GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Reconciling Object-Level and Global-Level Objectives for Long-Tail Detection
Authors: Shaoyu Zhang; Chen Chen; Silong Peng
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Large vocabulary object detectors are often faced with the long-tailed label distributions, seriously degrading their ability to detect rarely seen categories. On one hand, the rare objects are prone to be misclassified as frequent categories. On the other hand, due to the limitation on the total number of detections per image, detectors usually rank all the confidence scores globally and filter out the lower-ranking ones. This may result in missed detection during inference, especially for the rare categories that naturally come with lower scores. Existing methods mainly focus on the former problem and design various classification loss to enhance the object-level classification accuracy, but largely overlook the global-level ranking task. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that Reconciles Object-level and Global-level (ROG) objectives to address both problems. As a multi-task learning framework, ROG simultaneously trains the model with two tasks: classifying each object proposal individually and ranking all the confidence scores globally. Specifically, complementary to the object-level classification loss for model discrimination, we design a generalized average precision (GAP) loss to explicitly optimize the global-level score ranking across different objects. For each category, GAP loss generates balanced gradients to rectify the ranking errors. In experiments, we show that GAP loss is highly versatile to be plugged into various advanced methods and brings considerable benefits.
In-Style: Bridging Text and Uncurated Videos with Style Transfer for Text-Video Retrieval
Authors: Nina Shvetsova; Anna Kukleva; Bernt Schiele; Hilde Kuehne
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Large-scale noisy web image-text datasets have been proven to be efficient for learning robust vision-language models. However, to transfer them to the task of video retrieval, models still need to be fine-tuned on hand-curated paired text-video data to adapt to the diverse styles of video descriptions. To address this problem without the need for hand-annotated pairs, we propose a new setting, text-video retrieval with uncurated & unpaired data, that uses only text queries together with uncurated web videos during training without any paired text-video data. To this end, we propose an approach, In-Style, that learns the style of the text queries and transfers it to uncurated web videos. Moreover, to improve generalization, we show that one model can be trained with multiple text styles. To this end, we introduce a multi-style contrastive training procedure, that improves the generalizability over several datasets simultaneously. We evaluate our model on retrieval performance over multiple datasets to demonstrate the advantages of our style transfer framework on the new task of uncurated & unpaired text-video retrieval and improve state-of-the-art performance on zero-shot text-video retrieval.
MIMO-NeRF: Fast Neural Rendering with Multi-input Multi-output Neural Radiance Fields
Authors: Takuhiro Kaneko
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Neural radiance fields (NeRFs) have shown impressive results for novel view synthesis. However, they depend on the repetitive use of a single-input single-output multilayer perceptron (SISO MLP) that maps 3D coordinates and view direction to the color and volume density in a sample-wise manner, which slows the rendering. We propose a multi-input multi-output NeRF (MIMO-NeRF) that reduces the number of MLPs running by replacing the SISO MLP with a MIMO MLP and conducting mappings in a group-wise manner. One notable challenge with this approach is that the color and volume density of each point can differ according to a choice of input coordinates in a group, which can lead to some notable ambiguity. We also propose a self-supervised learning method that regularizes the MIMO MLP with multiple fast reformulated MLPs to alleviate this ambiguity without using pretrained models. The results of a comprehensive experimental evaluation including comparative and ablation studies are presented to show that MIMO-NeRF obtains a good trade-off between speed and quality with a reasonable training time. We then demonstrate that MIMO-NeRF is compatible with and complementary to previous advancements in NeRFs by applying it to two representative fast NeRFs, i.e., a NeRF with a sampling network (DONeRF) and a NeRF with alternative representations (TensoRF).
