GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
TextNeRF: A Novel Scene-Text Image Synthesis Method based on Neural Radiance Fields
Authors: Jialei Cui; Jianwei Du; Wenzhuo Liu; Zhouhui Lian
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Acquiring large-scale well-annotated datasets is essential for training robust scene text detectors yet the process is often resource-intensive and time-consuming. While some efforts have been made to explore the synthesis of scene text images a notable gap remains between synthetic and authentic data. In this paper we introduce a novel method that utilizes Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to model real-world scenes and emulate the data collection process by rendering images from diverse camera perspectives enriching the variability and realism of the synthesized data. A semi-supervised learning framework is proposed to categorize semantic regions within 3D scenes ensuring consistent labeling of text regions across various viewpoints. Our method also models the pose and view-dependent appearance of text regions thereby offering precise control over camera poses and significantly improving the realism of text insertion and editing within scenes. Employing our technique on real-world scenes has led to the creation of a novel scene text image dataset. Compared to other existing benchmarks the proposed dataset is distinctive in providing not only standard annotations such as bounding boxes and transcriptions but also the information of 3D pose attributes for text regions enabling a more detailed evaluation of the robustness of text detection algorithms. Through extensive experiments we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method in enhancing the performance of scene text detectors.
Dr.Hair: Reconstructing Scalp-Connected Hair Strands without Pre-Training via Differentiable Rendering of Line Segments
Authors: Yusuke Takimoto; Hikari Takehara; Hiroyuki Sato; Zihao Zhu; Bo Zheng
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: In the film and gaming industries achieving a realistic hair appearance typically involves the use of strands originating from the scalp. However reconstructing these strands from observed surface images of hair presents significant challenges. The difficulty in acquiring Ground Truth (GT) data has led state-of-the-art learning-based methods to rely on pre-training with manually prepared synthetic CG data. This process is not only labor-intensive and costly but also introduces complications due to the domain gap when compared to real-world data. In this study we propose an optimization-based approach that eliminates the need for pre-training. Our method represents hair strands as line segments growing from the scalp and optimizes them using a novel differentiable rendering algorithm. To robustly optimize a substantial number of slender explicit geometries we introduce 3D orientation estimation utilizing global optimization strand initialization based on Laplace's equation and reparameterization that leverages geometric connectivity and spatial proximity. Unlike existing optimization-based methods our method is capable of reconstructing internal hair flow in an absolute direction. Our method exhibits robust and accurate inverse rendering surpassing the quality of existing methods and significantly improving processing speed.
Improving Training Efficiency of Diffusion Models via Multi-Stage Framework and Tailored Multi-Decoder Architecture
Authors: Huijie Zhang; Yifu Lu; Ismail Alkhouri; Saiprasad Ravishankar; Dogyoon Song; Qing Qu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion models emerging as powerful deep generative tools excel in various applications. They operate through a two-steps process: introducing noise into training samples and then employing a model to convert random noise into new samples (e.g. images). However their remarkable generative performance is hindered by slow training and sampling. This is due to the necessity of tracking extensive forward and reverse diffusion trajectories and employing a large model with numerous parameters across multiple timesteps (i.e. noise levels). To tackle these challenges we present a multi-stage framework inspired by our empirical findings. These observations indicate the advantages of employing distinct parameters tailored to each timestep while retaining universal parameters shared across all time steps. Our approach involves segmenting the time interval into multiple stages where we employ custom multi-decoder U-net architecture that blends time-dependent models with a universally shared encoder. Our framework enables the efficient distribution of computational resources and mitigates inter-stage interference which substantially improves training efficiency. Extensive numerical experiments affirm the effectiveness of our framework showcasing significant training and sampling efficiency enhancements on three state-of-the-art diffusion models including large-scale latent diffusion models. Furthermore our ablation studies illustrate the impact of two important components in our framework: (i) a novel timestep clustering algorithm for stage division and (ii) an innovative multi-decoder U-net architecture seamlessly integrating universal and customized hyperparameters.
In-Context Matting
Authors: He Guo; Zixuan Ye; Zhiguo Cao; Hao Lu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We introduce in-context matting a novel task setting of image matting. Given a reference image of a certain foreground and guided priors such as points scribbles and masks in-context matting enables automatic alpha estimation on a batch of target images of the same foreground category without additional auxiliary input. This setting marries good performance in auxiliary input-based matting and ease of use in automatic matting which finds a good trade-off between customization and automation. To overcome the key challenge of accurate foreground matching we introduce IconMatting an in-context matting model built upon a pre-trained text-to-image diffusion model. Conditioned on inter- and intra-similarity matching IconMatting can make full use of reference context to generate accurate target alpha mattes. To benchmark the task we also introduce a novel testing dataset ICM-57 covering 57 groups of real-world images. Quantitative and qualitative results on the ICM-57 testing set show that IconMatting rivals the accuracy of trimap-based matting while retaining the automation level akin to automatic matting. Code is available at https://github.com/tiny-smart/in-context-matting.
