GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
AutoLUT: LUT-Based Image Super-Resolution with Automatic Sampling and Adaptive Residual Learning
Authors: Yuheng Xu; Shijie Yang; Xin Liu; Jie Liu; Jie Tang; Gangshan Wu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: In recent years, the increasing popularity of Hi-DPI screens has driven a rising demand for high-resolution images. However, the limited computational power of edge devices poses a challenge in deploying complex super-resolution neural networks, highlighting the need for efficient methods. While prior works have made significant progress, they have not fully exploited pixel-level information. Moreover, their reliance on fixed sampling patterns limits both accuracy and the ability to capture fine details in low-resolution images. To address these challenges, we introduce two plug-and-play modules designed to capture and leverage pixel information effectively in Look-Up Table (LUT) based super-resolution networks. Our method introduces Automatic Sampling (AutoSample), a flexible LUT sampling approach where sampling weights are dynamically learned during training to adapt to pixel variations and expand the receptive field without added inference cost. We also incorporate Adaptive Residual Learning (AdaRL) to enhance inter-layer connections, enabling detailed information flow and improving the network's ability to reconstruct fine details. Our method achieves significant performance improvements on both MuLUT and SPF-LUT while maintaining similar storage sizes. Specifically, for MuLUT, we achieve a PSNR improvement of approximately +0.20 dB improvement on average across five datasets . For SPF-LUT, with more than a 50% reduction in storage space and about a 2/3 reduction in inference time, our method still maintains performance comparable to the original.
Understanding Fine-tuning CLIP for Open-vocabulary Semantic Segmentation in Hyperbolic Space
Authors: Zelin Peng; Zhengqin Xu; Zhilin Zeng; Changsong Wen; Yu Huang; Menglin Yang; Feilong Tang; Wei Shen
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: CLIP, a foundational vision-language model, has emerged as a powerful tool for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. While freezing the text encoder preserves its powerful embeddings, recent studies show that fine-tuning both the text and image encoders jointly significantly enhances segmentation performance, especially for classes from open sets. In this work, we explain this phenomenon from the perspective of hierarchical alignment, since during fine-tuning, the hierarchy level of image embeddings shifts from image-level to pixel-level. We achieve this by leveraging hyperbolic space, which naturally encoders hierarchical structures. Our key observation is that, during fine-tuning, the hyperbolic radius of CLIP's text embeddings decreases, facilitating better alignment with the pixel-level hierarchical structure of visual data. Building on this insight, we propose HyperCLIP, a novel fine-tuning strategy that adjusts the hyperbolic radius of the text embeddings through scaling transformations. By doing so, HyperCLIP equips CLIP with segmentation capability while introducing only a small number of learnable parameters. Our experiments demonstrate that HyperCLIP achieves state-of-the-art performance on open-vocabulary semantic segmentation tasks across three benchmarks, while fine-tuning only approximately 4% of the total parameters of CLIP. More importantly, we observe that after adjustment, CLIP's text embeddings exhibit a relatively fixed hyperbolic radius across datasets, suggesting that the segmentation task has a characteristic level in hyperbolic space.
TexGaussian: Generating High-quality PBR Material via Octree-based 3D Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Bojun Xiong; Jialun Liu; Jiakui Hu; Chenming Wu; Jinbo Wu; Xing Liu; Chen Zhao; Errui Ding; Zhouhui Lian
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Physically Based Rendering (PBR) materials play a crucial role in modern graphics, enabling photorealistic rendering across diverse environment maps. Developing an effective and efficient algorithm that is capable of automatically generating high-quality PBR materials rather than RGB texture for 3D meshes can significantly streamline the 3D content creation. Most existing methods leverage pre-trained 2D diffusion models for multi-view image synthesis, which often leads to severe inconsistency between the generated textures and input 3D meshes. This paper presents TexGaussian, a novel method that uses octant-aligned 3D Gaussian Splatting for rapid PBR material generation. Specifically, we place each 3D Gaussian on the finest leaf node of the octree built from the input 3D mesh to render the multi-view images not only for the albedo map but also for roughness and metallic. Moreover, our model is trained in a regression manner instead of diffusion denoising, capable of generating the PBR material for a 3D mesh in a single feed-forward process. Extensive experiments on publicly available benchmarks demonstrate that our method synthesizes more visually pleasing PBR materials and runs faster than previous methods in both unconditional and text-conditional scenarios, exhibiting better consistency with the given geometry. Our code and trained models are available at https://3d-aigc.github.io/TexGaussian.
