Yume1.5: An Open Model for Creating Interactive Virtual Worlds with Keyboard Control

5 January 2026
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Yume1.5: An Open Model for Creating Interactive Virtual Worlds with Keyboard Control

Researchers from Shanghai AI Laboratory and Fudan University published Yume1.5 — a model for generating interactive virtual worlds that can be controlled directly from the keyboard. Unlike regular video generation,…

Matrix-3D: Open Framework for Generating Fully Explorable 3D Worlds from a Single Image

14 August 2025
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Matrix-3D: Open Framework for Generating Fully Explorable 3D Worlds from a Single Image

Researchers from Skywork AI and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have introduced Matrix-3D — a framework for creating fully explorable 3D worlds from a single image or…

NVIDIA Isaac 5.0: Enhanced Sensor Physics and Expanded Synthetic Data Generation

19 May 2025
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NVIDIA Isaac 5.0: Enhanced Sensor Physics and Expanded Synthetic Data Generation

NVIDIA continues to push the boundaries of AI-driven robotics with significant updates to its Isaac ecosystem, announced at COMPUTEX 2025. These innovations address key challenges in robotics development by enhancing…

MedSAM2: Open Source SOTA 3D Medical Image and Video Segmentation Model

13 April 2025
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MedSAM2: Open Source SOTA 3D Medical Image and Video Segmentation Model

Medical image segmentation plays a critical role in precision medicine, enabling more accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and quantitative analysis. While significant progress has been made in developing both specialized and…

Nvidia Drops Monster AI Update at CES 2025: Local Foundation Models Meet New RTX 50 Series

7 January 2025
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Nvidia Drops Monster AI Update at CES 2025: Local Foundation Models Meet New RTX 50 Series

Nvidia just announced a major shift in consumer AI computing at CES 2025, combining new GPUs with a platform for running foundation models locally. The announcement includes next-gen RTX 50…

VFusion3D: Advanced 3D Generative Modeling via Scalable Video Diffusion

10 August 2024
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VFusion3D: Advanced 3D Generative Modeling via Scalable Video Diffusion

VFusion3D introduces a novel method in 3D generative modeling by utilizing video diffusion models to overcome the scarcity of 3D data. The model generates meshes in .obj format, which can…

Unique3D Model Generates 3D Mesh from a Single Image in 30 Seconds

27 June 2024
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Unique3D Model Generates 3D Mesh from a Single Image in 30 Seconds

Unique3D is a state-of-the-art model for 3D mesh generation from single images, noted for its efficiency and high fidelity. Unique3D is code and weights are available open source. This approach…

Dream Machine by Luma: New AI Video Generation Platform

14 June 2024
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Dream Machine by Luma: New AI Video Generation Platform

Dream Machine by Luma AI is an advanced AI model designed to create high-quality, realistic, and fantastical videos from text instructions and images. Built on a scalable, efficient, and multimodal…

Midjourney Introduces Character Transfer Feature to New Images

17 March 2024
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Midjourney Introduces Character Transfer Feature to New Images

The image generation service Midjourney now offers a character transfer feature to new images by specifying a link to an existing image with the character in the request. This functionality…

Pika 1.0: A Web Platform for Video Generation

7 January 2024
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Pika 1.0: A Web Platform for Video Generation

Pika Labs startup has launched Pika 1.0 – a free web platform for generating and editing videos using text-based queries. The service creates both realistic videos and 3D animation in…

Hiber3D Integration with Google PaLM: A Game-Changer for Metaverse Creators

10 September 2023
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Hiber3D Integration with Google PaLM: A Game-Changer for Metaverse Creators

Hiber, a company specializing in tools for creating metaverses, has announced its integration with Google PaLM. The update of Hiber3D will empower users to create and modify 3D scenes using…

NVIDIA FlexiCubes: Crafting 3D Grids Using Adaptive Parameters

13 August 2023
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NVIDIA FlexiCubes: Crafting 3D Grids Using Adaptive Parameters

NVIDIA has introduced FlexiCubes – a method for generating 3D grids of objects through adaptive parameters. This innovation is designed to deliver the highest quality grids, catering to a wide…

Google Try-on: Try Clothes Virtually with Realistic Models

18 June 2023
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Google Try-on: Try Clothes Virtually with Realistic Models

Google has introduced Try-on, a diffusion model that allows users of the “Shopping” service to try on clothes on models with different body types and skin tones. With just one…

Fake It Till You Make It: Microsoft synthetic face images dataset

9 October 2021

Fake It Till You Make It: Microsoft synthetic face images dataset

Microsoft has introduced a dataset of synthetic facial images Fake It Till You Make It. The dataset is aimed at pre-training facial recognition algorithms before being used in real-world scenarios.…

China Presented The World’s First Female AI News Anchor

25 February 2019
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China Presented The World’s First Female AI News Anchor

Few months after China presented the world’s first AI news anchor, official state-run press agency Xinhua announced the first female AI news anchor. The news anchor bot, named Xin Xiaomeng…

3D Hair Reconstruction Out of In-the-Wild Videos

22 October 2018
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3D Hair Reconstruction Out of In-the-Wild Videos

3D hair reconstruction is a problem with numerous applications in different areas such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, video games, medical software, etc. As a non-trivial problem, researchers have proposed…

Head Reconstruction from Internet Photos

15 October 2018
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Head Reconstruction from Internet Photos

Methods that reconstruct 3D models of people’s heads from images need to account for varying 3D pose, lighting, non-rigid changes due to expressions, relatively smooth surfaces of faces, ears, and…

Learning 3D Face Morphable Model Out of 2D Images

5 September 2018
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Learning 3D Face Morphable Model Out of 2D Images

The 3D Morphable Model (3DMM) is a statistical model of 3D facial shape and texture. 3D Morphable Models have various applications in many fields including computer vision, computer graphics, human…

Facial Surface and Texture Synthesis via GAN

3 September 2018
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Facial Surface and Texture Synthesis via GAN

Deep networks can be extremely powerful and effective in answering complex questions. But it is also well-known that in order to train a really complex model, you’ll need lots and…

DeepWrinkles: Accurate and Realistic Clothing Modeling

28 August 2018

DeepWrinkles: Accurate and Realistic Clothing Modeling

Realistic garment reconstruction is notoriously a complex problem and its importance is undeniable in many research work and applications, such as accurate body shape and pose estimation in the wild…

New Approach to Recovering 3D Shape Structure from a Single 2D Image

27 July 2018
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New Approach to Recovering 3D Shape Structure from a Single 2D Image

Single-view image-based 3D modeling is a topic of particular interest the last few years. That’s likely due to the tremendous success of deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) on image-based learning…