PAREIDOLIA - Giving Everything a Face and a Voice 👁️
Created by developer @_Andresio during the #BuildSmall Hackathon, PAREIDOLIA turns everyday objects into expressive characters by finding faces hidden in the world around us.
Point a camera at an object, and PAREIDOLIA can: 👁️ Use MiniCPM-V 4.5 to identify visible features and create a unique personality for each object 🎙️ Use VoxCPM2 to design a distinct character voice from text descriptions, without reference audio ✨ Bring objects to life with blinking eyes, expressions, and voices based on their real-world features 🪄 Turn every awakened object into a character in a shared virtual "Menagerie"
PAREIDOLIA demonstrates how vision and speech models can transform ordinary objects into living characters - combining visual understanding, personality creation, and voice generation to create a playful new form of AI interaction.
Explore it: 🤗 https://huggingface.co/spaces/build-small-hackathon/pareidolia
Models: 🔗 MiniCPM-V 4.5: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/MiniCPM-V-4_5 🔗 VoxCPM2: https://huggingface.co/openbmb/VoxCPM2