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Paul Debevec

“When I first started working on the problem of trying to create a photo-real digital human, it was still possible at that point to imagine that there was something magical, irreal, or even spiritual about just the way that a human face looks.” “It certainly will be possible in the future to, you know,...

Sam Miller

“This may sound a little strange, but I think it’s like dreaming with your eyes open.” source: “The Untold Story of Magic Leap, the World’s Most Secretive Start-Up”...

Jack Gallant

“Essentially, we were trying to build a model that describes how your brain responds to movies. On the left here we have a movie that we show to subjects in the magnets, and on the right we have a brain and you can see the brain activity is painted here on the side...

Rob Spence

“My name is Rob Spence, and I am a cyborg. I lost my eye after a shot gun accident six years ago. These engineers helped me build a prothetic eye with a wireless video camera inside.” “Once you get everybody recording all the time, it feels like we have lost something. But video is...

Jim Marggraff

“But now, we have your eyes.” “Our vision-driven interface is based on the eye-brain connection. It enables users to control smart glasses using eye movement alone. It’s easy and natural. As quick as you can think, you can interact.” source: “Eyefluence”, “Eyefluence Intro” and “The Language of Looking (FoST 2016)”...

Parthipan Siva

“We have been doing analytics for quite some time, so the longer you have it deployed, the more scenarios it sees, the better the accuracy becomes. One of the main things we do is tracking people and vehicles. The other things we have is crowd detection, there is license plate recognition or number...

Yong Zhao

„In Beijing, we have more than two million surveillance cameras. Each one of them records images around the clock. This results, every day, in a video stream with a total duration of more than 48 million hours, or more than 5000 years.“ „We are capable to train an A.I. network in such a way...

Ken Denman

“Go to all the places where consumers are consuming product, content, media, the consumer experience wherever, and be able to understand what they like or what they don’t like fast enough so that product developers could interact and really give us what we want.” “There is no real value in the information of any...

Andres Guadamuz

“There is a lot of automatic indexing that, - I know, we actually have to create exceptions to copyright because of some of those things that happen mechanically. A lot of data mining is actually being done- it’s copyright infringement.” source: “Re_publica 2016 – Andres Guadamuz_Do androids dream of electric copyright?”...

John Matarese

“Many people don't realize what happens to pictures and how they can be used once you share them online.” source: “Who owns your Facebook photos?”, WCPO...