Episode 265 - Koki Nagano - Principal Scientist, Pinscreen

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Digital humans are playing an increasingly important role in our day-to-day lives. CG replicas of people dominate entertainment, from epic movies such as</span> <em><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Irishman</span></em> <span style="font-weight: 400;">to simple YouTube videos. Interacting with AI assistants has become second nature. And social media and news headlines are dominated by the issues surrounding deepfakes.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Joining Chris for this week’s podcast is Koki Nagano, who has become an expert in virtual doppelgangers via his research on digital humans at USC and his work at Pinscreen, a company that uses AI to supercharge the creation of 3D personal avatars from a single photo. Koki gets under the skin (literally) of what it takes to create a detailed digital human and talks about how he’s approached the uncanny valley from both sides. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Listen to find out some incredible facts about your face — and how combining old and new technology could result in the most accurate digital humans to date.</span></p>