HyperStyle3D: Text-Guided 3D Portrait Stylization via Hypernetworks [PDF]
Portrait stylization is a long-standing task enabling extensive applications. Although 2D-based methods have made great progress in recent years, real-world applications such as metaverse and games often demand 3D content.
Yan, Yichao +7 more
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WebtoonMe: A Data-Centric Approach for Full-Body Portrait Stylization [PDF]
Full-body portrait stylization, which aims to translate portrait photography into a cartoon style, has drawn attention recently. However, most methods have focused only on converting face regions, restraining the feasibility of use in real-world ...
Back, Jihye +2 more
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Green Hydrogen for Public Transportation: Insights From an ABM and From Palma de Mallorca Case Study
ABSTRACT The development of green hydrogen (GH2) value chains is crucial for decarbonizing sectors such as transport and industry. Their emergence, however, requires coordination among diverse actors, technologies, and regulations, which traditional analytical approaches struggle to capture.
Roberta De Cristofaro +2 more
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DGADiff: Decoupled Guide Attention with Diffusion Model for Portrait Stylization
Diffusion-based models have substantially propelled the progress of portrait stylization. Nevertheless, the lack of clear supervisory signals often leads to pattern drift in the target portrait.
Yi Ren +3 more
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MODIFY: Model-driven Face Stylization without Style Images
Existing face stylization methods always acquire the presence of the target (style) domain during the translation process, which violates privacy regulations and limits their applicability in real-world systems.
Cao, Jie +4 more
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The Fast, the Steady and the Tenacious: Funding Pathways for Circular Start‐Ups
ABSTRACT Circular start‐ups (CSUs) are critical for unlocking the circular economy, yet they face persistent barriers in accessing finance. Despite growing interest from policymakers and financing institutions, little empirical evidence explains how these ventures pursue and secure funding.
Pilar Mejía‐Vélez +4 more
wiley +1 more source
A Critical Analysis of Microsoft's Rhetoric and Reality of Sustainability Engagement
ABSTRACT This study critically examines Microsoft's environmental, social and governance (ESG) rhetoric and operational reality, to offer insights that extend beyond conventional greenwashing or bluewashing. Drawing on over 20 years of Microsoft's sustainability reports (2003–2024), third‐party ESG evaluations and media investigations, it employs ...
Omaima A. G. Hassan, Iqbal Khadaroo
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Climate Stress Testing on European SME Securitised Loans Under Climate Mitigation Scenarios
ABSTRACT Assessing the future impact of climate risks on the probability of default (PD) of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is challenging due to limited disclosure, policy uncertainty and exposure to physical risks. This paper addresses this gap by integrating macroeconomic variables from the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS ...
Luca Zanin, Raffaella Calabrese
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Anton Chekhov’s story “The Sinner from Toledo”: Main peculiarities of the genre [PDF]
Anton Chekhov's early short story "The Sinner from Toledo" presents an unusual and rare mixture of genre forms for a relatively novice author: the text has got some elements of parable, parody, stylization and anecdote.
Pronin, Daniil G.
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TSDN: Transport-based Stylization for Dynamic NeRF [PDF]
While previous Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) stylization methods achieve visually appealing results on transferring color style for static NeRF scenes, they lack the ability to stylize dynamic NeRF scenes with geometrically stylized features (like ...
Gong, Yuning +4 more
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