Another day, another fun internet thing that uses neural networks for facial manipulation. This time it’s DeepWarp, a demo created by Yaroslav Ganin, Daniil Kononenko, Diana Sungatullina, and Victor Lempitsky, that uses deep architecture to move human eyeballs in a still image.

First spotted by Prosthetic Knowledge, DeepWarp is focused on realistic “gaze manipulation.” The authors of the demo acknowledge that similar projects already exist (like the smile-manipulator FaceApp), but without such a singular, detailed focus.

The authors note that their findings in this study could be applied to solve real-world issues of eye movement, like for “gaze correction in video conferencing.” It could also be useful for “talking head” scenarios,…

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