Ars Electronica Festival · 2017
Blade Runner—Autoencoded
🏆 Honorary Mention · Prix Ars Electronica 2017
Terence Broad's “Blade Runner—Autoencoded” was honoured with a Honorary Mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2017, category Computer Animation.
*Blade Runner—Autoencoded* is a film made by training an autoencoder—a type of generative neural network—to recreate frames from the 1982 film *Blade Runner*. The Autoencoder learns to model images by trying to copy them through a very narrow information bottleneck, being optimized to create images that are as similar…
About Terence Broad
Terence Broad (UK) is an artist and machine learning researcher based in London. He works at the forefront of technological developments in machine learning, exploring both the perceptual capabilities and limitations of these techniques.
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