GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Large Language Models are Good Prompt Learners for Low-Shot Image Classification
Authors: Zhaoheng Zheng; Jingmin Wei; Xuefeng Hu; Haidong Zhu; Ram Nevatia
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Low-shot image classification where training images are limited or inaccessible has benefited from recent progress on pre-trained vision-language (VL) models with strong generalizability e.g. CLIP. Prompt learning methods built with VL models generate text features from the class names that only have confined class-specific information. Large Language Models (LLMs) with their vast encyclopedic knowledge emerge as the complement. Thus in this paper we discuss the integration of LLMs to enhance pre-trained VL models specifically on low-shot classification. However the domain gap between language and vision blocks the direct application of LLMs. Thus we propose LLaMP Large Language Models as Prompt learners that produces adaptive prompts for the CLIP text encoder establishing it as the connecting bridge. Experiments show that compared with other state-of-the-art prompt learning methods LLaMP yields better performance on both zero-shot generalization and few-shot image classification over a spectrum of 11 datasets. Code will be made available at: https://github.com/zhaohengz/LLaMP.
Specularity Factorization for Low-Light Enhancement
Authors: Saurabh Saini; P J Narayanan
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We present a new additive image factorization technique that treats images to be composed of multiple latent specular components which can be simply estimated recursively by modulating the sparsity during decomposition. Our model-driven RSFNet estimates these factors by unrolling the optimization into network layers requiring only a few scalars to be learned. The resultant factors are interpretable by design and can be fused for different image enhancement tasks via a network or combined directly by the user in a controllable fashion. Based on RSFNet we detail a zero-reference Low Light Enhancement (LLE) application trained without paired or unpaired supervision. Our system improves the state-of-the-art performance on standard benchmarks and achieves better generalization on multiple other datasets. We also integrate our factors with other task specific fusion networks for applications like deraining deblurring and dehazing with negligible overhead thereby highlighting the multi-domain and multi-task generalizability of our proposed RSFNet. The code and data is released for reproducibility on the project homepage.
Paint3D: Paint Anything 3D with Lighting-Less Texture Diffusion Models
Authors: Xianfang Zeng; Xin Chen; Zhongqi Qi; Wen Liu; Zibo Zhao; Zhibin Wang; Bin Fu; Yong Liu; Gang Yu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This paper presents Paint3D a novel coarse-to-fine generative framework that is capable of producing high-resolution lighting-less and diverse 2K UV texture maps for untextured 3D meshes conditioned on text or image inputs. The key challenge addressed is generating high-quality textures without embedded illumination information which allows the textures to be re-lighted or re-edited within modern graphics pipelines. To achieve this our method first leverages a pre-trained depth-aware 2D diffusion model to generate view-conditional images and perform multi-view texture fusion producing an initial coarse texture map. However as 2D models cannot fully represent 3D shapes and disable lighting effects the coarse texture map exhibits incomplete areas and illumination artifacts. To resolve this we train separate UV Inpainting and UVHD diffusion models specialized for the shape-aware refinement of incomplete areas and the removal of illumination artifacts. Through this coarse-to-fine process Paint3D can produce high-quality 2K UV textures that maintain semantic consistency while being lighting-less significantly advancing the state-of-the-art in texturing 3D objects.
VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models
Authors: Ji Lin; Hongxu Yin; Wei Ping; Pavlo Molchanov; Mohammad Shoeybi; Song Han
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Visual language models (VLMs) rapidly progressed with the recent success of large language models. There have been growing efforts on visual instruction tuning to extend the LLM with visual inputs but lacks an in-depth study of the visual language pre-training process where the model learns to perform joint modeling on both modalities. In this work we examine the design options for VLM pre-training by augmenting LLM towards VLM through step-by-step con- trollable comparisons. We introduce three main findings: (1) freezing LLMs during pre-training can achieve decent zero-shot performance but lack in-context learning capabil- ity which requires unfreezing the LLM; (2) interleaved pre- training data is beneficial whereas image-text pairs alone are not optimal; (3) re-blending text-only instruction data to image-text data during instruction fine-tuning not only remedies the degradation of text-only tasks but also boosts VLM task accuracy. With an enhanced pre-training recipe we build VILA a Visual Language model family that consis- tently outperforms the state-of-the-art models e.g. LLaVA- 1.5 across main benchmarks without bells and whistles. Multi-modal pre-training also helps unveil appealing prop- erties of VILA including multi-image reasoning enhanced in-context learning and better world knowledge. VILA is also deployable on Jetson Orin for on-device VLM.
