Imaj Future Lab
Imaj Future Lab is the AI-driven research lab & creative hub of Imaj Group, dedicated to shaping the future of digital production across film, media and beyond
What We Do
R&D where technology meets human creativity
We combine our creative expertise with cutting-edge research and emerging technologies to pioneer new visual frontiers while ensuring creative control and robust copyright safeguards
Commercial Software
Imaj Asset Navigator
AI-Powered Enterprise Media Search and Management Platform. Our first commercial product spun off from our in-house VFX central asset management system used in production
Centralized Digital & Media Asset Management
AI-Powered Semantic & Visual Search Engine
Automated Scene Detection and Analysis
Customer-Specific AI Model Training
Runs on Local Hardware (No Cloud, No API Calls)
Proprietary Software for Internal Use
Imaj AI Workflows Suite
Software suite exclusive to Imaj Group. Enables our artists to choose from an ever-expanding repository of hybrid VFX / AI workflows and run AI-compute jobs locally via our private Render Farm. These workflows are integrated into our VFX pipelines, and models are deployed via our in-house full stack AI infrastructure
Conditional GenAI
Performance Transfer
Face Replacement
De-Aging
Upscaling & Denoising
Rotoscoping
Style Transfer
LoRA Training
Content Production
Enabling and Supporting Production
We assist Content Projects produced by Imaj Group with custom workflows, tools and technologies developed in-house
Movies and TV
Commercials
Youtube
Research and Development
R&D for VFX and Generative AI
We stay on top of latest developments and emerging technologies, and perform research in the VFX and Generative AI space. Our research topics include:
Computer Vision
Supervised Learning
Diffusion Models
Gaussian Splats
Triangle Splatting
World Models
Our Process
How We Work
Production requirements trigger Innovation, Innovation enables the R&D roadmap, and proprietary R&D leads to Commercial Products
Step 1
Production
Producing shots for feature-length projects or generating content by combining VFX and creative expertise with next-generation AI technologies
Step 2
Innovation
Designing and implementing AI-powered hybrid workflows or software plugins that accelerate and/or enable production
Step 3
Research and Development
Developing tools and technologies integrated into our VFX pipelines — long-term, future-focused initiatives tracked through a structured project roadmap
Step 4
Commercial Software
Transforming our R&D output - proprietary tools and technologies that internally stood the test of time - into commercial software products
Our Objectives
Objectives and Responsibilities
AI Infrastructure
Set up and maintain our in-house full stack AI R&D infrastructure
Model Training
Train our own AI models fully offline & exempt from copyright/privacy issues
Open Innovation
Lead the implementation of open-source technologies, and facilitate their usage across the organization
Development
Develop proprietary tools and technologies integrated into our VFX pipelines
Research
Conduct cutting-edge research within the VFX and Generative AI space
Productization
Productize our proprietary tools & tech into spin-off commercial products