Five university researchers from Hong Kong and China have created an application called DeepFaceDrawing which “allows users with little training in drawing to produce high-quality images from rough or even incomplete freehand sketches”. Abstract of the team’s academic paper Recent deep image-to-image translation techniques allow fast generation of face images from freehand sketches. However, existing solutions tend […]
Transforming media asset management and quality control The DPP and Digital Catapult, with the support of Microsoft and Cognizant, have launched an initiative to identify technology startups and scaleups working in artificial intelligence and machine learning who can help them to transform media content creation and distribution, including media asset management and quality control. “Companies […]
Are virtual actors close enough to becoming sufficiently photo-realistic and human that they can at least substitute for human actors in all but close-up shots, if not in some cases displace and replace them entirely? Hollywood-based artists agency CAA recently signed up a new client, virtual Brazilian model / dancer Lil Miquela, writes Steve Rose […]
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 […]
Writing in Forbes, venture capitalist Rob Toews asks if the growing ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence is responsible for a re-evaluation of chip architecture. Designing new processors specifically for AI is “one of the largest market opportunities in all of hardware today”. CPUs, which process sequentially, not in parallel, lack the power required for deep learning, […]
It is popularly thought that so much work is being done in the field of machine learning and content creation, it is only a matter of time before a cinema release or TV programme is written and directed by an AI. Here, Forbes has listed some already significant achievements in similar fields that would seem […]