AI Halloween Avatars! StyleGAN2 Generator Reveals Your Inner Zombie
Now, just in time for costume season, another indie developer has taken facial image transfer tech to the opposite end of the cuteness spectrum, building a zombie generator.
Category: Computer Vision & Graphics
ICLR 2021 Submission | ‘Lambda Networks’ Achieve SOTA Accuracy, Save Massive Memory
ICLR 2021 submission proposes LambdaNetworks, a transformer-specific method that reduces costs of modeling long-range interactions for CV and other applications.
Google Open-Sources 3D System That Shows How Places Looked in the Past
Google AI recently launched the open-source browser-based toolset “rǝ,” which was created to enable the exploration of city transitions from 1800 to 2000 virtually in a three-dimensional view.
NeurIPS 2020 Workshop | Indie GAN Interpolation Method Turns Selfies Into Cartoon Characters
Pinkney and Adler NeurIPS 2020 workshop paper enables realistic image generation in domains such as animation and ukiyo-e with creative control on the output.
ICLR 2021 Submission: Deeper VAEs Excel on Natural Image Benchmarks
ICLR 2021 submitted paper proposes efficient VAEs that outperform PixelCNN-based autoregressive models in log-likelihood on natural image benchmarks.
‘Farewell Convolutions’ – ML Community Applauds Anonymous ICLR 2021 Paper That Uses Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
ICLR 2021 paper An Image Is Worth 16×16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale suggests Transformers can outperform top CNNs on CV at scale.
Google, Stanford, & MIT Top NeurIPS 2020 Accepted Papers List
NeurIPS 2020 released its list of accepted papers this week with Google, Stanford, and MIT as the top affiliations.
Google AI Helps Sign Language ‘Take the Floor’ in Video Conferences
Google AI researchers developed a sign language detection model for video conferencing applications that can perform real-time identification of a person signing as an active speaker.
Google AI ‘Looking to Listen’ Tech Enables Speech Enhancement on YouTube Stories in Seconds
Google AI has announced a new audiovisual speech enhancement feature in YouTube Stories (iOS) that enables creators to make better selfie videos by automatically enhancing their voices and reducing noise.
EvolGAN Boosts Image Quality for Small or Difficult Datasets
Novel model uses a quality estimator and evolutionary optimization to search the latent space of GANs trained on limited datasets.
Nvidia Releases ‘Imaginaire’ Library for Image and Video Synthesis
Imaginaire, a universal PyTorch library designed for various GAN-based tasks and methods.
Lightweight 3D Dense Face Alignment? New Chinese Model is ‘Fast, Accurate and Stable’
Chinese researchers propose a novel regression framework in pursuit of “fast, accurate and stable 3D dense face alignment simultaneously.”
Facebook Reality Labs’ Vision of the Future: ‘Tools that Help People Feel Connected’
VR and AR will converge to combine the real and virtual, as Facebook Reality Labs researchers, developers, and engineers aim to change how we see the world.
Tracking Recent Topics & Trends in 3D Photo Generation
Synced has identified a few significant technical advancements in the 3D photo field that we believe may be of interest to our readers.
Adobe’s DL-Based ‘HDMatt’ Handles Image Details Thinner Than Hair
UIUC, Adobe Research and University of Oregon propose HDMatt, a Deep Learning-based image matting Cross-Patch Context module for high-resolution image inputs.
New Google & Oxford Model Time-Shifts People in Videos
A group of researchers from Google Research and the University of Oxford have introduced a novel technique that can “retiming” people’s movements in videos.
New DeepMind Approach ‘Bootstraps’ Self-Supervised Learning of Image Representations
From an augmented view of an image, the researchers trained the online network to predict the target network representation of the same image under a different augmented view.
Argo AI Model Jointly Plots Vehicle Pose and Shape From LiDAR Data
Researchers have introduced a novel network architecture for jointly estimating the shape and pose of vehicles even from partial LiDAR observations.
Virginia Tech & Facebook Video Completion Algorithm Achieves SOTA Results
Researchers introduced a novel flow-based video completion algorithm that compares favourably with the state-of-the-art in the field.
IIIT Hyperbad’s ‘Wav2Lip’ Boosts Lip-Sync Video Performance
“Wav2Lip,” a novel lip-synchronization model that outperforms current approaches by a large margin in both quantitative metrics and human evaluations.
Microsoft Researcher Single-Handedly Surveys the SOTA in Sign Language Recognition
Researcher composes a quantitative survey of the SOTA in sign language recognition (SLR).
