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Nvidia will launch Jetson Thor for humanoid robots in H1 2025, entering a growing market where Google is also active. The robotics sector is projected for substantial growth. Nvidia offers integrated hardware and software solutions. Simultaneously, China’s rapidly developing domestic humanoid robot market presents emerging competition.
On September 24, ByteDance’s technology arm, Volcano Engine, introduced two state-of-the-art video generation models, PixelDance and Seaweed, which significantly enhanceContinue Reading
A research team from Saskatchewan University and Google introduces an innovative unsupervised method for automatic video highlight detection, eliminating the requirements for manual annotations while achieving superior performance compared to previous methods.
A Meta GenAI research team introduces Fairy, a versatile and efficient video-to-video synthesis framework. Fairy stands out for its ability to generate high-quality videos at remarkable speed, producing 120-frame 512×384 videos in just 14 seconds, surpassing previous works by a factor of at least 44×.
In a new paper LRM: Large Reconstruction Model for Single Image to 3D, a research team from Adobe Research and Australian National Univerisity introduces an innovative Large Reconstruction Model (LRM). This groundbreaking model has the remarkable ability to predict a 3D model of an object from a single input image in a mere 5 seconds.
In a new paper Follow Anything: Open-set detection, tracking, and following in real-time, a research team from MIT and Harvard University presents the follow anything system (FAn), an open-set real-time any object following framework that can detect, segment, track, and follow any object, and is able to adapt to new objects using text, images, or click queries.
In a new paper Objaverse-XL: A Universe of 10M+ 3D Objects, a research team from Allen Institute for AI, University of Washington, Columbia University, Stability AI, California Institute of Technology and LAION join force to present Objaverse-XL, a large-scale, web-crawled dataset of 3D assets, which provides substantially richer variety and quality data that aims to boost the performance of state-of-the-art 3D models.
In a new paper Patch n’ Pack: NaViT, a Vision Transformer for any Aspect Ratio and Resolution, a Google DeepMind research team further improves ViT with Native Resolution ViT (NaViT), which is able process input sequences of arbitrary resolutions and aspect ratios.
In a new paper AnimateDiff: Animate Your Personalized Text-to-Image Diffusion Models without Specific Tuning, a research team presents AnimateDiff, a general and practical framework that is able to generate animated images for any personalized text-to-image (T2I) model, without any extra training and model-specified tuning.
In a new paper Scaling Open-Vocabulary Object Detection, a DeepMind research team introduces OWLv2 model, an optimized architecture with improved training efficiency and applies and OWL-ST self-training recipe to the proposed OWLv2 to substantially improves detection performance, achieving state-of-the-art result on open-vocabulary detection task.
In a new paper Image Captioners Are Scalable Vision Learners Too, a DeepMind research team presents CapPa, a image captioning based pretraining strategy that and can compete CLIP and exhibit favorable model and data scaling properties, verifying that a plain image captioning can be a competitive pretraining strategy for vision backbones.
In the new paper ZipIt! Merging Models from Different Tasks Without Training, a Georgia Tech research team proposes ZipIt!, a general method that exploits redundant features to combine two or more models with the same architecture but trained on different tasks into one multi-task model without additional training.
In the new paper DETRs Beat YOLOs on Real-Time Object Detection, a Baidu Inc. research team presents Real-Time Detection Transformer (RT-DETR), a real-time end-to-end object detector that leverages a hybrid encoder and novel IoU-aware query selection to address inference speed delay issues. RT-DETR outperforms YOLO object detectors in both accuracy and speed.
In the new paper SpectFormer: Frequency and Attention Is What You Need in a Vision Transformer, a research team from Microsoft and the University of Bath proposes Spectformer, a novel transformer architecture that combines spectral and multi-headed attention layers to better capture appropriate feature representations and improve performance.
In the new paper Instruct-NeRF2NeRF: Editing 3D Scenes With Instructions, a UC Berkeley research team presents Instruct-NeRF2NeRF, an approach for editing 3D NeRF scenes through natural language text instructions. The proposed method can edit large-scale, real-world 3D scenes with improved ease of use and realism.
In the new paper RealFusion: 360° Reconstruction of Any Object from a Single Image, an Oxford University research team leverages a diffusion model to generate 360° reconstructions of objects from a single image. Their RealFusion approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on monocular 3D reconstruction benchmarks.
In the new paper Dreamix: Video Diffusion Models Are General Video Editors, a team from Google Research and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem presents Dreamix, a novel approach that leverages a video diffusion model (VDM) to enable text-based motion and appearance video editing.
In the new paper DensePose From WiFi, a Carnegie Mellon University research team proposes WiFi-based DensePose, a neural network architecture capable of estimating human dense pose using only WiFi signals in scenarios with occlusion and multiple people.
In the new paper Point-E: A System for Generating 3D Point Clouds from Complex Prompts, An OpenAI research team presents Point·E, a system for text-conditional synthesis of 3D point clouds that leverages diffusion models to generate dive