The creative "cloud graduation photos" of college teachers and students
have no graduation season, so say goodbye
The graduation photo is one of the farewell ceremonies that graduates look forward to every year.
However, the sudden outbreak made this year's graduation season somewhat special. Online lectures, online defenses, online job interviews... and even graduation photos should be completed online.
The "Cloud Graduation Photo" makes the 2020 graduates exceptional. Jiangxi Agricultural University has developed the country's first AI graduation photo. Students can get a photo of their bachelor's uniform and a group photo by simply uploading their avatar. This technology not only attracted graduates, but also caused discussions among netizens, who immediately reposted 10,000 on Weibo, leaving messages saying that this graduate's graduation is indeed "interesting and sad."
The teachers of Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications also tried their best to make up for the regrets of this year's graduates. They began to manually draw graduation photos, and used the form of "digital + art" to give graduates "special love" in a relaxed and fun style.
But many students are still looking forward to it, hoping to return to campus when the epidemic is over and take a real graduation photo. In such a special graduation season, teachers and students in colleges and universities are bidding farewell, leaving no regrets for youth.
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8-hour self-made "cloud graduation photos"
"I believe we will see you again"
At 0:00 on April 8, 76 days after Wuhan was banned, it finally reconnected with the outside world, and vehicles entering and leaving Wuhan began to surge.
After hearing the news, Liu Hainan, a graduate of the Wuhan University of Physical Education's dance performance professional dance class, looked forward to returning to school and bid farewell to his campus life. In the online video class meeting on April 10, she asked: "Teacher, can we still have a graduation ceremony?"
Hainan's answer was that because Wuhan is still unable to hold gathering events, the school canceled the graduation ceremony. Even if you go back to school to complete the graduation process, you can only return to school in batches, and you cannot go back to school together.
Hearing this result, Hai Nan cried all at once, "I cried out in front of the whole class. In Wuhan for four years, I can't say leave, I want to have a sense of goodbye to everyone."
After that, Liu Hainan always wanted to use other methods to make up for the canceled graduation photo, but it has not been implemented.
One week after the completion of the "Cloud Replies" on May 1, Liu Hainan saw someone on Weibo starting to make "Cloud Graduation Photos" in the morning, which aroused her thoughts again. So, she immediately began to make their own "cloud graduation photos".
On the morning of the 8th, she began to search for pictures of the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education, selected representative photos, and used the school’s main entrance, playground and teaching building as background pictures, and then wiped out the idle people in the pictures, leaving a clean The landscape photo serves as the background for the graduation photo.
"I usually like to record my life, there are many photos stored on my phone, so from freshman to senior year, I have photos of 21 classmates and two professional teachers in the class." She found the photos of each classmate to cut out , Left everyone's avatar, and then searched for the anime version of the bachelor's clothing image on the software, and made a photo of the bachelor's clothing with their own avatar for 21 students.
Halfway through the production process, she posted individual photos of each person in the class group. This undisclosed "secret operation" surprised every student in the class. Some classmates provided a clearer picture, some classmates immediately praised Liu Hainan, some classmates cheered her up, "They were very surprised, they said that the photo was too cute. Some people also felt emotional, when did we Can you go back and take a real graduation picture? Some people say hurry up and want to send a circle of friends!"
With the encouragement of the classmates, Hainan speeded up and added everyone's photos to the school's background.
"Our'Cloud Graduation Photo' is here!' After eight hours of production, at three o'clock in the afternoon, Liu Hainan could not wait to post on Weibo and uploaded his carefully crafted "Cloud Graduation Photo". The official Weibo of the Wuhan Institute of Physical Education also forwarded this special graduation photo and blessed: "Despite regrets, I still wish the future a brilliant future, brilliant and brilliant... Happy graduation."
Making a "Cloud Graduation Photo" by yourself, Liu Hainan has a sufficient sense of participation. Throughout the production process of the graduation photo, she flipped through each photo, and her mind flashed the joyous time she used to be on campus. "Recalling the familiar people and scenes, there is an unspeakable joy." Liu Hainan laughed.
Hai Nan recalled the last time the class met, at the graduation party at the end of the junior year. According to the senior internship arrangement, the school will advance the graduation party early to the end of the third year.
"The last show of the graduation party was a chorus "Don't Say Goodbye." She clearly remembered the party. The last chorus made the students on the stage cry. And the song sings repeatedly: "Goodbye/I leave the last page of your graduation book/I believe we will see you again."
Hainan believes that they will see you again. Until now, she has been following the epidemic report in Wuhan, "On May 10th, Wuhan announced 5 newly confirmed cases and 11 confirmed cases in Wuhan. These figures make me worry again if I cannot return in June or July It’s impossible to gather together again."
