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Magic3D Text-to-3D Pipeline
Magic3D is NVIDIA's two-stage answer to DreamFusion, producing higher-resolution, more detailed 3D content faster.
Visual AIDenoising and Deblurring Networks
Denoising and deblurring networks are neural models that clean up noisy or blurry images, recovering sharp detail from messy inputs.
Visual AIGFPGAN Face Restoration
GFPGAN is a specialized model that restores low-quality, blurry, or old face photos into sharp, realistic portraits.
Visual AICodeFormer Robust Face Recovery
CodeFormer is a face restoration model built to handle extreme degradation, recovering recognizable faces from heavily damaged, tiny, or blurry inputs.
Visual AIGigaGAN Scaled Generators
GigaGAN is a billion-parameter GAN that proves generative adversarial networks can scale to text-to-image generation, rivaling diffusion models…
Visual AIVQGAN and Codebook Image Synthesis
VQGAN compresses images into a grid of discrete tokens drawn from a learned codebook, letting a transformer generate images the same way language models…
Visual AIMaskGIT Parallel Token Decoding
MaskGIT generates images by predicting many tokens at once and filling in the most confident ones first, replacing slow left-to-right generation…
Visual AIZero-1-to-3 Novel View Diffusion
Zero-1-to-3 turns a single photo of an object into images of that same object seen from any new angle, using a diffusion model conditioned on the camera…
Visual AIDMTet Hybrid 3D Representation
DMTet (Deep Marching Tetrahedra) is a hybrid 3D shape representation that combines a deformable tetrahedral grid with a signed distance field so neural…
Visual AIInstant-NGP Hash Encoding
Instant-NGP is NVIDIA's technique that trains Neural Radiance Fields and other neural graphics primitives in seconds instead of hours by storing learnable…
Visual AIDepthAnything Monocular Depth
DepthAnything is a foundation model that estimates how far away every pixel is from a single ordinary photo, with no special hardware.
Visual AIMarigold Diffusion Depth Estimation
Marigold repurposes a pretrained image-generation diffusion model (Stable Diffusion) to predict highly detailed depth maps.
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