CVPR2024/CVPR2024-papers-abstract-index huggingface dataset:
Due to high expense of human labor one major challenge for semantic segmentation in real-world scenarios is the lack of sufficient pixel-level labels which is more serious when processing video data. To exploit unlabeled data for model training semi-supervised learning methods attempt to construct pseudo labels or various auxiliary constraints as supervision signals. However most of them just process video data as a set of independent images in a per-frame manner. The rich temporal relationships are ignored which can serve as valuable clues for representation learning. Besides this per-frame recognition paradigm is quite different from that of humans. Actually benefited from the internal temporal relevance of video data human would wisely use the distinguished semantic concepts in historical frames to aid the recognition of the current frame. Motivated by this observation we propose a novel temporally-dependent classifier (TDC) to mimic the human-like recognition procedure. Comparing to the conventional classifier TDC can guide the model to learn a group of temporally-consistent semantic concepts across frames which essentially provides an implicit and effective constraint. We conduct extensive experiments on Cityscapes and CamVid and the results demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method to previous state-of-the-art methods. The code is available at https://github.com/jfzhuang/TDC.
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) have achieved remarkable performance in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) object detection but this comes at the cost of tremendous computational resources partly due to extracting redundant features within a single convolutional layer. Recent works either delve into model compression methods or focus on the carefully-designed lightweight models both of which result in performance degradation. In this paper we propose an efficient convolution module for SAR object detection called SFS-Conv which increases feature diversity within each convolutional layer through a shunt-perceive-select strategy. Specifically we shunt input feature maps into space and frequency aspects. The former perceives the context of various objects by dynamically adjusting receptive field while the latter captures abundant frequency variations and textural features via fractional Gabor transformer. To adaptively fuse features from space and frequency aspects a parameter-free feature selection module is proposed to ensure that the most representative and distinctive information are preserved. With SFS-Conv we build a lightweight SAR object detection network called SFS-CNet. Experimental results show that SFS-CNet outperforms state-of-the-art (SoTA) models on a series of SAR object detection benchmarks while simultaneously reducing both the model size and computational cost.
This paper proposes Retrieval-Enhanced Asymmetric Diffusion (READ) for image-based robot motion planning. Given an image of the scene READ retrieves an initial motion from a database of image-motion pairs and uses a diffusion model to refine the motion for the given scene. Unlike prior retrieval-based diffusion models that require long forward-reverse diffusion paths READ directly diffuses between the source (retrieved) and target motions resulting in an efficient diffusion path. A second contribution of READ is its use of asymmetric diffusion whereby it preserves the kinematic feasibility of the generated motion by forward diffusion in a low-dimensional latent space while achieving high-resolution motion by reverse diffusion in the original task space using cold diffusion. Experimental results on various manipulation tasks demonstrate that READ outperforms state-of-the-art planning methods while ablation studies elucidate the contributions of asymmetric diffusion.
Video Frame Interpolation (VFI) has witnessed a surge in popularity due to its abundant downstream applications. Event-based VFI (E-VFI) has recently propelled the advancement of VFI. Thanks to the high temporal resolution benefits event cameras can bridge the informational void present between successive video frames. Most state-of-the-art E-VFI methodologies follow the conventional VFI paradigm which pivots on motion estimation between consecutive frames to generate intermediate frames through a process of warping and refinement. However this reliance engenders a heavy dependency on the quality and consistency of keyframes rendering these methods susceptible to challenges in extreme real-world scenarios such as missing moving objects and severe occlusion dilemmas. This study proposes a novel E-VFI framework that directly synthesize intermediate frames leveraging event-based reference obviating the necessity for explicit motion estimation and substantially enhancing the capacity to handle motion occlusion. Given the sparse and inherently noisy nature of event data we prioritize the reliability of the event-based reference leading to the development of an innovative event-aware reconstruction strategy for accurate reference generation. Besides we implement a bi-directional event-guided alignment from keyframes to the reference using the introduced E-PCD module. Finally a transformer-based decoder is adopted for prediction refinement.
Besides we implement a bi-directional event-guided alignment from keyframes to the reference using the introduced E-PCD module. Finally a transformer-based decoder is adopted for prediction refinement. Comprehensive experimental evaluations on both synthetic and real-world datasets underscore the superiority of our approach and its potential to execute high-quality VFI tasks.