However, the good news that came afterwards ignited hope in Liu Hainan's heart. From May 14th, Wuhan carried out a "ten-day battle" for nucleic acid screening of all new coronaviruses in the city. Until 24 o'clock on June 1, nearly 10 million people were tested for nucleic acids, and no confirmed cases were found in the screening results. , And found no cases of asymptomatic infections infecting others.
At the same time, graduates from Hubei universities will be able to return to school voluntarily at the wrong time from June 8.
Liu Hainan, who is still in his hometown of Langfang, Hebei, is still waiting for his alma mater's specific return notice. In her heart, she still has a hope to return to school with her classmates.
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Hand painted Q version graduation photo
"Special period gives them special love"
Many graduates, like Liu Hainan, meticulously made their own cloud graduation photos and tried their best to say goodbye to university time. The teachers were also "unwilling to show their weaknesses" and began to show their skills in order not to leave them the regret of missing the graduation ceremony.
"We have to find a way to make up for this graduation photo of graduates." The teachers of Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications discussed at the meeting. At the meeting in early May, the leader of the School of Digital Arts proposed the idea of a creative "cloud graduation photo." Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications decided to use the digital art school as a pilot to practice the idea.
The specific operational tasks of this project fell on Wang Zhipu of the School of Digital Arts.
"Starting production on May 14th, I and Linghu Daiwen teacher and I discussed a more operable plan: using cartoon animation to reflect students' sunshine and lovely temperament." Teacher Wang introduced. The tone of the production was clarified, and the two teachers selected five students who were usually better at animation and graphic design to help complete the "Cloud Graduation Photo".
"Actually, the most difficult job is to collect photos. Graduation photos need to have clear facial features, facial colors can not be too full, many students' photos are not qualified." Wang recalled. The small seven-person team has a clear division of labor. After the photos that meet the requirements are collected, they start to cut out the avatar, design the animated posture, and send it to the students responsible for illustration.
In just three days, the one-inch photos of 68 people in four classes were repeatedly cropped, synthesized, and adjusted, and a creative "cloud graduation photo" was perfectly presented.
Jumping in front of the library, visual misalignment in front of the teaching building, running on the lawn... Funny and humorous hand-painted photos, let students start to brush the screen in the circle of friends. Netizens also praised this hand-painted version of the graduation photo.
Recognized by students and schools in various aspects, the "digital + art" form of graduation photos began to be promoted in all college graduation classes of Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications.
With the pilot experience, Teacher Wang Zhipu began to look for unsatisfactory places, "I am not very satisfied with the results presented before, we now have new improvements and plans. You can give this graduate a more perfect graduation ceremony ."
Teacher Wang and the team readjusted this gift for the graduates and added many surprises again.
Teacher Wang introduced that now it is necessary to make a special hand-painted "graduation certificate" and a unique electronic version of the college postcard for the graduates of various colleges, adding the unique elements and logos of each college, with easy and fun sentences to memorize Their campus youth.
The hand-painted graduation certificate is divided into two versions: male and female. The female version reads: "The xx classmates of the xx class in the xx major of the xx college have been carefully nurtured for four years. I won't leave you anymore, I will sail on the same day and wish the future a bright future."
The style described in the boys' version is not very "friendly". They replaced "you are full-bodied, you can be salty and sweet" with "you are fat and strong, and your internal strength is greatly increased", which is full of ridicule that "years are killing pigs".
After the humorous "graduation certificate", the school once again did the ultimate hand-painted graduation photo. Teacher Wang started framing in many places on the campus from May 22, and it took four days to fully enrich the material library of hand-painted graduation photos. They perfected the characteristic areas such as teaching buildings and laboratories where the colleges are located, and added more templates.
At the same time, a hand-painted graduation photo of the teacher was also added. Mr. Wang took a picture of the dean of the College of Science with a bachelor hat against the ear of wheat, and planned to add it to the hand-painted template. "I hope that the graduation ceremony that graduates should have in the form of hand-painting can be restored." Wang Zhipu said.
However, if you make hand-painted graduation photos of all graduates of Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications, the huge amount of tasks cannot be completed by teachers and students of the School of Digital Arts. Therefore, according to the school's arrangement, two or three volunteers from each college graduate class are responsible for collecting pictures and cutouts. Through live webcasting, tell them how to add the avatars of their students to their templates. Whether it is a group photo or a personalized custom photo, you can make your favorite cloud graduation photos.
"I hope to give them a special love in this special period." This is a gift for graduates from Xi'an University of Posts and Telecommunications.
And this gift not only made the students gain special love, but also made netizens express their envy, "no PS traces" "I envy" "other universities, teachers of other people, this time there really Regret is also a meaningful graduation season"...