DiLiGenRT: A Photometric Stereo Dataset with Quantified Roughness and Translucency
Authors: Heng Guo; Jieji Ren; Feishi Wang; Boxin Shi; Mingjun Ren; Yasuyuki Matsushita
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Photometric stereo faces challenges from non-Lambertian reflectance in real-world scenarios. Systematically measuring the reliability of photometric stereo methods in handling such complex reflectance necessitates a real-world dataset with quantitatively controlled reflectances. This paper introduces DiLiGenRT the first real-world dataset for evaluating photometric stereo methods under quantified reflectances by manufacturing 54 hemispheres with varying degrees of two reflectance properties: Roughness and Translucency. Unlike qualitative and semantic labels such as diffuse and specular that have been used in previous datasets our quantified dataset allows comprehensive and systematic benchmark evaluations. In addition it facilitates selecting best-fit photometric stereo methods based on the quantitative reflectance properties. Our dataset and benchmark results are available at https://photometricstereo.github.io/diligentrt.html.
De-Diffusion Makes Text a Strong Cross-Modal Interface
Authors: Chen Wei; Chenxi Liu; Siyuan Qiao; Zhishuai Zhang; Alan Yuille; Jiahui Yu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We demonstrate text as a strong cross-modal interface. Rather than relying on deep embeddings to connect image and language as the interface representation our approach represents an image as text from which we enjoy the interpretability and flexibility inherent to natural language. We employ an autoencoder that uses a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model for decoding. The encoder is trained to transform an input image into text which is then fed into the fixed text-to-image diffusion decoder to reconstruct the original input a process we term De-Diffusion. Experiments validate both the precision and comprehensiveness of De-Diffusion text representing images such that it can be readily ingested by off-the-shelf text-to-image tools and LLMs for diverse multi-modal tasks. For example a single De-Diffusion model can generalize to provide transferable prompts for different text-to-image tools and also achieves a new state of the art on open-ended vision-language tasks by simply prompting large language models with few-shot examples. Project page: https://dediffusion.github.io/
End-to-End Spatio-Temporal Action Localisation with Video Transformers
Authors: Alexey A. Gritsenko; Xuehan Xiong; Josip Djolonga; Mostafa Dehghani; Chen Sun; Mario Lucic; Cordelia Schmid; Anurag Arnab
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The most performant spatio-temporal action localisation models use external person proposals and complex external memory banks. We propose a fully end-to-end transformer based model that directly ingests an input video and outputs tubelets -- a sequence of bounding boxes and the action classes at each frame. Our flexible model can be trained with either sparse bounding-box supervision on individual frames or full tubelet annotations. And in both cases it predicts coherent tubelets as the output. Moreover our end-to-end model requires no additional pre-processing in the form of proposals or post-processing in terms of non-maximal suppression. We perform extensive ablation experiments and significantly advance the state-of-the-art on five different spatio-temporal action localisation benchmarks with both sparse keyframes and full tubelet annotations.
Text-Guided Variational Image Generation for Industrial Anomaly Detection and Segmentation
Authors: Mingyu Lee; Jongwon Choi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We propose a text-guided variational image generation method to address the challenge of getting clean data for anomaly detection in industrial manufacturing. Our method utilizes text information about the target object learned from extensive text library documents to generate non-defective data images resembling the input image. The proposed framework ensures that the generated non-defective images align with anticipated distributions derived from textual and image-based knowledge ensuring stability and generality. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach surpassing previous methods even with limited non-defective data. Our approach is validated through generalization tests across four baseline models and three distinct datasets. We present an additional analysis to enhance the effectiveness of anomaly detection models by utilizing the generated images.
