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This is a different excerpt from the same sequence as previously posted. This time the audio corresponding to each pair is included. I m going to experiment with the filtering process so that there are more lower intensity (range of flow in a pair) pairs included in the training set in order to increase smoothness. Right ... Read more The post Bayhem with Audio first appeared on Ben Bogart -…
I created a new training set using three of the Transformers films directed by Michael Bay. This choice was made due to aspect ratio considerations. Some of these films include cuts between scenes with radically different aspect ratios (formats). In some cases, where there were few tall scenes, I just cropped them to 2.4:1 to ... Read more The post Bayhem: First Multi-Source SOM first appeared on…
PDF Copy Zine contribution written for the Queering AI project lead by Jacklyn Girgis. The post The Margins of Realism The Realism of Margins first appeared on Ben Bogart - Process .
I realized after publishing that last post that I could resolve the issue with repetition issue with the SOM results simply by removed redundant pairs. The results shift the SOM method past the sorting method with more flow / cohesion as well as just as much intensity. Slightly to my surprise, the version with redundant ... Read more The post Bayhem: Filtering SOM Sequence & Over-Training of…
Following from the previous post, I ve done a little analysis on the first model and also made a video excerpt. As I mentioned, the previous image (shown again below) is the raw weights, but since we re using this to organize pairs of frames, what matters more is the arrangement frame flows according to the model. ... Read more The post Bayhem: First SOM Composition first appeared on Ben Bogart -…
After some reflection of the results sorting the whole sequence, as previously posted, I realized that part of what makes the end part of the composition work is the intensity of movement; i.e. there is a large range of values in the flow (amount of movement). I made a few explorations filtering the flows keeping ... Read more The post Bayhem: Reflection and First SOM Composition first appeared on…
Following the previous post, I ran the optical flow and sorting methods on the entire film, using the first frames as the reference pair. Due the number of pairs, images of the feature vectors are too large for an image to be very readable (103343 x 1920px), so I won t bother posting that. As I m ... Read more The post Bayhem: Optical Flow on Whole Sequence first appeared on Ben Bogart - Process .
Due to the way that optical flow is represented (one channel for x flow, another for y flow for all pixels arranged in a grid) it s hard to make sense of whether it s working and the features have meaning. In order to validate the features before jumping into the machine learning part, I wanted to ... Read more The post Bayhem: First Look at Optical Flow Features first appeared on Ben Bogart -…
One of the new works for the New Media Gallery residency I proposed was something that s been in the back of my mind for years. Michael Bay s transformers movies were my first experience of this idea that cuts in cinema are increasing and scenes getting shorter and shorter. Combine that with Bay s tendency for camera ... Read more The post Bayhem: Scene Change first appeared on Ben Bogart -…
Now that the MoveDayA final prints are complete and installed, I can finalize the ConversationVanessa prints that correspond to the two portrait displays at the gallery. The following images show the corresponding wave, histograms and accumulation. Unfortunately, there is a budget issue. I knew off the bat that the production budget was supposed to stay ... Read more The post ‘Final'(?) Prints…