GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Diff-LMM: Diffusion Teacher-Guided Spatio-Temporal Perception  for Video Large Multimodal Models
Authors: Jisheng Dang; Ligen Chen; Jingze Wu; Ronghao Lin; Bimei Wang; Yun Wang; Liting Wang; Nannan Zhu; Teng Wang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Dynamic spatio-temporal understanding is essential for video-based multimodal tasks, yet existing methods often struggle to capture fine-grained temporal and spatial relationships in long videos. Current approaches primarily rely on pre-trained CLIP encoders, which excel in semantic understanding but lack spatially-aware visual context. This leads to hallucinated results when interpreting fine-grained objects or scenes. To address these limitations, we propose a novel framework that integrates diffusion models into multimodal video models. By employing diffusion encoders at intermediate layers, we enhance visual representations through feature alignment and knowledge distillation losses, significantly improving the model's ability to capture spatial patterns over time. Additionally, we introduce a multi-level alignment strategy to learn robust feature correspondence from pre-trained diffusion models. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate our approach's state-of-the-art performance across multiple video understanding tasks. These results establish diffusion models as a powerful tool for enhancing multimodal video models in complex, dynamic scenarios.
VidEvo: Evolving Video Editing through Exhaustive Temporal Modeling
Authors: Sizhe Dang; Huan Liu; Mengmeng Wang; Xin  Lai; Guang Dai; Jingdong Wang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Text-guided video editing (TGVE) has become a recent hotspot due to its entertainment value and practical applications. To reduce overhead, existing methods primarily extend from text-to-image diffusion models and typically involve reconstruction and editing phases. However, challenges persist, particularly in enhancing temporal consistency of a video while adhering to textual alignment requirements. A crucial factor leading to the aforementioned issue is the inadequate and implicit tuning of the attention module within existing methods, which is specifically designed to capture temporal information. In light of this, we introduce VidEvo, a novel one-shot video editing method that leverages explicit cues derived from the original video to enhance temporal modeling. By integrating null-video embedding (NVE) and window-frame attention (WFA) components, VidEvo facilitates the smooth and coherent generation of videos from global and local perspectives simultaneously. To be specific, NVE learns a set of multi-scale temporal embeddings within the visual space during the reconstruction phase. These embeddings are subsequently directly injected into the attention module of the editing phase, explicitly augmenting the temporal consistency of the entire video. On the other hand, WFA enhances local temporal modeling by dynamically optimizing attention mechanisms between adjacent frames, which improves temporal coherence with reduced computational costs. Experimental evaluations show that VidEvo enhances frame-to-frame temporal consistency. Ablation studies confirm NVE and WFA’s effectiveness and their plug-and-play capability with other methods.
Global Information Compensation Network for Image Denoising
Authors: Shifei Ding; Qidong Wang; Lili Guo
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: In image denoising research, discriminative models have achieved impressive results which mainly owes to the powerful ability of convolutional networks in local feature extraction. However, there is still room for improvement due to insufficient utilization of global information. Although using fully connected layers or increasing network depth can supplement global information, this results in a significant increase in parameters and computational cost. To address these issues, we propose a global information compensation network (GICN) for image denoising in this paper. Firstly, at the shallow network part, we propose a global feature mining block that enhances the network's ability to extract global information by combining non-local blocks and the Fourier transform while improving the interpretability of the model. Secondly, between the encoder and decoder, we propose a cross-scale feature aggregation block to fuse information at different scales. Finally, we employ attention blocks to improve skip connections to better capture long-distance dependencies. Extensive experimental results show that our proposed GICN effectively compensates for global information, achieves a balance between denoising efficiency and effect, and surpasses mainstream methods in multiple benchmark tests.
