👺HiFiVFS: Extreme Face Swapping👺

👉HiFiVFS: HQ face swapping videos even in extremely challenging scenarios (occlusion, makeup, lights, extreme poses, etc.). Impressive results, no code announced😢

👉Review https://t.ly/ea8dU
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.18293
👉Project https://cxcx1996.github.io/HiFiVFS

🔥Video Depth without Video Models🔥

👉RollingDepth: turning a single-image latent diffusion model (LDM) into the novel SOTA depth estimator. It works better than dedicated model for depth 🤯 Code under Apache💙

👉Review https://t.ly/R4LqS
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.19189
👉Project https://rollingdepth.github.io/
👉Repo https://github.com/prs-eth/rollingdepth

⚽Universal Soccer Foundation Model⚽

👉Universal Soccer Video Understanding: SoccerReplay-1988 - the largest multi-modal soccer dataset - and MatchVision - the first vision-lang. foundation models for soccer. Code, dataset & checkpoints to be released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/-X90B
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.01820
👉Project https://jyrao.github.io/UniSoccer/
👉Repo https://github.com/jyrao/UniSoccer

🌈Motion Prompting Video Generation🌈

👉DeepMind unveils ControlNet, novel video generation model conditioned on spatio-temporally sparse or dense motion trajectories. Amazing results, but no code announced 😢

👉Review https://t.ly/VyKbv
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.02700
👉Project motion-prompting.github.io

🦘AniGS: Single Pic Animatable Avatar🦘

👉#Alibaba unveils AniGS: given a single human image as input it rebuilds a Hi-Fi 3D avatar in a canonical pose, which can be used for both photorealistic rendering & real-time animation. Source code announced, to be released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/4yfzn
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.02684
👉Project lingtengqiu.github.io/2024/AniGS/
👉Repo github.com/aigc3d/AniGS

🧤GigaHands: Massive #3D Hands🧤

👉Novel massive #3D bimanual activities dataset: 34 hours of activities, 14k hand motions clips paired with 84k text annotation, 183M+ unique hand images

👉Review https://t.ly/SA0HG
👉Paper www.arxiv.org/pdf/2412.04244
👉Repo github.com/brown-ivl/gigahands
👉Project ivl.cs.brown.edu/research/gigahands.html

🦢 Track4Gen: Diffusion + Tracking 🦢

👉Track4Gen: spatially aware video generator that combines video diffusion loss with point tracking across frames, providing enhanced spatial supervision on the diffusion features. GenAI with points-based motion control. Stunning results but no code announced😢

👉Review https://t.ly/9ujhc
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.06016
👉Project hyeonho99.github.io/track4gen/
👉Gallery hyeonho99.github.io/track4gen/full.html

🌹 4D Neural Templates 🌹

👉#Stanford unveils Neural Templates, generating HQ temporal object intrinsics for several natural phenomena and enable the sampling and controllable rendering of these dynamic objects from any viewpoint, at any time of their lifespan. A novel task in vision is born💙

👉Review https://t.ly/ka_Qf
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05278
👉Project https://chen-geng.com/rose4d#toi

🐕 Gaze-LLE: Neural Gaze 🐕

👉Gaze-LLE: novel transformer framework that streamlines gaze target by leveraging features from frozen DINOv2 encoder. Code & models under MIT 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/SadoF
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.09586
👉Repo github.com/fkryan/gazelle

🫶 Dynamic Cam-4D Hands 🫶

👉The Imperial College unveils Dyn-HaMR, the first approach to reconstruct 4D global hand motion from monocular videos recorded by dynamic cameras in the wild. Code announced under MIT💙

👉Review https://t.ly/h5vV7
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.12861
👉Project dyn-hamr.github.io/
👉Repo github.com/ZhengdiYu/Dyn-HaMR

🍄 Open-MLLMs Self-Driving 🍄

👉OpenEMMA: a novel open-source e2e framework based on MLLMs (via Chain-of-Thought reasoning). Effectiveness, generalizability, and robustness across a variety of challenging driving scenarios. Code released under Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/waLZI
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.15208
👉Code https://github.com/taco-group/OpenEMMA

🔄️ Orient Anything in 3D 🔄️
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👉Orient Anything is a novel robust image-based object orientation estimation model. By training on 2M rendered labeled images, it achieves strong zero-shot generalization in the wild. Code released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/ro5ep
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2412.18605
👉Project orient-anything.github.io/
👉Code https://lnkd.in/d_3k6Nxz

⭐TOP 10 Papers you loved - 2024⭐

👉Here the list of my posts you liked the most in 2024, thank you all 💙

𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬:
⭐"Look Ma, no markers"
⭐T-Rex 2 Detector
⭐Models at Any Resolution

👉The full list with links: https://t.ly/GvQVy

🌳 HD Video Object Insertion 🌳

👉VideoAnydoor is a novel zero-shot video object insertion #AI with high-fidelity detail preservation and precise motion control. All-in-one: video VTON, face swapping, logo insertion, multi-region editing, etc.

👉Review https://t.ly/hyvRq
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.01427
👉Project videoanydoor.github.io/
👉Repo TBA

⭐ Poll Alert!! ⭐

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🥮 SOTA probabilistic tracking🥮

👉ProTracker is a novel framework for robust and accurate long-term dense tracking of arbitrary points in videos. Code released under CC Attribution-NonCommercial💙

👉Review https://t.ly/YY_PH
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.03220
👉Project michaelszj.github.io/protracker/
👉Code github.com/Michaelszj/pro-tracker

🧤World-Space Ego 3D Hands🧤

👉The Imperial College unveils HaWoR, a novel world-space 3D hand motion estimation for egocentric videos. The new SOTA on both cam pose estimation & hand motion reconstruction. Code under Attribution-NC-ND 4.0 Int.💙

👉Review https://t.ly/ozJn7
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02973
👉Project hawor-project.github.io/
👉Code github.com/ThunderVVV/HaWoR

⚽ FIFA 3D Human Pose ⚽

👉#FIFA WorldPose is a novel dataset for multi-person global pose estimation in the wild, featuring footage from the 2022 World Cup. 2.5M+ annotation, released 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/kvGVQ
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02771
👉Project https://lnkd.in/d5hFWpY2
👉Dataset https://lnkd.in/dAphJ9WA