Instance Neural Radiance Field
Authors: Yichen Liu; Benran Hu; Junkai Huang; Yu-Wing Tai; Chi-Keung Tang
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: This paper presents one of the first learning-based NeRF 3D instance segmentation pipelines, dubbed as Instance Neural Radiance Field, or Instance-NeRF. Taking a NeRF pretrained from multi-view RGB images as input, Instance-NeRF can learn 3D instance segmentation of a given scene, represented as an instance field component of the NeRF model. To this end, we adopt a 3D proposal-based mask prediction network on the sampled volumetric features from NeRF, which generates discrete 3D instance masks. The coarse 3D mask prediction is then projected to image space to match 2D segmentation masks from different views generated by existing panoptic segmentation models, which are used to supervise the training of the instance field. Notably, beyond generating consistent 2D segmentation maps from novel views, Instance-NeRF can query instance information at any 3D point, which greatly enhances NeRF object segmentation and manipulation. Our method is also one of the first to achieve such results in pure inference. Experimented on synthetic and real-world NeRF datasets with complex indoor scenes, Instance-NeRF surpasses previous NeRF segmentation works and competitive 2D segmentation methods in segmentation performance on unseen views. Code and data are available at https://github.com/lyclyc52/Instance_NeRF.
One-bit Flip is All You Need: When Bit-flip Attack Meets Model Training
Authors: Jianshuo Dong; Han Qiu; Yiming Li; Tianwei Zhang; Yuanjie Li; Zeqi Lai; Chao Zhang; Shu-Tao Xia
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Deep neural networks (DNNs) are widely deployed on real-world devices. Concerns regarding their security have gained great attention from researchers. Recently, a new weight modification attack called bit flip attack (BFA) was proposed, which exploits memory fault inject techniques such as row hammer to attack quantized models in the deployment stage. With only a few bit flips, the target model can be rendered useless as a random guesser or even be implanted with malicious functionalities. In this work, we seek to further reduce the number of bit flips. We propose a training-assisted bit flip attack, in which the adversary is involved in the training stage to build a high-risk model to release. This high-risk model, obtained coupled with a corresponding malicious model, behaves normally and can escape various detection methods. The results on benchmark datasets show that an adversary can easily convert this high-risk but normal model to a malicious one on victim's side by flipping only one critical bit on average in the deployment stage. Moreover, our attack still poses a significant threat even when defenses are employed. The codes for reproducing main experiments are available at https://github.com/jianshuod/TBA.
CLIPTER: Looking at the Bigger Picture in Scene Text Recognition
Authors: Aviad Aberdam; David Bensaid; Alona Golts; Roy Ganz; Oren Nuriel; Royee Tichauer; Shai Mazor; Ron Litman
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Reading text in real-world scenarios often requires understanding the context surrounding it, especially when dealing with poor-quality text. However, current scene text recognizers are unaware of the bigger picture as they operate on cropped text images. In this study, we harness the representative capabilities of modern vision-language models, such as CLIP, to provide scene-level information to the crop-based recognizer. We achieve this by fusing a rich representation of the entire image, obtained from the vision-language model, with the recognizer word-level features via a gated cross-attention mechanism. This component gradually shifts to the context-enhanced representation, allowing for stable fine-tuning of a pretrained recognizer. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our model-agnostic framework, CLIPTER (CLIP TExt Recognition), on leading text recognition architectures and achieve state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks. Furthermore, our analysis highlights improved robustness to out-of-vocabulary words and enhanced generalization in low-data regimes.
Revisiting Scene Text Recognition: A Data Perspective
Authors: Qing Jiang; Jiapeng Wang; Dezhi Peng; Chongyu Liu; Lianwen Jin
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: This paper aims to re-assess scene text recognition (STR) from a data-oriented perspective. We begin by revisiting the six commonly used benchmarks in STR and observe a trend of performance saturation, whereby only 2.91% of the benchmark images cannot be accurately recognized by an ensemble of 13 representative models. While these results are impressive and suggest that STR could be considered solved, however, we argue that this is primarily due to the less challenging nature of the common benchmarks, thus concealing the underlying issues that STR faces. To this end, we consolidate a large-scale real STR dataset, namely Union14M, which comprises 4 million labeled images and 10 million unlabeled images, to assess the performance of STR models in more complex real-world scenarios. Our experiments demonstrate that the 13 models can only achieve an average accuracy of 66.53% on the 4 million labeled images, indicating that STR still faces numerous challenges in the real world. By analyzing the error patterns of the 13 models, we identify seven open challenges in STR and develop a challenge-driven benchmark consisting of eight distinct subsets to facilitate further progress in the field. Our exploration demonstrates that STR is far from being solved and leveraging data may be a promising solution. In this regard, we find that utilizing the 10 million unlabeled images through self-supervised pre-training can significantly improve the robustness of STR model in real-world scenarios and leads to state-of-the-art performance. Code and dataset is available at https: //github.com/Mountchicken/Union14M .
