3 research outputs found
CVPR 2023 Text Guided Video Editing Competition
Humans watch more than a billion hours of video per day. Most of this video
was edited manually, which is a tedious process. However, AI-enabled
video-generation and video-editing is on the rise. Building on text-to-image
models like Stable Diffusion and Imagen, generative AI has improved
dramatically on video tasks. But it's hard to evaluate progress in these video
tasks because there is no standard benchmark. So, we propose a new dataset for
text-guided video editing (TGVE), and we run a competition at CVPR to evaluate
models on our TGVE dataset. In this paper we present a retrospective on the
competition and describe the winning method. The competition dataset is
available at https://sites.google.com/view/loveucvpr23/track4.Comment: Project page: https://sites.google.com/view/loveucvpr23/track
Imaging & neuropsychological changes in brain with spiritual practice: A pilot study
Background & objectives: Some studies have systematically assessed the effects of spiritual practice (SP) on the brain using combined neuropsychological testing and functional imaging. The objective of the present study was to compare imaging and neuropsychological changes in healthy individuals after SP and those with only physical exercise.
Methods: Healthy adult male volunteers, aged 25-45 yr were randomized into two groups. Group 1 (SP group) underwent the SP and group 2 (controls) did brisk walk for 30 min daily. Detailed neuropsychological evaluation, resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and brain 99mTc ethyl cysteinate dimer single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) were carried out for both groups before and three months after intervention.
Results: Post-intervention, resting state fMRI showed increased connections of left precuneus (in the posterior cingulate cortex area of default mode network) in group 1 and increased left frontal connections in group 2. The neuropsychological tests showed significant improvement in 'Speed of Processing' (Digit Symbol Test) in group 1 and in Focused Attention (Trail Making A) in group 2. The SPECT data in group 1 showed significant improvement in perfusion of the frontal areas, with relatively lesser improvement in parietal areas. Group 2 showed significant improvement in perfusion predominantly in parietal areas, as compared to frontal areas. In addition, significantly improved mood was reported by group 1 and not by group 2.
Interpretation & conclusions: This pilot study shows important functional imaging and neuropsychological changes in the brain with SP