Steve Seitz
January 8, 2018
UW Reality Lab launches with $6M from tech companies to advance augmented and virtual reality research
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The UW Reality Lab is launching with $6 million from Facebook, Google, and Huawei to accelerate innovation in augmented and virtual reality and educate the next generation of researchers and practitioners.
July 11, 2017
Lip-syncing Obama: New tools turn audio clips into realistic video
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A new machine learning tool developed by UW computer vision researchers can create realistic videos from audio files alone – including speeches by President Barack Obama.
December 7, 2015
What makes Tom Hanks look like Tom Hanks?
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UW researchers have reconstructed 3-D models of celebrities such as Tom Hanks from large Internet photo collections. The model can deliver speeches that the real actor never performed – one step toward developing fully interactive digital personas of people from family or historic photo collections.
April 9, 2014
Automated age-progression software lets you see how a child will age
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University of Washington engineers have developed software that automatically generates images of a young child’s face as it ages through a lifetime. The technique is the first fully automated approach for aging babies to adults that works with variable lighting, expressions and poses.