🪟 BOG: Fine Geometric Views 🪟

👉 #Google (+Tübingen) unveils Binary Opacity Grids, a novel method to reconstruct triangle meshes from multi-view images able to capture fine geometric detail such as leaves, branches & grass. New SOTA, real-time on Google Pixel 8 Pro (and similar).

👉Review https://t.ly/E6T0W
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dQEq3zy6
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dYYCadx9
👉Demo https://lnkd.in/d92R6QME

🦥Neuromorphic Video Binarization🦥

👉 University of HK unveils the new SOTA in event-based neuromorphic binary reconstruction: stunning results on QR Code, barcode, & Text. Real-Time, only CPU, up to 10,000 FPS!

👉Review https://t.ly/V-NFa
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2402.12644.pdf
👉Project github.com/eleboss/EBR

🩻 Pose via Ray Diffusion 🩻

👉Novel distributed representation of camera pose that treats a camera as a bundle of rays. Naturally suited for set-level transformers, it's the new SOTA on camera pose estimation. Source code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/qBsFK
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14817.pdf
👉Project jasonyzhang.com/RayDiffusion
👉Code github.com/jasonyzhang/RayDiffusion

🗃️ MATH-Vision Dataset 🗃️

👉MATH-V is a curated dataset of 3,040 HQ mat problems with visual contexts sourced from real math competitions. Dataset released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/gmIAu
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2402.14804.pdf
👉Project mathvision-cuhk.github.io/
👉Code github.com/mathvision-cuhk/MathVision

🫅FlowMDM: Human Composition🫅

👉FlowMDM, a diffusion-based approach capable of generating seamlessly continuous sequences of human motion from textual descriptions.

👉Review https://t.ly/pr2g_
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/daYRftdF
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dcRkv5Pc
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dw-3JJks

🎷EMO: talking/singing Gen-AI 🎷

👉EMO: audio-driven portrait-video generation. Vocal avatar videos with expressive facial expressions, and various head poses. Input: 1 single frame, video duration = length of input audio

👉Review https://t.ly/4IYj5
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dGPX2-Yc
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dyf6p_N3
👉Repo (empty) github.com/HumanAIGC/EMO

💌 Multi-LoRA Composition 💌

👉Two novel training-free image composition: LoRA Switch and LoRA Composite for integrating any number of elements in an image through multi-LoRA composition. Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/GFy3Z
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2402.16843.pdf
👉Code github.com/maszhongming/Multi-LoRA-Composition

💥 MM-AU: Video Accident 💥

👉MM-AU - Multi-Modal Accident Understanding: 11,727 videos with temporally aligned descriptions. 2.23M+ BBs, 58,650 pairs of video-based accident reasons. Data & Code announced 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/a-jKI
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2403.00436.pdf
👉Dataset http://www.lotvsmmau.net/MMAU/demo

🔥 SOTA: Stable Diffusion 3 is out! 🔥

👉Stable Diffusion 3 is the new SOTA in text-to-image generation (based on human preference evaluations). New Multimodal Diffusion Transformer (MMDiT) architecture uses separate sets of weights for image & language, improving text understanding/spelling capabilities. Weights & Source Code to be released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/a1koo
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/d4i-9Bte
👉Blog https://lnkd.in/d-bEX-ww

🧵E-LoFTR: new Feats-Matching SOTA🧵

👉A novel LoFTR-inspired algorithm for efficiently producing semidense matches across images: up to 2.5× faster than LoFTR, superior to previous SOTA pipeline (SuperPoint + LightGlue). Code announced.

👉Review https://t.ly/7SPmC
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04765.pdf
👉Project https://zju3dv.github.io/efficientloftr/
👉Repo https://github.com/zju3dv/efficientloftr

🦁StableDrag: Point-based Editing🦁

👉#Tencent unveils StableDrag, a novel point-based image editing framework via discriminative point tracking method + confidence-based latent enhancement strategy for motion supervision. Source Code announced but still no repo.

👉Review https://t.ly/eUI05
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dz8-ymck
👉Project stabledrag.github.io/

🏛️ PIXART-Σ: 4K Generation 🏛️

👉PixArt-Σ is a novel Diffusion Transformer model (DiT) capable of directly generating images at 4K resolution. Authors: #Huawei, Dalian, HKU & HKUST. Demos available, code announced 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Cm2Qh
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2403.04692.pdf
👉Project pixart-alpha.github.io/PixArt-sigma-project/
👉Repo (empty) github.com/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-sigma
🤗-Demo https://huggingface.co/spaces/PixArt-alpha/PixArt-alpha

👺 Can GPT-4 play DOOM? 👺

👉Apparently yes, GPT-4 can play the game to a passable degree: it is able to manipulate doors, combat enemies, and perform pathing. Code (with licensing restrictions) released

👉Review https://t.ly/W8-0F
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dmsB7bjA
👉Project https://lnkd.in/ddDPwjQB

🪖RT Humanoid from Head-Mounted Sensors🪖

👉#META (+CMU) announced SimXR, a method for controlling a simulated avatar from info obtained from AR/VR headsets

👉Review https://t.ly/Si2Mp
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2403.06862.pdf
👉Project www.zhengyiluo.com/SimXR/

🏷️ Face Foundation Model 🏷️

👉Arc2Face, the first foundation model for human faces. Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/MfAFI
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dViE_tCd
👉Project https://lnkd.in/d4MHdEZK
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dv9ZtDfA

🪼FaceXFormer: Unified Face-Transformer🪼

👉FaceXFormer, the first unified transformer for facial analysis: face parsing, landmark detection, head pose, attributes recognition, age, gender, race, and landmarks.

👉Review https://t.ly/MfAFI
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.12960.pdf
👉Project kartik-3004.github.io/facexformer_web/
👉Code github.com/Kartik-3004/facexformer

🦕 DINO-based Video Tracking 🦕

👉The Weizmann Institute announced the new SOTA in point-tracking via pre-trained DINO features. Source code announced (not yet released)💙

👉Review https://t.ly/_GIMT
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dsGVDcar
👉Project dino-tracker.github.io/
👉Code https://github.com/AssafSinger94/dino-tracker

🦖 T-Rex 2: a new SOTA is out! 🦖

👉A novel (VERY STRONG) open-set object detector model. Strong zero-shot capabilities, suitable for various scenarios with only one suit of weights. Demo and Source Code released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/fYw8D
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dpmRh2zh
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dnR_jPcR
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dnZnGRUn
👉Demo https://lnkd.in/drDUEDYh

💄TinyBeauty: 460 FPS Make-up💄

👉TinyBeauty: only 80K parameters to achieve the SOTA in virtual makeup without intricate face prompts. Up to 460 FPS on mobile!

👉Review https://t.ly/LG5ok
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.15033.pdf
👉Project https://tinybeauty.github.io/TinyBeauty/

☔ AiOS: All-in-One-Stage Humans ☔

👉All-in-one-stage framework for SOTA multiple expressive pose and shape recovery without additional human detection step.

👉Review https://t.ly/ekNd4
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2403.17934.pdf
👉Project https://ttxskk.github.io/AiOS/
👉Code/Demo (announced)