About this Event
Reconstructing Unreality
Content
The way our brain constructs a conscious sense of vision is highly complex,
and not necessarily a direct depiction of the external world. In other words, everything we see in our thoughts is a reconstruction. Our vision system resolves the fundamental problem of reconstructing a three- dimensional world from two-dimensional retinal images by combining information received from the two eyes. As we increasingly rely on machines to read and make sense of our world, the role of neural networks in reconstructing our environments becomes significant.
This experimental workshop is designed to explore the creative potentials of neural networks for depth estimation and/or volume rendering. Participants will learn how to train a 3D ML model using custom 2D data. We will work with either a monocular depth estimation model, or alternatively a volumetric rendering model (Gaussian splatting), to generate depth and volume spaces to be explored inside a game engine (Unity). We will further explore these through different visual, real-time immersive and sonic representations.
George Adamopoulos (Uncharted Limbo Collective) et James Wilkie
Jessica is an architect, designer, creative coder + educator. She is a Lecturer at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, where she is also a PhD candidate. Her research work explores the role of programming and machine learning in architectural representation. Notions of code, data and drawing for the exploration of immaterial and spatial relationships are at the core of her work.
Lunch is included in the price of the workshop. A vegetarian buffet awaits you!
Participants will need:
required:
- Laptop (beefier the better :)
- access to a Google account to run 3DGS (3D Gaussian Splatting) training Colab notebooks
Software to be pre-installed prior to workshop (versions TBC):
- Unity
- MaxMSP
optional:
- custom image datasets for creating 3DGS (image parameters TBC prior to workshop)
(More details to be confirmed)
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
TRAKK hub créatif namurois, 16 Avenue Reine Astrid, Namur, Belgium
EUR 90.00
