Using deepfake to create better Lip-Syncing

Now this is a good use of deepfake: correct the mouth and jaw movements of actors in dubbed video to match the new language track. The result is a (nearly) seamless lip-synced experience. TrueSync is the first AI offering from our neural network film lab. Filmmakers and content owners are now able to visually translate …

Remove background noises during a conference call with Krisp

The past few weeks I’ve been using Krisp during Zoom/Meet/Skype/etc. calls. It is a virtual microphone which uses artificial intelligence to filter out background noises. Once installed you select a microphone for it to filter, and then inside Skype/Zoom/Meet you choose the Krisp Virtual Microphone to use. While I was a bit sceptical at first, …

This Word Does Not Exist

Every time you visit “This Word Does Not Exist” it will spit out a word that does not exist, along with its description and an example sentence containing the word. This Word Does Not Exist uses an artificial intelligence model named GPT-2 to invent new English words. Some fun results in there 🙂 This Word …

Cleverly Cropping Images on Twitter using AI

To crop uploaded images, Twitter doesn’t simply cut them off starting from the center. After first having used Face Detection, they – in 2018 already – switched to AI to cleverly crop uploaded images. Previously, we used face detection to focus the view on the most prominent face we could find. While this is not …

TossingBot – Learning Robots to Throw Arbitrary Objects

TossingBot, a robotic arm that picks up items and tosses them to boxes outside its reach range. It is double the speed and dexterity of other state-of-the-art picking systems achieving 500+ mean picks per hour, and is better at throwing than most of the engineers on the team. The key to TossingBot is a self-improving …

AutoDraw: Fast Drawing for Everyone

After Quickdraw a few months ago – in which A.I. guesses what you are doodling – now comes AutoDraw from Google. AutoDraw is a new kind of drawing tool. It pairs machine learning with drawings from talented artists to help everyone create anything visual, fast. AutoDraw’s suggestion tool uses the same technology used in QuickDraw, …

The Potential Future of Selfie Photography

Adobe Research: What happens when we tap into the power of artificial intelligence and deep learning to transform bad portrait shots into good ones – all on a smartphone? By combining perspective effect editing, automatic, software-only photo masking, and photo style transfer technology, we’re able to transform a typical selfie into a flattering portrait with …

Using Machine Learning to Predict Parking Difficulty

No monitoring of parking meters, video feeds, etc. Looking at the users their behavior is the way to do it: Google determined that if users circled around a location like in the picture above, it usually suggested that parking might be difficult. To recognize this behavior, they took the difference between when they should have …

Saving bandwidth through machine learning

When requesting a high-resolution image with the Android Google+ app, one no longer gets the full version sent over. Instead, one gets a low-resolution version which is then processed by RAISR: RAISR, which was introduced in November, uses machine learning to produce great quality versions of low-resolution images, allowing you to see beautiful photos as …