GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Uni4D: Unifying Visual Foundation Models for 4D Modeling from a Single Video
Authors: David Yifan Yao; Albert J. Zhai; Shenlong Wang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: This paper presents a unified approach to understanding dynamic scenes from casual videos. Large pretrained vision foundation models, such as vision-language, video depth prediction, motion tracking, and segmentation models, offer promising capabilities. However, training a single model for comprehensive 4D understanding remains challenging. We introduce Uni4D, a multi-stage optimization framework that harnesses multiple pretrained models to advance dynamic 3D modeling, including static/dynamic reconstruction, camera pose estimation, and dense 3D motion tracking. Our results show state-of-the-art performance in dynamic 4D modeling with superior visual quality. Notably, Uni4D requires no retraining or fine-tuning, highlighting the effectiveness of repurposing visual foundation models for 4D understanding. Code and more results are available at: https://davidyao99.github.io/uni4d.
DynScene: Scalable Generation of Dynamic Robotic Manipulation Scenes for Embodied AI
Authors: Sangmin Lee; Sungyong Park; Heewon Kim
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Robotic manipulation in embodied AI critically depends on large-scale, high-quality datasets that reflect realistic object interactions and physical dynamics. However, existing data collection pipelines are often slow, expensive, and heavily reliant on manual efforts. We present DynScene, a diffusion-based framework for generating dynamic robotic manipulation scenes directly from textual instructions. Unlike prior methods that focus solely on static environments or isolated robot actions, DynScene decomposes the generation into two phases static scene synthesis and action trajectory generation allowing fine-grained control and diversity. Our model enhances realism and physical feasibility through scene refinement (layout sampling, quaternion quantization) and leverages residual action representation to enable action augmentation, generating multiple diverse trajectories from a single static configuration. Experiments show DynScene achieves 26.8x faster generation, 1.84x higher accuracy, and 28% greater action diversity than human-crafted data. Furthermore, agents trained with DynScene exhibit up to 19.4% higher success rates across complex manipulation tasks. Our approach paves the way for scalable, automated dataset generation in robot learning.
DiffLocks: Generating 3D Hair from a Single Image using Diffusion Models
Authors: Radu Alexandru Rosu; Keyu Wu; Yao Feng; Youyi Zheng; Michael J. Black
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: We address the task of generating 3D hair geometry from a single image, which is challenging due to the diversity of hairstyles and the lack of paired image-to-3D hair data. Previous methods are primarily trained on synthetic data and cope with the limited amount of such data by using low-dimensional intermediate representations, such as guide strands and scalp-level embeddings, that require post-processing to decode, upsample, and add realism. These approaches fail to reconstruct detailed hair, struggle with curly hair, or are limited to handling only a few hairstyles. To overcome these limitations, we propose DiffLocks, a novel framework that enables detailed reconstruction of a wide variety of hairstyles directly from a single image. First, we address the lack of 3D hair data by automating the creation of the largest synthetic hair dataset to date, containing 40K hairstyles. Second, we leverage the synthetic hair dataset to learn an image-conditioned diffusion-transfomer model that generates accurate 3D strands from a single frontal image. By using a pretrained image backbone, our method generalizes to in-the-wild images despite being trained only on synthetic data. Our diffusion model predicts a scalp texture map in which any point in the map contains the latent code for an individual hair strand. These codes are directly decoded to 3D strands without post-processing techniques. Representing individual strands, instead of guide strands, enables the transformer to model the detailed spatial structure of complex hairstyles. With this, DiffLocks can recover highly curled hair, like afro hairstyles, from a single image for the first time. Data and code is available at https://radualexandru.github.io/difflocks
Hyperbolic Category Discovery
Authors: Yuanpei Liu; Zhenqi He; Kai Han
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Generalized Category Discovery (GCD) is an intriguing open-world problem that has garnered increasing attention. Given a dataset that includes both labelled and unlabelled images, GCD aims to categorize all images in the unlabelled subset, regardless of whether they belong to known or unknown classes. In GCD, the common practice typically involves applying a spherical projection operator at the end of the self-supervised pretrained backbone, operating within Euclidean or spherical space. However, both of these spaces have been shown to be suboptimal for encoding samples that possess hierarchical structures. In contrast, hyperbolic space exhibits exponential volume growth relative to radius, making it inherently strong at capturing the hierarchical structure of samples from both seen and unseen categories. Therefore, we propose to tackle the category discovery challenge in the hyperbolic space. We introduce HypCD, a simple Hyperbolic framework for learning hierarchy-aware representations and classifiers for generalized Category Discovery. HypCD first transforms the Euclidean embedding space of the backbone network into hyperbolic space, facilitating subsequent representation and classification learning by considering both hyperbolic distance and the angle between samples. This approach is particularly helpful for knowledge transfer from known to unknown categories in GCD. We thoroughly evaluate HypCD on public GCD benchmarks, by applying it to various baseline and state-of-the-art methods, consistently achieving significant improvements.
