NVIDIA Instant NeRF (Neural Radiance Field), the company’s inverse rendering tool that turns a set of static images into a realistic 3D scene, has won the Best Paper award at SIGGRAPH 2022 which took place in Vancouver earlier this month. One of the best uses of Instant NeRF seen so far comes from San Francisco-based […]
Steve Jarratt’s 23 August IBC 365 post begins with a really good summation of what virtual production is, for the uninitiated. ” …the combination of physical and digital assets in a real-time filmmaking environment. It ranges from motion capture stages with real-time feedback of digital doubles and virtual worlds, to the latest advances in LED […]
An MIT project supported by Sony has demonstrated that photorealistic 3D colour holograms can now be generated quickly, even on a smartphone. Generating the vast amounts of data required to enable stable holography has already been considered a significant 3D visualisation challenge, so this could represent a big breakthrough. Obvious applications include VR and AR […]
A new AI-driven service called Deep Nostalgia from online genealogy company MyHeritage and using technology licensed from Israeli firm D-ID can animates portrait photos to create passable but fairly creepy fake video clips. It uses pre-recorded driver videos of facial movements and applies the one that best suits the image being manipulated. Users upload a […]
As demand grows for AI solutions that process images from cameras and other photo sensors, more efficient systems are needed. Like NVIDIA and others before it and drawing on its mobile technology developments, chip maker Qualcomm has unveiled an R&D project that reduces the compute power needed to handle visual AI, in turn reducing the […]
Researchers at the University of Trento, the Institut Polytechnique de Paris, and Snap, Inc. have devised an AI system that uses a framework they call Clustering for Action Decomposition and DiscoverY (CADDY) to learn a set of discrete actions from a large library of video clips that can be used to create new “playable” videos […]