Tootfinder

Eine biblische Person mit Gimp als Avatar gestalten für Minetest
Nicht nur an Fasching ist es schön, sich zu verkleiden und in eine andere Person hineinzuschlüpfen. In digitalen Spielen kann man oft einen Avatar wählen oder sogar selbst gestalten.
Aufgabe 1
Überlege dir, welche Person der Bibel du am liebs
#Allgemein

GPL2 vs GPL3 as a Rap battle (#ai-generated)
https://suno.com/song/16da57d3-b68f-41fd-ad07-4da2b56bdb36/

In /Avatar/, the main character is played by a double in almost every scene.
#HashtagGames
#DebunkAMoviePlot

SealMates: Supporting Communication in Video Conferencing using a Collective Behavior-Driven Avatar
Mark Armstrong, Chi-Lan Yang, Kinga Skiers, Mengzhen Lim, Tamil Selvan Gunasekaran, Ziyue Wang, Takuji Narumi, Kouta Minamizawa, Yun Suen Pai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.07403

SealMates: Supporting Communication in Video Conferencing using a Collective Behavior-Driven Avatar
The limited nonverbal cues and spatially distributed nature of remote communication make it challenging for unacquainted members to be expressive during social interactions over video conferencing. Though it enables seeing others' facial expressions, the visual feedback can instead lead to unexpected self-focus, resulting in users missing cues for others to engage in the conversation equally. To support expressive communication and equal participation among unacquainted counterparts, we propose…

#HTTP content negotiation has some unwritten rules for images. `Accept: image/png, */*` technically allows image/avif, but that’s not a wise interpretation.
Except what a caching proxy is supposed to do when the origin only sends AVIF?

Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 and can answer questions in her voice and style, was unveiled at SXSW (Bruce Haring/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/ai-marily

AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave
A Digital Marilyn Monroe was showcased at SxSW in Austin, unveiling the next step in AI celebrity monetization.

Words fail me. If this is the understanding of ethics and humanity that pervades tech firms, we’re in for a very bleak period of human history.
Marilyn Monroe AI Chatbot Has 'Realistic Emotions' and Expressions https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/

Marilyn Monroe AI Chatbot Has 'Realistic Emotions' and Expressions
Marilyn Monroe has been reincarnated as a "hyper-real" AI-generated digital avatar that lets fans engage in a conversation with the late actor.

The groves academe shall bloom resplendent, now attended by the very representative of Apollo himself, a paragon of knowledge and an avatar of deep thought.

Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 and can answer questions in her voice and style, was unveiled at SXSW (Bruce Haring/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/ai-marily

AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave
A Digital Marilyn Monroe was showcased at SxSW in Austin, unveiling the next step in AI celebrity monetization.

OK honest question why the hell do people use weird AI generated looking pictures of themselves that look like bad 90s Photoshop filters here? I mean…just pick any cool image, that's fine. Why creep people out? I get that as an artist I'm lucky. I can draw my own self portrait and like it enough to use it, but you don't have to illustrate your avatar! Use a photo or use an image of something else.

Digital Marilyn, an interactive AI avatar of Marilyn Monroe that was created using GPT-3.5 and can answer questions in her voice and style, was unveiled at SXSW (Bruce Haring/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2024/03/ai-marily

AI Marilyn Monroe Marks Another Step Forward In Extending Celebrity Brand Value Beyond The Grave
A Digital Marilyn Monroe was showcased at SxSW in Austin, unveiling the next step in AI celebrity monetization.

The best @…:
https://www.oglaf.com/eyeroll/

📸 Synthesizing avatars into a 360-degree video provides a virtual walking experience
#vr

Synthesizing avatars into a 360-degree video provides a virtual walking experience
Researchers have developed a system that provides a virtual walking experience to a seated person by real-time synthesis of a walking avatar and its shadow on a 360-degree video with vibrations to the feet. The shadow of the avatar induces an illusory presence of their body. In the future, it is expected to provide an immersive experience for any recorded medium with a virtual embodiment.

