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Apple with Neural 3D Engine With FaceLit, Apple proposes a neural 3D engine for face relighting. The engine should Generate 3D faces that can be rendered in various custom lighting conditions and views. The engine only needs 2D images as input. The engine relies on standard pose and lighting estimators. With these estimates, the Phong reflection model is integrated into the neural volume rendering system. The model learns how to generate the shape and material properties of a face in this way. This is also the basis for generating photorealistic facial images with multiview 3D and lighting consistency. Apple confidently...

Tone mapping operators with AI High Dynamic Range (HDR) is fast becoming the video format of choice for content providers, albeit not quite as quickly as thought. Standard Dynamic Range (SDR) displays still dominate the market. Therefore, efficient ways must be found to convert HDR content to SDR format, a process known as tone mapping. There are already numerous tone mapping operators (TMO for short), but these do not always lead to a usable result. Recently, many "new" TMOs based on deep learning approaches have been proposed. However, the main challenge in training such deep learning networks is the lack...

Respect The Film Negatives As a former analogue filmmaker, I learned to "appreciate the negative". I've always admired the evolution of analog stocks and I still do. It is remarkable what results can be achieved during development. There were often serious differences in the results of the same stocks when they were developed by different service providers. There are many reasons for this, often simply cutting back on chemistry resulted in "very thin" results. This is particularly reflected in the colors and the color step approach. Nevertheless, after a good scan and a proper grading, you could always achieve very...

Adobe comes with new AI application Adobe has now presented its answer to AI generators such as Midjourney, Dall-E and Stable Diffusion. The new family of generative AI tools dubbed Adobe Firefly has a lot to offer and has the potential to be as influential as the original Photoshop we all know, which has been a standard since 1990. Adobe has been integrating AI into its applications, such as Photoshop and Illustrator, for years. With Firefly, however, Adobe is now raising the level significantly and to a whole new level. The first beta version of Firefly brings text-to-image generation to...

Thanks to new OLED material, cheaper OLED TVs soon? Based on new research results from the chemistry department at Pusan National University in Korea, the development of new OLED televisions could have a major impact on the price development of future models. OLED TV manufacturing currently uses a process called thermal vacuum evaporation, which is very labor intensive and very expensive in comparison. This is also one of the main reasons why OLED TVs are still more expensive than QLED TVs. Researchers at Pusan National University succeeded in synthesizing a solvent-resistant material for the hole-injection layer used in the OLED...