👗 Dress Code for Virtual Try-On 👗

👉UniMORE (+ YOOX) unveils a novel dataset/approach for virtual try-on.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Hi-Res paired front-view / full-body
✅Pixel-level Semantic-Aware Discriminator
✅9 SOTA VTON approaches / 3 baselines
✅New SOTA considering res. & garments

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

🍃Deep Equilibrium for Optical Flow🍃

👉DEQ: converge faster, less memory, often more accurate

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel formulation of optical flow method
✅Compatible with prior modeling/data-related
✅Sparse fixed-point correction for stability
✅Code/models under GNU Affero GPL v3.0

More: https://bit.ly/3v4fZmi

🌳Ultra High-Resolution Neural Saliency🌳

👉A novel ultra high-resolution saliency detector with dataset!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Ultra Hi-Res Saliency Detection
✅5,920 pics at 4K-8K resolution
✅Pyramid Grafting Network
✅Cross-Model Grafting Module
✅AGL: Attention Guided Loss
✅Code/models under MIT

More: https://bit.ly/3MnU1Rf

🪆StyleGAN-Human for fashion 🪆

👉A novel unconditional human generation based on StyleGAN is out!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅200,000+ labeled sample (pose/texture)
✅1024x512 StyleGAN-Human StyleGAN3
✅512x256 StyleGAN-Human StyleGAN1
✅Face model for downstream: InsetGAN
✅Source code and model available!

More: https://bit.ly/3xMg5B2

💀 OSSO: Skeletal Shape from Outside 💀

👉Anatomic skeleton of a person from 3D surface of body 🦴

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Max Planck + IMATI-CNR + INRIA
✅DXA images to obtain #3D shape
✅External body to internal skeleton

More: https://bit.ly/3v7Z5TQ

🎷 Pix2Seq: object detection by #Google 🎷

👉A novel framework to perform object detection as a language modeling task

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Obj. detection as a lang-modeling task
✅BBs/labels -> seq. of discrete token
✅Encoder-decoder (one token at a time)
✅Code under Apache License 2.0

More: https://bit.ly/3F49PX3

🌹 Generalizable Neural Performer 🌹

👉General neural framework to synthesize free-viewpoint images of arbitrary human performers

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Free-viewpoint synthesis of humans
✅Implicit Geometric Body Embedding
✅Screen-Space Occlusion-Aware Blending
✅GeneBody: 4M frames, multi-view cams

More: https://cutt.ly/SGcnQzn

🚌 Tire-defect inspection 🚌

👉Unsupervised defects in tires using neural networks

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Impurity, same material as tire
✅Impurity, with different material
✅Damage by temp/pressure
✅Crack or etched material

More: https://bit.ly/37GX1JT

🧋#4D Neural Fields🧋

👉4D N.F. visual representations from monocular RGB-D 🤯

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅4D scene completion (occlusions)
✅Scene completion in cluttered scenes
✅Novel #AI for contextual point clouds
✅Data, code, models under MIT license

More: https://cutt.ly/6GveKiJ

👔Largest dataset of human-object 👔

👉BEHAVE by Google: largest dataset of human-object interactions

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅8 subjects, 20 objects, 5 envs.
✅321 clips with 4 Kinect RGB-D
✅Masks and segmented point clouds
✅3D SMPL & mesh registration
✅Textured scan reconstructions

More: https://bit.ly/3Lx6NNo

🦴ENARF-GAN Neural Articulations🦴

👉Unsupervised method for 3D geometry-aware representation of articulated objects

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel efficient neural representation
✅Tri-planes deformation fields for training
✅Novel GAN for articulated representations
✅Controllable 3D from real unlabeled pic

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

🖲️ HuMMan: 4D human dataset 🖲️

👉HuMMan: 4D dataset with 1000 humans, 400k sequences & 60M frames 🤯

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅RGB, pt-clouds, keypts, SMPL, texture
✅Mobile device in the sensor suite
✅500+ actions to cover movements

More: https://bit.ly/3vTRW8Z

🔥Neighborhood Attention Transformer 🔥

👉A novel transformer for both image classification and downstream vision tasks

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Neighborhood Attention (NA)
✅Neighborhood Attention Transformer, NAT
✅Faster training/inference, good throughput
✅Checkpoints, train, #CUDA kernel available

More: https://bit.ly/3F5aVSo

🔥🔥FANs: Fully Attentional Networks🔥🔥

👉#Nvidia unveils the fully attentional networks (FANs)

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Efficient fully attentional design
✅Semantic seg. & object detection
✅Model/source code soon available!

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

👨🏼‍🎨 Open-Source DALL·E 2 is out 👨🏼‍🎨

👉#Pytorch implementation of DALL-E 2, #OpenAI's latest text-to-image neural net.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅SOTA for text-to-image generation
✅Source code/model under MIT License
✅"Medieval painting of wifi not working"

More: https://bit.ly/3vzsff6

⛺ViTPose: Transformer for Pose⛺

👉ViTPose from ViTAE, ViT for human pose

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Plain/nonhierarchical ViT for pose
✅Deconv-layers after ViT for keypoints
✅Just the baseline is the new SOTA
✅Source code & models available soon!

More: https://bit.ly/3MJ0kz1

🧳 Unsupervised HD Motion Transfer 🧳

👉Novel e2e unsupervised motion transfer for image animation

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅TPS motion estimation + Dropout
✅Novel E2E unsupervised motion transfer
✅Optical flow + multi-res. occlusion mask
✅Code and models under MIT license

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

🚤 Neural Self-Calibration in the wild 🚤

👉 Learning algorithm to regress calibration params from in the wild clips

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Params purely from self-supervision
✅S.S. depth/pose learning as objective
✅POV, fisheye, catadioptric: no changes
✅SOTA results on EuRoC MAV dataset

More: https://bit.ly/3w1n6LB

🦅 ConDor: S.S. Canonicalization 🦅

👉Self-Supervised Canonicalization for full/partial 3D points cloud

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅RRC + Stanford + KAIST + Brown
✅On top of Tensor Field Networks (TFNs)
✅Unseen 3D -> equivariant canonical
✅Co-segmentation, NO supervision
✅Code and model under MIT license

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

🦀 Event-aided Direct Sparse Odometry 🦀

👉EDS: direct monocular visual odometry using events/frames

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Mono 6-DOF visual odometry + events
✅Direct photometric bundle adjustment
✅Camera motion tracking by sparse pixels
✅A new dataset with HQ events and frame

More: https://bit.ly/3s9FiBN