GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Feature 3DGS: Supercharging 3D Gaussian Splatting to Enable Distilled Feature Fields
Authors: Shijie Zhou; Haoran Chang; Sicheng Jiang; Zhiwen Fan; Zehao Zhu; Dejia Xu; Pradyumna Chari; Suya You; Zhangyang Wang; Achuta Kadambi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: 3D scene representations have gained immense popularity in recent years. Methods that use Neural Radiance fields are versatile for traditional tasks such as novel view synthesis. In recent times some work has emerged that aims to extend the functionality of NeRF beyond view synthesis for semantically aware tasks such as editing and segmentation using 3D feature field distillation from 2D foundation models. However these methods have two major limitations: (a) they are limited by the rendering speed of NeRF pipelines and (b) implicitly represented feature fields suffer from continuity artifacts reducing feature quality. Recently 3D Gaussian Splatting has shown state-of-the-art performance on real-time radiance field rendering. In this work we go one step further: in addition to radiance field rendering we enable 3D Gaussian splatting on arbitrary-dimension semantic features via 2D foundation model distillation. This translation is not straightforward: naively incorporating feature fields in the 3DGS framework encounters significant challenges notably the disparities in spatial resolution and channel consistency between RGB images and feature maps. We propose architectural and training changes to efficiently avert this problem. Our proposed method is general and our experiments showcase novel view semantic segmentation language-guided editing and segment anything through learning feature fields from state-of-the-art 2D foundation models such as SAM and CLIP-LSeg. Across experiments our distillation method is able to provide comparable or better results while being significantly faster to both train and render. Additionally to the best of our knowledge we are the first method to enable point and bounding-box prompting for radiance field manipulation by leveraging the SAM model. Project website at: https://feature-3dgs.github.io/
Balancing Act: Distribution-Guided Debiasing in Diffusion Models
Authors: Rishubh Parihar; Abhijnya Bhat; Abhipsa Basu; Saswat Mallick; Jogendra Nath Kundu; R. Venkatesh Babu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion Models (DMs) have emerged as powerful generative models with unprecedented image generation capability. These models are widely used for data augmentation and creative applications. However DMs reflect the biases present in the training datasets. This is especially concerning in the context of faces where the DM prefers one demographic subgroup vs others (eg. female vs male). In this work we present a method for debiasing DMs without relying on additional reference data or model retraining. Specifically we propose Distribution Guidance which enforces the generated images to follow the prescribed attribute distribution. To realize this we build on the key insight that the latent features of denoising UNet hold rich demographic semantics and the same can be leveraged to guide debiased generation. We train Attribute Distribution Predictor (ADP) - a small mlp that maps the latent features to the distribution of attributes. ADP is trained with pseudo labels generated from existing attribute classifiers. The proposed Distribution Guidance with ADP enables us to do fair generation. Our method reduces bias across single/multiple attributes and outperforms the baseline by a significant margin for unconditional and text-conditional diffusion models. Further we present a downstream task of training a fair attribute classifier by augmenting the training set with our generated data.
Viewpoint-Aware Visual Grounding in 3D Scenes
Authors: Xiangxi Shi; Zhonghua Wu; Stefan Lee
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Referring expressions for visual objects often include descriptions of relative spatial arrangements to other objects -- e.g. "to the right of" -- that depend on the point of view of the speaker. In 2D referring expression tasks this viewpoint is captured unambiguously in the image. However grounding expressions with such spatial language in 3D without viewpoint annotations can be ambiguous. In this paper we investigate the significance of viewpoint information in 3D visual grounding -- introducing a model that explicitly predicts the speaker's viewpoint based on the referring expression and scene. We pretrain this model on a synthetically generated dataset that provides viewpoint annotations and then finetune on 3D referring expression datasets. Further we introduce an auxiliary uniform object representation loss to encourage viewpoint invariance in learned object representations. We find that our proposed ViewPoint Prediction Network (VPP-Net) achieves state-of-the-art performance on ScanRefer SR3D and NR3D -- improving Accuracy@0.25IoU by 1.06% 0.60% and 2.00% respectively compared to prior work.
4K4D: Real-Time 4D View Synthesis at 4K Resolution
Authors: Zhen Xu; Sida Peng; Haotong Lin; Guangzhao He; Jiaming Sun; Yujun Shen; Hujun Bao; Xiaowei Zhou
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This paper targets high-fidelity and real-time view synthesis of dynamic 3D scenes at 4K resolution. Recent methods on dynamic view synthesis have shown impressive rendering quality. However their speed is still limited when rendering high-resolution images. To overcome this problem we propose 4K4D a 4D point cloud representation that supports hardware rasterization and network pre-computation to enable unprecedented rendering speed with a high rendering quality. Our representation is built on a 4D feature grid so that the points are naturally regularized and can be robustly optimized. In addition we design a novel hybrid appearance model that significantly boosts the rendering quality while preserving efficiency. Moreover we develop a differentiable depth peeling algorithm to effectively learn the proposed model from RGB videos. Experiments show that our representation can be rendered at over 400 FPS on the DNA-Rendering dataset at 1080p resolution and 80 FPS on the ENeRF-Outdoor dataset at 4K resolution using an RTX 4090 GPU which is 30x faster than previous methods and achieves the state-of-the-art rendering quality. Our project page is available at https://zju3dv.github.io/4k4d.
