GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Hallucination Augmented Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model
Authors: Chaoya Jiang; Haiyang Xu; Mengfan Dong; Jiaxing Chen; Wei Ye; Ming Yan; Qinghao Ye; Ji Zhang; Fei Huang; Shikun Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have been shown to efficiently integrate natural language with visual information to handle multi-modal tasks. However MLLMs still face a fundamental limitation of hallucinations where they tend to generate erroneous or fabricated information. In this paper we address hallucinations in MLLMs from a novel perspective of representation learning. We first analyzed the representation distribution of textual and visual tokens in MLLM revealing two important findings: 1) there is a significant gap between textual and visual representations indicating unsatisfactory cross-modal representation alignment; 2) representations of texts that contain and do not contain hallucinations are entangled making it challenging to distinguish them. These two observations inspire us with a simple yet effective method to mitigate hallucinations. Specifically we introduce contrastive learning into MLLMs and use text with hallucination as hard negative examples naturally bringing representations of non-hallucinative text and visual samples closer while pushing way representations of non-hallucinating and hallucinative text. We evaluate our method quantitatively and qualitatively showing its effectiveness in reducing hallucination occurrences and improving performance across multiple benchmarks. On the MMhal-Bench benchmark our method obtains a 34.66% /29.5% improvement over the baseline MiniGPT-4/LLaVA. Our code is available on https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-HalOwl/tree/main/hacl.
Preserving Fairness Generalization in Deepfake Detection
Authors: Li Lin; Xinan He; Yan Ju; Xin Wang; Feng Ding; Shu Hu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Although effective deepfake detection models have been developed in recent years recent studies have revealed that these models can result in unfair performance disparities among demographic groups such as race and gender. This can lead to particular groups facing unfair targeting or exclusion from detection potentially allowing misclassified deepfakes to manipulate public opinion and undermine trust in the model. The existing method for addressing this problem is providing a fair loss function. It shows good fairness performance for intra-domain evaluation but does not maintain fairness for cross-domain testing. This highlights the significance of fairness generalization in the fight against deepfakes. In this work we propose the first method to address the fairness generalization problem in deepfake detection by simultaneously considering features loss and optimization aspects. Our method employs disentanglement learning to extract demographic and domain-agnostic forgery features fusing them to encourage fair learning across a flattened loss landscape. Extensive experiments on prominent deepfake datasets demonstrate our method's effectiveness surpassing state-of-the-art approaches in preserving fairness during cross-domain deepfake detection. The code is available at https://github.com/Purdue-M2/Fairness-Generalization.
Anomaly Score: Evaluating Generative Models and Individual Generated Images based on Complexity and Vulnerability
Authors: Jaehui Hwang; Junghyuk Lee; Jong-Seok Lee
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: With the advancement of generative models the assessment of generated images becomes increasingly more important. Previous methods measure distances between features of reference and generated images from trained vision models. In this paper we conduct an extensive investigation into the relationship between the representation space and input space around generated images. We first propose two measures related to the presence of unnatural elements within images: complexity which indicates how non-linear the representation space is and vulnerability which is related to how easily the extracted feature changes by adversarial input changes. Based on these we introduce a new metric to evaluating image-generative models called anomaly score (AS). Moreover we propose AS-i (anomaly score for individual images) that can effectively evaluate generated images individually. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach.
Structure-Aware Sparse-View X-ray 3D Reconstruction
Authors: Yuanhao Cai; Jiahao Wang; Alan Yuille; Zongwei Zhou; Angtian Wang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: X-ray known for its ability to reveal internal structures of objects is expected to provide richer information for 3D reconstruction than visible light. Yet existing NeRF algorithms overlook this nature of X-ray leading to their limitations in capturing structural contents of imaged objects. In this paper we propose a framework Structure-Aware X-ray Neural Radiodensity Fields (SAX-NeRF) for sparse-view X-ray 3D reconstruction. Firstly we design a Line Segment-based Transformer (Lineformer) as the backbone of SAX-NeRF. Linefomer captures internal structures of objects in 3D space by modeling the dependencies within each line segment of an X-ray. Secondly we present a Masked Local-Global (MLG) ray sampling strategy to extract contextual and geometric information in 2D projection. Plus we collect a larger-scale dataset X3D covering wider X-ray applications. Experiments on X3D show that SAX-NeRF surpasses previous NeRF-based methods by 12.56 and 2.49 dB on novel view synthesis and CT reconstruction. https://github.com/caiyuanhao1998/SAX-NeRF
Dexterous Grasp Transformer
Authors: Guo-Hao Xu; Yi-Lin Wei; Dian Zheng; Xiao-Ming Wu; Wei-Shi Zheng
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: In this work we propose a novel discriminative framework for dexterous grasp generation named Dexterous Grasp TRansformer (DGTR) capable of predicting a diverse set of feasible grasp poses by processing the object point cloud with only one forward pass. We formulate dexterous grasp generation as a set prediction task and design a transformer-based grasping model for it. However we identify that this set prediction paradigm encounters several optimization challenges in the field of dexterous grasping and results in restricted performance. To address these issues we propose progressive strategies for both the training and testing phases. First the dynamic-static matching training (DSMT) strategy is presented to enhance the optimization stability during the training phase. Second we introduce the adversarial-balanced test-time adaptation (AB-TTA) with a pair of adversarial losses to improve grasping quality during the testing phase. Experimental results on the DexGraspNet dataset demonstrate the capability of DGTR to predict dexterous grasp poses with both high quality and diversity. Notably while keeping high quality the diversity of grasp poses predicted by DGTR significantly outperforms previous works in multiple metrics without any data pre-processing. Codes are available at https://github.com/iSEE-Laboratory/DGTR.
