Live Portrait
                     Live Portrait
Over 60 million users around the world 
use MyHeritage to discover and 
treasure their unique family history. 
Thousands are reunited with long-lost 
relatives every single day through 
their network.
MyHeritage’s huge international database 
includes a large number of photos of family 
members, often long departed. And many of 
these images are not in great condition and 
in many cases there was never video footage 
of them.
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In a bid to get their users closer to their family 
history, MyHeritage has been adding tools 
which allow users to colorize and re-color old 
and often poor-quality images. But they wanted 
to go beyond just still images. They wanted to 
create a real emotional resonance with the 
people in these old photos.
This artificial intelligence-based technology 
enables the creation of high-quality, realistic 
footage, using any “driver” video, to guide 
the movements, expressions, and speech of 
a target still photo. A single photo is all it 
takes to create the magic of Live Portrait.
Working really closely with MyHeritage’s 
tech team, we were able to embed our 
solution into the heart of their system – 
an on-premise solution which would 
ensure user privacy, which is a core to D-
ID’s values.
As soon as we all saw some of the early 
outputs we knew we were on the right 
track. The results were stunning. But we 
were still not prepared for the wave of 
interest from the users themselves when it 
was finally launched.
“You get a ‘wow moment’ when you see a 
treasured family photo come to life with deep 
nostalgia. Seeing our beloved ancestors’ 
faces come to life in a video simulation lets 
us imagine how they might have been in 
reality, and provides a profound new way of 
connecting to our family history.”
“The new product is the result of 
exciting cooperation between two 
innovative companies.
We are happy our technology will be 
accessible to millions of people on 
MyHeritage and hope they will enjoy 
the video simulation capabilities 
applied to their historical photos.”