GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Make-It-Vivid: Dressing Your Animatable Biped Cartoon Characters from Text
Authors: Junshu Tang; Yanhong Zeng; Ke Fan; Xuheng Wang; Bo Dai; Kai Chen; Lizhuang Ma
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Creating and animating 3D biped cartoon characters is crucial and valuable in various applications. Compared with geometry the diverse texture design plays an important role in making 3D biped cartoon characters vivid and charming. Therefore we focus on automatic texture design for cartoon characters based on input instructions. This is challenging for domain-specific requirements and a lack of high-quality data. To address this challenge we propose Make-It-Vivid the first attempt to enable high-quality texture generation from text in UV space. We prepare a detailed text-texture paired data for 3D characters by using vision-question-answering agents. Then we customize a pretrained text-to-image model to generate texture map with template structure while preserving the natural 2D image knowledge. Furthermore to enhance fine-grained details we propose a novel adversarial learning scheme to shorten the domain gap between original dataset and realistic texture domain. Extensive experiments show that our approach outperforms current texture generation methods resulting in efficient character texturing and faithful generation with prompts. Besides we showcase various applications such as out of domain generation and texture stylization. We also provide an efficient generation system for automatic text-guided textured character generation and animation.
StraightPCF: Straight Point Cloud Filtering
Authors: Dasith de Silva Edirimuni; Xuequan Lu; Gang Li; Lei Wei; Antonio Robles-Kelly; Hongdong Li
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Point cloud filtering is a fundamental 3D vision task which aims to remove noise while recovering the underlying clean surfaces. State-of-the-art methods remove noise by moving noisy points along stochastic trajectories to the clean surfaces. These methods often require regularization within the training objective and/or during post-processing to ensure fidelity. In this paper we introduce StraightPCF a new deep learning based method for point cloud filtering. It works by moving noisy points along straight paths thus reducing discretization errors while ensuring faster convergence to the clean surfaces. We model noisy patches as intermediate states between high noise patch variants and their clean counterparts and design the VelocityModule to infer a constant flow velocity from the former to the latter. This constant flow leads to straight filtering trajectories. In addition we introduce a DistanceModule that scales the straight trajectory using an estimated distance scalar to attain convergence near the clean surface. Our network is lightweight and only has  530K parameters being 17% of IterativePFN (a most recent point cloud filtering network). Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world data show our method achieves state-of-the-art results. Our method also demonstrates nice distributions of filtered points without the need for regularization. The implementation code can be found at: https://github.com/ddsediri/StraightPCF.
Mirasol3B: A Multimodal Autoregressive Model for Time-Aligned and Contextual Modalities
Authors: AJ Piergiovanni; Isaac Noble; Dahun Kim; Michael S. Ryoo; Victor Gomes; Anelia Angelova
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: One of the main challenges of multimodal learning is the need to combine heterogeneous modalities (e.g. video audio text). For example video and audio are obtained at much higher rates than text and are roughly aligned in time. They are often not synchronized with text which comes as a global context e.g. a title or a description. Furthermore video and audio inputs are of much larger volumes and grow as the video length increases which naturally requires more compute dedicated to these modalities and makes modeling of long-range dependencies harder. We here decouple the multimodal modeling dividing it into separate autoregressive models processing the inputs according to the characteristics of the modalities. We propose a multimodal model consisting of an autoregressive component for the time-synchronized modalities (audio and video) and an autoregressive component for the context modalities which are not necessarily aligned in time but are still sequential. To address the long-sequences of the video-audio inputs we further partition the video and audio sequences in consecutive snippets and autoregressively process their representations. To that end we propose a Combiner mechanism which models the audio-video information jointly producing compact but expressive representations. This allows us to scale to 512 input video frames without increase in model parameters. Our approach achieves the state-of-the-art on multiple well established multimodal benchmarks. It effectively addresses the high computational demand of media inputs by learning compact representations controlling the sequence length of the audio-video feature representations and modeling their dependencies in time.
Neural Sign Actors: A Diffusion Model for 3D Sign Language Production from Text
Authors: Vasileios Baltatzis; Rolandos Alexandros Potamias; Evangelos Ververas; Guanxiong Sun; Jiankang Deng; Stefanos Zafeiriou
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Sign Languages (SL) serve as the primary mode of communication for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing communities. Deep learning methods for SL recognition and translation have achieved promising results. However Sign Language Production (SLP) poses a challenge as the generated motions must be realistic and have precise semantic meaning. Most SLP methods rely on 2D data which hinders their realism. In this work a diffusion-based SLP model is trained on a curated large-scale dataset of 4D signing avatars and their corresponding text transcripts. The proposed method can generate dynamic sequences of 3D avatars from an unconstrained domain of discourse using a diffusion process formed on a novel and anatomically informed graph neural network defined on the SMPL-X body skeleton. Through quantitative and qualitative experiments we show that the proposed method considerably outperforms previous methods of SLP. This work makes an important step towards realistic neural sign avatars bridging the communication gap between Deaf and hearing communities.
