Co-arranged with the WARA Media and Language conference on the synthesis of human communication.
The summer school covers the building blocks such as generative language models, invertible neural networks, and speech synthesis. Students work in groups, in parallel to the lectures, to design their own prototype avatars.
In the industry workshop, the focus is identifying practical use-cases for the new technology and sharing experiences from on-going industrial applications.
The week is warped up by presentations of the assignments in the 3D dome at the Visualization Center.
Invitation and registration has been sent out to Class 2021, AI Batch 2 and AS Batch 3.
Last day to register is June 10th.
Schedule
Monday, August 22: “Gestures and body language”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Johanna Björklund and Ivana von Proschwitz – Welcome & practical information
13:30 Guy Gadney (Charisma AI) – Non-linear storytelling
14:30 Break
15:00 Gustav Eje Henter (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) – Probabilistic motion animation with normalising flows
16:00 Nithesh Chandher Karthikeyan (Umeå University) – Technical presentation of the assignment
17:00 Break
18:00 Welcome mingle in the Visualization Center together with students from the WASP community-building summer school
Tuesday, August 23: “Speech and voice”
09:00 Gustav Eje Henter – A text-to-speech try-out tutorial
10:30 Break
11:00 Jens Edlund (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) – In-depth discussion of some core speech synthesis concepts
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Taras Kucherenko (Electronic Arts) – Generation of body animations
14:00 Taras Kucherenko (Electronic Arts) – Tutorial on gesture generation
17:00 End-of-business
Wednesday, August 24: “Language and meaning”
9:00 Michael Noukhovitch (Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) – Language, Meaning, and AI”
10:00 Magnus Sahlgren (AI Sweden) – The GPT-SW3 language model
10:30 Break
11:00 Michael Noukhovitch – Hands on workshop
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Work on the assignment in teams
14:00 Excursion
17:00 Break
18:00 Dinner and tutorial on research utilisation hosted by Navigare Ventures
Thursday, August 25: “Context and bias”
09:00 Work on the assignment in teams
10:00 Dhanya Sridhar (Mila – Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute) – Causal Inference with Text Data
10:45 Break
11:00 Alessandro Sestini (Electronic Arts) – Reinforcement learning agents for Game Testing
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Work on the assignment in teams
15:00 Henrik Björklund (Umeå University) – Bias management
16:00 Networking with industry participants
17:00 End-of-business
18:00 Joint conference dinner together with students from the WASP community-building summer school
Friday, August 26: “Demo Day”
09:00 Demo of the assignment in the Visualization Dome
12:00 Lunch
13:00 End-of-summer-school