Category: AI

Facial recognition technology helps Chinese man find his family after 27 years

Dunja Djudjic

This time last year, there was a pretty big fuss about FindFace, an app that uses facial recognition to discover people’s identities with pretty high reliability. But for 33-year-old Fu Gui from China, facial recognition technology turned out to be life changing. It helped him find his family and reunite with them after being apart […]

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Google’s DeepDream AI turns Bob Ross into an LSD fuelled nightmare

John Aldred

DeepDream is a computer vision AI created by Google which utilises a convolution neural network. It looks for and enhances patterns in images using a process called algorithmic pareidolia. Essentlly, it’s seeing things that aren’t really there. Like the face we may see on the surface of Mars or bunny rabbits & dragons in clouds. We’ve seen […]

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Everypixel Aesthetics uses neural networks to judge quality of your photos

Dunja Djudjic

Stock photo search engine Everypixel is a tool that should make the quest for perfect stock photos easier. But what’s even more interesting is their tool called Everypixel Aesthetics. It uses neural networks to tell you how “awesome” your photo is. According to the developers, this tool sees the beauty of stock photos in the […]

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“Reverse Prisma” AI turns paintings into photos and turns winter to summer

John Aldred

Ok, imaging AI is just getting ridiculous now. By now we all know of the Prisma app. It lets you take photos and turn them into images that resemble paintings by artists such as Van Gogh, Monet, etc. A team of reseachers at UC Berkley have come up with a system that does the exact opposite of that. […]

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Adobe’s new deep learning tech might make green screen keying obsolete

John Aldred

An Adobe Research paper titled Deep Image Matting, might just put an end to green and blue screen techniques. Adobe collaborated with the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, to develop a new system based on deep convolution neural networks. This system extracts foreground content from its background accurately and intelligently without any kind of blue […]

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How would you feel about appearing in a selfie with a deceased loved-one?

Daniela Bowker

How do you feel about the prospect of appearing in a selfie with an avatar of someone who’s not there? Maybe just someone who couldn’t make it to the party. Or perhaps a deceased loved-one? The ability to do this is something that Elrois, a South Korea-based company unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. […]

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How would you feel about appearing in a selfie with a deceased loved-one?

Daniela Bowker

How do you feel about the prospect of appearing in a selfie with an avatar of someone who’s not there? Maybe just someone who couldn’t make it to the party. Or perhaps a deceased loved-one? The ability to do this is something that Elrois, a South Korea-based company unveiled at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. […]

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