Iain Matthews

Director, Research Science @EpicGames

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

At #Siggraph taking photos of Nvidia sessions trying to win an #nvidiaworkstation please.

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@yisongyue I’m converging towards 100% mystique myself. But, I also have some good @yisongyue stories to share with your lab one day :)

[John van der Burg @JohnnyB_222]

UE 5.1 will ship with a ML Deformer framework to build custom models and a new model we call Neural Morph Model. This allows high quality deformations in real-time. Character below uses ~1 mb of ML memory and takes below 100 microsecs on CPU and 40 micros on GPU. #ue5 #mldeformer

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@fdellaert Does that truck say Wile E. Coyote on the side?

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@sigfpe I like Lagavulin as the next step from Laphroaig.

[Humphrey Shi @humphrey_shi]

Best Demo Award #1:
Speech Driven Tongue Animation, "improve realistic animations & surpass the uncanny valley by enabling data-driven tongue animation" @Grekogecko @DenisTome @carsten_epic @iainmatthews from @CarnegieMellon & @EpicGames
Project’s website: https://t.co/2btqrnRsLp

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@cristiancanton You were one of the folks I saw in the conference center not wearing a mask. That’s your choice (as it was mine to attend) and surely we will all get COVID sooner or later. I’m not not judging your actions. I just don’t think it’s fair to imply CVPR was responsible.

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

Come and try your voice at our speech to tongue live demo at #cvpr2022. Every afternoon at the edge of the Expo hall. Limited @EpicGames swag available for the most creative examples!

[Michael Black @Michael_J_Black]

I get a lot of reviews that say my work is not novel and I bet I'm not alone. It's always frustrating because I see novelty where the reviewer doesn't. Rather than rebut every critique, I've written a blog post to help reviewers think about novelty. https://t.co/UXLabOkYcn

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@_AlecJacobson ``ok’’

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@Michael_J_Black @zacharylipton Totally agree, but I am hoping there is an advanced midlife level still to come where I can stop caring about what I think.

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@fdellaert @withFND Does it have a title? “Unicorn Explosion”?

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@yisongyue Did the entropy of the universe increase? You’ll need a better research paper generating AI model to get a reasonable estimate though. Meeting the goals is too limiting for creative reuse of the data/benchmark. E.g. ImageNet -> VGG -> new loss functions and vision encoders.

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

MetaHuman Creator early access is now open to everyone. Have fun!
https://t.co/nnq1pSGfr3

[Unreal Engine @UnrealEngine]

📣 The MetaHuman Creator Early Access program is now open!

Create your own high-fidelity digital humans in just minutes—plus, download 50 ready-made characters! #UE4 #MetaHumans

Sign up for free:
https://t.co/2HXx5i5KPA

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

This is awesome - and a great demonstration of why we still use LaTeX to write scientific papers and algorithmically manage layout!

[Andrew Fitzgibbon @Awfidius]

This is one of the most fabulous videos I have seen in a while.
Can't wait to try it on one of my own papers.

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

A sneak peak at the virtual humans work going on here @EpicGames. All running in real-time in @UnrealEngine. It’s been a lot of fun bringing these #MetaHumans to life and we’re excited to see what you will create with them!
https://t.co/4EmaIy5smP

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@Peter_shirley Shaun the Sheep nailed it:

https://t.co/gfIivR4tnc

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

Interested in spending a (virtual) summer research internship with us at Epic?
https://t.co/4LO24XFRkA

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

I needed a winter break mini-project to kick my C++ knowledge into something valid this century. @Peter_shirley’s Ray Tracing in One Weekend book was a really fun way to do that! Obligatory graduation render:

[Iain Matthews @iainmatthews]

@yisongyue I think the real Yisong shines through clearly in bite sized nuggets of wisdom, education, and positivity.