"At present, the company's staff size has reached 30 people, and the project in cooperation with Huya Live has been basically completed. According to the news there, our smart portrait beautification model will be officially launched today."
In the company president's office, Xu Yun listened to Meng Songyan report on the company's recent status after meeting with the new employees.
The intelligent portrait beautification model independently developed by the image restoration tool has applied for a technology patent and was officially authorized to Huya Live.
Used for real-time beautification of portraits of anchors in order to pursue better live broadcast effects.
Because this function is officially launched today, Deepin Technology, as a technical supporter, must be prepared.
Guaranteed no problems on first run.
In this case, it becomes necessary to go to work normally during the National Day.
But fortunately, this is a special situation. According to the company's benefits, in addition to enjoying several times the salary, you can also use your vacation as compensation in the future.
Not that anyone complained.
On the contrary, the fighting spirit is still surprisingly high, and I dare not relax at all.
Xu Yun knew all these situations and was assured that Meng Songyan was doing things well. After hearing this, he didn't ask too many questions. Instead, he was more interested in the new project mentioned by Meng Songyan in the news.
"By the way, Manager Meng, what's the status of the new project you mentioned on the phone earlier?"
Hearing Xu Yun mention this, Meng Songyan put on a smile on his face and hurriedly took out a document and handed it over and explained: "The city wants to upgrade the software of the city's surveillance system, and our company relies on the technology of image restoration. We successfully got this project, although the project funding is less than 5 million, but if it succeeds, it will have a great impact on the company."
Xu Yun took the document and looked at it carefully, and was surprised that Meng Songyan could get the project in the city.
The surveillance system is indeed the scene where image restoration technology is used, which can optimize and repair the images captured by surveillance.
It is of great help to the detection rate of the public security system and urban security.
If the application effect in key practical scenarios is outstanding, it may be adopted by major cities across the country.
By then, the popularity of Deepin Technology will also rise rapidly.
It can be seen that Meng Songyan must have worked hard during this period of time to get this project.
Xu Yun is studying at Beijing University and plans to settle here to take his mother over in the future. He definitely hopes that the safety of this city can be improved.
So he supports this project.
However, in order to meet the upgrade needs of the city surveillance system, the portrait restoration algorithm of the existing image restoration tool alone is not enough, and the optimization of other types of images must be added.
Anyway, the relevant algorithm technology is in his mind, and it is not difficult to update the company's image restoration technology.
Moreover, the company currently has more than ten technical personnel, who are fully capable of taking charge of the algorithm framework.
He just needs to upgrade the core part.
After thinking about this clearly, he closed the file and put it on the desktop, nodded and spoke to Meng Songyan in a deep voice.
“Improving urban safety through our algorithmic technology is what our company should be doing.”
"How about this."
"In the next period of time, I will take the time to upgrade the algorithm and add repair intelligence to other image categories."
“Making sure the project goes smoothly.”
When Meng Songyan heard this, his face was filled with surprise.
"Mr. Xu."
"You mean our image restoration technology has been upgraded with new features?"
Not caring about his own gaffe, he immediately stood up and asked.
In fact, he was not absolutely sure when he talked about this project. After all, the algorithm developed by Xu Yun was mainly for portraits. If it is applied to complex scenarios such as urban surveillance, the effect may be somewhat compromised, but there is no way around it. .
How can algorithm technology be upgraded so easily?
Fortunately, the city gave Deepin Technology this opportunity.
Now that I learned from Xu Yun that the algorithm has been upgraded, how could I not be excited and happy.
"With the cooperation of the company's technical staff, it shouldn't take too long."
Xu Yun nodded and confirmed to Meng Songyan again.
"That's great. I'll make arrangements later for them to fully cooperate. With the newly upgraded technical algorithm, it will be easier to connect with the city's surveillance system."
After Meng Songyan finished speaking, he couldn't stay any longer, so he turned around and left outside to make arrangements.
After watching Meng Songyan's back disappear from sight, Xu Yun turned his attention to the computer screen on his desk.
Then I opened Huya Live, intending to see the actual effects of those anchors using the model.
“Thank you to my roommates for being my son’s two rockets.”
"Want to order a song?"
…
Xu Yun casually opened a live broadcast room in the entertainment section and immediately heard the host's voice thanking him for the gift.
Looking up, the female anchor seems to be wearing only light makeup. Although the skin on her face is fair, it gives people a very real feeling, and even the pores on her face can be vaguely seen.
And there is no spatial distortion that has been criticized.
And this is the true beauty that the deep-tech portrait beautification algorithm model focuses on.
The main thing that the anchor can bring to the audience is companionship. In the past, the beauty camera software used was like two people compared to the original appearance.
In addition, the face shape is almost carved from the same mold, which greatly distorts the audience's aesthetics.
Now that the audience has finally had something good to eat, they will naturally no longer be interested in the kind of beauty they used to have.
