How the Brain Estimates Distances, Heights and Velocities, with Computer Vision Applications
This article started as a curious question: how much taller a skyscraper needs to be in order to be perceived as twice its actual height? I assumed that the observer was at ground level at a horizontal distance d from the building, and that the real height is H. We all know that the building […]
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Autonomous Driving: Boosting Optical Flow with Synthetic Data
Optical flow is defined as the task of estimating per-pixel motion between video frames. Optical flow models take two sequential frames as input and return as output a flow vector that predicts where each pixel in the first frame will be in the second frame. Optical flow is an important task for autonomous driving, but […]
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New Book: Synthetic Data and Generative AI
Synthetic data is used more and more to augment real-life datasets, enriching them and allowing black-box systems to correctly classify observations or predict values that are well outside of training and validation sets. In addition, it helps understand decisions made by obscure systems such as deep neural networks, contributing to the development of explainable AI. […]
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Spectacular Videos: Synthetic Universes, with Star Collision Graph
Entitled “Spectacular Videos: Synthetic Universes, with Star Collision Graph”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. Also discussed in details with Python code in my book “Synthetic Data”, available here. This project started as an attempt to generate simulations for the three-body problem in astronomy: studying the orbits of three […]
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Dynamic Clouds and Landscape Generation: Morphing and Evolutionary Processes
Entitled “Dynamic Clouds and Landscape Generation: Morphing and Evolutionary Processes”, the full version in PDF format is accessible in the “Free Books and Articles” section, here. Also discussed in details with Python code in my book “Synthetic Data”, available here. My previous article focused on map generation in 3D, and also features a fascinating video, see here. In this […]
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From 3D Contour Plots to AI-Generated Art
Fun tutorial to learn how to make professional contour plots in Python, with incredible animated visualizations. At the intersection of machine learning, scientific computing, automated art, cartography, and video games. Section 3 is particularly interesting, as it shows all the work behind the scene, to complete this project in 20 hours when you have no […]
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