🍈DeepBillboards: old-school trick for #VR🍈

👉DeepBillboards models a 3D object implicitly using neural net on the user’s viewing direction

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅#Google Brain +Tsukuba + Tokyo
✅Rendering at higher res., improving #VR
✅NeRF into interactive VR with accuracy++
✅NeRF (or any others) directly in #Unity

More: https://bit.ly/3CsTQ5y

🈯SAMURAI: in-the-wild Shape/Material🈯

👉#Google SAMURAI: shape, BRDF, per-image pose & illumination. Relightable #3D assets for #AR/#VR.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Parametrization for varying distances
✅Camera multiplex optimization
✅Posterior scaling of input images
✅Explicit meshes extraction with BRDF
✅Code/data soon available ->#NeurIPS

More: https://bit.ly/3BKWgf3

🧩 X-Avatar: Expressive Human Avatars 🧩

👉ETHZ (+Microsoft) unveils X-Avatar: digital expressive humans for life-like experiences (#AR / #VR)

😎Review https://bit.ly/3J6YDLH
😎Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2303.04805.pdf
😎Project https://skype-line.github.io/projects/X-Avatar/
😎Code https://github.com/Skype-line/X-Avatar

🥻SF: Towards Virtual Cloth🥻

👉SEA AI Lab unveils a novel #AI to recovery the garment sewing patterns from daily photos for #AR / #VR worlds

😎Review https://t.ly/MwpAV
😎Project https://sewformer.github.io/
😎Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.04218.pdf
😎Code https://github.com/sail-sg/sewformer