Artificial Intelligence (AI) is set to change the way VFX is approached and produced. At this year’s SIGGRAPH there are a series of key talks, papers and panels discussing applications of various forms of AI to VFX, by many of the biggest names in the Industry.
Doug Roble, Digital Domain’s senior director of software R&D, personally shares his thoughts on FUTURE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND DEEP LEARNING TOOLS FOR VFX. Read More
If there’s a buzz phrase right now in visual effects, it’s “machine learning.” In fact, there are three: machine learning, deep learning and artificial intelligence (A.I.). Each phrase tends to be used interchangeably to mean the new wave of smart software solutions in VFX, computer graphics and animation that lean on A.I. techniques.
Already, research in machine and deep learning has helped introduce both automation and more physically-based results in computer graphics, mostly in areas such as camera tracking, simulations, rendering, motion capture, character animation, image processing, rotoscoping and compositing. Read More
Protecting your business against hackers who are developing increasingly sophisticated strategies to bypass your security is growing even more challenging today. They’re also using machine learning on their side to:
This has created a never-ending battle between hackers and your defense systems that are growing more complex as AI fights against itself. To stay ahead of this “game” Inside Big Data says cyber defense systems must deploy machine learning algorithms that are at least as powerful and complex as what hackers are using, but preferably even stronger. Read More
You can think of artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and deep learning as a set of a matryoshka doll, also known as a Russian nesting doll. Deep learning is a subset of machine learning, which is a subset of AI. Read More
Facial recognition is a blossoming field of technology that is at once exciting and problematic. If you’ve ever unlocked your iPhone ($1,000 at Amazon) by looking at it, or asked Facebook or Google to go through an unsorted album and show you pictures of your kids, you’ve seen facial recognition in action. Whether you want it to or not, facial recognition (sometimes called simply “face recognition”) is poised to play an ever-growing role in your life. Read More
Amazon Rekognition is the company’s effort to create software that can identify anything it’s looking at — most notably faces. Business organizations and, yes, law enforcement agencies are already licensing that software for their own use. That means that you don’t need to use Facebook or buy a face-scanning iPhone or a fancy video doorbell from Google-owned Nest or Amazon-owned Ring in order for facial recognition to be a part of your everyday life. With Rekognition, maybe it already is. And maybe you aren’t OK with that. Read More
When Gabon’s government released the video, it raised more questions than it answered. Some Gabonese, seeing the video, thought there was little left to doubt about their president’s health. But Bongo’s critics weren’t sold. One week after the video’s release, Gabon’s military attempted an ultimately unsuccessful coup—the country’s first since 1964—citing the video’s oddness as proof something was amiss with the president. While a variety of theories about the video have circulated in the country, Bruno Ben Moubamba, a Gabonese politician who has run against Bongo in the previous two elections, argues that the video is a so-called deepfake—the photoshopped equivalent of video where software can create forged versions of people saying and doing things that they never actually said or did. Read More
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