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UniPT: Universal Parallel Tuning for Transfer Learning with Efficient Parameter and Memory
Authors: Haiwen Diao; Bo Wan; Ying Zhang; Xu Jia; Huchuan Lu; Long Chen
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) i.e. fine-tuning a small portion of parameters is an effective strategy for adapting pre-trained models to downstream domains. To further reduce the memory demand recent PETL works focus on the more valuable memory-efficient characteristic. In this paper we argue that the scalability adaptability and generalizability of state-of-the-art methods are hindered by structural dependency and pertinency on specific pre-trained backbones. To this end we propose a new memory-efficient PETL strategy Universal Parallel Tuning (UniPT) to mitigate these weaknesses. Specifically we facilitate the transfer process via a lightweight and learnable parallel network which consists of: 1) A parallel interaction module that decouples the sequential connections and processes the intermediate activations detachedly from the pre-trained network. 2) A confidence aggregation module that learns optimal strategies adaptively for integrating cross-layer features. We evaluate UniPT with different backbones (e.g. T5 VSEinfinity CLIP4Clip Clip-ViL and MDETR) on various vision-and-language and pure NLP tasks. Extensive ablations on 18 datasets have validated that UniPT can not only dramatically reduce memory consumption and outperform the best competitor but also achieve competitive performance over other plain PETL methods with lower training memory overhead. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/Paranioar/UniPT.
Composed Video Retrieval via Enriched Context and Discriminative Embeddings
Authors: Omkar Thawakar; Muzammal Naseer; Rao Muhammad Anwer; Salman Khan; Michael Felsberg; Mubarak Shah; Fahad Shahbaz Khan
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Composed video retrieval (CoVR) is a challenging prob- lem in computer vision which has recently highlighted the in- tegration of modification text with visual queries for more so- phisticated video search in large databases. Existing works predominantly rely on visual queries combined with modi- fication text to distinguish relevant videos. However such a strategy struggles to fully preserve the rich query-specific context in retrieved target videos and only represents the target video using visual embedding. We introduce a novel CoVR framework that leverages detailed language descrip- tions to explicitly encode query-specific contextual informa- tion and learns discriminative embeddings of vision only text only and vision-text for better alignment to accurately retrieve matched target videos. Our proposed framework can be flexibly employed for both composed video (CoVR) and image (CoIR) retrieval tasks. Experiments on three datasets show that our approach obtains state-of-the-art per- formance for both CovR and zero-shot CoIR tasks achiev- ing gains as high as around 7% in terms of recall@K=1 score. Our code detailed language descriptions for WebViD- CoVR dataset are available at https://github.com/ OmkarThawakar/composed-video-retrieval.
Using Human Feedback to Fine-tune Diffusion Models without Any Reward Model
Authors: Kai Yang; Jian Tao; Jiafei Lyu; Chunjiang Ge; Jiaxin Chen; Weihan Shen; Xiaolong Zhu; Xiu Li
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Using reinforcement learning with human feedback (RLHF) has shown significant promise in fine-tuning diffusion models. Previous methods start by training a reward model that aligns with human preferences then leverage RL techniques to fine-tune the underlying models. However crafting an efficient reward model demands extensive datasets optimal architecture and manual hyperparameter tuning making the process both time and cost-intensive. The direct preference optimization (DPO) method effective in fine-tuning large language models eliminates the necessity for a reward model. However the extensive GPU memory requirement of the diffusion model's denoising process hinders the direct application of the DPO method. To address this issue we introduce the Direct Preference for Denoising Diffusion Policy Optimization (D3PO) method to directly fine-tune diffusion models. The theoretical analysis demonstrates that although D3PO omits training a reward model it effectively functions as the optimal reward model trained using human feedback data to guide the learning process. This approach requires no training of a reward model proving to be more direct cost-effective and minimizing computational overhead. In experiments our method uses the relative scale of objectives as a proxy for human preference delivering comparable results to methods using ground-truth rewards. Moreover D3PO demonstrates the ability to reduce image distortion rates and generate safer images overcoming challenges lacking robust reward models. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/yk7333/D3PO.
Perceptual Assessment and Optimization of HDR Image Rendering
Authors: Peibei Cao; Rafal K. Mantiuk; Kede Ma
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: High dynamic range (HDR) rendering has the ability to faithfully reproduce the wide luminance ranges in natural scenes but how to accurately assess the rendering quality is relatively underexplored. Existing quality models are mostly designed for low dynamic range (LDR) images and do not align well with human perception of HDR image quality. To fill this gap we propose a family of HDR quality metrics in which the key step is employing a simple inverse display model to decompose an HDR image into a stack of LDR images with varying exposures. Subsequently these decomposed images are assessed through well-established LDR quality metrics. Our HDR quality models present three distinct benefits. First they directly inherit the recent advancements of LDR quality metrics. Second they do not rely on human perceptual data of HDR image quality for re-calibration. Third they facilitate the alignment and prioritization of specific luminance ranges for more accurate and detailed quality assessment. Experimental results show that our HDR quality metrics consistently outperform existing models in terms of quality assessment on four HDR image quality datasets and perceptual optimization of HDR novel view synthesis.
