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​Harbor has welcomed the appointment of Morten Vinther as its new executive creative director, advertising. An acclaimed director and creative leader, Morten brings over 25 years of experience spanning film, gaming, and advertising to his new role.

Morten’s career is marked by an impressive body of work and industry recognition. He directed the Clio Grand Award-winning cinematic for Sony PlayStation’s The Last of Us Part II, wrote and directed the Ciclope and Shots Award-winning short film Arena Breakout for Tencent, and helmed the Ciclope, Shots, and AICP Award-winning launch films for EA/Koei Tecmo’s Wild Hearts. Most recently, he directed the opening in-game cinematic for Star Wars Jedi: Survivor for Respawn Entertainment.

Beyond his accolades, Morten is widely known for his ability to lead, mentor, and inspire high-performing creative and VFX teams across the globe. His leadership roles include head of 2D at both The Mill LA and Glassworks Amsterdam, and head of 2D at MPC LA. In his previous role as director with Great Guns, Morten demonstrated his strength in pitching, securing new business, and delivering visually stunning, emotionally resonant storytelling – from concept and on-set direction to post-production, VFX, and final delivery.

“Morten’s career reflects a mastery of visual storytelling, a drive to push creative boundaries, and a passion for nurturing talent,” said Massimo D’Avolio, EVP, post-production at Harbor. “As our advertising division grows, his arrival marks an exciting new chapter. Morten is both a creative force and a strategic thinker – his experience in gaming and scaling assets without compromising craft will elevate our work and inspire our teams. We’re thrilled to welcome him aboard.”

On his new role, Morten commented, “I’m very excited to join the excellent people at Harbor. What the team has been building is both inspiring and future-facing. I’m here to help turn big and ambitious ideas into beautifully crafted work. My passion is to foster strong, collaborative teams where everyone feels empowered to contribute. For me, that’s the crucial foundation for great craft. With the ongoing giant leaps forward in technology, I’m also excited to be pushing the boundaries of how this work is created at Harbor, elevating the work and the process behind it.”

At Harbor, Morten will shape the creative vision of the advertising division, championing craft, supporting teams, and forging new opportunities for ground breaking work. His extensive experience collaborating across disciplines, including directing live-action, integrating VFX, and working with both human performers and digital characters, makes him a dynamic addition to Harbor’s leadership team.

TV & Home Theaters

Micro RGB TV achieves exceptional color accuracy covering 100% of the BT2020 color gamut, redefining the paradigm of ultra-premium displays

8/12/2025

Samsung Electronics America today announced the official launch of its Micro RGB TV, the world’s first¹ display to feature a micro-scale RGB LED backlight behind a super big and fully immersive 115-inch screen. This breakthrough display delivers brilliant brightness and hyper-realistic hues, allowing you to indulge in color like never before.

The category-defining TV is built with Samsung proprietary Micro RGB Technology, which arranges individually controlled red, green and blue micro LEDs — each less than 100µm in size — in an ultra-fine pattern behind the panel. Unlike most conventional backlighting, the architecture enables precision control over each red, green and blue LED — resulting in an industry-first 100% color coverage of BT.2020, an international standard for color accuracy established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU)².

“Micro RGB achieves unprecedented precision in the control of micrometer-sized RGB LEDs, raising the bar for color accuracy and contrast in consumer displays,” said Taeyong Son, Executive Vice President and Head of the R&D Team of the Visual Display (VD) Business at Samsung Electronics. “With this launch, we’re setting the standard in the large-sized, ultra-premium TV market and reinforcing our commitment to next-generation display innovation.”

Powered by the Samsung Micro RGB AI engine³, this new innovation uses AI processing to finely control the red, green and blue backlight for next-level color expression, as well as optimized picture and sound. This advanced technology analyzes each frame in real time and automatically optimizes color output for a more lifelike and immersive picture. With AI, Micro RGB Color Booster Pro recognizes scenes with dull color tones to intelligently enhance colors across all content for a more vivid and immersive viewing experience.

