Algorithm allows video editors to modify talking-head videos as if editing text

A team of researchers from Stanford University, Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Princeton University and Adobe Research created such an algorithm for editing talking-head videos – videos showing speakers from the shoulders up. Should an actor or performer flub a word or misspeak, the editor can simply edit the transcript and the application will assemble the right word from various words or portions of words spoken elsewhere in the video. Nonetheless, in an era of synthesized fake videos such capabilities raise important ethical concerns, Fried added.

Source: news.stanford.edu