
SIGGRAPH method adds physical light control to photos
SFU researchers train a neural renderer with differentiable rendering so users can edit lights like in Blender.
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SFU researchers train a neural renderer with differentiable rendering so users can edit lights like in Blender.

Four Inception companies run NVIDIA edge GPUs to identify plastics, packaging and textiles on fast conveyor belts.
A lightweight adapter uses user point correspondences, and the authors say one click can cut reconstruction error.
Authors report 8x training throughput, 1/15 forward FLOPs, and 11% lower Chamfer distance than TRELLIS.2.
A Galaxy S23 NPU produces a 6,890-vertex mesh in 5.5 ms, with 40.0 mm PA-MPJPE on 3DPW.
Occlusion read from apparent height and monocular metric depth disagreement, no training or labels required.
The paper reports roughly log-linear PSNR gains and a 50-category CDD-50 benchmark.
Physical disguise bypasses camera and radar checks while adversarial patches suppress detection in up to 29% of attempts.
ReLift repairs lifted trajectories from pretrained 2D and 3D models to achieve 2.1 APD gains on WorldTrack without retraining.
An end-to-end pipeline detects and re-identifies luggage across video streams despite occlusion, clutter and crowds.
The method filters domain-sensitive responses at fusion and stabilizes multi-scale decoder features before dense prediction.
On ResNet-50, Recall@1 rises from 65.6% to 74.0% on Stanford Online Products and from 56.2% to 78.4% on Stanford Cars versus FDSL.
The post-hoc, label-free method infers victim-target pairs from unlabeled images and corrects suspicious pixels.
The authors report better accuracy with fewer parameters than prior convolution and quaternion models on standard vision benchmarks.
On HardMatch, where VGGT fails on 35% of 1,000 pairs, a frozen-feature probe reaches 93.5% ROC-AUC.
Authors report about 7.4x faster inference and peak GPU memory at 7.6% of MatAnyone 2 at 4K.
Reported rotIoU on the full 6139-record AVVG test set rises from 0.1253 zero-shot to 0.303.
An RPF aligner matches object-local meshes to partial scene pointmaps without full scene supervision.
It reports state-of-the-art accuracy on SOPE and ROPE at 28 FPS for pose-only inference, with code and weights released.
The method aggregates a few head-class activation maps into a teacher and reports consistent gains on long-tailed benchmarks.
Authors report 67.64% mIoU on PASLCD and 75.82% on CCS3D, with the full PASLCD pipeline at 17.2 FPS.
Cross-attention links a skeleton model to a pretrained video model, trained on nearly 200K pairs.
On 4,744 Snapshot Serengeti images at 75% masking, historical PSNR was 27.90 dB for WildMAE versus 24.33 for vanilla MAE.
Plane parameters need no ground-truth geometry and can be learned from view synthesis alone or taken from foundation models.
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