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- Speech & Audio
Falcon enables efficient, real-time audio-visual target speaker extraction in complex scenes
Falcon, a lightweight causal AVTSE model with a novel multi-scale separator and encoder-space speaker contrastive loss, achieves state-of-the-art extraction quality on realistic multi-speaker benchmarks while drastically reducing computation and latency for edge deployment.
Paper: Efficient Streaming Audio-Visual Target Speaker Extraction for Real-World Acoustic Scenes · Wendi Sang, Kai Li, Yifan Li and 2 others
150 upvotes on Hugging Face7 min readRead the article
- Image & Video Generation
- Multimodal & Vision
OmniShowcase generates 3D-consistent videos from multi-view images using geometry conditioning
OmniShowcase creates videos of a subject from four reference images by reconstructing 3D geometry as surface-normal maps and conditioning a video diffusion model on these plus the references, achieving state-of-the-art identity and 3D consistency on new benchmarks.
Paper: OmniShowcase: Omnidirectional Subject-Consistent Video Generation from Multi-View Images · Junyeong Ahn, Geonwoo Kim, Kinam Kim and 4 others
47 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article
- Robotics & Physical AI
Sensorimotor Alignment predicts robot task success from offline sensory-motor representation similarity
This paper introduces Sensorimotor Alignment (S²), a training-free metric measuring how well a robot model's sensory representations align with its motor trajectories, showing strong correlation with task success across model families and real robots, outperforming existing offline proxies.
Paper: Sensorimotor Alignment: A Platonic Proxy for Embodied Policy Success · Yunfei Xie, Howard H. Qian, Shiyi Lan and 2 others
21 upvotes on Hugging Face6 min readRead the article
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