**”I think I saw it somewhere…” A virtual human that appeared in Samsung Electronics’ Seocho office building**
*Samsung Research introduces virtual humans… Technology exhibitions such as SSDC based on the voice recognition platform ‘Bixby’ and ‘Bixby Home Studio’*
“Today is my birthday. Sing me a congratulatory song.”
A happy birthday song flows from one side of the ‘Samsung Software Developers Conference (SSDC) 2022′ exhibition hall. The person standing in front of the virtual human is Seung Hyun-joon, president of Samsung Research. Despite the awkward Korean language request, the digital woman in the screen starts singing. She answers without hesitation even if I ask this and that. President Seung is not good at Korean because he has lived in the United States for a long time.
On the 15th, Samsung Electronics’ Mobile Experience (MX) Division, Video Display Division, Medical Device Division, and Samsung Research set up a technology exhibition booth at the SSDC event site in Samsung Electronics’ Seocho building.
After the keynote speech, President Seung looked around the technology exhibition hall. The face of a digital woman that Samsung Research introduced on this day was modeled after a female researcher working at Samsung Research. It recognizes and responds to voices through Samsung’s artificial intelligence (AI) voice recognition platform ‘Bixby’. It shows a natural expression like a real person.
“The virtual human being developed by Samsung Research can be used in various ways such as kiosks and smart TV platforms.” That’s what the organizers of the event said.
Samsung Electronics plans to introduce a virtual human service to its products first rather than a virtual influencer business such as LG Electronics’ virtual human ‘Kim Rae-ah’. If Bixby is given a human appearance, natural communication between humans and AI can be possible.
In addition to virtual humans, â?³Samsung Research’s web translation service ‘SR Translate’, â?³’Bixby Home Studio’ that can implement an integrated voice command system, and â?³’SmartThings Map View’ were introduced at the event.
Developers can operate the TV, air conditioner, and lighting all at once through Bixby Home Studio. On that day, when a Samsung Electronics employee asked, “Turn on the TV,” the blinds installed on the windows came down and the lights dimmed. Through the voice recognition platform, it is possible to control the surrounding environment beyond operating one device.
On this day, a number of startups founded through Samsung Electronics’ C-Lab spin-off system also participated in the exhibition. Startup Tooning introduced a webtoon content production platform and AI character creation service technology. In the case of a webtoon content creation platform, AI technology can easily turn a photo into a picture.
It is possible to produce natural poses with modularized characters. The company explains that non-webtoon writers can easily create webtoons. We also provide character creation services tailored to the company. It is also possible to produce various emotions of the character with the AI â??â??function.
At the event, to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Tizen operating system (OS) released in 2012, products equipped with the Tizen OS were also displayed. Samsung Electronics unveiled ‘Tizen 7.0’ in October.
On this day, Samsung Electronics emphasized the importance of software since 2014 and conducted SSDC offline after 3 years. â??We are trying to provide a differentiated experience by integrating and connecting all products and services with AI technology,â? said Han Jong-hee, vice chairman and CEO of Samsung Electronics, in his opening address.
On the second day, the 16th, a total of 22 presentations will be held, starting with ‘Applying Tizen to Android’ by Seongmin Lee, a platform team at Samsung Research.
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