Multiview Aerial Visual RECognition (MAVREC): Can Multi-view Improve Aerial Visual Perception?
Authors: Aritra Dutta; Srijan Das; Jacob Nielsen; Rajatsubhra Chakraborty; Mubarak Shah
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Despite the commercial abundance of UAVs aerial data acquisition remains challenging and the existing Asia and North America-centric open-source UAV datasets are small-scale or low-resolution and lack diversity in scene contextuality. Additionally the color content of the scenes solar zenith angle and population density of different geographies influence the data diversity. These factors conjointly render suboptimal aerial-visual perception of the deep neural network (DNN) models trained primarily on the ground view data including the open-world foundational models. To pave the way for a transformative era of aerial detection we present Multiview Aerial Visual RECognition (MAVREC) a video dataset where we record synchronized scenes from different perspectives --- ground camera and drone-mounted camera. MAVREC consists of around 2.5 hours of industry-standard 2.7K resolution video sequences more than 0.5 million frames and 1.1 million annotated bounding boxes. This makes MAVREC the largest ground and aerial view dataset and the fourth largest among all drone-based datasets across all modalities and tasks. Through our extensive benchmarking on MAVREC we recognize that augmenting object detectors with ground view images from the corresponding geographical location is a superior pre-training strategy for aerial detection. Building on this strategy we benchmark MAVREC with a curriculum-based semi-supervised object detection approach that leverages labeled (ground and aerial) and unlabeled (only aerial) images to enhance aerial detection.
Diffusion-driven GAN Inversion for Multi-Modal Face Image Generation
Authors: Jihyun Kim; Changjae Oh; Hoseok Do; Soohyun Kim; Kwanghoon Sohn
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We present a new multi-modal face image generation method that converts a text prompt and a visual input such as a semantic mask or scribble map into a photo-realistic face image. To do this we combine the strengths of Generative Adversarial networks (GANs) and diffusion models (DMs) by employing the multi-modal features in the DM into the latent space of the pre-trained GANs. We present a simple mapping and a style modulation network to link two models and convert meaningful representations in feature maps and attention maps into latent codes. With GAN inversion the estimated latent codes can be used to generate 2D or 3D-aware facial images. We further present a multi-step training strategy that reflects textual and structural representations into the generated image. Our proposed network produces realistic 2D multi-view and stylized face images which align well with inputs. We validate our method by using pre-trained 2D and 3D GANs and our results outperform existing methods. Our project page is available at https://github.com/1211sh/Diffusiondriven_GAN-Inversion/.
Low-Rank Knowledge Decomposition for Medical Foundation Models
Authors: Yuhang Zhou; Haolin Li; Siyuan Du; Jiangchao Yao; Ya Zhang; Yanfeng Wang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The popularity of large-scale pre-training has promoted the development of medical foundation models. However some studies have shown that although foundation models exhibit strong general feature extraction capabilities their performance on specific tasks is still inferior to task-specific methods. In this paper we explore a new perspective called "Knowledge Decomposition" to improve the performance on specific medical tasks which deconstruct the foundation model into multiple lightweight expert models each dedicated to a particular task with the goal of improving specialization while concurrently mitigating resource expenditure. To accomplish the above objective we design a novel framework named Low-Rank Knowledge Decomposition (LoRKD) which explicitly separates graidents by incorporating low-rank expert modules and the efficient knowledge separation convolution. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that the decomposed models perform well in terms of performance and transferability even surpassing the original foundation models. Source code is available at: https://github.com/MediaBrain-SJTU/LoRKD
SaCo Loss: Sample-wise Affinity Consistency for Vision-Language Pre-training
Authors: Sitong Wu; Haoru Tan; Zhuotao Tian; Yukang Chen; Xiaojuan Qi; Jiaya Jia
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Vision-language pre-training (VLP) aims to learn joint representations of vision and language modalities. The contrastive paradigm is currently dominant in this field. However we observe a notable misalignment phenomenon that is the affinity between samples has an obvious disparity across different modalities namely "Affinity Inconsistency Problem". Our intuition is that for a well-aligned model two images that look similar to each other should have the same level of similarity as their corresponding texts that describe them. In this paper we first investigate the reason of this inconsistency problem. We discover that the lack of consideration for sample-wise affinity consistency across modalities in existing training objectives is the central cause. To address this problem we propose a novel loss function named Sample-wise affinity Consistency (SaCo) loss which is designed to enhance such consistency by minimizing the distance between image embedding similarity and text embedding similarity for any two samples. Our SaCo loss can be easily incorporated into existing vision-language models as an additional loss due to its complementarity for most training objectives. In addition considering that pre-training from scratch is computationally expensive we also provide a more efficient way to continuously pre-train on a converged model by integrating our loss. Experimentally the model trained with our SaCo loss significantly outperforms the baseline on a variety of vision and language tasks.