The Language of Motion: Unifying Verbal and Non-verbal Language of 3D Human Motion
Authors: Changan Chen; Juze Zhang; Shrinidhi K. Lakshmikanth; Yusu Fang; Ruizhi Shao; Gordon Wetzstein; Li Fei-Fei; Ehsan Adeli
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Human communication is inherently multimodal, involving a combination of verbal and non-verbal cues such as speech, facial expressions, and body gestures. Modeling these behaviors is essential for understanding human interaction and for creating virtual characters that can communicate naturally in applications like games, films, and virtual reality. However, existing motion generation models are typically limited to specific input modalities--either speech, text, or motion data--and cannot fully leverage the diversity of available data. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that unifies verbal and non-verbal language using multimodal language models for human motion understanding and generation. This model is flexible in taking text, speech, and motion or any combination of them as input. Coupled with our novel pre-training strategy, our model not only achieves state-of-the-art performance on co-speech gesture generation but also requires much less data for training. Our model also unlocks an array of novel tasks such as editable gesture generation and emotion prediction from motion. We believe unifying the verbal and non-verbal language of human motion is essential for real-world applications, and language models offer a powerful approach to achieving this goal.
CALICO: Part-Focused Semantic Co-Segmentation with Large Vision-Language Models
Authors: Kiet A. Nguyen; Adheesh Juvekar; Tianjiao Yu; Muntasir Wahed; Ismini Lourentzou
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Recent advances in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have enabled general-purpose vision tasks through visual instruction tuning. While existing LVLMs can generate segmentation masks from text prompts for single images, they struggle with segmentation-grounded reasoning across images, especially at finer granularities such as object parts. In this paper, we introduce the new task of part-focused semantic co-segmentation, which involves identifying and segmenting common objects and their constituent common and unique parts across images. To address this task, we present CALICO, the first LVLM designed for multi-image part-level reasoning segmentation. CALICO features two key components, a novel Correspondence Extraction Module that identifies semantic part-level correspondences, and Correspondence Adaptation Modules that embed this information into the LVLM to facilitate multi-image understanding in a parameter-efficient manner. To support training and evaluation, we curate MixedParts, a large-scale multi-image segmentation dataset containing  2.4M samples across  44K images spanning diverse object and part categories. Experimental results demonstrate that CALICO, with just 0.3% of its parameters finetuned, achieves strong performance on this challenging task.
Task Preference Optimization: Improving Multimodal Large Language Models with Vision Task Alignment
Authors: Ziang Yan; Zhilin Li; Yinan He; Chenting Wang; Kunchang Li; Xinhao Li; Xiangyu Zeng; Zilei Wang; Yali Wang; Yu Qiao; Limin Wang; Yi Wang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with fine-grained or precise understanding of visuals although they give comprehensive perception and reasoning in a spectrum of vision applications. Recent studies either develop tool-using or unify specific visual tasks into the autoregressive framework, often at the expense of overall multimodal performance. To address this issue and enhance MLLMs with visual tasks in a scalable fashion, we propose Task Preference Optimization (TPO), a novel method that utilizes differentiable task preferences derived from typical fine-grained visual tasks. TPO introduces learnable task tokens that establish connections between multiple task-specific heads and the MLLM. By leveraging rich visual labels during training, TPO significantly enhances the MLLM's multimodal capabilities and task-specific performance. Through multi-task co-training within TPO, we observe synergistic benefits that elevate individual task performance beyond what is achievable through single-task training methodologies. Our instantiation of this approach with VideoChat and LLaVA demonstrates an overall 14.6% improvement in multimodal performance compared to baseline models. Additionally, MLLM-TPO demonstrates robust zero-shot capabilities across various tasks, performing comparably to state-of-the-art supervised models.
Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment for Video Question Grounding
Authors: Weixing Chen; Yang Liu; Binglin Chen; Jiandong Su; Yongsen Zheng; Liang Lin
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Video question grounding (VideoQG) requires models to answer the questions and simultaneously infer the relevant video segments to support the answers. However, existing VideoQG methods usually suffer from spurious cross-modal correlations, leading to a failure to identify the dominant visual scenes that align with the intended question. Moreover, vision-language models exhibit unfaithful generalization performance and lack robustness on challenging downstream tasks such as VideoQG. In this work, we propose a novel VideoQG framework named Cross-modal Causal Relation Alignment (CRA), to eliminate spurious correlations and improve the causal consistency between question-answering and video temporal grounding. Our CRA involves three essential components: i) Gaussian Smoothing Grounding (GSG) module for estimating the time interval via cross-modal attention, which is de-noised by an adaptive Gaussian filter, ii) Cross-Modal Alignment (CMA) enhances the performance of weakly supervised VideoQG by leveraging bidirectional contrastive learning between estimated video segments and QA features, iii) Explicit Causal Intervention (ECI) module for multimodal deconfounding, which involves front-door intervention for vision and back-door intervention for language. Extensive experiments on two VideoQG datasets demonstrate the superiority of our CRA in discovering visually grounded content and achieving robust question reasoning. Codes are available at https://github.com/WissingChen/CRA-GQA.
