CVPR2024/CVPR2024-papers-abstract-index huggingface dataset:
Generalizable neural implicit surface reconstruction aims to obtain an accurate underlying geometry given a limited number of multi-view images from unseen scenes. However existing methods select only informative and relevant views using predefined scores for training and testing phases. This constraint renders the model impractical in real-world scenarios where the availability of favorable combinations cannot always be ensured. We introduce and validate a view-combination score to indicate the effectiveness of the input view combination. We observe that previous methods output degenerate solutions under arbitrary and unfavorable sets. Building upon this finding we propose UFORecon a robust view-combination generalizable surface reconstruction framework. To achieve this we apply cross-view matching transformers to model interactions between source images and build correlation frustums to capture global correlations. Additionally we explicitly encode pairwise feature similarities as view-consistent priors. Our proposed framework significantly outperforms previous methods in terms of view-combination generalizability and also in the conventional generalizable protocol trained with favorable view-combinations. The code is available at https://github.com/Youngju-Na/UFORecon.
Estimating relative camera poses between images has been a central problem in computer vision. Methods that find correspondences and solve for the fundamental matrix offer high precision in most cases. Conversely methods predicting pose directly using neural networks are more robust to limited overlap and can infer absolute translation scale but at the expense of reduced precision. We show how to combine the best of both methods; our approach yields results that are both precise and robust while also accurately inferring translation scales. At the heart of our model lies a Transformer that (1) learns to balance between solved and learned pose estimations and (2) provides a prior to guide a solver. A comprehensive analysis supports our design choices and demonstrates that our method adapts flexibly to various feature extractors and correspondence estimators showing state-of-the-art performance in 6DoF pose estimation on Matterport3D InteriorNet StreetLearn and Map-free Relocalization.
Event cameras with their high temporal and dynamic range and minimal memory usage have found applications in various fields. However their potential in static traffic monitoring remains largely unexplored. To facilitate this exploration we present eTraM - a first-of-its-kind fully event-based traffic monitoring dataset. eTraM offers 10 hr of data from different traffic scenarios in various lighting and weather conditions providing a comprehensive overview of real-world situations. Providing 2M bounding box annotations it covers eight distinct classes of traffic participants ranging from vehicles to pedestrians and micro-mobility. eTraM's utility has been assessed using state-of-the-art methods for traffic participant detection including RVT RED and YOLOv8. We quantitatively evaluate the ability of event-based models to generalize on nighttime and unseen scenes. Our findings substantiate the compelling potential of leveraging event cameras for traffic monitoring opening new avenues for research and application. eTraM is available at https://eventbasedvision.github.io/eTraM.
Learning-based stereo matching techniques have made significant progress. However existing methods inevitably lose geometrical structure information during the feature channel generation process resulting in edge detail mismatches. In this paper the Motif Channel Attention Stereo Matching Network (MoCha-Stereo) is designed to address this problem. We provide the Motif Channel Correlation Volume (MCCV) to determine more accurate edge matching costs. MCCV is achieved by projecting motif channels which capture common geometric structures in feature channels onto feature maps and cost volumes. In addition edge variations in the reconstruction error map also affect details matching we propose the Reconstruction Error Motif Penalty (REMP) module to further refine the full-resolution disparity estimation. REMP integrates the frequency information of typical channel features from the reconstruction error. MoCha-Stereo ranks 1st on the KITTI-2015 and KITTI-2012 Reflective leaderboards. Our structure also shows excellent performance in Multi-View Stereo. Code is avaliable at https://github.com/ZYangChen/MoCha-Stereo.
Long video question answering is a challenging task that involves recognizing short-term activities and reasoning about their fine-grained relationships. State-of-the-art video Large Language Models (vLLMs) hold promise as a viable solution due to their demonstrated emergent capabilities on new tasks. However despite being trained on millions of short seconds-long videos vLLMs are unable to understand minutes-long videos and accurately answer questions about them. To address this limitation we propose a lightweight and self-supervised approach Key frame-conditioned long video-LLM (Koala) that introduces learnable spatiotemporal queries to adapt pretrained vLLMs for generalizing to longer videos. Our approach introduces two new tokenizers that condition on visual tokens computed from sparse video key frames for understanding short and long video moments. We train our proposed approach on HowTo100M and demonstrate its effectiveness on zero-shot long video understanding benchmarks where it outperforms state-of-the-art large models by 3 - 6% in absolute accuracy across all tasks. Surprisingly we also empirically show that our approach not only helps a pretrained vLLM to understand long videos but also improves its accuracy on short-term action recognition.
