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Building better access

Investing in our existing technology to enable automated collection access.

Apr 2
A screenshot of an ACMI website works page with the Access request form presented. The form includes fields for viewing or loading a work.
A screenshot of an ACMI website works page with the Access request form presented. The form includes fields for viewing or loading a work.
Apr 2
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The anecdote machine

We’re always considering new ways of engaging with the ACMI collection, using legible technology, with interfaces that require minimal…

Feb 12
The anecdote machine
The anecdote machine
Feb 12
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Image embeddings and audio captions

This month we released an iteration on two of our collection exploration tools — our video search and works explorer.

Oct 1, 2024
A screenshot of the ACMI works explorer, showing images similar to a sketch of an arcade game cabinet.
A screenshot of the ACMI works explorer, showing images similar to a sketch of an arcade game cabinet.
Oct 1, 2024

The Machines looking back at us

Reflections on the FACT 2024 symposium

Sep 25, 2024
The cover of our presentation The Machines looking back at us featuring a confused yet friendly optimistic humanoid robot who cannot understand your message.
The cover of our presentation The Machines looking back at us featuring a confused yet friendly optimistic humanoid robot who cannot understand your message.
Sep 25, 2024
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Language model explorations with our collection

How we built a natural language collection chat server using LangChain and our Public API.

Jun 27, 2024
Language model explorations with our collection
Language model explorations with our collection
Jun 27, 2024
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Embeddings and our collection

How we built our new Works Explorer using vector embeddings of our collection records.

Oct 27, 2023
Embeddings and our collection
Embeddings and our collection
Oct 27, 2023
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Search inside our videos — Part 2: content discovery

Extending the ACMI video search by looking inside image frame content using VideoMAE, YOLOv8, and BLIP-2.

Aug 4, 2023
Search inside our videos — Part 2: content discovery
Search inside our videos — Part 2: content discovery
Aug 4, 2023
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Search inside our videos — Part 1: dialogue discovery

After the first pass at transcribing our video collection was complete we started prototyping a way to search those transcriptions.

Mar 27, 2023
A screenshot of the results page of the ACMI video search, showing results for the query “solar” including segments of the text that include that query from the video transcription.
A screenshot of the results page of the ACMI video search, showing results for the query “solar” including segments of the text that include that query from the video transcription.
Mar 27, 2023
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Collection video transcriptions at scale with Whisper

The ACMI Labs team has spent the past few weeks prototyping, building, and integrating automated video transcriptions into our museum

Dec 9, 2022
Collection video transcriptions at scale with Whisper
Collection video transcriptions at scale with Whisper
Dec 9, 2022
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ACMI x DALL·E mini

We thought we’d pass the ACMI collection metadata to DALL·E mini and see what images it might generate.…

Jun 27, 2022
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ACMI x DALL·E mini
ACMI x DALL·E mini
Jun 27, 2022
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