On the Diversity and Realism of Distilled Dataset: An Efficient Dataset Distillation Paradigm
Authors: Peng Sun; Bei Shi; Daiwei Yu; Tao Lin
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Contemporary machine learning which involves training large neural networks on massive datasets faces significant computational challenges. Dataset distillation as a recent emerging strategy aims to compress real-world datasets for efficient training. However this line of research currently struggles with large-scale and high-resolution datasets hindering its practicality and feasibility. Thus we re-examine existing methods and identify three properties essential for real-world applications: realism diversity and efficiency. As a remedy we propose RDED a novel computationally-efficient yet effective data distillation paradigm to enable both diversity and realism of the distilled data. Extensive empirical results over various model architectures and datasets demonstrate the advancement of RDED: we can distill a dataset to 10 images per class from full ImageNet-1K within 7 minutes achieving a notable 42% accuracy with ResNet-18 on a single RTX-4090 GPU (while the SOTA only achieves 21% but requires 6 hours). Code: https://github.com/LINs-lab/RDED.
Semantics-aware Motion Retargeting with Vision-Language Models
Authors: Haodong Zhang; Zhike Chen; Haocheng Xu; Lei Hao; Xiaofei Wu; Songcen Xu; Zhensong Zhang; Yue Wang; Rong Xiong
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Capturing and preserving motion semantics is essential to motion retargeting between animation characters. However most of the previous works neglect the semantic information or rely on human-designed joint-level representations. Here we present a novel Semantics-aware Motion reTargeting (SMT) method with the advantage of vision-language models to extract and maintain meaningful motion semantics. We utilize a differentiable module to render 3D motions. Then the high-level motion semantics are incorporated into the motion retargeting process by feeding the vision-language model with the rendered images and aligning the extracted semantic embeddings. To ensure the preservation of fine-grained motion details and high-level semantics we adopt a two-stage pipeline consisting of skeleton-aware pre-training and fine-tuning with semantics and geometry constraints. Experimental results show the effectiveness of the proposed method in producing high-quality motion retargeting results while accurately preserving motion semantics. Project page can be found at https://sites.google.com/view/smtnet.
Semantically-Shifted Incremental Adapter-Tuning is A Continual ViTransformer
Authors: Yuwen Tan; Qinhao Zhou; Xiang Xiang; Ke Wang; Yuchuan Wu; Yongbin Li
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Class-incremental learning (CIL) aims to enable models to continuously learn new classes while overcoming catastrophic forgetting. The introduction of pre-trained models has brought new tuning paradigms to CIL. In this paper we revisit different parameter-efficient tuning (PET) methods within the context of continual learning. We observe that adapter tuning demonstrates superiority over prompt-based methods even without parameter expansion in each learning session. Motivated by this we propose incrementally tuning the shared adapter without imposing parameter update constraints enhancing the learning capacity of the backbone. Additionally we employ feature sampling from stored prototypes to retrain a unified classifier further improving its performance. We estimate the semantic shift of old prototypes without access to past samples and update stored prototypes session by session. Our proposed method eliminates model expansion and avoids retaining any image samples. It surpasses previous pre-trained model-based CIL methods and demonstrates remarkable continual learning capabilities. Experimental results on five CIL benchmarks validate the effectiveness of our approach achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance.
Low-Rank Approximation for Sparse Attention in Multi-Modal LLMs
Authors: Lin Song; Yukang Chen; Shuai Yang; Xiaohan Ding; Yixiao Ge; Ying-Cong Chen; Ying Shan
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: This paper focuses on the high computational complexity in Large Language Models (LLMs) a significant challenge in both natural language processing (NLP) and multi-modal tasks. We propose Low-Rank Approximation for Sparse At- tention (LoRA-Sparse) an innovative approach that strate- gically reduces this complexity. LoRA-Sparse introduces low-rank linear projection layers for sparse attention ap- proximation. It utilizes an order-mimic training methodol- ogy which is crucial for efficiently approximating the self- attention mechanism in LLMs. We empirically show that sparse attention not only reduces computational demands but also enhances model performance in both NLP and multi-modal tasks. This surprisingly shows that redundant attention in LLMs might be non-beneficial. We extensively validate LoRA-Sparse through rigorous empirical studies in both (NLP) and multi-modal tasks demonstrating its effec- tiveness and general applicability. Based on LLaMA and LLaVA models our methods can reduce more than half of the self-attention computation with even better performance than full-attention baselines.