Registration of point clouds collected from a pair of distant vehicles provides a comprehensive and accurate 3D view of the driving scenario which is vital for driving safety related applications yet existing literature suffers from the expensive pose label acquisition and the deficiency to generalize to new data distributions. In this paper we propose EYOC an unsupervised distant point cloud registration method that adapts to new point cloud distributions on the fly requiring no global pose labels. The core idea of EYOC is to train a feature extractor in a progressive fashion where in each round the feature extractor trained with near point cloud pairs can label slightly farther point cloud pairs enabling self-supervision on such far point cloud pairs. This process continues until the derived extractor can be used to register distant point clouds. Particularly to enable high-fidelity correspondence label generation we devise an effective spatial filtering scheme to select the most representative correspondences to register a point cloud pair and then utilize the aligned point clouds to discover more correct correspondences. Experiments show that EYOC can achieve comparable performance with state-of-the-art supervised methods at a lower training cost. Moreover it outwits supervised methods regarding generalization performance on new data distributions.
We introduce "HallusionBench" a comprehensive benchmark designed for the evaluation of image-context reasoning. This benchmark presents significant challenges to advanced large visual-language models (LVLMs) such as GPT-4V(ision) Gemini Pro Vision Claude 3 and LLaVA-1.5 by emphasizing nuanced understanding and interpretation of visual data. The benchmark comprises 346 images paired with 1129 questions all meticulously crafted by human experts. We introduce a novel structure for these visual questions designed to establish control groups. This structure enables us to conduct a quantitative analysis of the models' response tendencies logical consistency and various failure modes. In our evaluation on HallusionBench we benchmarked 15 different models highlighting a 31.42% question-pair accuracy achieved by the state-of-the-art GPT-4V. Notably all other evaluated models achieve accuracy below 16%. Moreover our analysis not only highlights the observed failure modes including language hallucination and visual illusion but also deepens an under standing of these pitfalls. Our comprehensive case studies within HallusionBench shed light on the challenges of hallucination and illusion in LVLMs. Based on these insights we suggest potential pathways for their future improvement.
Our comprehensive case studies within HallusionBench shed light on the challenges of hallucination and illusion in LVLMs. Based on these insights we suggest potential pathways for their future improvement. The benchmark and codebase can be accessed at https://github.com/tianyilab/HallusionBench.
Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection methods often exploit auxiliary outliers to train model identifying OOD samples especially discovering challenging outliers from auxiliary outliers dataset to improve OOD detection. However they may still face limitations in effectively distinguishing between the most challenging OOD samples that are much like in-distribution (ID) data i.e. ID-like samples. To this end we propose a novel OOD detection framework that discovers ID-like outliers using CLIP from the vicinity space of the ID samples thus helping to identify these most challenging OOD samples. Then a prompt learning framework is proposed that utilizes the identified ID-like outliers to further leverage the capabilities of CLIP for OOD detection. Benefiting from the powerful CLIP we only need a small number of ID samples to learn the prompts of the model without exposing other auxiliary outlier datasets. By focusing on the most challenging ID-like OOD samples and elegantly exploiting the capabilities of CLIP our method achieves superior few-shot learning performance on various real-world image datasets (e.g. in 4-shot OOD detection on the ImageNet-1k dataset our method reduces the average FPR95 by 12.16% and improves the average AUROC by 2.76% compared to state-of-the-art methods).
A sketch is one of the most intuitive and versatile tools humans use to convey their ideas visually. An animated sketch opens another dimension to the expression of ideas and is widely used by designers for a variety of purposes. Animating sketches is a laborious process requiring extensive experience and professional design skills. In this work we present a method that automatically adds motion to a single-subject sketch (hence "breathing life into it") merely by providing a text prompt indicating the desired motion. The output is a short animation provided in vector representation which can be easily edited. Our method does not require extensive training but instead leverages the motion prior of a large pretrained text-to-video diffusion model using a score-distillation loss to guide the placement of strokes. To promote natural and smooth motion and to better preserve the sketch's appearance we model the learned motion through two components. The first governs small local deformations and the second controls global affine transformations. Surprisingly we find that even models that struggle to generate sketch videos on their own can still serve as a useful backbone for animating abstract representations.
