Welcome to Synthesia AI Research
Synthesia is the world's leader in synthetic media since 2017. We solve fundamental AI problems and build awesome products around them. See more below.
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About our AI research
A paradigm shift is coming in content creation. In the not-too-distant future synthetic media will replace the need for physical cameras and complex video editing tasks. Everyone will be able to create high quality video with simple and intuitive interfaces through generative AI techniques. The creative possibilities will be endless!
At Synthesia, our world-class team of researchers and engineers are working to make this possible. Today we are pioneering new techniques to create photo-realistic synthetic actors. Tomorrow, we will create synthetic scenes and put the actor in context. In the future you will be able to create everything you see on the big screen with just a laptop and a bit of imagination.
At Synthesia, our world-class team of researchers and engineers are working to make this possible. Today we are pioneering new techniques to create photo-realistic synthetic actors. Tomorrow, we will create synthetic scenes and put the actor in context. In the future you will be able to create everything you see on the big screen with just a laptop and a bit of imagination.
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Our mission is to make video creation easy. We generate lifelike synthetic humans and create a performance directly from a script, a process we call text-to-video (TTV).
What makes this hard? We need to match the quality you see in conventional video. The challenge is that we are all accustomed to the subtle nuances of how a person should look, act and sound in a video. Everything that makes a person look real. Any approximation ruins the illusion and you hit the "uncanny valley."
At Synthesia, we solve this through neural video synthesis. We train neural networks to reproduce the photorealistic look and movements you see in existing videos. We have traversed the uncanny valley and we create synthetic humans that look real.
What makes this hard? We need to match the quality you see in conventional video. The challenge is that we are all accustomed to the subtle nuances of how a person should look, act and sound in a video. Everything that makes a person look real. Any approximation ruins the illusion and you hit the "uncanny valley."
At Synthesia, we solve this through neural video synthesis. We train neural networks to reproduce the photorealistic look and movements you see in existing videos. We have traversed the uncanny valley and we create synthetic humans that look real.
Scenes
We create learned 2D and 3D neural representations of shape appearance and motion for controllable video synthesis of people.
Efficiency
We create efficient representations that can be quickly trained and deployed as a fast runtime for video synthesis.
Generalization
We aim to provide complete freedom to create new content while minimizing the time required to record training data.
Speech
We create facial expressions that match verbal cues for speech to create a physically plausible representation in any language.
Dynamics
We generate nonverbal cues and body language to create an emotional, expressive, and engaging performance in the video.
Our Research challenges
Our goal is high-fidelity, photorealistic and controllable neural video synthesis. We are replacing physical cameras with generative synthesis. We conduct foundational research with our co-founders Prof. Matthias Niessner (TUM) and Prof. Lourdes Agapito (UCL) to develop 3D neural rendering techniques that synthesize realistic video.
Here's some of the problems we tackle today →
Here's some of the problems we tackle today →
Synthesia AI Research leadership
Our ethics standards
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People first. Always.
As a pioneer in synthetic media, we are aware of the responsibility we have. It is clear to us that artificial intelligence cannot be built with ethics as an afterthought. They need to be front and center, an integral part of the company - reflected in both company policy, in the technology we are building, and in our commitment to security. This is also the reason why we are an active member of the Content Authenticity Initiative, which was started by Adobe in 2019.
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All AI video content goes through our content moderation process before being released to our clients. Read more about our content moderation framework and see our content moderation course.
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We will never re-enact someone without their explicit consent. This includes politicians or celebrities for satirical purposes. As an example, our NGO campaign with Malaria Must Die and David Beckham won the CogX Outstanding Achievement in Social Good Use Of AI Award in 2019.
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We actively work with media organisations, governments and research institutions to develop best practices and educate on video synthesis technologies.
Want to join our AI Research team?
We're constantly on the lookout for outstanding AI researchers. See our current openings below.