Speaking of which, Xu Yun had never watched a live broadcast, and he accidentally caught a glimpse of Qian Yudong opening it in the dormitory. The skin and facial features that had become pale after beauty treatment looked very uncomfortable.
I really don’t know how Qian Yudong continues to watch.
At this time, Xu Yun moved his eyes to look at the barrage next to him, and suddenly a large amount of information flashed quickly.
"The anchor seems more beautiful if he doesn't turn on the beauty function. Is it my imagination?"
"This will be the live broadcast from now on."
"It seems that Huya has launched a new beautification function, and it looks pretty good now."
"Of course the effect is good. I used the portrait beautification model of the image restoration tool."
"I also like to use image restoration tools to retouch pictures, which can properly remove defects while still maintaining a sense of reality."
"It will be easy to tell how good the Huya anchor will be in the future."
…
For the audience, using this optimization model, the anchor can easily see the anchor's true appearance, and at least they will no longer worry about being deceived by some old aunties.
This can also have the effect of expelling bad coins with good coins, and truly make Huya beauties like a cloud.
And those anchors who refuse to use this model may gradually lose their popularity.
After all, the most indispensable thing in the country is beautiful girls.
Xu Yun briefly read the reviews, determined that this was a win-win cooperation, and quickly lost interest.
Focus on upgrading technical algorithms.
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Huya has spent so much money to purchase the technical algorithm support of this portrait beautification model from Deepin Technology. It will definitely use various resources to promote the function on the day it is launched, in order to achieve maximum popularity and strive for its own interests.
With the popularity of image restoration tools and gimmicks such as major changes in the industry, Huya quickly occupied the top of the search list on major websites.
Arouse heated discussions among users.
Although Huya is not the only live streaming platform on the market, public opinion is mixed.
However, a large number of live broadcast users flocked to Huya.
As the saying goes, it is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality. When they see extremely real and beautiful anchors appearing in the live broadcast room, it is not so easy to go back and look at those anchors with seriously homogeneous faces.
I'm afraid no one thought that Huya would bring such a big change to the industry just by buying a portrait beautification model. For this reason, other platforms had to hold an emergency meeting.
Discuss ways to deal with the current situation.
Jiangcheng.
Longhu Development Zone Software Park.
In the Douyu headquarters building, Zhang Zhaojie looked at the technical manager Tao Zerong and the head of the marketing department with a gloomy face in the president's office.
Previously, he stopped Tao Zerong's purchase of models because Deepin Technology's asking price was too high.
Later, when he saw that the image restoration tool was reported by an online TV station, he originally wanted to send someone to discuss it with Deepin Technology to see if he could use the heat to build hype for the platform.
Unexpectedly, Huya got there first and successfully reached a cooperation.
When he first received the news, although he was a little surprised, he was not too worried.
But I never thought that after Huya launched this smart portrait beautification model, it would stir up such a big disturbance in the industry market.
This made it impossible for him not to pay attention to it.
As the president of the company, he knew that regret was useless, so he gave the order immediately after careful consideration.
"First of all, we will immediately launch our own beauty function, increase the benefits of anchors, and also sign up anchors from Huya."
"Deepin Technology is a small company after all. Even if they have some achievements in the field of image algorithms, their popularity will not last long. Sooner or later, the industry will return to the previous rules. As prosperous as Huya is now, it will fail miserably by then. "
Since what happened last time, Tao Zerong will no longer raise different opinions on Zhang Zhaojie's words.
Just follow the instructions.
However, the person in charge of the marketing department next to him couldn't help but said: "I'm afraid our company's funds will be a little tight if we do this."
"Just do as I say, we don't have much choice now."
"I understand Mr. Zhang."
At this point, the person in charge had no choice but to nod in response, and then turned around and exited the office together with Tao Zerong.
Xu Yun didn't care about the situation in the live broadcast industry. He returned to his dormitory from the company in the afternoon and found that Qian Yudong was finally willing to show up in the dormitory, sitting on a chair and eating snacks while watching the live broadcast.
Faced with a situation so different from the previous few days, Xu Yun put the things he brought into the cabinet and couldn't help but ask.
"You won't participate in club activities today?"
"Bullshit club activities, I have been working as a volunteer outside for a few days and I am almost dehydrated." Qian Yudong didn't know what he had gone through. When he mentioned this, he felt very resentful: "There is nothing wrong with being single. , It’s so comfortable to watch live broadcasts in the dormitory during the holidays. After Huya released this new smart model, I found many natural and beautiful female anchors.”
After Xu Yun heard Qian Yudong's answer, he couldn't laugh or cry. He didn't expect that a holiday would make him see through the world of mortals.
Shaking his head, he pulled out the chair and sat down, turning on the computer and preparing to make a new plan for the next time.
Thanks to Lost Virginity for the 500-point reward, and thanks to 304585763 for the 100-point reward!
(End of chapter)
