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Physically Based Rendering in the Latent Space

arXiv cs.GR details a method that pushes physically based rendering into the latent space used by diffusion models. The approach …

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A Differentiable Ray-Wave Framework for Hybrid Refractive-Diffractive System Modeling and Optimization

arXiv cs.GR details a differentiable ray-wave framework that could make hybrid refractive-diffractive optics easier to model inside standard ray-tracing pipelines. …

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GestureFAR: Streaming Co-Speech Gesture Generation with Flow Autoregression

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