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The country's first AI graduation photo
Graduation must also be "buckled" with the alma mater
Compared with the manual graduation pictures, the netizens were more surprised by the AI graduation photos developed by Jiangxi Agricultural University. As the country's first AI graduation photo, not only tweeted 10,000 on Weibo, but also filled with emotion in the comments, "Graduation photos look natural and interesting" "Let the class of students not regret." There are even netizens commenting: "If you don't say it, I thought it was a real graduation photo."
On the evening of May 15, Jiangxi Agricultural University launched the "AI Cloud Graduation Photo" trial version. As long as you upload your own photo, you can generate a graduation photo of your own bachelor's uniform on your mobile phone. Graduates can not only choose to take a punch card in the "School Gate", "Xiangou Building", "Grand Hall", but also choose different types of bachelor uniforms such as "Engineering", "Humanities" and "Agriculture" according to their subject categories, and generate them with one click The photo is saved to the phone.
This creative inspiration came from the once-popular "People's Daily" "AI for military uniform" activity. Following this idea, the School of Engineering and Engineering of the Jiangxi Agricultural University and the Youth League began to plan the "AI cloud" as early as April. Graduation photo".
School graduates and undergraduates independently participated in the interface design, invited professional teams to provide technical guidance, and Tencent provided "cloud server" hardware support, which took a month to complete this task.
"In a month, the most difficult thing to overcome is the AI algorithm. The first few editions produced, the graduation photos formed are quite different. Sometimes the photos formed by uploading the avatar are very beautiful, but some are not satisfactory, and even deformed. Therefore, we have very precise requirements for the algorithm." Teacher Bu Yanting from the School of Engineering, Jiangxi Agricultural University said. In the end, after continuously improving the algorithm, Jiangxi Agricultural University finally selected the most natural and authentic version of the finished product.
Of course, "single-player" is not enough. After another discussion and production, the "class photo" mode was launched on May 21st. The classmates of the graduating class input the student number, and automatically generate a class photo of the classmates based on AI image recognition and face fusion. The group photo will be arranged left and right according to the order of the central axis, which is suitable for the needs of different classes of different numbers of students for graduation photos.
Seven days after the platform was launched, 13,461 graduates and alumni have used the "AI Cloud Graduation Photo" to graduate and punch cards, and more than one hundred graduating classes took a group photo. Moreover, I also received a message from the students: "'Cloud Graduation Photo' is very special, I feel the intention of our school, very warm!" "No regrets, I love Jiangnong!" , I’m going to take the Yun graduation photo again, it’s so beautiful!"
On May 25, the students of Jiangxi Agricultural University had all returned to school in batches. The graduates have already received graduation photos in batches and left their familiar campus. Just when they left campus, the school prepared more than 6,000 "open box surprises"-customized version of the commemorative keychain for all graduates of this year's 2020 master's degree.
The small commemorative keychain is full of the profound blessings and hearts of Jiangxi Agricultural University. "The keychain means that although every graduate enters the society, he and his alma mater are still interlocking with each other, and the Jiangxi Agricultural University emblem is cast on the front On the back is engraved the school spirit of "Houde and learned, Baopu Shouzhen." And each keychain is unique, because it is engraved with a unique student number for each graduate."
In addition, the key ring is made of retro copper color and nostalgic metal texture, which is a tribute to the heroes of the "epidemic". This experience of fighting against the epidemic is worth remembering forever. The packaging gift box is printed with the pattern of the “Source of Life” sculpture of the Five-Teaching Square of the school, which also implies the constant freshness of the students.
"Although the epidemic has given them a lot of regrets, it also made them feel the special graduation ceremony from the side and experience the unique changes in the era of big data." Teacher Bu said with emotion, she then added, "Of course, we still welcome every A graduate, when the epidemic is over, can return to campus and take a real graduation photo."
The charm of "AI Cloud Graduation Photo" continues to spread. Up to now, more than ten universities including Yunnan Agricultural University, Hebei Agricultural University, and Shenyang University of Science and Technology have actively exchanged preparations for the "AI Cloud Graduation Photo" with Jiangxi Agricultural University, and have joined the cloud graduation photo team.
Teachers and students of various universities still strive to give this year's fresh graduates a special care. Recently, two classmates from the Shaanxi Normal University majoring in chemical engineering have ingeniously created a special graduation photo for 54 students in the class using the periodic table they often contact. Among them, the class leader arranges the location of the periodic table according to the personality of everyone in the class, which also adds different fun and commemorative significance to this special graduation season.
During the epidemic prevention and control period, this year's graduates can't get together in reality, but to make up for the lack of ceremonial sense in the form of creative and interesting online cloud graduation photos, it is also necessary to say goodbye hard. Although there is regret, but the sentiment has not diminished.
Edition text / Han Shirong