The Hollywood Reporter brings us updates from several European countries, including Iceland, the Czech Republic, Poland and France, where a return to film and television production is being allowed under strict new COVID-19 guidelines. Some of the hygiene guidelines are near-universal, such as two metres (6.5 feet) social distancing between crew members and the use […]
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NeuralFace morphs creepy AI faces to Triggernometry
AI artist Mario Klingemann has used GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) and specifically NVIDIA’s StyleGAN2 to create NeuralFace, a deepfake video that morphs a collection of artificially generated faces pulling a range of increasingly unsettling expressions in sync to Kraftamt’s 2014 track “Triggernometry”. The results are fairly disturbing and the bets are open on whose next edgy promo […]
Informed Sauce podcast 1: “I quite like Borussia Mönchengladbach”
It’s the first new Informed Sauce podcast. What do we have in store? Regulars Will Strauss, Editor of SVG Europe, and HPE’s Matt Armstrong-Barnes are on to discuss the return of top-flight football to our TV screens this weekend in the shape of the German Bundesliga. How are outside broadcast companies going to cope with […]
Keeping BT Sport’s Early Kick-off on-air in lockdown
Ahead of tomorrow’s first new Informed Sauce podcast, here’s a flavour of what we’re covering – the return of top-flight football to our TV screens this weekend, courtesy of the Bundesliga, and how televised games might be produced in the future Sunset & Vine’s Executive Producer of Premier League and Europa League football Stephen Booth […]
What has NVIDIA’s CEO been cooking up?
It is sometimes hard to avoid seeing videos and social media posts showing how busy people have been in the kitchen during lockdown. Ahead of GTC Digital, has anybody been more productive than NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang? Rumours have been circulating for weeks about what he will announce during his keynote. Could it be that […]
How the pandemic is hitting televised sport
Will Strauss is Editor of SVG Europe, which “supports the professional community in Europe that uses video, audio, and broadband technologies to produce and distribute sports content“. He will be a regular contributor on the Informed Sauce podcast. Here he is doing his day job. In the third of three joint webcasts with the IABM […]