🥶 OmniHuman-1.5 🥶

👉#ByteDance proposes a novel framework designed to generate character animations that are not only physically plausible but also semantically coherent and expressive. Coherency with speech's rhythm, prosody and semantic content. Impressive results but no code 🥺

👉Review https://t.ly/CnRmX
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19209
👉Project omnihuman-lab.github.io/v1_5/
👉Repo 🥺

⚽SoccerNet 2025 results!⚽

👉SoccerNet 2025 Challenges is the open benchmarking dedicated to advancing computer vision research in football video understanding. Repo available 💙

👉Review https://t.ly/MfHKg
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19182
👉Project https://www.soccer-net.org/
👉Repo https://github.com/SoccerNet

🌹ROSE: Remove Objects & Effects🌹

👉Fix the object’s effects on environment: shadows, reflections, light, translucency and mirror. Model, Demo & Dataset available via Hugging Face💙

👉Review https://t.ly/_KFM0
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dNcTXQAE
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dFGmYT5h
👉Model https://lnkd.in/dhTT-VkN
👉Demo https://lnkd.in/dimgXZT6
👉Data https://lnkd.in/da7Jv667

🉐 Dress-up & Dance 🉐

👉Novel diffusion framework that generates HQ 5-second-long 24 FPS VTON videos at 1152×720 of a user wearing desired garments while moving in accordance with a given reference video. Impressive results but no repo🥺

👉Review https://t.ly/7NeTL
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21070
👉Project immortalco.github.io/DressAndDance/
👉Repo 🥺

🌈 Multi-View 3D Tracking 🌈

👉MVTracker is the first data-driven multi-view 3D point tracker for tracking arbitrary 3D points across multiple cameras. Repo available💙

👉Review https://t.ly/rISMR
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21060
👉Project https://lnkd.in/drHtAmRC
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/d4k8mg3B

❤️‍🔥PHD: Personalized 3D Humans❤️‍🔥

👉ETH & #Meta unveil PHD, a novel approach for personalized 3D human mesh recovery (HMR) and body fitting that leverages user-specific shape information. Code & models to be released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/IeRhH
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.21257
👉Project https://phd-pose.github.io/
👉Repo TBA

🪴 Pixie: Physics from Pixels 🪴

👉UPenn + MIT unveil Pixie: training a neural-net that maps pretrained visual features (i.e., CLIP) to dense material fields of physical properties in a single forward pass, enabling real‑time physics simulations. Repo & Dataset under MIT license💙

👉Review https://t.ly/1W0n5
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dsHAHDqM
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dwrHRbRc
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dy7bvjsK

🫛TMR: Few-Shot Template-matching🫛

👉POSTECH unveils TMR, a novel and simple template-matching detector for few-shot pattern detection, achieving strong (and SOTA) results on diverse datasets. A new dataset (RPINE) released, repo soon💙

👉Review https://t.ly/WWAcL
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dJbSu5vk
👉Project https://lnkd.in/dwcDnHHQ
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dp7aw8Cs

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🧬 OpenVision 2 is out! 🧬

👉UCSC releases OpenVision2: a novel family of generative pretrained visual encoders that removes the text encoder and contrastive loss, training with caption-only supervision. Fully open, Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Oma3w
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.01644
👉Project https://ucsc-vlaa.github.io/OpenVision2/
👉Repo https://github.com/UCSC-VLAA/OpenVision

🐉 #DoubleDragon with #AI 🐉

👉How Double Dragon would look like in real life? Each character has been transformed with #AI to capture their style, fighting spirit, and charisma, as if they had stepped right out of the game’s streets into the real world. AUDIO ON. Damn romantic💙

#artificialintelligence #machinelearning #ml #AI #deeplearning #computervision #AIwithPapers #metaverse #LLM

👉Post https://t.ly/0IpER
👉Channel https://www.youtube.com/@iaiaoh84

🍐 Promptable Human Mesh 🍐

👉PromptHMR is a promptable human pose/shape (HPS) estimation method that processes images with spatial or semantic prompts. It takes “side information” readily available from vision-language models or user input to improve the accuracy and robustness of 3D HPS. Code released💙

👉Review https://t.ly/zJ7S-
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2504.06397
👉Project yufu-wang.github.io/phmr-page/
👉Repo github.com/yufu-wang/PromptHMR

🔥WebEyeTrack: real-time/web eye🔥

👉WebEyeTrack is a novel framework that integrates lightweight SOTA gaze estimation models directly in the browser. Bringing deep‑learning gaze estimation to the web browser and explicitly accounts for head pose. Source Code released under MIT license💙

👉Review https://t.ly/Xon9h
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.19544
👉Project redforestai.github.io/WebEyeTrack/
👉Repo github.com/RedForestAi/WebEyeTrack

✂️ AI Open-Source Annotation ✂️

👉VisioFirm by TOELT is a fully open-source, AI-powered image annotation tool designed to accelerate labeling for Computer Vision tasks like object detection, oriented BBs, and segmentation. Source code released under Apache 2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/MoMvv
👉Paper https://lnkd.in/dxTncSgv
👉Repo https://lnkd.in/dCWMXp3x

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🖌️Real-Time Drag-Based Editing🖌️

👉The Visual AI Lab unveils Inpaint4Drag, a novel framework that decomposes drag-based editing into pixel-space bidirectional warping/inpainting. Inspired by elastic object deformation. Demo and Code released (unknown license)💙

👉Review https://t.ly/H5nlR
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04582
👉Project https://visual-ai.github.io/inpaint4drag/
👉Repo https://github.com/Visual-AI/Inpaint4Drag
👉Demo https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1fzoyNzcJNZjM1_08FE9V2V20EQxGf4PH

🩸Foundation Red Blood Cells🩸

👉RedDino from University of Cagliari is a self-supervised foundation model designed for red blood cell (RBC) morphology analysis. Trained on 1.25M RBC images, it's the new SOTA in shape classification. Code & Models released under Apache2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/uWAch
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08180
👉Code github.com/Snarci/RedDino
👉Models huggingface.co/collections/Snarcy/reddino-689a13e29241d2e5690202fc

👻 From Skin to Skeleton 👻

👉This paper try unifying the SMPL body model with BSM, a new Biomechanical Skeleton Model. The SKEL model is animatable like SMPL but with fewer, and biomechanically-realistic, degrees of freedom. Model, code, and data available for research💙

👉Review https://t.ly/JsI8M
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06607
👉Project https://skel.is.tue.mpg.de/

🌱 FoMo4Wheat Foundational Model 🌱

👉PheniX Lab et al. unveil a novel family of foundational models tailored for wheat image tasks, suitable for classification, detection, counting and segmentation. Demo, Dataset, Model & Code under MIT💙

👉Review https://t.ly/UzM-Z
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06907
👉Project fomo4wheat.phenix-lab.com/
👉Repo github.com/PheniX-Lab/FoMo4Wheat?
👉Demo fomo4wheat.phenix-lab.com/demos

🐙Human-Centric Video Generation🐙

👉Tsinghua & #ByteDance unveil HuMo: a unified, human-centric video generation framework designed to produce HQ fine-grained, and controllable human videos from multimodal inputs: text prompt following, consistent subject preservation, synchronized audio-driven motion. Repo released under Apache2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/3S8Yb
👉Paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.08519
👉Project https://phantom-video.github.io/HuMo/
👉Repo https://github.com/Phantom-video/HuMo