🏄‍♀️ GSTAR: Gaussian Surface Tracking 🏄‍♀️

👉ETH Zurich unveils GSTAR, a novel framework for photo-realistic rendering, surface reconstruction, and 3D tracking for dynamic scenes while handling topology changes. Code announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/udpMq
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.10283
👉Project chengwei-zheng.github.io/GSTAR/
👉Repo TBA

🧽 Diffusion Video Inpainting 🧽

👉#Alibaba unveils a technical report about DiffuEraser, a video inpainting model based on stable diffusion, designed to fill masked regions with greater details and more coherent structures. Code & weights released under Apache💙

👉Review https://t.ly/7rEll
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.10018
👉Project lixiaowen-xw.github.io/DiffuEraser-page/
👉Repo github.com/lixiaowen-xw/DiffuEraser

🌈 #Nvidia Foundation ZS-Stereo 🌈

👉Nvidia unveils FoundationStereo, a foundation model for stereo depth estimation with strong zero-shot generalization. In addition, a large-scale (1M stereo pairs) synthetic training dataset featuring large diversity and high photorealism. Code, model & dataset to be released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/rfBr5
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.09898
👉Project nvlabs.github.io/FoundationStereo/
👉Repo github.com/NVlabs/FoundationStereo/tree/master

🔥 [SOTA] Long-Video Depth Anything 🔥

👉ByteDance unveils Video Depth Anything: HQ, consistent depth estimation in SUPER-long videos (over several minutes) without sacrificing efficiency. Based on Depth Anything V2 with a novel efficient spatial-temporal head. Repo available under Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Q4ZZd
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12375
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dKNwJzbM
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/ddfwwpCj

🧵Time-Aware Pts-Tracking🧵

👉Chrono: feature backbone specifically designed for point tracking with built-in temporal awareness. Long-term temporal context, enabling precise prediction even without the refinements. Code announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/XAL7G
👉Paper arxiv.orgzpdf/2501.12218
👉Project cvlab-kaist.github.io/Chrono/
👉Repo github.com/cvlab-kaist/Chrono

🎤EMO2: Audio-Driven Avatar🎤

👉Alibaba previews a novel audio-driven talking head method capable of simultaneously generating highly expressive facial expressions and hand gestures. Turn your audio ON. Stunning results but no code 🥺

👉Review https://t.ly/x8slQ
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.10687
👉Project humanaigc.github.io/emote-portrait-alive-2/
👉Repo 🥺

🦠A-Life with Foundation Models🦠

👉A super team unveils ASAL, a new paradigm for Artificial Life research. A diverse range of ALife substrates including Boids, Particle Life, Game of Life, Lenia & Neural Cellular Automata. Code under Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/7SZ8A
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.17799
👉Project http://pub.sakana.ai/asal/
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dP5yxKtw

🔥 The code of DynOMo is out 🔥

👉DynOMo is a novel model able to track any point in a dynamic scene over time through 3D reconstruction from monocular video: 2D and 3D point tracking from unposed monocular camera input

👉Review https://t.ly/t5pCf
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dwhzz4_t
👉Repo github.com/dvl-tum/DynOMo
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dMyku2HW

🪆SOTA Points Segmentation🪆

👉VGG Oxford unveils a novel loss to segment objects in videos based on their motion and NO other forms of supervision! Training the net using long-term point trajectories as a supervisory signal to complement optical flow. New SOTA!

👉Review https://t.ly/8Bsbt
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.12392
👉Code https://github.com/karazijal/lrtl
👉Project www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~vgg/research/lrtl/

🎨MatAnyone: Human Matting🎨

👉MatAnyone is a novel approach for human video matting that supports the target assignment. Stable tracking in long videos even with complex/ambiguous BGs. Code & 🤗-Demo announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/NVXsT
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14677
👉Project pq-yang.github.io/projects/MatAnyone
👉Repo TBA

🦕[SOTA] Visual Grounding VOS🦕

👉ReferDINO is the first end-to-end approach for adapting foundational visual grounding models to RVOS. Code & models to be released soon💙

👉Review https://t.ly/SDFy9
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14607
👉Project isee-laboratory.github.io/ReferDINO/
👉Repo github.com/iSEE-Laboratory/ReferDINO

☀️ Relightable Full-Body Avatars ☀️

👉#Meta unveils the first approach ever to jointly model the relightable appearance of the body, face, and hands of drivable avatars.

👉Review https://t.ly/kx9gf
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.14726
👉Project neuralbodies.github.io/RFGCA

🌅 Generative Human Mesh Recovery 🌅

👉GenHMR is a novel generative framework that reformulates monocular HMR as an image-conditioned generative task, explicitly modeling and mitigating uncertainties in 2D-to-3D mapping process. Impressive results but no code announced 🥺

👉Review https://t.ly/Rrzpj
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.14444
👉Project m-usamasaleem.github.io/publication/GenHMR/GenHMR.html

💎AI-driven Docs Conversion💎

👉Docling by IBM, is the ALL-in-ONE, open source solution for documents; parsing several types of popular formats into a unified, richly structured representation. Powered by SOTA models for layout (DocLayNet) and table structure (TableFormer), it runs efficiently on low-cost hardware. Code under MIT💙

👉Review https://t.ly/nSCfT
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dc5Kpc2F
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/d9gvw9bt

🈯 SOTA 0-Shot Multi-View 🈯

👉MVGD by #TOYOTA is the SOTA method that generates images and scale-consistent depth maps from novel viewpoints given an arbitrary number of posed input views. A novel diffusion-based architecture capable of direct pixel-level generation. Code announced 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/_ecKl
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.18804
👉Project mvgd.github.io/
👉Repo TBA

🐙MambaGlue: SOTA feats. matching🐙

👉MambaGlue is a hybrid neural network combining the Mamba and the Transformer architectures to match local features. Source Code announced, to be released💙

👉Review https://shorturl.at/LxDG1
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2502.00462
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dAujfGZQ

🛸Real-Time Differentiable Tracing🛸

👉 Radiant Foam is a novel scene representation by leveraging the decades-old efficient volumetric mesh ray tracing algorithm (largely overlooked in recent research). Performing like Gaussian Splatting, without the constraints of rasterization. Code announced💙

👉Review https://shorturl.at/26U06
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.01157
👉Project https://radfoam.github.io/
👉Repo https://github.com/theialab/radfoam

🔥 VideoJAM: #META's Video-Model (SOTA) 🔥

👉#META's VideoJAM: the new SOTA (by large margin) in motion coherence for video generation, much better than SORA! A strong motion prior into any video-gen model. Impressive results, no code announced🥲

👉Review https://shorturl.at/id7Bt
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.02492
👉Project https://hila-chefer.github.io/videojam-paper.github.io/

👗3D Dynamic Garments👗

👉UCLA introduces Dress-1-to-3, a novel pipeline that reconstructs physics-plausible, simulation-ready separated garments with sewing patterns and humans from an in-the-wild image.

👉Review https://t.ly/qciHV
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2502.03449
👉Project dress-1-to-3.github.io