GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
SparseAlign: a Fully Sparse Framework for Cooperative Object Detection
Authors: Yunshuang Yuan; Yan Xia; Daniel Cremers; Monika Sester
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Cooperative perception can increase the view field and decrease the occlusion of an ego vehicle, hence improving the perception performance and safety of autonomous driving. Despite the success of previous works on cooperative object detection, they mostly operate on dense Bird's Eye View (BEV) feature maps, which are computationally demanding and can hardly be extended to long-range detection problems. More efficient fully sparse frameworks are rarely explored. In this work, we design a fully sparse framework, SparseAlign, with three key features: an enhanced sparse 3D backbone, a query-based temporal context learning module, and a robust detection head specially tailored for sparse features. Extensive experimental results on both OPV2V and DairV2X datasets show that our framework, despite its sparsity, outperforms the state of the art with less communication bandwidth requirements. In addition, experiments on the OPV2Vt and DairV2Xt datasets for time-aligned cooperative object detection also show a significant performance gain compared to the baseline works.
Video-Bench: Human-Aligned Video Generation Benchmark
Authors: Hui Han; Siyuan Li; Jiaqi Chen; Yiwen Yuan; Yuling Wu; Yufan Deng; Chak Tou Leong; Hanwen Du; Junchen Fu; Youhua Li; Jie Zhang; Chi Zhang; Li-jia Li; Yongxin Ni
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Video generation assessment is essential for ensuring that generative models produce visually realistic, high-quality videos while aligning with human expectations. Current video generation benchmarks fall into two main categories: traditional benchmarks, which use metrics and embeddings to evaluate generated video quality across multiple dimensions but often lack alignment with human judgments; and large language model (LLM)-based benchmarks, though capable of human-like reasoning, are constrained by a limited understanding of video quality metrics and cross-modal consistency.To address these challenges and establish a benchmark that better aligns with human preferences, this paper introduces Video-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark featuring a rich prompt suite and extensive evaluation dimensions. This benchmark represents the first attempt to systematically leverage MLLMs across all dimensions relevant to video generation assessment in generative models. By incorporating few-shot scoring and chain-of-query techniques, Video-Bench provides a structured, scalable approach to generated video evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate that MLLMs achieve superior alignment with human preferences across all dimensions. Moreover, in instances where our framework's assessments diverge from human evaluations, it consistently offers more objective and accurate insights, suggesting an even greater potential advantage over traditional human judgment.
Data Distributional Properties As Inductive Bias for Systematic Generalization
Authors: Felipe del Rio; Alain Raymond-Saez; Daniel Florea; Rodrigo Toro Icarte; Julio Hurtado; Cristian B. Calderon; Alvaro Soto
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) struggle at systematic generalization (SG). Several studies have evaluated the possibility of promoting SG through the proposal of novel architectures, loss functions, or training methodologies. Few studies, however, have focused on the role of training data properties in promoting SG. In this work, we investigate the impact of certain data distributional properties, as inductive biases for the SG ability of a multi-modal language model. To this end, we study three different properties. First, data diversity, instantiated as an increase in the possible values a latent property in the training distribution may take. Second, burstiness, where we probabilistically restrict the number of possible values of latent factors on particular inputs during training. Third, latent intervention, where a particular latent factor is altered randomly during training. We find that all three factors significantly enhance SG, with diversity contributing an 89% absolute increase in accuracy in the most affected property. Through a series of experiments, we test various hypotheses to understand why these properties promote SG. Finally, we find that Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) between latent attributes in the training distribution is strongly predictive of out-of-distribution generalization. We find that a mechanism by which lower NMI induces SG is in the geometry of representations. In particular, we find that NMI induces more parallelism in neural representations (i.e., input features coded in parallel neural vectors) of the model, a property related to the capacity of reasoning by analogy.