Cooperation Does Matter: Exploring Multi-Order Bilateral Relations for Audio-Visual Segmentation
Authors: Qi Yang; Xing Nie; Tong Li; Pengfei Gao; Ying Guo; Cheng Zhen; Pengfei Yan; Shiming Xiang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recently an audio-visual segmentation (AVS) task has been introduced aiming to group pixels with sounding objects within a given video. This task necessitates a first-ever audio-driven pixel-level understanding of the scene posing significant challenges. In this paper we propose an innovative audio-visual transformer framework termed COMBO an acronym for COoperation of Multi-order Bilateral relatiOns. For the first time our framework explores three types of bilateral entanglements within AVS: pixel entanglement modality entanglement and temporal entanglement. Regarding pixel entanglement we employ a Siam-Encoder Module (SEM) that leverages prior knowledge to generate more precise visual features from the foundational model. For modality entanglement we design a Bilateral-Fusion Module (BFM) enabling COMBO to align corresponding visual and auditory signals bi-directionally. As for temporal entanglement we introduce an innovative adaptive inter-frame consistency loss according to the inherent rules of temporal. Comprehensive experiments and ablation studies on AVSBench-object (84.7 mIoU on S4 59.2 mIou on MS3) and AVSBench-semantic (42.1 mIoU on AVSS) datasets demonstrate that COMBO surpasses previous state-of-the-art methods. Project page is available at https://yannqi.github.io/AVS-COMBO.
EgoThink: Evaluating First-Person Perspective Thinking Capability of Vision-Language Models
Authors: Sijie Cheng; Zhicheng Guo; Jingwen Wu; Kechen Fang; Peng Li; Huaping Liu; Yang Liu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have recently shown promising results in traditional downstream tasks. Evaluation studies have emerged to assess their abilities with the majority focusing on the third-person perspective and only a few addressing specific tasks from the first-person perspective. However the capability of VLMs to "think" from a first-person perspective a crucial attribute for advancing autonomous agents and robotics remains largely unexplored. To bridge this research gap we introduce EgoThink a novel visual question-answering benchmark that encompasses six core capabilities with twelve detailed dimensions. The benchmark is constructed using selected clips from egocentric videos with manually annotated question-answer pairs containing first-person information. To comprehensively assess VLMs we evaluate twenty-one popular VLMs on EgoThink. Moreover given the open-ended format of the answers we use GPT-4 as the automatic judge to compute single-answer grading. Experimental results indicate that although GPT-4V leads in numerous dimensions all evaluated VLMs still possess considerable potential for improvement in first-person perspective tasks. Meanwhile enlarging the number of trainable parameters has the most significant impact on model performance on EgoThink. In conclusion EgoThink serves as a valuable addition to existing evaluation benchmarks for VLMs providing an indispensable resource for future research in the realm of embodied artificial intelligence and robotics.
Hearing Anything Anywhere
Authors: Mason Long Wang; Ryosuke Sawata; Samuel Clarke; Ruohan Gao; Shangzhe Wu; Jiajun Wu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recent years have seen immense progress in 3D computer vision and computer graphics with emerging tools that can virtualize real-world 3D environments for numerous Mixed Reality (XR) applications. However alongside immersive visual experiences immersive auditory experiences are equally vital to our holistic perception of an environment. In this paper we aim to reconstruct the spatial acoustic characteristics of an arbitrary environment given only a sparse set of (roughly 12) room impulse response (RIR) recordings and a planar reconstruction of the scene a setup that is easily achievable by ordinary users. To this end we introduce DiffRIR a differentiable RIR rendering framework with interpretable parametric models of salient acoustic features of the scene including sound source directivity and surface reflectivity. This allows us to synthesize novel auditory experiences through the space with any source audio. To evaluate our method we collect a dataset of RIR recordings and music in four diverse real environments. We show that our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines on rendering monaural and binaural RIRs and music at unseen locations and learns physically interpretable parameters characterizing acoustic properties of the sound source and surfaces in the scene.
