Generating Animations From Audio With NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Tech

Check out a tool in beta called Omniverse Audio2Face that lets you quickly generate new animations.

In case you missed the news, NVIDIA has a tool in beta that lets you quickly and easily generate expressive facial animation from just an audio source using the team’s deep learning-based technology. The Audio2Face tool allows users to simplify the animation of 3D characters for a game, film, real-time digital assistants, and other projects. The toolkit lets you run the results live or bake them out.  Read More

#audio, #image-recognition

The Future Direction And Vision For AI

This article sets out the journey of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the interrelationship with the arrival of the “era of Big Data” alongside 3G and 4G telecoms networks. This will discuss or explore how we arrived at where we are now and also where we are going to next with the era of even bigger albeit increasingly decentralised data in the era of AI meets the IoT (AIoT) and standalone 5G networks that may arrive in the next few years. Read More

#vision

Seoul will be the first city government to join the metaverse

Seoul says it will be the first major city government to enter the metaverse. On Nov. 3, the South Korean capital announced a plan to make a variety of public services and cultural events available in the metaverse, an immersive internet that relies on virtual reality. If the plan is successful, Seoul residents can visit a virtual city hall to do everything from touring a historic site to filing a civil complaint by donning virtual reality goggles. Read More

#metaverse, #smart-cities