved in an album within the app and backed up to an account on MyHeritage. In just a few taps, an old, damaged black and white photo can be scanned and beautifully restored, enhanced, colorized, and even animated. The improved photos, or their original scanned versions, can easily be shared with family and friends on social media, or through your family site on MyHeritage. Why Reimagine? Many users who first encountered MyHeritage thanks to features like Deep Nostalgia™ and MyHeritage In Color™ expressed interest in a photo-centric app with a more affordable, photos-only subscription. Reimagine meets this need, enabling you to preserve, improve, and share family photos, all from a standalone photo app. Its sleek design and functionality make the app easy to use, and with its best-in-class scanner, storage capacity, an...

Just three days ago, we announced the release of Deep Nostalgia™ : a groundbreaking new feature that allows you to animate the faces of your loved ones in still photos. This feature truly takes “bring your old family photos to life” to a whole new level — and it’s gone a new level of viral in turn! Over 1 million photos were animated in the first 48 hours alone. Today we expect to pass the 3 million milestone. Users have responded with wonder and emotion: some were awed to see ancestors they’d never met — some from over 100 years ago — move, blink, and smile, while others were moved to tears witnessing their lost loved ones in motion after so many years with only still photos to remember them by. “It makes me so happy to see him smile again,” one user said after animating a photo of her husband, who died 4 years earlier. “It’s as if they are looking at you and your surroundings and seeing how much things have changed,” said another user. Reporter Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez commented that the feature gave him a chance to see his late father’s face move again after he lost the only videotape he had of him years ago. “Forget iPhones and self-driving cars,” one commenter said in response to a Deep Nostalgia™ animation. “This is the moment we officially started living in the future!” Deep Nostalgia™ even made a splash in the international media: it was featured in Financial Times , USA Today , and the BBC among others. Read on to see what everyone is saying about Deep Nostalgia™ ...

Noted PetaPixel’s original coverage, the AI at the core of the app was licensed from D-ID which specializes in video reenactment using deep learning. D-ID did not appear satisfied to rest on the Deep Nostalgia laurels, however, as it has demonstrated a new application of its technology that can animate a photo and allow a user to control it in real-time. As TechCrunch, the result can appear a lot like the “deepfakes” that are growing in accuracy online, but the technology behind a Speaking Portrait is supposedly quite different and making a basic one requires no training. The implementation of this new technology was specifically shown at TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 which concluded last week. Speaking Portraits allows anyone to generate a full HD video from a source image and can combine that animation with either recorded speech or typed text. D-ID plans to launch the product with support for just three languages — English, Spanish and Japanese — but plans to add other languages as they are requested. There are two categories of the Speaking Portrait: one is called a “trained character” and requires the submission of a 10-minute training video of the requested character that must coincide with guidelines provided by D-ID. While this one takes a lot of work, it results in a character animation with a lot more fluidity whcih also supports the abiliity to swap out the backgrounds. Using 10 minutes of trained footage is reminiscent of technology that was But perhaps more impressi...

Joelle Goldstein is the Staff Editor of TV for PEOPLE Digital. She has been with the brand for five years, beginning her time as a digital news writer, where she covered everything from entertainment news to crime stories and royal tours. Since then, she has worked as a writer-reporter on the Human Interest team and an associate editor on the TV team. In her current role, Joelle helps oversee all things TV, and enjoys being able to say she has to watch The Kardashians, America's Got Talent, Love Is Blind and Dancing with the Stars for her "work" responsibilities. Prior to joining PEOPLE, Joelle was employed at The Hollywood Reporter, where she was co-nominated at the 2019 GLAAD Media Awards for Outstanding Magazine Article for feature cover story. She graduated from Ithaca College with a Bachelor's degree in Television-Radio (and an appearance in the NCAA Women's Volleyball Final Four!) "You'll have a 'wow moment' when you see a treasured family photo come to life with Deep Nostalgia," Gilad Japhet, the founder and CEO of MyHeritage, said in a statement. "Seeing our beloved ancestors' faces come to life in a video simulation lets us imagine how they might have been in reality, and provides a profound new way of connecting to our family history." "The technology sometimes needs to simulate parts that do not appear in the original photo, such as teeth or ears, and the quality of the end result may vary," the company explained. "When the person in your photo is wearing a hat ...