Angus Forbes will discuss recent trends in the field of Creative AI and survey applications of machine learning for computer graphics. He’ll also present an overview of Deep Illumination, a technique to approximate global illumination for real-time rendering using a conditional generative adversarial network (cGAN).

Angus Forbes is an assistant professor in the Computational Media department at UC Santa Cruz, where he directs the UCSC Creative Coding research lab.

More information about his work can be found at https://creativecoding.soe.ucsc.edu or http://angusforbes.com.

12-1pm in E2-215