Words or Vision: Do Vision-Language Models Have Blind Faith in Text?
Authors: Ailin Deng; Tri Cao; Zhirui Chen; Bryan Hooi
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel in integrating visual and textual information for vision-centric tasks, but their handling of inconsistencies between modalities is underexplored. We investigate VLMs' modality preferences when faced with visual data and varied textual inputs in vision-centered settings.By introducing textual variations to four vision-centric tasks and evaluating ten Vision-Language Models (VLMs), we discover a "blind faith in text" phenomenon: VLMs disproportionately trust textual data over visual data when inconsistencies arise, leading to significant performance drops under corrupted text and raising safety concerns.We analyze factors influencing this text bias, including instruction prompts, language model size, text relevance, token order, and the interplay between visual and textual certainty. While certain factors, such as scaling up the language model size, slightly mitigate text bias, others like token order can exacerbate it due to positional biases inherited from language models. To address this issue, we explore supervised fine-tuning with text augmentation and demonstrate its effectiveness in reducing text bias. Additionally, we provide a theoretical analysis suggesting that the blind faith in text phenomenon may stem from an imbalance of pure text and multi-modal data during training.Our findings highlight the need for balanced training and careful consideration of modality interactions in VLMs to enhance their robustness and reliability in handling multi-modal data inconsistencies.
Diffusion Renderer: Neural Inverse and Forward Rendering with Video Diffusion Models
Authors: Ruofan Liang; Zan Gojcic; Huan Ling; Jacob Munkberg; Jon Hasselgren; Chih-Hao Lin; Jun Gao; Alexander Keller; Nandita Vijaykumar; Sanja Fidler; Zian Wang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Understanding and modeling lighting effects are fundamental tasks in computer vision and graphics. Classic physically-based rendering (PBR) accurately simulates the light transport, but relies on precise scene representations--explicit 3D geometry, high-quality material properties, and lighting conditions--that are often impractical to obtain in real-world scenarios. Therefore, we introduce Diffusion Renderer, a neural approach that addresses the dual problem of inverse and forward rendering within a holistic framework. Leveraging powerful video diffusion model priors, the inverse rendering model accurately estimates G-buffers from real-world videos, providing an interface for image editing tasks, and training data for the rendering model. Conversely, our rendering model generates photorealistic images from G-buffers without explicit light transport simulation. Specifically, we first train a video diffusion model for inverse rendering on synthetic data, which generalizes well to real-world videos and allows us to auto-label diverse real-world videos. We then co-train our rendering model using both synthetic and auto-labeled real-world data. Experiments demonstrate that Diffusion Renderer effectively approximates inverse and forwards rendering, consistently outperforming the state-of-the-art. Our model enables practical applications from a single video input--including relighting, material editing, and realistic object insertion.
Harnessing Frequency Spectrum Insights for Image Copyright Protection Against Diffusion Models
Authors: Zhenguang Liu; Chao Shuai; Shaojing Fan; Ziping Dong; Jinwu Hu; Zhongjie Ba; Kui Ren
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion models have achieved remarkable success in novel view synthesis, but their reliance on large, diverse, and often untraceable Web datasets has raised pressing concerns about image copyright protection. Current methods fall short in reliably identifying unauthorized image use, as they struggle to generalize across varied generation tasks and fail when the training dataset includes images from multiple sources with few identifiable (watermarked or poisoned) samples. In this paper, we present novel evidence that diffusion-generated images faithfully preserve the statistical properties of their training data, particularly reflected in their spectral features. Leveraging this insight, we introduce CoprGuard, a robust frequency domain watermarking framework to safeguard against unauthorized image usage in diffusion model training and fine-tuning. CoprGuard demonstrates remarkable effectiveness against a wide range of models, from naive diffusion models to sophisticated text-to-image models, and is robust even when watermarked images comprise a mere 1% of the training dataset. This robust and versatile approach empowers content owners to protect their intellectual property in the era of AI-driven image generation.
