About

Selfie 2 Waifu is an image-to-image web application that allows users to upload selfie photographs to create anime-style versions of the photo. The app uses Tensorflow technology is a similar manner to software like Edges2Cats.

History

On April 15th, 2020, Twitter^[1] user @tkasasagui posted about the application, along with a photo of herself paired with a version run through the Selfie 2 Waifu software (shown below).

Following the post, people began replying to examples with their waifus (show below).

On April 25th, 2020, Facebook ^[2] page for the site launched. Within two weeks, the page received more than 1,200 followers and 1,000 likes.

Precursor

On August 23rd, 2018, Twitter ^[3] user @RicoBeti and @nathangloverAUS launched the website Selfie2Anime, which performed a similar function. They write:

Selfie2Anime.com is a free webservice that lets you upload a picture of yourself and in generates an anime-style character which is based on your selfie. The technology behind the conversion function is called a Generative Adversarial Network, or GAN for short.

Features

The site has one main feature, which is turning selfies into anime-style images. The site features two buttons: "Take a selfie" and "upload a photo." Once selected and a picture is uploaded, the user receives a version of the image that is in waifu style/ (example below).

The site also features a "Waifu Celebrity Guess Game." Players see a grid of celebrity waifu images nad guess which they are (screenshot below).

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