PatchFusion: An End-to-End Tile-Based Framework for High-Resolution Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
Authors: Zhenyu Li; Shariq Farooq Bhat; Peter Wonka
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Single image depth estimation is a foundational task in computer vision and generative modeling. However prevailing depth estimation models grapple with accommodating the increasing resolutions commonplace in today's consumer cameras and devices. Existing high-resolution strategies show promise but they often face limitations ranging from error propagation to the loss of high-frequency details. We present PatchFusion a novel tile-based framework with three key components to improve the current state of the art: (1) A patch-wise fusion network that fuses a globally-consistent coarse prediction with finer inconsistent tiled predictions via high-level feature guidance (2) A Global-to-Local (G2L) module that adds vital context to the fusion network discarding the need for patch selection heuristics and (3) A Consistency-Aware Training (CAT) and Inference (CAI) approach emphasizing patch overlap consistency and thereby eradicating the necessity for post-processing. Experiments on UnrealStereo4K MVS-Synth and Middleburry 2014 demonstrate that our framework can generate high-resolution depth maps with intricate details. PatchFusion is independent of the base model for depth estimation. Notably our framework built on top of SOTA ZoeDepth brings improvements for a total of 17.3% and 29.4% in terms of the root mean squared error (RMSE) on UnrealStereo4K and MVS-Synth respectively.
GeneAvatar: Generic Expression-Aware Volumetric Head Avatar Editing from a Single Image
Authors: Chong Bao; Yinda Zhang; Yuan Li; Xiyu Zhang; Bangbang Yang; Hujun Bao; Marc Pollefeys; Guofeng Zhang; Zhaopeng Cui
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recently we have witnessed the explosive growth of various volumetric representations in modeling animatable head avatars. However due to the diversity of frameworks there is no practical method to support high-level applications like 3D head avatar editing across different representations. In this paper we propose a generic avatar editing approach that can be universally applied to various 3DMM driving volumetric head avatars. To achieve this goal we design a novel expression-aware modification generative model which enables lift 2D editing from a single image to a consistent 3D modification field. To ensure the effectiveness of the generative modification process we develop several techniques including an expression-dependent modification distillation scheme to draw knowledge from the large-scale head avatar model and 2D facial texture editing tools implicit latent space guidance to enhance model convergence and a segmentation-based loss reweight strategy for fine-grained texture inversion. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method delivers high-quality and consistent results across multiple expression and viewpoints. Project page: https://zju3dv.github.io/ geneavatar/.
Improved Self-Training for Test-Time Adaptation
Authors: Jing Ma
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Test-time adaptation (TTA) is a technique to improve the performance of a pre-trained source model on a target distribution without using any labeled data. However existing self-trained TTA methods often face the challenges of unreliable pseudo-labels and unstable model optimization. In this paper we propose an Improved Self-Training (IST) approach which addresses these challenges by enhancing the pseudo-label quality and stabilizing the adaptation process. Specifically we use a simple augmentation strategy to generate multiple views of each test sample and construct a graph structure to correct the pseudo-labels based on the similarity of the latent features. Moreover we adopt a parameter moving average scheme to smooth the model updates and prevent catastrophic forgetting. Instead of using a model with fixed label space we explore the adaptability of the foundation model CLIP to various downstream tasks at test time. Extensive experiments on various benchmarks show that IST can achieve significant and consistent improvements over the existing TTA methods in classification detection and segmentation tasks.
Learn to Rectify the Bias of CLIP for Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Jingyun Wang; Guoliang Kang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recent works utilize CLIP to perform the challenging unsupervised semantic segmentation task where only images without annotations are available. However we observe that when adopting CLIP to such a pixel-level understanding task unexpected bias occurs. Previous works don't explicitly model such bias which largely constrains the segmentation performance. In this paper we propose to explicitly model and rectify the bias existing in CLIP to facilitate the unsupervised semantic segmentation. Specifically we design a learnable "Reference" prompt to encode class-preference bias and project the positional embedding of vision transformer to represent space-preference bias. Via a simple element-wise subtraction we rectify the logits of CLIP classifier. Based on the rectified logits we generate a segmentation mask via a Gumbel-Softmax operation. Then a contrastive loss between masked visual feature and the text features of different classes is imposed to facilitate the effective bias modeling. To further improve the segmentation we distill the knowledge from the rectified CLIP to the advanced segmentation architecture via minimizing our designed mask-guided feature-guided and text-guided loss terms. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate that our method performs favorably against previous state-of-the-arts. The implementation is available at https://github.com/dogehhh/ReCLIP.
