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Re:Live3D: Collaborative Neural Rendering Using Anime Charac... by fxtentacle on Friday July 22, 2022 @02:33PM (#32195535)
I was curious and clicked on the [Dataset] link and got this:

https://github.com/transpchan/Live3D/issues/1

and here's the paper review notes:

https://github.com/transpchan/Live3D/blob/main/eccv.pdf

which complains that it's too similar to

https://anr-avatars.github.io/

and

https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/continuous-sur...

To me, this looks like great craftsmanship: They have built a working implementation where others failed. And they found a way to cheaply generate lots of training data. But sadly, research optimizes for novelty, not for usability.

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