Steganographic Passport: An Owner and User Verifiable Credential for Deep Model IP Protection Without Retraining
Authors: Qi Cui; Ruohan Meng; Chaohui Xu; Chip-Hong Chang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Ensuring the legal usage of deep models is crucial to promoting trustable accountable and responsible artificial intelligence innovation. Current passport-based methods that obfuscate model functionality for license-to-use and ownership verifications suffer from capacity and quality constraints as they require retraining the owner model for new users. They are also vulnerable to advanced Expanded Residual Block ambiguity attacks. We propose Steganographic Passport which uses an invertible steganographic network to decouple license-to-use from ownership verification by hiding the user's identity images into the owner-side passport and recovering them from their respective user-side passports. An irreversible and collision-resistant hash function is used to avoid exposing the owner-side passport from the derived user-side passports and increase the uniqueness of the model signature. To safeguard both the passport and model's weights against advanced ambiguity attacks an activation-level obfuscation is proposed for the verification branch of the owner's model. By jointly training the verification and deployment branches their weights become tightly coupled. The proposed method supports agile licensing of deep models by providing a strong ownership proof and license accountability without requiring a separate model retraining for the admission of every new user. Experiment results show that our Steganographic Passport outperforms other passport-based deep model protection methods in robustness against various known attacks.
Stable Neighbor Denoising for Source-free Domain Adaptive Segmentation
Authors: Dong Zhao; Shuang Wang; Qi Zang; Licheng Jiao; Nicu Sebe; Zhun Zhong
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We study source-free unsupervised domain adaptation (SFUDA) for semantic segmentation which aims to adapt a source-trained model to the target domain without accessing the source data. Many works have been proposed to address this challenging problem among which uncertainty based self-training is a predominant approach. However without comprehensive denoising mechanisms they still largely fall into biased estimates when dealing with different domains and confirmation bias. In this paper we observe that pseudo-label noise is mainly contained in unstable samples in which the predictions of most pixels undergo significant variations during self-training. Inspired by this we propose a novel mechanism to denoise unstable samples with stable ones. Specifically we introduce the Stable Neighbor Denoising (SND) approach which effectively discovers highly correlated stable and unstable samples by nearest neighbor retrieval and guides the reliable optimization of unstable samples by bi-level learning. Moreover we compensate for the stable set by object-level object paste which can further eliminate the bias caused by less learned classes. Our SND enjoys two advantages. First SND does not require a specific segmentor structure endowing its universality. Second SND simultaneously addresses the issues of class domain and confirmation biases during adaptation ensuring its effectiveness. Extensive experiments show that SND consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in various SFUDA semantic segmentation settings. In addition SND can be easily integrated with other approaches obtaining further improvements. The source code will be publicly available.
SynSP: Synergy of Smoothness and Precision in Pose Sequences Refinement
Authors: Tao Wang; Lei Jin; Zheng Wang; Jianshu Li; Liang Li; Fang Zhao; Yu Cheng; Li Yuan; Li Zhou; Junliang Xing; Jian Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Predicting human pose sequences via existing pose estimators often encounters various estimation errors. Motion refinement methods aim to optimize the predicted human pose sequences from pose estimators while ensuring minimal computational overhead and latency. Prior investigations have primarily concentrated on striking a balance between the two objectives i.e. smoothness and precision while optimizing the predicted pose sequences. However it has come to our attention that the tension between these two objectives can provide additional quality cues about the predicted pose sequences. These cues in turn are able to aid the network in optimizing lower-quality poses. To leverage this quality information we propose a motion refinement network termed SynSP to achieve a Synergy of Smoothness and Precision in the sequence refinement tasks. Moreover SynSP can also address multi-view poses of one person simultaneously fixing inaccuracies in predicted poses through heightened attention to similar poses from other views thereby amplifying the resultant quality cues and overall performance. Compared with previous methods SynSP benefits from both pose quality and multi-view information with a much shorter input sequence length achieving state-of-the-art results among four challenging datasets involving 2D 3D and SMPL pose representations in both single-view and multi-view scenes. Github code: https://github.com/InvertedForest/SynSP.
