Earlier this year NVIDIA advanced Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) research notably with InstantNeRF, apparently capable of generating explorable neural scenes in mere seconds – from a...
A research collaboration between China and the UK has devised a new method to reshape faces in video. The technique allows for convincing broadening and narrowing...
In the extras documentary accompanying the 2003 DVD release of Alien3 (1992), visual effects legend Richard Edlund recalled with horror the ‘sumo wrestling’ of photochemical matte...
Since the golden age of Roman statuary, depicting human hair has been a thorny challenge. The average human head contains 100,000 strands, has varying refractive indices...
While the professional VFX community is intrigued – and occasionally feels a little threatened – by new innovations in image and video synthesis, the lack of...
A new research collaboration from China offers a novel method of reshaping the human body in images, by the use of a coordinated twin neural encoder...
New research from China offers a method to achieve affordable control over depth of field effects for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), allowing the end user to...
New research from the Alibaba DAMO academy offers an AI-driven workflow for automating the reshaping of images of bodies – a rare effort in a computer...
A new collaboration between Microsoft and a Chinese university has proposed a novel way of identifying celebrity deepfakes, by leveraging the shortcomings of current deepfake techniques...
It’s not difficult to understand why entanglement is a problem in image synthesis, because it’s often a problem in other areas of life; for instance, it’s...
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) allow objects to be recreated and explored inside neural networks using only multiple viewpoint photographs as input, without the complexity and expense...
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has proposed a new set of draft regulations to govern AI-aided synthesis systems, including deepfakes, virtual reality scenes, text generation,...
A new research collaboration between Carnegie Mellon and autonomous driving technology company Argo AI has developed an economical method for generating dynamic fly-through environments based on...
2021 has been a year of unprecedented progress and a furious pace-of-publication in the image synthesis sector, offering a stream of new innovations and improvements in...
Researchers from China have developed a method to synthesize near photoreal images of people without cameras, by using radio waves and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). The...