GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Prompt Highlighter: Interactive Control for Multi-Modal LLMs
Authors: Yuechen Zhang; Shengju Qian; Bohao Peng; Shu Liu; Jiaya Jia
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This study targets a critical aspect of multi-modal LLMs'  (LLMs&VLMs) inference: explicit controllable text generation. Multi-modal LLMs empower multi-modality understanding with the capability of semantic generation yet bring less explainability and heavier reliance on prompt contents due to their autoregressive generative nature. While manipulating prompt formats could improve outputs designing specific and precise prompts per task can be challenging and ineffective. To tackle this issue we introduce a novel inference method Prompt Highlighter which enables users to highlight specific prompt spans to interactively control the focus during generation. Motivated by the classifier-free diffusion guidance we form regular and unconditional context pairs based on highlighted tokens demonstrating that the autoregressive generation in models can be guided in a classifier-free way. Notably we find that during inference guiding the models with highlighted tokens through the attention weights leads to more desired outputs. Our approach is compatible with current LLMs and VLMs achieving impressive customized generation results without training. Experiments confirm its effectiveness in focusing on input contexts and generating reliable content. Without tuning on LLaVA-v1.5 our method secured 70.7 in the MMBench test and 1552.5 in MME-perception.
Domain-Rectifying Adapter for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Segmentation
Authors: Jiapeng Su; Qi Fan; Wenjie Pei; Guangming Lu; Fanglin Chen
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has achieved great success on segmenting objects of novel classes supported by only a few annotated samples. However existing FSS methods often underperform in the presence of domain shifts especially when encountering new domain styles that are unseen during training. It is suboptimal to directly adapt or generalize the entire model to new domains in the few-shot scenario. Instead our key idea is to adapt a small adapter for rectifying diverse target domain styles to the source domain. Consequently the rectified target domain features can fittingly benefit from the well-optimized source domain segmentation model which is intently trained on sufficient source domain data. Training domain-rectifying adapter requires sufficiently diverse target domains. We thus propose a novel local-global style perturbation method to simulate diverse potential target domains by perturbating the feature channel statistics of the individual images and collective statistics of the entire source domain respectively. Additionally we propose a cyclic domain alignment module to facilitate the adapter effectively rectifying domains using a reverse domain rectification supervision. The adapter is trained to rectify the image features from diverse synthesized target domains to align with the source domain. During testing on target domains we start by rectifying the image features and then conduct few-shot segmentation on the domain-rectified features. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method achieving promising results on cross-domain few-shot semantic segmentation tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/Matt-Su/DR-Adapter.
Robust Self-calibration of Focal Lengths from the Fundamental Matrix
Authors: Viktor Kocur; Daniel Kyselica; Zuzana Kukelova
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The problem of self-calibration of two cameras from a given fundamental matrix is one of the basic problems in geometric computer vision. Under the assumption of known principal points and square pixels the Bougnoux formula offers a means to compute the two unknown focal lengths. However in many practical situations the formula yields inaccurate results due to commonly occurring singularities. Moreover the estimates are sensitive to noise in the computed fundamental matrix and to the assumed positions of the principal points. In this paper we therefore propose an efficient and robust iterative method to estimate the focal lengths along with the principal points of the cameras given a fundamental matrix and priors for the estimated camera intrinsics. In addition we study a computationally efficient check of models generated within RANSAC that improves the accuracy of the estimated models while reducing the total computational time. Extensive experiments on real and synthetic data show that our iterative method brings significant improvements in terms of the accuracy of the estimated focal lengths over the Bougnoux formula and other state-of-the-art methods even when relying on inaccurate priors. The code for the methods and experiments is available at https://github.com/kocurvik/robust_self_calibration
Continual Learning for Motion Prediction Model via Meta-Representation Learning and Optimal Memory Buffer Retention Strategy
Authors: DaeJun Kang; Dongsuk Kum; Sanmin Kim
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Embodied AI such as autonomous vehicles suffers from insufficient long-tailed data because it must be obtained from the physical world. In fact data must be continuously obtained in a series of small batches and the model must also be continuously trained to achieve generalizability and scalability by improving the biased data distribution. This paper addresses the training cost and catastrophic forgetting problems when continuously updating models to adapt to incoming small batches from various environments for real-world motion prediction in autonomous driving. To this end we propose a novel continual motion prediction (CMP) learning framework based on sparse meta-representation learning and an optimal memory buffer retention strategy. In meta-representation learning a model explicitly learns a sparse representation of each driving environment from road geometry to vehicle states by training to reduce catastrophic forgetting based on an augmented modulation network with sparsity regularization. Also in the adaptation phase We develop an Optimal Memory Buffer Retention strategy that smartly preserves diverse samples by focusing on representation similarity. This approach handles the nuanced task distribution shifts characteristic of motion prediction datasets ensuring our model stays responsive to evolving input variations without requiring extensive resources. The experiment results demonstrate that the proposed method shows superior adaptation performance to the conventional continual learning approach which is developed using a synthetic dataset for the continual learning problem.
