This weekend in Generative Media

Viral AI image fuels Mexican startup; A fix for AI essays; The genAI hype is almost over

News

• How a viral AI image catapulted a Mexican startup to a major adidas contract (TechCrunch)

• There’s a fix for AI-generated essays. Why aren’t we using it? (Vox)

• The Generative AI Hype Is Almost Over. What’s Next? (Forbes)

• A.I. Isn’t Magic, but Can It Be ‘Agentic’? (New York Times)

• Datacenters to emit 3x more carbon dioxide because of generative AI (The Register)

• AI craze is distorting VC market, as tech giants like Microsoft and Amazon pour in billions of dollars (CNBC)

• Peter Molyneux thinks generative AI is the future of games, all but guaranteeing that it won't be (Rock Paper Shotgun)

Software

• Reshot AI lets you edit your photos with AI. Tweak expressions, and soon edit the face pose, lighting, background and much more, all of it with AI. (reshot.ai)

• Fisheye-GS (GitHub). Adapting 3DGS to different camera models, particularly fisheye lenses, poses challenges due to the unique 3D to 2D projection calculation. This innovative method recalculates the projection transformation and its gradients for fisheye cameras.

Research

• Volumetric Rendering with Baked Quadrature Fields (ECCV 2024, project page)

• Volumetric Surfaces: Representing Fuzzy Geometries with Multiple Meshes (arXiv)

• Photorealistic Object Insertion with Diffusion-Guided Inverse Rendering (project page)

• NeuRodin: A Two-stage Framework for High-Fidelity Neural Surface Reconstruction (project page)

• GroomCap: High-Fidelity Prior-Free Hair Capture (arXiv)

• Skip-and-Play: Depth-Driven Pose-Preserved Image Generation for Any Objects (arXiv)

• CinePreGen: Camera Controllable Video Previsualization via Engine-powered Diffusion (arXiv)

Misc

• PHOTO 80 — Beyond the Canvas: Exploring AI Art (Stanford Continuing Studies) Thursdays Oct 17—Nov 21.

• Gradio crossed 100M total downloads (X)

• What if the Skype incoming call sound was a full song? (X)