Precise geospatial vegetation forecasting holds potential across diverse sectors including agriculture forestry humanitarian aid and carbon accounting. To leverage the vast availability of satellite imagery for this task various works have applied deep neural networks for predicting multispectral images in photorealistic quality. However the important area of vegetation dynamics has not been thoroughly explored. Our study introduces GreenEarthNet the first dataset specifically designed for high-resolution vegetation forecasting and Contextformer a novel deep learning approach for predicting vegetation greenness from Sentinel 2 satellite images with fine resolution across Europe. Our multi-modal transformer model Contextformer leverages spatial context through a vision backbone and predicts the temporal dynamics on local context patches incorporating meteorological time series in a parameter-efficient manner. The GreenEarthNet dataset features a learned cloud mask and an appropriate evaluation scheme for vegetation modeling. It also maintains compatibility with the existing satellite imagery forecasting dataset EarthNet2021 enabling cross-dataset model comparisons. Our extensive qualitative and quantitative analyses reveal that our methods outperform a broad range of baseline techniques. This includes surpassing previous state-of-the-art models on EarthNet2021 as well as adapted models from time series forecasting and video prediction.
Our extensive qualitative and quantitative analyses reveal that our methods outperform a broad range of baseline techniques. This includes surpassing previous state-of-the-art models on EarthNet2021 as well as adapted models from time series forecasting and video prediction. To the best of our knowledge this work presents the first models for continental-scale vegetation modeling at fine resolution able to capture anomalies beyond the seasonal cycle thereby paving the way for predicting vegetation health and behaviour in response to climate variability and extremes. We provide open source code and pre-trained weights to reproduce our experimental results under https://github.com/vitusbenson/greenearthnet.
Diffusion Models have shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks which are capable of generating diverse and realistic image content. When adopting diffusion models for image restoration the crucial challenge lies in how to preserve high-level image fidelity in the randomness diffusion process and generate accurate background structures and realistic texture details. In this paper we propose a general framework and develop a Diffusion Texture Prior Model (DTPM) for image restoration tasks. DTPM explicitly models high-quality texture details through the diffusion process rather than global contextual content. In phase one of the training stage we pre-train DTPM on approximately 55K high-quality image samples after which we freeze most of its parameters. In phase two we insert conditional guidance adapters into DTPM and equip it with an initial predictor thereby facilitating its rapid adaptation to downstream image restoration tasks. Our DTPM could mitigate the randomness of traditional diffusion models by utilizing encapsulated rich and diverse texture knowledge and background structural information provided by the initial predictor during the sampling process. Our comprehensive evaluations of five image restoration tasks demonstrate DTPM's superiority over existing regression and diffusion-based image restoration methods in perceptual quality and its exceptional generalization capabilities.
Single RGB or LiDAR is the mainstream sensor for the challenging scene flow which relies heavily on visual features to match motion features. Compared with single modality existing methods adopt a fusion strategy to directly fuse the cross-modal complementary knowledge in motion space. However these direct fusion methods may suffer the modality gap due to the visual intrinsic heterogeneous nature between RGB and LiDAR thus deteriorating motion features. We discover that event has the homogeneous nature with RGB and LiDAR in both visual and motion spaces. In this work we bring the event as a bridge between RGB and LiDAR and propose a novel hierarchical visual-motion fusion framework for scene flow which explores a homogeneous space to fuse the cross-modal complementary knowledge for physical interpretation. In visual fusion we discover that event has a complementarity (relative v.s. absolute) in luminance space with RGB for high dynamic imaging and has a complementarity (local boundary v.s. global shape) in scene structure space with LiDAR for structure integrity. In motion fusion we figure out that RGB event and LiDAR are complementary (spatial-dense temporal-dense v.s.
global shape) in scene structure space with LiDAR for structure integrity. In motion fusion we figure out that RGB event and LiDAR are complementary (spatial-dense temporal-dense v.s. spatiotemporal-sparse) to each other in correlation space which motivates us to fuse their motion correlations for motion continuity. The proposed hierarchical fusion can explicitly fuse the multimodal knowledge to progressively improve scene flow from visual space to motion space. Extensive experiments have been performed to verify the superiority of the proposed method.
Generalizable NeRF can directly synthesize novel views across new scenes eliminating the need for scene-specific retraining in vanilla NeRF. A critical enabling factor in these approaches is the extraction of a generalizable 3D representation by aggregating source-view features. In this paper we propose an Entangled View-Epipolar Information Aggregation method dubbed EVE-NeRF. Different from existing methods that consider cross-view and along-epipolar information independently EVE-NeRF conducts the view-epipolar feature aggregation in an entangled manner by injecting the scene-invariant appearance continuity and geometry consistency priors to the aggregation process. Our approach effectively mitigates the potential lack of inherent geometric and appearance constraint resulting from one-dimensional interactions thus further boosting the 3D representation generalizablity. EVE-NeRF attains state-of-the-art performance across various evaluation scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstate that compared to prevailing single-dimensional aggregation the entangled network excels in the accuracy of 3D scene geometry and appearance reconstruction. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/tatakai1/EVENeRF.
