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Generate photorealistic and stylised images with prompts
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Use ControlNet for pose/depth-guided generation
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Generate a 10-second video clip from a text prompt
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Microsoft’s mai-image-2.5 Brings Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing to fal.ai
Hackernoon 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Microsoft’s mai-image-2.5 Brings Photorealistic Image Generation and Editing to fal.ai
Learn how mai-image-2.5 combines text-to-image generation and image editing for design-ready visuals with pixel-level control.
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Balancing Image Compression and Generation with Bootstrapped Tokenization
arXiv:2606.05552v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite progress in image tokenization, standard methods encode redundant information by mixing all granularit
Reddit r/deeplearning 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Medical Image Classification with PyTorch: A Learning Project on Pneumonia Detection from Chest X-rays (repo available)
Hey everyone! I recently completed a PyTorch-based CNN project for detecting pneumonia from chest X-ray images as a way to deepen my understanding of deep learn
Reddit r/deeplearning 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Research in Image/Video Gen AI models
I've been going down a rabbit hole with image/video generation/editing models for a few months now, started with playing around with Stable Diffusion and ComfyU
Reve 2.0 launches at #2 on the image Arena and with best-in-world 4K, by betting on 'layouts' over text prompts
Reddit r/singularity 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Reve 2.0 launches at #2 on the image Arena and with best-in-world 4K, by betting on 'layouts' over text prompts
<img src="https://external-preview.redd.it/U9F7gSiP16guUW6tjrScIDVgSY9Ypyt1XvoLDw6DjZA.png?width=640&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=b1708ddeed0988384a4737c3
How Lighting Turns AI-Generated Brand Visuals Into a Repeatable Creative System
Medium · ChatGPT 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Lighting Turns AI-Generated Brand Visuals Into a Repeatable Creative System
If you work with AI image tools, you probably know this feeling. Continue reading on Medium »
How I Stress-Tested 3 AI 3D Generators on the Same Inputs: What the Numbers Actually Show
Hackernoon 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Stress-Tested 3 AI 3D Generators on the Same Inputs: What the Numbers Actually Show
TL;DR: I'm Marcus Chen from the Meshy team. I ran the same five prompts through Meshy 6, Tripo v3.1, and Rodin Gen-2.5 and compared the outputs on latency, mesh
Reddit r/artificial 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
What's the best AI image generator for fine art?
For the AI artists here who like creating painterly / impasto style work, what generators are you guys using? Just curious since I'm much more into that theme a
Generating Procedural Marble Dice Textures With Simplex Noise and Domain Warping
Hackernoon 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Generating Procedural Marble Dice Textures With Simplex Noise and Domain Warping
This tutorial walks through the creation of procedural marble dice textures for a Chrome extension using simplex noise rather than photographic assets. The auth
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Diffusion Image Generation with Explicit Modeling of Data Manifold Geometry
arXiv:2606.00094v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Image generative models aim to sample data points from the underlying data manifold, a task that requires lear
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Initialization is Half the Battle: Generating Diverse Images from a Guidance Potential Posterior
arXiv:2606.02453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Despite the remarkable fidelity of generative models, they frequently suffer from mode collapse. Existing stra
Image Data Preprocessing: Preparing Images for Machine Learning Models
Medium · Python 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image Data Preprocessing: Preparing Images for Machine Learning Models
Introduction to Data Preprocessing Continue reading on Medium »
How Machines See: An Introduction to Image Processing with Python and NumPy
Dev.to · ragesh_vr 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Machines See: An Introduction to Image Processing with Python and NumPy
We interact with digital images every single day, snapping photos, applying filters, and rendering 3D...