Improving CLIP Fine-tuning Performance
Authors: Yixuan Wei; Han Hu; Zhenda Xie; Ze Liu; Zheng Zhang; Yue Cao; Jianmin Bao; Dong Chen; Baining Guo
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: CLIP models have demonstrated impressively high zero-shot recognition accuracy, however, their fine-tuning performance on downstream vision tasks is sub-optimal. Contrarily, masked image modeling (MIM) performs exceptionally for fine-tuning on downstream tasks, despite the absence of semantic labels during training. We note that the two tasks have different ingredients: image-level targets versus token-level targets, a cross-entropy loss versus a regression loss, and full-image inputs versus partial-image inputs. To mitigate the differences, we introduce a classical feature map distillation framework, which can simultaneously inherit the semantic capability of CLIP models while constructing a task incorporated key ingredients of MIM. Experiments suggest that the feature map distillation approach significantly boosts the fine-tuning performance of CLIP models on several typical downstream vision tasks. We also observe that the approach yields new CLIP representations which share some diagnostic properties with those of MIM. Furthermore, the feature map distillation approach generalizes to other pre-training models, such as DINO, DeiT and SwinV2-G, reaching a new record of 64.2 mAP on COCO object detection with +1.1 improvement. The code and mod- els are publicly available at https://github.com/ SwinTransformer/Feature-Distillation.
The Power of Sound (TPoS): Audio Reactive Video Generation with Stable Diffusion
Authors: Yujin Jeong; Wonjeong Ryoo; Seunghyun Lee; Dabin Seo; Wonmin Byeon; Sangpil Kim; Jinkyu Kim
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: In recent years, video generation has become a prominent generative tool and has drawn significant attention. However, there is little consideration in audio-to-video generation, though audio contains unique qualities like temporal semantics and magnitude. Hence, we propose The Power of Sound (TPoS) model to incorporate audio input that includes both changeable temporal semantics and magnitude. To generate video frames, TPoS utilizes a latent stable diffusion model with textual semantic information, which is then guided by the sequential audio embedding from our pretrained Audio Encoder. As a result, this method produces audio reactive video contents. We demonstrate the effectiveness of TPoS across various tasks and compare its results with current state-of-the-art techniques in the field of audio-to-video generation. More examples are available at https://ku-vai.github.io/TPoS/
SOCS: Semantically-Aware Object Coordinate Space for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation under Large Shape Variations
Authors: Boyan Wan; Yifei Shi; Kai Xu
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Most learning-based approaches to category-level 6D pose estimation are design around normalized object coordinate space (NOCS). While being successful, NOCS-based methods become inaccurate and less robust when handling objects of a category containing significant intra-category shape variations. This is because the object coordinates induced by global and rigid alignment of objects are semantically incoherent, making the coordinate regression hard to learn and generalize. We propose Semantically-aware Object Coordinate Space (SOCS) built by warping-and-aligning the objects guided by a sparse set of keypoints with semantically meaningful correspondence. SOCS is semantically coherent: Any point on the surface of a object can be mapped to a semantically meaningful location in SOCS, allowing for accurate pose and size estimation under large shape variations. To learn effective coordinate regression to SOCS, we propose a novel multi-scale coordinate-based attention network. Evaluations demonstrate that our method is easy to train, well-generalizing for large intra-category shape variations and robust to inter-object occlusions.
