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{{#ev:youtube|k8X_Em-NQn0|640px|right|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.}}

{{#ev:youtube|dCKbRCUyop8|640px|right|'Face editing with Generative Adversarial Networks' by Arxiv Insights on YouTube] Premiered 2019-09-13}}

{{#ev:youtube|cQ54GDm1eL0|640px|right|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

• 'US Lawmakers: AI-Generated Fake Videos May Be a Security Threat' at uk.pcmag.com, 2018-09-13 reporting by Michael Kan
• 'Dating apps need women. Advertisers need diversity. AI companies offer a solution: Fake people' at washingtonpost.com, 2020-01-07 technology reporting by Drew Harwell

Content moved elsewhere

• Synthetic human-like fakes § Digital sing-alikes
• Resources § Explore

Age analysis and rejuvenating and aging syntheses

• '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)
• '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
• '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 presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2019. View or download a video of the presentation of the work from the acm.org-link.

• '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 presented at the w:ACM Transactions on Graphics in July 2019. View or download video of the presentation of the work from the acm.org link.

• '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

• 'Deepfakes and Synthetic Media in the Financial System: Assessing Threat Scenarios' at carnegieendowment.org, a 2020-07-08 assesment identifies some types of criminalities that can be made using synthetic human-like fakes.

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)