Diffusion-based technologies have made significant strides, particularly in personalized and customized facial generation. However, existing methods struggle to achieve high-fidelity and detailed identity (ID) consistency. This is mainly due to two challenges: insufficient fine-grained control over specific facial areas and the absence of a comprehensive strategy for ID preservation that accounts for both intricate facial details and the overall facial structure. To address these limitations, we introduce ConsistentID, an innovative method crafted for diverse identity-preserving portrait generation under fine-grained multimodal facial prompts, utilizing only a single reference image. ConsistentID comprises two core components: a multimodal facial prompt generator and an ID-preservation network. The facial prompt generator combines localized facial features, facial feature descriptions, and overall facial descriptions to enhance the precision of facial detail reconstruction. The ID-preservation network, optimized with a facial attention localization strategy, ensures consistent identity preservation across facial regions. Together, these components leverage fine-grained multimodal identity information to improve identity preservation accuracy significantly. To drive ConsistentID's training, we propose a fine-grained portrait dataset, FGID, with over 500,000 facial images, offering greater diversity and comprehensiveness than existing public facial datasets. Experimental results substantiate that our ConsistentID achieves exceptional precision and diversity in personalized facial generation, surpassing existing methods in the MyStyle dataset. In addition, although ConsistentID introduces more multimodal ID information, it still maintains rapid inference speed during the generation process.

A heartbeat-powered harvester for cardiac monitoring will be demonstrated. The device harnesses mechanical vibrations from heartbeats and converts them into electrical energy to power pressure sensors, enabling real-time monitoring of heart’s health without an external powering source. The system integrates biocompatible piezoelectric flexible materials with sensors utilizing power electronics. Live demonstrations illustrate the system's feasibility for continuous intracardiac monitoring. Initial results suggest promising performance in terms of energy harvesting efficiency and biosignal acquisition accuracy for various medical and wearable devices applications.

In this paper, we present LaVieID, a novel local a utoregressive vi deo diffusion framework designed to tackle the challenging id entity-preserving text-to-video task. The key idea of LaVieID is to mitigate the loss of identity information inherent in the stochastic global generation process of diffusion transformers (DiTs) from both spatial and temporal perspectives. Specifically, unlike the global and unstructured modeling of facial latent states in existing DiTs, LaVieID introduces a local router to explicitly represent latent states by weighted combinations of fine-grained local facial structures. This alleviates undesirable feature interference and encourages DiTs to capture distinctive facial characteristics. Furthermore, a temporal autoregressive module is integrated into LaVieID to refine denoised latent tokens before video decoding. This module divides latent tokens temporally into chunks, exploiting their long-range temporal dependencies to predict biases for rectifying tokens, thereby significantly enhancing inter-frame identity consistency. Consequently, LaVieID can generate high-fidelity personalized videos and achieve state-of-the-art performance. Our code and models are available at https://github.com/ssugarwh/LaVieID.