PickVidsBest Computer vision, speech & NLP Videos
The 93 Computer vision, speech & NLP videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 9 introductory, 25 intermediate, 56 for a general viewer, and 3 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are a demo. What they share is that you see the result first and only then decide whether to follow the detail. Channels you will keep seeing include Computerphile, Denis Shiryaev, Google TechTalks.
How China Tracks Everyone
VICE News reporter Elle Reeve investigates China's rollout of facial recognition and mass surveillance technology and what it means for citizens.
The Visual Microphone: Passive Recovery of Sound from Video
MIT researchers show that sound can be recovered from silent video by analyzing tiny vibrations in objects such as a potato chip bag.
Andrej Karpathy (Tesla): CVPR 2021 (see description for better quality version)
Andrej Karpathy's CVPR 2021 presentation on Tesla's Autopilot, covering its vision-based approach, sensor choices and the scale of Tesla's deep learning compute cluster.
Speech Recognition Breakthrough for the Spoken, Translated Word
Microsoft Research's Rick Rashid demonstrates a speech recognition and translation system, built on deep neural networks, that turns his spoken English into Chinese speech in 2012.
VimSpeak Demo
Ashley Feniello demonstrates VimSpeak, a voice-controlled interface for Vim inspired by Tavis Rudd's voice programming talk.
Imaging at a trillion frames per second | Ramesh Raskar
Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a technique that captures a trillion frames per second, fast enough to show light itself moving through a scene.
[60 fps] A Trip Through Paris, France in late 1890s / Un voyage à travers Paris, 1890
Denis Shiryaev's neural-network-upscaled, colorized 60 fps version of film footage shot in Paris between 1896 and 1900.
Movie reconstruction from human brain activity
Jack Gallant's lab demonstrates reconstructing movie trailer clips a subject watched from fMRI brain activity, using regression models trained on hours of viewing data.
CVPR 2018: Learning to See in the Dark
A short video accompanying the CVPR 2018 paper Learning to See in the Dark.
Reveal Invisible Motion With This Clever Video Trick
Steve Mould explains motion amplification and video magnification, techniques that find tiny changes in video invisible to the eye and exaggerate them.
Tesla Autopilot Crashes into Motorcycle Riders - Why?
FortNine looks at why Tesla Autopilot has rear-ended motorcyclists, speculating that the vision system misreads motorcycle taillights as a distant car.
Enemy of the state - Freeze,Rotate,Zoom,Focus,Enhance!
A one-minute scene from the film Enemy of the State showing absurdly implausible image enhancement, with freezing, rotating, zooming and focusing on a video.
Janken (rock-paper-scissors) Robot with 100% winning rate
A University of Tokyo demo of a rock-paper-scissors robot that always wins, using high-speed vision to read the human hand and respond faster than people can perceive.
Why I Don't Watch CSI
A one-minute clip from a CSI episode featuring the trope of zooming and enhancing low-resolution images.
Can GPT-4 translate literature?
Tom Gally, a former professional translator and University of Tokyo professor, discusses in March 2023 whether GPT-4 and similar models could translate literary and popular fiction.
What do translators think about GPT?
Tom Gally, a former professional translator and University of Tokyo professor, discusses in April 2023 how GPT-4 and similar models may affect translators' careers.
ATTOL: Autonomous Taxiing, Take-Off and Landing test flight
Short Airbus footage of its ATTOL project, in which a test aircraft performed a fully automatic, vision-based take-off at Toulouse-Blagnac.
Virtuo Vivo™ live scanning at IDS 2019
A short live demo of Dental Wings' Virtuo Vivo intraoral scanner at IDS 2019.
Silicon Valley: Not Hotdog (Season 4 Episode 4 Clip) | HBO
An HBO clip from Silicon Valley season 4 in which the 'Not Hotdog' app is demoed.
Fake Obama created using AI video tool - BBC News
A BBC News segment on University of Washington research that synthesized a photorealistic Obama video, modeling mouth movement so any audio can be put in his mouth.
Google Duplex: A.I. Assistant Calls Local Businesses To Make Appointments
A short clip of the Google I/O 2018 demo in which Google Assistant's Duplex phones a salon and a restaurant to make appointments.
Human brain mapping and brain decoding. | Jack Gallant | TEDxSanFrancisco
Berkeley neuroscientist Jack Gallant shows how fMRI brain mapping can be used to decode what a person sees, with visualizations of brain activity and its implications.
Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested - Perl Scripting
A 2007 video of someone trying to write Perl code using Windows Vista's speech recognition, with hilariously bad results.
Let's Enhance HD
A two-minute supercut of film and TV characters ordering a computer to 'enhance' a blurry image into a perfectly sharp one.