The CMR M-1 claims to be the world’s first AI-powered film digital camera which turns footage into AI imagery whereas filming.
Co-developed by SpecialGuestX and 1stAveMachine, the intriguing gadget harnesses the know-how of AI picture generator Secure Diffusion to movie in inventive filters which might be AI-generated.
The CMR M-1, which stands for Digicam Mark 1, is impressed by the Ciné Kodak — the world’s first 16mm film digital camera — as observers will be capable of inform due to its box-like look paying homage to an early Twentieth-century digital camera.
Little details about the digital camera has been revealed apart from it has a FLIR sensor, which is extra generally present in thermal and infrared imaging gadgets, a Snapdragon CPU, a viewport, and interchangeable lenses. It data video in a quite small decision of 1368×768 at 12 frames per second.
Nevertheless, as soon as the video is shot, it’s despatched to a cloud-computing service to be AI-processed. The CMR-M1 remains to be a prototype and there may be nonetheless latency between recording and AI processing however SpecialGuestX says will probably be in a position to course of in actual time as newer AI video fashions are constructed.
Curiously, the CMR M-1 has a really totally different kind of card slot in it: One that enables the digital camera operator to decide on their AI picture model. There are 5 totally different Model Playing cards every with its personal LoRA (Low-Raking Adaption). Primarily, the playing cards act as inventive filters which could be tuned on the digital camera.
This further step isn’t fully novel as a result of loads of cameras include pre-set inventive filters that remodel JPEGs. However the CMR M-1 takes it a step additional as a result of it’s going to permit creatives to finetune their very own AI filters.
It was not too long ago examined out at a celebration in Cannes the place the “Snowy Phantasm” card was used to show individuals and scenes into unusual icy figures.
“We imagine that film creation is inherently bodily,” Miguel Espada, co-founder and government inventive technologist of SpecialGuestX, tells AdAge.
“Filmmakers are used to utilizing cameras, lenses, tripods, and lighting, and AI must be a brand new device that enhances creativity. Within the spirit of inventive experimentation, we designed a digital camera that serves as a bodily interface to AI fashions.”
The manager inventive director of SpecialGustX, Aaron Duffy, hopes that the prototype digital camera will permit creators to “use AI quite than sitting at a keyboard.”
Picture credit: SpecialGuestX.