Learning to see: Gloomy Sunday (2017)

2017. HD Video. Duration: 3:02. Technique: Custom software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks.

Part of the Learning to See series. Please see the series project page for more information.

I also presented a paper on this work at SIGGraph 2019. And for a much deeper conceptual and technical analysis, please see Chapter 5 of my PhD Thesis.

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Soundtrack: “Gloomy Sunday” by Diamanda Galas

Of all the different things and scenery that NVidia could have chosen to demo their award winning incredible ‘Gaugan‘ (2019) with, their first choice, and cover image is a rocky seascape

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not unlike my Learning to See: Gloomy Sunday (made in 2017 / went viral 2018) 😊