Join us this week for an in-depth discussion on Compositional Learning in the context of cutting-edge text-to-image generative models. We will explore recent breakthroughs and challenges, focusing on how these models handle compositional tasks and where improvements can be made.
✅ This Week's Presentation:
🔹 Title: A semiotic methodology for assessing the compositional effectiveness of generative text-to-image models
🔸 Presenter: Amir Kasaei
🌀 Abstract: A new methodology for evaluating text-to-image generation models is being proposed, addressing limitations in current evaluation techniques. Existing methods, which use metrics such as fidelity and CLIPScore, often combine criteria like position, action, and photorealism in their assessments. This new approach adapts model analysis from visual semiotics, establishing distinct visual composition criteria. It highlights three key dimensions: plastic categories, multimodal translation, and enunciation, each with specific sub-criteria. The methodology is tested on Midjourney and DALL·E, providing a structured framework that can be used for future quantitative analyses of generated images.
Join us this week for an in-depth discussion on Compositional Learning in the context of cutting-edge text-to-image generative models. We will explore recent breakthroughs and challenges, focusing on how these models handle compositional tasks and where improvements can be made.
✅ This Week's Presentation:
🔹 Title: A semiotic methodology for assessing the compositional effectiveness of generative text-to-image models
🔸 Presenter: Amir Kasaei
🌀 Abstract: A new methodology for evaluating text-to-image generation models is being proposed, addressing limitations in current evaluation techniques. Existing methods, which use metrics such as fidelity and CLIPScore, often combine criteria like position, action, and photorealism in their assessments. This new approach adapts model analysis from visual semiotics, establishing distinct visual composition criteria. It highlights three key dimensions: plastic categories, multimodal translation, and enunciation, each with specific sub-criteria. The methodology is tested on Midjourney and DALL·E, providing a structured framework that can be used for future quantitative analyses of generated images.
n the U.S. people generally use Bitcoin as an alternative investment, helping diversify a portfolio apart from stocks and bonds. You can also use Bitcoin to make purchases, but the number of vendors that accept the cryptocurrency is still limited. Big companies that accept Bitcoin include Overstock, AT&T and Twitch. You may also find that some small local retailers or certain websites take Bitcoin, but you’ll have to do some digging. That said, PayPal has announced that it will enable cryptocurrency as a funding source for purchases this year, financing purchases by automatically converting crypto holdings to fiat currency for users. “They have 346 million users and they’re connected to 26 million merchants,” says Spencer Montgomery, founder of Uinta Crypto Consulting. “It’s huge.”
How to Buy Bitcoin?
Most people buy Bitcoin via exchanges, such as Coinbase. Exchanges allow you to buy, sell and hold cryptocurrency, and setting up an account is similar to opening a brokerage account—you’ll need to verify your identity and provide some kind of funding source, such as a bank account or debit card. Major exchanges include Coinbase, Kraken, and Gemini. You can also buy Bitcoin at a broker like Robinhood. Regardless of where you buy your Bitcoin, you’ll need a digital wallet in which to store it. This might be what’s called a hot wallet or a cold wallet. A hot wallet (also called an online wallet) is stored by an exchange or a provider in the cloud. Providers of online wallets include Exodus, Electrum and Mycelium. A cold wallet (or mobile wallet) is an offline device used to store Bitcoin and is not connected to the Internet. Some mobile wallet options include Trezor and Ledger.
