Humanoid artist Ai-Da pays tribute to monarch with painting but critic calls it ‘a cynical, transparent con’
At first glance, the Queen could be wearing a tin hat with camouflage netting set against a thunderous sky. A commentary on the inevitable conflicts and turbulence that took place during her 70-year reign, perhaps. Or a thoughtful juxtaposition of stability and instability.
But no, it seems that Ai-Da, the robot artist who painted the Queen’s portrait to mark her platinum jubilee, was simply paying tribute to “an amazing human being”. The monarch’s trademark pearls and bold colours, along with a stoic facial expression, are the standout features of Algorithm Queen, which was unveiled on Friday. Read More
Tag Archives: Image Recognition
The dark secret behind those cute AI-generated animal images
Another month, another flood of weird and wonderful images generated by an artificial intelligence. In April, OpenAI showed off its new picture-making neural network, DALL-E 2, which could produce remarkable high-res images of almost anything it was asked to. It outstripped the original DALL-E in almost every way.
Now, just a few weeks later, Google Brain has revealed its own image-making AI, called Imagen. And it performs even better than DALL-E 2: it scores higher on a standard measure for rating the quality of computer-generated images, and the pictures it produced were preferred by a group of human judges.
“We’re living through the AI space race!” one Twitter user commented. “The stock image industry is officially toast,” tweeted another. Read More
Mastercard launches tech that lets you pay with your face or hand in stores
Mastercard on Tuesday launched a program that allows retailers to offer biometric payment methods, like facial recognition and fingerprint scanning.
Users can authenticate a payment by showing their face or the palm of their hand instead of swiping their card.
The technology could one day help with the development of payments infrastructure for the “metaverse,” an executive said. Read More
New method detects deepfake videos with up to 99% accuracy
Computer scientists at UC Riverside can detect manipulated facial expressions in deepfake videos with higher accuracy than current state-of-the-art methods. The method also works as well as current methods in cases where the facial identity, but not the expression, has been swapped, leading to a generalized approach to detect any kind of facial manipulation. The achievement brings researchers a step closer to developing automated tools for detecting manipulated videos that contain propaganda or misinformation.
Developments in video editing software have made it easy to exchange the face of one person for another and alter the expressions on original faces. As unscrupulous leaders and individuals deploy manipulated videos to sway political or social opinions, the ability to identify these videos is considered by many essential to protecting free democracies. Methods exist that can detect with reasonable accuracy when faces have been swapped. But identifying faces where only the expressions have been changed is more difficult and to date, no reliable technique exists. Read More
That smiling LinkedIn profile face might be a computer-generated fake
At first glance, Renée DiResta thought the LinkedIn message seemed normal enough.
The sender, Keenan Ramsey, mentioned that they both belonged to a LinkedIn group for entrepreneurs. She punctuated her greeting with a grinning emoji before pivoting to a pitch for software.
“Quick question — have you ever considered or looked into a unified approach to message, video, and phone on any device, anywhere?”
DiResta wasn’t interested and would have ignored the message entirely, but then she looked closer at Ramsey’s profile picture. Little things seemed off in what should have been a typical corporate headshot. Ramsey was wearing only one earring. Bits of her hair disappeared and then reappeared. Her eyes were aligned right in the middle of the image. Read More
Yesterday Marked the Death of Art as an Industry
Starting yesterday, AI is now definitively better than human artists in almost every sense of the word. Here’s why human art & design is about to crumble.
OnMarch 6th, 2022, OpenAI released DALL-E 2: their “new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language”.
I don’t say this lightly: this new AI system is not just on-par with human artists. It is definitively better than humans in almost every sense of the word. Read More
OpenAI’s new DALL.E model turns your words into pieces of art
OpenAI takes the wraps off DALL·E 2, its second-generation text-to-image generator.
OpenAI, the AI research startup, has announced(opens in new tab) DALL·E 2, an update to its text-to-image generator that looks like a serious step forward.
In essence, DALL·E 2 can create art from a natural language input, such as: “a painting of a fox sitting in a field at sunrise in the style of Claude Monet”. OpenAI says the goal is to create “original, realistic images and art” that can “combine concepts, attributes, and styles”. Read More
ZooBuilder: 2D and 3D Pose Estimation for Quadrupeds
NVIDIA Research Turns 2D Photos Into 3D Scenes in the Blink of an AI
Instant NeRF is a neural rendering model that learns a high-resolution 3D scene in seconds — and can render images of that scene in a few milliseconds.
When the first instant photo was taken 75 years ago with a Polaroid camera, it was groundbreaking to rapidly capture the 3D world in a realistic 2D image. Today, AI researchers are working on the opposite: turning a collection of still images into a digital 3D scene in a matter of seconds.
Known as inverse rendering, the process uses AI to approximate how light behaves in the real world, enabling researchers to reconstruct a 3D scene from a handful of 2D images taken at different angles. The NVIDIA Research team has developed an approach that accomplishes this task almost instantly — making it one of the first models of its kind to combine ultra-fast neural network training and rapid rendering. Read More
Impressive photo restoration by AI !
This new and completely free AI model can fix most of your old pictures in a split second!
Do you also have old pictures of yourself or close ones that didn’t age well or that you, or your parents, took before we could produce high-quality images? I do, and I felt like those memories were damaged forever. Boy, was I wrong!
This new and completely free AI model can fix most of your old pictures in a split second. It works well even with very low or high-quality inputs, which is typically quite the challenge.
This week’s paper called Towards Real-World Blind Face Restoration with Generative Facial Prior tackles the photo restoration task with outstanding results. What’s even cooler is that you can try it yourself and in your preferred way. They have open-sourced their code, created a demo and online applications for you to try right now. If the results you’ve seen above aren’t convincing enough, just watch the video and let me know what you think in the comments, I know it will blow your mind! Read More
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