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Video Games Generated by AI (Text-to-Video Game Translation)

Posted on March 8, 2024January 15, 2025 by Zbigatron

I present here Google’s AI model that generates video games from a single input image (whether hand-drawn, generated or a photo)

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AGI Definition by Google – Summary and Commentary

Posted on December 10, 2023January 15, 2025 by Zbigatron

Last month Google’s AI research group published an academic paper in which they set out to define artificial general intelligence. I summarise this paper and provide my own commentary.

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ChatGPT is Communist

Posted on August 2, 2023January 15, 2025 by Zbigatron

An academic study has found that ChatGPT is left-leaning in terms of its political standpoints, despite its official stance of neutrality. I discuss here the implications of these findings.

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Image Enhancing – Part 2

Posted on October 30, 2021January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

In today’s post, I wish to talk about new technology that has recently emerged from Google that’s related to the image enhancing topic discussed in a previous post of mine.

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How Facial Recognition Works – Part 2 (FaceNet)

Posted on May 27, 2020January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

Here I describe a specific facial recognition algorithm – one that changed things forever: FaceNet by Google.

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De-Identification of Faces in Live Videos – ICCV 2019

Posted on December 13, 2019January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

I present to you a paper from ICCV 2019 that proposes a fast and impressive method to de-identify videos in real-time. We all more privacy in our lives.

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Capturing the Moment in Photography – SIGGRAPH 2019 Award

Posted on July 31, 2019January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

Michael F. Cohen, the Director of Facebook’s Computational Photography Research team, has received the 2019 Coons Award for Outstanding Creative Contributions to Computer Graphics. Here is one of his contributions to photography.

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Seeing Around Corners with a Laser

Posted on January 24, 2019January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

In this post show you some results of a paper that was published in the prestigious Nature journal. It’s on the topic of non-line-of-sight imaging or, in other words, it’s about trying to see around corners.

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Heart Rate Estimation Using Computer Vision

Posted on December 12, 2018January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

Heart rate estimation belongs in the field called “Vital Signal Estimation”. One famous attempt at this comes from a paper entitled “Eulerian Video Magnification for Revealing Subtle Changes in the World”

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Image Colourisation – Converting B&W Photos to Colour

Posted on September 21, 2018January 16, 2025 by Zbigatron

I got another great academic publication to present to you – and this publication also comes with an online interactive website for you to use to your heart’s content. The paper is from the field of image colourisation.  Image colourisation (or ‘colorization’ for our US readers :P) is the act of taking a black and white […]

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My name is Zbigniew ("Ziggy") Zdziarski. I have a PhD in Computer Vision and a passion for anything related to AI.

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