Tony Blair: 'As we have seen with AI, it is the countries that have the infrastructure and capital for scale that capture technology's economic and strategic benefits.' Tony Blair: 'As we have seen with AI, it is the countries that have the infrastructure and capital for scale that capture technology's economic and strategic benefits.' 'History won't forgive us' if UK falls behind in quantum computing race, says Tony Blair Tony Blair has said "history won't forgive us" if the UK falls behind in the race to harness quantum computing, a frontier technology predicted to trigger the next wave of breakthroughs in everything from drug design to climate modelling. The former British Labour prime minister, whose thinktank and consultancy, the Tony Blair Institute, is backed by tech industry leaders including the Oracle founder, Larry Ellison, warned: "The country risks failing to convert its leadership in quantum research." In a report calling for a national strategy for quantum computing, Blair and William Hague, a former Conservative party leader, compared the situation to the recent history of artificial intelligence, where the UK was responsible for important research breakthroughs but then ceded power to other countries, including the US, leading to a scramble to build "sovereign" AI capacity.

We propose a real time deep learning framework for video-based facial expression capture. Our process uses a high-end facial capture pipeline based on FACEGOOD to capture facial expression. We train a convolutional neural network to produce high-quality continuous blendshape weight output from video training. Since this facial capture is fully automated, our system can drastically reduce the amount of labor involved in the development of modern narrative-driven video games or films involving realistic digital doubles of actors and potentially hours of animated dialogue per character. We demonstrate compelling animation inference in challenging areas such as eyes and lips.

Last week Microsoft introduced the new Holoportation technology to the world, scaling newer heights in AI, mixed reality and neural text to speech technologies. Never ceasing to amaze its audiences, whether it is a stylus or an automated travel diary system, the tech giant brought surreal technology called Holoporationto the recent Microsoft Inspire 2019 event. For quite a while now, the company's R&D has been working on holoportation, which is a 3D capture technology that reconstructs, compresses and transmits 3D Models of people. Advancing further, Microsoft's researchers have also been taking a new approach to holoportation through the cellular by changing the background, lighting, and bandwidth to accomplish and extend features to a greater extent. Azure Corporate's Vice President, Julia White demonstrated holoportation, and how it works with a Hololens 2 headset while explaining the technologies used behind the invention.

Motion capture technology is the stuff of magic. I learned this firsthand when I put on a black onesie interspersed with sensors, waved my hands in the air, and watched a frog on the screen next to me do the same. Everything I did the frog did too, with the accuracy of my own shadow. Then Jakob Balslev, founder and CEO and of motion capture suitmaker Rokoko, replaced the frog with an old man in a wifebeater, who mirrored my behavior with a scowl on his face. Motion capture this good usually costs hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is why it's typically relegated to high-profile Hollywood studios and well-established game designers.