New AI technology allows you to separate musical instruments in videos

July 10, 2018 Alan Cross 0 Comments 0 min read

If you’re in a band trying to learn a cover, you’ll know the torture of listening to a recording over and over again, trying to isolate the parts you’re supposed to play.

Those days might be coming to an end thanks to some new AI-based technology called PixelPlayer. It works by looking at the video of musicians playing, analyzing the pixels in relation to images of specific instruments and then is able to tease out the parts of individual players.

This video shows how it works.

Cool, no? Read more about the technology at New Atlas.

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