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I'm a bit of an eclectic mess 🙂 I've been a programmer, journalist, editor, TV producer, and a few other things.

I'm currently working on my second novel which is complete, but is in the edit stage. I wrote my first novel over 20 years ago but then didn't write much till now.

I post about #Coding, #Flutter, #Writing, #Movies and #TV. I'll also talk about #Technology, #Gadgets, #MachineLearning, #DeepLearning and a few other things as the fancy strikes ...

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Fahim Farook

"LayoutDiffuse: Adapting Foundational Diffusion Models for Layout-to-Image Generation. (arXiv:2302.08908v1 [cs.CV])" — A method for generating images based on a semantic layout which describes the positioning of the various component elements in the final image.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08908

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Fahim Farook

"Paint it Black: Generating paintings from text descriptions. (arXiv:2302.08808v1 [cs.CV])" — Explores generating paintings based on text input.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08808

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"Fine-grained Cross-modal Fusion based Refinement for Text-to-Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.08706v1 [cs.CV])" — Another text-to-image generation approach where, instead of generating the final image from a noisy image, you generate an initial low-resolution image based on the input text and then use a GAN (Generative Adversarial Network) during the second stage to generate the final output.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08706
Code: https://github.com/haoranhfut/FF-GAN

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Some years ago the news that a new “Civilization” game was in development would have excited me to no end 🙂 I used to love “SimCity” and “Civilization” to no end and I think back in the day, I played every “Sim” game that I could get my had on … “SimEarth”, “SimLife”, “SimFarm”, “SimTown”, “SimCopter” … I think I played all of them … or at least got them and tried them …

But, I didn’t play “Civilization VI” and the new game brings me no excitement. I think I just can’t get excited by that kind of gameplay any longer. Sure, compared to the original “Civilization”, the graphics have come a long way and it looks gorgeous, but I just don’t have the time/energy for the game play.

Now if they come up with a new version of “Civilization: Beyond Earth” with a good storyline (not just the building and exploration), I might be up for that 🙂

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Yesterday's Pratchett novel title was: "The Shepherd's Crown"

And that's the last of the #DiscWorld titles 😞 Sure there are a few others left like "Nation", "Dodger", and the "Bromeliad" stuff (not to mention "Johnny") but those don't really count as much here. I was reluctant to do this one since it feels (almost) like reading the last DiscWorld novel (and I haven't read anything much since then ...)

But time moves on and I guess we must too?

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Fahim Farook

"Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation. (arXiv:2206.07771v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Synthesis of multiple types of content such as dance-to-music or text-to-image using a new diffusion mechanism, at fewer steps.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07771
Code: https://github.com/l-yezhu/cdcd

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"Write and Paint: Generative Vision-Language Models are Unified Modal Learners. (arXiv:2206.07699v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A unified model based on training a model to write and paint concurrently.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.07699

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Fahim Farook

"Towards Reliable Image Outpainting: Learning Structure-Aware Multimodal Fusion with Depth Guidance. (arXiv:2204.05543v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — Reliable outpainting using depth-guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05543

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Fahim Farook

"Text-driven Visual Synthesis with Latent Diffusion Prior. (arXiv:2302.08510v1 [cs.CV])" — Using diffusion models as the generic driver for diverse image generation tasks such as text-to3D, image editing, and StyleGAN adaptation.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08510

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Fahim Farook

"3D-aware Conditional Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2302.08509v1 [cs.CV])" — Using a 2 input such as a segmentation or edge map to generate photo-realistic images from different perspectives/viewpoints.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08509
Code: https://github.com/dunbar12138/pix2pix3D

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Fahim Farook

"T2I-Adapter: Learning Adapters to Dig out More Controllable Ability for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models. (arXiv:2302.08453v1 [cs.CV])" — Controlling text-to-image diffusion models in a more granular fashion by using special adapters to provide extra guidance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08453
Code: https://github.com/TencentARC/T2I-Adapter

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Fahim Farook

"MultiDiffusion: Fusing Diffusion Paths for Controlled Image Generation. (arXiv:2302.08113v1 [cs.CV])" — Controlling diffusion-based image generation so that you can specify image components, component placement etc. without any further fine-tuning.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.08113
Code: https://github.com/omerbt/MultiDiffusion

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"\`A-la-carte Prompt Tuning (APT): Combining Distinct Data Via Composable Prompting. (arXiv:2302.07994v1 [cs.LG])" — Having multiple subsets of data trained on specific prompts and being able to compose the final model based on the prompts you select.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07994

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"PRedItOR: Text Guided Image Editing with Diffusion Prior. (arXiv:2302.07979v1 [cs.CV])" — Structure preserving, text guided image editing using diffusion models without needing a base prompt, fine-tuning of models etc.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07979

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Yesterday's Pratchett novel title prompt was: "Raising Steam".

Here's the thing about the prompt — I generated images on macOS initially and I was happy with the images I was getting since I was getting strange stuff. Nothing really to do with the prompt possibly, but all sorts of weird and wonderful landscapes 🙂

Then I switched to Windows for generation and suddenly all I'd get were trains or some sort of steam engine. Not a lot of variety ... No matter how many models I tried 😛

I've selected a mixed set from both sides for fair representation but I feel as if this needs more exploration ...

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"Forward Pass: On the Security Implications of Email Forwarding Mechanism and Policy" — How email forwarding can create security vulnerabilities and and allow spoofing.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07287

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Fahim Farook

"AI Chat Assistants can Improve Conversations about Divisive Topics" — A study looking at how Large Language Models can improve conversations on divisive topics by making the participants feel understood.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07268

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Fahim Farook

"CiteSee: Augmenting Citations in Scientific Papers with Persistent and Personalized Historical Context" — A tool that uses a reader’s publishing, reading, and saving history to provide personalised context to citations in papers that they’re reading.

Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07302

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Fahim Farook

"Stitchable Neural Networks. (arXiv:2302.06586v2 [cs.LG] UPDATED)" — A way to combine different pretrained models to combine models of varying complexity and performance.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.06586

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Fahim Farook

"Learning When to Say "I Don't Know". (arXiv:2209.04944v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — A method to teach learning systems when they don't know something, or at least to identify areas of uncertainty. Perhaps this should be tried with ChatGPT and Bing to mitigate all the gaslighting? 😛

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04944
Code: https://github.com/osu-cvl/learning-idk

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