Watercolour Lake

2023-01-10 day 211 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

I'm a bit behind in posting, so don't be surprised at a whole bunch of posts showing up in the next few days. 🤣

This is a Tatyworks watercolour tutorial. I learn a lot about Procreate and how I can use it with her tutorials. I've tried watercolours without her, and they were a mess. 🤣

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon

https://youtu.be/NmzEVkvJCWA
Digital painting in watercolour…

Sunflowers

2023-01-09 day 210 of doing art every day for a year (mostly - I took sick days off).

This is an experiment. I got a thick paint brush and wanted to take it for a spin, and this is the result.

#ArtMatters #AYearForArt #Procreate #ProcreateArt #DigitalArt #WomensArt #WomenArtists #ArtistsOnMastodon
Yellow sunflowers painted digit…

Looking forward to spring in the Columbia Gorge! #wildflowers #ColumbiaGorge #DeschutesRiver

Some pretty sweet icicle action going on with the trees today. They’re remnants of an ice-storm that came through a couple of days ago. #trees

This makes sense.
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“Shed no tear
O, shed no tear!
The flower will bloom another year.
Weep no more
O, weep no more!
Young buds sleep in the root’s white core.” - from Fairy’s Song (Shed No Tear!) by John Keats.
Photo of Roseberry Topping Hill in the North Yorkshire Moors by John Patr.
#Literature
#Keats

James Forten was born a free man in 1766 in Philadelphia. During the Revolutionary War he was a powder boy on a sailing ship, only to be captured and then released by the British. He resumed employment as a sailmaker, going on to own the business and employ 38 people. He invented a new type of sail and made a fortune. He funded #abolitionist causes, purchased freedom for enslaved people, opened his home as an Underground Railroad depot & started a school for #Black children.

#BlackHistoryMonth

i want what they have

Warm enough to walk outside! And nice skies in #MiddleTennessee #SeenOnMyWalk

Having recently acquired a macro lens, I believe I'm contractually obliged to try and shoot some #mosstodon imagery. Here's my first candidate.

#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Photography
Olive tree, Mérida, #Spain

Industrious children planting vegetables in a post-apocalyptic city
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

The last butterfly
Midjourney 4 AI Art
#stablediffusion #dalle2 #dalle #aiart #nightcafe #midjourney

And that’s all for another day of paper reading — 7 papers boosted (out of a total of 91 today) in the cs.CV category on arXiv.org.

It feels as if I spent way more time on the 7 papers than I do on like 15 papers on other days, but that’s how it goes …

#AI #CV #NewPapers #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

"ImaginE: An Imagination-Based Automatic Evaluation Metric for Natural Language Generation. (arXiv:2106.05970v2 [cs.CL] UPDATED)" — An imagination-based automatic evaluation metric for natural language generation, which with the help of StableDiffusion, automatically generates an image as the embodied imagination for a text snippet and computes the imagination similarity using contextual embeddings.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2106.05970

#AI #CV #NewPaper #DeepLearning #MachineLearning

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An evaluation example on GigaWo…

This picture was accidentally taken with my iPhone 13 Pro. Being out in the country I wanted to take advantage of the lesser light pollution and get a clear image of the stars—only to get photobombed by the Milky Way. #photography

"ShiftDDPMs: Exploring Conditional Diffusion Models by Shifting Diffusion Trajectories. (arXiv:2302.02373v1 [cs.CV])" — A novel and flexible conditional diffusion model by introducing conditions into the forward process. The process utilizes extra latent space to allocate an exclusive diffusion trajectory for each condition based on some shifting rules, which will disperse condition modeling to all timesteps and improve the learning capacity of model.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02373

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Exploration of the mechanism of…

"ReDi: Efficient Learning-Free Diffusion Inference via Trajectory Retrieval. (arXiv:2302.02285v1 [cs.CV])" — A simple yet learning-free Retrieval-based Diffusion sampling framework capable of fast inference, which retrieves a trajectory similar to the partially generated trajectory from a precomputed knowledge base at an early stage of generation, skips a large portion of intermediate steps, and continues sampling from a later step in the retrieved trajectory.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02285

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Diffusion Inference (upper) and…

"Design Booster: A Text-Guided Diffusion Model for Image Translation with Spatial Layout Preservation. (arXiv:2302.02284v1 [cs.CV])" — A new approach for flexible image translation by learning a layout-aware image condition together with a text condition, which co-encodes images and text into a new domain during the training phase.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02284

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Style image translation and sem…

"Divide and Compose with Score Based Generative Models. (arXiv:2302.02272v1 [cs.CV])" — Learning image components in an unsupervised manner in order to compose those components to generate and manipulate images in an informed manner.

Paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02272
Code: https://github.com/sandeshgh/Score-based-disentanglement

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Using all score components resu…