View-decoupled Transformer for Person Re-identification under Aerial-ground Camera Network
Authors: Quan Zhang; Lei Wang; Vishal M. Patel; Xiaohua Xie; Jianhaung Lai
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Existing person re-identification methods have achieved remarkable advances in appearance-based identity association across homogeneous cameras such as ground-ground matching. However as a more practical scenario aerial-ground person re-identification (AGPReID) among heterogeneous cameras has received minimal attention. To alleviate the disruption of discriminative identity representation by dramatic view discrepancy as the most significant challenge in AGPReID the view-decoupled transformer (VDT) is proposed as a simple yet effective framework. Two major components are designed in VDT to decouple view-related and view-unrelated features namely hierarchical subtractive separation and orthogonal loss where the former separates these two features inside the VDT and the latter constrains these two to be independent. In addition we contribute a large-scale AGPReID dataset called CARGO consisting of five/eight aerial/ground cameras 5000 identities and 108563 images. Experiments on two datasets show that VDT is a feasible and effective solution for AGPReID surpassing the previous method on mAP/Rank1 by up to 5.0%/2.7% on CARGO and 3.7%/5.2% on AG-ReID keeping the same magnitude of computational complexity. Our project is available at https://github.com/LinlyAC/VDT-AGPReID
CRKD: Enhanced Camera-Radar Object Detection with Cross-modality Knowledge Distillation
Authors: Lingjun Zhao; Jingyu Song; Katherine A. Skinner
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: In the field of 3D object detection for autonomous driving LiDAR-Camera (LC) fusion is the top-performing sensor configuration. Still LiDAR is relatively high cost which hinders adoption of this technology for consumer automobiles. Alternatively camera and radar are commonly deployed on vehicles already on the road today but performance of Camera-Radar (CR) fusion falls behind LC fusion. In this work we propose Camera-Radar Knowledge Distillation (CRKD) to bridge the performance gap between LC and CR detectors with a novel cross-modality KD framework. We use the Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) representation as the shared feature space to enable effective knowledge distillation. To accommodate the unique cross-modality KD path we propose four distillation losses to help the student learn crucial features from the teacher model. We present extensive evaluations on the nuScenes dataset to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed CRKD framework. The project page for CRKD is https://song-jingyu.github.io/CRKD.
Differentiable Point-based Inverse Rendering
Authors: Hoon-Gyu Chung; Seokjun Choi; Seung-Hwan Baek
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We present differentiable point-based inverse rendering DPIR an analysis-by-synthesis method that processes images captured under diverse illuminations to estimate shape and spatially-varying BRDF. To this end we adopt point-based rendering eliminating the need for multiple samplings per ray typical of volumetric rendering thus significantly enhancing the speed of inverse rendering. To realize this idea we devise a hybrid point-volumetric representation for geometry and a regularized basis-BRDF representation for reflectance. The hybrid geometric representation enables fast rendering through point-based splatting while retaining the geometric details and stability inherent to SDF-based representations. The regularized basis-BRDF mitigates the ill-posedness of inverse rendering stemming from limited light-view angular samples. We also propose an efficient shadow detection method using point-based shadow map rendering. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate that DPIR outperforms prior works in terms of reconstruction accuracy computational efficiency and memory footprint. Furthermore our explicit point-based representation and rendering enables intuitive geometry and reflectance editing.
OED: Towards One-stage End-to-End Dynamic Scene Graph Generation
Authors: Guan Wang; Zhimin Li; Qingchao Chen; Yang Liu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Dynamic Scene Graph Generation (DSGG) focuses on identifying visual relationships within the spatial-temporal domain of videos. Conventional approaches often employ multi-stage pipelines which typically consist of object detection temporal association and multi-relation classification. However these methods exhibit inherent limitations due to the separation of multiple stages and independent optimization of these sub-problems may yield sub-optimal solutions. To remedy these limitations we propose a one-stage end-to-end framework termed OED which streamlines the DSGG pipeline. This framework reformulates the task as a set prediction problem and leverages pair-wise features to represent each subject-object pair within the scene graph. Moreover another challenge of DSGG is capturing temporal dependencies we introduce a Progressively Refined Module (PRM) for aggregating temporal context without the constraints of additional trackers or handcrafted trajectories enabling end-to-end optimization of the network. Extensive experiments conducted on the Action Genome benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of our design. The code and models are available at https://github.com/guanw-pku/OED.
