Chancellor Angela Merkel and Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann visit Cyber ​​Valley.

“Cyber ​​Valley is an example of the attractiveness of Germany as an AI location. Science and industry work hand in hand here and show how the transfer of excellent research into innovative applications and business models can succeed,” said Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday following a virtual tour through research facilities of the Cyber ​​Valley Initiative together with Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.

Learning Multi-human Optical Flow. A Ranjan, DT Hoffmann, D Tzionas et al.

Date: January 2020. Source: International Journal of Computer Vision 128, 873–890 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-019-01279-w. Abstract: The optical flow of humans is well known to be useful for the analysis of human action. Recent optical flow methods focus on training deep networks to approach the problem. However, the training data used by them does not cover the…

The Influence of Visual Perspective on Body Size Estimation in Immersive Virtual Reality. A Thaler, S Pujades, JK Stefanucci, SH Creem-Regehr, J Tesch, MJ Black, and BJ Mohler

Date: September 2019. Source: ACM Symposium on Applied Perception 2019, University of Barcelona, Spain. Abstract: The creation of realistic self-avatars that users identify with is important for many virtual reality applications. However, current approaches for creating biometrically plausible avatars that represent a particular individual require expertise and are time-consuming. We investigated the visual perception of…

Capture, Learning, and Synthesis of 3D Speaking Styles. D Cudeiro, T Bolkart, C Laidlaw, A Ranjan, MJ Black.

Date: June 2019. Source: 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Long Beach, CA, USA. Proceedings Page(s): 10093-10103. Abstract: Audio-driven 3D facial animation has been widely explored, but achieving realistic, human-like performance is still unsolved. This is due to the lack of available 3D datasets, models, and standard evaluation metrics. To address…