Do you have two left feet? Don’t worry, an NTU student might just be able to turn you into Fred Astaire or a K-pop idol. In collaboration with Microsoft, PhD student Tan Wang created a model using artificial intelligence to turn a still image of a person into a master of the dance floor. Named DisCo, the model was trained with around 700,000 generic images of people on TikTok, and about 350 dance videos to learn how people move while dancing.

This story was published in the Sep-Oct 2023 issue of HEY!. To read it and other stories from this issue in print, click here.