Chapter 45: A Mule or a Horse

After having lunch with Ji Qing, Liu Suian returned to the laboratory, sat and waited for 12:25, and took Zhang Boheng's car to the Phantom Eye Company together.

While waiting, Liu Suian was browsing the relevant information of Phantom Eye Company and Color to do his homework in advance, and the QQ group 'We all have a bright future' received the news.

In Liu Suian's undergraduate four-person dormitory group, one of them is invisible every day, while the other three, including Liu Suian, Li Wenchen, and Zhao Ting, team building every weekend and playing various Steam games.

- Zhao Ting: Laughing to death, Pinduoduo came to the United States a few months ago, called temu. A yindu classmate called me and asked me to help him with a knife.

Zhao Ting is currently a graduate student at the University of Berkeley, and according to the winter time in the United States, his current time is more than 7 o'clock in the evening.

- Liu Suian: Hahahaha, this is an excellent example of encouraging external rolling.

Liu Suian replied casually, and suddenly had an idea.

That's right, you can let the smart machine picture scroll be issued abroad and earn money from foreigners, so won't the pattern be opened?

He immediately switched to WeChat and explained his thoughts to Tang Caifang, who had not yet replied to the previous message of Liu Suian's leave.

Soon, Liu Suian received Tang Caifang's message, and the first one was to reply to Liu Suian's request for leave.

β€”β€”Tang Caifang: ...... Well, the body matters. Before about half past three, you have to make sure your phone is connected.

Across the screen, Liu Suian could imagine Tang Caifang's helpless and helpless appearance.

Tang Caifang sent another message, which was in response to the overseas distribution of the Zhiji Picture Scroll.

- Tang Caifang: Of course I have considered this kind of thing, but Mr. Han does not support the expansion of overseas markets.

- Liu Sui'an: Why?

- Tang Caifang: I don't know.

This is strange, with the strength of the intelligent machine scroll, he can definitely make a lot of money overseas, why does Han Fengyin disagree.

Liu Suian really couldn't figure out Han Fengyin's thoughts, so he had to write down this information secretly.

At this time, the QQ group 'We all have a bright future' received another message.

- Li Wenchen: Dude may be going to get off the list recently.

β€”β€”Liu Sui'an: ???

β€”β€”Zhao Ting: ???

Li Wenchen is the most active among the three about falling in love, but his previous relationship experiences have been very bumpy.

The reasons for his breakup are strange, including a woman who greened him, a Shandong woman's family disliked him for not being a civil servant, and another woman who used him as an ATM, and finally found that he couldn't pay for it, and then dumped him.

Li Wenchen couldn't get in touch with the opposite sex because he worked in Xingtu Company, so he settled down for a while.

- Li Wenchen: It's a high school classmate of mine, and I've been chatting more actively recently, and I feel like I'm about to win, waiting for good news from my buddy.

- Zhao Ting: Promise me, don't be a licking dog, okay?

- Li Wenchen: you, I know it in my heart. By the way, there will be no overtime this weekend, what does the game room say.

- Liu Sui'an: If nothing else, I have something to do in Jixin Company.

- Zhao Ting: What about the accident?

- Liu Sui'an: It's not just this weekend, it's okay in this life.

β€”β€”Zhao Ting, Li Wenchen: ......

……

At 12:25, Liu Suian and Ji Qing took Zhang Boheng's little Audi on time, and after more than 20 minutes of driving, they came to the Phantom Eye Company.

Liu Suian got out of the car and looked at the building in front of him.

The whole building is brick-red and looks unremarkable, and compared to the high-tech machine company, it feels like 50 years apart.

The Phantom Eye company here is actually not the headquarters of the Phantom Eye, but a branch of the Phantom Eye that is specially contracted for the Color project, which can be regarded as a secret base.

After all, the privacy of the Color members has to be considered, and if the live broadcast was held at the Phantom Eye headquarters, the Color members would have been squatted by fanatical fans long ago.

Zhang Boheng locked the car door and walked into the building with Liu Suian.

When entering the door, Liu Suian was stopped by the security guard, because Liu Suian was a fresh face and had not signed a confidentiality agreement.