GSDet: Gaussian Splatting for Oriented Object Detection
Authors: Zeyu Ding; Jiaqi Zhao; Yong Zhou; Wen-liang Du; Hancheng Zhu; Rui Yao
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Oriented object detection has advanced with the development of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and transformers. However, modern detectors still rely on predefined object candidates, such as anchors in CNN-based methods or queries in transformer-based methods, which struggle to capture spatial information effectively. To address the limitations, we propose GSDet, a novel framework that formulates oriented object detection as Gaussian splatting. Specifically, our approach performs detection within a 3D feature space constructed from image features, where 3D Gaussians are employed to represent oriented objects. These 3D Gaussians are projected onto the image plane to form 2D Gaussians, which are then transformed into oriented boxes. Furthermore, we optimize the mean, anisotropic covariance, and confidence scores of these randomly initialized 3D Gaussians, using a decoder that incorporates 3D Gaussian sampling. Moreover, our method exhibits flexibility, enabling adaptive control and a dynamic number of Gaussians during inference. Experiments on 3 datasets indicate that GSDet achieves AP50 gains of 0.7% on DIOR-R, 0.3% on DOTA-v1.0, and 0.55% on DOTA-v1.5 when evaluated with adaptive control and outperforms mainstream detectors.
Template-based Uncertainty Multimodal Fusion Network for RGBT Tracking
Authors: Zhaodong Ding; Chenglong Li; Shengqing Miao; Jin Tang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: RGBT tracking is to localize the predefined targets in video sequences by effectively leveraging the information from both visible light (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) modalities. However, the quality of different modalities changes dynamically in complex scenes, and effectively perceiving modal quality for multimodal fusion remains a significant challenge. To address this challenge, we propose to employ the reliability of initial template to explore the uncertainty across different modalities, and design a novel template-based uncertainty computation framework for robust multimodal fusion in RGBT tracking. In particular, we introduce an Uncertainty-aware Multimodal Fusion Module (UMFM), which constructs the uncertainty of each modality by leveraging the correlation between the template and search region in the Subjective Logic framework, aiming to achieve robust multimodal fusion. In addition, existing methods focus on dynamic template update while overlooking the potential role of a reliable initial template in the template updating process.To this end, we design a simple yet effective Contrastive Template Update Module (CTUM) to assess the reliability of the new template by comparing its quality with that of the initial template. Extensive experiments suggest that our method outperforms existing approaches on four RGBT tracking benchmarks.
Dual-level Fuzzy Learning with Patch Guidance for Image Ordinal Regression
Authors: Chunlai Dong; Haochao  Ying; Qibo  Qiu; Jinhong  Wang; Danny Chen; Jian Wu
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Ordinal regression bridges regression and classification by assigning objects to ordered classes. While human experts rely on discriminative patch-level features for decisions, current approaches are limited by the availability of only image-level ordinal labels, overlooking fine-grained patch-level characteristics. In this paper, we propose a Dual-level Fuzzy Learning with Patch Guidance framework, named DFPG that learns precise feature-based grading boundaries from ambiguous ordinal labels, with patch-level supervision. Specifically, we propose patch-labeling and filtering strategies to enable the model to focus on patch-level features exclusively with only image-level ordinal labels available. We further design a dual-level fuzzy learning module, which leverages fuzzy logic to quantitatively capture and handle label ambiguity from both patch-wise and channel-wise perspectives. Extensive experiments on various image ordinal regression datasets demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method, further confirming its ability in distinguishing samples from difficult-to-classify categories. The code is available at https://github.com/ZJUMAI/DFPG-ord.
Richer Semantics, Better Alignment: Aligning Visual Features with Explicit and Enriched Semantics for Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Authors: Neng Dong; Shuanglin Yan; Liyan Zhang; Jinhui Tang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Visible-infrared person re-identification (VIReID) retrieves pedestrian images with the same identity across different modalities. Existing methods learn visual features solely from images, failing to align them into the modality-invariant semantic space. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, termed Richer Semantics, Better Alignment (RSBA), to align visual features with explicit and enriched semantics. Specifically, we first develop an Explicit Semantics-Guided Feature Alignment (ESFA) module, which supplements textual descriptions for cross-modality images and aligns image-text pairs within each modality, alleviating the distribution discrepancy of visual features. We then devise a Consistent Similarity-Guided Indirect Alignment (CSIA) module, which constrains the similarity between intra-modality image-text pairs to be consistent with that between inter-modality text-text pairs, indirectly aligning visual features with cross-modality semantics. Furthermore, we design a Cross-View Semantics Compensation (CVSC) module, which integrates multi-view texts and improves the image-text matching of one-to-one in ESFA and CSIA to one-to-many, further strengthening the alignment of visual features within the semantic space. Extensive experimental results on three public datasets demonstrate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed RSBA.