The ability of large language models (LLMs) to process visual inputs has given rise to general-purpose vision systems unifying various vision-language (VL) tasks by instruction tuning. However due to the enormous diversity in input-output formats in the vision domain existing general-purpose models fail to successfully integrate segmentation and multi-image inputs with coarse-level tasks into a single framework. In this work we introduce VistaLLM a powerful visual system that addresses coarse- and fine grained VL tasks over single and multiple input images using a unified framework. VistaLLM utilizes an instruction-guided image tokenizer that filters global embeddings using task descriptions to extract compressed and refined features from numerous images. Moreover VistaLLM employs a gradient-aware adaptive sampling technique to represent binary segmentation masks as sequences significantly improving over previously used uniform sampling. To bolster the desired capability of VistaLLM we curate CoinIt a comprehensive coarse-to-fine instruction tuning dataset with 6.8M samples. We also address the lack of multi-image grounding datasets by introducing a novel task AttCoSeg (Attribute-level Co Segmentation) which boosts the model's reasoning and grounding capability over multiple input images.
We also address the lack of multi-image grounding datasets by introducing a novel task AttCoSeg (Attribute-level Co Segmentation) which boosts the model's reasoning and grounding capability over multiple input images. Extensive experiments on a wide range of V- and VL tasks demonstrate the effectiveness of VistaLLM by achieving consistent state-of-the-art performance over strong baselines across many downstream tasks. Our project page can be found at https://shramanpramanick.github.io/VistaLLM/
Foot contact is an important cue for human motion capture understanding and generation. Existing datasets tend to annotate dense foot contact using visual matching with thresholding or incorporating pressure signals. However these approaches either suffer from low accuracy or are only designed for small-range and slow motion. There is still a lack of a vision-pressure multimodal dataset with large-range and fast human motion as well as accurate and dense foot-contact annotation. To fill this gap we propose a Multimodal MoCap Dataset with Vision and Pressure sensors named MMVP. MMVP provides accurate and dense plantar pressure signals synchronized with RGBD observations which is especially useful for both plausible shape estimation robust pose fitting without foot drifting and accurate global translation tracking. To validate the dataset we propose an RGBD-P SMPL fitting method and also a monocular-video-based baseline framework VP-MoCap for human motion capture. Experiments demonstrate that our RGBD-P SMPL Fitting results significantly outperform pure visual motion capture. Moreover VP-MoCap outperforms SOTA methods in foot-contact and global translation estimation accuracy. We believe the configuration of the dataset and the baseline frameworks will stimulate the research in this direction and also provide a good reference for MoCap applications in various domains.
Moreover VP-MoCap outperforms SOTA methods in foot-contact and global translation estimation accuracy. We believe the configuration of the dataset and the baseline frameworks will stimulate the research in this direction and also provide a good reference for MoCap applications in various domains. Project page: https://metaverse-ai-lab-thu.github.io/MMVP-Dataset/.
Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has attracted a large amount of attention from the machine learning research community in recent years due to its importance in deployed systems. Most of the previous studies focused on the detection of OOD samples in the multi-class classification task. However OOD detection in the multi-label classification task a more common real-world use case remains an underexplored domain. In this research we propose YolOOD - a method that utilizes concepts from the object detection domain to perform OOD detection in the multi-label classification task. Object detection models have an inherent ability to distinguish between objects of interest (in-distribution data) and irrelevant objects (OOD data) in images that contain multiple objects belonging to different class categories. These abilities allow us to convert a regular object detection model into an image classifier with inherent OOD detection capabilities with just minor changes. We compare our approach to state-of-the-art OOD detection methods and demonstrate YolOOD's ability to outperform these methods on a comprehensive suite of in-distribution and OOD benchmark datasets.
Accuracy and computational efficiency are the most important metrics to Visual Inertial Navigation System (VINS). The existing VINS algorithms with either high accuracy or low computational complexity are difficult to provide the high precision localization in resource-constrained devices. To this end we propose a novel filter-based VINS framework named SchurVINS (SV) which could guarantee both high accuracy by building a complete residual model and low computational complexity with Schur complement. Technically we first formulate the full residual model where Gradient Hessian and observation covariance are explicitly modeled. Then Schur complement is employed to decompose the full model into ego-motion residual model and landmark residual model. Finally Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) update is implemented in these two models with high efficiency. Experiments on EuRoC and TUM-VI datasets show that our method notably outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods in both accuracy and computational complexity. The experimental code of SchurVINS is available at https://github.com/bytedance/SchurVINS.