PartDistill: 3D Shape Part Segmentation by Vision-Language Model Distillation
Authors: Ardian Umam; Cheng-Kun Yang; Min-Hung Chen; Jen-Hui Chuang; Yen-Yu Lin
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This paper proposes a cross-modal distillation framework PartDistill which transfers 2D knowledge from vision-language models (VLMs) to facilitate 3D shape part segmentation. PartDistill addresses three major challenges in this task: the lack of 3D segmentation in invisible or undetected regions in the 2D projections inconsistent 2D predictions by VLMs and the lack of knowledge accumulation across different 3D shapes. PartDistill consists of a teacher network that uses a VLM to make 2D predictions and a student network that learns from the 2D predictions while extracting geometrical features from multiple 3D shapes to carry out 3D part segmentation. A bi-directional distillation including forward and backward distillations is carried out within the framework where the former forward distills the 2D predictions to the student network and the latter improves the quality of the 2D predictions which subsequently enhances the final 3D segmentation. Moreover PartDistill can exploit generative models that facilitate effortless 3D shape creation for generating knowledge sources to be distilled. Through extensive experiments PartDistill boosts the existing methods with substantial margins on widely used ShapeNetPart and PartNetE datasets by more than 15% and 12% higher mIoU scores respectively. The code for this work is available at https://github.com/ardianumam/PartDistill.
CPP-Net: Embracing Multi-Scale Feature Fusion into Deep Unfolding CP-PPA Network for Compressive Sensing
Authors: Zhen Guo; Hongping Gan
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: In the domain of compressive sensing (CS) deep unfolding networks (DUNs) have garnered attention for their good performance and certain degree of interpretability rooted in CS domain achieved by marrying traditional optimization solvers with deep networks. However current DUNs are ill-suited for the intricate task of capturing fine-grained image details leading to perceptible distortions and blurriness in reconstructed images particularly at low CS ratios e.g. 0.10 and below. In this paper we propose CPP-Net a novel deep unfolding CS framework inspired by the primal-dual hybrid strategy of the Chambolle and Pock Proximal Point Algorithm (CP-PPA). First we derive three iteration submodules Xk Vk and Yk by incorporating customized deep learning modules to solve the sparse basis related proximal operator within CP-PPA. Second we design the Dual Path Fusion Block (DPFB) to adeptly extract and fuse multi-scale feature information enhancing sensitivity to feature information at different scales and improving detail reconstruction. Third we introduce the Iteration Fusion Strategy (IFS) to effectively weight the fusion of outputs from diverse reconstruction stages maximizing the utilization of feature information and mitigating the information loss during reconstruction stages. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPP-Net effectively reduces distortion and blurriness while preserving richer image details outperforming current state-of-the-art methods. Codes are available at https://github.com/ICSResearch/CPP-Net.