OK so I haven't really stopped thinking about Dune part two since I saw it on Monday. One of the best cinematic experiences I've had at the theatre since maybe the first avatar or something? Or maybe fury Road… Just cinema par excellence on every axis
From: @…

Неделята нещо не ми вървеше, но това отново ме ободри:
https://plrm.podcastalot.com/@thatfatguy_bg/posts/AZwnHNjhbGVUIevlia

Jason Palmer, who beat Joe Biden in American Samoa's Democratic caucus, used AI-generated texts, emails, and an avatar to communicate with voters (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/underdog-wh…

I have a 3D avatar that's connected to the #Fediverse!
HTC's Viviverse virtual world turned on their Fediverse connection yesterday I think.
This is actually major news. HTC is a major company!!
Say Hi to @…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYgStpjWKXw
Lu Ten's Funeral, Avatar

Animated avatar, VLOGGER: Multimodal Diffusion for Embodied Avatar Synthesis. Nice work.
#AI

Perception in Pixels: Understanding Avatar Representation in Video-Mediated Collaborative Interactions
Pitch Sinlapanuntakul, Mark Zachry
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.03844

Perception in Pixels: Understanding Avatar Representation in Video-Mediated Collaborative Interactions
Despite the abundance of research concerning virtual reality (VR) avatars, the impact of screen-based or augmented reality (AR) avatars for real-world applications remain relatively unexplored. Notably, there is a lack of research examining video-mediated collaborative interaction experiences using AR avatars for goal-directed group activities. This study bridges this gap with a mixed-methods, quasi-experimental user study that investigates video-based small-group interactions when employing AR…

I've been apprehensive about the live action #Avatar: The Last Airbender, and I still am a bit, but I actually enjoyed the first episode quite a bit.
Everyone seems pretty well-cast, and the world is gorgeously realised. I love the creature effects for Appa!
#ATLA

@… @… to be clear if we do find a web site URL for you we attempt to get the avatar from your favicon first using

This article from @… is an absolute tour de force in what it takes to robustly, inclusively build fallback avatars from users’ initials, thoughtfully diving into the intricacies of real-world names and data. It’s absolutely worth the read. (And thanks to @…

Names are complex: Displaying initials for an avatar component in a design system
My first professional/coding related post in a while, this one dives into finding as inclusive a solution as possible for displaying the initials of users on a platform. What follows is not really a s

Colour Haze – Avatar
#FediRadio #HeavyPsych

I'm excited to show off my updated avatar tomorrow at PHC :neofox_floof_happy:

Plastering town with your #furry avatar and social media handle: new dating tactic?
#stickers #Tallinn

3D Gaussian Blendshapes for Head Avatar Animation
Shengjie Ma, Yanlin Weng, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19398 https://

3D Gaussian Blendshapes for Head Avatar Animation
We introduce 3D Gaussian blendshapes for modeling photorealistic head avatars. Taking a monocular video as input, we learn a base head model of neutral expression, along with a group of expression blendshapes, each of which corresponds to a basis expression in classical parametric face models. Both the neutral model and expression blendshapes are represented as 3D Gaussians, which contain a few properties to depict the avatar appearance. The avatar model of an arbitrary expression can be effect…

" But there’s a surprising amount of evidence that most Gen Z culture is actually just millennial culture. Almost half of TikTok users are over 30. The average Shein customer is 35 years old. More than half of Taylor Swift’s fans are over 35. And one of Temu’s biggest demographics is moms. In the ultimate act of millennial narcissism, they are now just writing trend pieces about themselves and projecting it onto young people."
(Original title: TikTok Is For Millennials, It …

TikTok Is For Millennials, It Turns Out
Read to the end for some "Avatar: The Last Airbender" outfits that go hard as hell

woran erkennst Du, dass Du es mit Software-Entwicklern und -Entwicklerinnen zu tun hast? 😉
#Avatar #SicherKeineKamera

I sincerely hope the vast majority of “AI enhancements” will go the way of the 3D glasses which the movie theaters unsuccessfully tried to foist onto our noggins as the upsell no one had asked for.
Remember those things? They were kind-of-okay for Avatar, and then nothing else ever again. Today there can be no doubt that the novelty was ultimately not worth its weight in plastic pollution.
Took nearly a decade for corporations to largely give up on that forced fad, so, hang in th…