Dev.to AI 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Bonsai Image 4B: difusión de 1 bit que corre en un iPhone
Bonsai Image 4B es la familia de modelos de generación de imágenes que PrismML presentó el 26 de mayo de 2026 con una promesa concreta: ejecutar difusión de alt
Reddit r/deeplearning 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Guidance on building 2D image to 3D image Diffusion model
I’m building a pipeline to turn 4-side product photos into professional studio images. I’m currently using SAM 2 for segmentation and an Inpainting pipeline to
Image Data Preprocessing in Machine Learning
Medium · Python 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image Data Preprocessing in Machine Learning
Introduction to Data Preprocessing Continue reading on Medium »
Show HN: AI Upscaler – Free, no-signup image enhancer up to 4x with strict privacy
Dev.to · aiportrait 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Show HN: AI Upscaler – Free, no-signup image enhancer up to 4x with strict privacy
Hi HN, I built AI Upscaler , a free online tool to enhance and upscale images up to 4x without...
Por que eu parei de usar Cloudinary e construí minha própria API de imagens
Dev.to · Felipe Rohde 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Por que eu parei de usar Cloudinary e construí minha própria API de imagens
Tudo começou com uma fatura que não fazia sentido. Não foi uma fatura absurda — foi pior...
I Made an Image Compressor That Never Sees Your Images (100% Client-Side)
Dev.to · Max 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
I Made an Image Compressor That Never Sees Your Images (100% Client-Side)
Ever notice how most "free" image compressors upload your files to their servers? I got fed up with...
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Dev.to · deAPI 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Flux, built by Black Forest Labs, has become the go-to open-source model for image generation. This...
Stop Outsourcing Your Bits: Why Local-First Image Conversion Trumps Remote API Bloat
Dev.to · will.indie 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Stop Outsourcing Your Bits: Why Local-First Image Conversion Trumps Remote API Bloat
If I see one more 'Image Converter' landing page that requires an email sign-up just to turn...
Why AI Image Generation Should Be Async
Dev.to · Natalia 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Why AI Image Generation Should Be Async
A practical look at why production AI image generation works better as an asynchronous workflow.
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
GPIC: A Giant Permissive Image Corpus for Visual Generation
arXiv:2605.30341v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Studying scalable methods for visual generative modeling requires large, accessible, and stable datasets. We i
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Medium · Deep Learning 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
ImageNet Classification with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks
Authors: Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto) Continue reading on Medium »
Best AI Image Generation APIs for Marketing Agencies in 2026
Dev.to · Genimager 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Best AI Image Generation APIs for Marketing Agencies in 2026
Marketing agencies in 2026 are under constant pressure to deliver high-quality visuals faster while...
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Dev.to · deAPI 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How to Generate Images with Flux API in Python
Flux, built by Black Forest Labs, has become the go-to open-source model for image generation. This...
Qwen/Qwen-Image-Bench · Hugging Face
Reddit r/LocalLLaMA 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Qwen/Qwen-Image-Bench · Hugging Face
<a href="https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen-Image-Bench#model-descrip
How I Aligned Years of Time-Lapse Photos With OpenCV and Neural Matching
Hackernoon 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How I Aligned Years of Time-Lapse Photos With OpenCV and Neural Matching
In the previous post, I described the Seasons project: a time-lapse of hundreds of pictures taken from nearly the same viewpoint over the years. The hardest cha
Color Grading at Scale: How I Stopped Wrestling with ImageMagick and Just Used an API
Dev.to · Om Prakash 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Color Grading at Scale: How I Stopped Wrestling with ImageMagick and Just Used an API
I've been building a tool for a small e-commerce brand that sells handmade ceramics. Their problem:...
Reddit r/artificial 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Best image generatir
So this a2e.ai website allows you to generate any image and for free. You get a good amount of credits amidst signing up Referal link: https://video.a2e.ai/?cou
Document photos are a tiny image-processing problem with sharp edges
Dev.to · Abdullah Khan 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Document photos are a tiny image-processing problem with sharp edges
Disclosure: I work on Passlens, a browser-first passport and ID photo maker. This post is about the...