Self-Adaptive Reality-Guided Diffusion for Artifact-Free Super-Resolution
Authors: Qingping Zheng; Ling Zheng; Yuanfan Guo; Ying Li; Songcen Xu; Jiankang Deng; Hang Xu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Artifact-free super-resolution (SR) aims to translate low-resolution images into their high-resolution counterparts with a strict integrity of the original content eliminating any distortions or synthetic details. While traditional diffusion-based SR techniques have demonstrated remarkable abilities to enhance image detail they are prone to artifact introduction during iterative procedures. Such artifacts ranging from trivial noise to unauthentic textures deviate from the true structure of the source image thus challenging the integrity of the super-resolution process. In this work we propose Self-Adaptive Reality-Guided Diffusion (SARGD) a training-free method that delves into the latent space to effectively identify and mitigate the propagation of artifacts. Our SARGD begins by using an artifact detector to identify implausible pixels creating a binary mask that highlights artifacts. Following this the Reality Guidance Refinement (RGR) process refines artifacts by integrating this mask with realistic latent representations improving alignment with the original image. Nonetheless initial realistic-latent representations from lower-quality images result in over-smoothing in the final output. To address this we introduce a Self-Adaptive Guidance (SAG) mechanism. It dynamically computes a reality score enhancing the sharpness of the realistic latent. These alternating mechanisms collectively achieve artifact-free super-resolution. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method delivering detailed artifact-free high-resolution images while reducing sampling steps by 2X. We release our code at https://github.com/ProAirVerse/Self-Adaptive-Guidance-Diffusion.git.
End-to-End Temporal Action Detection with 1B Parameters Across 1000 Frames
Authors: Shuming Liu; Chen-Lin Zhang; Chen Zhao; Bernard Ghanem
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recently temporal action detection (TAD) has seen significant performance improvement with end-to-end training. However due to the memory bottleneck only models with limited scales and limited data volumes can afford end-to-end training which inevitably restricts TAD performance. In this paper we reduce the memory consumption for end-to-end training and manage to scale up the TAD backbone to 1 billion parameters and the input video to 1536 frames leading to significant detection performance. The key to our approach lies in our proposed temporal-informative adapter (TIA) which is a novel lightweight module that reduces training memory. Using TIA we free the humongous backbone from learning to adapt to the TAD task by only updating the parameters in TIA. TIA also leads to better TAD representation by temporally aggregating context from adjacent frames throughout the backbone. We evaluate our model across four representative datasets. Owing to our efficient design we are able to train end-to-end on VideoMAEv2-giant and achieve 75.4% mAP on THUMOS14 being the first end-to-end model to outperform the best feature-based methods.
Multimodal Representation Learning by Alternating Unimodal Adaptation
Authors: Xiaohui Zhang; Jaehong Yoon; Mohit Bansal; Huaxiu Yao
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal learning which integrates data from diverse sensory modes plays a pivotal role in artificial intelligence. However existing multimodal learning methods often struggle with challenges where some modalities appear more dominant than others during multimodal learning resulting in suboptimal performance. To address this challenge we propose MLA (Multimodal Learning with Alternating Unimodal Adaptation). MLA reframes the conventional joint multimodal learning process by transforming it into an alternating unimodal learning process thereby minimizing interference between modalities. Simultaneously it captures cross-modal interactions through a shared head which undergoes continuous optimization across different modalities. This optimization process is controlled by a gradient modification mechanism to prevent the shared head from losing previously acquired information. During the inference phase MLA utilizes a test-time uncertainty-based model fusion mechanism to integrate multimodal information. Extensive experiments are conducted on five diverse datasets encompassing scenarios with complete modalities and scenarios with missing modalities. These experiments demonstrate the superiority of MLA over competing prior approaches. Our code is available at https://github.com/Cecile-hi/Multimodal-Learning-with-Alternating-Unimodal-Adaptation.