En3D: An Enhanced Generative Model for Sculpting 3D Humans from 2D Synthetic Data
Authors: Yifang Men; Biwen Lei; Yuan Yao; Miaomiao Cui; Zhouhui Lian; Xuansong Xie
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: We present En3D an enhanced generative scheme for sculpting high-quality 3D human avatars. Unlike previous works that rely on scarce 3D datasets or limited 2D collections with imbalanced viewing angles and imprecise pose priors our approach aims to develop a zero-shot 3D generative scheme capable of producing visually realistic geometrically accurate and content-wise diverse 3D humans without relying on pre-existing 3D or 2D assets. To address this challenge we introduce a meticulously crafted workflow that implements accurate physical modeling to learn the enhanced 3D generative model from synthetic 2D data. During inference we integrate optimization modules to bridge the gap between realistic appearances and coarse 3D shapes. Specifically En3D comprises three modules: a 3D generator that accurately models generalizable 3D humans with realistic appearance from synthesized balanced diverse and structured human images; a geometry sculptor that enhances shape quality using multi-view normal constraints for intricate human structure; and a texturing module that disentangles explicit texture maps with fidelity and editability leveraging semantical UV partitioning and a differentiable rasterizer. Experimental results show that our approach significantly outperforms prior works in terms of image quality geometry accuracy and content diversity. We also showcase the applicability of our generated avatars for animation and editing as well as the scalability of our approach for content-style free adaptation.
Neural Visibility Field for Uncertainty-Driven Active Mapping
Authors: Shangjie Xue; Jesse Dill; Pranay Mathur; Frank Dellaert; Panagiotis Tsiotra; Danfei Xu
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This paper presents Neural Visibility Field (NVF) a novel uncertainty quantification method for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) applied to active mapping. Our key insight is that regions not visible in the training views lead to inherently unreliable color predictions by NeRF at this region resulting in increased uncertainty in the synthesized views. To address this we propose to use Bayesian Networks to composite position-based field uncertainty into ray-based uncertainty in camera observations. Consequently NVF naturally assigns higher uncertainty to unobserved regions aiding robots to select the most informative next viewpoints. Extensive evaluations show that NVF excels not only in uncertainty quantification but also in scene reconstruction for active mapping outperforming existing methods. More details can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/nvf-cvpr24/.
Tri-Perspective View Decomposition for Geometry-Aware Depth Completion
Authors: Zhiqiang Yan; Yuankai Lin; Kun Wang; Yupeng Zheng; Yufei Wang; Zhenyu Zhang; Jun Li; Jian Yang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Depth completion is a vital task for autonomous driving as it involves reconstructing the precise 3D geometry of a scene from sparse and noisy depth measurements. However most existing methods either rely only on 2D depth representations or directly incorporate raw 3D point clouds for compensation which are still insufficient to capture the fine-grained 3D geometry of the scene. To address this challenge we introduce Tri-Perspective View Decomposition (TPVD) a novel framework that can explicitly model 3D geometry. In particular (1) TPVD ingeniously decomposes the original point cloud into three 2D views one of which corresponds to the sparse depth input. (2) We design TPV Fusion to update the 2D TPV features through recurrent 2D-3D-2D aggregation where a Distance-Aware Spherical Convolution (DASC) is applied. (3) By adaptively choosing TPV affinitive neighbors the newly proposed Geometric Spatial Propagation Network (GSPN) further improves the geometric consistency. As a result our TPVD outperforms existing methods on KITTI NYUv2 and SUN RGBD. Furthermore we build a novel depth completion dataset named TOFDC which is acquired by the time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and the color camera on smartphones.
Boosting Adversarial Training via Fisher-Rao Norm-based Regularization
Authors: Xiangyu Yin; Wenjie Ruan
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Adversarial training is extensively utilized to improve the adversarial robustness of deep neural networks. Yet mitigating the degradation of standard generalization performance in adversarial-trained models remains an open problem. This paper attempts to resolve this issue through the lens of model complexity. First We leverage the Fisher-Rao norm a geometrically invariant metric for model complexity to establish the non-trivial bounds of the Cross-Entropy Loss-based Rademacher complexity for a ReLU-activated Multi-Layer Perceptron. Building upon this observation we propose a novel regularization framework called Logit-Oriented Adversarial Training (LOAT) which can mitigate the trade-off between robustness and accuracy while imposing only a negligible increase in computational overhead. Our extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed regularization strategy can boost the performance of the prevalent adversarial training algorithms including PGD-AT TRADES TRADES (LSE) MART and DM-AT across various network architectures. Our code will be available at https://github.com/TrustAI/LOAT.