CoG-DQA: Chain-of-Guiding Learning with Large Language Models for Diagram Question Answering
Authors: Shaowei Wang; Lingling Zhang; Longji Zhu; Tao Qin; Kim-Hui Yap; Xinyu Zhang; Jun Liu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Diagram Question Answering (DQA) is a challenging task requiring models to answer natural language questions based on visual diagram contexts. It serves as a crucial basis for academic tutoring technical support and more practical applications. DQA poses significant challenges such as the demand for domain-specific knowledge and the scarcity of annotated data which restrict the applicability of large-scale deep models. Previous approaches have explored external knowledge integration through pre-training but these methods are costly and can be limited by domain disparities. While Large Language Models (LLMs) show promise in question-answering there is still a gap in how to cooperate and interact with the diagram parsing process. In this paper we introduce the Chain-of-Guiding Learning Model for Diagram Question Answering (CoG-DQA) a novel framework that effectively addresses DQA challenges. CoG-DQA leverages LLMs to guide diagram parsing tools (DPTs) through the guiding chains enhancing the precision of diagram parsing while introducing rich background knowledge. Our experimental findings reveal that CoG-DQA surpasses all comparison models in various DQA scenarios achieving an average accuracy enhancement exceeding 5% and peaking at 11% across four datasets. These results underscore CoG-DQA's capacity to advance the field of visual question answering and promote the integration of LLMs into specialized domains.
Transferable and Principled Efficiency for Open-Vocabulary Segmentation
Authors: Jingxuan Xu; Wuyang Chen; Yao Zhao; Yunchao Wei
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recent success of pre-trained foundation vision-language models makes Open-Vocabulary Segmentation (OVS) possible. Despite the promising performance this approach introduces heavy computational overheads for two challenges: 1) large model sizes of the backbone; 2) expensive costs during the fine-tuning. These challenges hinder this OVS strategy from being widely applicable and affordable in real-world scenarios. Although traditional methods such as model compression and efficient fine-tuning can address these challenges they often rely on heuristics. This means that their solutions cannot be easily transferred and necessitate re-training on different models which comes at a cost. In the context of efficient OVS we target achieving performance that is comparable to or even better than prior OVS works based on large vision-language foundation models by utilizing smaller models that incur lower training costs. The core strategy is to make our efficiency principled and thus seamlessly transferable from one OVS framework to others without further customization. Comprehensive experiments on diverse OVS benchmarks demonstrate our superior trade-off between segmentation accuracy and computation costs over previous works. Our code is available on https://github.com/Xujxyang/OpenTrans
A Unified and Interpretable Emotion Representation and Expression Generation
Authors: Reni Paskaleva; Mykyta Holubakha; Andela Ilic; Saman Motamed; Luc Van Gool; Danda Paudel
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Canonical emotions such as happy sad and fear are easy to understand and annotate. However emotions are often compound e.g. happily surprised and can be mapped to the action units (AUs) used for expressing emotions and trivially to the canonical ones. Intuitively emotions are continuous as represented by the arousal-valence (AV) model. An interpretable unification of these four modalities --namely Canonical Compound AUs and AV-- is highly desirable for a better representation and understanding of emotions. However such unification remains to be unknown in the current literature. In this work we propose an interpretable and unified emotion model referred as C2A2. We also develop a method that leverages labels of the non-unified models to annotate the novel unified one. Finally we modify the text-conditional diffusion models to understand continuous numbers which are then used to generate continuous expressions using our unified emotion model. Through quantitative and qualitative experiments we show that our generated images are rich and capture subtle expressions. Our work allows a fine-grained generation of expressions in conjunction with other textual inputs and offers a new label space for emotions at the same time.
Upscale-A-Video: Temporal-Consistent Diffusion Model for Real-World Video Super-Resolution
Authors: Shangchen Zhou; Peiqing Yang; Jianyi Wang; Yihang Luo; Chen Change Loy
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Text-based diffusion models have exhibited remarkable success in generation and editing showing great promise for enhancing visual content with their generative prior. However applying these models to video super-resolution remains challenging due to the high demands for output fidelity and temporal consistency which is complicated by the inherent randomness in diffusion models. Our study introduces Upscale-A-Video a text-guided latent diffusion framework for video upscaling. This framework ensures temporal coherence through two key mechanisms: locally it integrates temporal layers into U-Net and VAE-Decoder maintaining consistency within short sequences; globally without training a flow-guided recurrent latent propagation module is introduced to enhance overall video stability by propagating and fusing latent across the entire sequences. Thanks to the diffusion paradigm our model also offers greater flexibility by allowing text prompts to guide texture creation and adjustable noise levels to balance restoration and generation enabling a trade-off between fidelity and quality. Extensive experiments show that Upscale-A-Video surpasses existing methods in both synthetic and real-world benchmarks as well as in AI-generated videos showcasing impressive visual realism and temporal consistency.