MS-MANO: Enabling Hand Pose Tracking with Biomechanical Constraints
Authors: Pengfei Xie; Wenqiang Xu; Tutian Tang; Zhenjun Yu; Cewu Lu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This work proposes a novel learning framework for visual hand dynamics analysis that takes into account the physiological aspects of hand motion. The existing models which are simplified joint-actuated systems often produce unnatural motions. To address this we integrate a musculoskeletal system with a learnable parametric hand model MANO to create a new model MS-MANO. This model emulates the dynamics of muscles and tendons to drive the skeletal system imposing physiologically realistic constraints on the resulting torque trajectories. We further propose a simulation-in-the-loop pose refinement framework BioPR that refines the initial estimated pose through a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) network. Our evaluation of the accuracy of MS-MANO and the efficacy of the BioPR is conducted in two separate parts. The accuracy of MS-MANO is compared with MyoSuite while the efficacy of BioPR is benchmarked against two large-scale public datasets and two recent state-of-the-art methods. The results demonstrate that our approach consistently improves the baseline methods both quantitatively and qualitatively.
Generate Like Experts: Multi-Stage Font Generation by Incorporating Font Transfer Process into Diffusion Models
Authors: Bin Fu; Fanghua Yu; Anran Liu; Zixuan Wang; Jie Wen; Junjun He; Yu Qiao
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Few-shot font generation (FFG) produces stylized font images with a limited number of reference samples which can significantly reduce labor costs in manual font designs. Most existing FFG methods follow the style-content disentanglement paradigm and employ the Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) to generate target fonts by combining the decoupled content and style representations. The complicated structure and detailed style are simultaneously generated in those methods which may be the sub-optimal solutions for FFG task. Inspired by most manual font design processes of expert designers in this paper we model font generation as a multi-stage generative process. Specifically as the injected noise and the data distribution in diffusion models can be well-separated into different sub-spaces we are able to incorporate the font transfer process into these models. Based on this observation we generalize diffusion methods to model font generative process by separating the reverse diffusion process into three stages with different functions: The structure construction stage first generates the structure information for the target character based on the source image and the font transfer stage subsequently transforms the source font to the target font. Finally the font refinement stage enhances the appearances and local details of the target font images. Based on the above multi-stage generative process we construct our font generation framework named MSD-Font with a dual-network approach to generate font images. The superior performance demonstrates the effectiveness of our model. The code is available at: https://github.com/fubinfb/MSD-Font .
Pre-training Vision Models with Mandelbulb Variations
Authors: Benjamin Naoto Chiche; Yuto Horikawa; Ryo Fujita
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The use of models that have been pre-trained on natural image datasets like ImageNet may face some limitations. First this use may be restricted due to copyright and license on the training images and privacy laws. Second these datasets and models may incorporate societal and ethical biases. Formula-driven supervised learning (FDSL) enables model pre-training to circumvent these issues. This consists of generating a synthetic image dataset based on mathematical formulae and pre-training the model on it. In this work we propose novel FDSL datasets based on Mandelbulb Variations. These datasets contain RGB images that are projections of colored objects deriving from the 3D Mandelbulb fractal. Pre-training ResNet-50 on one of our proposed datasets MandelbulbVAR-1k enables an average top-1 accuracy over target classification datasets that is at least 1% higher than pre-training on existing FDSL datasets. With regard to anomaly detection on MVTec AD pre-training the WideResNet-50 backbone on MandelbulbVAR-1k enables PatchCore to achieve 97.2% average image-level AUROC. This is only 1.9% lower than pre-training on ImageNet-1k (99.1%) and 4.5% higher than pre-training on the second-best performing FDSL dataset i.e. VisualAtom-1k (92.7%). Regarding Vision Transformer (ViT) pre-training another dataset that we propose and coin MandelbulbVAR-Hybrid-21k enables ViT-Base to achieve 82.2% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1k which is 0.4% higher than pre-training on ImageNet-21k (81.8%) and only 0.1% lower than pre-training on VisualAtom-1k (82.3%).
