Daniel

@chavezheras@sigmoid.social
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Interdisciplinary technologist and academic. I currently research and teach visual culture and ML/AI at King's College London @kingsdh
Websitehttps://movingpixel.net/
Vimeohttps://vimeo.com/chavezheras
KCLhttps://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/daniel-chavez-heras
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9877-7496
DanielJun 4, 2024
VL/HCCJun 2, 2024

📢Exciting news! Dr. Daniel Chávez Heras (@chavezheras)
is the joint keynote speaker for VLHCC and PPIG 2024! 🌟

🌟 Join us as he discusses "Computational Ekphrasis - Reflections on Generative Modes of Cultural Production"

Explore how generative AI is reshaping the intersections of visual culture and language, influencing our understanding and creation of visual media.!!

👉For more details: https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2024/vlhcc-2024-keynotes

#VLHCC2024 #PPIG #KeynoteSpeaker

VL/HCC 2024 - Keynotes - VL/HCC 2024

We are delighted to announce that Dr Nikolay Burlutskiy, Director of Artificial Intelligence at AstraZeneca R&D, UK, will deliver one of the keynotes for VL/HCC 24.

DanielMay 15, 2024
Next week I'll be with Will DiGravio recording an episode of the Video Essay Podcast in front of a live audience! Join us if you are in London ―it is free: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/cinema-and-machine-vision Or listen to the podcast after, it's truly wonderful: https://thevideoessay.com/ #AI #AiArtCommunity #cinema #film #podcast #london
Cinema and Machine Vision

An event where the science and technologies of artificial intelligence meet the arts and theories of cinema.

King's College London
Show threadDanielApr 24, 2024
Want to know more? If you are in London in May, I'll be speaking as part King's AI festival to launch the book. Register here 👉🏽 https://kcl.ac.uk/events/cinema-and-machine-vision #AI #creativeAI #GenAI #books #London
Cinema and Machine Vision

An event where the science and technologies of artificial intelligence meet the arts and theories of cinema.

King's College London
Show threadDanielApr 24, 2024
There are new forms of pleasure, truth and power, that come with this large-scale reorganisation of visual culture. A longer and broader view allows us to trace a technical and cultural lineage that runs from photography to cinema to machine vision, all the way to #GenAI and text-to-video
Show threadDanielApr 24, 2024
It is quite telling, for example, that the clips from this TED video, created using Open AI's text-to-video model, had to be edited together professionally to create a meaningful montage 👉🏽 https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/1781351036877156452
Models such as this have no strong internal representations of "shots" or "cuts" (yet). They unroll time and motion instead of recording it
TED Talks (@TEDTalks) on X

What will TED look like in 40 years? For #TED2024, we worked with artist @PaulTrillo and @OpenAI to create this exclusive video using Sora, their unreleased text-to-video model. Stay tuned for more groundbreaking AI — coming soon to https://t.co/YLcO5Ju923!

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Show threadDanielApr 24, 2024
It is hard to know. Partly by design. Partly because we don't have the right tools of knowledge to answer these questions yet. But we do know that AI is very rapidly becoming media, an we now have a very good idea of how 👇🏽
Show threadDanielApr 24, 2024
These systems are trained to watch on our behalf and reproduce what they see guided by text prompts. But whose vision is encoded in them and how? 👀 Is this a new type of cinematic engine? or a way for tech companies to extract value from filmmakers and creators? or both?
Show threadDanielApr 24, 2024
Moving images have gone from celluloid🎞️ to digital🖥️, from recordings 🎥 to data streams 💽 to calculations 🖩. This has made online video platforms and film archives a very valuable source of training material for AI models ― as long as computers can taught how to watch!
DanielApr 24, 2024
My new book 👉🏽 Cinema and Machine Vision: Artificial Intelligence, Aesthetics and Spectatorship. Pre order now from Edinburgh University Press
with 30% discount using the code NEW30 👉🏽 https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-cinema-and-machine-vision.html And please help me spread the word! #AI #book #machinelearning #computervision #creativeAI
Cinema and Machine Vision

Brings together Film Studies and Artificial Intelligence by exploring their mutual interest in the automation of vision through technology

Edinburgh University Press Books
DanielJan 9, 2024
Explosion 💥May 16, 2023

Our newsletter introducing the new spaCy + LLM integration just went out 💌

Check it out for more details on spacy-llm, https://prodi.gy features, upcoming and past events, and more!

http://mailchi.mp/spacy/introducing-spacy-llm

Prodigy · Prodigy · An annotation tool for AI, Machine Learning & NLP

A downloadable annotation tool for NLP and computer vision tasks such as named entity recognition, text classification, object detection, image segmentation, A/B evaluation and more.

Prodigy
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DanielMay 15, 2024
Next week I'll be with Will DiGravio recording an episode of the Video Essay Podcast in front of a live audience! Join us if you are in London ―it is free: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/cinema-and-machine-vision Or listen to the podcast after, it's truly wonderful: https://thevideoessay.com/ #AI #AiArtCommunity #cinema #film #podcast #london