Google – Artificial Intelligence free courses
/ A.I.

1. Introduction to Large Language Models: Learn about the use cases and how to enhance the performance of large language models.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/539

 

2. Introduction to Generative AI: Discover the differences between Generative AI and traditional machine learning methods.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/536

 

3. Generative AI Fundamentals: Earn a skill badge by demonstrating your understanding of foundational concepts in Generative AI.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/paths

 

4. Introduction to Responsible AI: Learn about the importance of Responsible AI and how Google implements it in its products.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/554

 

5. Encoder-Decoder Architecture: Learn about the encoder-decoder architecture, a critical component of machine learning for sequence-to-sequence tasks.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/543

 

6. Introduction to Image Generation: Discover diffusion models, a promising family of machine learning models in the image generation space.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/541

 

7. Transformer Models and BERT Model: Get a comprehensive introduction to the Transformer architecture and the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from the Transformers (BERT) model.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/538

 

8. Attention Mechanism: Learn about the attention mechanism, which allows neural networks to focus on specific parts of an input sequence.
https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/course_templates/537

DiffusionLight: HDRI Light Probes for Free by Painting a Chrome Ball
/ lighting, photography, production

https://diffusionlight.github.io/

 

 

https://github.com/DiffusionLight/DiffusionLight

 

https://github.com/DiffusionLight/DiffusionLight?tab=MIT-1-ov-file#readme

 

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/15pC4qb9mEtRYsW3utXkk-jnaeVxUy-0S

 

“a simple yet effective technique to estimate lighting in a single input image. Current techniques rely heavily on HDR panorama datasets to train neural networks to regress an input with limited field-of-view to a full environment map. However, these approaches often struggle with real-world, uncontrolled settings due to the limited diversity and size of their datasets. To address this problem, we leverage diffusion models trained on billions of standard images to render a chrome ball into the input image. Despite its simplicity, this task remains challenging: the diffusion models often insert incorrect or inconsistent objects and cannot readily generate images in HDR format. Our research uncovers a surprising relationship between the appearance of chrome balls and the initial diffusion noise map, which we utilize to consistently generate high-quality chrome balls. We further fine-tune an LDR difusion model (Stable Diffusion XL) with LoRA, enabling it to perform exposure bracketing for HDR light estimation. Our method produces convincing light estimates across diverse settings and demonstrates superior generalization to in-the-wild scenarios.”

 

Magic Lantern – a free software add-on to boost Canon’s features
/ hardware, photography

https://www.magiclantern.fm/

 

https://builds.magiclantern.fm/

 

Supported cameras:
5D Mark II, 5D Mark III, 6D, 7D, 50D, 60D, 500D/T1i, 550D/T2i, 600D/T3i, 650D/T4i, 700D/T5i, 1100D/T3, EOS M.

 

Example features:

  • Zebras for under/over exposed areas.
  • Focus peaking for quickly checking focus.
  • Magic Zoom window to fine-tune focus.
  • Cropmark overlays for 16×9 bars or any custom shape.
  • Overlay a ghost image in live view.
  • Spotmeter in live view.
  • False color for precise exposure control.
  • RGB histogram with RAW support.
  • Waveform for perfect green screen lighting.
  • Vectorscope for color tones.
  • Kelvin and push-button white balance.
  • Auto ETTR (Expose To The Right).
  • Exposure Lock for manual mode.
  • Manually override exposure settings in LiveView.
  • Quickly switch between two exposure presets.
  • Toggle exposure simulation on/off (Liveview).
  • Dynamic range improvements (Dual ISO, other features being researched).
  • Bracketing for exposure, flash, or depth-of-field.
  • In-camera intervalometer.
  • Custom bulb timer for extra-long exposures.
  • Motion detection.
  • Silent pictures without shutter actuation.
  • Record voice tags for photos / videos.
  • Analog / digital gain adjustments.
  • Selectable input source.
  • Toggle wind filter.
  • Live audio monitoring through with headphones.
  • Beep / test tones.

 

 

HuggingFave ai-comic-factory – a FREE AI Comic Book Creator
/ A.I., composition, production, software

https://huggingface.co/spaces/jbilcke-hf/ai-comic-factory

 

 

this is the epic story of a group of talented digital artists trying to overcame daily technical challenges to achieve incredibly photorealistic projects of monsters and aliens

 

 

Infinigen – a free procedural generator of 3D scenes
/ A.I., blender, production, software

https://infinigen.org/

 

https://github.com/princeton-vl/infinigen

 

Infinigen is based on Blender and is free and open-source (BSD 3-Clause License). Infinigen is being actively developed to expand its capabilities and coverage.

 

10 FREE AI Tools
/ A.I., software
Blockade Labs – Sketch-a-skybox free 360° image generator
/ A.I., production, software

Skybox AI is a free 360° image generator. Use the power of AI to imagine stunning worlds in seconds and fine tune them for use in immersive VR, XR, or games.

 

https://skybox.blockadelabs.com/

 

 

freecodecamp.org – Python Automation Scripts
/ python, software

https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/python-automation-scripts/

 

  • Automate Python Proofreading
  • Automate Playing Random Music
  • Automatic PDF to CSV Converter
  • Automatic Photo Compressor
  • Automatic YouTube Video Downloader
  • Automatic Text to Speech
  • Automatically Convert Images to PDF
  • Automatic Plagiarism Checker
  • Make URLs Shorter
  • Internet Speed Tester
3D Stereoscopic Photography – SPM/DMAG Free automatic depth map from stereo photos generation
/ photography, software

http://3dstereophoto.blogspot.com/p/software.html

 

http://3dstereophoto.blogspot.com/2015/06/depth-map-automatic-generator-7-dmag7.html

 

Automatic depth map generation, stereo matching, multi-view stereo, Structure from Motion (SfM), photogrammetry, 2d to 3d conversion, etc.

 

Software to
– create depth maps from stereo pairs (stereo matching),
– generate intermediate synthetic views (lenticular),
– create depth maps from multiple views (multi-view stereo matching),
– create dense 3D reconstruction (point cloud) from multiple views (structure from motion and multi-view stereo),
– perform 2D to 3D image conversion (stereo conversion),
– perform edge-preserving smoothing,
– rectify/align stereo pairs