Navigate Beyond Shortcuts: Debiased Learning Through the Lens of Neural Collapse
Authors: Yining Wang; Junjie Sun; Chenyue Wang; Mi Zhang; Min Yang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recent studies have noted an intriguing phenomenon termed Neural Collapse that is when the neural networks establish the right correlation between feature spaces and the training targets their last-layer features together with the classifier weights will collapse into a stable and symmetric structure. In this paper we extend the investigation of Neural Collapse to the biased datasets with imbalanced attributes. We observe that models will easily fall into the pitfall of shortcut learning and form a biased non-collapsed feature space at the early period of training which is hard to reverse and limits the generalization capability. To tackle the root cause of biased classification we follow the recent inspiration of prime training and propose an avoid-shortcut learning framework without additional training complexity. With well-designed shortcut primes based on Neural Collapse structure the models are encouraged to skip the pursuit of simple shortcuts and naturally capture the intrinsic correlations. Experimental results demonstrate that our method induces a better convergence property during training and achieves state-of-the-art generalization performance on both synthetic and real-world biased datasets.
DiVa-360: The Dynamic Visual Dataset for Immersive Neural Fields
Authors: Cheng-You Lu; Peisen Zhou; Angela Xing; Chandradeep Pokhariya; Arnab Dey; Ishaan Nikhil Shah; Rugved Mavidipalli; Dylan Hu; Andrew I. Comport; Kefan Chen; Srinath Sridhar
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Advances in neural fields are enabling high-fidelity capture of the shape and appearance of dynamic 3D scenes. However their capabilities lag behind those offered by conventional representations such as 2D videos because of algorithmic challenges and the lack of large-scale multi-view real-world datasets. We address the dataset limitation with DiVa-360 a real-world 360? dynamic visual dataset that contains synchronized high-resolution and long-duration multi-view video sequences of table-scale scenes captured using a customized low-cost system with 53 cameras. It contains 21 object-centric sequences categorized by different motion types 25 intricate hand-object interaction sequences and 8 long-duration sequences for a total of 17.4 M image frames. In addition we provide foreground-background segmentation masks synchronized audio and text descriptions. We benchmark the state-of-the-art dynamic neural field methods on DiVa-360 and provide insights about existing methods and future challenges on long-duration neural field capture.
A Subspace-Constrained Tyler's Estimator and its Applications to Structure from Motion
Authors: Feng Yu; Teng Zhang; Gilad Lerman
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We present the subspace-constrained Tyler's estimator (STE) designed for recovering a low-dimensional subspace within a dataset that may be highly corrupted with outliers. STE is a fusion of the Tyler's M-estimator (TME) and a variant of the fast median subspace. Our theoretical analysis suggests that under a common inlier-outlier model STE can effectively recover the underlying subspace even when it contains a smaller fraction of inliers relative to other methods in the field of robust subspace recovery. We apply STE in the context of Structure from Motion (SfM) in two ways: for robust estimation of the fundamental matrix and for the removal of outlying cameras enhancing the robustness of the SfM pipeline. Numerical experiments confirm the state-of-the-art performance of our method in these applications. This research makes significant contributions to the field of robust subspace recovery particularly in the context of computer vision and 3D reconstruction.
FSC: Few-point Shape Completion
Authors: Xianzu Wu; Xianfeng Wu; Tianyu Luan; Yajing Bai; Zhongyuan Lai; Junsong Yuan
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: While previous studies have demonstrated successful 3D object shape completion with a sufficient number of points they often fail in scenarios when a few points e.g. tens of points are observed. Surprisingly via entropy analysis we find that even a few points e.g. 64 points could retain substantial information to help recover the 3D shape of the object. To address the challenge of shape completion with very sparse point clouds we then propose Few-point Shape Completion (FSC) model which contains a novel dual-branch feature extractor for handling extremely sparse inputs coupled with an extensive branch for maximal point utilization with a saliency branch for dynamic importance assignment. This model is further bolstered by a two-stage revision network that refines both the extracted features and the decoder output enhancing the detail and authenticity of the completed point cloud. Our experiments demonstrate the feasibility of recovering 3D shapes from a few points. The proposed Few-point Shape Completion (FSC) model outperforms previous methods on both few-point inputs and many-point inputs and shows good generalizability to different object categories.