Plus, the display features Micro RGB Precision Color, which lends a new level of intense immersion to your movie night. The technology finely and precisely controls colors, adding depth and dimension for a level of detail nearly indistinguishable from real life. Samsung Micro RGB TV also received ‘Micro RGB Precision Color’ certification from the Verband der Elektrotechnik (VDE), a leading German electrical engineering certification institute.

Samsung Micro RGB TV is designed with our most advanced Glare Free technology to minimize reflections, even in bright lighting conditions for a more comfortable and focused viewing experience. Apart from providing next-generation performance, the Micro RGB TV’s super slim metal design achieves a sleek, minimalistic profile to compliment any interior.

With Samsung Vision AI integrated, the display offers a smarter viewing experience, enabling features like an upgraded Click to Search⁴, powered by Samsung Bixby. Viewers can ask Bixby contextual questions about the content on screen and receive natural language answers, as well as access actor bios, related content and real-time recommendations without ever leaving the screen.

Samsung Micro RGB TV is also secured by Samsung Knox⁵, the industry-leading security solution designed to protect your sensitive personal data, and supports the Samsung 7-year free Tizen OS Upgrade program⁶, which ensures ongoing software enhancements and long-term upgrades.

Samsung Micro RGB TV will be available in the U.S. for an MSRP of $29,999. It’s also available in Korea, with future plans for a global rollout featuring a variety of sizes to meet customer needs.

To learn more about Samsung Micro RGB TV, visit, www.samsung.com.

The math describing how particles move in space can apply to stray pixels, removing noise from images.

From the Journal: AIP Advances

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2025 – Medical imaging methods such as ultrasound and MRI are often affected by background noise, which can introduce blurring and obscure fine anatomical details in the images. For clinicians who depend on medical images, background noise is a fundamental problem in making accurate diagnoses.

Methods for denoising have been developed with some success, but they struggle with the complexity of noise patterns in medical images and require manual tuning of parameters, adding complexity to the denoising process.

To solve the denoising problem, some researchers have drawn inspiration from quantum mechanics, which describes how matter and energy behave at the atomic scale. Their studies draw an analogy between how particles vibrate and how pixel intensity spreads out in images and causes noise. Until now, none of these attempts directly applied the full-scale mathematics of quantum mechanics to image denoising.

In a paper this week in AIP Advances, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Weill Cornell Medicine, GE HealthCare, and Université de Toulouse took a particle-pixel analogy to the next level.

“While quantum localization is a well-established phenomenon in physical materials, our key innovation was conceptualizing it for noisy images — translating the physics literally, not just metaphorically,” author Amirreza Hashemi said. “This foundational analogy didn’t exist before. We’re the first to formalize it.”

A central concept in the math describing matter and energy, localization is used to explain how particles vibrate in a space. Vibrations that stay confined are considered localized, while vibrations that spread out are diffused. Similarly, pixel intensity, or brightness, in a clear image can be considered localized, while noisy patterns in an image can be considered diffused.

The authors apply the same mathematics that describe the localization of particle vibrations in the surrounding physical space to decipher the localization of pixel intensity in images. In this way, they can separate the noise-free “signal” of the anatomical structures in the image from the visual noise of stray pixels.

“The main aspect was developing an algorithm that automatically separates the localized (signal) and nonlocalized (noise) components of pixels in an image by exploiting their distinct behaviors,” Hashemi said.

The researchers’ direct application of the physics and mathematics of particles also eliminated the need to manually fine-tune parameters in denoising algorithms, which Hashemi said is a major hindrance in traditional approaches.

“Our method leverages physics-driven principles, like localization and diffusive dynamics, which inherently separate noise from signal without expensive optimization,” Hashemi said. “The algorithm just works by design, avoiding brute-force computations.”

Their method has applications not only in medical image denoising, but across quantum computing, too.

“Our physics-driven framework aligns with the computational primitives of quantum systems, offering a potential performance advantage as quantum computing scales.”

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Article Title

A novel perspective on denoising using quantum localization with application to medical imaging

Authors

Amirreza Hashemi, Sayantan Dutta, Bertrand Georgeot, Denis Kouamé, and Hamid Sabet

Author Affiliations

Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Weill Cornell Medicine, Advanced Technology Group, Université de Toulouse