Vlogger: Make Your Dream A Vlog

In this work, we present Vlogger, a generic AI system for generating a minute-level video blog (i.e., vlog) of user descriptions. Different from short videos with a few seconds, vlog often contains a complex storyline with diversified scenes, which is challenging for most existing video generation approaches. To break through this bottleneck, our Vlogger smartly leverages Large Language Model (LLM) as Director and decomposes a long video generation task of vlog into four key stages, where we invoke various foundation models to play the critical roles of vlog professionals, including (1) Script, (2) Actor, (3) ShowMaker, and (4) Voicer. With such a design of mimicking human beings, our Vlogger can generate vlogs through explainable cooperation of top-down planning and bottom-up shooting. Moreover, we introduce a novel video diffusion model, ShowMaker, which serves as a videographer in our Vlogger for generating the video snippet of each shooting scene. By incorporating Script and Actor attentively as textual and visual prompts, it can effectively enhance spatial-temporal coherence in the snippet. Besides, we design a concise mixed training paradigm for ShowMaker, boosting its capacity for both T2V generation and prediction. Finally, the extensive experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on zero-shot T2V generation and prediction tasks. More importantly, Vlogger can generate over 5-minute vlogs from open-world descriptions, without loss of video coherence on script and actor. The code and model is all available at https://github.com/zhuangshaobin/Vlogger.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures, 11 table

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Index to the Archives of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks, 1901-1984

The Archives of the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks include reports, letters, maps, conference proceedings and other records pertaining to every substantial issue which has confronted the Adirondack Park and the Forest Preserve since 1901, when this Association was formed. For some 50 years after this Association was established, it maintained an office in New York City at 19 Rector Street. In its earliest decades, it also employed a full time executive secretary, who was extremely active in investigating, reporting and lobbying on a great variety of topics, under direction of the Trustees of the Association. In 1967 the office was disbanded, and the Association records were stored with other library materials in the Schenectady residence of Paul Schaefer. After some 15 years, the Association took further steps to preserve these accumulating materials. The oldest were already suffering from age, mildew and insect infestations because of early storage conditions. The entire collection of documents were microfilmed and xeroxed, and then the originals were placed in the vault of the Adirondack Museum at Blue Mountain Lake, where atmospheric controls afford maximum protection. The Xerox copies were retained by Paul Schaefer, as working records and these were donated to the Adirondack Research Center at Union College, when it was formed in 1979. This central location in the Capital District facilitates public usage of these Archives. When the materials were received by the Adirondack Research Center in 1979, a group of volunteers began to organize and index them. Items were arranged in chronological order, hole-punched, and installed in custom binders, inscribed with the name and logo of the Association. Papers in poor condition were Xeroxed to preserve their contents, and legal-sized documents were reduced photographically.https://digitalworks.union.edu/arl_findingaids/1028/thumbnail.jp

The many-valued theorem prover 3TAP. 3rd. edition

This is the 3TAP handbook. 3TAP is a many-valued tableau-based theorem prover developed at the University of Karlsruhe. The handbook serves a triple purpose: first, it documents the history and development of the prover 3TAP; second, it provides a user\u27s manual, and third it is intended as a reference manual for future developers, including porting hints. This version of the handbook describes 3TAP Version 3.0 as of September 30,1994

The Sioux Falls Argus-Leader: January 1, 1982 - December 31, 1992 Annual Index: Volume 3

The purpose of this index is to provide a practical guide to South Dakota news. Included are biographical articles about South Dakotans; news by local writers; all editorials; reports of committees, conventions, meetings, etc.; articles on local history, arts, business, and musical performances; features on education employment, population trends, and parks and recreation, etc. National and international items which are indexed in the New York Times Index and Readers\u27 Guide, to Periodical Literature are omitted unless the subject matter is relevant to South Dakota. Also omitted are items in the following general categories: national columns; birth, engagement, wedding and obituary announcements; daily sports news; public notices minutes of city and county commission meetings; and hospital and police records