Differentiable rendering can be surprisingly fragile whenever meshes are involved. A noisy gradient descent step is all it takes to turn the current reconstruction inside-out. The standard countermeasure for those kinds of problems is called Laplacian regularization. (2/7) pic.twitter.com/YvUhf86hNa
ICYMI, a photo retoucher, Matt Loughrey, altered archival photos of people about to be tortured & killed by the Khmer Rouge, colorizing them like glamour shots & adding super-fun smiles. There was a very ad-like article about it until people complained & Vice took it down. https://t.co/X3pW2wh1ku