AI Pathfinding

NSynth Super

Project from Google Creative Lab is an open source physical interface for their NSynth project, which generates news sounds using Machine Learning to understand them:

Building upon past research in this field, Magenta created NSynth (Neural Synthesizer). It’s a machine learning algorithm that uses a deep neural network to learn the characteristics of sounds, and then create a completely new sound based on these characteristics.

Rather than combining or blending the sounds, NSynth synthesizes an entirely new sound using the acoustic qualities of the original sounds—so you could get a sound that’s part flute and part sitar all at once.

Since the release of NSynth, Magenta have continued to experiment with different musical interfaces and tools to make the output of the NSynth algorithm more easily accessible and playable.

Using NSynth Super, musicians have the ability to explore more than 100,000 sounds generated with the NSynth algorithm.

More Here

Neural net constructs 3D models of your face from a single photo

Researchers from the University of Nottingham and Kingston University have come up with an AI tool that will turn a 2D portrait into a 3D version, using just a single portrait photo you upload to it.

Typically, 3D face reconstruction poses ‘extraordinary difficulty,’ as it requires multiple images and must work around the varying poses and expressions, along with differences in lightning, according to the team.

By training a neural network on a dataset of both 2D images and 3D facial models or scans, however, their AI can reconstruct the entire face – even adding in parts that might not have been visible in the photo. [read more]

Try it for yourself here: cs.nott.ac.uk

Azért szeretek egyszerre hosszabb szabadságot kivenni, mert ilyenkor az első 3-4 napot felölelő elégedett faszlengetés után elöntenek az alkotási vágy hullámai, és a szabadságom hátralevő ideje alatt kötelezettségek nélkül tudok hódolni a hobbijaimnak…

Ma este például Matlaboztam kicsit, melynek eredményeképpen a fenti kis animációt állítottam össze az ilyesmire fogékony olvasóknak. 

Mint azt páran már kitalálhattátok, a kisfilm a Viola-Jones-féle, egyszintű döntési fákon alapuló AdaBoost tanulóalgoritmus konvergenciáját szemlélteti amint normális eloszlású adatsorokat próbál modellezni. 

(a témáról lásd még: http://www.hpl.hp.com/techreports/Compaq-DEC/CRL-2001-1.pdf )

#BlueOrigin test launch was a success! | Our audience: #djiphantom4 #djiglobal #uav #yuneec #hexacopter #djiinspire1 #quadcopter #miniquad #affiliatemarketing #robotics #robot #amazon #fpv #drones #aerialphotography #amazonprime #robots #djiphantom #arduino #drone #tesla #elonmusk #rcplane #spacex #sparkfun #nasa #raspberrypi #mavicpro #jeffbezos via @theofficialblueorigin (at Van Horn, Texas)

TESS_ERACT

The Parallax View

Project from Peder Norrby is an IphoneX visual toy using TrueDepth facetracking to produce a Trompe-l'œil effect of depth from the position of your head:

Explainer video - enable sound! The app, called #TheParallaxView, is in review on @AppStore#iPhoneX #ARKit #FaceTracking #madewithunity pic.twitter.com/6P8ofGZqP4

— ΛLGΘMΨSΓIC (@algomystic)

February 28, 2018

Yes it’s ARKit face tracking and #madewithunity … basically non-symmetric camera frustum / off-axis projection.

The app is currently in review, but Peder plans to release the code to Github in the future for developers to experiment with.

You can follow progress at Peder’s Twitter account here

Researchers Have Successfully Grown Premature Lambs in an Artificial Womb

It’s something that wouldn’t be out of place in a sci-fi movie – a lamb inside a plastic bag with tubes and fluids helping it grow. But researchers have shown it’s possible to nurture and protect lambs in late stages of gestation inside an artificial womb; technology which could become a lifesaver for many premature human babies in just a few years.

“If we can develop an extra-uterine system to support growth and organ maturation for only a few weeks, we can dramatically improve outcomes for extremely premature babies.”

Read More: http://www.sciencealert.com/researchers-have-successfully-grown-premature-lambs-in-an-artificial-womb

Nikola Tesla Describing His Idea of Transmitting Wireless Energy Through the Earth In 1893.

“I cannot stretch my imagination se far, but I do firmly believe that it is practicable to disturb by means of powerful machines the electrostatic condition of the earth and thus transmit intelligible signals and perhaps power. In fact, what is there against the carrying out of such a scheme? We now know that electric vibration may be transmitted through a single conductor. Why then not try to avail ourselves of the earth for this purpose? We need not be frightened by the idea of distance. To the weary wanderer counting the mile-posts the earth may appear very large, but to that happiest of all men, the astronomer, who gazes at the heavens and by their standard judges the magnitude of our globe, it appears very small. And so I think it must seem to the electrician, for when he considers the speed with which an electric disturbance is propagated through the earth all his ideas of distance must completely vanish.”

–Nikola Tesla

“On Light And Other High Frequency Phenomena.” Lecture delivered before the Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, February 1893, and before the National Electric Light Association, St. Louis, March 1893.

Your order is processing 💿 for Super Deluxe