Mask Does Not Matter: A Unified Latent Diffusion-Enhanced Framework for Mask-Free Virtual Try-On
Authors: Chenghu Du; Junyin Wang; Kai Liu; Shengwu Xiong; Yi Rong
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: A good virtual try-on model should introduce minimal redundant conditional information to avoid instability and increase inference efficiency. Existing methods rely on inpainting masks to guide the generation of the object, but the masks, generated by unstable human parsers, often produce unreliable results with fabric residues due to wrong segmentation. Moreover, large mask regions can lose spatial structure and identity information, requiring extra conditional inputs to compensate, which increases model instability and reduces efficiency. To tackle the problem, we present a novel Mask-Free virtual Try-ON (MFTON) framework. Specifically, we propose a mask-free strategy to eliminate all denoising conditions except for clothing and person images, thereby directly extracting spatial structure and identity information from the person image to improve efficiency and reduce instability. Additionally, to optimize the generated clothing regions, we propose a clothing texture-aware attention mechanism to enable the model to focus on texture generation with significant visual differences. We then introduce a geometric detail capture loss to further enable the model to capture more high-frequency information. Finally, we propose an appearance consistency inference method to reduce the initial randomness of the sampling process significantly. Extensive experiments on popular datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms state-of-the-art virtual try-on methods.
Unleashing the Semantic Adaptability of Controlled Diffusion Model for Image Colorization
Authors: Xiangcheng Du; Zhao Zhou; Yanlong Wang; Yingbin Zheng; Xingjiao Wu; Peizhu Gong; Cheng Jin
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Recent data-driven image colorization methods have leveraged pre-trained Text-to-Image (T2I) diffusion models as generative prior, while still suffering from unsatisfactory and inaccurate semantic-level color control. To address these issues, we propose a Semantic Adaptation method (SeAda) that enhances the prior while considering the semantic discrepancy between color and grayscale image pairs. The SeAda employs a semantic adapter to produce refined semantic embeddings and a controlled T2I diffusion model to create reasonably colored images. Specifically, the semantic adapter transfers the embedding from grayscale to color domain, while the diffusion model utilizes the refined embedding and prior knowledge to achieve realistic and diverse results. We also design a three-staged training strategy to improve semantic comprehension and prior integration for further performance improvement. Extensive experiments on public datasets demonstrate that our method outperforms existing state-of-the-art techniques, yielding superior performance in image colorization.
