AI & Nature Week - Image processing and movement for future immersive experiences

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27 April 2023

David Bull and Pui Anantrasirichai, part of Bristol Vision Institute, recently presented on image processing and movement for future immersive experiences during the week-long AI & Nature conference, which ran from Friday 27 February to Thursday 2 March 2023.

On 1 March 2023 MyWorld sponsored a morning of talks and discussion from a team of researchers and creative technologists from the University of Bath and University of Bristol, who specialise in AI-based image processing, motion capture and the use of creative technology to visualise future and past environments.

This event was part of Bristol's AI & Nature week running a series of talks , workshops and seminars. The week brought together people interested in and working at the interface between artificial intelligence (AI) and applications that benefit nature, science, and life.

Further details of both presentations are below.

AI-based image processing on challenging data of nature

Pui Anantrasirichai

Challenging acquisition environments cause poor visibility and exhibit distortions that deteriorate the performance of the tools we normally use for editing and for automation. This talk presented AI-based image processing techniques developed to overcome these problems. Applications examples included acquisition in low-light environments, mitigating the effects of atmospheric turbulence, and the use of satellite imaging to predict natural events.

OurWorld - A Vision for Future Interactive Zoo Experiences

David Bull

Driven by a passion for the natural world and the growing threat to, and importance of, biodiversity, this talk explored ways we might exploit immersive experiences and AI tools to raise awareness of the impact of humans in the world around us. Bristol has a long-established place in the world as the ‘Hollywood’ of natural history film-making. This coupled with our region’s capacity for digital innovation, its leadership in creativity and story-telling and its appetite for radical social change provides a foundation for the creation of new immersive experiences. The OurWorld concept emerged from a desire to regenerate the site of the first provincial zoological garden in the World, based on emerging technologies that enable visitors to travel in time and space and to interact in undreamt of ways with the wildest and most secret aspects of the natural world; to understand for the first time where humankind really sits within the complex web of life on earth.