OSV: One Step is Enough for High-Quality Image to Video Generation
Authors: Xiaofeng Mao; Zhengkai Jiang; Fu-yun Wang; Jiangning Zhang; Hao Chen; Mingmin Chi; Yabiao Wang; Wenhan Luo
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Video diffusion models have shown great potential in generating high-quality videos, making them an increasingly popular focus. However, their inherent iterative nature leads to substantial computational and time costs. Although techniques such as consistency distillation and adversarial training have been employed to accelerate video diffusion by reducing inference steps, these methods often simply transfer the generation approaches from Image diffusion models to video diffusion models. As a result, these methods frequently fall short in terms of both performance and training stability. In this work, we introduce a two-stage training framework that effectively combines consistency distillation with adversarial training to address these challenges. Additionally, we propose a novel video discriminator design, which eliminates the need for decoding the video latents and improves the final performance. Our model is capable of producing high-quality videos in merely one-step, with the flexibility to perform multi-step refinement for further performance enhancement. Our quantitative evaluation on the OpenVid-1M benchmark shows that our model significantly outperforms existing methods. Notably, our 1-step performance (FVD 171.15) exceeds the 8-step performance of the  consistency distillation based method, AnimateLCM (FVD 184.79), and approaches the 25-step performance of advanced Stable Video Diffusion (FVD 156.94).
Fuzzy Multimodal Learning for Trusted Cross-modal Retrieval
Authors: Siyuan Duan; Yuan Sun; Dezhong Peng; Zheng Liu; Xiaomin Song; Peng Hu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Cross-modal retrieval aims to match related samples across distinct modalities, facilitating the retrieval and discovery of heterogeneous information. Although existing methods show promising performance, most are deterministic models and are unable to capture the uncertainty inherent in the retrieval outputs, leading to potentially unreliable results. To address this issue, we propose a novel framework called FUzzy Multimodal lEarning (FUME), which is able to self-estimate epistemic uncertainty, thereby embracing trusted cross-modal retrieval. Specifically, our FUME leverages the Fuzzy Set Theory to view the outputs of the classification network as a set of membership degrees and quantify category credibility by incorporating both possibility and necessity measures. However, directly optimizing the category credibility could mislead the model by over-optimizing the necessity for unmatched categories. To overcome this challenge, we present a novel fuzzy multimodal learning strategy, which utilizes label information to guide necessity optimization in the right direction, thereby indirectly optimizing category credibility and achieving accurate decision uncertainty quantification. Furthermore, we design an uncertainty merging scheme that accounts for decision uncertainties, thus further refining uncertainty estimates and boosting the trustworthiness of retrieval results. Extensive experiments on five benchmark datasets demonstrate that FUME remarkably improves both retrieval performance and reliability, offering a prospective solution for cross-modal retrieval in high-stakes applications. Code is available at https://github.com/siyuancncd/FUME .