CAD: Photorealistic 3D Generation via Adversarial Distillation
Authors: Ziyu Wan; Despoina Paschalidou; Ian Huang; Hongyu Liu; Bokui Shen; Xiaoyu Xiang; Jing Liao; Leonidas Guibas
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The increased demand for 3D data in AR/VR robotics and gaming applications gave rise to powerful generative pipelines capable of synthesizing high-quality 3D objects. Most of these models rely on the Score Distillation Sampling (SDS) algorithm to optimize a 3D representation such that the rendered image maintains a high likelihood as evaluated by a pre-trained diffusion model. However this distillation process involves finding a correct mode in the high-dimensional and large-variance distribution produced by the diffusion model. This task is challenging and often leads to issues such as over-saturation over-smoothing and Janus-like artifacts in the 3D generation. In this paper we propose a novel learning paradigm for 3D synthesis that utilizes pre-trained diffusion models. Instead of focusing on mode-seeking our method directly models the distribution discrepancy between multi-view renderings and diffusion priors in an adversarial manner which unlocks the generation of high-fidelity and photorealistic 3D content conditioned on a single image and prompt. Moreover by harnessing the latent space of GANs and expressive diffusion model priors our method enables a wide variety of 3D applications including single-view reconstruction high diversity generation and continuous 3D interpolation in open domain. Our experiments demonstrate the superiority of our pipeline compared to previous works in terms of generation quality and diversity.
Enhancing Vision-Language Pre-training with Rich Supervisions
Authors: Yuan Gao; Kunyu Shi; Pengkai Zhu; Edouard Belval; Oren Nuriel; Srikar Appalaraju; Shabnam Ghadar; Zhuowen Tu; Vijay Mahadevan; Stefano Soatto
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We propose Strongly Supervised pre-training with ScreenShots (S4) - a novel pre-training paradigm for Vision-Language Models using data from large-scale web screenshot rendering. Using web screenshots unlocks a treasure trove of visual and textual cues that are not present in using image-text pairs. In S4 we leverage the inherent tree-structured hierarchy of HTML elements and the spatial localization to carefully design 10 pre-training tasks with large scale annotated data. These tasks resemble downstream tasks across different domains and the annotations are cheap to obtain. We demonstrate that compared to current screenshot pre-training objectives our innovative pre-training method significantly enhances performance of image-to-text model in nine varied and popular downstream tasks - up to 76.1% improvements on Table Detection and at least 1% on Widget Captioning.
T-VSL: Text-Guided Visual Sound Source Localization in Mixtures
Authors: Tanvir Mahmud; Yapeng Tian; Diana Marculescu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Visual sound source localization poses a significant challenge in identifying the semantic region of each sounding source within a video. Existing self-supervised and weakly supervised source localization methods struggle to accurately distinguish the semantic regions of each sounding object particularly in multi-source mixtures. These methods often rely on audio-visual correspondence as guidance which can lead to substantial performance drops in complex multi-source localization scenarios. The lack of access to individual source sounds in multi-source mixtures during training exacerbates the difficulty of learning effective audio-visual correspondence for localization. To address this limitation in this paper we propose incorporating the text modality as an intermediate feature guide using tri-modal joint embedding models (e.g. AudioCLIP) to disentangle the semantic audio-visual source correspondence in multi-source mixtures. Our framework dubbed T-VSL begins by predicting the class of sounding entities in mixtures. Subsequently the textual representation of each sounding source is employed as guidance to disentangle fine-grained audio-visual source correspondence from multi-source mixtures leveraging the tri-modal AudioCLIP embedding. This approach enables our framework to handle a flexible number of sources and exhibits promising zero-shot transferability to unseen classes during test time. Extensive experiments conducted on the MUSIC VGGSound and VGGSound-Instruments datasets demonstrate significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods. Code is released at https://github.com/enyac-group/T-VSL/tree/main.
DemoCaricature: Democratising Caricature Generation with a Rough Sketch
Authors: Dar-Yen Chen; Ayan Kumar Bhunia; Subhadeep Koley; Aneeshan Sain; Pinaki Nath Chowdhury; Yi-Zhe Song
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: In this paper we democratise caricature generation empowering individuals to effortlessly craft personalised caricatures with just a photo and a conceptual sketch. Our objective is to strike a delicate balance between abstraction and identity while preserving the creativity and subjectivity inherent in a sketch. To achieve this we present Explicit Rank-1 Model Editing alongside single-image personalisation selectively applying nuanced edits to cross-attention layers for a seamless merge of identity and style. Additionally we propose Random Mask Reconstruction to enhance robustness directing the model to focus on distinctive identity and style features. Crucially our aim is not to replace artists but to eliminate accessibility barriers allowing enthusiasts to engage in the artistry.