Intel Lab Transforms Your Phone into a Robot for $50
Intel Labs researchers have proposed a novel method for building a robot called “OpenBot” on just a US$50 budget.
Detecting Deepfakes: MIT CSAIL Model Identifies Manipulations Using Local Artifacts
Researchers proposed a new model that is designed to spot deepfakes by looking at subtle visual artifacts.
Fewer Cameras and Faster Processing: USC Proposes Monocular Real-Time Volumetric Performance Capture
A novel volumetric capture system that is capable of fully capturing clothed human bodies in real-time using only a single RGB webcam.
ECCV 2020 Best Paper Award Goes to Princeton Team
The 16th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) kicked off on Sunday as a fully online conference. In the Conference Opening Session this morning, the ECCV organizing committee announced the conference’s paper submission stats and Best Paper selections.
CUHK & Facebook Demonstrate SOTA Monocular 3D Hand Motion Capture Method ‘FrankMocap’
Researchers from The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Facebook Reality Labs, and Facebook AI Research have unveiled a state-of-the-art monocular 3D hand motion capture method, FrankMocap, which can estimate both 3D hand and body motions from in-the-wild monocular inputs with faster speed and better accuracy than previous approaches.
MRI Study Reveals Arterial Culprit Plaque Characteristics
Researchers developed a head-neck combined HR-MRVWI technique that could potentially provide remarkable suppression of cerebrospinal fluid signals.
Tesla Video Data Processing Supercomputer ‘Dojo’ – Building a 4D System Aiming at L5 Self-Driving
Elon Musk tweeted that Tesla is recruiting AI or chip talents for the company’s neural network training supercomputer project “Dojo.”
Interactive Multi-Dimension Modulation with Dynamic Controllable Residual Learning for Image Restoration
To adapt conventional deep models to real scenarios, a research work carried by a team (XPixel) from the Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology (SIAT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences investigated the use of additional branches to tune imagery effects.
Love-Love: Stanford Researchers Generate Realistic ‘Fake’ Wimbledon
A Stanford University research team has responded with an AI-powered model capable of realistically simulating a Wimbledon final and more.
SIAT Researchers Propose Effective Method for Skin Lesion Segmentation
Researchers proposed a novel and effective automatic segmentation method by using Generative Adversarial Networks with dual discriminators.
Introducing Holicity: A City-Scale Dataset for Learning Holistic 3D Structures
HoliCity, a city-scale dataset and all-in-one data platform for research into learning abstracted high-level holistic 3D structures derived from city CAD (computer-aided design) models.
Tour the World From Your Couch: Google ‘NeRF-W’ Delivers Accurate 3D Scene Reconstruction of Complex Outdoor Environments
Google researchers have introduced a series of extensions to the SOTA view-synthesis method Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) that enable it to produce high-quality 3D representations of complex scenes with only unstructured image collections as input.
Eyes on Me: Google AI ‘MediaPipe Iris’ Improves Iris Tracking and Distance Estimation
MediaPipe Iris, a novel machine learning model designed to deliver accurate iris estimation without using depth sensors.
Pixel2Style2Pixel: Novel Encoder Architecture Boosts Facial Image-To-Image Translation
Researchers from Penta-AI and Tel-Aviv University introduce a generic image-to-image translation framework dubbed Pixel2Style2Pixel (pSp).
Unselfie Turns Arm-Extended Selfies into Neutral-Pose Portraits
“Unselfie,” a novel photographic transformation model that can automatically translate selfies into neutral-pose portraits.
AI Generator Learns to ‘Draw’ Like Cartoonist Lee Mal-Nyeon in Just 10 Hours
A Seoul National University Master’s student and developer has trained a face generating model to transfer normal face photographs into cartoon images in the distinctive style of Lee Mal-nyeon.
Asia China Computer Vision & Graphics Health Machine Learning & Data Science Research Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology
About Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
SIAT aims to enhance the innovative capacity of the equipment manufacturing and service industries in the Guangdong-Hong Kong region, promote the development of emerging industries possessing their own proprietary intellectual property, and become a world-class industrial research institute.
New White-Box Framework Will Cartoonize Your World
This framework can generate high-quality cartoonized images with much-improved controllability.
Adobe and Stanford Unveil SOTA Method for Human Pose Estimation
The researchers say the approach produces motions that are visually and physically much more plausible than state-of-the-art methods.