There exists technology that can create comics derived from video, but none have been quite as advanced as this new system developed by scientists in China and Hong Kong. Unlike previous frameworks, their model can glean emotional context from the source video’s dialogue and assign appropriate speech bubbles for the text. While imperfect, it produces content that is more expressive than state-of-the-art systems. Read full article here
Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