NeRF-LOAM: Neural Implicit Representation for Large-Scale Incremental LiDAR Odometry and Mapping
Authors: Junyuan Deng; Qi Wu; Xieyuanli Chen; Songpengcheng Xia; Zhen Sun; Guoqing Liu; Wenxian Yu; Ling Pei
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Simultaneously odometry and mapping using LiDAR data is an important task for mobile systems to achieve full autonomy in large-scale environments. However, most existing LiDAR-based methods prioritize tracking quality over reconstruction quality. Although the recently developed neural radiance fields (NeRF) have shown promising advances in implicit reconstruction for indoor environments, the problem of simultaneous odometry and mapping for large-scale scenarios using incremental LiDAR data remains unexplored. To bridge this gap, in this paper, we propose a novel NeRF-based LiDAR odometry and mapping approach, NeRF-LOAM, consisting of three modules neural odometry, neural mapping, and mesh reconstruction. All these modules utilize our proposed neural signed distance function, which separates LiDAR points into ground and non-ground points to reduce Z-axis drift, optimizes odometry and voxel embeddings concurrently, and in the end generates dense smooth mesh maps of the environment. Moreover, this joint optimization allows our NeRF-LOAM to be pre-trained free and exhibit strong generalization abilities when applied to different environments. Extensive evaluations on three publicly available datasets demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art odometry and mapping performance, as well as a strong generalization in large-scale environments utilizing LiDAR data. Furthermore, we perform multiple ablation studies to validate the effectiveness of our network design. The implementation of our approach will be made available at https://github.com/JunyuanDeng/NeRF-LOAM.
DINAR: Diffusion Inpainting of Neural Textures for One-Shot Human Avatars
Authors: David Svitov; Dmitrii Gudkov; Renat Bashirov; Victor Lempitsky
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: We present DINAR, an approach for creating realistic rigged fullbody avatars from single RGB images. Similarly to previous works, our method uses neural textures combined with the SMPL-X body model to achieve photo-realistic quality of avatars while keeping them easy to animate and fast to infer. To restore the texture, we use a latent diffusion model and show how such model can be trained in the neural texture space. The use of the diffusion model allows us to realistically reconstruct large unseen regions such as the back of a person given the frontal view. The models in our pipeline are trained using 2D images and videos only. In the experiments, our approach achieves state-of-the-art rendering quality and good generalization to new poses and viewpoints. In particular, the approach improves state-of-the-art on the SnapshotPeople public benchmark.
DPM-OT: A New Diffusion Probabilistic Model Based on Optimal Transport
Authors: Zezeng Li; Shenghao Li; Zhanpeng Wang; Na Lei; Zhongxuan Luo; David Xianfeng Gu
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Sampling from diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) can be viewed as a piecewise distribution transformation, which generally requires hundreds or thousands of steps of the inverse diffusion trajectory to get a high-quality image. Recent progress in designing fast samplers for DPMs achieves a trade-off between sampling speed and sample quality by knowledge distillation or adjusting the variance schedule or the denoising equation. However, it can't be optimal in both aspects and often suffer from mode mixture in short steps. To tackle this problem, we innovatively regard inverse diffusion as an optimal transport (OT) problem between latents at different stages and propose DPM-OT, a unified learning framework for fast DPMs with the direct expressway represented by OT map, which can generate high-quality samples within around 10 function evaluations. By calculating the semi-discrete optimal transport between the data latents and the white noise, we obtain the expressway from the prior distribution to the data distribution, while significantly alleviating the problem of mode mixture. In addition, we give the error bound of the proposed method, which theoretically guarantees the stability of the algorithm. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness and advantages of DPM-OT in terms of speed and quality (FID and mode mixture), thus representing an efficient solution for generative modeling. Source codes are available at https://github.com/cognaclee/DPM-OT
ElasticViT: Conflict-aware Supernet Training for Deploying Fast Vision Transformer on Diverse Mobile Devices
