🏀 #NBA Mixed Reality is NUTS 🏀

👉The premiere of the streaming app of the #NBA is totally INSANE. A mix of #AI, CG and much more👇

🏀More: https://bit.ly/3IJ3uUp

🫳 Neural Relighting of Hands 🫴

👉#META unveil the first neural relighting for personalized hands in real-time under novel illumination

😎Review https://bit.ly/3SblmKC
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.04866.pdf
😎Project sh8.io/#/relightable_hands

🪁 VoxFormer: 2D->#3D Voxel ViT🪁

👉#Nvidia VoxFormer: #3D volumetric semantics from 2D images

😎Review https://bit.ly/3Kw9Yab
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12251.pdf
😎Code github.com/NVlabs/VoxFormer

🪞DisCO: Selfie Correction with 3D-GAN🪞

👉Snap (et al.) unveils a GAN-based method for correcting distortions in close-up faces

😎Review https://bit.ly/3StGGuX
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12253.pdf
😎Project https://portrait-disco.github.io

⚽️ Vid2Avatar: 3D Avatar from Videos ⚽️

👉Vid2Avatar: detailed 3D avatar from monocular videos in the wild

😎Review https://bit.ly/3ISbceD
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.11566.pdf
😎Project moygcc.github.io/vid2avatar
😎Code (soon) github.com/MoyGcc

🏉 SLAHMR: 4D People from Clip in-the-Wild 🏉

👉UC-Berkeley unveils SLAHMR: novel method to reconstruct global human trajectories from videos

😎Review https://bit.ly/3SzTIaj
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12827.pdf
😎Project vye16.github.io/slahmr/
😎Code github.com/vye16/slahmr

🐇 SplineCam: Neural Decision Boundary 🐇

👉#META -> SplineCam: a step towards neural visualization / interpretability

😎Review https://bit.ly/3mgoOaH
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12828.pdf
😎Project imtiazhumayun.github.io/splinecam
😎Code github.com/AhmedImtiazPrio/SplineCAM

👑 ControNet: Conditional Control of Diffusion 👑

👉Controlling Stable Diffusion via conditional inputs like edges, segmentation, keypoints, etc. Extra: a super-nice tutorial.

😎Review https://bit.ly/3YgjrWt
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2302.05543.pdf
😎Code github.com/lllyasviel/ControlNet
😎Tutorial https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet/discussions/204

🛸 TAU: video traffic analytics via UAVs 🛸

👉 Prince Sultan University unveils TAU: AI-integrated video analytics framework from UAVs' POV

😎Review https://bit.ly/3EQIh8F
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.00337.pdf
😎Project github.com/bilel-bj/TAU

🩻 Independent Tokens for 3D Human 🩻

👉Tencent open-sourcing a novel method to estimate #3D human pose and shape from monocular videos

😎Review https://bit.ly/3Zz0uiH
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.00298.pdf
😎Code github.com/yangsenius/INT_HMR_Model
😎Project yangsenius.github.io/INT_HMR_Model/index.html

🌸 3DGP: ImageNet in #3D 🌸

👉 Snap unveils 3DGP: a novel 3D generator with Generic Priors

😎Review https://bit.ly/3KWHUgG
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01416.pdf
😎Project snap-research.github.io/3dgp/
😎Code github.com/snap-research/3dgp

🗺️ S-NeRF: NeRF for Street Views 🗺️

👉S-NeRF: novel view synthesis of streets & foreground moving vehicles jointly

😎Review https://bit.ly/3KZUN9w
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.00749.pdf
😎Project ziyang-xie.github.io/s-nerf/
😎Code (soon)

🧱 MobileBrick: #3D object on mobile 🧱

👉#Apple (+Oxford) exploiting #LEGO bricks to open the most precise #3D dataset ever. Suitable for mobile #AR

😎Review https://bit.ly/3ZqbiAh
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.01932.pdf
😎Project code.active.vision/MobileBrick/
😎Code github.com/ActiveVisionLab/MobileBrick

⚠️ BREAKING: Stability Acquires Init ML ⚠️

👉 Stability AI (#stablediffusion) announces the acquisition of Clipdrop makers 🤯

👉 More: https://bit.ly/3JhKkVO

🧩 X-Avatar: Expressive Human Avatars 🧩

👉ETHZ (+Microsoft) unveils X-Avatar: digital expressive humans for life-like experiences (#AR / #VR)

😎Review https://bit.ly/3J6YDLH
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04805.pdf
😎Project https://skype-line.github.io/projects/X-Avatar/
😎Code https://github.com/Skype-line/X-Avatar

🚀 Visual ChatGPT: Talking, Drawing & Editing 🚀

👉 Microsoft extends ChatGPT to handle visual information

😎Review https://bit.ly/3LkSJJD
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04671.pdf
😎Code github.com/microsoft/visual-chatgpt

🐢 GigaGAN: ultra-GAN Synthesis 🐢

👉 Novel method that far exceeds the previous limits of GAN -> ultra HD images!

😎Review https://bit.ly/3ZYnZBX
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.05511.pdf
😎Project mingukkang.github.io/GigaGAN