GAN Makes Pajamas Safe For Work: An AI app allows users to dress in digital costumes.
Deepfakes

GAN Makes Pajamas Safe For Work: An AI app allows users to dress in digital costumes.

A new camera app uses a generative adversarial network to let users look like they’re dressed for success while they videoconference in their jammies. Xpression is an iPhone app that maps facial expressions onto till images in real time, allowing users to look clothed in digital costumes.

December 2, 20201 min read
GAN Makes Pajamas Safe For Work: An AI app allows users to dress in digital costumes.
Deepfakes

GAN Makes Pajamas Safe For Work: An AI app allows users to dress in digital costumes.

A new camera app uses a generative adversarial network to let users look like they’re dressed for success while they videoconference in their jammies. Xpression is an iPhone app that maps facial expressions onto till images in real time, allowing users to look clothed in digital costumes.

December 2, 20201 min read
Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.
Deepfakes

Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.

The incessant rhythm of a heartbeat could be the key to distinguishing real videos from deepfakes. DeepRhythm detects deepfakes using an approach inspired by the science of measuring minute changes on the skin’s surface due to blood circulation.

November 4, 20201 min read
Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.
Deepfakes

Deepfakes Are Heartless: AI detects deepfaked videos by their lack of heartbeat.

The incessant rhythm of a heartbeat could be the key to distinguishing real videos from deepfakes. DeepRhythm detects deepfakes using an approach inspired by the science of measuring minute changes on the skin’s surface due to blood circulation.

November 4, 20201 min read
Protected By Deepfakes: Documentary uses deepfakes to protect its sources.
Deepfakes

Protected By Deepfakes: Documentary uses deepfakes to protect its sources.

Documentary filmmakers often shield the identities of people who might be harmed for speaking out. But typical tactics like blurring faces and distorting voices can make it hard for audiences to connect emotionally. A new

October 7, 20201 min read
Protected By Deepfakes: Documentary uses deepfakes to protect its sources.
Deepfakes

Protected By Deepfakes: Documentary uses deepfakes to protect its sources.

Documentary filmmakers often shield the identities of people who might be harmed for speaking out. But typical tactics like blurring faces and distorting voices can make it hard for audiences to connect emotionally. A new

October 7, 20201 min read
The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes
Deepfakes

The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes

Deepfakes have gone mainstream, allowing celebrities to star in commercials without setting foot in a film studio. A new method helps determine whether such endorsements — and other images produced by generative adversarial networks — are authentic.

September 30, 20202 min read
The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes
Deepfakes

The Telltale Artifact: A technique for detecting GAN-generated deepfakes

Deepfakes have gone mainstream, allowing celebrities to star in commercials without setting foot in a film studio. A new method helps determine whether such endorsements — and other images produced by generative adversarial networks — are authentic.

September 30, 20202 min read
Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes
Deepfakes

Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes

A strategy manifesto from one of China’s biggest tech companies declares, amid familiar visions of ubiquitous AI, that deepfakes are more boon than bane.

August 19, 20202 min read
Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes
Deepfakes

Deepfakes for Good: Tencent on the commercial value of deepfakes

A strategy manifesto from one of China’s biggest tech companies declares, amid familiar visions of ubiquitous AI, that deepfakes are more boon than bane.

August 19, 20202 min read
Deepfakes Go Corporate: Syntheisa offers AI generated videos in 34 languages.
Deepfakes

Deepfakes Go Corporate: Syntheisa offers AI generated videos in 34 languages.

The same technology that has bedeviled Hollywood stars and roiled politics is easing corporate communications. Synthesia generates training and sales videos featuring photorealistic, synthetic talking heads that read personalized scripts in any of 34 languages.

July 22, 20202 min read
Deepfakes Go Corporate: Syntheisa offers AI generated videos in 34 languages.
Deepfakes

Deepfakes Go Corporate: Syntheisa offers AI generated videos in 34 languages.

The same technology that has bedeviled Hollywood stars and roiled politics is easing corporate communications. Synthesia generates training and sales videos featuring photorealistic, synthetic talking heads that read personalized scripts in any of 34 languages.

July 22, 20202 min read
Photos From Before Photos Existed: How Artbreeder generates AI images of historical figures
Deepfakes

Photos From Before Photos Existed: How Artbreeder generates AI images of historical figures

An artist is using deep learning to create realistic portraits of historical figures like Napoleon Bonaparte, Vincent Van Gogh, and England’s first Queen Elizabeth.

July 8, 20201 min read
Photos From Before Photos Existed: How Artbreeder generates AI images of historical figures
Deepfakes

Photos From Before Photos Existed: How Artbreeder generates AI images of historical figures

An artist is using deep learning to create realistic portraits of historical figures like Napoleon Bonaparte, Vincent Van Gogh, and England’s first Queen Elizabeth.

July 8, 20201 min read
Image Resolution in Black and White: Behind the Pulse controversy about bias in machine learning
Deepfakes

Image Resolution in Black and White: Behind the Pulse controversy about bias in machine learning

A new model designed to sharpen images tends to turn some dark faces white, igniting fresh furor over bias in machine learning. Photo Upsampling via Latent Space Exploration (Pulse) generates high-resolution versions of low-resolution images.

July 1, 20202 min read

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