ππ Magic-Me: Identity-Specific Video ππ
πhashtag#ByteDance (+UC Berkeley) unveils VCD for video-gen: with just a few images of a specific identity it can generate temporal consistent videos aligned with the given prompt. Impressive results, source code under Apache 2.0 π
ππ’π π‘π₯π’π π‘ππ¬: β Novel Video Custom Diffusion (VCD) framework β High-Quality ID-specific videos generation β Improvement in aligning IDs-images and text β Robust 3D Gaussian Noise Prior for denoising β Better Inter-frame correlation / video consistency β New modules F-VCD/T-VCD for videos upscale β New train with masked loss by prompt-to-segmentation
ππ Magic-Me: Identity-Specific Video ππ
πhashtag#ByteDance (+UC Berkeley) unveils VCD for video-gen: with just a few images of a specific identity it can generate temporal consistent videos aligned with the given prompt. Impressive results, source code under Apache 2.0 π
ππ’π π‘π₯π’π π‘ππ¬: β Novel Video Custom Diffusion (VCD) framework β High-Quality ID-specific videos generation β Improvement in aligning IDs-images and text β Robust 3D Gaussian Noise Prior for denoising β Better Inter-frame correlation / video consistency β New modules F-VCD/T-VCD for videos upscale β New train with masked loss by prompt-to-segmentation
The S&P 500 slumped 1.8% on Monday and Tuesday, thanks to China Evergrande, the Chinese property company that looks like it is ready to default on its more-than $300 billion in debt. Cries of the next Lehman Brothersβor maybe the next Silverado?βechoed through the canyons of Wall Street as investors prepared for the worst.
Telegram and Signal Havens for Right-Wing Extremists
Since the violent storming of Capitol Hill and subsequent ban of former U.S. President Donald Trump from Facebook and Twitter, the removal of Parler from Amazonβs servers, and the de-platforming of incendiary right-wing content, messaging services Telegram and Signal have seen a deluge of new users. In January alone, Telegram reported 90 million new accounts. Its founder, Pavel Durov, described this as βthe largest digital migration in human history.β Signal reportedly doubled its user base to 40 million people and became the most downloaded app in 70 countries. The two services rely on encryption to protect the privacy of user communication, which has made them popular with protesters seeking to conceal their identities against repressive governments in places like Belarus, Hong Kong, and Iran. But the same encryption technology has also made them a favored communication tool for criminals and terrorist groups, including al Qaeda and the Islamic State.