Generic Face Image Quality Assessment (GFIQA) evaluates the perceptual quality of facial images which is crucial in improving image restoration algorithms and selecting high-quality face images for downstream tasks. We present a novel transformer-based method for GFIQA which is aided by two unique mechanisms. First a novel Dual-Set Degradation Representation Learning (DSL) mechanism uses facial images with both synthetic and real degradations to decouple degradation from content ensuring generalizability to real-world scenarios. This self-supervised method learns degradation features on a global scale providing a robust alternative to conventional methods that use local patch information in degradation learning. Second our transformer leverages facial landmarks to emphasize visually salient parts of a face image in evaluating its perceptual quality. We also introduce a balanced and diverse Comprehensive Generic Face IQA (CGFIQA-40k) dataset of 40K images carefully designed to overcome the biases in particular the imbalances in skin tone and gender representation in existing datasets. Extensive analysis and evaluation demonstrate the robustness of our method marking a significant improvement over prior methods.
We present a joint learning scheme of video super-resolution and deblurring called VSRDB to restore clean high-resolution (HR) videos from blurry low-resolution (LR) ones. This joint restoration problem has drawn much less attention compared to single restoration problems. In this paper we propose a novel flow-guided dynamic filtering (FGDF) and iterative feature refinement with multi-attention (FRMA) which constitutes our VSRDB framework denoted as FMA-Net. Specifically our proposed FGDF enables precise estimation of both spatio-temporally-variant degradation and restoration kernels that are aware of motion trajectories through sophisticated motion representation learning. Compared to conventional dynamic filtering the FGDF enables the FMA-Net to effectively handle large motions into the VSRDB. Additionally the stacked FRMA blocks trained with our novel temporal anchor (TA) loss which temporally anchors and sharpens features refine features in a coarse-to-fine manner through iterative updates. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of the proposed FMA-Net over state-of-the-art methods in terms of both quantitative and qualitative quality. Codes and pre-trained models are available at: https://kaist-viclab.github.io/fmanet-site.
The challenge of open-vocabulary recognition lies in the model has no clue of new categories it is applied to. Existing works have proposed different methods to embed category cues into the model e.g. through few-shot fine-tuning providing category names or textual descriptions to Vision-Language Models. Fine-tuning is time-consuming and degrades the generalization capability. Textual descriptions could be ambiguous and fail to depict visual details. This paper tackles open-vocabulary recognition from a different perspective by referring to multi-modal clues composed of textual descriptions and exemplar images. Our method named OVMR adopts two innovative components to pursue a more robust category cues embedding. A multi-modal classifier is first generated by dynamically complementing textual descriptions with image exemplars. A preference-based refinement module is hence applied to fuse uni-modal and multi-modal classifiers with the aim to alleviate issues of low-quality exemplar images or textual descriptions. The proposed OVMR is a plug-and-play module and works well with exemplar images randomly crawled from the Internet. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the promising performance of OVMR e.g. it outperforms existing methods across various scenarios and setups.
The proposed OVMR is a plug-and-play module and works well with exemplar images randomly crawled from the Internet. Extensive experiments have demonstrated the promising performance of OVMR e.g. it outperforms existing methods across various scenarios and setups. Codes are publicly available at \href https://github.com/Zehong-Ma/OVMR  https://github.com/Zehong-Ma/OVMR .
Transformers have been successfully applied in the field of video-based 3D human pose estimation. However the high computational costs of these video pose transformers (VPTs) make them impractical on resource-constrained devices. In this paper we present a plug-and-play pruning-and-recovering framework called Hourglass Tokenizer (HoT) for efficient transformer-based 3D human pose estimation from videos. Our HoT begins with pruning pose tokens of redundant frames and ends with recovering full-length tokens resulting in a few pose tokens in the intermediate transformer blocks and thus improving the model efficiency. To effectively achieve this we propose a token pruning cluster (TPC) that dynamically selects a few representative tokens with high semantic diversity while eliminating the redundancy of video frames. In addition we develop a token recovering attention (TRA) to restore the detailed spatio-temporal information based on the selected tokens thereby expanding the network output to the original full-length temporal resolution for fast inference. Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets (i.e. Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP) demonstrate that our method can achieve both high efficiency and estimation accuracy compared to the original VPT models.
Extensive experiments on two benchmark datasets (i.e. Human3.6M and MPI-INF-3DHP) demonstrate that our method can achieve both high efficiency and estimation accuracy compared to the original VPT models. For instance applying to MotionBERT and MixSTE on Human3.6M our HoT can save nearly 50% FLOPs without sacrificing accuracy and nearly 40% FLOPs with only 0.2% accuracy drop respectively. Code and models are available at https://github.com/NationalGAILab/HoT.