Die KI-Bildgenerierung wird noch sehr "lustig":
"#Microsoft: #VASA-1 erzeugt lebensechte Videos aus einem Bild plus Ton"
#KI

Microsoft: VASA-1 erzeugt lebensechte Videos aus einem Bild plus Ton
Bei Microsofts VASA-1 genügt ein einziges Bild plus Ton, um daraus auch in Echtzeit ein lebensechtes Avatar als Video zu generieren.

Um, starting to see a pattern where people are being followed by accounts whose avatar is an attractive young woman’s face and who post sweet little inspirational messages and cute puppy/cat pix. And they smell synthetic as hell. Saw ’em referred to in a mods conversation as “seeds”. There’s an agenda here, dunno what it is.

#iPad Pro has amazing hardware, but I can't get over the OS that feels like working with one-finger gloves on.

Hot? Melting?… Another profile pic?
Just thinking of different Profile Pic Commissions I could offer other than the standard people ones that I have 🤔
#profilepic #avatar #icon

New avatar pic

@… C'est normal que mon avatar ne soit pas exporté sur les autres instance comme dans cette capture d'écran.

#iPad Pro has amazing hardware, but I can't get over the OS that feels like working with one-finger gloves on.

The dialect of discreteness and continuity, in its genetic avatar.
From the free human genetics textbook by Jonathan Pritchard.
https://web.stanford.edu/group/pritchardlab/HGbook.html

@… I had to look at my avatar picture to remind myself what I’m using lately. Turns out to be one of the standard avatars from Fallen London,an online text adventure that I’ve occasionally played since 2010 or so. First game I ever played that ignored binary gender and heteronormative assumptions. Steampunk set in an Victorian London that …

Human Mobility in the Metaverse
Kishore Vasan, Marton Karsai, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03071 https://arxiv.o…

Human Mobility in the Metaverse
The metaverse promises a shift in the way humans interact with each other, and with their digital and physical environments. The lack of geographical boundaries and travel costs in the metaverse prompts us to ask if the fundamental laws that govern human mobility in the physical world apply. We collected data on avatar movements, along with their network mobility extracted from NFT purchases. We find that despite the absence of commuting costs, an individuals inclination to explore new location…

A doe-eyed cartoon version of Gen. Prabowo Subianto - produced using generative AI - is emblazoned on billboards across Indonesia. It's reproduced on sweatshirts and stickers, and featured prominently on #Prabowo-tagged posts that have some 19 billion views on TikTok.
Prabowo is Indonesia's defence minister. But on social media, his chubby-cheeked AI avatar makes Korean-style finger hearts an…

Oh for crying out loud. throws away avatar in disgust

Bought the Magpie #HumbleBundle which includes a physical box of the #Avatar Legends #PenAndPaper #RPG

Starter Set (Avatar Legends)

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19398 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csGR_…

3D Gaussian Blendshapes for Head Avatar Animation
We introduce 3D Gaussian blendshapes for modeling photorealistic head avatars. Taking a monocular video as input, we learn a base head model of neutral expression, along with a group of expression blendshapes, each of which corresponds to a basis expression in classical parametric face models. Both the neutral model and expression blendshapes are represented as 3D Gaussians, which contain a few properties to depict the avatar appearance. The avatar model of an arbitrary expression can be effect…

Resonite can be a bit janky sometimes, sure, but contrary to the popular belief... I feel like it's easier to create stuff in it than in VRChat.
A lot of people will disagree. That's because their avatar uploading process consists of downloading a Unity package, importing it, swapping a texture, and uploading it.
If the avatar base is already in resonite you just have change the texture ingame and save it. It's even easier, and WAY faster.
To make thi…

Netflix names Dan Lin, the producer of the Lego movies and the live-action adaptation of Avatar: The Last Airbender, as head of film, replacing Scott Stuber (Los Angeles Times)
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts<…

Netflix hires 'It' producer Dan Lin for top film job, replacing Scott Stuber
Since forming his production company, Rideback, which is located in L.A.'s historic Filipinotown neighborhood, nearly 15 years ago, Lin has produced films including the "Lego" franchise and others that have grossed $6 billion in worldwide box office.

