This new NVIDIA project called StyleGAN2, presented at CVPR 2020, uses transfer learning to generate a seemingly infinite number of portraits in an infinite variety of painting styles. The work builds on the team’s previously published StyleGAN project. This new demo shows how the resulting machine learning training model can be used to create images and fluidly explore […]
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Academy Awards secure new screening platform
Broadcast reports that Brightcove, Nagra (with its NexGuard forensic watermarking system), Akamai and BuyDRM (with its KeyOS multiKey service) are teaming up to offer Academy Awards judges a safe, pirate-unfriendly method watching the films they have been tasked with judging. The system will not only allow the Academy to audit the voting process and content, […]
It’s about the audio cues, dummy
Premier League football returns to TV Glenn Cummins, an associate professor at Texas Tech University, is making an academic career from something we all instinctively know – everything’s better when it sounds right and making something that doesn’t look or feel quite right sound better goes some way to improving it. For example, when it […]
Self-supervised photo upsampling AI PULSE “imagines” its results
A team of researchers at Duke University in the US led by computer scientists Cynthia Rudin has successfully used machine learning to convert blurry portrait photos containing just a few dozen pixels into a super high-resolution images. The PULSE (Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration) system works by reverse engineering the image from AI-generated high […]
LA County’s new post-lockdown production protocols published
The checklist covers: Los Angeles county’s department for public health has published a 10 page document outlining the protocols businesses wishing to reopen, including film and TV production companies and studios, must follow. Workplace policies and practices to protect employee health Measures to ensure physical distancing Measures to ensure infection control Communication with employees and […]
London’s largest TV studio coming to Enfield
What is being touted as London’s largest TV studio is due to open in Enfield later this Summer. OMA Studios, which will be owned and operated by the Location Collective is a 139,000 sq ft former industrial depot. The Location Collective is saying that a conversion of this scale, which will increase by 53% the […]
