Scratchpad

Digital look-alikes, lighting capture, simulation and relighting

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.

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

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.

Synthetic media

• 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

Data sources

• 'Topio Networks' (topionetworks.com) is a disruptive industry research platform, utilizing their Carolus AI technology.
• '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)