by America Ortiz | Apr 8, 2025 | Rendering, Video Processing, Visual Computing
Volume Scattering Probability Guiding We demonstrate that direct control over the VSP can significantly improve efficiency and present an unbiased volume rendering algorithm based on an existing resampling framework for precise control over the VSP. October 7, 2024...
by America Ortiz | Feb 27, 2025 | Rendering, Video Processing, Visual Computing
CLIP-Fusion: A Spatio-Temporal Quality Metric for Frame Interpolation In this paper, we aim to leverage semantic feature extraction capabilities of the pre-trained visual backbone of CLIP. Specifically, we adapt its multi-scale approach to our feature extraction...
by America Ortiz | Dec 10, 2024 | Machine Learning
LiteVAE: Lightweight and Efficient Variational Autoencoders for Latent Diffusion Models In this paper, we introduce LiteVAE, a new autoencoder design for LDMs, which leverages the 2D discrete wavelet transform to enhance scalability and computational efficiency over...
by America Ortiz | Dec 10, 2024 | Video Processing, Visual Computing
BetterDepth: Plug-and-Play Diffusion Refiner for Zero-Shot Monocular Depth Estimation We propose BetterDepth to achieve geometrically correct affine-invariant MDE while capturing fine details. Specifically, BetterDepth is a conditional diffusion-based refiner that...
by America Ortiz | Nov 24, 2024 | Rendering, Video Processing, Visual Computing
Revitalizing Legacy Video Content: Deinterlacing with Bidirectional Information Propagation In this paper, we present a deep-learning-based method for deinterlacing animated and live-action content. Our proposed method supports bidirectional spatio-temporal...