Unsupervised Feature Learning with Emergent Data-Driven Prototypicality
Authors: Yunhui Guo; Youren Zhang; Yubei Chen; Stella X. Yu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Given a set of images our goal is to map each image to a point in a feature space such that not only point proximity indicates visual similarity but where it is located directly encodes how prototypical the image is according to the dataset. Our key insight is to perform unsupervised feature learning in hyperbolic instead of Euclidean space where the distance between points still reflects image similarity yet we gain additional capacity for representing prototypicality with the location of the point: The closer it is to the origin the more prototypical it is. The latter property is simply emergent from optimizing the metric learning objective: The image similar to many training instances is best placed at the center of corresponding points in Euclidean space but closer to the origin in hyperbolic space. We propose an unsupervised feature learning algorithm in Hyperbolic space with sphere pACKing. HACK first generates uniformly packed particles in the Poincar'e ball of hyperbolic space and then assigns each image uniquely to a particle. With our feature mapper simply trained to spread out training instances in hyperbolic space we observe that images move closer to the origin with congealing - a warping process that aligns all the images and makes them appear more common and similar to each other validating our idea of unsupervised prototypicality discovery. We demonstrate that our data-driven prototypicality provides an easy and superior unsupervised instance selection to reduce sample complexity increase model generalization with atypical instances and robustness with typical ones.
Unlocking Pre-trained Image Backbones for Semantic Image Synthesis
Authors: Tariq Berrada Ifriqi; Jakob Verbeek; Camille Couprie; Karteek Alahari
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Semantic image synthesis i.e. generating images from user-provided semantic label maps is an important conditional image generation task as it allows to control both the content as well as the spatial layout of generated images. Although diffusion models have pushed the state of the art in generative image modeling the iterative nature of their inference process makes them computationally demanding. Other approaches such as GANs are more efficient as they only need a single feed-forward pass for generation but the image quality tends to suffer when modeling large and diverse datasets. In this work we propose a new class of GAN discriminators for semantic image synthesis that generates highly realistic images by exploiting feature backbones pre-trained for tasks such as image classification. We also introduce a new generator architecture with better context modeling and using cross-attention to inject noise into latent variables leading to more diverse generated images. Our model which we dub DP-SIMS achieves state-of-the-art results in terms of image quality and consistency with the input label maps on ADE-20K COCO-Stuff and Cityscapes surpassing recent diffusion models while requiring two orders of magnitude less compute for inference.
Retrieval-Augmented Egocentric Video Captioning
Authors: Jilan Xu; Yifei Huang; Junlin Hou; Guo Chen; Yuejie Zhang; Rui Feng; Weidi Xie
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Understanding human actions from videos of first-person view poses significant challenges. Most prior approaches explore representation learning on egocentric videos only while overlooking the potential benefit of exploiting existing large-scale third-person videos. In this paper (1) we develop EgoInstructor a retrieval-augmented multimodal captioning model that automatically retrieves semantically relevant third-person instructional videos to enhance the video captioning of egocentric videos (2) for training the cross-view retrieval module we devise an automatic pipeline to discover ego-exo video pairs from distinct large-scale egocentric and exocentric datasets (3) we train the cross-view retrieval module with a novel EgoExoNCE loss that pulls egocentric and exocentric video features closer by aligning them to shared text features that describe similar actions (4) through extensive experiments our cross-view retrieval module demonstrates superior performance across seven benchmarks. Regarding egocentric video captioning EgoInstructor exhibits significant improvements by leveraging third-person videos as references.
SkillDiffuser: Interpretable Hierarchical Planning via Skill Abstractions in Diffusion-Based Task Execution
Authors: Zhixuan Liang; Yao Mu; Hengbo Ma; Masayoshi Tomizuka; Mingyu Ding; Ping Luo
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion models have demonstrated strong potential for robotic trajectory planning. However generating coherent trajectories from high-level instructions remains challenging especially for long-range composition tasks requiring multiple sequential skills. We propose SkillDiffuser an end-to-end hierarchical planning framework integrating interpretable skill learning with conditional diffusion planning to address this problem. At the higher level the skill abstraction module learns discrete human-understandable skill representations from visual observations and language instructions. These learned skill embeddings are then used to condition the diffusion model to generate customized latent trajectories aligned with the skills. This allows generating diverse state trajectories that adhere to the learnable skills. By integrating skill learning with conditional trajectory generation SkillDiffuser produces coherent behavior following abstract instructions across diverse tasks. Experiments on multi-task robotic manipulation benchmarks like Meta-World and LOReL demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and human-interpretable skill representations from SkillDiffuser. More visualization results and information could be found on https://skilldiffuser.github.io/.