Mark Hansen and Maneesh Agrawala cordially invite you to the Brown Institute for Media Innovation 2019 Showcase! Join us for a reception and exhibition of our 2018-2019 projects. October 17,
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Text-based Editing of Talking-head Video
Authors O. Fried, A. Tewari, M. Zollhöfer, A. Finkelstein, E. Shechtman, D. B Goldman, K. Genova, Z. Jin, C. Theobalt and M. Agrawala Image: We propose a novel text-based editing
Puppet Dubbing
Given an audio file and a puppet video, we produce a dubbed result in which the puppet is saying the new audio phrase with proper mouth articulation. Specifically, each syllable
Information Maximizing Visual Question Generation
Example questions generated for a set of images and answer categories. Incorrect questions are shown in grey and occur when no relevant question van be generated for a given image
Announcing our 2019-20 Magic Grants!
The Brown Institute for Media Innovation, a collaboration between Columbia Journalism School and Stanford University’s School of Engineering, is pleased to announce its 2019-20 Magic Grant recipients. Each year, the
Brown Institute Welcomes Technology Journalist Kara Swisher
On May 2, Brown welcomed technology journalist Kara Swisher, co-founder of Recode and a contributing writer to The New York Times Opinion Section. She previously wrote for The Washington Post and The Wall Street
Nicholas Diakopoulos @ Stanford: “Automating the News: How Algorithms are Rewriting the News”
From hidden connections in big data to bots spreading fake news, journalism is increasingly computer generated. Nicholas Diakopoulos, an Assistant Professor at Northwestern University’s School of Communication, and an expert
“Follower Factory” by NYT & CJS Comp Journalism Class is Finalist for Pulitzer Prize
On Monday, a package of stories including The Follower Factory — an in-depth investigation of purchased followers on twitter — along with other reporting on how Facebook and the big
Open Source Investigation
This post contains reports from two Columbia Journalism School students who attended Bellingcat’s five day Open Source / Digital Research Training Workshop, hosted by Graphika, Inc. The workshop taught students how