AniGS: Animatable Gaussian Avatar from a Single Image with Inconsistent Gaussian Reconstruction
Authors: Lingteng Qiu; Shenhao Zhu; Qi Zuo; Xiaodong Gu; Yuan Dong; Junfei Zhang; Chao Xu; Zhe Li; Weihao Yuan; Liefeng Bo; Guanying Chen; Zilong Dong
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Generating animatable human avatars from a single image is essential for various digital human modeling applications. Existing 3D reconstruction methods often struggle to capture fine details in animatable models, while generative approaches for controllable animation, though avoiding explicit 3D modeling, suffer from viewpoint inconsistencies in extreme poses and computational inefficiencies. In this paper, we address these challenges by leveraging the power of generative models to produce detailed multi-view canonical pose images, which help resolve ambiguities in animatable human reconstruction. We then propose a robust method for 3D reconstruction of inconsistent images, enabling real-time rendering during inference. Specifically, we adapt a transformer-based Text-to-Video model to generate multi-view canonical pose images and normal maps, pretraining on a large-scale monocular video dataset to improve generalization. To handle view inconsistencies, we recast the reconstruction problem as a 4D task and introduce an efficient 3D modeling approach using 4D Gaussian Splatting. Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves photorealistic, real-time animation of 3D human avatars from in-the-wild images, showcasing its effectiveness and generalization capability.
GUI-Xplore: Empowering Generalizable GUI Agents with One Exploration
Authors: Yuchen Sun; Shanhui Zhao; Tao Yu; Hao Wen; Samith Va; Mengwei Xu; Yuanchun Li; Chongyang Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: GUI agents hold significant potential to enhance the experience and efficiency of human-device interaction. However, current methods face challenges in generalizing across applications (apps) and tasks, primarily due to two fundamental limitations in existing datasets. First, these datasets overlook developer-induced structural variations among apps, limiting the transferability of knowledge across diverse software environments. Second, many of them focus solely on navigation tasks, which restricts their capacity to represent comprehensive software architectures and complex user interactions.  To address these challenges, we introduce GUI-Xplore, a dataset meticulously designed to enhance cross-application and cross-task generalization via an exploration-and-reasoning framework. GUI-Xplore integrates pre-recorded exploration videos providing contextual insights, alongside five hierarchically structured downstream tasks designed to comprehensively evaluate GUI agent capabilities. To fully exploit GUI-Xplore's unique features, we propose Xplore-Agent, a GUI agent framework that combines Action-aware GUI Modeling with Graph-Guided Environment Reasoning. Further experiments indicate that Xplore-Agent achieves a 10% improvement over existing methods in unfamiliar environments, yet there remains significant potential for further enhancement towards truly generalizable GUI agents.
Few-Shot Recognition via Stage-Wise Retrieval-Augmented Finetuning
Authors: Tian Liu; Huixin Zhang; Shubham Parashar; Shu Kong
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Few-shot recognition (FSR) aims to train a classification model with only a few labeled examples of each concept concerned by a downstream task, where data annotation cost can be prohibitively high. We develop methods to solve FSR by leveraging a pretrained Vision-Language Model (VLM). We particularly explore retrieval-augmented learning (RAL), which retrieves open data, e.g., the VLM's pretraining dataset, to learn models for better serving downstream tasks. RAL has been studied in zero-shot recognition but remains under-explored in FSR. Although applying RAL to FSR may seem straightforward, we observe interesting and novel challenges and opportunities. First, somewhat surprisingly, finetuning a VLM on a large amount of retrieved data underperforms state-of-the-art zero-shot methods. This is due to the imbalanced distribution of retrieved data and its domain gaps with the few-shot examples in the downstream task. Second, more surprisingly, we find that simply finetuning a VLM solely on few-shot examples significantly outperforms previous FSR methods, and finetuning on the mix of retrieved and few-shot data yields even better results. Third, to mitigate the imbalanced distribution and domain gap issues, we propose Stage-Wise retrieval-Augmented fineTuning (SWAT), which involves end-to-end finetuning on mixed data in the first stage and retraining the classifier on the few-shot data in the second stage. Extensive experiments on nine popular benchmarks demonstrate that SWAT significantly outperforms previous methods by >6% accuracy.
