25 Years Later, Hayao Miyazaki Reveals the Truth Behind 'Spirited Away's Most Iconic Character

Hayao Miyazaki discusses the symbolism behind Spirited Away's enigmatic character No-Face, 25 years after the film's release.
Rock Paper Shotgun

Larian will no longer use GenAI for Divinity concept art, and any genAI used for other games will be "trained on data we own"

Larian CEO Swen Vincke has offered an update on the studio plans in terms of the use of generative AI in Divinity's ...

Women and children are being digitally undressed on social media

The social media platform X has been flooded with AI-generated sexualized images of women and children in recent weeks — ...

'Pluribus' Season 2 Needs To Address These 5 Things (or Else)

Pluribus, starring Rhea Seehorn, has finished its first season, and the Apple TV sci-fi show has things it desperately needs ...
GitHub

VNCCS - Visual Novel Character Creation Suite

VNCCS is NOT just another workflow for creating consistent characters, it is a complete pipeline for creating sprites for any purpose. It allows you to create unique characters with a consistent ...
IEEE

Recognition of Handwritten Characters in Birch-Bark Manuscripts via Object Detection

Abstract: The automatic transcription of medieval birch-bark manuscripts remains a bottleneck in Slavic paleography and digital humanities. This study adapts the YOLO-based object detection framework ...
IEEE

A Lightweight Hybrid Network for Object Detection in Remote Sensing Images Balancing Global and Local Information

Abstract: In recent years, hybrid convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer-based object detection technologies have achieved remarkable success. In the field of remote sensing image ...