Authors: Chen Tang; Li Lyna Zhang; Huiqiang Jiang; Jiahang Xu; Ting Cao; Quanlu Zhang; Yuqing Yang; Zhi Wang; Mao Yang
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown promising performance in the automatic design of vision transformers (ViT) exceeding 1G FLOPs. However, designing lightweight and low-latency ViT models for diverse mobile devices remains a big challenge. In this work, we propose ElasticViT, a two-stage NAS approach that trains a high-quality ViT supernet over a very large search space for covering a wide range of mobile devices, and then searches an optimal sub-network (subnet) for direct deployment. However, current supernet training methods that rely on uniform sampling suffer from the gradient conflict issue: the sampled subnets can have vastly different model sizes (e.g., 50M vs. 2G FLOPs), leading to different optimization directions and inferior performance. To address this challenge, we propose two novel sampling techniques: complexity-aware sampling and performance-aware sampling. Complexity-aware sampling limits the FLOPs difference among the subnets sampled across adjacent training steps, while covering different-sized subnets in the search space. Performance-aware sampling further selects subnets that have good accuracy, which can reduce gradient conflicts and improve supernet quality. Our discovered models, ElasticViT models, achieve top-1 accuracy from 67.2% to 80.0% on ImageNet from 60M to 800M FLOPs without extra retraining, outperforming all prior CNNs and ViTs in terms of accuracy and latency. Our tiny and small models are also the first ViT models that surpass state-of-the-art CNNs with significantly lower latency on mobile devices. For instance, ElasticViT-S1 runs 2.62x faster than EfficientNet-B0 with 0.1% higher accuracy.
OmniLabel: A Challenging Benchmark for Language-Based Object Detection
Authors: Samuel Schulter; Vijay Kumar B G; Yumin Suh; Konstantinos M. Dafnis; Zhixing Zhang; Shiyu Zhao; Dimitris Metaxas
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Language-based object detection is a promising direction towards building a natural interface to describe objects in images that goes far beyond plain category names. While recent methods show great progress in that direction, proper evaluation is lacking. With OmniLabel, we propose a novel task definition, dataset, and evaluation metric. The task subsumes standard and open-vocabulary detection as well as referring expressions. With more than 30K unique object descriptions on over 25K images, OmniLabel provides a challenge benchmark with diverse and complex object descriptions in a naturally open-vocabulary setting. Moreover, a key differentiation to existing benchmarks is that our object descriptions can refer to one, multiple or even no object, hence, providing negative examples in free-form text. The proposed evaluation handles the large label space and judges performance via a modified average precision metric, which we validate by evaluating strong language-based baselines. OmniLabel indeed provides a challenging test bed for future research on language-based detection.
Noise-Aware Learning from Web-Crawled Image-Text Data for Image Captioning
Authors: Wooyoung Kang; Jonghwan Mun; Sungjun Lee; Byungseok Roh
Venue: ICCV 2023 (main)

Abstract: Image captioning is one of the straightforward tasks that can take advantage of large-scale web-crawled data which provides rich knowledge about the visual world for a captioning model. However, since web-crawled data contains image-text pairs that are aligned at different levels, the inherent noises (e.g., misaligned pairs) make it difficult to learn a precise captioning model. While the filtering strategy can effectively remove noisy data, it leads to a decrease in learnable knowledge and sometimes brings about a new problem of data deficiency.
 To take the best of both worlds, we propose a Noise-aware Captioning (NoC) framework, which learns rich knowledge from the whole web-crawled data while being less affected by the noises. This is achieved by the proposed alignment-level-controllable captioner, which is learned using alignment levels of the image-text pairs as a control signal during training. The alignment-level-conditioned training allows the model to generate high-quality captions by simply setting the control signal to the desired alignment level at inference time.
 An in-depth analysis shows the effectiveness of our framework in handling noise.
 With two tasks of zero-shot captioning and text-to-image retrieval using generated captions (i.e., self-retrieval), we also demonstrate our model can produce high-quality captions in terms of descriptiveness and distinctiveness. The code is available at https://github.com/kakaobrain/noc.