25 Nov

‘Hatsune Miku has a special part in my heart’: the 16-year-old pop sensation who does not exist

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Countless flowing green wigs risked spontaneous combustion on a 36-degree Melbourne evening as thousands of J-pop fans queued outside John Cain Arena on Friday night. But the heat was irrelevant to the night’s headline pop attraction, Hatsune Miku. She can’t sweat because she’s a digital animation – a 16-year-old “Vocaloid” virtual pop-star on her first Australian tour.Miku, as she’s known to fans, is a 157cm-tall avatar of a teenage girl with green pigtails. She represents a digital bank of vocal samples created by the ominous-sounding Crypton Future Media using Yamaha’s Vocaloid voice synthesiser technology. Users input lyrics and melodies which…
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Create a 3D Object from Your Images with TripoSR in Python – PyImageSearch
25 Nov

Create a 3D Object from Your Images with TripoSR in Python – PyImageSearch

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Access the code to this tutorial and all other 500+ tutorials on PyImageSearch Enter your email address below to learn more about PyImageSearch University (including how you can download the source code to this post): What's included in PyImageSearch University? Easy access to the code, datasets, and pre-trained models for all 500+ tutorials on the PyImageSearch blog High-quality, well documented source code with line-by-line explanations (ensuring you know exactly what the code is doing) Jupyter Notebooks that are pre-configured to run in Google Colab with a single click Run all code examples in your web…
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NVIDIA’s new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts
25 Nov

NVIDIA’s new AI model Fugatto can create audio from text prompts

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NVIDIA has debuted a new experimental generative AI model, which it describes as "a Swiss Army knife for sound." The model called Foundational Generative Audio Transformer Opus 1, or Fugatto, can take commands from text prompts and use them to create audio or to modify existing music, voice and sound files. It was designed by a team of AI researchers from around the world, and NVIDIA says that made the model's "multi-accent and multilingual capabilities stronger.""We wanted to create a model that understands and generates sound like humans do," said Rafael Valle, one of the researchers behind the project and…
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Leapfrog Latent Consistency Model (LLCM) for Medical Images Generation
25 Nov

Leapfrog Latent Consistency Model (LLCM) for Medical Images Generation

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[Submitted on 22 Nov 2024] View a PDF of the paper titled Leapfrog Latent Consistency Model (LLCM) for Medical Images Generation, by Lakshmikar R. Polamreddy and Kalyan Roy and Sheng-Han Yueh and Deepshikha Mahato and Shilpa Kuppili and Jialu Li and Youshan Zhang View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:The scarcity of accessible medical image data poses a significant obstacle in effectively training deep learning models for medical diagnosis, as hospitals refrain from sharing their data due to privacy concerns. In response, we gathered a diverse dataset named MedImgs, which comprises over 250,127 images spanning 61 disease types and 159 classes of…
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WaveMamba: Spatial-Spectral Wavelet Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification
25 Nov

WaveMamba: Spatial-Spectral Wavelet Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification

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[Submitted on 2 Aug 2024 (v1), last revised 22 Nov 2024 (this version, v2)] View a PDF of the paper titled WaveMamba: Spatial-Spectral Wavelet Mamba for Hyperspectral Image Classification, by Muhammad Ahmad and 3 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Hyperspectral Imaging (HSI) has proven to be a powerful tool for capturing detailed spectral and spatial information across diverse applications. Despite the advancements in Deep Learning (DL) and Transformer architectures for HSI classification, challenges such as computational efficiency and the need for extensive labeled data persist. This paper introduces WaveMamba, a novel approach that integrates wavelet transformation with the spatial-spectral…
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AI has been a boon for marketing, but the dark side of using algorithms to sell products and brands is little studied
25 Nov

AI has been a boon for marketing, but the dark side of using algorithms to sell products and brands is little studied

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Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing the way companies market their products, enabling them to target consumers in personalized and interactive ways that not long ago seemed like the realm of science fiction. Marketers use AI-powered algorithms to scour vast amounts of data that reveals individual preferences with unrivaled accuracy. This allows companies to precisely target content – ads, emails, social media posts – that feels tailor-made and helps cultivate companies’ relationships with consumers. As a researcher who studies technology in marketing, I joined several colleagues in conducting new research that shows AI marketing overwhelmingly neglects its potential negative consequences. Our peer-reviewed…
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‘Wicked’ broke 3 box-office records in its opening weekend. Here’s how it compares to other blockbuster musicals.
25 Nov

‘Wicked’ broke 3 box-office records in its opening weekend. Here’s how it compares to other blockbuster musicals.

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"Wicked" triumphed over "Gladiator II" in box offices this weekend after its international debut.It grossed $164 million, the biggest opening weekend for a film based on a Broadway show.Here's all the records "Wicked" broke and how it compares to other blockbuster musicals."Wicked" broke three records topping the box office this weekend with $164 million in ticket sales and surpassing its blockbuster rival "Gladiator II.""Wicked" broke the record for the biggest opening weekend for a film based on a Broadway adaptation domestically and globally. It trumped the previous record-holders "Les Misérables" and "Into the Woods."The new movie musical also has the best…
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Instance-Aware Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation
25 Nov

Instance-Aware Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation

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arXiv:2411.15087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent works on Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation (GRES) struggle with handling complex expressions referring to multiple distinct objects. This is because these methods typically employ an end-to-end foreground-background segmentation and lack a mechanism to explicitly differentiate and associate different object instances to the text query. To this end, we propose InstAlign, a method that incorporates object-level reasoning into the segmentation process. Our model leverages both text and image inputs to extract a set of object-level tokens that capture both the semantic information in the input prompt and the objects within the image. By modeling the…
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Windows 11: Microsoft is finally adding an option to turn off one of the most annoying things – gHacks Tech News
25 Nov

Windows 11: Microsoft is finally adding an option to turn off one of the most annoying things – gHacks Tech News

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What is the most annoying feature of Windows 11? If we would collect the input we would probably end up with a large list of annoyance. On that list is likely the inclusion of Windows Backup and here in particular the "start backup" item in File Explorer. When you open certain paths in File Explorer, for example Pictures or Documents, you may see "start backup" at the front of the path in the address bar. File Explorer Start Backuo. Source: PhantomOfEarth It is there to get users to back up files to OneDrive, Microsoft's file hosting service. While that is…
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