MergeVQ: A Unified Framework for Visual Generation and Representation with Disentangled Token Merging and Quantization
Authors: Siyuan Li; Luyuan Zhang; Zedong Wang; Juanxi Tian; Cheng Tan; Zicheng Liu; Chang Yu; Qingsong Xie; Haonan Lu; Haoqian Wang; Zhen Lei
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with Vector Quantization (VQ) has achieved great success in both self-supervised pre-training and image generation. However, most existing methods struggle to address the trade-off in the shared latent space for generation quality vs. representation learning and efficiency. To push the limits of this paradigm, we propose MergeVQ, which incorporates token merging techniques into VQ-based generative models to bridge the gap between image generation and visual representation learning in a unified architecture. During pre-training, MergeVQ decouples top-k semantics from latent space with the token merge module after self-attention blocks in the encoder for subsequent Look-up Free Quantization (LFQ) and global alignment and recovers their fine-grained details through cross-attention in the decoder for reconstruction. As for second-stage generation, we introduce MergeAR, which performs KV Cache compression for efficient raster-order prediction. Extensive experiments on ImageNet verify that MergeVQ as an AR generative model achieves competitive performance in both visual representation learning and image generation tasks while maintaining favorable token efficiency and inference speed. The code and model will be available at https://apexgen-x.github.io/MergeVQ.
InterAct: Advancing Large-Scale Versatile 3D Human-Object Interaction Generation
Authors: Sirui Xu; Dongting Li; Yucheng Zhang; Xiyan Xu; Qi Long; Ziyin Wang; Yunzhi Lu; Shuchang Dong; Hezi Jiang; Akshat Gupta; Yu-Xiong Wang; Liang-Yan Gui
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: While large-scale human motion capture datasets have advanced human motion generation, modeling and generating dynamic 3D human-object interactions (HOIs) remain challenging due to dataset limitations. Existing datasets often lack extensive, high-quality motion and annotation and exhibit artifacts such as contact penetration, floating, and incorrect hand motions. To address these issues, we introduce InterAct, a large-scale 3D HOI benchmark featuring dataset and methodological advancements. First, we consolidate and standardize 21.81 hours of HOI data from diverse sources, enriching it with detailed textual annotations. Second, we propose a unified optimization framework to enhance data quality by reducing artifacts and correcting hand motions. Leveraging the principle of contact invariance, we maintain human-object relationships while introducing motion variations, expanding the dataset to 30.70 hours. Third, we define six benchmarking tasks and develop a unified HOI generative modeling perspective, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Extensive experiments validate the utility of our dataset as a foundational resource for advancing 3D human-object interaction generation. The dataset will be publicly accessible to support further research in the field.
TopoCellGen: Generating Histopathology Cell Topology with a Diffusion Model
Authors: Meilong Xu; Saumya Gupta; Xiaoling Hu; Chen Li; Shahira Abousamra; Dimitris Samaras; Prateek Prasanna; Chao Chen
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Accurately modeling multi-class cell topology is crucial in digital pathology, as it provides critical insights into tissue structure and pathology. The synthetic generation of cell topology enables realistic simulations of complex tissue environments, enhances downstream tasks by augmenting training data, aligns more closely with pathologists' domain knowledge, and offers new opportunities for controlling and generalizing the tumor microenvironment. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that integrates topological constraints into a diffusion model to improve the generation of realistic, contextually accurate cell topologies. Our method refines the simulation of cell distributions and interactions, increasing the precision and interpretability of results in downstream tasks such as cell detection and classification. To assess the topological fidelity of generated layouts, we introduce a new metric, Topological Frechet Distance (TopoFD), which overcomes the limitations of traditional metrics like FID in evaluating topological structure. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in generating multi-class cell layouts that capture intricate topological relationships. Code is available at https://github.com/Melon-Xu/TopoCellGen.
