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The Small Faces That Vex AI Surveillance Systems
A new system offers better recognition of faces that are very small in a surveillance video or CCTV stream, which could increase the likelihood of more accurate and reliable...
GigaGAN: Stable Diffusion for Generative Adversarial Networks
A new text-to-image generative system based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) offers a challenge to latent diffusion systems such as Stable Diffusion. Trained on the same vast numbers of...
Detecting Deepfakes by Studying ‘Disconnected’ Facial Expressions
A smile affects many other parts of the face, and this tendency of expressions to be 'holistic', and to have a broader effect on a wide range of facial...
Using the Internet as a ‘Live’ Dataset for AI Training
Some of the most influential computer vision datasets are so old that many modern images - such as the latest iPhones - are completely absent. But curating and training...
Correcting ‘Selfie’-Based Facial Distortion, for Psychological and AI Development Purposes
New research offers a way to correct the extreme facial distortions that occur when taking hand-held selfies on smartphone cameras. Since AI is increasingly reliant on web-scraped data, such...
Obtaining Editable Neural Humans From Short Video Clips
Re-training Stable Diffusion models can allow users to compose scenes with accuracy, addressing one of the core weaknesses of latent diffusion models.
New System Offers Superior Layout Composition for Stable Diffusion
Re-training Stable Diffusion models can allow users to compose scenes with accuracy, addressing one of the core weaknesses of latent diffusion models.
NeRF Breaks Free From Being an ‘Animated Photo’
A new research project brings NeRF nearer to Stable Diffusion in terms of explorability and versatility.
Real-Time, Photorealistic Hands for Neural Environments
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute lead a new paper that offers personalized and high-quality live hand rendering in real time, aimed at VR/AR, teleconferencing, and other neurally-enhanced environments.
A Call to Legislate ‘Backdoors’ Into Stable Diffusion
A new MIT paper proposes not only a new adversarial method to prevent images being 'abused' by Stable Diffusion users, but a fairly drastic increase in the level of...
Preventing Stable Diffusion ‘Copyright Infringement’ by Poisoning The Source Data
A new paper proposes a method to protect the work of artists from being incorporated into Stable Diffusion, by using adversarial data perturbations to adversely affect generated results. Though...
Dataset Abuse Is Rife in Computer Vision – But the Solutions May Be Drastic
A new paper from researchers at Sony AI levels broad and scathing criticism at standards and practices in dataset re-use and abuse - but the cure might stop the...
New System Enables Tight Compositions and High-Res Output in Stable Diffusion
A new system from Spain offers Stable Diffusion users the chance to truly control their compositions, by orchestrating multiple models into a single image inside the latent space.
Stable Diffusion and Imagen Can Reproduce Training Data Almost Perfectly
New research indicates that Stable Diffusion, Google's Imagen, and other latent diffusion systems and GANs are capable of replicating training data almost exactly. The findings may have implications in...
AI is coming to Hollywood with Metaphysic
Metaphysic has been named the sole AI VFX provider for the highly-anticipated major motion picture Here, produced by Miramax, and directed by Robert Zemeckis. Starring Tom Hanks and Robin...
Image Synthesis Has an SEO Problem
Images uploaded to the internet are being scraped at scale for ingestion into AI datasets. But the captions associated with the images were written for SEO purposes, and not...
Creating Better Avatars with a Dual-Domain Approach
A new academic collaboration, including contributors from Microsoft, has developed an improved technique capable of fitting user-submitted images into a 'deepfake puppetry' workflow in only thirty seconds, with notably...
The ‘Cheap’ Decisions That Can Affect Image Synthesis
A new academic collaboration, including contributors from Microsoft, has developed an improved technique capable of fitting user-submitted images into a 'deepfake puppetry' workflow in only thirty seconds, with notably...
Temporally Coherent Human Video Deepfakes Via Diffusion
A new research collaboration between Poland and the UK may offer the first effective method to obtain a much-cherished 'holy grail' of deepfake image synthesis research – the ability...
Muse: Google’s Super-Fast Text-To-Image Model Abandons Latent Diffusion for Transformers
Google Research has revealed a new type of framework for text-to-image synthesis, based on the Transformers architecture, rather than latent diffusion.
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The media represents a world that is more real than reality that we can experience. People lose the ability to distinguish between reality and fantasy. They also begin to engage with the fantasy without realizing what it really is.
JEAN BAUDRILLARD
SIMULACRA AND SIMULATION
this is a fake quote often attributed to Baudrillard, but does it really matter?
