🤬Music vs. Face Recognition🤬

👉At their recent concerts, Massive Attack turned surveillance into art: crafting a haunting audiovisual show that exposes the dangers of facial recognition tech. Audiences were scanned with mock surveillance, confronting them with the intrusive power of #AI in real time

👉Review https://t.ly/VMrPC
👉News https://t.ly/aj1an

🔥SOTA Detection w/ DINOv3🔥

👉DEIMv2 is the evolution of DEIM framework while leveraging DINOv3. Various models, from an ultra-light version up to S, M, L, & X for a wide range of scenarios. Across these variants, DEIMv2 achieves SOTA. Repo Apache2.0💙

👉Review https://t.ly/P7jEH
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2509.20787
👉Repo github.com/Intellindust-AI-Lab/DEIMv2
👉Project intellindust-ai-lab.github.io/projects/DEIMv2

🤖Real-time Interactive Video🤖

👉LONGLIVE by #Nvidia is a frame-level autoregressive framework for real-time & interactive long video generation. LONGLIVE accepts sequential user prompts and generates corresponding videos in real time. Repo under non-commercial license💙

👉Review https://t.ly/jJkdY
👉Paper arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22622
👉Project nvlabs.github.io/LongLive/
👉Repo github.com/NVlabs/LongLive
🤗huggingface.co/Efficient-Large-Model/LongLive-1.3B

👔 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 :(