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Research Proposes ‘Moral’ Sanitization for Text-To-Image Systems Such as Stable Diffusion
New research from Korea and the United States has proposed an integrated method for preventing text-to-image systems such as Stable Diffusion from generating 'immoral' images – by manipulating the...
Creating State-of-the-Art NeRF Head Avatars in Minutes
If time were no object, Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) might by now have made greater inroads into potential commercial implementations – particularly in the field of human avatars and...
InstructPix2Pix: Accurate, AI-Based Image-Editing With GPT-3 and Stable Diffusion
New research from the University of California at Berkeley improves notably on recent efforts to create AI-powered image-editing procedures – this time by combining the considerable calculative forces of...
Generative AI to transform Laboratory Testing
In recent years, hyperreal media has gained widespread attention for its ability to transform the entertainment industry, pop culture and visual effects. A new area of transformation is within...
Editing Out the Real World With ‘Diminished Reality’
In the 2014 Christmas special of the dystopian sci-fi anthology series Black Mirror, writer and series creator Charlie Brooker envisaged the possibility of cybernetic augmentations capable of 'blocking out'...
What Is the Latent Space of an Image Synthesis System?
If you have any interest in image synthesis architectures such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) or latent diffusion frameworks like Stable Diffusion, you'll have noticed references to the 'latent...
A New Social Image-Sharing System Deepfakes All People by Default
A new collaboration between Binghamton University and Intel offers a novel take on the problem of the unauthorized use of social media photos for facial recognition purposes, as well...
The Future of Using Public Images for AI Research
Besides their capacity to rip off the style of popular real world artists, the new breed of latent diffusion- based image synthesis systems promises a revolutionary ease-of-use not only...
What is Neural Compression?
Neural Compression is the conversion, via machine learning, of various types of data into a representative numerical/text format, or vector format.
NVIDIA’s Implicit Warping Is a Potentially Powerful Deepfake Technique
Over the past 10-20 years, and particularly in recent years, the computer vision research community has produced an abundance of frameworks capable of taking a single image and using...
Creating Authentic Human Motion Synthesis via Diffusion
New research from Tel Aviv University may prove capable of bringing authentic human motion to text-to-video synthesis, videogames, motion capture architectures in VFX pipelines, and also function as a...
Custom Styles in Stable Diffusion, Without Retraining or High Computing Resources
A researcher from Spain has developed a new method for users to generate their own styles in Stable Diffusion (or any other latent diffusion model that is publicly accessible)...
The Road to Realistic Full-Body Deepfakes
It's nearly five years since the advent of deepfakes released into the public realm the ability to alter people's facial identities; at first, in recorded video, and now even...
What is Generalization?
In machine learning, generalization is the ability of a trained model to perform effective transformations and inference on data other than the data on which it was trained. For instance,...
Stable Diffusion: Is Video Coming Soon?
For an excited public, many of whom consider diffusion-based image synthesis to be indistinguishable from magic, the open source release of Stable Diffusion seems certain to be quickly followed...
Vote for Metaphysic – AGT 22 Semi finals
We have reached the semis, which is fantastic. This is true. If you want Metaphysic to go on and reach the finals of AGT, you just need to vote for...
Are We Heading For ‘Deepfake CAPTCHA’ Challenges in Video and Voice Calls?
A new paper from Israel proposes the institution and ongoing development of a 'deepfake CAPTCHA' protocol, to challenge audio or video callers that may be using deepfake technologies to...
Detecting Deepfakes Through Personality Assessment
In the original, and the various cinematic incarnations of Jack Finney's 1954 science-fiction novel The Body Snatchers, the fact that aliens are 'taking over' the earthly population is signaled...
To Uncover a Deepfake Video Call, Ask the Caller to Turn Sideways
There is an interesting vulnerability in video deepfakes that, to date, has been generally overlooked by the security research community, perhaps because 'live', real-time deepfakes in video calls have...
Defeating Deepfaked Video Calls by Monitoring Electrical Fluctuations
2022 has seen the emergence of 'live' deepfakes in videoconferencing as an acknowledged security threat. In June, the FBI issued a warning to businesses about the increasing use of...