EditGuard: Versatile Image Watermarking for Tamper Localization and Copyright Protection
Authors: Xuanyu Zhang; Runyi Li; Jiwen Yu; Youmin Xu; Weiqi Li; Jian Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: In the era of AI-generated content (AIGC) malicious tampering poses imminent threats to copyright integrity and information security. Current deep image watermarking while widely accepted for safeguarding visual content can only protect copyright and ensure traceability. They fall short in localizing increasingly realistic image tampering potentially leading to trust crises privacy violations and legal disputes. To solve this challenge we propose an innovative proactive forensics framework EditGuard to unify copyright protection and tamper-agnostic localization especially for AIGC-based editing methods. It can offer a meticulous embedding of imperceptible watermarks and precise decoding of tampered areas and copyright information. Leveraging our observed fragility and locality of image-into-image steganography the realization of EditGuard can be converted into a united image-bit steganography issue thus completely decoupling the training process from the tampering types. Extensive experiments verify that our EditGuard balances the tamper localization accuracy copyright recovery precision and generalizability to various AIGC-based tampering methods especially for image forgery that is difficult for the naked eye to detect.
3DGStream: On-the-Fly Training of 3D Gaussians for Efficient Streaming of Photo-Realistic Free-Viewpoint Videos
Authors: Jiakai Sun; Han Jiao; Guangyuan Li; Zhanjie Zhang; Lei Zhao; Wei Xing
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Constructing photo-realistic Free-Viewpoint Videos (FVVs) of dynamic scenes from multi-view videos remains a challenging endeavor. Despite the remarkable advancements achieved by current neural rendering techniques these methods generally require complete video sequences for offline training and are not capable of real-time rendering. To address these constraints we introduce 3DGStream a method designed for efficient FVV streaming of real-world dynamic scenes. Our method achieves fast on-the-fly per-frame reconstruction within 12 seconds and real-time rendering at 200 FPS. Specifically we utilize 3D Gaussians (3DGs) to represent the scene. Instead of the naive approach of directly optimizing 3DGs per-frame we employ a compact Neural Transformation Cache (NTC) to model the translations and rotations of 3DGs markedly reducing the training time and storage required for each FVV frame. Furthermore we propose an adaptive 3DG addition strategy to handle emerging objects in dynamic scenes. Experiments demonstrate that 3DGStream achieves competitive performance in terms of rendering speed image quality training time and model storage when compared with state-of-the-art methods.
FairRAG: Fair Human Generation via Fair Retrieval Augmentation
Authors: Robik Shrestha; Yang Zou; Qiuyu Chen; Zhiheng Li; Yusheng Xie; Siqi Deng
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Existing text-to-image generative models reflect or even amplify societal biases ingrained in their training data. This is especially concerning for human image generation where models are biased against certain demographic groups. Existing attempts to rectify this issue are hindered by the inherent limitations of the pre-trained models and fail to substantially improve demographic diversity. In this work we introduce Fair Retrieval Augmented Generation (FairRAG) a novel framework that conditions pre-trained generative models on reference images retrieved from an external image database to improve fairness in human generation. FairRAG enables conditioning through a lightweight linear module that projects reference images into the textual space. To enhance fairness FairRAG applies simple-yet-effective debiasing strategies providing images from diverse demographic groups during the generative process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FairRAG outperforms existing methods in terms of demographic diversity image-text alignment and image fidelity while incurring minimal computational overhead during inference.
