Episode 1698
This week's photo segment is not an assignment review, but Chris joins Leo to discuss a few new developments. Here are the links:
New Hardware
Sony's sensor with built-in AI, enabling image recognition and other things on the sensor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20rXEtG4CjQ
Fooling an AI
Image recognizers can be fooled; lots of research is going into that.
Here's an example of how a school bus gets classified as an ostrich by adding some specially crafted noise to the picture
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpxtd-FKY1Y
Creating beauty with AI
3D Ken Burns effect from 2D images
A neural network guesses depth and fills in missing background parts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZZ9rpmVCqE
Creating better people
StyleGAN2 is creating more detailed and more realistic portraits of people ... people that don't exist! It fixes a bunch of problems and has fewer artifacts. StyleGan2 bases its image creation on millions of photos online, but the images themselves are completely new.
https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com
Our next photo assignment is - NORMAL. Take a photo of, about or otherwise concerning the concept of "NORMAL" and then post it to the Tech Guy Group on Flickr. Make sure to tag it with the word "TGNORMAL" as well! And if Chris likes it, it could end up on next month's photo contest review segment.