The Vasa warship that sank in Stockholm harbor in the 1600s spent 333 years on the sea bed. When the ship was raised, it soon became apparent that a little chemistry would be necessary to save the ...

X-Ray Analysis Of Shipwreck May Help Conservators Save Waterlogged Artifacts Date: March 1, 2002 Source: Stanford University Summary: In 1628, the Swedish warship Vasa sank a mere 4,265 feet ...

Collaborators in Sweden and at Stanford have analyzed the chemistry of wood decay in the Vasa shipwreck using x-ray absorption spectroscopy. It employs high-energy synchrotron beams, produced when ...

On Tuesday, Microsoft Research Asia unveiled VASA-1, an AI model that can create a synchronized animated video of a person talking or singing from a single photo and an existing audio track.In the ...

VASA-1 can combine a single image with one audio clip and turn it into a video of a person talking. ... Currently, the videos generated by this method still contain identifiable artifacts, ...

Urgent work is underway in Stockholm to preserve the 17th-century warship Vasa, one of the world’s most unique and well-preserved artifacts. Buzz60 has the story!

Microsoft says, ‘Our premiere model, VASA-1, is capable of not only producing lip movements that are exquisitely synchronised with the audio, but also capturing a large spectrum of facial ...

The program is called VASA-1, and it can create very realistic videos from just a single image of a face and a vocal soundtrack. Even more impressive is that the software can generate the video ...

Although Nvidia Corp. and Runway AI Inc. have both released similar technology, VASA-1 seems to be able to create much more realistic talking heads, with reduced mouth artifacts.

(Image credit: Microsoft VASA-1) One of the most obvious use cases for this is in advanced lip synching for games. Being able to create AI-driven NPCs with natural lip movement could be a game ...