🧵E-LoFTR: new Feats-Matching SOTA🧵

👉A novel LoFTR-inspired algorithm for efficiently producing semidense matches across images: up to 2.5× faster than LoFTR, superior to previous SOTA pipeline (SuperPoint + LightGlue). Code announced.

👉Review https://t.ly/7SPmC
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04765.pdf
👉Project https://zju3dv.github.io/efficientloftr/
👉Repo https://github.com/zju3dv/efficientloftr

🦁StableDrag: Point-based Editing🦁

👉#Tencent unveils StableDrag, a novel point-based image editing framework via discriminative point tracking method + confidence-based latent enhancement strategy for motion supervision. Source Code announced but still no repo.

👉Review https://t.ly/eUI05
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dz8-ymck
👉Project stabledrag.github.io/

🏛️ PIXART-Σ: 4K Generation 🏛️

👉PixArt-Σ is a novel Diffusion Transformer model (DiT) capable of directly generating images at 4K resolution. Authors: #Huawei, Dalian, HKU & HKUST. Demos available, code announced 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Cm2Qh
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04692.pdf
👉Project pixart-alpha.github.io/PixArt-sigma-project/
👉Repo (empty) github.com/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-sigma
🤗-Demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-alpha

👺 Can GPT-4 play DOOM? 👺

👉Apparently yes, GPT-4 can play the game to a passable degree: it is able to manipulate doors, combat enemies, and perform pathing. Code (with licensing restrictions) released

👉Review https://t.ly/W8-0F
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dmsB7bjA
👉Project https://lnkd.in/ddDPwjQB

🪖RT Humanoid from Head-Mounted Sensors🪖

👉#META (+CMU) announced SimXR, a method for controlling a simulated avatar from info obtained from AR/VR headsets

👉Review https://t.ly/Si2Mp
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06862.pdf
👉Project www.zhengyiluo.com/SimXR/

🏷️ Face Foundation Model 🏷️

👉Arc2Face, the first foundation model for human faces. Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/MfAFI
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dViE_tCd
👉Project https://lnkd.in/d4MHdEZK
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dv9ZtDfA

🪼FaceXFormer: Unified Face-Transformer🪼

👉FaceXFormer, the first unified transformer for facial analysis: face parsing, landmark detection, head pose, attributes recognition, age, gender, race, and landmarks.

👉Review https://t.ly/MfAFI
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12960.pdf
👉Project kartik-3004.github.io/facexformer_web/
👉Code github.com/Kartik-3004/facexformer

🦕 DINO-based Video Tracking 🦕

👉The Weizmann Institute announced the new SOTA in point-tracking via pre-trained DINO features. Source code announced (not yet released)💙

👉Review https://t.ly/_GIMT
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dsGVDcar
👉Project dino-tracker.github.io/
👉Code https://github.com/AssafSinger94/dino-tracker

🦖 T-Rex 2: a new SOTA is out! 🦖

👉A novel (VERY STRONG) open-set object detector model. Strong zero-shot capabilities, suitable for various scenarios with only one suit of weights. Demo and Source Code released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/fYw8D
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dpmRh2zh
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dnR_jPcR
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dnZnGRUn
👉Demo https://lnkd.in/drDUEDYh

💄TinyBeauty: 460 FPS Make-up💄

👉TinyBeauty: only 80K parameters to achieve the SOTA in virtual makeup without intricate face prompts. Up to 460 FPS on mobile!

👉Review https://t.ly/LG5ok
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15033.pdf
👉Project https://tinybeauty.github.io/TinyBeauty/

☔ AiOS: All-in-One-Stage Humans ☔

👉All-in-one-stage framework for SOTA multiple expressive pose and shape recovery without additional human detection step.

👉Review https://t.ly/ekNd4
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17934.pdf
👉Project https://ttxskk.github.io/AiOS/
👉Code/Demo (announced)

🏀 MAVOS Object Segmentation 🏀

👉MAVOS is a transformer-based VOS w/ a novel, optimized and dynamic long-term modulated cross-attention memory. Code & Models announced (BSD 3-Clause)💙

👉Review https://t.ly/SKaRG
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dQyifKa3
👉Project github.com/Amshaker/MAVOS

💦 ObjectDrop: automagical objects removal 💦

👉#Google unveils ObjectDrop, the new SOTA in photorealistic object removal and insertion. Focus on shadows and reflections, impressive!

👉Review https://t.ly/ZJ6NN
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.18818.pdf
👉Project https://objectdrop.github.io/

🪼 Universal Mono Metric Depth 🪼

👉ETH unveils UniDepth: metric 3D scenes from solely single images across domains. A novel, universal and flexible MMDE solution. Source code released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/5C8eq
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2403.18913.pdf
👉Code github.com/lpiccinelli-eth/unidepth

🔘 RELI11D: Multimodal Humans 🔘

👉RELI11D is the ultimate and high-quality multimodal human motion dataset involving LiDAR, IMU system, RGB camera, and Event camera. Dataset & Source Code to be released soon💙

👉Review https://t.ly/5EG6X
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/ep6Utcik
👉Project https://lnkd.in/eDhNHYBb

🔥 ECoDepth: SOTA Diffusive Mono-Depth 🔥

👉New SIDE model using a diffusion backbone conditioned on ViT embeddings. It's the new SOTA in SIDE. Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/s2pbB
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/eYt5yr_q
👉Code https://lnkd.in/eEcyPQcd

🔥🔥Code is out 🔥🔥

https://github.com/AssafSinger94/dino-tracker

🕷️ Gen-NeRF2NeRF Translation 🕷️

👉GenN2N: unified NeRF-to-NeRF translation for editing tasks such as text-driven NeRF editing, colorization, super-resolution, inpainting, etc.

👉Review https://t.ly/VMWAH
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2404.02788.pdf
👉Project xiangyueliu.github.io/GenN2N/
👉Code github.com/Lxiangyue/GenN2N

👆iSeg: Interactive 3D Segmentation👆

👉 iSeg: interactive segmentation technique for 3D shapes operating entirely in 3D. It accepts both positive/negative clicks directly on the shape's surface, indicating inclusion & exclusion of regions.

👉Review https://t.ly/tyFnD
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dydAz8zp
👉Project https://lnkd.in/de-h6SRi
👉Code (coming)

👗 Neural Bodies with Clothes 👗

👉Neural-ABC is a novel parametric model based on neural implicit functions that can represent clothed human bodies with disentangled latent spaces for ID, clothing, shape, and pose.

👉Review https://t.ly/Un1wc
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dhDG6FF5
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dhcfK7jZ
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dQvXWysP