The UK’s Department for International Trade and Department for Digital Culture, Media and Sport are together backing a new initiative aimed at creating national standards for job training in the fast-developing creative and technical field of virtual production. With government support, former DNEG joint MD Alex Hope will lead a steering committee to drive uptake […]
As demand grows for AI solutions that process images from cameras and other photo sensors, more efficient systems are needed. Like NVIDIA and others before it and drawing on its mobile technology developments, chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled an R&D project that reduces the compute power needed to handle visual AI, in turn reducing the […]
Researchers at the University of Trento, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and Snap, Inc. have devised an AI system that uses a framework they call Clustering for Action Decomposition and DiscoverY (CADDY) to learn a set of discrete actions from a large library of video clips that can be used to create new “playable” videos […]
Gartner estimates that 37% of all organisations are using AI in anger today and predicts that that number will double to 75% by 2024. To maintain its competitive edge using detailed analysis of every aspect of its operations, one large US supermarket chain alone currently generates 2.5 petabytes of data A DAY! AI processes require […]
Framestore’s Chief Creative Officer and Oscar-winning VFX supervisor Tim Webber is making his directorial debut with a short to test the company’s new FUSE (Framestore Unreal Shot engine) VFX pipeline. The project is sci-fi-based and uses existing Framestore IP, but doesn’t appear to represent a shift into full-time filmmaking for either him or the company. […]
The Times has recently reported that, hot on the heels of the announcement of a new Centre of Excellence in Cambridge, NVIDIA has revealed that it is to site its powerful new AI-focused supercomputer at the KAO Data Centre in Harlow, Essex. Cambridge-1, as it is known, which will spend a lot of its time […]