👔 Universal Image Restoration 👔

👉LucidFlux by HKUSTGZ is the universal image restoration framework built on a large-scale diffusion transformer that delivers photorealistic restorations of real-world low-quality (LQ) images, outperforming SOTA diffusion-based models across diverse degradations. Repo under custom Non-Commercial License💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Z5cA3
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22414
👉Project https://w2genai-lab.github.io/LucidFlux/
👉Repo https://github.com/W2GenAI-Lab/LucidFlux

👩‍🦱Physical-Hair Diffusion👩‍🦱

👉CONTROLHAIR is novel hybrid framework that integrates a physics simulator with conditional video diffusion to enable controllable dynamic hair rendering. Repo announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/78LHr
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/epm-A9Fq
👉Project https://lnkd.in/evsjz298
👉Repo TBA

🔩Code-Agentic Education🔩

👉Show Lab unveils Code2Video: agentic, code-centric framework that generates HQ educational videos from knowledge points. Clarity, coherence & reproducibility. Repo under MIT💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Fv4LJ
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.01174
👉Repo https://github.com/showlab/Code2Video/
👉Project https://showlab.github.io/Code2Video/

🎷🎷 Clink! Chop! Thud! 🎷🎷

👉Sounding Object Detection: while an environment may contain many objects, only a few are directly involved in producing sound during an interaction. This model detects the sounding object in a video. Code/Data announced 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/VK_1h
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/depNjVXm
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dF63EZFG
👉Repo TBA

👉 A proof I'm not a bot...

My (short) interview to one of the biggest Italian media: AI in 2016, HPC / Quantum and how I created my startup: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/visionarynet_ai-itw25-ai-activity-7381215486115643392-t7an

Thanks for the support (and of course a new paper coming in a few hours)

🎺Visual Grounding RVOS🎺

👉ReferDINO is a strong RVOS model that inherits region-level vision-language alignment from foundational visual grounding models, and is further endowed with pixel-level dense perception & cross-modal spatio-temporal reasoning. Code, Demo & checkpoints💙

👉Review https://t.ly/rOdkP
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/efuAFQdE
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dK3wMZqv
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/d3i2PsNF

💄Pixel-Perfect Depth (SOTA)💄

👉Pixel-Perfect Depth is a mono-depth estimation model with pixel-space diffusion transformers. New SOTA. Repo under Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/75PGo
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/d8wxFpyY
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dV5HhsqH
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/d9JKFBJq
👉Demo https://lnkd.in/d3wBkKJ9

↗️ TrackVLA++ Visual Tracking↘️

👉TrackVLA++ is a novel Vision-Language-Action model that incorporates spatial reasoning and target identification memory, enabling SOTA performance in both long-horizon and highly crowded tracking scenarios. Model announced💙

👉Review https://t.ly/ruYzc
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.07134
👉Project pku-epic.github.io/TrackVLA-plus-plus-Web/
👉Repo TBA

🫧 Detect Anything via MLLM 🫧

👉Rex-Omni is a 3B-multimodal model that unifies visual perception tasks, including object detection, OCR, pointing, key-pointing & visual prompting into a single next point prediction framework. Impressive results. Repo under IDEA License 1.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/DCTk_
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/d4VDD-9j
👉Project https://lnkd.in/d6unEyvq
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dkYJFe-x

🫙Universal Feature Up-Sampling🫙

👉AnyUp is a novel method for feature up-sampling that can be applied to ANY vision feature at ANY resolution, without encoder-specific training: inference-time feature-agnostic up-sampling architecture to improve up-sampling quality. Repo CC-4.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/HvEw9
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.12764
👉Project https://wimmerth.github.io/anyup/
👉Repo https://github.com/wimmerth/anyup

🦄 City-Tour -> Simulation 🦄

👉UrbanVerse is a novel system to convert real-world urban scenes from city-tour videos into physics-aware, interactive simulation environments, enabling scalable robot learning in urban spaces with real-world generalization. Repo & Data announced 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/UvXNS
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.15018
👉Project https://urbanverseproject.github.io/
👉Repo TBA

🔥 SAM 2++: Track Anything 🔥

👉SAM 2++ is a novel unified model towards tracking at any granularity, including masks, boxes, and points. Impressive results but no code announced😢

👉Review https://t.ly/I392_
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2510.18822
👉Project tracking-any-granularity.github.io/
👉Repo :(

Repo (pretty empty) now online: https://github.com/OatmealLiu/UrbanVerse

🏜️Omni Driving Models🏜️

👉OmniNWM is a unified panoramic navigation world model that advances autonomous driving by jointly generating multi-modal states (RGB, semantics, depth, 3D occupancy), enabling precise action control & facilitating closed-loop evaluation through occupancy-based dense rewards. Repo under Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/ktXvz
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/eFKSZnrc
👉Project https://lnkd.in/eSDfccv8
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/efCSvjtp

🐠ITTO: Protocol for Dynamic Tracking🐠

👉ITTO by Caltech is a novel long-range tracking benchmark suite for evaluating and diagnosing tracking methods on complex and long-range motions. Repo under CC BY-NC 4.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/tN84a
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.19819
👉Project https://glab-caltech.github.io/ITTO/
👉Repo https://github.com/ilonadem/itto

🦗Character Mixing Generation🦗

👉MBZUAI unveils the first ever video-gen system able to preserve character ID, behavior & original style while generating plausible interactions between characters that have never coexisted - from cartoons (We Bare Bears, Tom & Jerry) to realistic humans (Mr. Bean, Young Sheldon)

👉Review https://t.ly/tN84a
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dhKMwukv
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dBkJs48h
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dw_uzgAk

🧷Generative Point Tracking w/ FM🧷

👉Generative Point Tracker (GenPT) is a novel generative framework for modelling multi-modal trajectories. Able to capture the multi-modality in point trajectories. Repo under MIT💙

👉Review https://t.ly/MMFrt
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20951
👉Project mtesfaldet.net/genpt_projpage/
👉Repo https://github.com/tesfaldet/genpt

🦄Unified Region-Level MLLM🦄

👉PixeRefers is an unified multimodal LLM framework that supports precise, region-specific understanding in both static images and dynamic videos, overcoming the holistic, scene-level bias of prior MLLMs. SOTA results. Demo, Repo & Dataset available💙

👉Review https://t.ly/WH4dQ
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2510.23603
👉Project circleradon.github.io/PixelRefer
👉Repo https://github.com/alibaba-damo-academy/PixelRefer