Aligning other types of images

Aligning faces is a critical tool for getting deepfakes to work. Without the alignment of faces, we’d be doomed with extremely long training times and huge models to correct the faces. It’s not a stretch to say that without alignment, modern deepfakes would effectively be impossible today.

Alignment saves time and compute power by removing the need for the neural network to figure out where the face is in the image and adapt for the many different locations the face may be. By aligning in advance, the AI doesn’t even need to learn what a face is in order to do its job. This allows the AI to focus on learning the task at hand, such as generating realistic facial expressions or speech, rather than trying to locate and correct misaligned faces.

In addition to improving the efficiency of the training process, aligning faces also helps to improve the quality and consistency of the final deepfake. Without proper alignment, the generated...