Diffuse Attend and Segment: Unsupervised Zero-Shot Segmentation using Stable Diffusion
Authors: Junjiao Tian; Lavisha Aggarwal; Andrea Colaco; Zsolt Kira; Mar Gonzalez-Franco
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Producing quality segmentation masks for images is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Recent research has explored large-scale supervised training to enable zero-shot transfer segmentation on virtually any image style and unsupervised training to enable segmentation without dense annotations. However constructing a model capable of segmenting anything in a zero-shot manner without any annotations is still challenging. In this paper we propose to utilize the self-attention layers in stable diffusion models to achieve this goal because the pre-trained stable diffusion model has learned inherent concepts of objects within its attention layers. Specifically we introduce a simple yet effective iterative merging process based on measuring KL divergence among attention maps to merge them into valid segmentation masks. The proposed method does not require any training or language dependency to extract quality segmentation for any images. On COCO-Stuff-27 our method surpasses the prior unsupervised zero-shot transfer SOTA method by an absolute 26% in pixel accuracy and 17% in mean IoU.
TransNeXt: Robust Foveal Visual Perception for Vision Transformers
Authors: Dai Shi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Due to the depth degradation effect in residual connections many efficient Vision Transformers models that rely on stacking layers for information exchange often fail to form sufficient information mixing leading to unnatural visual perception. To address this issue in this paper we propose Aggregated Attention a biomimetic design-based token mixer that simulates biological foveal vision and continuous eye movement while enabling each token on the feature map to have a global perception. Furthermore we incorporate learnable tokens that interact with conventional queries and keys which further diversifies the generation of affinity matrices beyond merely relying on the similarity between queries and keys. Our approach does not rely on stacking for information exchange thus effectively avoiding depth degradation and achieving natural visual perception. Additionally we propose Convolutional GLU a channel mixer that bridges the gap between GLU and SE mechanism which empowers each token to have channel attention based on its nearest neighbor image features enhancing local modeling capability and model robustness. We combine aggregated attention and convolutional GLU to create a new visual backbone called TransNeXt. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our TransNeXt achieves state-of-the-art performance across multiple model sizes. At a resolution of 224^2 TransNeXt-Tiny attains an ImageNet accuracy of 84.0% surpassing ConvNeXt-B with 69% fewer parameters. Our TransNeXt-Base achieves an ImageNet accuracy of 86.2% and an ImageNet-A accuracy of 61.6% at a resolution of 384^2 a COCO object detection mAP of 57.1 and an ADE20K semantic segmentation mIoU of 54.7.
Implicit Discriminative Knowledge Learning for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Authors: Kaijie Ren; Lei Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Visible-Infrared Person Re-identification (VI-ReID) is a challenging cross-modal pedestrian retrieval task due to significant intra-class variations and cross-modal discrepancies among different cameras. Existing works mainly focus on embedding images of different modalities into a unified space to mine modality-shared features. They only seek distinctive information within these shared features while ignoring the identity-aware useful information that is implicit in the modality-specific features. To address this issue we propose a novel Implicit Discriminative Knowledge Learning (IDKL) network to uncover and leverage the implicit discriminative information contained within the modality-specific. First we extract modality-specific and modality-shared features using a novel dual-stream network. Then the modality-specific features undergo purification to reduce their modality style discrepancies while preserving identity-aware discriminative knowledge. Subsequently this kind of implicit knowledge is distilled into the modality-shared feature to enhance its distinctiveness. Finally an alignment loss is proposed to minimize modality discrepancy on enhanced modality-shared features. Extensive experiments on multiple public datasets demonstrate the superiority of IDKL network over the state-of-the-art methods.