🍿Old Films Back to Life with #AI🍿

👉Recurrent transformer network (RTN) to restore heavily degraded old films

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Transformer blocks for spatial
✅Knowledge from adjacent frames
✅Color from keyframes to whole clip
✅Source code available in days!

More: https://bit.ly/3wZbV8y

🍊Neural Head #Avatars from RGB🍊

👉Novel neural representation for animatable head avatar

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel articulated human head
✅Full-geometry reconstruction
✅Differentiable optimization pipeline
✅Disentanglement of shape/color

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

🌶️ MyStyle: personal generative #AI 🌶️

👉Personalized deep generation with a few shots of a person

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Small set of portraits(∼100)
✅Local, low-dim, personal manifold
✅Personal #AI for ill-posed tasks
✅SOTA vs. previous few-shots

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

🦆 GAN + Dense Map 🦆

👉CoordGAN: structure-texture disentangled GAN with dense correspondence map

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel coordinate space
✅Warping to learn coordinate
✅Encoder for structure representation
✅HQ structure/texture editable images

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

⚓Unified shape & non-rigid motion⚓

👉CaDeX: SOTA in both shape & non-rigid motion

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Canonical Deformation Coordinate Space
✅Shape + non rigid motion representation
✅Factorization of def-homeomorphisms
✅Cycle consistency, topology & volume
✅SOTA in modelling deformable objects

More: https://bit.ly/3NM5NX1

📸 ~6 BILLION CLIP-filtered pairs 📸

👉A dataset 14x bigger than the previously biggest openly accessible image-text dataset in the world.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅2,3B English image-text pairs
✅2,2B from 100+ other languages
✅1,3B language not detected
✅KNN index for quick search

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

🥮 PP-YOLOE: e-version of YOLO 🥮

👉 SOTA object detector up to 149+ FPS!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Optimized PP-YOLOv2
✅S/M/L/XL for different scenarios
✅149+ FPS, with TensorRT & FP16
✅Source code & models available

More: https://bit.ly/3x454uy

🧙 HD synthesis with LDM 🧙

👉Low-cost DM via latent space of powerful pretrained autoencoders

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Hi-res synthesis of megapixel
✅Synthesis, inpainting, stochastic SR
✅Large, consistent images of ∼1024px
✅General conditioning via cross-attention
✅Code licensed under MIT License

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

🎩 SinNeRF: Single Image NeRF 🎩

👉NEural Radiance Field via single view only

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅UATX + UIUC + UOregon + Picsart AI
✅"Looking only once” approach
✅semi-supervised learning process
✅Geometry/semantic pseudo-labels
✅SOTA in novel-view synthesis

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

🔥 Transformer-based Tracking 🔥

👉Tracker via Transformer-based model prediction module

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Tracking by Transformer prediction
✅Extending model predictor for BBs
✅SOTA on three public benchmark
✅Code/models under GNU License 3.0

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

👗 In-The-Wild Virtual Try-On 👗

👉StyleGAN-based architecture for appearance flow estimation in VTON application

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Global appearance flow estimation
✅Ok with mis-alignments person/garment
✅"In-the-wild": person with natural poses
✅Code under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license

More: https://bit.ly/3LPR9wl

🎇DALL·E 2 just announced!🎇

👉DALL·E 2 to create realistic images and art from natural language

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅More realistic/accurate, 4x res.
✅Better caption matching
✅Not available yet, waiting list!

More: https://bit.ly/3j9v3bR

👋Forecasting interactions via attention👋

👉Predicting the hand motion trajectory and the future contact points on the next active object

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Object-Centric Transformer (OCT)
✅Self-attention Transformer mechanism
✅Framework to handle uncertainty
✅SOTA on Epic-Kitchens and EGTEA

More: https://bit.ly/3v3PpbI

🍇SmeLU: Smooth Activation Function🍇

👉Google unveils a new smooth activation function: easy to implement, cheap & less error-prone

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Smooth to mitigate irreproducibility
✅Cheap function, better than GELU/Swish
✅0-1 slope through quadratic middle region
✅SmeLU as convolution of ReLU with box
✅Best reproducibility-accuracy tradeoff

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

📍Hyper-Dense Landmarks at 150FPS📍

👉#Microsoft unveils the SOTA in dense landmarking + #3D reconstruction. MAGIC.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Accurate 10× as many landmarks as usual
✅Synthetic data, perfect annotations
✅NO appearance, light, diff-rendering
✅#3D @150+FPS with a single CPU thread
✅SOTA in monocular 3D reconstruction

More: https://bit.ly/37pQS40

☀️SunStage: Selfie with the Sun☀️

👉Accurate/tailored reconstruction of facial geometry/reflectance

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel personalized scanning
✅Disentanglement of scene params
✅Geometry, materials, lighting, poses
✅Photorealistic with a single selfie video

More: https://bit.ly/36W1Oqx

📫 Generative Neural Avatars 📫

👉3D shapes of people in a variety of garments with corresponding skinning weight

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅ETH + Uni-Tübingen + Max Planck
✅Animatable #3D human in garment
✅Directly from raw posed 3D scans
✅NO canonical, registration, manual w.
✅Geometric detail in clothing deformation


More: https://bit.ly/3M7mCdB

🗨️Conversational program synthesis🗨️

👉Conversational synthesis to translate English into executable code

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Conversational program synthesis
✅New multi-turn progr.benchmark
✅Open Custom library: JAXFORMER
✅Source code under BSD-3 license

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

🧯Long Video Diffusion Models🧯

👉#Google unveils a novel diffusion model for video generation

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Straightforward extension of 2D UNet
✅Longer by new conditional generation
✅SOTA in unconditional generation

More: https://bit.ly/35Y2rzg

🚙 AutoRF: #3D objects in-the-wild 🚙

👉From #Meta: #3D object from just a single, in-the wild, image

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel view synthesis from in-the-wild
✅Normalized, object-centric representation
✅Disentangling shape, appearance & pose
✅Exploiting BBS & panoptic segmentation
✅Shape/appearance properties for objects


More: https://bit.ly/3O4ONeQ