[AI Seminar] Online AI Seminar on May 12 (Zoom) -- Aayush Bansal -- Computational Studio: A computational machinery to enhance social communication. AI seminar is sponsored by Fortive.

[Aayush Bansal]

Reminder.. this is tomorrow at noon.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 5:30 PM Aayush Bansal <aayushb at cs.cmu.edu> wrote:

> I will be giving an online seminar on "Computational Studio: A
> computational machinery to enhance social communication" from *12:00 -
> 01:00 PM* on May 12.
>
> Zoom Link: *https://cmu.zoom.us/j/262225154
> <https://cmu.zoom.us/j/262225154>*
>
> CMU AI Seminar is sponsored by Fortive.
>
> Following are the details of the talk:
>
> *Title: *Computational Studio: A computational machinery to enhance
> social communication
>
> *Abstract: *Licklider and Taylor (1968) envisioned computational
> machinery that could enable better communication between humans than
> face-to-face interaction. In the last fifty years, we have used computing
> to develop various means of communication, such as mail, messaging, phone
> calls, video conversation, and virtual reality. These are, however, a proxy
> of face-to-face communication that aims at encoding words, expressions,
> emotions, and body language at the source and decoding them reliably at the
> destination. The true revolution of personal computing has not begun yet
> because we have not been able to tap the real potential of computing for
> social communication. A computational machinery that can understand and
> create a four-dimensional audio-visual world can enable humans to describe
> their imagination and share it with others. In this talk, I will introduce
> the Computational Studio: an environment that allows non-specialists to
> construct and creatively edit the 4D audio-visual world from sparse audio
> and video samples. The Computational Studio aims to enable everyone to
> relive old memories through a form of virtual time travel, to automatically
> create new experiences, and share them with others using everyday
> computational devices.
>
> There are three essential components of the Computational Studio: (1) how
> can we capture 4D audio-visual world?; (2) how can we synthesize the
> audio-visual world using examples?; and (3) how can we interactively create
> and edit the audio-visual world? The first part of this talk introduces the
> work on capturing and browsing in-the-wild 4D audio-visual world in a
> self-supervised manner and efforts on building a multi-agent capture
> system. The applications of this work apply to social communication and to
> digitizing intangible cultural heritage, capturing tribal dances and
> wildlife in the natural environment, and understanding the social behavior
> of human beings. In the second part, I will talk about the example-based
> audio-visual synthesis in an unsupervised manner. Example-based
> audio-visual synthesis allows us to express ourselves easily. Finally, I
> will talk about the interactive visual synthesis that allows us to manually
> create and edit visual experiences. Here I will also stress the importance
> of thinking about a human user and computational devices when designing
> content creation applications.
>
> The Computational Studio is a first step towards unlocking the full degree
> of creative imagination, which is currently limited to the human mind by
> the limits of the individual's expressivity and skill. It has the potential
> to change the way we audio-visually communicate with others.
>
>
> To learn more about the seminar series, please visit the website:
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aiseminar/
>
>
> --
> Aayush Bansal
> http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
>
>

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Aayush Bansal
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~aayushb/
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