Though techno-thriller The Circle (2017) is more a comment on the ethical implications of social networks than the practicalities of external video analytics, the improbably tiny...
In the extras documentary accompanying the 2003 DVD release of Alien3 (1992), visual effects legend Richard Edlund recalled with horror the ‘sumo wrestling’ of photochemical matte...
Two recent research papers from the US and China have proposed a novel solution for teeth-based authentication: just grind or bite your teeth a bit, and...
Since the golden age of Roman statuary, depicting human hair has been a thorny challenge. The average human head contains 100,000 strands, has varying refractive indices...
A new paper from Israel has proposed an authentication scheme based on a user’s aesthetic preferences, wherein the user calibrates the system one time by rating...
A new research collaboration between the University of Wisconsin and Google sets machine learning against one of the most notorious web user annoyances of the last...
In 2013, a poll on common phobias determined that the prospect of public speaking was worse than the prospect of death for the majority of respondents....
A new paper from researchers in Italy and Germany proposes a method to detect deepfake videos based on biometric face and voice behavior, rather than artifacts...
While the professional VFX community is intrigued – and occasionally feels a little threatened – by new innovations in image and video synthesis, the lack of...
Opinion Natural Language Generation models such as GPT-3 are prone to ‘hallucinate’ material that they present in the context of factual information. In an era that’s...
According to a new study, the spam filtering algorithms (SFAs) from three of the world’s largest major email providers exhibited political bias during the United States’...
A new research collaboration from China offers a novel method of reshaping the human body in images, by the use of a coordinated twin neural encoder...
A new paper from Stanford University has proposed a nascent method for fooling facial authentication systems in platforms such as dating apps, by using a Generative...
Not all deepfake practitioners share the same objective: the impetus of the image synthesis research sector – backed by influential proponents such as Adobe, NVIDIA and...
New research from China offers a method to achieve affordable control over depth of field effects for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), allowing the end user to...
