NVIDIA and Mercedes-Benz are teaming up in an attempt to create the world’s most advanced autonomous car and a new upgradeable AI-driven in-car computer infrastructure that will be in the firm’s new vehicles from 2024.n all. The idea is the automate driving to and from regular destinations, taking advantage of the power of NVIDIA’s software-defined […]
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When things get weird, PULSE gets weirder
As has been mentioned here previously, if restless creative minds are allowed too much time and unfettered access to digital technology, especially machine learning tools, things can get weird quite quickly. Wag Denis Malimonov, whose aim is to popularise the creation of art using machine learning, fed the PULSE (Photo Upsampling Via Latent Space Exploration) […]
Life during lockdown: Framestore’s Fiona Walkinshaw
As most creatives working in the film and TV post production industry have been able to work remotely and largely as normal during lockdown, at least in theory, how have VFX houses coped with the pause in production that has surely affected their work pipelines and schedules? Following a period of readjustment while the technical […]
Informed Sauce podcast 3: has the supply chain remained unbroken?
In the third new Informed Sauce podcast, HPE’s Chris Dando and Matt Dunning talk about the effect the lockdown has had on sourcing components and how the computer hardware industry has adapted in the unprecedented situation in which it finds itself. We also hear from HPE’s Graham Muncer ahead of the Discover Virtual Experience, which […]
Think global, act circular
The circular economy and technology renewal The potential benefits of ‘the circular economy’ on the global ecological health of our planet has been a major talking point amongst C-level executives for some time now. And it’s set to become a topic of concern throughout all levels of all organisations. After all, out of the office, […]
PIFuHD ups the 3D human digitisation ante
A big leap for image-based shape estimation Researchers at The University of Southern California, Facebook Reality Labs and Facebook AI Research have been working on the science of perfecting digital human sculpture using deep learning algorithms. Here is the abstract from the paper introducing PifuHD that they recently presented at CVPR 2020 “Recent advances in […]