A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/2

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.

In one of my previous toots, I was beginning to think that benchmarking games on YouTube with the Radeon 7800 XT would probably dissuade people to buy an AMD video card for a change rather than encourage them. But hey, there's a success story in the comments of my Avatar video 🙂
So I decided this time, instead for Xbox, to download Starfield for PC and try FSR3 firsthand. Maybe also make another video out of it...?
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora on RX 7800 XT i5-13400F
…

Hey, I like to interact with people here, replying to others’ posts and especially to replies to my own.
But… if you have an opaque handle, no links in your profile, no introduction post, and no avatar, I probably won’t.

@… is your avatar the map sprite for the player's plane from FLIGHTMARE?

Avocado...Profile pic?
Just thinking of different Profile Pic Commissions I could offer other than the standard people ones that I have 🤔
#profilepic #avatar #icon

The MIT license says it needs to be included with the software, but it doesn't say it can't be a song:
https://youtu.be/pGbodliLFVE?t=53

Bildiğim en kıyıda köşede kalmış mükemmel grup olabilir Savatage. Belki CoF dışında...
Bu arada Savatage yazınca, autocorrect Avatar diye düzeltiyor(!) 🤔🤦
https://open.spotify.com/track/51m49KZRDZEgabbUbdO9Lw?si=YSPGvp9uTSSgSKkwe25Z3Q…

I can't wait for Overanalyzing Avatar's review of ATLA's Netflix live action. Everyone's been optimistic about it but since the first episode dropped, I've been hearing some harsh criticisms already.
https://youtube.com/@overanalyzingavatar

A look at AI video startup Synthesia, whose avatars are more human-like and expressive than predecessors, raising concerns over the consequences of realistic AI (Melissa Heikkilä/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/04/2

An AI startup made a hyperrealistic deepfake of me that’s so good it’s scary
Synthesia's new technology is impressive but raises big questions about a world where we increasingly can’t tell what’s real.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/04/16/papyrus-2
via @…

‘Papyrus 2’
Link to: https://kottke.org/24/04/papyrus-2-a-bold-new-look-for-avatar

Effects of Realism and Representation on Self-Embodied Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments
Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, Jo\~ao Madeiras Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02672

Effects of Realism and Representation on Self-Embodied Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments
Virtual Reality (VR) has recently gained traction with many new and ever more affordable devices being released. The increase in popularity of this paradigm of interaction has given birth to new applications and has attracted casual consumers to experience VR. Providing a self-embodied representation (avatar) of users' full bodies inside shared virtual spaces can improve the VR experience and make it more engaging to both new and experienced users . This is especially important in fully immersi…

PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations
Yang Zheng, Qingqing Zhao, Guandao Yang, Wang Yifan, Donglai Xiang, Florian Dubost, Dmitry Lagun, Thabo Beeler, Federico Tombari, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04421

PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations
Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct clothed humans. We introduce PhysAvatar, a novel framework that combines inverse rendering with inverse physics to automatically estimate the shape and appearance of a human from multi-view video data along with the physical parameters of the fabric of their clothes. For this purpose, we adopt a mesh-align…

Alright, that's it. I'm unflattening my avatar :neofox_evil:​

Virbo: Multimodal Multilingual Avatar Video Generation in Digital Marketing
Juan Zhang, Jiahao Chen, Cheng Wang, Zhiwang Yu, Can Liu, Tangquan Qi, Di Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11700

