{"id":1177,"date":"2016-10-26T03:28:22","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T03:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/facebook-demos-art-themed-video-filters-says-it-got-2m-voters-registered.html"},"modified":"2016-10-26T03:28:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T03:28:22","slug":"facebook-demos-art-themed-video-filters-says-it-got-2m-voters-registered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/facebook-demos-art-themed-video-filters-says-it-got-2m-voters-registered.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook demos art-themed video filters, says it got 2M voters registered"},"content":{"rendered":"


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The two non-Zuck leaders of Facebook had a lot to show and tell onstage today at the WSJDLive<\/a> conference, where they demoed potential products, labeled Facebook a tech company not a media company and touted the company\u2019s success at voter registration.<\/p>\n

If you liked Prisma, you\u2019re going to enjoy what Facebook\u2019s cooking up.\u00a0Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox demoed<\/a> an unlaunched prototype of Live video filters that make your footage look like it was painted by a famous fine artist like Vincent Van Gogh. Cox says the feature is based on a German academic paper about style transfer<\/a>\u00a0that employs convolutional neural nets to bring the style of artists like Monet or Rembrandt and apply it instantly to video.<\/p>\n

The feature is strikingly similar to an app called Prisma<\/a>, which applies art filters to photos and videos<\/a>. TechCrunch reported that Prisma\u2019s European founder recently came to Facebook\u2019s offices <\/a>in Menlo Park, though we heard that was just a friendly visit rather than an MA meeting.<\/p>\n

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Cox said that the video filters aren\u2019t attached to any of Facebook\u2019s products, but the demo showed how they could work with Facebook Live broadcasts.\u00a0Mark Zuckerberg is slated to share more about the video filters soon. However, Facebook says, \u201cThis is a real-time style transfer that\u2019s happening on-device so styles can be applied to videos as they\u2019re being taken.\u201d<\/p>\n

Live already has several basic color filters<\/a> to boost low light or turn videos black and white. But offering more powerful features that drastically change the footage could help users feel less shy and self-conscious about being on camera. Cox says Facebook predicts that in five years, 70 percent of all consumer internet traffic will be video. That\u2019s why Facebook is building video deeper into sharing, publisher content in the News Feed and Messenger.<\/p>\n

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Facebook Live already includes basic color filters<\/p>\n

During the talk, Cox and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also discussed how Facebook sees itself as a technology company. Critics insist that its increasing need to make editorial decisions about what\u2019s graphic or offensive but newsworthy makes it a media company. Facebook said Friday it\u2019s becoming more willing to display graphic but newsworthy content instead of censor<\/a>\u00a0it.<\/p>\n

Sandberg said Facebook must balance fighting off hate speech and offensive content with being an open \u201cplatform for all ideas\u201d:<\/p>\n

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\u201cFacebook is a platform for all ideas. It\u2019s really core to our mission that people can share what they care about on Facebook\u2026We also want to be a really safe community. You know there\u2019s no place for violence, terrorism, and hate on Facebook\u2026But those two things can come into conflict because one person\u2019s free expression can be another person\u2019s hate.<\/p>\n

As we\u2019ve evolved we know that people are sharing more newsworthy content on Facebook. That\u2019s something we want to make sure we enable, and it can be hard. [Gives example of nude child from Vietnam in the famous Terror Of War photo that Facebook initially took down but later restored]<\/p>\n

We will make exceptions to our community standards. There could be no better or starker example than child nudity for the benefit of newsworthiness. We\u2019re also evolving as a service. We started out as a college-only service, now we\u2019ve got 1.7 billion people around the world, and so we\u2019re in dialog, in particular right now with journalists and publishers, to really figure this out and continue to evolve so people can have free expression on Facebook but we also remain a safe community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Meanwhile, Facebook is pushing to get more people to speak up for those ideas. Sandberg says its recent voter registration efforts, which include a banner atop Facebook urging people to register and notifications about deadlines, have pushed 2 million people to register, and notes that they\u2019re evenly split between Democrats and Republicans.<\/p>\n

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