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Welcome back - been busy the last days with meeting friends etc 🙂
But I wanted to show some more #photos from the #Lotharsteig in the #nationalparkschwarzwald . Different from …

Google rolls out Nano Banana image editing upgrades in Photos, including a "help me edit" feature that lets users make edits using text or voice prompts (Elyse Betters Picaro/ZDNET)
https://www.zdnet.com/article/your-google-

Your Google Photos just got 3 huge Nano Banana image editing upgrades - for free
Google Photos just made it easier than ever to create realistic AI edits, thanks to Google DeepMind's top image-editing model.

Einstands ins Technikjahr 2026: AMD eröffnet im Januar die CES
Im Januar 2026 hält AMDs Chefin Lisa Su die sogenannte Opening Keynote der Elektronikmesse CES 2026.
https://www.he…

Handling Multiple Hypotheses in Coarse-to-Fine Dense Image Matching
Matthieu Vilain, R\'emi Giraud, Yannick Berthoumieu, Guillaume Bourmaud
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08805 …

Handling Multiple Hypotheses in Coarse-to-Fine Dense Image Matching
Dense image matching aims to find a correspondent for every pixel of a source image in a partially overlapping target image. State-of-the-art methods typically rely on a coarse-to-fine mechanism where a single correspondent hypothesis is produced per source location at each scale. In challenging cases -- such as at depth discontinuities or when the target image is a strong zoom-in of the source image -- the correspondents of neighboring source locations are often widely spread and predicting a …

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
INXS:
🎵 Kiss the Dirt (Falling Down the Mountain)
#INXS
https://theartsmix02.bandcamp.com/track/inxs-kiss-the-dirt-the-art-mix-edit-kzp

Drei Tage Anwesenheit: Microsoft beordert Angestellte zurück ins Büro
Ausgehend vom Gebiet um die Konzernzentrale in Redmond müssen Microsofts Angestellte ab Februar wieder drei Tage pro Woche ins Büro. Der Rest soll folgen.

Google adds Gemini 2.5 Flash Image, aka Nano Banana, to Search's AI Mode and Google Lens, on Android in the US for those with an account opted into Search Lab (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/11/google-lens-ai-mode-nano-banana/

Nano Banana image editing comes to AI Mode and Google Lens
Nano Banana has been a hit in the Gemini app, and Google is now bringing image editing and generation to AI Mode, as well as Google Lens.

FS-Diff: Semantic guidance and clarity-aware simultaneous multimodal image fusion and super-resolution
Yuchan Jie, Yushen Xu, Xiaosong Li, Fuqiang Zhou, Jianming Lv, Huafeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09427

FS-Diff: Semantic guidance and clarity-aware simultaneous multimodal image fusion and super-resolution
As an influential information fusion and low-level vision technique, image fusion integrates complementary information from source images to yield an informative fused image. A few attempts have been made in recent years to jointly realize image fusion and super-resolution. However, in real-world applications such as military reconnaissance and long-range detection missions, the target and background structures in multimodal images are easily corrupted, with low resolution and weak semantic inf…

ByteDance launches Seedream 4.0, an AI image model it claims can beat Google's viral "nano banana" model in prompt adherence, alignment, and aesthetics (Vincent Chow/South China Morning Post)
https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article…

ByteDance unveils new AI image model to rival Google DeepMind’s ‘Nano Banana’
ByteDance claims that Seedream 4.0 beat Gemini 2.5 Flash Image for image generation and editing on its internal evaluation benchmark.

Texture-aware Intrinsic Image Decomposition with Model- and Learning-based Priors
Xiaodong Wang, Zijun He, Xin Yuan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09352 https://

Texture-aware Intrinsic Image Decomposition with Model- and Learning-based Priors
This paper aims to recover the intrinsic reflectance layer and shading layer given a single image. Though this intrinsic image decomposition problem has been studied for decades, it remains a significant challenge in cases of complex scenes, i.e. spatially-varying lighting effect and rich textures. In this paper, we propose a novel method for handling severe lighting and rich textures in intrinsic image decomposition, which enables to produce high-quality intrinsic images for real-world images.…