Diffusion models have recently brought a powerful revolution in image generation. Despite showing impressive generative capabilities most of these models rely on the current sample to denoise the next one possibly resulting in denoising instability. In this paper we reinterpret the iterative denoising process as model optimization and leverage a moving average mechanism to ensemble all the prior samples. Instead of simply applying moving average to the denoised samples at different timesteps we first map the denoised samples to data space and then perform moving average to avoid distribution shift across timesteps. In view that diffusion models evolve the recovery from low-frequency components to high-frequency details we further decompose the samples into different frequency components and execute moving average separately on each component. We name the complete approach "Moving Average Sampling in Frequency domain (MASF)". MASF could be seamlessly integrated into mainstream pre-trained diffusion models and sampling schedules. Extensive experiments on both unconditional and conditional diffusion models demonstrate that our MASF leads to superior performances compared to the baselines with almost negligible additional complexity cost.
We introduce Gaussian Articulated Template Model (GART) an explicit efficient and expressive representation for non-rigid articulated subject capturing and rendering from monocular videos. GART utilizes a mixture of moving 3D Gaussians to explicitly approximate a deformable subject's geometry and appearance. It takes advantage of a categorical template model prior (SMPL SMAL etc.) with learnable forward skinning while further generalizing to more complex non-rigid deformations with novel latent bones. GART can be reconstructed via differentiable rendering from monocular videos in seconds or minutes and rendered in novel poses faster than 150fps.
Prompt learning in pretrained visual-language models has shown remarkable flexibility across various downstream tasks. Leveraging its inherent lightweight nature recent research attempted to integrate the powerful pretrained models into federated learning frameworks to simultaneously reduce communication costs and promote local training on insufficient data. Despite these efforts current federated prompt learning methods lack specialized designs to systematically address severe data heterogeneities e.g. data distribution with both label and feature shifts involved. To address this challenge we present Federated Prompts Cooperation via Optimal Transport (FedOTP) which introduces efficient collaborative prompt learning strategies to capture diverse category traits on a per-client basis. Specifically for each client we learn a global prompt to extract consensus knowledge among clients and a local prompt to capture client-specific category characteristics. Unbalanced Optimal Transport is then employed to align local visual features with these prompts striking a balance between global consensus and local personalization. By relaxing one of the equality constraints FedOTP enables prompts to focus solely on core image patch regions. Extensive experiments on datasets with various types of heterogeneities have demonstrated that our FedOTP outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.
Current approaches in Group Activity Recognition (GAR) predominantly emphasize Human Relations (HRs) while often neglecting the impact of Human-Object Interactions (HOIs). This study prioritizes the consideration of both HRs and HOIs emphasizing their interdependence. Notably employing Granger Causality Tests reveals the presence of bidirectional causality between HRs and HOIs. Leveraging this insight we propose a Bidirectional-Causal GAR network. This network establishes a causality communication channel while modeling relations and interactions enabling reciprocal enhancement between human-object interactions and human relations ensuring their mutual consistency. Additionally an Interaction Module is devised to effectively capture the dynamic nature of human-object interactions. Comprehensive experiments conducted on two publicly available datasets showcase the superiority of our proposed method over state-of-the-art approaches.
We present a new method for text-driven motion transfer - synthesizing a video that complies with an input text prompt describing the target objects and scene while maintaining an input video's motion and scene layout. Prior methods are confined to transferring motion across two subjects within the same or closely related object categories and are applicable for limited domains (e.g. humans). In this work we consider a significantly more challenging setting in which the target and source objects differ drastically in shape and fine-grained motion characteristics (e.g. translating a jumping dog into a dolphin). To this end we leverage a pre-trained and fixed text-to-video diffusion model which provides us with generative and motion priors. The pillar of our method is a new space-time feature loss derived directly from the model. This loss guides the generation process to preserve the overall motion of the input video while complying with the target object in terms of shape and fine-grained motion traits.
In this paper we present KP-RED a unified KeyPoint-driven REtrieval and Deformation framework that takes object scans as input and jointly retrieves and deforms the most geometrically similar CAD models from a pre-processed database to tightly match the target. Unlike existing dense matching based methods that typically struggle with noisy partial scans we propose to leverage category-consistent sparse keypoints to naturally handle both full and partial object scans. Specifically we first employ a lightweight retrieval module to establish a keypoint-based embedding space measuring the similarity among objects by dynamically aggregating deformation-aware local-global features around extracted keypoints. Objects that are close in the embedding space are considered similar in geometry. Then we introduce the neural cage-based deformation module that estimates the influence vector of each keypoint upon cage vertices inside its local support region to control the deformation of the retrieved shape. Extensive experiments on the synthetic dataset PartNet and the real-world dataset Scan2CAD demonstrate that KP-RED surpasses existing state-of-the-art approaches by a large margin. Codes and trained models will be released in https://github.com/lolrudy/KP-RED.