Concept Replacer: Replacing Sensitive Concepts in Diffusion Models via Precision Localization
Authors: Lingyun Zhang; Yu Xie; Yanwei Fu; Ping Chen
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: As large-scale diffusion models continue to advance, they excel at producing high-quality images but often generate unwanted content, such as sexually explicit or violent content. Existing methods for concept removal generally guide the image generation process but can unintentionally modify unrelated regions, leading to inconsistencies with the original model. We propose a novel approach for targeted concept replacing in diffusion models, enabling specific concepts to be removed without affecting non-target areas. Our method introduces a dedicated concept localizer for precisely identifying the target concept during the denoising process, trained with few-shot learning to require minimal labeled data. Within the identified region, we introduce a training-free Dual Prompts Cross-Attention (DPCA) module to substitute the target concept, ensuring minimal disruption to surrounding content. We evaluate our method on concept localization precision and replacement efficiency. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves superior precision in localizing target concepts and performs coherent concept replacement with minimal impact on non-target areas, outperforming existing approaches.
A Regularization-Guided Equivariant Approach for Image Restoration
Authors: Yulu Bai; Jiahong Fu; Qi Xie; Deyu Meng
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Equivariant and invariant deep learning models have been developed to exploit intrinsic symmetries in data, demonstrating significant effectiveness in certain scenarios. However, these methods often suffer from limited representation accuracy and rely on strict symmetry assumptions that may not hold in practice. These limitations pose a significant drawback for image restoration tasks, which demands high accuracy and precise symmetry representation. To address these challenges, we propose a rotation-equivariant regularization strategy that adaptively enforces the appropriate symmetry constraints on the data while preserving the network's representational accuracy. Specifically, we introduce EQ-Reg, a regularizer designed to enhance rotation equivariance, which  innovatively extends the insights of data-augmentation-based and equivariant-based methodologies. This is achieved through self-supervised learning and the spatial rotation and cyclic channel shift of feature maps deduce in the equivariant framework. Our approach firstly enables a non-strictly equivariant network suitable for image restoration, providing a simple and adaptive mechanism for adjusting equivariance based on task. Extensive experiments across three low-level tasks demonstrate the superior accuracy and generalization capability of our method, outperforming state-of-the-art approaches.
RestorGS: Depth-aware Gaussian Splatting for Efficient 3D Scene Restoration
Authors: Yuanjian Qiao; Mingwen Shao; Lingzhuang Meng; Kai Xu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently achieved remarkable progress in novel view synthesis. However, existing methods rely heavily on high-quality data for rendering and struggle to handle degraded scenes with multi-view inconsistency, leading to inferior rendering quality. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Depth-aware Gaussian Splatting for efficient 3D scene Restoration, called RestorGS, which flexibly restores multiple degraded scenes using a unified framework. Specifically, RestorGS consists of two core designs: Appearance Decoupling and Depth-Guided Modeling. The former exploits appearance learning over spherical harmonics to decouple clear and degraded Gaussian, thus separating the clear views from the degraded ones.  Collaboratively, the latter leverages the depth information to guide the degradation modeling, thereby facilitating the decoupling process. Benefiting from the above optimization strategy, our method achieves high-quality restoration while enabling real-time rendering speed.  Extensive experiments show that our RestorGS outperforms existing methods significantly in underwater, nighttime, and hazy scenes.
IM-Portrait: Learning 3D-aware Video Diffusion for Photorealistic Talking Heads from Monocular VideosC
Authors: Yuan Li; Ziqian Bai; Feitong Tan; Zhaopeng Cui; Sean Fanello; Yinda Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: We propose a novel 3D-aware diffusion-based method for generating photorealistic talking head videos directly from a single identity image and explicit control signals (e.g., expressions). Our method generates Multiplane Images (MPIs) that ensure geometric consistency, making them ideal for immersive viewing experiences like binocular videos for VR headsets.Unlike existing methods that often require a separate stage or joint optimization to reconstruct a 3D representation (such as NeRF or 3D Gaussians), our approach directly generates the final output through a single denoising process, eliminating the need for post-processing steps to render novel views efficiently.To effectively learn from monocular videos, we introduce a training mechanism that reconstructs the output MPI randomly in either the target or the reference camera space. This approach enables the model to simultaneously learn sharp image details and underlying 3D information.Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, which achieves competitive avatar quality and novel-view rendering capabilities, even without explicit 3D reconstruction or high-quality multi-view training data.