CapHuman: Capture Your Moments in Parallel Universes
Authors: Chao Liang; Fan Ma; Linchao Zhu; Yingying Deng; Yi Yang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We concentrate on a novel human-centric image synthesis task that is given only one reference facial photograph it is expected to generate specific individual images with diverse head positions poses facial expressions and illuminations in different contexts. To accomplish this goal we argue that our generative model should be capable of the following favorable characteristics: (1) a strong visual and semantic understanding of our world and human society for basic object and human image generation. (2) generalizable identity preservation ability. (3) flexible and fine-grained head control. Recently large pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models have shown remarkable results serving as a powerful generative foundation. As a basis we aim to unleash the above two capabilities of the pre-trained model. In this work we present a new framework named CapHuman. We embrace the "encode then learn to align" paradigm which enables generalizable identity preservation for new individuals without cumbersome tuning at inference. CapHuman encodes identity features and then learns to align them into the latent space. Moreover we introduce the 3D facial prior to equip our model with control over the human head in a flexible and 3D-consistent manner. Extensive qualitative and quantitative analyses demonstrate our CapHuman can produce well-identity-preserved photo-realistic and high-fidelity portraits with content-rich representations and various head renditions superior to established baselines. Code and checkpoint will be released at https://github.com/VamosC/CapHuman.
SDPose: Tokenized Pose Estimation via Circulation-Guide Self-Distillation
Authors: Sichen Chen; Yingyi Zhang; Siming Huang; Ran Yi; Ke Fan; Ruixin Zhang; Peixian Chen; Jun Wang; Shouhong Ding; Lizhuang Ma
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recently transformer-based methods have achieved state-of-the-art prediction quality on human pose estimation(HPE). Nonetheless most of these top-performing transformer-based models are too computation-consuming and storage-demanding to deploy on edge computing platforms. Those transformer-based models that require fewer resources are prone to under-fitting due to their smaller scale and thus perform notably worse than their larger counterparts. Given this conundrum we introduce SDPose a new self-distillation method for improving the performance of small transformer-based models. To mitigate the problem of under-fitting we design a transformer module named Multi-Cycled Transformer(MCT) based on multiple-cycled forwards to more fully exploit the potential of small model parameters. Further in order to prevent the additional inference compute-consuming brought by MCT we introduce a self-distillation scheme extracting the knowledge from the MCT module to a naive forward model. Specifically on the MSCOCO validation dataset SDPose-T obtains 69.7% mAP with 4.4M parameters and 1.8 GFLOPs. Furthermore SDPose-S-V2 obtains 73.5% mAP on the MSCOCO validation dataset with 6.2M parameters and 4.7 GFLOPs achieving a new state-of-the-art among predominant tiny neural network methods.
Authentic Hand Avatar from a Phone Scan via Universal Hand Model
Authors: Gyeongsik Moon; Weipeng Xu; Rohan Joshi; Chenglei Wu; Takaaki Shiratori
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The authentic 3D hand avatar with every identifiable information such as hand shapes and textures is necessary for immersive experiences in AR/VR. In this paper we present a universal hand model (UHM) which 1) can universally represent high-fidelity 3D hand meshes of arbitrary identities (IDs) and 2) can be adapted to each person with a short phone scan for the authentic hand avatar. For effective universal hand modeling we perform tracking and modeling at the same time while previous 3D hand models perform them separately. The conventional separate pipeline suffers from the accumulated errors from the tracking stage which cannot be recovered in the modeling stage. On the other hand ours does not suffer from the accumulated errors while having a much more concise overall pipeline. We additionally introduce a novel image matching loss function to address a skin sliding during the tracking and modeling while existing works have not focused on it much. Finally using learned priors from our UHM we effectively adapt our UHM to each person's short phone scan for the authentic hand avatar.
VCoder: Versatile Vision Encoders for Multimodal Large Language Models
Authors: Jitesh Jain; Jianwei Yang; Humphrey Shi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Humans possess the remarkable skill of Visual Perception the ability to see and understand the seen helping them make sense of the visual world and in turn reason. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) have recently achieved impressive performance on vision-language tasks ranging from visual question-answering and image captioning to visual reasoning and image generation. However when prompted to identify or count (perceive) the entities in a given image existing MLLM systems fail. Working towards developing an accurate MLLM system for perception and reasoning we propose using Versatile vision enCoders (VCoder) as perception eyes for Multimodal LLMs. We feed the VCoder with perception modalities such as segmentation or depth maps improving the MLLM's perception abilities. Secondly we leverage the images from COCO and outputs from off-the-shelf vision perception models to create our COCO Segmentation Text (COST) dataset for training and evaluating MLLMs on the object perception task. Thirdly we introduce metrics to assess the object perception abilities in MLLMs on our COST dataset. Lastly we provide extensive experimental evidence proving the VCoder's improved object-level perception skills over existing Multimodal LLMs including GPT-4V. We open-source our dataset code and models to promote research.