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The Reality Lab Lectures - Tuesday, April 28, 2020
TALK TITLE: Bringing VR/AR experiences to Live Sports - Opportunities and Challenges
SPEAKERS: Uma Jayaram & Jay Jayaram
RECORDING: Event held over videoconference (during the COVID-19 shutdown) and editd by the UW CSE Production Team
TALK ABSTRACT: This presentation will focus on the significant opportunity for VR and AR in the sports industry and use the journey of VOKE VR from startup through acquisition by Intel and subsequent growth to illustrate challenges and successes along the way. The speakers will bring out the nuances of working in the sports industry, bringing new technology to fans, specific VR related technical and production challenges and the future of immersive media in sports and entertainment.
© UW Reality Lab, 2020
http://realitylab.uw.edu
The Reality Lab Lectures - Tuesday, April 28, 2020
TALK TITLE: Bringing VR/AR experiences to Live Sports - Opportunities and Challenges
SPEAKERS: Uma Jayaram & Jay Jayaram
RECORDING: Event held over videoconference (during the COVID-19 shutdown) and editd by the UW CSE Production Team
TALK ABSTRACT: This presentation will focus on the significant opportunity for VR and AR in the sports industry and use the journey of VOKE VR from startup through acquisition by Intel and subsequent growth to illustrate challenges and successes along the way. The speakers will bring out the nuances of working in the sports industry, bringing new technology to fans, specific VR related technical and production challenges and the future of immersive media in sports and entertainment.
© UW Reality Lab, 2020
http://realitylab.uw.edu









![Teaser Video: Lifespan Age Transformation Synthesis
VIDEO: 60-second Teaser video [FULL project video: https://youtu.be/9fulnt2_q_Y]
TITLE: Lifespan Age Transformation Synthesis
AUTHORS: Roy Or-El, Soumyadip Sengupta, Ohad Fried, Eli Shechtman, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman
ABSTRACT: We address the problem of single photo age progression and regression the prediction of how a person might look in the future, or how they looked in the past. Most existing aging methods are limited to changing the texture, overlooking transformations in head shape that occur during the human aging and growth process. This limits the applicability of previous methods to aging of adults to slightly older adults, and application of those methods to photos of children does not produce quality results. We propose a novel multi-domain image-to-image generative adversarial network architecture, whose learned latent space models a continuous bi-directional aging process. The network is trained on the FFHQ dataset, which we labeled for ages, gender, and semantic segmentation. Fixed age classes are used as anchors to approximate continuous age transformation. Our framework can predict a full head portrait for ages 0 70 from a single photo, modifying both texture and shape of the head. We demonstrate results on a wide variety of photos and datasets, and show significant improvement over the state of the art.
CODE: https://github.com/royorel/Lifespan_Age_Transformation_Synthesis
COLAB DEMO: https://colab.research.google.com/github/royorel/Lifespan_Age_Transformation_Synthesis/blob/master/LATS_demo.ipynb
DATA: https://github.com/royorel/FFHQ-Aging-Dataset
PROJECT PAGE: http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/lifespan_age_transformation_synthesis/ Teaser Video: Lifespan Age Transformation Synthesis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_jTFcjN2hBk/mqdefault.jpg)