Anyattack: Towards Large-scale Self-supervised Adversarial Attacks on Vision-language Models
Authors: Jiaming Zhang; Junhong Ye; Xingjun Ma; Yige Li; Yunfan Yang; Yunhao Chen; Jitao Sang; Dit-Yan Yeung
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Due to their multimodal capabilities, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have found numerous impactful applications in real-world scenarios. However, recent studies have revealed that VLMs are vulnerable to image-based adversarial attacks. Traditional targeted adversarial attacks require specific targets and labels, limiting their real-world impact. We present AnyAttack, a self-supervised framework that transcends the limitations of conventional attacks through a novel foundation model approach. By pre-training on the massive LAION-400M dataset without label supervision, AnyAttack achieves unprecedented flexibility - enabling any image to be transformed into an attack vector targeting any desired output across different VLMs. This approach fundamentally changes the threat landscape, making adversarial capabilities accessible at an unprecedented scale. Our extensive validation across five open-source VLMs (CLIP, BLIP, BLIP2, InstructBLIP, and MiniGPT-4) demonstrates AnyAttack's effectiveness across diverse multimodal tasks. Most concerning, AnyAttack seamlessly transfers to commercial systems including Google Gemini, Claude Sonnet, Microsoft Copilot and OpenAI GPT, revealing a systemic vulnerability requiring immediate attention.
Joint Optimization of Neural Radiance Fields and Continuous Camera Motion from a Monocular Video
Authors: Hoang Chuong Nguyen; Wei Mao; Jose M. Alvarez; Miaomiao Liu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) has demonstrated its superior capability to represent 3D geometry but require accurately precomputed camera poses during training. To mitigate this requirement, existing methods jointly optimize camera poses and NeRF often relying on good pose initialisation or depth priors. However, these approaches struggle in challenging scenarios, such as large rotations, as they map each camera to a world coordinate system. We propose a novel method that eliminates prior dependencies by modeling continuous camera motions as time-dependent angular velocity and velocity. Relative motions between cameras are learned first via velocity integration, while camera poses can be obtained by aggregating such relative motions up to a world coordinate system defined at a single time step within the video. Specifically, accurate continuous camera movements are learned through a time-dependent NeRF, which captures local scene geometry and motion by training from neighboring frames for each time step. The learned motions enable fine-tuning the NeRF to represent the full scene geometry. Experiments on Co3D and Scannet show our approach achieves superior camera pose and depth estimation and comparable novel-view synthesis performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
IRGS: Inter-Reflective Gaussian Splatting with 2D Gaussian Ray Tracing
Authors: Chun Gu; Xiaofei Wei; Zixuan Zeng; Yuxuan Yao; Li Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: In inverse rendering, accurately modeling visibility and indirect radiance for incident light is essential for capturing secondary effects. Due to the absence of a powerful Gaussian ray tracer, previous 3DGS-based methods have either adopted a simplified rendering equation or used learnable parameters to approximate incident light, resulting in inaccurate material and lighting estimations. To this end, we introduce the inter-reflective Gaussian splatting (IRGS) framework for inverse rendering. To capture inter-reflection, we apply the full rendering equation without simplification and compute incident radiance on the fly using the proposed differentiable 2D Gaussian ray tracing. Additionally, we present an efficient optimization scheme to handle the computational demands of Monte Carlo sampling for rendering equation evaluation. Furthermore, we introduce a novel strategy for querying the indirect radiance of incident light when relighting the optimized scenes. Extensive experiments on multiple standard benchmarks validate the effectiveness of IRGS, demonstrating its capability to accurately model complex inter-reflection effects.
InterMimic: Towards Universal Whole-Body Control for Physics-Based Human-Object Interactions
Authors: Sirui Xu; Hung Yu Ling; Yu-Xiong Wang; Liang-Yan Gui
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Achieving realistic simulations of humans interacting with a wide range of objects has long been a fundamental goal. Extending physics-based motion imitation to complex human-object interactions (HOIs) is challenging due to intricate human-object coupling, variability in object geometries, and artifacts in motion capture data, such as inaccurate contacts and limited hand detail. We introduce InterMimic, a framework that enables a single policy to robustly learn from hours of imperfect MoCap data covering diverse full-body interactions with dynamic and varied objects. Our key insight is to employ a curriculum strategy -- perfect first, then scale up. We first train subject-specific teacher policies to mimic, retarget, and refine motion capture data. Next, we distill these teachers into a student policy, with the teachers acting as online experts providing direct supervision, as well as high-quality references. Notably, we incorporate RL fine-tuning on the student policy to surpass mere demonstration replication and achieve higher-quality solutions. Our experiments demonstrate that InterMimic produces realistic and diverse interactions across multiple HOI datasets. The learned policy generalizes in a zero-shot manner and seamlessly integrates with kinematic generators, elevating the framework from mere imitation to generative modeling of complex human-object interactions.
