📝 Towards Efficient SDRTV-to-HDRTV by Learning From Image Formation 🔭

"A novel three-step solution pipeline includes adaptive global color mapping, local enhancement, and highlight refinement, the adaptive global color mapping step uses global statistics as guidance to perform image-adaptive color mapping." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #MM

⚙️ https://github.com/xiaom233/HDRTVNet-plus
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.04084v1 #arxiv

Today's queer indie release: Grant Edward Miller'a MM sci-fi romance Life-Line: Origins:

Over a million years in the future, a desperate stowaway lies concealed in a space freighter’s cargo hold. Tam Amergan is bound for the prison world Corustloth, where his...

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Today's queer indie author review! Bite Club by Eule Grey:

Gordon: "Intense, at times bizarre, and emotionally powerful... “leaves the reader not only with a desire to read other pieces by this author. Five stars."

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📝 Reuse and Diffuse: Iterative Denoising for Text-to-Video Generation 🔭👾

"Proposes a framework called "Reuse and Diffuse," dubbed VidRD, to produce more frames following the frames already generated by an LDM (Latent Diffusion Models)." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #AI #MM

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03549v1 #arxiv

📝 ArtHDR-Net: Perceptually Realistic and Accurate HDR Content Creation 🔭🖼️🧠

"Based on a Convolutional Neural Network that uses multi-exposed LDR features as input for the reconstruction of HDR images with a high aesthetic quality score in terms of human visual perception." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #GR #LG #MM

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03827v1 #arxiv

📝 Parameter Efficient Audio Captioning with Faithful Guidance Using Audio-Text Shared Latent Representation 📚🔊

"We first present a data augmentation technique for generating audio captions which are not only relevant to the audio, but also, are semantically consistent with ground truth captions." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CL #MM #SD

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.03340v1 #arxiv

Today's queer release: Sasha Hope's MM urban fantasy Borders Between Empires.

Detective Hanni Nassar finds himself in enemy territory while investigating a string of robberies. After accidentally crossing the Central Empire’s borderline, he comes face to face with Jaemin Yi...

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Today's queer indie author review! Driving in Circles by Frances Fox:

"An exceptionally good story... I recommend this book - it has all the good feels and hope for two marvelous men - it's my favorite story of the series. I can’t wait to see what Frances Fox writes next."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2023/09/05/review-driving-in-circles-frances-fox/

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📝 Point-Bind & Point-Llm: Aligning Point Cloud with Multi-Modality for 3D Understanding, Generation, and Instruction Following 🔭👾📚🧠

"Point-Bind and the fine-tuning of Point-LLM are two stages to inject 3D and multi-modal semantics into LLaMA, respectively." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #AI #CL #LG #MM

⚙️ https://github.com/ZiyuGuo99/Point-Bind_Point-LLM
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00615v1 #arxiv

📝 VideoGen: A Reference-Guided Latent Diffusion Approach for High Definition Text-to-Video Generation 🔭

"Leverages an off-the-shelf text-to-image generation model to generate an image with high content quality from the text prompt, as a reference image to guide video generation." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #MM

⚙️ https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00398v1 #arxiv

📝 Human-Inspired Facial Sketch Synthesis with Dynamic Adaptation 🔭

"Works by dynamically modulating neuron activations based on a joint consideration of both facial 3D geometry and 2D appearance, as well as globally consistent style control." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #MM

⚙️ https://github.com/AiArt-HDU/HIDA
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00216v1 #arxiv

📝 Towards Contrastive Learning in Music Video Domain 💿🔭🔊

"Contrastive learning is a powerful way of learning multimodal representations across various domains such as image-caption retrieval and audio-visual representation learning but it might be not the best choice of learning audio-visual representations for music videos." [gal30b+] 🤖 #IR #CV #MM #SD

⚙️ https://github.com/KarelVeldkamp/Multimodal-Musicvideo-Representation
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.00347v1 #arxiv

📝 Terrain Diffusion Network: Climatic-Aware Terrain Generation with Geological Sketch Guidance 🔭👾

"Presents a novel method for controllable sketch-based terrain generation based on a multi-level denoising scheme, which allows the generation of realistic and diverse terrains with high flexibility for user control." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #AI #MM

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16725v1 #arxiv

Today's double queer indie author review! The Midnight Detective by Edward Kendrick:

"A good, solid, suspenseful mystery, filled with both with heartbreaking moments and love."

"A good story that is in the end quite satisfying. 4 stars."

https://www.queeromanceink.com/2023/09/02/double-review-the-midnight-detective-edward-kendrick/

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📝 Separate and Locate: Rethink the Text in Text-Based Visual Question Answering 🔭

"Separate and Locate (SaL) model consists of Text Semantic Separate (TSS) module and Spatial Circle Position (SCP) module to help the model recognize whether words have semantic contextual relations and better construct and reason the spatial position relationships between OCR texts, respectively." [gal30b+] 🤖 #CV #MM

⚙️ https://github.com/fangbufang/SaL
🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16383v1 #arxiv

📝 It Takes a Village: Multidisciplinarity and Collaboration for the Development of Embodied Conversational Agents 👋

"Proposes a three-layer structure for this community, consisting of the core research community, the ECA practitioner community and the ECA developer community, where each layer consists of its own specific activities and goals to achieve in order to advance the field of ECA." [gal30b+] 🤖 #HC #MM

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.16250v1 #arxiv

📝 On the Steganographic Capacity of Selected Learning Models 🧠

"Works by overwriting the low-order bits of the trained parameters of a machine learning model, and by monitoring the model’s performance to determine when the model can no longer tolerate this overwriting." [gal30b+] 🤖 #LG #CR #MM

🔗 https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.15502v1 #arxiv

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