DragDiffusion: Harnessing Diffusion Models for Interactive Point-based Image Editing
Authors: Yujun Shi; Chuhui Xue; Jun Hao Liew; Jiachun Pan; Hanshu Yan; Wenqing Zhang; Vincent Y. F. Tan; Song Bai
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Accurate and controllable image editing is a challenging task that has attracted significant attention recently. Notably DragGAN developed by Pan et al. (2023) is an interactive point-based image editing framework that achieves impressive editing results with pixel-level precision. However due to its reliance on generative adversarial networks (GANs) its generality is limited by the capacity of pretrained GAN models. In this work we extend this editing framework to diffusion models and propose a novel approach DragDiffusion. By harnessing large-scale pretrained diffusion models we greatly enhance the applicability of interactive point-based editing on both real and diffusion-generated images. Unlike other diffusion-based editing methods that provide guidance on diffusion latents of multiple time steps our approach achieves efficient yet accurate spatial control by optimizing the latent of only one time step. This novel design is motivated by our observations that UNet features at a specific time step provides sufficient semantic and geometric information to support the drag-based editing. Moreover we introduce two additional techniques namely identity-preserving fine-tuning and reference-latent-control to further preserve the identity of the original image. Lastly we present a challenging benchmark dataset called DragBench---the first benchmark to evaluate the performance of interactive point-based image editing methods. Experiments across a wide range of challenging cases (e.g. images with multiple objects diverse object categories various styles etc.) demonstrate the versatility and generality of DragDiffusion. Code and the DragBench dataset: https://github.com/Yujun-Shi/DragDiffusion.
FaceTalk: Audio-Driven Motion Diffusion for Neural Parametric Head Models
Authors: Shivangi Aneja; Justus Thies; Angela Dai; Matthias Nießner
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We introduce FaceTalk a novel generative approach designed for synthesizing high-fidelity 3D motion sequences of talking human heads from input audio signal. To capture the expressive detailed nature of human heads including hair ears and finer-scale eye movements we propose to couple speech signal with the latent space of neural parametric head models to create high-fidelity temporally coherent motion sequences. We propose a new latent diffusion model for this task operating in the expression space of neural parametric head models to synthesize audio-driven realistic head sequences. In the absence of a dataset with corresponding NPHM expressions to audio we optimize for these correspondences to produce a dataset of temporally-optimized NPHM expressions fit to audio-video recordings of people talking. To the best of our knowledge this is the first work to propose a generative approach for realistic and high-quality motion synthesis of volumetric human heads representing a significant advancement in the field of audio-driven 3D animation. Notably our approach stands out in its ability to generate plausible motion sequences that can produce high-fidelity head animation coupled with the NPHM shape space. Our experimental results substantiate the effectiveness of FaceTalk consistently achieving superior and visually natural motion encompassing diverse facial expressions and styles outperforming existing methods by 75% in perceptual user study evaluation
Mip-Splatting: Alias-free 3D Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Zehao Yu; Anpei Chen; Binbin Huang; Torsten Sattler; Andreas Geiger
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recently 3D Gaussian Splatting has demonstrated impressive novel view synthesis results reaching high fidelity and efficiency. However strong artifacts can be observed when changing the sampling rate e.g. by changing focal length or camera distance. We find that the source for this phenomenon can be attributed to the lack of 3D frequency constraints and the usage of a 2D dilation filter. To address this problem we introduce a 3D smoothing filter to constrains the size of the 3D Gaussian primitives based on the maximal sampling frequency induced by the input views. It eliminates high-frequency artifacts when zooming in. Moreover replacing 2D dilation with a 2D Mip filter which simulates a 2D box filter effectively mitigates aliasing and dilation issues. Our evaluation including scenarios such a training on single-scale images and testing on multiple scales validates the effectiveness of our approach.