EvDiG: Event-guided Direct and Global Components Separation
Authors: Xinyu Zhou; Peiqi Duan; Boyu Li; Chu Zhou; Chao Xu; Boxin Shi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Separating the direct and global components of a scene aids in shape recovery and basic material understanding. Conventional methods capture multiple frames under high frequency illumination patterns or shadows requiring the scene to keep stationary during the image acquisition process. Single-frame methods simplify the capture procedure but yield lower-quality separation results. In this paper we leverage the event camera to facilitate the separation of direct and global components enabling video-rate separation of high quality. In detail we adopt an event camera to record rapid illumination changes caused by the shadow of a line occluder sweeping over the scene and reconstruct the coarse separation results through event accumulation. We then design a network to resolve the noise in the coarse separation results and restore color information. A real-world dataset is collected using a hybrid camera system for network training and evaluation. Experimental results show superior performance over state-of-the-art methods.
DeIL: Direct-and-Inverse CLIP for Open-World Few-Shot Learning
Authors: Shuai Shao; Yu Bai; Yan Wang; Baodi Liu; Yicong Zhou
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Open-World Few-Shot Learning (OFSL) is a critical field of research concentrating on the precise identification of target samples in environments with scarce data and unreliable labels thus possessing substantial practical significance. Recently the evolution of foundation models like CLIP has revealed their strong capacity for representation even in settings with restricted resources and data. This development has led to a significant shift in focus transitioning from the traditional method of "building models from scratch" to a strategy centered on "efficiently utilizing the capabilities of foundation models to extract relevant prior knowledge tailored for OFSL and apply it judiciously". Amidst this backdrop we unveil the Direct-and-Inverse CLIP (DeIL) an innovative method leveraging our proposed "Direct-and-Inverse" concept to activate CLIP-based methods for addressing OFSL. This concept transforms conventional single-step classification into a nuanced two-stage process: initially filtering out less probable categories followed by accurately determining the specific category of samples. DeIL comprises two key components: a pre-trainer (frozen) for data denoising and an adapter (tunable) for achieving precise final classification. In experiments DeIL achieves SOTA performance on 11 datasets.
4D-DRESS: A 4D Dataset of Real-World Human Clothing With Semantic Annotations
Authors: Wenbo Wang; Hsuan-I Ho; Chen Guo; Boxiang Rong; Artur Grigorev; Jie Song; Juan Jose Zarate; Otmar Hilliges
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The studies of human clothing for digital avatars have predominantly relied on synthetic datasets. While easy to collect synthetic data often fall short in realism and fail to capture authentic clothing dynamics. Addressing this gap we introduce 4D-DRESS the first real-world 4D dataset advancing human clothing research with its high-quality 4D textured scans and garment meshes. 4D-DRESS captures 64 outfits in 520 human motion sequences amounting to 78k textured scans. Creating a real-world clothing dataset is challenging particularly in annotating and segmenting the extensive and complex 4D human scans. To address this we develop a semi-automatic 4D human parsing pipeline. We efficiently combine a human-in-the-loop process with automation to accurately label 4D scans in diverse garments and body movements. Leveraging precise annotations and high-quality garment meshes we establish several benchmarks for clothing simulation and reconstruction. 4D-DRESS offers realistic and challenging data that complements synthetic sources paving the way for advancements in research of lifelike human clothing. Website: https://ait.ethz.ch/4d-dress
Feedback-Guided Autonomous Driving
Authors: Jimuyang Zhang; Zanming Huang; Arijit Ray; Eshed Ohn-Bar
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: While behavior cloning has recently emerged as a highly successful paradigm for autonomous driving humans rarely learn to perform complex tasks such as driving via imitation or behavior cloning alone. In contrast learning in humans often involves additional detailed guidance throughout the interactive learning process i.e. where feedback often via language provides detailed information as to which part of their trial was performed incorrectly or suboptimally and why. Motivated by this observation we introduce an efficient feedback-based framework for improving behavior-cloning-based training of sensorimotor driving agents. Our key insight is to leverage recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide corrective fine-grained feedback regarding the underlying reason behind driving prediction failures. Moreover our introduced network architecture is efficient enabling the first sensorimotor end-to-end training and evaluation of LLM-based driving models. The resulting agent achieves state-of-the-art performance in open-loop evaluation on nuScenes outperforming prior state-of-the-art by over 8.1% and 57.1% in accuracy and collision rate respectively. In CARLA our camera-based agent improves by 16.6% in driving score over prior LIDAR-based approaches.