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Realistic one-shot mesh-based head avatars
- jmpman 4y agoWhy is Samsung employing people in Russia?
- 0des 4y agoMaybe a group of people did a thing and Samsung wanted it
- jmpman 4y ago[flagged]
- 0des 4y agoDon't be the guy on HN making comparisons to nazi germany.
- jmpman 4y agoThen North Korea? Where does Putin fall between Nazi Germany and North Korea? There exists a line in which western companies should not be working with these countries. Maybe North Korea has crossed it, but somehow Putin hasn’t?
- kgeist 4y agoStrong math and programming school? OpenCV was largely developed by Intel Russia, for example.
- jmpman 4y agoAnd Intel fired all their Russian employees, like all ethical western companies should be doing.
- tartsky 4y agoIt's not the employees' fault that the people running their country have decided to wage war.
- jmpman 4y agoBut they are paying taxes to the regime. If they want to feel unimplicated, they should leave Russia.
- kgeist 4y agoFrom my experience, generally programmers in Russia are less conservative and more pro-West than the general population (especially those working for Western companies), I don't see anything ethical about firing them. In their statement, Intel said "We are working to support all of our employees through this difficult situation, including our 1,200 employees in Russia" because they understand those people have nothing to do with Putin. From what I gathered, most companies stop operations because, first, paying salary and selling has become difficult due to sanctions, and, second, it's bad PR for them if they keep working in Russia when everyone else left. So it doesn't look to me that it's about ethics, just a business decision.
- jmpman 4y agoThey should leave Russia. They’re currently paying taxes to the regime.
- kgeist 4y agoEmigration isn't an easy process, it can't happen overnight. You need a visa (now harder to obtain for Russians), you need enough savings (not everyone has enough money), you should be able to speak a foreign language (not everyone is skilled enough to get a job from day 0), you will have to leave all your friends and most of your relatives behind, everything/everyone you loved and invested into, both financially and emotionally - due to a military conflict which may end soon (no one knows). I have elderly parents I take care of - I can't emigrate without them. It's easy to judge people when it doesn't affect you personally. If I remember correctly, 75% federal budget of Russia comes from oil/gas revenues, so in a sense, Europeans are more complicit in funding Putin's war crimes than Russian taxpayers. I wonder why Europeans aren't emigrating en masse. And it won't really help if everyone who opposes Putin's war emigrates, it will only worsen the situation because there will be no one left to change the country from within, the country will only get even more radicalized/conservative. It's not so simple.
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- tartsky 4y agoWhy shouldn't they?
- jokethrowaway 4y ago
- postsantum 4y agoSir, this is not Twitter
- shaspefu 4y agoIs this... a Wendy's? I'll show myself out.
- jmpman 4y agoSir, this is not the time to overlook Samsung enabling the economy of Russia.
- postsantum 4y agoIt was supposed to be a lighthearted joke but now I'd seriously suggest you to review your sources of information on what enables the economy of Russia
- jmpman 4y agoHalf of which is their petroleum exports. There is another half. Sorry to be such a stickler, but Samsung is enabling Putin. They wouldn’t do the same for Kim Jong-un. It’s insulting they’re helping Putin.
- postsantum 4y agoThey wouldn't do the same for NK for the sole reason they are not allowed to do it. They and many other companies that ostentatiously left the russian market, have absolutely no qualms about who they are helping. Just look at all the McDonalds in Saudi Arabia, I guess they are fine with Yemen genocide as long as the world's moral police is looking another way
- itomato 4y agoVery interesting to see the cross-reenactment renders. In that case, I think FOMM's interpretation is more recognizable but Bi-Layer David Spade, is particularly entertaining.
- isuckatcoding 4y agoWhat is the real use case for this?
- tristor 4y agoThis would be useful for anyone that has specific company requirements for their avatar/image as long as it can be combined with something that detects the face and eliminates the background
- swah 4y agoMaking avatars without the 3D camera thing that phones do. Could also make avatars of famous people, deceased loved ones...
- scoopertrooper 4y agoI think this could be used as a great basis for next generation video conferencing. Rather than compressing raster images of people speaking, we could send a model as an initial payload and subsequent instructions on how to manipulate it as the conversation progresses. Most current networks can handle video conferencing (relatively) well. However, if 8k video or something like Light Field displays ever catch on, then we might end up needing orders of magnitude more bandwidth to drive video conferencing, so this might be an enabling technology.
- ricardobeat 4y agoMight not be that simple. In a recent demo from Unreal Engine they said that the facial animation data is the main bottleneck to shipping titles with more realistic avatars. Their minute-long demo took many TBs to store the motion data alone.
- cheschire 4y agoMy layperson understanding makes this baffling to me. Isn't motion inherently analog, and haven't we've developed high performing analog compression already? Motion seems significantly more amenable to lossy compression as well, and I could imagine a use-case for ML-based decompression to fill in between the keyframes.
- jokethrowaway 4y agoImpressive work! The main cons of this seems to be unbaking natural light from the texture
- nr2x 4y agoSuch a shame that Putin took a country with such amazing technological potential down a dead end path of hydrocarbons, political repression, violence, and war. But hey, more world class engineers for the rest of us.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoGood catch. Samsung just saved tens of millions of dollars hiring such talent.
- nr2x 4y agoYeah, Russia has the brains and education to have made their own Samsung…but too bad, an aging psychopath wants to silence anybody with half a brain and dig in the mud for “wealth”.
- mensetmanusman 4y agoThis is the resource curse that is well known. The west should be paying to help get this talent fleeing their country.
- nr2x 4y agoMany countries are! Talent bonanza.
- jmpman 4y ago