Re: Synthetic Media Community Group

Adam, I'll be interested to see how your interest cloud-based automated 
planning relates to the StratML standard.  As your plan comes together, 
I look forward to rendering it in StratML format for inclusion in our 
collection at https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#W3C

In the meantime, I encourage you to include StratML (ISO 17469-1) in 
your list of related standards.

Based upon the televideo conference that Carl Mattocks arranged today, 
several of us will be using Chris Fox's StratNavApp to collaboratively 
draft a plan addressing knowledge representation for AI. 
https://www.stratnavapp.com/

Chris' app outputs plans and reports in StratML format.

Rendering content in open, schema-compliant, machine-readable format 
will greatly facilitate synthesis.

In the CredWeb CG, I am also arguing that it will support evaluation of 
veracity and reliability.  Why should we pay any particular attention to 
content which ignores applicable standards?

Owen

On 2/25/2020 12:06 AM, Adam Sobieski wrote:
>
> Artificial Intelligence Knowledge Representation Community Group,
>
>
>   Introduction
>
> A new W3C Community Group is launching: the /Synthetic Media Community 
> Group/. I would like to invite you to support the creation of this 
> group and to join this new group: 
> https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#synthetic-media .
>
> Our group is interested in every component of the modern architectures 
> of artificial intelligence with which to generate or synthesize media 
> and interactive media content.
>
> We intend to advance the state of the art with a number of new 
> standards. With new and improved standards, teams and organizations 
> will be better able to explore and develop the interoperable 
> components which comprise these modern architectures of artificial 
> intelligence.
>
> We hope that you can join us in the advancement of artificial 
> intelligence standards and technologies.
>
>
>   Synthetic Media
>
> Synthetic media is any content created or modified algorithmically.
>
> Applications of synthetic media include: education, journalism, and 
> entertainment.
>
>
>   Digital Characters
>
> Our group is interested in digital characters, behavior modeling, and 
> in the numerous other topics of computer animation such as: lighting, 
> cameras, timelines, tracks, and scene graphs.
>
>
>   Dialogue Systems
>
> Our group is interested in the topics of multimodal mixed-initiative 
> dialogue systems including: speech recognition, natural language 
> understanding, natural language generation and speech synthesis.
>
>
>   Modeling and Simulation
>
> Our group is interested in modeling and computer simulation topics.
>
>
>   Computational Narratology, Digital Screenplays and Interactive Narrative
>
> Computer-generated stories, scripts and screenplays can facilitate the 
> complex and interactive behaviors of one or more digital characters 
> including interactions between digital characters and on-screen 
> imagery, presentation slides, videos, 3D graphics, virtual sets and 
> video walls.
>
> Our group is interested in the generation and real-time generation of 
> stories, scripts, screenplays, storyboards and cinematography.
>
>
>   Automated Planning and Scheduling
>
> Automated planning is a traditional approach to generating media 
> content. Our group is interested in cloud-based automated planning and 
> scheduling.
>
>
>   Deep Learning
>
> Deep learning is a recent approach to generating media content. Our 
> group is interested in cloud-based deep learning.
>
>
>   Content Evaluation and Computational Aesthetics
>
> Our group is interested in the automatic evaluation of plans, stories, 
> scripts, screenplays, storyboards, cinematography, visual imagery, 
> audio, dialogues, natural language, explanations, presentations and 
> other media content.
>
> Computational aesthetics and evaluation technologies can be of use in 
> guiding search, when comparing alternatives, when making design 
> decisions, and when training neural systems.
>
>
>   Existing Standards and Technologies
>
> Existing standards and technologies relevant to our group include, but 
> are not limited to: FML, BML, MURML, SSML, SMIL, WebRTC, HTML, RDF, 
> and JavaScript.
>
>
>   Conclusion
>
> Thank you. We hope that you can join us in the advancement of 
> artificial intelligence standards and technologies.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Adam Sobieski
>