Former Whitney Chief Resigns From Art School After Epstein Email Release

David A. Ross said he remained “ashamed” for having been “taken in” by Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Ross resigned his position at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Nature

Many people have no mental imagery. What’s going on in their brains?

This moment of revelation is common to many people who don’t form mental images. They report that they might never have thought about this aspect of their inner life if not for a chance conversation, ...
GitHub

ReF-LDM: A Latent Diffusion Model for Reference-based Face Image Restoration

ReF-LDM leverages a flexible number of reference images to restore a low-quality (LQ) face image into a high-quality (HQ) one. FFHQ-Ref contains 20,405 high-quality face images with corresponding ...
GitHub

Toward Generalized Image Quality Assessment: Relaxing the Perfect Reference Quality Assumption

(2025-09-15) The inference code of A-FINE is intergrated into the excellent PyIQA codeframe. Please find the detailed usage here. (2025-04-14) We release the DiffIQA dataset. (2025-04-14) We release ...
IEEE

Diffusion Model-Based Visual Compensation Guidance and Visual Difference Analysis for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment

Abstract: Existing free-energy guided No-Reference Image Quality Assessment (NR-IQA) methods continue to face challenges in effectively restoring complexly distorted images. The features guiding the ...
IEEE

Visual State Space Model With Graph-Based Feature Aggregation for No-Reference Image Quality Assessment

Abstract: Inspired by the human visual system (HVS), no-reference image quality assessment (NR-IQA) has made significant progress without relying on perfect reference images. The HVS is primarily ...
Science Daily

A simple blood test could spot Parkinson’s years before symptoms

Scientists in Sweden and Norway have uncovered a promising way to spot Parkinson’s disease years—possibly decades—before its most damaging symptoms appear. By detecting subtle biological signals in ...