AI Spirits (2018)

Object removal algorithms have the power to vanish people from images. But this process can be inverted to generate phantasms in those images. Using object mask generation, generative in-painting and image-to-image translation, we created an end-to-end pipeline to conjure AI Spirits into being.  This work commemorates those missing via algorithmic omission, and merges photography with GAN imagery. Learn more: http://spirits.media.mit.edu/