The Slomo and Cindy Silvian Foundation, Inc., was established by the late Cindy Silvian. Silvian were distinguished citizens of Long Beach, New York. They were well known and respected for their friendship, their business leadership, their civic-mindedness, and their philanthropy. A Hebrew name meaning 'Solomon' 2. An awesome human beatboxer from Leeds.

Researchers from NVIDIA developed a deep learning-based system that can produce high-quality slow-motion videos from a 30-frame-per-second video, outperforming various state-of-the-art methods that aim to do the same. The researchers will present their work at the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference in Salt Lake City, Utah this week.
“There are many memorable moments in your life that you might want to record with a camera in slow-motion because they are hard to see clearly with your eyes: the first time a baby walks, a difficult skateboard trick, a dog catching a ball,” the researchers wrote in the research paper. “While it is possible to take 240-frame-per-second videos with a cell phone, recording everything at high frame rates is impractical, as it requires large memories and is power-intensive for mobile devices,” the team explained.
With this new research, users can slow down their recordings after taking them.
Using NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs and cuDNN-accelerated PyTorch deep learning framework the team trained their system on over 11,000 videos of everyday and sports activities shot at 240 frames-per-second. Once trained, the convolutional neural network predicted the extra frames.
The team used a separate dataset to validate the accuracy of their system.
The result can make videos shot at a lower frame rate look more fluid and less blurry.
“Our method can generate multiple intermediate frames that are spatially and temporally coherent,” the researchers said. “Our multi-frame approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art single frame methods.”

To help demonstrate the research, the team took a series of clips from The Slow Mo Guys, a popular slow-motion based science and technology entertainment YouTube series created by Gavin Free, starring himself and his friend Daniel Gruchy, and made their videos even slower.
The method can take everyday videos of life’s most precious moments and slow them down to look like your favorite cinematic slow-motion scenes, adding suspense, emphasis, and anticipation.
The researchers, which include Huaizu Jiang, Deqing Sun, Varun Jampani, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Erik Learned-Miller, and Jan Kautz, will present on Thursday, June 21 from 2:50 – 4:30 PM at CVPR.
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April 27, 2012

In San Diego, CA, most people don't even know the real name of the biggest celebrity in town. The man is known only as Slomo. He is an aged gentleman - maybe in his 50's, early 60's, and he spends his days skating down beach-side Ocean Front Walk doing a form of Tai Chi on roller blades, in slow motion, and to a soundtrack. Usually, he is wearing a bucket hat, blue tanktop, Bermuda shorts, his safety pads, roller blades, and of course his music. The young locals yell out his moniker 'Slomo!' as he wistfully glides by blaring music (mostly classical) from his on-person speakers. In a beach town filled with characters, Slomo is the king of them all.
To me, until today, Slomo was the strange old man balancing on one skate with his arms outstretched, a huge smile on his face, brightening up the day of all those he slowly, and I mean slowly, rolled by. Today was the first time that I've seen him in a couple months, so after talking with some friends about the legend of Slomo, I decided to get to the bottom of who this man really was. What I found out is that 'Slomo' was the alter ego of Dr. John S. Kitchin, M.D., a retired San Diego neurologist trained in psychiatry.
Before he was Slomo, John Kitchin was a neurologist and psychiatrist. He even owned a 30 acre ranch at one point with a petting zoo, and started a nonprofit foundation to bring children to visit the animals. The basis for his rollerblade skills was downhill skiing, Kitchin's former passion. Kitchin suffers from prosopagnosia, an affliction that makes it difficult to recognize faces. He believes his uncanny balance might be a compensation for his visual disorder.

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In 1998, Kitchin retired from medicine. He already had taken to skating with headphones at Dana Junior High School in Point Loma. He began to see slow-motion gliding to music as a portal to religious ecstasy. He moved into a 'monastic' studio a half-block from the boardwalk and took to skating the length of the boardwalk seven days a week. Naturally, his family worried about him.

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Kitchin wondered if his obsession with oceanfront skating might be the manifestation of a psychological breakdown, fueled by the heady essence of the boardwalk. Years later, those fears have dissipated into the morning mist. He spends his days writing, creating art, mixing music and, of course, dressing in the Slomo outfit and skating for hours into the cosmos. Kitchin uses the Slomo character as a sort of meditation device/social experiment. Kitchin's philosophy of 'the Zone,' is where Slomo lives and where he meditates on eternal questions.
Kitchin has embraced the stardom of his Slomo alter ego. His Slomo T-shirts, bumper stickers, postcards and self-published books – 'The Trial of Slomo,' 'Slomo and the New World,' and 'Portraits in Slomovision' – sell briskly at the Swings n' Things at the Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach (as well as on Amazon.com). He is the loved mascot of the beach community although most people do not know anything about him.

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I now have a much greater appreciation for all that is Slomo. He definitely reinforces the ole adage,'you should never judge a book by the cover.' Also, I now know that he does not recognize me, even though he smiles and high fives me every time we pass each other.





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