In technology supply terms, HPE is one of the companies leading the way in the use of AI, automation and analytics in businesses large and small. The aim is to give all companies superpowers, or at least supercomputing capabilities, when it comes to understanding and exploiting their data HPE is now planning to make its […]
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What is a neural network? A computer scientist explains
In this interview, which was originally published in the science newsletter The Conversation and is reproduced here in full, and for the benefit of those who are somewhat new to machine learning, Tam Nguyen, a professor of computer science at the University of Dayton, explains how neural networks, programs in which a series of algorithms […]
Glimpse Netflix’s AI-powered content matching system
The streamer has published a post on its Tech Blog that explains how it uses transfer learning, a form of machine learning, to find and analyse the connections that drive audiences to its many hundreds of original shows. This in turn drives their marketing, analytics and forward planning In transfer learning the parameters learned from […]
By George, Clooney’s embraced virtual production!
The Midnight Sky (in UK cinemas now and from 23 December on UK Netflix), which the film’s director and star pitched to DoP Martin Ruhe as “The Revenant meets Gravity”, is a post-apocalyptic tale of isolation and survival. For interior and extravehicular scenes, the production made extensive use of the latest in virtual set technology. […]
Machine Learning is Disrupting the entire VFX Pipeline – A case study on facial motion capture
Lucio Moser is the R&D Software Lead in the Digital Humans Group at Digital Domain where he works on facial motion capture and mapping, machine learning, geometric processing and computer vision. Here, Lucio provides an excellent insight on what goes on inside the Digital Humans Group’s R&D environment, where they have been using machine learning […]
Is it real, or is it virtual? The new production paradigm
Satore Studio and MBS Equipment have got together to show how virtual production can be made to look so real that “even a trained professional wouldn’t know it was fake until the very end”. In the 90-second film for agency Quite Brilliant, we see an actor in a wide range of settings, from a living […]