Deep Fair Multi-View Clustering with Attention KAN
Authors: HaiMing Xu; Qianqian Wang; Boyue Wang; Quanxue Gao
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Multi-view clustering is effective in unsupervised multi-view data analysis and has received considerable attention. However, most existing methods excessively emphasize certain attributes, resulting in unfair clustering outcomes, i.e., certain sensitive attributes dominate the clustering results. Moreover, existing methods struggle to effectively capture complex nonlinear relationships and interactions across views, limiting their ability to achieve optimal clustering performance. Therefore, in this work, we propose a novel method, Deep Fair Multi-View Clustering with Attention Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (DFMVC-AKAN), to generate fair clustering results while maintaining robust performance. DFMVC-AKAN integrates attention mechanisms into Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KAN) to exploit the complex nonlinear inter-view relationships. Specifically, KAN provides a nonlinear feature representation capable of efficiently approximating arbitrary multivariate continuous functions, augmented by a hybrid attention mechanism which enables the model to dynamically focus on the most relevant features. Finally, we refine the clustering assignments with a distribution alignment module to ensure fair outcomes across diverse groups while maintaining discriminative ability. Experimental results on four datasets containing sensitive attributes demonstrate that DFMVC-AKAN significantly improves fairness and clustering performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.
LineArt: A Knowledge-guided Training-free High-quality Appearance Transfer for Design Drawing with Diffusion Model
Authors: Xi Wang; Hongzhen Li; Heng Fang; Yichen Peng; Haoran Xie; Xi Yang; Chuntao Li
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Image rendering from line drawings is vital in design and image generation technologies reduce costs, yet professional line drawings demand preserving complex details. Text prompts struggle with accuracy, and image translation struggles with consistency and fine-grained control. We present LineArt, a framework that transfers complex appearance onto detailed design drawings, facilitating design and artistic creation. It generates high-fidelity appearance while preserving structural accuracy by simulating hierarchical visual cognition and integrating human artistic experience to guide the diffusion process. LineArt overcomes the limitations of current methods in terms of difficulty in fine-grained control and style degradation in design drawings. It requires no precise 3D modeling, physical property specifications, or network training, making it more convenient for design tasks. LineArt consists of two stages: a multi-frequency lines fusion module to supplement the input design drawing with detailed structural information and a two-part painting process for Base Layer Shaping and Surface Layer Coloring. We also present a new design drawing dataset, ProLines, for evaluation. The experiments show that LineArt performs better in accuracy, realism, and material precision compared to SOTAs.
4Real-Video: Learning Generalizable Photo-Realistic 4D Video Diffusion
Authors: Chaoyang Wang; Peiye Zhuang; Tuan Duc Ngo; Willi Menapace; Aliaksandr Siarohin; Michael Vasilkovsky; Ivan Skorokhodov; Sergey Tulyakov; Peter Wonka; Hsin-Ying Lee
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: We propose 4Real-Video, a novel framework for generating 4D videos, organized as a grid of video frames with both time and viewpoint axes.  In this grid, each row contains frames sharing the same timestep, while each column contains frames from the same viewpoint. One stream performs viewpoint updates on columns, and the other stream performs temporal updates on rows. After each diffusion transformer layer, a newly designed synchronization layer exchanges information between the two token streams. We propose two implementations of the synchronization layer, using either hard or soft synchronization.This feedforward architecture improves upon previous work in three ways: higher inference speed, enhanced visual quality (measured by FVD, CLIP, and VideoScore), and improved temporal and viewpoint consistency (measured by VideoScore, GIM-Confidence, and Dust3R-Confidence).