Tried to see how insane the image gen could get
Reddit r/ChatGPT 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Tried to see how insane the image gen could get
I wanted to see how absolutely unhinged the image gen would get and how i
Make an image that you refuse to make
Reddit r/ChatGPT 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Make an image that you refuse to make
submitted by /u/DeliciousGorilla <a href="https://i.redd.it
When Preprocessing Helps-and When It Hurts: Why Your Image Classification Model's Accuracy Varies So Much
Dev.to · Rakshath 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
When Preprocessing Helps-and When It Hurts: Why Your Image Classification Model's Accuracy Varies So Much
From 65% to 87% accuracy on CIFAR-10 using Convolutional Neural Networks - and what went wrong along...
Building an Image Optimization Pipeline in Node.js with ShortPixel
Dev.to · Bianca Rus 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Building an Image Optimization Pipeline in Node.js with ShortPixel
Images are still one of the easiest ways to accidentally slow down an app. You can lazy-load them....
Bonsai Image : World’s 1st 1-bit Image Generator
Medium · Data Science 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Bonsai Image : World’s 1st 1-bit Image Generator
How to use Bonsai-Image For Free? Continue reading on Data Science in Your Pocket »
All my hobbies at once
Reddit r/ChatGPT 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
All my hobbies at once
Prompt: Create an image of me doing ALL my hobbies at the same time. It's remarkably correct :) submitted by <a h
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Self-Cascaded Diffusion Models for Arbitrary-Scale Image Super-Resolution
arXiv:2506.07813v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Arbitrary-scale image super-resolution aims to upsample images to any desired resolution, offering gre
AI dewatermark tools: how to remove watermarks from photos you own
Dev.to · Gandalf the Gato 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
AI dewatermark tools: how to remove watermarks from photos you own
Watermark removal is one of those image editing jobs where the tool matters less than the permission....
TechRepublic 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
8 Viral AI Photo Editing Trends (and Prompts) for ChatGPT, Gemini, and More
Explore eight viral AI photo editing trends, from film-style edits and Chibi avatars to fake movie posters, scrapbook collages, and Y2K looks. The post 8 Viral
Image to 3D for Blender: what to check after AI generation
Dev.to · cannan David 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image to 3D for Blender: what to check after AI generation
AI image-to-3D tools are useful, but I would not treat the generated model as finished the moment it...
Image Acquisition in DIP
Medium · Data Science 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Image Acquisition in DIP
capturing an image into digital form of computer processing is efficacious, take a real-world image and converting it into digital data. Continue reading on Med
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Phase-Aware Wavelet-Based-Scattering Encoder-Decoder for Dense Predictions
arXiv:2605.24621v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Scattering transforms achieve Lipschitz stability and translation invariance, but dense prediction tasks requi
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Leveraging pretrained RGB denoisers for hyperspectral image restoration
arXiv:2605.24769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hyperspectral image restoration faces several challenges, including limited training data, strong sensor speci
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
Fusion Embedding for Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis with Diffusion Model
arXiv:2412.07333v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Pose-Guided Person Image Synthesis (PGPIS) aims to generate human images in specified poses while pres
ArXiv cs.AI 🎨 Image & Video AI 📄 Paper ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
EditCaption: Human-Refined SFT and HAE-DPO for Image Editing Instruction Synthesis
arXiv:2604.08213v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: High-quality source-target image pairs with precise editing instructions are essential for instruction
From Pixels to Insurance Claims — Building a Car Damage Detection System with CNN
Medium · Deep Learning 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
From Pixels to Insurance Claims — Building a Car Damage Detection System with CNN
How I trained a Convolutional Neural Network to detect vehicle damage, what I learned along the way, and how AI is reshaping the auto… Continue reading on Mediu
How Putting Faces (Literally) to My AI Garden Images Gave It a Personality
Dev.to · Cathy Lai 🎨 Image & Video AI ⚡ AI Lesson 1mo ago
How Putting Faces (Literally) to My AI Garden Images Gave It a Personality
Pure Illustrations To display rotating images during the long Image Edit API calls to...