Zhang Boheng called a project leader named Gao Huanzhi on the spot, and after his consent, asked Liu Suian to sign a confidentiality agreement on the spot.

If any internal information about the Color project is disclosed privately, the defaulter will face sky-high compensation, and this confidentiality agreement is not something that can be signed if you want to, and you need to have a valid reason.

The reason for Zhang Boheng's arrangement for Liu Sui'an was to participate in debugging the code.

After signing a confidentiality agreement, Liu Suian was allowed to enter the gate of the Phantom Eye Branch.

Then, Zhang Boheng took Liu Suian and the others to the second floor.

The entire second floor is almost a hall, surrounded by black wallpaper and divided into two sides by a transparent glass in the middle.

According to Ji Qing's introduction, to the left of the entrance of the hall is Color's motion capture room.

The center of the mocap room is empty, surrounded by tables, chairs, and other props such as lighting, and in front of it is a huge monitor.

On the right side of the hall is the work area, where the director team and technicians are located.

The layout of the work area is rather messy, with several computers on the tables in a row, and seven or eight people gathered here, two of them middle-aged people discussing something.

Zhang Boheng led Liu Suian and the others to the crowd and greeted the two middle-aged people led by them.

When Ji Qing had lunch together, he explained to Liu Sui'an in advance that these two people were mainly responsible for this place.

One is Gao Huanzhi, the project leader, who is in charge of Color's motion capture technology, with his hair shaved flat, his speech is fast, and he seems to be doing things vigorously.

It is worth mentioning that Gao Huanzhi and Zhang Boheng are college classmates.

The other is Yan Liangping, the head of the project, who is in charge of other matters related to the development of Color, and he has two obvious folds on both sides of his mouth, which looks more serious.

After Yan Liangping responded to Zhang Boheng, when he saw Liu Suian behind Zhang Boheng, the dissatisfaction in his eyes flashed, and he didn't say anything.

"Let's go sit over there."

Zhang Boheng motioned for Liu Suian and the two to sit on the chairs on the side, and then joined the discussion between Gao Huanzhi and Yan Liangping.

Ji Qing walked over with Liu Suian.

Liu Suian was very interested in the motion capture room, and while following Ji Qing, his eyes looked through the transparent glass in the center and stared at the inside of the motion capture room.

In his mind, he gradually imagined that Chen Meiji was wearing a black motion capture suit in this room to play games, sing and dance.

Yintan in the live broadcast screen, as well as Chen Meiji's appearance in reality, coincide together, regardless of each other.

After sitting down, Liu Suian withdrew his gaze from staring at the motion capture room, pricked up his ears, and listened carefully to what Zhang Boheng was discussing.

Zhang Boheng hadn't heard the discussion clearly, but he first heard the conversation of two technicians not far away.

A man about twenty-six years old with a tin foil perm looked at Liu Sui'an and the others unceremoniously, and his tone was very unhappy.

"Bring unrelated people in, these graduate students are here for a fart. There are more and more people, and even if a confidentiality agreement is signed, the information of the members will be leaked, and it will not be possible to find out who did it. ”

As Ji Qing said, except for Gao Huanzhi, the technical staff here, everyone else doesn't like outsiders such as Zhang Boheng.

Ji Qing, who was beside Liu Suian, obviously also heard the words of the perm man, he was a short-tempered Shandong man, and he immediately opened his eyes angrily and looked at the perm man.

Seeing that Ji Qing was about to have a seizure, Liu Suian pressed his shoulders tightly and motioned for him to calm down.

Ji Qing is recently preparing for the second interview of Phantom Eye Company, and there is a high probability that he and this group will become colleagues in the future.

Liu Suian doesn't care about himself, but he doesn't want Ji Qing to offend some people before he enters the company.

Seeing Ji Qing's fierce eyes, another man in his early thirties wearing a blue-green plaid shirt pulled the sleeve of the permed man.

"Be quiet, you can hear it over there."

"Hear it, hear it."

The perm man said so, but his voice became lower and lower.

"If you want me to say, why do you have to find any university labs, they are all from the water papers, can't our project team do multi-eye visual motion capture?"

