🥽 #metaverse in 1991 🥽

👉Q: is #VR the technology that developed least in the last 30 years? 🤔

Discussion: https://bit.ly/3txWF07

🫕NeRFusion: Large-Scale Reconstruction🫕

👉Efficient large-scale reconstruction & photo-realistic rendering

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Frame-by-frame R.F.
✅Neural reconstruction
✅Real-time at 20+ fps
✅SOTA on indoor / objects

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

☕ORViT for understanding tasks☕

👉ORViT: object-centric approach that extends ViT layers incorporating object representations

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Spatio-temporal through the net
✅''Object-Region Attention''
✅''Object-Dynamics" module
✅Code just released! Apache 2.0

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

🪅Insane Neural Sketching from #MIT🪅

👉Line drawing generation as unsupervised image translation with various losses

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Unpaired method for line drawing
✅Geometry loss to predict depth
✅Semantic loss to match CLIP feats
✅SOTA on unpaired translation/generation
✅Code and Models under MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/36JRr8A

🏔️MPS-Net: new SOTA for #3D human🏔️

👉MPS-Net: accurate & temporally coherent 3D human pose/shape from video

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅MoCA: visual cues from motion
✅HAFI to mix past/future feats
✅Stronger temporal correlation
✅SOTA on multiple datasets

More: https://bit.ly/3uAI5EB

🤿Transfiner: hyper-detailed segmentation🤿

👉Mask Transfiner: #AI for HQ & efficient instance segmentation

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Transfiner: HQ segmentation
✅HQ seg. via quadtree structure
✅SOTA & extreme details
✅Code under MIT License

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

🥙 DualStyleGAN: SOTA in style transfer🥙

👉Flexible control of dual styles of face domain and extended artistic portrait domain

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅High-resolution (1024*1024)
✅Intrinsic/extrinsic style path
✅Hierarchical style manipulation
✅Novel progressive fine-tuning
✅Source code under MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/3uS26Xp

🍚 GTR: Global Tracking Transformers 🍚

👉UTexas + Apple: transformer for global multi-object tracking

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅GTR operates on any object
✅Few frames->global trajectories
✅SOTA on detectors for any object
✅Code under Apache License 2.0

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

🧠E2E Perception for #selfdrivingcars🧠

👉HybridNets: multi-task net with several key optimizations

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅End-to-end perception network
✅Traffic, lane, object detection
✅Drivable segmentation area
✅Real-time on embedded systems
✅Source code under MIT License

More: https://bit.ly/3JMk8Az

🛩️Smart Parking with UAVs🛩️

👉A novel methodology to monitor car parking areas in real-time via Drones/UAVs

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅YoloV3 + DeepSort tracker
✅Vehicle detection/tracking
✅Occupancy estimation via RT
✅Four blocks, unique pipeline

More: https://bit.ly/3iJD8nm

👕 Detecting Events via #AI 👕

👉Localizing object states & corresponding state-modifying actions

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅SS-learning state-modifying
✅Noise adaptive weighting
✅ChangeIt: 2.6k+ hrs , 34k+ changes
✅Dataset, code, and model!

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

🌈🌈 Interactive Neural Labelling 🌈🌈

👉Dense labelling of geometry, color & semantics via #3D neural field

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅No training data
✅Dense labeling
✅Classes on the fly
✅Labelling at a scale

More: https://bit.ly/36Y0faQ

♟️Neural RGB-D Reconstruction♟️

👉Novel approach for #3D mixing implicit surface representations with NeRFs

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅RGB-D based reconstruction
✅Leveraging color & depth
✅Depth into the NeRF
✅Pose & camera refinement

More: https://bit.ly/3iN6e54

🦓 Hyper-Fast Refinement 🦓

👉SharpContour: novel contour-based refinement for semantic segmentation

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Instance-aware Point Classifier
✅Deforming by discrete updating
✅Estimating offsets independently
✅Source code soon available!

More: https://bit.ly/3qL04GY

🥗 Neural Mesh via Text only 🥗

👉Zero-shot generation of 3D model using only a target text prompt

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅ZS 3D model with text only
✅ZS text-guided generation
✅Meshes with texture/normal
✅Differentiable LLS implementation

More: https://bit.ly/3u0qnvb

🪆#3D, Materials, and Lighting from 2D🪆

👉Nvidia: topology, materials & map lighting jointly from 2D. INSANE 😮

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Topology, materials and lighting
✅Meshes with materials/lighting
✅Compact volumetric texturing
✅Differentiable all-frequency lighting
✅Code under #NVIDIA License

More: https://bit.ly/3IUoF2t

🍜Ref-NeRF for extreme realism🍜

👉Ref-NeRF: reflected radiance & structures via collection of spatially-varying scene properties

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Realism and accuracy
✅Replacing NeRF’s params
✅Regularization of volume density
✅Integrated Directional Encoding

More: https://bit.ly/3tTlS5l

🦧OFA for all: Cross, Vision, Language🦧

👉Unified multimodal model for image generation, visual grounding, etc.

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Sequence-to-sequence learning
✅Image Captioning / Generation
✅Visual Grounding / Classification
✅Text-to-Image Generation
✅Visual Question Answering

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

🍿Old Films Back to Life with #AI🍿

👉Recurrent transformer network (RTN) to restore heavily degraded old films

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Transformer blocks for spatial
✅Knowledge from adjacent frames
✅Color from keyframes to whole clip
✅Source code available in days!

More: https://bit.ly/3wZbV8y

🍊Neural Head #Avatars from RGB🍊

👉Novel neural representation for animatable head avatar

𝐇𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬:
✅Novel articulated human head
✅Full-geometry reconstruction
✅Differentiable optimization pipeline
✅Disentanglement of shape/color

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