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- Image & Video Generation
- Benchmarks & Evaluation
StreamEval benchmark measures interactive streaming video generation across five tasks
StreamEval introduces a unified benchmark with 300 scripted test cases and ten metrics to evaluate real-time interactive video generation models on avatar dialogue, avatar performance, world generation, instruction editing, and reference editing, revealing challenges in request execution and state consistency.
Paper: StreamEval: Evaluating Interactive Streaming Video Generation Models · StreamEval Team
363 upvotes on Hugging Face7 min readRead the article
- AI Agents
- Multimodal & Vision
SpatialScout benchmark tests VLM agents on active 3D object mapping in indoor scenes
SpatialScout evaluates vision-language models on autonomous exploration and 3D object localization in 80 indoor scenes with 3,140 targets. The best model achieves 41.71% mean IoU, revealing challenges in precise, complete metric mapping through active perception.
Paper: SpatialScout: Can VLM Agents Actively Explore and Map 3D Scenes? · Zhaoxi Zhang, Hao Liang, Linxuan Wu and 7 others
129 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article
- Robotics & Physical AI
DONIC enables one policy for diverse bimanual dexterous manipulation from human data
DONIC learns a single bimanual robot hand policy from a large multi-view dataset and public data, using object-centered rewards and Clip-Centered Advantages to achieve 86.79% success on unseen trajectories and 57.32% on unseen objects without fine-tuning.
Paper: DONIC: Generalist Dexterous Bimanual Tracking Control from Human Demonstrations · Mingze Sun, Ziang Cao, Yuan Fei and 8 others
129 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article
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