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w:Maeil Broadcasting Network in South Korea published an AI news anchor in November 2020 made in conjunction with MoneyBrain. You can enable YouTube auto-generated English subtitles by enabling closed captioning (cc) and then clicking on the setting icon on the video control bar.

'Face editing with Generative Adversarial Networks' by Arxiv Insights on YouTube] Premiered 2019-09-13

An April 2018 digital look-and-sound-alike made of President Obama, uploaded by BuzzFeedVideo

Videos on display

• w:Maeil Broadcasting Network in South Korea published an AI news anchor. It is a digital look-and-sound-alike that is also scripted by an AI
• 'Face editing with Generative Adversarial Networks' by Arxiv Insights on YouTube Premiered 2019-09-13
• 'You Won’t Believe What Obama Says In This Video!' at YouTube, an April 2018 digital look-and-sound-alike made of President Obama, uploaded by BuzzFeedVideo

Reporting

• https://uk.pcmag.com/security/117402/us-lawmakers-ai-generated-fake-videos-may-be-a-security-threat
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/01/07/dating-apps-need-women-advertisers-need-diversity-ai-companies-offer-solution-fake-people/

Explore

• https://scholar.google.com
• https://www.semanticscholar.org
• https://academic.microsoft.com
• https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
• https://www.connectedpapers.com/ - Explore connected papers in a visual graph
• 'Crossminds' - Latest Tech Research Videos at crossminds.ai - Discover tailored research & industry updates in the field of AI provided by CrossCircles Inc.
• 'Topio Networks' (topionetworks.com) is a disruptive industry research platform, utilizing their Carolus AI technology.

Age analysis and aging and rejuvenating syntheses

• 'A simple automatic facial aging/rejuvenating synthesis method' at ieeexplore.ieee.org read free at researchgate.net, published at the proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics
• 'An Overview of Two Age Synthesis and Estimation Techniques' at arxiv.org (.pdf), submitted for review on 2020-01-26
• 'Dual Reference Age Synthesis' at sciencedirect.com (preprint at arxiv.org) published on 2020-10-21 in w:Neurocomputing (journal)
• 'Age Synthesis and Estimation via Faces: A Survey' at ieeexplore.ieee.org (paywall) at researchgate.net published November 2010

Digital look-alikes, lighting capture, simulation and relighting

• 'Depth estimation meets inverse rendering for single image novel view synthesis' at dl.acm.org published in CVMP '19: European Conference on Visual Media Production in December 2019

• 'Deep view synthesis from sparse photometric images' at dl.acm.org View video of the presentation of the work presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2019

• 'Local light field fusion: practical view synthesis with prescriptive sampling guidelines' at dl.acm.org presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2019

• 'Deep view synthesis from sparse photometric images' at dl.acm.org presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2019

• 'Deep reflectance fields: high-quality facial reflectance field inference from color gradient illumination' at dl.acm.org View video of the presentation of the work presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2019

• 'High-fidelity facial reflectance and geometry inference from an unconstrained image' at dl.acm.org, a w:deep learning-based technique described in a paper presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2018

• 'Computational Methods for Capture and Reproduction of Photorealistic Surface Appearance' at aaltodoc.aalto.fi, a 2016 doctoral dissertation by Miika Aittala at the w:Aalto University

• 'Face Modelling and Tracking from Range Scans' at researchgate.net (.pdf available), a January 2010 paper

• 'Facial Modeling and Animation' at researchgate.net by Jörg Haber of the w:Max Planck Institute for Informatics (August 2004)

Digital sound-alikes

• 'Generative Adversarial Networks for Speech Synthesis' at aaltodoc.aalto.fi, a master's thesis by Kasperi Palkama from June 2020 in w:Aalto University

AI

• "Shall We Play a Game?: The Rise of the Military-Entertainment Complex" at transcend.org (2013-09-23)
• "Synthetic media, ethics, & commercial potential" at samsungnext.com (2020-11-07)
• "Facebook is using more AI to detect hate speech" at venturebeat.com (2020-05-12)
• Harvest [1] for info on companies and their products and services.

Assesments

• https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/07/08/deepfakes-and-synthetic-media-in-financial-system-assessing-threat-scenarios-pub-82237

Synthetic media landscape

• https://www.syntheticmedialandscape.com/ by Samsung Next. Downloading the guide requires contact info. Source of https://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Synthethic-Media-Landscape.jpg that is a chart of the industry

Sources for links

• 'Introducing the Bots Landscape: 170+ companies, $4 billion in funding, thousands of bots' at venturebeat.com (2016-08-11)
• 'Introducing the European Bots Landscape' at venturebeat.com (2017-01-20)
• '155 chatbots in this brand new landscape. Where does your bot fit?' at venturebeat.com (2017-06-26)