computer graphics
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‘Master Face’: Researchers Say They have Found a Wildly Successful Bypass for Face Recognition Tech
In addition to helping police arrest the wrong person or monitor how often you visit the Gap store, facial recognition is increasingly used by companies as a routine security procedure: it’s a way to unlock your phone or social media account, for instance. This practice comes with an exchange of some privacy for the promise…
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Now There’s a Deepfake Audio Platform Where Celebrities Can Licence AI-Generated Voice Clips
Whenever deepfakes make the news, it’s almost always for the latest terrifying way bad actors have figured out how to spawn hoaxes or cyberbully people using the AI-powered technology. However, the media industry has found some more practical (and less sinister) applications, such as using face swaps to craft more realistic visual effects, synching actors’…
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How to Use Super Resolution in Photoshop and Lightroom — Plus Some Free Alternatives
If you’re trying to enlarge a digital image, or zoom in on a particular part of it, the picture can get pretty pixelated pretty fast. Image editors can’t magically insert data that wasn’t captured in the first place…or can they? The latest in artificial intelligence algorithms promise to smartly fill in details to avoid jagged…
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Meat-Tearing CG Breakthrough Promises to Make Video Game Injuries Disgustingly Realistic
Ever since the over-the-top gore in Mortal Kombat outraged parents back in 1992, there’s been an arms race in video games to make simulated violence more realistic through gut-turning graphics. But new research from the University of Pennsylvania on simulating damage could make simulated injuries on video game characters too realistic for even the most…