🥸Imagen: far beyond DALL·E 2🥸

👉#Google: unprecedented photorealism and deep level of language understanding

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Dynamic thresh diffusion sampling
✅Efficient U-Net, efficient++ variant
✅DrawBench, new text-to-image
✅The new SOTA, COCO FID of 7.27

More: https://bit.ly/3lVtkbz

🪤Tracking over SOTA detectors🪤

👉Lightweight Python lib for real-time 2D object tracking 💥

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Layer of tracking over SOTA detectors
✅Suitable for complex video processing
✅Source code under BSD 3-Clause
✅Maintained by Tryolabs team

More: https://bit.ly/3wKtGqg

🥷🏿 FCA: #3D Neural Camouflage 🥷🏿

👉#3D full-camouflage adversarial patch to fool neural detectors

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Attack by diff-neural render
✅E2E physical adversarial attack
✅Envs, vehicles & detectors
✅Source code available!

More: https://bit.ly/38kKyfa

🍋 One-Shot Object Pose 🍋

👉A novel one-shot object pose estimator

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Visual localization pipeline for object pose
✅Handling novel objects without CAD model
✅Novel graph attention for 2D-3D matching
✅Large dataset for one-shot object pose

More: https://bit.ly/3MTogjJ

☄️STEVE: Slot-TransformEr for VidEos☄️

👉STEVE: unsupervised model for object-centric learning in videos

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Adoption of a slot decoder (SLATE)
✅SLATE with slot-level recurrence model
✅Complex and naturalistic videos
✅Significantly outperforms previous SOTA

More: https://bit.ly/3PNxxM3

🦔 CogVideo: insane text-to-clip 🦔

👉CogVideo: 9B-parameters world's first large scale open-source text-to-video 😵

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Largest open-source T2C transformer
✅Finetuning of text-to-image model
✅Multi-frame-rate hierarchical training
✅From pretrained model CogView2

More: https://bit.ly/3Gzfl4n

🦄Time-Aware Neural Voxels🦄

👉TiNeuVox: "NeRF" with time-aware voxel features 😵

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Dynamic scene w/ optimizable structure
✅Temporal information in radiance net
✅Small/large motion w/ single-res of feats
✅192× faster than previous Hyper-NeRF

More: https://bit.ly/3wR4O08

🫐Neural Anomaly Detection by AWS🫐

👉Ultra-competitive inference and SOTA for both detection and localization

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Locally aggregated, mid-level feats patch
✅Maximizing nominal information at test time
✅Reducing biases towards ImageNet classes
✅Image-level anomaly AUROC of up to 99.6%

More: https://bit.ly/3t7Ndjg

🛹 Project Skate from Google #AI 🛹

👉#AI tool to analyze the skateboarder's tricks in real-time

More: https://bit.ly/3zbQS3M

🧬Neural Text2Human Generation🧬

👉Text-driven neural human generation

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Full-body from a given human pose
✅Hierarchical texture-aware codebook
✅DeepFashion -> 44k Hi-Res images
✅Code and models available!

More: https://bit.ly/3Mdnpt0

🧨EfficientFormers: 1.6ms inference 🧨

👉Transformers fast as MobileNet? Snap shows that on #iphone!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Low latency on mobile, high performance!
✅Revisiting the design of ViT through latency
✅New dimension-consistent design paradigm
✅EfficientFormers: a new ViT for mobile!

More: https://bit.ly/3MdgW15

🐢 Transformer-Based Sens-Fusion 🐢

👉Updating TransFuser (CVPR21): image + LiDAR representations with self-attention

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Existing approach can't handle traffic 😢
✅Novel multi-modal fusion transformer
✅The new SOTA in driving performance
✅Reducing avg collisions per KM by 48%
✅Insights on current limitations of E2E

More: https://bit.ly/391dmd6

🧘🏻‍♂️YogNet: neural yoga assistant🧘🏻‍♂️

👉Multi-person yoga neural expert for 20 asanas

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅CNNs & reg.LSTMs + 3D-CNNs
✅Multi-person asanas in real-time
✅YAR: dataset for yoga & posture
✅1206 videos, 2D RGB camera

More: https://bit.ly/3NncVbE

🔴 Geogram: geometric algos in C++ 🔴

👉Novel open-source programming library with (research) geometric algorithms in C++

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Geometry Processing from #INRIA
✅30+ papers from SIGGRAPH, etc.
✅Grants: GOODSHAPE & VORPALINE
✅Code (mostly C++) under BSD 3

More: https://bit.ly/3mhS4L7

🍏 Open Source Vision from #Apple 🍏

👉CVNets: open-source (not a joke) lib for neural vision.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅PyTorch-based neural lib. for vision
✅Train 2−4× longer w/ augmentations
✅Plug-and-play components for CV
✅Source code under a custom license

More: https://bit.ly/39d1dSj

🏇🏻Neural Clips by #Nvidia: INSANE 🏇🏻

👉Neural generation with changes in camera viewpoint & content that arises over time 🤯

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel hierarchical generator architecture
✅Temp. receptive field + temporal embed.
✅Multi-res. with super-resolution network
✅SOTA in long clip with motion & changes
✅Code, data & models in August 2022 🏖️

More: https://bit.ly/3zroWsC

⚽ Zero to #Messi with #deeplearning ⚽

👉EA unveils a neural system to learn multiple soccer juggling skills 😍

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Learning difficult soccer juggling skills
✅Layer-wise mixture-of-experts architecture
✅Specialization arises naturally
✅Adaptive random walk training strategy

More: https://bit.ly/3mwRaL2

🏖️ HumanNeRF: source code is out! 🏖️

👉Pausing the video at any frame and rendering the subject from arbitrary views!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Synthesizing photorealistic humans
✅Synthesizing details, ie. cloth & face
✅Volumetric canonical T-pose
✅Skeletal rigid/non-rigid decomposition

More: https://bit.ly/3NEkTNY

🎒 EG3D: source code is out! 🎒

👉#Nvidia just opened EG3D: real time multi-view faces w/ HQ #3D geometry!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Tri-plane-based 3D GAN framework
✅Pose-correlated attribute (expression)
✅SOTA in uncond. 3D-aware synthesis
✅Source code & models NOW available!

More: https://bit.ly/3aOfHs0

🔥One Millisecond Backbone. Fire!🔥

👉MobileOne by #Apple: efficient mobile backbone with inference <1 ms on #iPhone12!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅75.9% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet
✅38× faster than MobileFormer net
✅Classification, detection & segmentation
✅Source code & model soon available!

More: https://bit.ly/3tsT7f2

🧨 Scaling Transformers to GigaPixels!🧨

👉Novel ViT called Hierarchical Image Pyramid Transformer (HIPT) -> Scaling to GigaPixels!

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Gigapixel whole-slide imaging (WSI)
✅Leveraging natural hier. structure of WSI
✅Self-supervised Hi-Res representations
✅Source code and models available!

More: https://bit.ly/3xLuzkg