Learning to Detect Objects from  Multi-Agent LiDAR Scans without Manual Labels
Authors: Qiming Xia; Wenkai Lin; Haoen Xiang; Xun Huang; Siheng Chen; Zhen Dong; Cheng Wang; Chenglu Wen
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Unsupervised 3D object detection serves as an important solution for offline 3D object annotation. However, due to the data sparsity and limited views, the clustering-based label fitting in unsupervised object detection often generates low-quality pseudo-labels. Multi-agent collaborative dataset, which involves the sharing of complementary observations among agents, holds the potential to break through this bottleneck. In this paper, we introduce a novel unsupervised method that learns to Detect Objects from Multi-Agent LiDAR scans, termed DOtA, without using labels from external. DOtA first uses the internally shared ego-pose and ego-shape of collaborative agents to initialize the detector, leveraging the generalization performance of neural networks to infer preliminary labels. Subsequently, DOtA uses the complementary observations between agents to perform multi-scale encoding on preliminary labels, then decodes high-quality and low-quality labels. These labels are further used as prompts to guide a correct feature learning process, thereby enhancing the performance of the unsupervised object detection task. Extensive experiments on the V2V4Real and OPV2V datasets show that our DOtA outperforms state-of-the-art unsupervised 3D object detection methods. Additionally, we also validate the effectiveness of the DOtA labels under various collaborative perception frameworks. The code is available at https://github.com/xmuqimingxia/DOtA.
DeepLA-Net: Very Deep Local Aggregation Networks for Point Cloud Analysis
Authors: Ziyin Zeng; Mingyue Dong; Jian Zhou; Huan Qiu; Zhen Dong; Man Luo; Bijun Li
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Due to the irregular and disordered data structure in 3D point clouds, prior works have focused on designing more sophisticated local representation methods to capture these complex local patterns. However, the recognition performance has saturated over the past few years, indicating that increasingly complex and redundant designs no longer make improvements to local learning. This phenomenon prompts us to diverge from the trend in 3D vision and instead pursue an alternative and successful solution: deeper neural networks. In this paper, we propose DeepLA-Net, a series of very deep networks for point cloud analysis. The key insight of our approach is to exploit a small but mighty local learning block, which reduces 10xfewer FLOPs, enabling the construction of very deep networks. Furthermore, we design a training supervision strategy to ensure smooth gradient backpropagation and optimization in very deep networks. We construct the DeepLA-Net family with a depth of up to 120 blocks --- at least 5xdeeper than recent methods --- trained on a single RTX 3090. An ensemble of the DeepLA-Net achieves state-of-the-art performance on classification and segmentation tasks of S3DIS Area5 (+2.2% mIoU), ScanNet test set (+1.6% mIoU), ScanObjectNN (+2.1% OA), and ShapeNetPart (+0.9% cls.mIoU).
Multi-Layer Visual Feature Fusion in Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Analysis, and Best Practices
Authors: Junyan Lin; Haoran Chen; Yue Fan; Yingqi Fan; Xin Jin; Hui Su; Jinlan Fu; Xiaoyu Shen
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in recent years, with visual features playing an increasingly critical role in enhancing model performance. However, the integration of multi-layer visual features in MLLMs remains underexplored, particularly with regard to optimal layer selection and fusion strategies. Existing methods often rely on arbitrary design choices, leading to suboptimal outcomes. In this paper, we systematically investigate two core aspects of multi-layer visual feature fusion: (1) selecting the most effective visual layers and (2) identifying the best fusion approach with the language model. Our experiments reveal that while combining visual features from multiple stages improves generalization, incorporating additional features from the same stage typically leads to diminished performance. Furthermore, we find that direct fusion of multi-layer visual features at the input stage consistently yields superior and more stable performance across various configurations.
APHQ-ViT: Post-Training Quantization with Average Perturbation Hessian Based Reconstruction for Vision Transformers
Authors: Zhuguanyu Wu; Jiayi Zhang; Jiaxin Chen; Jinyang Guo; Di Huang; Yunhong Wang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the most commonly used backbones for vision tasks. Despite their remarkable performance, they often suffer significant accuracy drop when quantized for practical deployment, particularly by post-training quantization (PTQ) under ultra-low bits. Recently, reconstruction-based PTQ methods have shown promising performance in quantizing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, they fail when applied to ViTs, primarily due to the inaccurate estimation of output importance and the substantial accuracy degradation in quantizing post-GELU activations. To address these issues, we propose APHQ-ViT, a novel PTQ approach based on importance estimation with Average Perturbation Hessian (APH). Specifically, we first thoroughly analyze the current approximation approaches with Hessian loss, and propose an improved average perturbation Hessian loss. To deal with the quantization of the post-GELU activations, we design an MLP-Reconstruction (MR) method by replacing the GELU function in MLP with ReLU and reconstructing it by the APH loss on a small unlabeled calibration set. Extensive experiments demonstrate that APHQ-ViT using linear quantizers outperforms existing PTQ methods by substantial margins in 3-bit and 4-bit across different vision tasks. The source code is available at https://github.com/GoatWu/APHQ-ViT.