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SwarmUI.net – A free, open source, modular AI image generation Web-User-Interface
https://github.com/mcmonkeyprojects/SwarmUI
A Modular AI Image Generation Web-User-Interface, with an emphasis on making powertools easily accessible, high performance, and extensibility. Supports AI image models (Stable Diffusion, Flux, etc.), and AI video models (LTX-V, Hunyuan Video, Cosmos, Wan, etc.), with plans to support eg audio and more in the future.
SwarmUI by default runs entirely locally on your own computer. It does not collect any data from you.
SwarmUI is 100% Free-and-Open-Source software, under the MIT License. You can do whatever you want with it.
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DensePose From WiFi using ML
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2301.00250
https://www.xrstager.com/en/ai-based-motion-detection-without-cameras-using-wifi
Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have led to significant development in 2D and 3D human pose estimation using RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radars. However, human pose estimation from images is adversely affected by common issues such as occlusion and lighting, which can significantly hinder performance in various scenarios.
Radar and LiDAR technologies, while useful, require specialized hardware that is both expensive and power-intensive. Moreover, deploying these sensors in non-public areas raises important privacy concerns, further limiting their practical applications.
To overcome these limitations, recent research has explored the use of WiFi antennas, which are one-dimensional sensors, for tasks like body segmentation and key-point body detection. Building on this idea, the current study expands the use of WiFi signals in combination with deep learning architectures—techniques typically used in computer vision—to estimate dense human pose correspondence.
In this work, a deep neural network was developed to map the phase and amplitude of WiFi signals to UV coordinates across 24 human regions. The results demonstrate that the model is capable of estimating the dense pose of multiple subjects with performance comparable to traditional image-based approaches, despite relying solely on WiFi signals. This breakthrough paves the way for developing low-cost, widely accessible, and privacy-preserving algorithms for human sensing.
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Lumina-mGPT 2.0 – Stand-alone Autoregressive Image Modeling
A stand-alone, decoder-only autoregressive model, trained from scratch, that unifies a broad spectrum of image generation tasks, including text-to-image generation, image pair generation, subject-driven generation, multi-turn image editing, controllable generation, and dense prediction.
https://github.com/Alpha-VLLM/Lumina-mGPT-2.0
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Mamba and MicroMamba – A free, open source general software package managers for any kind of software and all operating systems
https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/user_guide/micromamba.html
https://mamba.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/micromamba-installation.html
https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/win-64/latest
https://prefix.dev/docs/mamba/overview
With mamba, it’s easy to set up
software environments. A software environment is simply a set of different libraries, applications and their dependencies. The power of environments is that they can co-exist: you can easily have an environment called py27 for Python 2.7 and one called py310 for Python 3.10, so that multiple of your projects with different requirements have their dedicated environments. This is similar to “containers” and images. However, mamba makes it easy to add, update or remove software from the environments.
Download the latest executable from https://micro.mamba.pm/api/micromamba/win-64/latest
You can install it or just run the executable to create a python environment under Windows:
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PlayBook3D – Creative controls for all media formats
Playbook3d.com is a diffusion-based render engine that reduces the time to final image with AI. It is accessible via web editor and API with support for scene segmentation and re-lighting, integration with production pipelines and frame-to-frame consistency for image, video, and real-time 3D formats.
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AI and the Law – AI Creativity – Genius or Gimmick?
7:59-9:50 Justine Bateman:
“I mean first I want to give people, help people have a little bit of a definition of what generative AI is—
think of it as like a blender and if you have a blender at home and you turn it on, what does it do? It depends on what I put into it, so it cannot function unless it’s fed things.
Then you turn on the blender and you give it a prompt, which is your little spoon, and you get a little spoonful—little Frankenstein spoonful—out of what you asked for.
So what is going into the blender? Every but a hundred years of film and television or many, many years of, you know, doctor’s reports or students’ essays or whatever it is.
In the film business, in particular, that’s what we call theft; it’s the biggest violation. And the term that continues to be used is “all we did.” I think the CTO of OpenAI—believe that’s her position; I forget her name—when she was asked in an interview recently what she had to say about the fact that they didn’t ask permission to take it in, she said, “Well, it was all publicly available.”
And I will say this: if you own a car—I know we’re in New York City, so it’s not going to be as applicable—but if I see a car in the street, it’s publicly available, but somehow it’s illegal for me to take it. That’s what we have the copyright office for, and I don’t know how well staffed they are to handle something like this, but this is the biggest copyright violation in the history of that office and the US government”
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Capturing the world in HDR for real time projects – Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
Real-World Measurements for Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare
www.activision.com/cdn/research/Real_World_Measurements_for_Call_of_Duty_Advanced_Warfare.pdf
Local version
Real_World_Measurements_for_Call_of_Duty_Advanced_Warfare.pdf
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Black Body color aka the Planckian Locus curve for white point eye perception
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-body_radiation
Black-body radiation is the type of electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment, or emitted by a black body (an opaque and non-reflective body) held at constant, uniform temperature. The radiation has a specific spectrum and intensity that depends only on the temperature of the body.
A black-body at room temperature appears black, as most of the energy it radiates is infra-red and cannot be perceived by the human eye. At higher temperatures, black bodies glow with increasing intensity and colors that range from dull red to blindingly brilliant blue-white as the temperature increases.
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STOP FCC – SAVE THE FREE NET
Help saving free sites like this one.
The FCC voted to kill net neutrality and let ISPs like Comcast ruin the web with throttling, censorship, and new fees. Congress has 60 legislative days to overrule them and save the Internet using the Congressional Review Act
https://www.battleforthenet.com/http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/sopa-dangerous-opinion/
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OLED vs QLED – What TV is better?
Supported by LG, Philips, Panasonic and Sony sell the OLED system TVs.
OLED stands for “organic light emitting diode.”
It is a fundamentally different technology from LCD, the major type of TV today.
OLED is “emissive,” meaning the pixels emit their own light.Samsung is branding its best TVs with a new acronym: “QLED”
QLED (according to Samsung) stands for “quantum dot LED TV.”
It is a variation of the common LED LCD, adding a quantum dot film to the LCD “sandwich.”
QLED, like LCD, is, in its current form, “transmissive” and relies on an LED backlight.OLED is the only technology capable of absolute blacks and extremely bright whites on a per-pixel basis. LCD definitely can’t do that, and even the vaunted, beloved, dearly departed plasma couldn’t do absolute blacks.
QLED, as an improvement over OLED, significantly improves the picture quality. QLED can produce an even wider range of colors than OLED, which says something about this new tech. QLED is also known to produce up to 40% higher luminance efficiency than OLED technology. Further, many tests conclude that QLED is far more efficient in terms of power consumption than its predecessor, OLED.
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