Computer Vision News - September 2022

5 Synthesia with Matthias Nießner and is ready in minutes. That’s saving our customers tens of thousands of dollars, which is a massive amount. ” Last year, the company launched its first commercial product, Synthesia Studio , which runs in the cloud. Customers upload a source video to create their avatar. DSLR quality is preferred, but a modern smartphone will suffice. For now, the videos are primarily headshots, like the kind of video you would see on a Zoom call, but it hopes to add more flexibility in the future. The tool has several professional uses, including internal communications, Matthias speaks to us about Synthesia and the future of synthetic media. Creating video content is an expensive business. Companies can spend vast amounts on actors, film crews, agencies, studios, and post-production and expend significant time and energy. Synthesia intends to change all that and has a big, bold aim. “ We essentially want to replace the camera, ” Matthias tells us. “ Instead of bringing in a camera crew, we use the latest AI tech to create videos. You type in some text and then get a video of yourself as output. It generates it in any language Matthias Nießner