Archive for the ‘entertainment’ category: Page 96
Jul 31, 2017
The first machine to study the Dance Dance Revolution video game now choreographs its own dances
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, information science, media & arts, robotics/AI
Intelligent Machines
Machine-learning algorithm watches dance dance revolution, then creates dances of its own.
A machine learns to choreograph by studying a famous 1990s music video game.
Jul 31, 2017
Storing Data in DNA Brings Nature into the Digital Universe
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biotech/medical, entertainment
We’re not going to stop taking pictures and recording movies, and we need to develop new ways to save them.
- By Luis Ceze, Karin Strauss, The Conversation US on July 29, 2017
Jul 31, 2017
This facial recognition system tracks how you’re enjoying a movie
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: entertainment, mathematics, robotics/AI
As moviemaking becomes as much a science as an art, the moviemakers need ever-better ways to gauge audience reactions. Did they enjoy it? How much… exactly? At minute 42? A system from Caltech and Disney Research uses a facial expression tracking neural network to learn and predict how members of the audience react, perhaps setting the stage for a new generation of Nielsen ratings.
The research project, just presented at IEEE’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Hawaii, demonstrates a new method by which facial expressions in a theater can be reliably and relatively simply tracked in real time.
It uses what’s called a factorized variational autoencoder — the math of it I am not even going to try to explain, but it’s better than existing methods at capturing the essence of complex things like faces in motion.
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Jul 25, 2017
This Map Predicts Who Will Die Next on ‘Game of Thrones’
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
A computer scientist uses a machine-learning program to predict who will die next on ‘Game of Thrones.’
Jul 15, 2017
A Beautiful Vision of What’s Beyond – The Work of Erik Wernquist
Posted by Andreas M. Hein in categories: entertainment, media & arts
Earlier Work
Wernquist early short film “Wanderers” explored many of the same themes about humanities nature to explore and experance, built around beautiful images of space and the cosmos and narration built around an expert from Carl Sagan ‘s “Pale Blue Dot.”
Wernquist described the film as:
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Jul 14, 2017
Click Here for Happiness
Posted by Johnny Boston in categories: biological, bionic, computing, electronics, entertainment, fun, internet, media & arts, mobile phones
Technology can be wonderful. But how do you keep track of yourself when technology allows you to be everywhere at once?
In this film Prof. Yair Amichai-Hamburger (director of the Research Center for Internet Psychology at the Sammy Ofer School of Communications) argues that even though technology allows us to reach out and connect more easily than ever before, if we don’t ever take a step back, we can lose track of our humanity in the process.
Tags: flow, GPA, happiness, internet, loneliness, media, Messaging, philosophy, phones, professor, social media, technology, texting, video, yair amichai-hamburger
Jul 9, 2017
Kiwi startup Soul Machines reveals latest artificial intelligence creation, Rachel
Posted by Carse Peel in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI
A Kiwi company developing artificial intelligence has delivered its latest digital human, called Rachel.
Rachel can see, hear and respond to you.
She is an avatar created by two-time Oscar winner Mark Sagar, who worked on the blockbuster movie of the same name.
Jul 8, 2017
The mystery planet that could destroy the Earth
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: entertainment, space
Just in time for summer movie season comes news that something huge is lurking out there at the edge of the solar system. It’s really big. It’s never before been detected. It’s warping gravity fields.
No, it’s not the latest Michael Bay disaster-fest or the mothership from “Independence Day.” It’s not the hypothesized Planet 9 that everyone was talking about a little over a year ago. Probably it’s another planet. Or maybe that mothership.
Jul 7, 2017
The world’s first glasses-free holographic phone is coming, and it’s not from Apple
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: entertainment, mobile phones
RED Digital Cinema has announced its first Android phone featuring the world’s first glasses-free holographic display.