Meta-Learning Hyperparameters for Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning
Authors: Zichen Tian; Yaoyao Liu; Qianru Sun
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Training large foundation models from scratch for domain-specific applications is almost impossible due to data limits and long-tailed distributions -- taking remote sensing (RS) as an example. Fine-tuning natural image pre-trained models on RS images is a straightforward solution. To reduce computational costs and improve performance on tail classes, existing methods apply parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) techniques, such as LoRA and AdaptFormer. However, we observe that fixed hyperparameters -- such as intra-layer positions, layer depth, and scaling factors, can considerably hinder PEFT performance, as fine-tuning on RS images proves highly sensitive to these settings. To address this, we propose MetaPEFT, a method incorporating adaptive scalers that dynamically adjust module influence during fine-tuning. MetaPEFT dynamically adjusts three key factors of PEFT on RS images: module insertion, layer selection, and module-wise learning rates, which collectively control the influence of PEFT modules across the network. We conduct extensive experiments on three transfer-learning scenarios and five datasets in both RS and natural image domains. The results show that MetaPEFT achieves state-of-the-art performance in cross-spectral adaptation, requiring only a small amount of trainable parameters and improving tail-class accuracy significantly.
TriTex: Learning Texture from a Single Mesh via Triplane Semantic Features
Authors: Dana Cohen-Bar; Daniel Cohen-Or; Gal Chechik; Yoni Kasten
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: As 3D content creation continues to grow, transferring semantic textures between 3D meshes remains a significant challenge in computer graphics. While recent methods leverage text-to-image diffusion models for texturing, they often struggle to preserve the appearance of the source texture during texture transfer. We present TriTex, a novel approach that learns a volumetric texture field from a single textured mesh by mapping semantic features to surface colors. Using an efficient triplane-based architecture, our method enables semantic-aware texture transfer to a novel target mesh. Despite training on just one example, it generalizes effectively to diverse shapes within the same category. Extensive evaluation on our newly created benchmark dataset shows that TriTex achieves superior texture transfer quality and fast inference times compared to existing methods. Our approach advances single-example texture transfer, providing a practical solution for maintaining visual coherence across related 3D models in applications like game development and simulation.
Efficient Test-time Adaptive Object Detection via Sensitivity-Guided Pruning
Authors: Kunyu Wang; Xueyang Fu; Xin Lu; Chengjie Ge; Chengzhi Cao; Wei Zhai; Zheng-Jun Zha
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Continual test-time adaptive object detection (CTTA-OD) aims to online adapt a source pre-trained detector to ever-changing environments during inference under continuous domain shifts. Most existing CTTA-OD methods prioritize effectiveness while overlooking computational efficiency, which is crucial for resource-constrained scenarios. In this paper, we propose an efficient CTTA-OD method via pruning. Our motivation stems from the observation that not all learned source features are beneficial; certain domain-sensitive feature channels can adversely affect target domain performance. Inspired by this, we introduce a sensitivity-guided channel pruning strategy that quantifies each channel based on its sensitivity to domain discrepancies at both image and instance levels. We apply weighted sparsity regularization to selectively suppress and prune these sensitive channels, focusing adaptation efforts on invariant ones. Additionally, we introduce a stochastic channel reactivation mechanism to restore pruned channels, enabling recovery of potentially useful features and mitigating the risks of early pruning. Extensive experiments on three benchmarks show that our method achieves superior adaptation performance while reducing computational overhead by 12% in FLOPs compared to the recent SOTA method.
