SIGGRAPH 2018 is just around the corner. Starting on Sunday August 12th in Vancouver, British Columbia and ending Thursday August 16th it’s looking like this is going to be a bumper year for presentations which cover applications of deep learning and demonstrate some truly stunning results. The full schedule is here, yet you can see…Read More
Category: General
Production Deployment
You’ve carefully formulated and specified a target problem, collected and processed training data, picked a familiar framework (or learned a new one) and through a process of research, intuition, and luck chosen an initial network architecture to represent your problem. You’ve methodically run experiments and tuned hyperparameters, getting side-tracked along the way to write tools…Read More
New kids on the block
Over the last few months we’ve seen two new companies formed around the concept of providing tools based on deep learning for visual effects. The positive responses they’ve received so far already along with the multitude of opportunities in the field are sure to mean that they will be the first of many. Kognat aims…Read More
Disruption
The visual effects industry is no stranger to disruption. It has been shown to be both remarkably resilient yet also occasionally fragile at the same time. There are a handful of large, successful companies which have been in existence for decades, yet others have failed to endure through more challenging times. Some have grown rapidly…Read More
VFX Datasets
In almost all cases the success of supervised learning techniques is highly dependent on the quality and quantity of available training data. Perfect data is seldom available, and when it is there may not be sufficient diversity in it to train a hungry model. Cleaning noisy data can be labor-intesive if automated approaches are not…Read More
Machine Learning Labs
Machine learning in practice can be an arduous task. Managing multiple iterations of code, processing input data, feature engineering, training models, visualizing and tabulating results, performing analysis, and using experience to draw conclusions and adapt the system in a way which might yield improved results. In many cases you feel like you have more promising…Read More
Foundry dips their toe
Here’s a recent announcement from Foundry: Deep learning: the new frontier in visual effects production Artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning technologies are disrupting our world in unprecedented ways. From transport and infrastructure, to marketing and fintech; self-learning machines are increasingly being deployed to challenge the status quo. Deep learning enables systems to learn and…Read More