🖼️ Diffusive Images that Sound 🖼️

👉The University of Michigan unveils a diffusion model able to generate spectrograms that look like images but can also be played as sound.

👉Review https://t.ly/ADtYM
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12221
👉Project ificl.github.io/images-that-sound
👉Code github.com/IFICL/images-that-sound

👚ViViD: Diffusion VTON👚

👉ViViD is a novel framework employing powerful diffusion models to tackle the task of video virtual try-on. Code announced, not released yet😢

👉Review https://t.ly/h_SyP
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.11794
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dT4_bzPw
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dCK5ug4v

🍀OmniGlue: Foundation Matcher🍀

👉#Google OmniGlue from #CVPR24: the first learnable image matcher powered by foundation models. Impressive OOD results!

👉Review https://t.ly/ezaIc
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.12979
👉Project hwjiang1510.github.io/OmniGlue/
👉Code https://github.com/google-research/omniglue/

🔥 YOLOv10 is out 🔥

👉YOLOv10: novel real-time end-to-end object detection. Code released under GNU AGPL v3.0💙

👉Review https://shorturl.at/ZIHBh
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.14458
👉Code https://github.com/THU-MIG/yolov10/

⛈️Unsupervised Neuromorphic Motion⛈️

👉The Western Sydney University unveils a novel unsupervised event-based motion segmentation algorithm, employing the #Prophesee Gen4 HD event camera.

👉Review https://t.ly/UZzIZ
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.15209
👉Project samiarja.github.io/evairborne
👉Repo (empty) github.com/samiarja/ev/_deep/_motion_segmentation

🦓 Z.S. Diffusive Segmentation 🦓

👉KAUST (+MPI) announced the first zero-shot approach for Video Semantic Segmentation (VSS) based on pre-trained diffusion models. Source Code released under MIT💙

👉Review https://t.ly/v_64K
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.16947
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dcSt4dQx
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dcZfM8F3

🪰 Dynamic Gaussian Fusion via 4D Motion Scaffolds 🪰

👉MoSca is a novel 4D Motion Scaffolds to reconstruct/synthesize novel views of dynamic scenes from monocular videos in the wild!

👉Review https://t.ly/nSdEL
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.17421
👉Code github.com/JiahuiLei/MoSca
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dkjMVcqZ

🧤Transformer-based 4D Hands🧤

👉4DHands is a novel and robust approach to recovering interactive hand meshes and their relative movement from monocular inputs. Authors: Beijing NU, Tsinghua & Lenovo. No code announced 😢

👉Review https://t.ly/wvG-l
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.20330
👉Project 4dhands.github.io/

🎭New 2D Landmarks SOTA🎭

👉Flawless AI unveils FaceLift, a novel semi-supervised approach that learns 3D landmarks by directly lifting (visible) hand-labeled 2D landmarks and ensures better definition alignment, with no need for 3D landmark datasets. No code announced🥹

👉Review https://t.ly/lew9a
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2405.19646
👉Project davidcferman.github.io/FaceLift

🐳 MultiPly: in-the-wild Multi-People 🐳

👉MultiPly: novel framework to reconstruct multiple people in 3D from monocular in-the-wild videos. It's the new SOTA over the publicly available datasets and in-the-wild videos. Source Code announced, coming💙

👉Review https://t.ly/_xjk_
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.01595
👉Project eth-ait.github.io/MultiPly
👉Repo github.com/eth-ait/MultiPly

👹AI and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Benchmark👹

👉Last week Yann LeCun said something like "LLMs will not reach human intelligence". It's clear the on-going #deeplearning is not ready for "general AI", a "radical alternative" is necessary to create a “superintelligence”.

👉Review https://t.ly/isdxM
👉News https://lnkd.in/dFraieZS
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/da-7PnVT

📞FacET: VideoCall Change Your Expression📞

👉Columbia University unveils FacET: discovering behavioral differences between conversing face-to-face (F2F) and on video-calls (VCs).

👉Review https://t.ly/qsQmt
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.00955
👉Project facet.cs.columbia.edu/
👉Repo (empty) github.com/stellargo/facet

🚙 UA-Track: Uncertainty-Aware MOT🚙

👉UA-Track: novel Uncertainty-Aware 3D MOT framework which tackles the uncertainty problem from multiple aspects. Code announced, not released yet.

👉Review https://t.ly/RmVSV
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.02147
👉Project https://liautoad.github.io/ua-track-website

🧊 Universal 6D Pose/Tracking 🧊

👉Omni6DPose is a novel dataset for 6D Object Pose with 1.5M+ annotations. Extra: GenPose++, the novel SOTA in category-level 6D estimation/tracking thanks to two pivotal improvements.

👉Review https://t.ly/Ywgl1
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04316
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dHBvenhX
👉Lib https://lnkd.in/d8Yc-KFh

👗 SOTA Multi-Garment VTOn Editing 👗

👉#Google (+UWA) unveils M&M VTO, novel mix 'n' match virtual try-on that takes as input multiple garment images, text description for garment layout and an image of a person. It's the new SOTA both qualitatively and quantitatively. Impressive results!

👉Review https://t.ly/66mLN
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.04542
👉Project https://mmvto.github.io

👑 Kling AI vs. OpenAI Sora 👑

👉Kling: the ultimate Chinese text-to-video model - rival to #OpenAI’s Sora. No papers or tech info to check, but stunning results from the official site.

👉Review https://t.ly/870DQ
👉Paper ???
👉Project https://kling.kuaishou.com/

🍉 MASA: MOT Anything By SAM 🍉

👉MASA: Matching Anything by Segmenting Anything pipeline to learn object-level associations from unlabeled images of any domain. An universal instance appearance model for matching any objects in any domain. Source code in June 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/pKdEV
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dnjuT7xm
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dYbWzG4E
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dr5BJCXm

🎹 PianoMotion10M for gen-hands 🎹

👉PianoMotion10M: 116 hours of piano playing videos from a bird’s-eye view with 10M+ annotated hand poses. A big contribution in hand motion generation. Code & Dataset released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/_pKKz
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09326
👉Code https://lnkd.in/dcBP6nvm
👉Project https://lnkd.in/d_YqZk8x
👉Dataset https://lnkd.in/dUPyfNDA

📫MeshPose: DensePose+HMR📫

👉MeshPose: novel approach to jointly tackle DensePose and Human Mesh Reconstruction in a while. A natural fit for #AR applications requiring real-time mobile inference.

👉Review https://t.ly/a-5uN
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.10180
👉Project https://meshpose.github.io/

🌵 RobustSAM for Degraded Images 🌵

👉RobustSAM, the evolution of SAM for degraded images; enhancing the SAM’s performance on low-quality pics while preserving prompt-ability & zeroshot generalization. Dataset & Code released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/mnyyG
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2406.09627
👉Project robustsam.github.io
👉Code github.com/robustsam/RobustSAM