Learning Coupled Dictionaries from Unpaired Data for Image Super-Resolution
Authors: Longguang Wang; Juncheng Li; Yingqian Wang; Qingyong Hu; Yulan Guo
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The difficulty of acquiring high-resolution (HR) and low-resolution (LR) image pairs in real scenarios limits the performance of existing learning-based image super-resolution (SR) methods in the real world. To conduct training on real-world unpaired data current methods focus on synthesizing pseudo LR images to associate unpaired images. However the realness and diversity of pseudo LR images are vulnerable due to the large image space. In this paper we circumvent the difficulty of image generation and propose an alternative to build the connection between unpaired images in a compact proxy space. Specifically we first construct coupled HR and LR dictionaries and then encode HR and LR images into a common latent code space using these dictionaries. In addition we develop an autoencoder-based framework to couple these dictionaries during optimization by reconstructing input HR and LR images. The coupled dictionaries enable our method to employ a shallow network architecture with only 18 layers to achieve efficient image SR. Extensive experiments show that our method (DictSR) can effectively model the LR-to-HR mapping in coupled dictionaries and produces state-of-the-art performance on benchmark datasets.
Template Free Reconstruction of Human-object Interaction with Procedural Interaction Generation
Authors: Xianghui Xie; Bharat Lal Bhatnagar; Jan Eric Lenssen; Gerard Pons-Moll
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Reconstructing human-object interaction in 3D from a single RGB image is a challenging task and existing data driven methods do not generalize beyond the objects present in the carefully curated 3D interaction datasets. Capturing large-scale real data to learn strong interaction and 3D shape priors is very expensive due to the combinatorial nature of human-object interactions. In this paper we propose ProciGen (Procedural interaction Generation) a method to procedurally generate datasets with both plausible interaction and diverse object variation. We generate 1M+ human-object interaction pairs in 3D and leverage this large-scale data to train our HDM (Hierarchical Diffusion Model) a novel method to reconstruct interacting human and unseen object instances without any templates. Our HDM is an image-conditioned diffusion model that learns both realistic interaction and highly accurate human and object shapes. Experiments show that our HDM trained with ProciGen significantly outperforms prior methods that require template meshes and our dataset allows training methods with strong generalization ability to unseen object instances. Our code and data are released.
Deep Video Inverse Tone Mapping Based on Temporal Clues
Authors: Yuyao Ye; Ning Zhang; Yang Zhao; Hongbin Cao; Ronggang Wang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Inverse tone mapping (ITM) aims to reconstruct high dynamic range (HDR) radiance from low dynamic range (LDR) content. Although many deep image ITM methods can generate impressive results the field of video ITM is still to be explored. Processing video sequences by image ITM methods may cause temporal inconsistency. Besides they aren't able to exploit the potentially useful information in the temporal domain. In this paper we analyze the process of video filming and then propose a Global Sample and Local Propagate strategy to better find and utilize temporal clues. To better realize the proposed strategy we design a two-stage pipeline which includes modules named Incremental Clue Aggregation Module and Feature and Clue Propagation Module. They can align and fuse frames effectively under the condition of brightness changes and propagate features and temporal clues to all frames efficiently. Our temporal clues based video ITM method can recover realistic and temporal consistent results with high fidelity in over-exposed regions. Qualitative and quantitative experiments on public datasets show that the proposed method has significant advantages over existing methods.
NeRF-HuGS: Improved Neural Radiance Fields in Non-static Scenes Using Heuristics-Guided Segmentation
Authors: Jiahao Chen; Yipeng Qin; Lingjie Liu; Jiangbo Lu; Guanbin Li
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has been widely recognized for its excellence in novel view synthesis and 3D scene reconstruction. However their effectiveness is inherently tied to the assumption of static scenes rendering them susceptible to undesirable artifacts when confronted with transient distractors such as moving objects or shadows. In this work we propose a novel paradigm namely "Heuristics-Guided Segmentation" (HuGS) which significantly enhances the separation of static scenes from transient distractors by harmoniously combining the strengths of hand-crafted heuristics and state-of-the-art segmentation models thus significantly transcending the limitations of previous solutions. Furthermore we delve into the meticulous design of heuristics introducing a seamless fusion of Structure-from-Motion (SfM)-based heuristics and color residual heuristics catering to a diverse range of texture profiles. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority and robustness of our method in mitigating transient distractors for NeRFs trained in non-static scenes. Project page: https://cnhaox.github.io/NeRF-HuGS/