Virbo: Multimodal Multilingual Avatar Video Generation in Digital Marketing
With the widespread popularity of internet celebrity marketing all over the world, short video production has gradually become a popular way of presenting products information. However, the traditional video production industry usually includes series of procedures as script writing, video filming in a professional studio, video clipping, special effects rendering, customized post-processing, and so forth. Not to mention that multilingual videos is not accessible for those who could not speak m…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15470 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Task-oriented and Semantics-aware Communication Framework for Avatar-centric Augmented Reality
Upon the advent of the emerging metaverse and its related applications in Augmented Reality (AR), the current bit-oriented network struggles to support real-time changes for the vast amount of associated information, hindering its development. Thus, a critical revolution in the Sixth Generation (6G) networks is envisioned through the joint exploitation of information context and its importance to the task, leading to a communication paradigm shift towards semantic and effectiveness levels. Howe…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.15187 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Avatarm: an Avatar With Manipulation Capabilities for the Physical Metaverse
Metaverse is an immersive shared space that remote users can access through virtual and augmented reality interfaces, enabling their avatars to interact with each other and the surrounding. Although digital objects can be manipulated, physical objects cannot be touched, grasped, or moved within the metaverse due to the lack of a suitable interface. This work proposes a solution to overcome this limitation by introducing the concept of a Physical Metaverse enabled by a new interface named "Avata…

@… Also, keep in mind that the worst 3D parts of Avatar with more stereoscopic issues are precisely the live action ones shot in native 3D.

@… you may be interested in this: https://github.com/11ty/api-indieweb-avatar
Doesn’t require a new thing, just gives the favicon image for any URL…

When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.

When I want my mind blown, I compare former world's largest supercomputers to the tech I have around.
ASCI Red, the world's fastest supercomputer until the year 2000, was 150m² large, consumed 850,000W of power …and was slower than an iPhone 14 Pro, which uses ~6W.
ASCI Red had over 1TB of RAM, which may still sound impressive, except that RAM was 2× slower than the iPhone's 1TB SSD.

Effects of Realism and Representation on Self-Embodied Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments
Rafael Kuffner dos Anjos, Jo\~ao Madeiras Pereira
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.02672

Effects of Realism and Representation on Self-Embodied Avatars in Immersive Virtual Environments
Virtual Reality (VR) has recently gained traction with many new and ever more affordable devices being released. The increase in popularity of this paradigm of interaction has given birth to new applications and has attracted casual consumers to experience VR. Providing a self-embodied representation (avatar) of users' full bodies inside shared virtual spaces can improve the VR experience and make it more engaging to both new and experienced users . This is especially important in fully immersi…

PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations
Yang Zheng, Qingqing Zhao, Guandao Yang, Wang Yifan, Donglai Xiang, Florian Dubost, Dmitry Lagun, Thabo Beeler, Federico Tombari, Leonidas Guibas, Gordon Wetzstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04421

PhysAvatar: Learning the Physics of Dressed 3D Avatars from Visual Observations
Modeling and rendering photorealistic avatars is of crucial importance in many applications. Existing methods that build a 3D avatar from visual observations, however, struggle to reconstruct clothed humans. We introduce PhysAvatar, a novel framework that combines inverse rendering with inverse physics to automatically estimate the shape and appearance of a human from multi-view video data along with the physical parameters of the fabric of their clothes. For this purpose, we adopt a mesh-align…

#NutrientScience
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🌟 Unveiling the Power of Selenium (Selenomethionine): A Cornerstone in Nutritional Well-being 🌟
In the grand schema of nutritional elements, some remain underappreciated despite their critical roles. Today, I direct the spotlight towards a mineral formidable for its health benefits - Selenium, especially in its avatar as Selenomethionine. 🌱

I can't wait for Overanalyzing Avatar's review of ATLA's Netflix live action. Everyone's been optimistic about it but since the first episode dropped, I've been hearing some harsh criticisms already.
https://youtube.com/@overanalyzingavatar

Virbo: Multimodal Multilingual Avatar Video Generation in Digital Marketing
Juan Zhang, Jiahao Chen, Cheng Wang, Zhiwang Yu, Can Liu, Tangquan Qi, Di Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11700

Virbo: Multimodal Multilingual Avatar Video Generation in Digital Marketing
With the widespread popularity of internet celebrity marketing all over the world, short video production has gradually become a popular way of presenting products information. However, the traditional video production industry usually includes series of procedures as script writing, video filming in a professional studio, video clipping, special effects rendering, customized post-processing, and so forth. Not to mention that multilingual videos is not accessible for those who could not speak m…

