Bring children's drawing to life! Here is what Meta AI says

Almost everyone, including children, love drawing. No matter how good you are at it, it can always help you in being creative. But have you ever thought, how will it be when the characters you draw get a life? Meta has developed automatic animation using AI that can bring one-of-a-kind characters to life. Meta AI took to its official Twitter handle to inform about the same. "Does your child love to draw? Ever wished that their characters could “come to life” and move around the page? Using AI, we’ve developed automatic animation that can bring children’s one-of-a-kind characters to life!," it tweeted.

Meta AI in a blog post said, "Children draw fascinatingly unique and inventive characters that push our imaginations and require us to think a little differently to recognize the people and things in their pictures. While it can be fairly simple for a parent or teacher to see what a child’s drawing is meant to show, AI struggles with this task. Kids’ drawings are often constructed in abstract, fanciful ways, so if a figure’s feet are placed precariously or if both arms are on the same side of its body, it confuses even state-of-the-art AI systems that excel at spotting objects in photorealistic images and drawings."

Meta AI researchers are working to overcome this challenge so that AI systems will be better able to recognize drawings of human figures in the wildly varied ways that children create them. "We’re excited to announce a first-of-its-kind method for automatically animating children’s hand-drawn figures of people and humanlike characters (i.e., a character with two arms, two legs, a head, etc.) that bring these drawings to life in a matter of minutes using AI," the blog post read.

It was further informed that by uploading them to the prototype system, parents and children will be able to experience the excitement of watching their drawings become moving characters that dance, skip, and jump. And they can even download their animated drawings to share with friends and family. If parents choose, they can also submit those drawings to help improve the AI model.