Neural Differential Appearance Equations

C Liu, T Ritschel - ACM Transactions on Graphics (TOG), 2024 - dl.acm.org
We propose a method to reproduce dynamic appearance textures with space-stationary but
time-varying visual statistics. While most previous work decomposes dynamic textures into …

NoiseNCA: Noisy Seed Improves Spatio-Temporal Continuity of Neural Cellular Automata

E Pajouheshgar, Y Xu, S Süsstrunk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2404.06279, 2024 - arxiv.org
Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) is a class of Cellular Automata where the update rule is
parameterized by a neural network that can be trained using gradient descent. In this paper …

AdaNCA: Neural Cellular Automata As Adaptors For More Robust Vision Transformer

Y Xu, T Zhang, S Süsstrunk - arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.08298, 2024 - arxiv.org
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in image
classification tasks, particularly when equipped with local information via region attention or …

Future Research Avenues for Artificial Intelligence in Digital Gaming: An Exploratory Report

M Dablander - arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.14085, 2024 - arxiv.org
Video games are a natural and synergistic application domain for artificial intelligence (AI)
systems, offering both the potential to enhance player experience and immersion, as well as …

Emergent Dynamics in Neural Cellular Automata

Y Xu, E Pajouheshgar, S Süsstrunk - Artificial Life Conference …, 2024 - direct.mit.edu
Abstract Neural Cellular Automata (NCA) models are trainable variations of traditional
Cellular Automata (CA). Emergent motion in the patterns created by NCA has been …

Artificial morphogenesis via 3D neural cellular automata

MA Ravelo - 2024 - repositories.lib.utexas.edu
Morphogenesis is the biological process by which an organism grows and takes its form. It is
responsible for the growth and shape of all living things and has historically been studied …