A tiny jumping spider pauses to take in the view.

#spiders #arachnids #spider #arthropods #nature #photography #macrophotography

Sounds awesome, please let us see it Joe.
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Painted some pine trees and a Robin.
#watercolour #painting #pinetrees #Robin #landscapepainting #mastoart

I get knocked down, but I get up again briefly, complain a lot, then lie back down voluntarily

@jesper I have a script which gives me the RSS feed for each day for a given category, filtering out anything I’d read the previous day 🙂 Not that there’s much overlap in the RSS feeds between days, mind you.

The script generates a table with the summary from each paper and I go through the summaries, find the ones I like and the table also has a link to the full PDF and so, if I like the summary, I go through the full paper …

Yeah, I know… probably way too much work 😛

This ancient goat willow is half-tree, half-octopus!

It may have been broken by a Cumbrian storm, but is still very much alive - and supporting lots of other life too. One of my favourite trees 💚

#ThickTrunkTuesday #nature #woodland #environment #Mosstodon #Cumbria #LakeDistrict

In case anybody wants a #CoreML #StableDiffusion model that works for the new image-2-image functionality, I have published my first model (based on the StableDiffusion 2.1 base model) on HuggingFace here:

https://huggingface.co/FahimF/StableDiffusion-2.1_512_EINSUM_img2img

I’ve been creating a bunch of models which support image-2-image but it’ll take a while before I’m ready to upload all of them 🙂

#Model #StabelDiffusion #CoreML #img2img

Now that I’ve got my new #CoreML #StableDiffusion GUI working, I wanted to test the new img2img functionality. That’s when I discovered that none of the existing models worked for img2img … well at least not the ones I could find 😛

Incidentally, if you search HuggingFace for “coreml img2img” you will find a bunch of models which are supposed to work. But for whatever reason, those didn’t work for me. Maybe they were created before the latest changes to the Apple CoreML code?

Either way, I ended up spending the afternoon trying to generate new models which would work for img2img.

My first try was to go with Guernika (https://huggingface.co/Guernika/CoreMLStableDiffusion) since that has worked for me in the past. It has an option to create the Encoder that I needed, but unfortunately, that didn’t work.

I then spent some time trying a lot of things with the Apple Python code before I finally got it to work. So in case you are stuck in the same place, here are the important things to remember:

1. You need to use Python 3.8. This is very important. Other Python versions do not seem to work and result in errors.

2. I saw a note about also needing Ventura 13.1 or higher and this probably is correct since I know Apple added some changes to make StableDiffusion to work in Ventura 13.1 … but since I am on Ventura 13.2.1, I can’t verify this one for sure.

Once I did #1, the Apple Python code for generating models worked so much better. Their documentation is still a bit confusing and all over the place, but I was finally able to convert existing CKPT models to CoreML and be able to use them with img2img. So now I’m going to be doing a lot of conversions I guess? 🙂

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography
V. N. Gaia, #Portugal

Invasion of the oak people. Hitched a ride on the pseudo-balloons (not actually) from China.

This is an ornate spiny lobster (Panulirus ornatus). Apparently this is what it takes to impress the girls in lobster world.... Works for me.

@AngelaPreston 🙂 It’s based on a new model which combines OpenJourney (which is an attempt on the StableDiffusion side to get the MidJourney aesthetic …) and something else which, if I recall correctly, was also supposed to give great visuals. Not quite sure it’s up to MidJourney levels, but the visuals did improve from the bland stuff I was getting earlier for “I Shall Wear Midnight” with the standard StableDiffusion model …

And I've been let go.

So uh.

Anyone in Philly Hiring a Data Analyst, let me know.

Now that I've got a working workflow for StableDiffusion image generation again, I can finally get back to the long neglected #DiscWorld novel title series ...

Yesterday's prompt was: "I Shall Wear Midnight"

Not much DiscWorld-iness in the images, but they all were suitably dark to represent midnight, I guess 😛

#AIArt #StableDiffusion #DeepLearning #MachineLearning #CV #AI #DiscWorld
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And that’s the end of another day of paper reading — some really interesting (to me at least) stuff today but only 7 papers in the cs.CV category (and one outside) boosted from a total of 97 papers on arXiv.org today …

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

"Exploiting Cultural Biases via Homoglyphs in Text-to-Image Synthesis. (arXiv:2209.08891v2 [cs.CV] UPDATED)" — An interesting look at how replacing Latin characters with non-Latin (visual) equivalents, generative models reflect cultural stereotypes and biases in their generated images.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.08891

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"Dark solitons in Bose-Einstein condensates: a dataset for many-body physics research. (arXiv:2205.09114v2 [cond-mat.quant-gas] UPDATED)" — A dataset of over 1.6×10⁴ experimental images of Bose-Einstein condensates containing solitonic excitations to enable machine learning (ML) for many-body physics research.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09114

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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"I²SB: Image-to-Image Schrödinger Bridge. (arXiv:2302.05872v1 [cs.CV])" — A new class of conditional diffusion models that directly learn the nonlinear diffusion processes between two given distributions.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05872

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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