History has mostly focused on AI beating humans in a game. However, in the games industry it’s usually quite the opposite from that. In this blog we provide a walkthrough of how we designed and implemented the AI system used in Heroic: Magic Duel game.

Many problems in computer graphics are a translation of an input image into a corresponding output image like colorizing black and white image and converting horses to zebras and similar. This article will cover two very interesting approaches based on generative adversarial networks - GANs.

In this paper insight we discuss two recent papers that deal with the following problem: how to animate an image given a target video with motion in a self-supervised manner. This involves unsupervised keypoint detection, segmentation and optical flow estimation along the way.

We trained a Deep RL agent for our 1 v 1 real-time action strategy game, Heroic - Magic Duel, via ensemble self-play with only a simple reward of +-1. The agent obtains over 50% win rate against a top human player and over 60% against the existing AI.

This article covers a hybrid algorithm based on genetic programming and greedy search that can be used to automatically generate behavior trees for an environment

In this post, we introduce some theory of contextual bandits, which have become a popular approach to recommender problems, where there are many possible items to offer and there is frequent interaction with the users, e.g. via click/no-click or purchase/no-purchase events.

MuZero is a new reinforcement learning algorithm that achieves state-of-the-art results in Atari benchmarks, and matches performance of AlphaZero in chess, shogi and go. It does all of this with greater sample efficiency and, consequently, in less training time.

In this post, we will focus on talk held at GDC 20 for a MMORPG game called Justice by NetEase currently published in China. Authors presented an algorithm that can be used to generate an in-game rendered face for a character from a given input image (from real life).

In this post, we give an overview of some of the recent advancements in deep learning-based character animation. In particular, we discuss two papers that provide a way to use neural networks to turn motion capture data into interactive character controllers.

The goal of this article is to give a brief overview on how does goal-oriented AI developed for F.E.A.R. work as it stands among the most interesing AI developed for FPS games even today!