We introduce a framework for online learning from a single continuous video stream - the way people and animals learn without mini-batches data augmentation or shuffling. This poses great challenges given the high correlation between consecutive video frames and there is very little prior work on it. Our framework allows us to do a first deep dive into the topic and includes a collection of streams and tasks composed from two existing video datasets plus methodology for performance evaluation that considers both adaptation and generalization. We employ pixel-to-pixel modelling as a practical and flexible way to switch between pre-training and single-stream evaluation as well as between arbitrary tasks without ever requiring changes to models and always using the same pixel loss. Equipped with this framework we obtained large single-stream learning gains from pre-training with a novel family of future prediction tasks found that momentum hurts and that the pace of weight updates matters. The combination of these insights leads to matching the performance of IID learning with batch size 1 when using the same architecture and without costly replay buffers.
Structure-from-motion (SfM) is a long-standing problem in the computer vision community which aims to reconstruct the camera poses and 3D structure of a scene from a set of unconstrained 2D images. Classical frameworks solve this problem in an incremental manner by detecting and matching keypoints registering images triangulating 3D points and conducting bundle adjustment. Recent research efforts have predominantly revolved around harnessing the power of deep learning techniques to enhance specific elements (e.g. keypoint matching) but are still based on the original non-differentiable pipeline. Instead we propose a new deep SfM pipeline where each component is fully differentiable and thus can be trained in an end-to-end manner. To this end we introduce new mechanisms and simplifications. First we build on recent advances in deep 2D point tracking to extract reliable pixel-accurate tracks which eliminates the need for chaining pairwise matches. Furthermore we recover all cameras simultaneously based on the image and track features instead of gradually registering cameras. Finally we optimise the cameras and triangulate 3D points via a differentiable bundle adjustment layer. We attain state-of-the-art performance on three popular datasets CO3D IMC Phototourism and ETH3D.
We present a Multi-Instance Generation (MIG) task simultaneously generating multiple instances with diverse controls in one image. Given a set of predefined coordinates and their corresponding descriptions the task is to ensure that generated instances are accurately at the designated locations and that all instances' attributes adhere to their corresponding description. This broadens the scope of current research on Single-instance generation elevating it to a more versatile and practical dimension. Inspired by the idea of divide and conquer we introduce an innovative approach named Multi-Instance Generation Controller (MIGC) to address the challenges of the MIG task. Initially we break down the MIG task into several subtasks each involving the shading of a single instance. To ensure precise shading for each instance we introduce an instance enhancement attention mechanism. Lastly we aggregate all the shaded instances to provide the necessary information for accurately generating multiple instances in stable diffusion (SD). To evaluate how well generation models perform on the MIG task we provide a COCO-MIG benchmark along with an evaluation pipeline. Extensive experiments were conducted on the proposed COCO-MIG benchmark as well as on various commonly used benchmarks. The evaluation results illustrate the exceptional control capabilities of our model in terms of quantity position attribute and interaction.
Extensive experiments were conducted on the proposed COCO-MIG benchmark as well as on various commonly used benchmarks. The evaluation results illustrate the exceptional control capabilities of our model in terms of quantity position attribute and interaction. Code and demos will be released at https://migcproject.github.io/.
Person Re-Identification (ReID) holds critical importance in computer vision with pivotal applications in public safety and crime prevention. Traditional ReID methods reliant on appearance attributes such as clothing and color encounter limitations in long-term scenarios and dynamic environments. To address these challenges we propose CLIP3DReID an innovative approach that enhances person ReID by integrating linguistic descriptions with visual perception leveraging pretrained CLIP model for knowledge distillation. Our method first employs CLIP to automatically label body shapes with linguistic descriptors. We then apply optimal transport theory to align the student model's local visual features with shape-aware tokens derived from CLIP's linguistic output. Additionally we align the student model's global visual features with those from the CLIP image encoder and the 3D SMPL identity space fostering enhanced domain robustness. CLIP3DReID notably excels in discerning discriminative body shape features achieving state-of-the-art results in person ReID. Our approach represents a significant advancement in ReID offering robust solutions to existing challenges and setting new directions for future research.