⌚4D-Net: Lidar + RGB synchronization⌚

👉Google unveils 4D-Net to combine 3D LiDAR and onboard RGB camera

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Point clouds/images in time
✅Fusing multiple modalities in 4D
✅Novel sampling for 3D P.C. in time
✅New SOTA for 3D detection

More: https://bit.ly/3hZCFwN

🐌 New SOTA in video synthesis! 🐌

👉Snap unveils a novel multimodal video generation framework via text/images

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Multimodal video generation
✅Bidirectional transformer
✅Video token with self-learn.
✅Text augmentation for robustness
✅Longer sequence synthesis

More: https://bit.ly/3hZLXsG

🎁 StyelNeRF source code is out 🎁

👉3D consistent photo-realistic image synthesis

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅NeRF + style generator
✅3D consistency for HD image
✅Novel regularization loss
✅Camera control on styles

More: https://bit.ly/3t5xC49

🦎CLD-based generative #AI by #Nvidia🦎

👉Nvidia unveils a novel critically-damped Langevin diffusion (CLD) for synthetic data

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅A novel diffusion process for SGMs
✅Novel score matching obj. for CLD
✅Hybrid denoising score matching
✅Efficient sampling from CLD model
✅Source code under a specific license

More: https://bit.ly/35MToBe

🛸UFO: segmentation @140+ FPS🛸

👉Unified Transformer Framework for Co-Segmentation, Co-Saliency & Salient Object Detection. All in one!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Unified framework for co-segmentation
✅Co-segmentation, co-saliency, saliency
✅Block for long-range dependencies
✅Able to reach for 140 FPS in inference
✅The new SOTA on multiple datasets
✅Source code under MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/3KLd9b9

👗 Multi-GANs fashion 👗

👉Global GAN blended with other GANs for faces, shoes, etc.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Multi-GAN framework
✅Several generators
✅Free of artifacts
✅Full-body generation
✅Humans, 1024x1024

More: https://bit.ly/37mfOte

🚧 FLAG: #3D Avatar Generation 🚧

👉A flow-based generative model of the 3D human body from sparse observations.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅FLow-based Avatar Generative
✅Conditional distro of body pose
✅Exact pose likelihood process
✅Invertibility -> oracle latent code

More: https://bit.ly/3CQpk3p

💃 Dancing in the wild with StyleGAN 💃

👉StyleGAN-based animations for AR/VR apps

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Video based motion retargeting
✅A StyleGAN architecture based
✅Novel explicit motion representation
✅SOTA qualitatively & quantitatively

More: https://bit.ly/3CZbL1W

🪀TensoRF: the 4D evolution of NeRF 🪀

👉TensoRF, a novel radiance fields via 4D-tensor: 3D voxel grid with per-voxel multi-channel feats.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅VM decomposition technique
✅Low-rank tensor factorization
✅Lower memory footprint (speed)
✅TensoRF is the new SOTA in R.F.
✅Code under the MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/3qffZgI

🔼 GAN-meshes without key-points 🔼

👉ETH unveils a GAN framework for generating textured triangle meshes without annotations

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Generative of textured meshes
✅3D generator for all categories
✅3D pose estimation framework
✅Code licensed under MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/3qfH9nJ

🐯 S.S. Latent Image Animator 🐯

👉Self-supervised autoencoder to animate unseen images by linear navigation in latent

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Latent Image Animator
✅Linear displacement in latent
✅SOTA: VoxCeleb, Taichi, TED-talk
✅Source code (soon) available

More: https://bit.ly/36pgLAC

🪨 Google URF for neural-synthesis 🪨

👉Sequence of RGB + Lidar -> 3D surfaces and novel RGB images synthesized

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Extending Neural Radiance Fields
✅Leveraging asynch. lidar data
✅Addressing exposure variation
✅Leveraging segmentations for sky
✅SOTA #3D reconstructions/synthesizes

More: https://bit.ly/3L2vTDb

🚛 AV2: next-gen. self driving 🚛

👉One of the biggest dataset ever for #autonomousdriving

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅1k seq. of multimodal data
✅3D annotations, 26 categories
✅20k lidar & map-aligned pose
✅250k challenging interactions
✅HD Map: 3D lane & crosswalk
✅CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license

More: https://bit.ly/3trx3lw

🤖CaTGrasp in Clutter from Simulation🤖

👉Task-relevant grasping: trained solely in simulation with synthetic + SS. hand-object interaction

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel cat-level, relevant grasping
✅S.S. hand-object-contact
✅Tiny objects from dense clutter
✅Train-simulation -> to real
✅Source code under Apache 2.0

More: https://bit.ly/3L2YVCo

🛼 Drive & Segment without Supervision 🛼

👉Learning pixel-wise semantic seg. on non-curated data collection by cars (cameras + LiDAR) driving around a city

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Cross-modal unsupervised
✅Synchronized LiDAR & RGB
✅Object proposal on LiDAR points
✅SOTA, significant improvements

More: https://bit.ly/3L0wWTW

🌍 NeRF-free Neural Rendering 🌍

👉A simple 2D-only method with a single pass of a neural network

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Synthesis with NO 3D reasoning
✅Autoregressive & masked transf.
✅Pose -> object, object -> pose
✅Attention: branching attention
✅Source code under MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/3JC7unt

🤓👌Hey, TAKE OFF my eyeglasses! 😙👌

👉A novel framework to remove eyeglasses as well as their cast shadows from faces

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel mask-guided multi-step network
✅Leveraging 3D synthetic data only
✅Synthetic portraits with supervisions
✅Eyeglasses & shadows simultaneously

More: https://bit.ly/3IvQzlf

🏥 #AI models/dataset for open surgery 🏥

👉Multi-task #AI model/dataset of real-time surgical behaviors, hands, and tools.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Annotated Videos Open Surgery
✅Largest dataset of open surgical
✅2k clips and 23 procedures
✅12k annotations, 11k+ keypoints
✅Models/Dataset soon available!

More: https://bit.ly/3tvDdkK

🥽 #metaverse in 1991 🥽

👉Q: is #VR the technology that developed least in the last 30 years? 🤔

Discussion: https://bit.ly/3txWF07

🫕NeRFusion: Large-Scale Reconstruction🫕

👉Efficient large-scale reconstruction & photo-realistic rendering

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Frame-by-frame R.F.
✅Neural reconstruction
✅Real-time at 20+ fps
✅SOTA on indoor / objects

More: https://bit.ly/3iyfoCo