It's surreal how slowly time moves in the world of C compilers.
Today there are still active projects that are hesitant to move past C89, and C99 is still the "new" standard.
The C99 standard has been released before the first public Mac OS X and Windows XP. It's older Itanium and the x86-64 instruction set. It predates iPod, Game Cube, first ever Xbox, and Nokia 3310.
Entire platforms lived and died in the meantime, while C programmers still can't be …

It's surreal how slowly time moves in the world of C compilers.
Today there are still active projects that are hesitant to move past C89, and C99 is still the "new" standard.
The C99 standard has been released before the first public Mac OS X and Windows XP. It's older Itanium and the x86-64 instruction set. It predates iPod, Game Cube, first ever Xbox, and Nokia 3310.
Entire platforms lived and died in the meantime, while C programmers still can't be …

This Veritasium video explains things very well. I feel like I’ve learned a ton about physics and economics, despite not being versed in either:
https://youtu.be/A5w-dEgIU1M

Real-time Speech Extraction Using Spatially Regularized Independent Low-rank Matrix Analysis and Rank-constrained Spatial Covariance Matrix Estimation
Yuto Ishikawa, Kohei Konaka, Tomohiko Nakamura, Norihiro Takamune, Hiroshi Saruwatari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.12477

Real-time Speech Extraction Using Spatially Regularized Independent Low-rank Matrix Analysis and Rank-constrained Spatial Covariance Matrix Estimation
Real-time speech extraction is an important challenge with various applications such as speech recognition in a human-like avatar/robot. In this paper, we propose the real-time extension of a speech extraction method based on independent low-rank matrix analysis (ILRMA) and rank-constrained spatial covariance matrix estimation (RCSCME). The RCSCME-based method is a multichannel blind speech extraction method that demonstrates superior speech extraction performance in diffuse noise environments.…

People are afraid of running unaudited `curl | sh`, but nobody bats an eye on 24707 lines of obfuscated garbage in `./configure`.
#xz

Had a blast (pun intended) yesterday at Blast Arena! Playing Bomberman in first person is so fun. I even got to bring a trophy home :neofox_floof_happy:
#VR #Resonite #CrystallineClub

Customizable Avatars with Dynamic Facial Action Coded Expressions (CADyFACE) for Improved User Engagement
Megan A. Witherow, Crystal Butler, Winston J. Shields, Furkan Ilgin, Norou Diawara, Janice Keener, John W. Harrington, Khan M. Iftekharuddin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07314

Customizable Avatars with Dynamic Facial Action Coded Expressions (CADyFACE) for Improved User Engagement
Customizable 3D avatar-based facial expression stimuli may improve user engagement in behavioral biomarker discovery and therapeutic intervention for autism, Alzheimer's disease, facial palsy, and more. However, there is a lack of customizable avatar-based stimuli with Facial Action Coding System (FACS) action unit (AU) labels. Therefore, this study focuses on (1) FACS-labeled, customizable avatar-based expression stimuli for maintaining subjects' engagement, (2) learning-based measurements tha…

I've been participating in a long-term test whether my browsers are trackable via fingerprinting:
https://browser-fingerprint.cs.fau.de/
and oooof, they are ;(

Study on Browser Fingerprinting

Lobbying by the Big Borrow Checker is real:
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/ONCD-2023-0002-0045

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15340 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

MetaStates: An Approach for Representing Human Workers' Psychophysiological States in the Industrial Metaverse
Photo-realistic avatar is a modern term referring to the digital asset that represents a human in computer graphic advanced systems such as video games and simulation tools. These avatars utilize the advances in graphic technologies in both software and hardware aspects. While photo-realistic avatars are increasingly used in industrial simulations, representing human factors such as human workers psychophysiological states, remains a challenge. This article addresses this issue by introducing t…

https://www.w3.org/TR/jlreq/
Requirements for Japanese text layout. Fascinating document — so many details. Japanese typography has to deal with a combo of four alphabets/syllabaries/logograms, and vertical brush calligraphy mixed with left-to-right latin text influences.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.11700 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csMM_…