A Data-Centric Revisit of Pre-Trained Vision Models for Robot Learning
Authors: Xin Wen; Bingchen Zhao; Yilun Chen; Jiangmiao Pang; Xiaojuan Qi
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Pre-trained vision models (PVMs) are fundamental to modern robotics, yet their optimal configuration remains unclear. Through systematic evaluation, we find that while DINO and iBOT outperform MAE across visuomotor control and perception tasks, they struggle when trained on non-(single-)object-centric (NOC) data--a limitation strongly correlated with their diminished ability to learn object-centric representations. This investigation indicates that the ability to form object-centric representations from the non-object-centric robotics dataset is the key to success for PVMs. Motivated by this discovery, we designed SlotMIM, a method that induces object-centric representations by introducing a semantic bottleneck to reduce the number of prototypes to encourage the emergence of objectness as well as cross-view consistency regularization for encouraging multiview invariance. Our experiments encompass pre-training on object-centric, scene-centric, web-crawled, and ego-centric data. Across all settings, our approach learns transferrable representations and achieves significant improvements over prior work in image recognition, scene understanding, and robot learning evaluations. When scaled up with million-scale datasets, our method also demonstrates superior data efficiency and scalability. Our code and models are publicly available at https://github.com/CVMI-Lab/SlotMIM.
Visual Agentic AI for Spatial Reasoning with a Dynamic API
Authors: Damiano Marsili; Rohun Agrawal; Yisong Yue; Georgia Gkioxari
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Visual reasoning -- the ability to interpret the visual world -- is crucial for embodied agents that operate within three-dimensional scenes. Progress in AI has led to vision and language models capable of answering questions from images. However, their performance declines when tasked with 3D spatial reasoning. To tackle the complexity of such reasoning problems, we introduce an agentic program synthesis approach where LLM agents collaboratively generate a Pythonic API with new functions to solve common subproblems. Our method overcomes limitations of prior approaches that rely on a static, human-defined API, allowing it to handle a wider range of queries. To assess AI capabilities for 3D understanding, we introduce a new benchmark of queries involving multiple steps of grounding and inference. We show that our method outperforms prior zero-shot models for visual reasoning in 3D and empirically validate the effectiveness of our agentic framework for 3D spatial reasoning tasks. Project website: https://glab-caltech.github.io/vadar/
TAMT: Temporal-Aware Model Tuning for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Action Recognition
Authors: Yilong Wang; Zilin Gao; Qilong Wang; Zhaofeng Chen; Peihua Li; Qinghua Hu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Going beyond few-shot action recognition (FSAR), cross-domain FSAR (CDFSAR) has attracted recent research interests by solving the domain gap lying in source-to-target transfer learning. Existing CDFSAR methods mainly focus on joint training of source and target data to mitigate the side effect of domain gap. However, such kind of methods suffer from two limitations: First, pair-wise joint training requires retraining deep models in case of one source data and multiple target ones, which incurs heavy computation cost, especially for large source and small target data. Second, pre-trained models after joint training are adopted to target domain in a straightforward manner, hardly taking full potential of pre-trained models and then limiting recognition performance. To overcome above limitations, this paper proposes a simple yet effective baseline, namely Temporal-Aware Model Tuning (TAMT) for CDFSAR. Specifically, our TAMT involves a decoupled paradigm by performing pre-training on source data and fine-tuning target data, which avoids retraining for multiple target data with single source. To effectively and efficiently explore the potential of pre-trained models in transferring to target domain, our TAMT proposes a Hierarchical Temporal Tuning Network (HTTN), whose core involves local temporal-aware adapters (TAA) and a global temporal-aware moment tuning (GTMT). Particularly, TAA learns few parameters to recalibrate the intermediate features of frozen pre-trained models, enabling efficient adaptation to target domains. Furthermore, GTMT helps to generate powerful video representations, improving match performance on the target domain. Experiments on several widely used video benchmarks show our TAMT outperforms the recently proposed counterparts by 13% 31%, achieving new state-of-the-art CDFSAR results.