[bsenftner]

Between '02 and '15 I was pioneering Automated Actor Replacement / Deep Fakes, but for streaming entertainment services advertising. I had a working system based on neural nets in key locations of a traditional VFX film pipeline, capable of global scale (125K 30-second video clips per hour, each with a unique person inserted as a key "actor".) Picture yourself in a pizza or car ad.

However, my tech being ready in '08 was in the middle of the global financial crisis. Plus, nobody ever heard of "automated actor replacement" back then, angel and VC investors simply did not believe it was possible. If they did, they wanted to pursue pornography, which I refused.

I went bankrupt. I ended up selling the global patents, which was an incredible achievement acquiring them in the first place. One of my technology providers was a facial recognition company that incorporated 3D reconstruction in their FR suite. So I went to work for them for about 7 years. I quit last spring, I guess a part of the great resignation. Far too many long hours, with no equity participation.

Currently, I enrolled in some graduate Machine Learning classes, and I am formally learning what I've been doing without the training for the last 7 years. I expect to be back in the market around the beginning of the new year, with a freshly minted formal understanding of the ML/DL aspects of the computer vision work I've been doing professionally for nearly a decade now.

[gezelremy]

Is there a good way to contact you? Your account doesnt have an email.