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Evaluating GUI Assistants with Video-Based Benchmarks

Researchers introduced VideoGUI, a novel benchmark evaluating GUI assistants on complex, visual-centric tasks derived from high-quality web instructional videos. Their study highlights the limitations of current state-of-the-art models and offers detailed evaluation metrics for advancing GUI automation.

18 Jun 2024

SZU-EmoDage: A Novel AI-Synthesized Facial Dataset for Cross-Cultural Emotion and Age Studies

Researchers from China introduce the SZU-EmoDage dataset, a pioneering facial dataset crafted with StyleGAN, featuring Chinese individuals of diverse ages and expressions. This innovative dataset, validated for authenticity by human raters, surpasses existing ones, offering applications in cross-cultural emotion studies and advancements in facial perception technology. The study emphasizes the dataset's value in exploring cognitive processes, detecting disorders, and enhancing technologies like face recognition and animation.

14 Dec 2023

Advancing Deep Learning with Differentiable Visual Computing

A recent article in Nature Machine Intelligence delves into the progress and challenges of Differentiable Visual Computing (DVC). The study proposes a unified DVC pipeline, integrating differentiable geometry, physics, and animation, enhancing data efficiency, accuracy, and speed in machine learning applications for real-world physical systems. The authors review key aspects, including rendering, animation, and geometry, highlighting the potential of DVC to bridge the gap between visual computing and deep learning.

22 Nov 2023

Instant3D: Accelerating Text-to-3D Generation with Efficient Neural Networks

This paper introduces Instant3D, a groundbreaking framework for rapid text-to-3D generation. Unlike existing methods that rely on time-consuming optimization, Instant3D achieves remarkable speed by utilizing a novel neural network that constructs a 3D triplane directly from a text prompt. With the capability to generate a 3D object in less than one second, the proposed approach demonstrates superior efficiency without compromising on qualitative and quantitative performance.

17 Nov 2023

Make-An-Animation: Generating Human Motions from Textual Descriptions

Researchers introduce "Make-An-Animation," a model that generates lifelike human motions from textual descriptions. The model leverages large-scale image-text datasets containing 35 million pairs of textual descriptions and static poses to learn and generate static 3D body poses.

5 Oct 2023

Revolutionizing Animation Creation: AI-Powered Digital Characters

Researchers explore the fusion of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and motion capture to streamline 3D animation creation. By integrating Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer (ChatGPT) into the process, it enables real-time language interactions with digital characters, offering a promising solution for animation creators.

6 Sep 2023

Text-Aided Dynamic Avatar Synthesis: Transforming Text Descriptions into Lifelike 3D Avatars

This article introduces TADA, a groundbreaking approach that leverages a 2D diffusion model and a parametric body model to generate expressive 3D avatars from textual descriptions. By ensuring harmony between geometry and texture, TADA enables realistic animation with semantic consistency. The method's effectiveness is demonstrated through qualitative and quantitative evaluations, showcasing its ability to create detailed and lifelike digital characters.

24 Aug 2023