😻 GARField: Group Anything 😻

👉 GARField is a novel approach for decomposing #3D scenes into a hierarchy of semantically meaningful groups from posed image inputs.

👉Review https://t.ly/6Hkeq
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/d28mfRcZ
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dzYdRNKy
👉Repo (coming) https://lnkd.in/d2VeRJCS

🔥 Depth Anything: new SOTA 🔥

👉Depth Anything: the new SOTA in monocular depth estimation (MDE), trained with 1.5M labeled images and 62M+ unlabeled images jointly. It's the new SOTA!

👉Review https://t.ly/tCBwO
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/djx-9k2J
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dYetqZFa
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/d87CrUGv
👉Demo🤗 https://lnkd.in/dJhvKBep

🎭 ULTRA-Realistic Avatar 🎭

👉Novel 3D avatar with enhanced fidelity of geometry, and superior quality of physically based rendering (PBR) textures without unwanted lighting.

👉Review https://t.ly/B3BEu
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dkUQHFEV
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dtEQxrBu
👉Code coming 🩷

🔥Lumiere: SOTA video-gen🔥

👉#Google unveils Lumiere: Space-Time Diffusion Model for Realistic Video Generation. It's the new SOTA, tasks: Text-to-Video, Video Stylization, Cinemagraphs & Video Inpainting.

👉Review https://t.ly/nalJR
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/d-PvrGjT
👉Project https://t.ly/gK8hz

🧪 SUPIR: SOTA restoration 🧪

👉SUPIR is the new SOTA in image restoration; suitable for restoration of blurry objects, defining the material texture of objects, and adjusting restoration based on high-level semantics

👉Review https://t.ly/wgObH
👉Project https://supir.xpixel.group/
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dZPYcUuq
👉Demo coming 🩷 but no code announced :(

🫧 SAM + Open Models 🫧

👉Grounded SAM (w/ DINO) as an open-set detector to combine with SAM. It can seamlessly integrate with other Open-World models to accomplish more intricate visual tasks.

👉Review https://t.ly/FwasQ
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2401.14159.pdf
👉Code github.com/IDEA-Research/Grounded-Segment-Anything

👢"Virtual Try-All" by #Amazon 👢

👉#Amazon announces ”Diffuse to Choose”: diffusion-based image-conditioned inpainting for VTON. Virtually place any e-commerce item in any setting.

👉Review https://t.ly/at07Y
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dxR7nGtd
👉Project diffuse2choose.github.io/

🦩 WildRGB-D: Objects in the Wild 🦩

👉#NVIDIA unveils a novel RGB-D object dataset captured in the wild: ~8500 recorded objects, ~20,000 RGBD videos, 46 categories with corresponding masks and 3D point clouds.

👉Review https://t.ly/WCqVz
👉Data github.com/wildrgbd/wildrgbd
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2401.12592.pdf
👉Project wildrgbd.github.io/

🌋EasyVolcap: Accelerating Neural Volumetric🌋

👉Novel #PyTorch library for accelerating neural video:volumetric video capturing, reconstruction & rendering

👉Review https://t.ly/8BISl
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2312.06575.pdf
👉Code github.com/zju3dv/EasyVolcap

🐙 Rock-Track announced! 🐙

👉Rock-Track: the evolution of Poly-MOT, the previous SOTA in 3D MOT Tracking-By-Detection framework.

👉Review https://t.ly/hC0ak
👉Repo, coming: https://lnkd.in/dtDkPwCC
👉Paper coming

🧠350+ Free #AI Courses by #Google🧠

👉350+ free courses from #Google to become professional in #AI & #Cloud. The full catalog (900+) includes a variety of activity: videos, documents, labs, coding, and quizzes. 15+ supported languages. No excuse.

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✅𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐈

👉Review: https://t.ly/517Dr
👉Full list: https://www.cloudskillsboost.google/catalog?page=1

🍋 Diffutoon: new SOTA video 🍋

👉Diffutoon is a cartoon shading approach, aiming to transform photorealistic videos in anime styles. It can handle exceptionally high resolutions and rapid motions. Source code released!

👉Review https://t.ly/sim2O
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dPcSnAUu
👉Code https://lnkd.in/d9B_dGrf
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dpcsJcX2

🥓 RANSAC -> PARSAC (neural) 🥓

👉Neural PARSAC: estimating multiple vanishing points (V), fundamental matrices (F) or homographies (H) at the speed of light! Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/r9ngg
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dadQ4Qec
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dYp6gADd

↘️ SEELE: "moving" the subjects ➡️

👉Subject repositioning: manipulating an input image to reposition one of its subjects to a desired location while preserving the image’s fidelity. SEELE is a single diffusion model to address this novel generative sub-tasks

👉Review https://t.ly/4FS4H
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2401.16861.pdf
👉Project yikai-wang.github.io/seele/

🎉 ADΔER: Event-Camera Suite 🎉

👉ADΔER: a novel/unified framework for event-based video. Encoder / transcoder / decoder for ADΔER (Address, Decimation, Δt Event Representation) video streams. Source code (RUST) released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/w5_KC
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17151.pdf
👉Repo github.com/ac-freeman/adder-codec-rs

🚦(add) Anything in Any Video🚦

👉 XPeng Motors announced Anything in Any Scene: novel #AI for realistic video simulation that seamlessly inserts any object into an existing dynamic video. Strong emphasis on realism, the objects in the BBs don't exist. Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/UYhl0
👉Code https://lnkd.in/gyi7Dhkn
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/gXyAJ6GZ
👉Project https://lnkd.in/gVA5vduD

🍬 ABS: SOTA collision-free 🍬

👉ABS (Agile But Safe): learning-based control framework for agile and collision-free locomotion for quadrupedal robot. Source Code announced (coming) 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/AYu-Z
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2401.17583.pdf
👉Project agile-but-safe.github.io/
👉Repo github.com/LeCAR-Lab/ABS

🏇 Bootstrapping TAP 🏇

👉#Deepmind shows how large-scale, unlabeled, uncurated real-world data can improve TAP with minimal architectural changes, via a self-supervised student-teacher setup. Source Code released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/-S_ZL
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2402.00847.pdf
👉Code https://github.com/google-deepmind/tapnet

💥Py4AI 2x Speakers, 2x Tickets💥

✅Doubling the speakers (6 -> 12!)
✅A new track (2 tracks in parallel)
✅A new batch of 100 tickets!

👉 More: https://t.ly/WmVrM

🪵 HASSOD Object Detection 🪵

👉 HASSOD: fully self-supervised detection and instance segmentation. The new SOTA able to understand the part-to-whole object composition like humans do.

👉Review https://t.ly/66qHF
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03311.pdf
👉Project hassod-neurips23.github.io/
👉Repo github.com/Shengcao-Cao/HASSOD

🌵 G-Splatting Portraits 🌵

👉From monocular/casual video captures, Rig3DGS rigs 3D Gaussian Splatting to enable the creation of re-animatable portrait videos with control over facial expressions, head-pose and viewing direction

👉Review https://t.ly/fq71w
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03723.pdf
👉Project shahrukhathar.github.io/2024/02/05/Rig3DGS.html