TASeg: Temporal Aggregation Network for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Xiaopei Wu; Yuenan Hou; Xiaoshui Huang; Binbin Lin; Tong He; Xinge Zhu; Yuexin Ma; Boxi Wu; Haifeng Liu; Deng Cai; Wanli Ouyang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Training deep models for LiDAR semantic segmentation is challenging due to the inherent sparsity of point clouds. Utilizing temporal data is a natural remedy against the sparsity problem as it makes the input signal denser. However previous multi-frame fusion algorithms fall short in utilizing sufficient temporal information due to the memory constraint and they also ignore the informative temporal images. To fully exploit rich information hidden in long-term temporal point clouds and images we present the Temporal Aggregation Network termed TASeg. Specifically we propose a Temporal LiDAR Aggregation and Distillation (TLAD) algorithm which leverages historical priors to assign different aggregation steps for different classes. It can largely reduce memory and time overhead while achieving higher accuracy. Besides TLAD trains a teacher injected with gt priors to distill the model further boosting the performance. To make full use of temporal images we design a Temporal Image Aggregation and Fusion (TIAF) module which can greatly expand the camera FOV and enhance the present features. Temporal LiDAR points in the camera FOV are used as mediums to transform temporal image features to the present coordinate for temporal multi-modal fusion. Moreover we develop a Static-Moving Switch Augmentation (SMSA) algorithm which utilizes sufficient temporal information to enable objects to switch their motion states freely thus greatly increasing static and moving training samples. Our TASeg ranks 1st on three challenging tracks i.e. SemanticKITTI single-scan track multi-scan track and nuScenes LiDAR segmentation track strongly demonstrating the superiority of our method. Codes are available at https://github.com/LittlePey/TASeg.
Bootstrapping SparseFormers from Vision Foundation Models
Authors: Ziteng Gao; Zhan Tong; Kevin Qinghong Lin; Joya Chen; Mike Zheng Shou
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: The recently proposed SparseFormer architecture provides an alternative approach to visual understanding by utilizing a significantly lower number of visual tokens via adjusting RoIs greatly reducing computational costs while still achieving promising performance. However training SparseFormers from scratch is still expensive and scaling up the number of parameters can be challenging. In this paper we propose to bootstrap SparseFormers from ViT-based vision foundation models in a simple and efficient way. Since the majority of SparseFormer blocks are the standard transformer ones we can inherit weights from large-scale pre-trained vision transformers and freeze them as much as possible. Therefore we only need to train the SparseFormer-specific lightweight focusing transformer to adjust token RoIs and fine-tune a few early pre-trained blocks to align the final token representation. In such a way we can bootstrap SparseFormer architectures from various large-scale pre-trained models (e.g. IN-21K pre-trained AugRegs or CLIPs) using a rather smaller amount of training samples (e.g. IN-1K) and without labels or captions within just a few hours. As a result the bootstrapped unimodal SparseFormer (from AugReg-ViT-L/16-384) can reach 84.9% accuracy on IN-1K with only 49 tokens and the multimodal SparseFormer from CLIPs also demonstrates notable zero-shot performance with highly reduced computational cost without seeing any caption during the bootstrapping procedure. In addition CLIP-bootstrapped SparseFormers which align the output space with language without seeing a word can serve as efficient vision encoders in multimodal large language models. Code and models are available at https://github.com/showlab/sparseformer
EventPS: Real-Time Photometric Stereo Using an Event Camera
Authors: Bohan Yu; Jieji Ren; Jin Han; Feishi Wang; Jinxiu Liang; Boxin Shi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Photometric stereo is a well-established technique to estimate the surface normal of an object. However the requirement of capturing multiple high dynamic range images under different illumination conditions limits the speed and real-time applications. This paper introduces EventPS a novel approach to real-time photometric stereo using an event camera. Capitalizing on the exceptional temporal resolution dynamic range and low bandwidth characteristics of event cameras EventPS estimates surface normal only from the radiance changes significantly enhancing data efficiency. EventPS seamlessly integrates with both optimization-based and deep-learning-based photometric stereo techniques to offer a robust solution for non-Lambertian surfaces. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness and efficiency of EventPS compared to frame-based counterparts. Our algorithm runs at over 30 fps in real-world scenarios unleashing the potential of EventPS in time-sensitive and high-speed downstream applications.
Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation Through Depth-Guided Feature Correlation and Sampling
Authors: Leon Sick; Dominik Engel; Pedro Hermosilla; Timo Ropinski
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Traditionally training neural networks to perform semantic segmentation requires expensive human-made annotations. But more recently advances in the field of unsupervised learning have made significant progress on this issue and towards closing the gap to supervised algorithms. To achieve this semantic knowledge is distilled by learning to correlate randomly sampled features from images across an entire dataset. In this work we build upon these advances by incorporating information about the structure of the scene into the training process through the use of depth information. We achieve this by (1) learning depth-feature correlation by spatially correlating the feature maps with the depth maps to induce knowledge about the structure of the scene and (2) exploiting farthest-point sampling to more effectively select relevant features by utilizing 3D sampling techniques on depth information of the scene. Finally we demonstrate the effectiveness of our technical contributions through extensive experimentation and present significant improvements in performance across multiple benchmark datasets.
On the Road to Portability: Compressing End-to-End Motion Planner for Autonomous Driving
Authors: Kaituo Feng; Changsheng Li; Dongchun Ren; Ye Yuan; Guoren Wang
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: End-to-end motion planning models equipped with deep neural networks have shown great potential for enabling full autonomous driving. However the oversized neural networks render them impractical for deployment on resource-constrained systems which unavoidably requires more computational time and resources during reference. To handle this knowledge distillation offers a promising approach that compresses models by enabling a smaller student model to learn from a larger teacher model. Nevertheless how to apply knowledge distillation to compress motion planners has not been explored so far. In this paper we propose PlanKD the first knowledge distillation framework tailored for compressing end-to-end motion planners. First considering that driving scenes are inherently complex often containing planning-irrelevant or even noisy information transferring such information is not beneficial for the student planner. Thus we design an information bottleneck based strategy to only distill planning-relevant information rather than transfer all information indiscriminately. Second different waypoints in an output planned trajectory may hold varying degrees of importance for motion planning where a slight deviation in certain crucial waypoints might lead to a collision. Therefore we devise a safety-aware waypoint-attentive distillation module that assigns adaptive weights to different waypoints based on the importance to encourage the student to accurately mimic more crucial waypoints thereby improving overall safety. Experiments demonstrate that our PlanKD can boost the performance of smaller planners by a large margin and significantly reduce their reference time.
RAVE: Randomized Noise Shuffling for Fast and Consistent Video Editing with Diffusion Models
Authors: Ozgur Kara; Bariscan Kurtkaya; Hidir Yesiltepe; James M. Rehg; Pinar Yanardag
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Recent advancements in diffusion-based models have demonstrated significant success in generating images from text. However video editing models have not yet reached the same level of visual quality and user control. To address this we introduce RAVE a zero-shot video editing method that leverages pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models without additional training. RAVE takes an input video and a text prompt to produce high-quality videos while preserving the original motion and semantic structure. It employs a novel noise shuffling strategy leveraging spatio-temporal interactions between frames to produce temporally consistent videos faster than existing methods. It is also efficient in terms of memory requirements allowing it to handle longer videos. RAVE is capable of a wide range of edits from local attribute modifications to shape transformations. In order to demonstrate the versatility of RAVE we create a comprehensive video evaluation dataset ranging from object-focused scenes to complex human activities like dancing and typing and dynamic scenes featuring swimming fish and boats. Our qualitative and quantitative experiments highlight the effectiveness of RAVE in diverse video editing scenarios compared to existing methods. Our code dataset and videos can be found in \href https://rave-video-edit.github.io/.
PredToken: Predicting Unknown Tokens and Beyond with Coarse-to-Fine Iterative Decoding
Authors: Xuesong Nie; Haoyuan Jin; Yunfeng Yan; Xi Chen; Zhihang Zhu; Donglian Qi
Venue: CVPR 2024 (main)

Abstract: Predictive learning models which aim to predict future frames based on past observations are crucial to constructing world models. These models need to maintain low-level consistency and capture high-level dynamics in unannotated spatiotemporal data. Transitioning from frame-wise to token-wise prediction presents a viable strategy for addressing these needs. How to improve token representation and optimize token decoding presents significant challenges. This paper introduces PredToken a novel predictive framework that addresses these issues by decoupling space-time tokens into distinct components for iterative cascaded decoding. Concretely we first design a "decomposition quantization and reconstruction" schema based on VQGAN to improve the token representation. This scheme disentangles low- and high-frequency representations and employs a dimension-aware quantization model allowing more low-level details to be preserved. Building on this we present a "coarse-to-fine iterative decoding" method. It leverages dynamic soft decoding to refine coarse tokens and static soft decoding for fine tokens enabling more high-level dynamics to be captured. These designs make PredToken produce high-quality predictions. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority of our method on various real-world spatiotemporal predictive benchmarks. Furthermore PredToken can also be extended to other visual generative tasks to yield realistic outcomes.