Virbo: Multimodal Multilingual Avatar Video Generation in Digital Marketing
With the widespread popularity of internet celebrity marketing all over the world, short video production has gradually become a popular way of presenting products information. However, the traditional video production industry usually includes series of procedures as script writing, video filming in a professional studio, video clipping, special effects rendering, customized post-processing, and so forth. Not to mention that multilingual videos is not accessible for those who could not speak m…

The https://js-naked-day.org is easy for me: https://lib.rs has no JavaScript. It never had any.

JS Naked Day
JS Naked Day: The web should work without JavaScript

The https://js-naked-day.org is easy for me: https://lib.rs has no JavaScript. It never had any.

JS Naked Day
JS Naked Day: The web should work without JavaScript

Sticky scroll looks like a brilliant idea (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/editor-sticky-scroll?view=vs-2022)

About the Editor Sticky Scroll feature - Visual Studio (Windows)
Use the Sticky Scroll feature in Visual Studio to quickly view code scopes at the top of the editor, which helps you stay in the right context while you code.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.03279 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Stepping into the Right Shoes: The Effects of User-Matched Avatar Ethnicity and Gender on Sense of Embodiment in Virtual Reality
In many consumer virtual reality (VR) applications, users embody predefined characters that offer minimal customization options, frequently emphasizing storytelling over user choice. We explore whether matching a user's physical characteristics, specifically ethnicity and gender, with their virtual self-avatar affects their sense of embodiment in VR. We conducted a 2 x 2 within-subjects experiment (n=32) with a diverse user population to explore the impact of matching or not matching a user's s…

#cat #f1

MetaStates: An Approach for Representing Human Workers Psychophysiological States in the Industrial Metaverse
Aitor Toichoa Eyam, Jose L. Martinez Lastra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15340

MetaStates: An Approach for Representing Human Workers Psychophysiological States in the Industrial Metaverse
Photo-realistic avatar is a modern term referring to the digital asset that represents a human in computer graphic advance systems such as video games and simulation tools. These avatars utilize the advances in graphic technologies on both software and hardware aspects. While photorealistic avatars are increasingly used in industrial simulations, representing human factors such as human workers internal states, remains a challenge. This article addresses this issue by introducing the concept of…

#cat #f1

I highly recommend contributing to Rust. Some parts of it, like implementation of the standard library, are surprisingly approachable.
https://fedi.lawngno.me/@a/111971308956759887

It’s mind boggling how much more power-efficient computers have become in the last two decades.
It’s not that new PCs are less power hungry than old PCs. It’s that all the computing power of a big old PC can be had on a tiny cheap board that runs on a battery.
https://lobste.…

I like to minimize the size of binaries I build. Unremovable debugging strings annoyed me, so I've added an option to completely neuter `Debug::fmt` in #Rustlang
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull

debug-fmt-detail option by kornelski · Pull Request #123940 · rust-lang/rust
I'd like to propose a new option that makes #[derive(Debug)] generate no-op implementations that don't print anything, and makes {:?} in format strings a no-op. There are a couple of motivations fo...

I've set up git commit signing with SSH. It was relatively easy, and did not need any GPG cruft.
https://calebhearth.com/sign-git-with-ssh

Springboard, Roadblock or "Crutch"?: How Transgender Users Leverage Voice Changers for Gender Presentation in Social Virtual Reality
Kassie Povinelli, Yuhang Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08217

Springboard, Roadblock or "Crutch"?: How Transgender Users Leverage Voice Changers for Gender Presentation in Social Virtual Reality
Social virtual reality (VR) serves as a vital platform for transgender individuals to explore their identities through avatars and foster personal connections within online communities. However, it presents a challenge: the disconnect between avatar embodiment and voice representation, often leading to misgendering and harassment. Prior research acknowledges this issue but overlooks the potential solution of voice changers. We interviewed 13 transgender and gender-nonconforming users of social …