Today in Generative Media
AI images threaten science; 'Here' AI de-aged Tom Hanks; Flux AI "Raw Mode"
News
AI-generated images threaten science — here’s how researchers hope to spot them (Nature)
The $50 Million Movie Here De-Aged Tom Hanks With Generative AI (Wired)
Flux AI Introduces Raw Mode That ‘Captures the Genuine Feel of Candid Photography’ (PetaPixel)
Google could add AI replies to its handy call-screening feature (The Verge)
Software and Hardware
UltraRealistic Lora Project (CivitAI)
FLUX1.1 [pro] in ultra and raw modes. Images are up to 4 megapixels. Use raw mode for realism. (Replicate) FLUX1.1 [pro] ultra (FAL.ai)
Haiper 2.0 Video (FAL.ai)
This repository provides a IP-Adapter checkpoint for FLUX.1-dev model by Black Forest Labs (HuggingFace)
NN-SVG is a tool for creating Neural Network (NN) architecture drawings parametrically rather than manually. It also provides the ability to export those drawings to Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) files, suitable for inclusion in academic papers or web pages. (GitHub) Use it here.
Research
Cosmos Tokenizer: A suite of image and video neural tokenizers (project page) Code on GitHub
RayGauss: Volumetric Gaussian-Based Ray Casting for Photorealistic Novel View Synthesis (project page)
LucidFusion: Generating 3D Gaussians with Arbitrary Unposed Images (project page)
InstantIR: Blind Image Restoration with Instant Generative Reference (arXiv) Demo on HuggingFace.
Structure Consistent Gaussian Splatting with Matching Prior for Few-shot Novel View Synthesis (arXiv)