Liu Suian glanced at the appearance of the perm man, didn't take him to heart, blocked his frequency band with his ears, and listened intently to what Zhang Boheng was saying.

Unfortunately, due to the distance, I can't really hear it, and I can only hear some keywords such as 'not used for the time being', 'previous technology', and 'newcomer test'.

Liu Suian can roughly guess that today Color resumes live broadcast, using the previous optical motion capture technology.

The person in the middle is wearing a black motion capture suit, and the camera captures the human body through sequins at key points on the human body, and uses it to generate an avatar.

In the past, motion capture required about two million just to configure all the equipment.

Zhang Boheng is currently helping Gao Huanzhi's team to optimize the technology, using Transformer as the basic network to capture human postures through camera images from multiple perspectives.

In addition to cost savings, this technology also means that the people in China no longer have to wear complicated motion capture suits for live streaming, which is a good thing for them.

After a while.

Zhang Boheng and the three ended the discussion, and Yan Liangping, the person in charge of the project, left the hall, while Zhang Boheng and Gao Huanzhi, the project leader, walked over shoulder to shoulder.

Zhang Boheng first introduced Liu Suian's identity to Gao Huanzhi.

"This kid's name is Liu Sui'an, a future doctor in our lab, and he just posted a CVPR submission. Oh yes, the Transformer module I'm going to test today is written by Liu Suian. ”

There was an unconcealed sense of showing off in Zhang Boheng's tone.

"CVPR for undergraduate dissertation? Cow, boy. Gao Huanzhi cast an appreciative look at Liu Suian.

"It's all Professor Zhang's good teaching, and he may not be able to get by."

Liu Suian seemed to be answering implicitly, but in fact, he secretly slandered himself in his heart.

Anyway, it's been a few days since I logged in to the opening screen ad of the Phantom Station.,Didn't these people from the Phantom Eye Company recognize it?

Or do they usually not go to the Phantom Station?

"Don't talk nonsense, let's start the test directly, you send me the code of the ultra-efficient multi-head attention in Transformer."

Zhang Boheng and Liu Suian said goodbye, walked to the computer next to Ji Qing and sat down.

β€œOK。”

Liu Suian took out the computer from his schoolbag, found the part of the code that Zhang Boheng wanted, and sent it to Zhang Boheng's mailbox.

At this time, in addition to Liu Suian, Gao Huanzhi and Ji Qing, a bunch of programmers gathered behind Zhang Boheng, staring curiously at Zhang Boheng's movements.

They all heard the conversation between Gao Huanzhi and Zhang Boheng and knew what Zhang Boheng was going to do next.

A big Internet company, want to use a graduate student's code?

What a rarity.

The perm man was still sitting in his place, and sneered: "It's really so awesome, can you study in graduate school at Southeast University?" ”

It seems that his academic qualifications are in a higher position than Southeast University in the chain of contempt for college degrees.

The perm's voice was not loud and did not reach everyone's ears.

However, Bai Ze's hearing was extraordinary, and she relayed the words of the perm man to Liu Sui'an, who glanced at the perm man without a trace and wrote down the hatred.

Look down on your buddy's education, right, I'll slap you in the face later.

Zhang Boheng logged in to his mailbox to download the code sent to him by Liu Suian, while talking to Gao Huanzhi.

"Let's test the speed of forward reasoning, what was the previous frame rate? I don't remember exactly. ”

Gao Huanzhi quickly replied: "Seventeen frames per second." ”

As a qualified project leader, Gao Huanzhi takes care of all aspects of the project and remembers the current situation very well.

"Okay, let's see how much the speed can be increased with Liu Suian's module." Zhang Boheng said with a smile.

Since discovering Liu Suian's recent things related to Jixin, Zhang Boheng has been extremely confident in Liu Suian.

After replacing the code of the key module, Zhang Boheng first warmed up the GPU, and then started the speed test program.

After one minute, the speed test program gives the result.

"Twenty-five frames per second!"

Seeing this result, Gao Huanzhi exclaimed in surprise, and the entire hall was in an uproar.