MAGE: Multimodal Alignment and Generation Enhancement via Bridging Visual and Semantic Spaces
Authors: Shaojun E; Yuchen Yang; Jiaheng Wu; Yan Zhang; Tiejun Zhao; Ziyan Chen
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: In the latest advancements in multimodal learning, effectively addressing the spatial and semantic losses of visual data after encoding remains a critical challenge. This is because the performance of large multimodal models is positively correlated with the coupling between visual encoders and large language models. Existing approaches often face issues such as vector gaps or semantic disparities, resulting in information loss during the propagation process. To address these issues, we propose MAGE (Multimodal Alignment and Generation Enhancement), a novel framework that bridges the semantic spaces of vision and text through an innovative alignment mechanism. By introducing the Intelligent Alignment Network (IAN), MAGE achieves dimensional and semantic alignment. To reduce the gap between synonymous heterogeneous data, we employ a training strategy that combines cross-entropy and mean squared error, significantly enhancing the alignment effect. Moreover, to enhance MAGE’s “Any-to-Any” capability, we developed a fine-tuning dataset for multimodal tool-calling instructions to expand the model’s output capability boundaries. Finally, our proposed multimodal large model architecture, MAGE, achieved significantly better performance compared to similar works across various evaluation benchmarks, including MME, MMBench, and SEED. Complete code and appendix are available at: https://github.com/GTCOM-NLP/MAGE
Multi-Modal Point Cloud Completion with Interleaved Attention Enhanced Transformer
Authors: Chenghao Fang; Jianqing Liang; Jiye Liang; Hangkun Wang; Kaixuan Yao; Feilong Cao
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Multi-modal point cloud completion, which utilizes a complete image and a partial point cloud as input, is a crucial task in 3D computer vision. Previous methods commonly employ a cross-attention mechanism to fuse point clouds and images. However, these approaches often fail to fully leverage image information and overlook the intrinsic geometric details of point clouds that could complement the image modality. To address these challenges, we propose an interleaved attention enhanced Transformer (IAET) with three main components, i.e., token embedding, bidirectional token supplement, and coarse-to-fine decoding. IAET incorporates a novel interleaved attention mechanism to enable bidirectional information supplementation between the point cloud and image modalities. Additionally, to maximize the use of the supplemented image information, we introduce a view-guided upsampling module that leverages image tokens as queries to guide the generation of detailed point cloud structures. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of IAET, highlighting its state-of-the-art performance on multi-modal point cloud completion benchmarks in various scenarios. The source code is freely accessible at https://github.com/doldolOuO/IAET.
Adaptive Language-Aware Image Reflection Removal Network
Authors: Siyan Fang; Yuntao Wang; Jinpu Zhang; Ziwen Li; Yuehuan Wang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Existing image reflection removal methods struggle to handle complex reflections. Accurate language descriptions can help the model understand the image content to remove complex reflections. However, due to blurred and distorted interferences in reflected images, machine-generated language descriptions of the image content are often inaccurate, which harms the performance of language-guided reflection removal. To address this, we propose the Adaptive Language-Aware Network (ALANet) to remove reflections even with inaccurate language inputs. Specifically, ALANet integrates both filtering and optimization strategies. The filtering strategy reduces the negative effects of language while preserving its benefits, whereas the optimization strategy enhances the alignment between language and visual features. ALANet also utilizes language cues to decouple specific layer content from feature maps, improving its ability to handle complex reflections. To evaluate the model's performance under complex reflections and varying levels of language accuracy, we introduce the Complex Reflection and Language Accuracy Variance (CRLAV) dataset. Experimental results demonstrate that ALANet surpasses state-of-the-art methods for image reflection removal. The code and dataset are available at https://github.com/fashyon/ALANet.
Efficient Hi-Fi Style Transfer via Statistical Attention and Modulation
Authors: Zhirui Fang; Yi Li; Xin Xie; Chengyan Li; Yanqing Guo
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Style transfer is a challenging task in computer vision, aiming to blend the stylistic features of one image with the content of another while preserving the content details. Traditional methods often face challenges in terms of computational efficiency and fine-grained content preservation. In this paper, we propose a novel feature modulation mechanism based on parameterized normalization, where the modulation parameters for content and style features are learned using a dual convolution network (BiConv). These parameters adjust the mean and standard deviation of the features, improving both the stability and quality of the style transfer process. To achieve fast inference, we introduce an efficient acceleration technique by leveraging a row and column weighted attention matrix. In addition, we incorporate a contrastive learning scheme to align the local features of the content and the stylized images, improving the fidelity of the generated output. Experimental results demonstrate that our method significantly improves the inference speed and the quality of style transfer while preserving content details, outperforming existing approaches based on both convolution and diffusion.
2D Gaussian Splatting for Outdoor Scene Decomposition and Relighting
Authors: Wei Feng; Kangrui Ye; Qi Zhang; Qian Zhang; Nan Li
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Gaussian splatting techniques have recently revolutionized outdoor scene decomposition and relighting through multi-view images. However, achieving high rendering quality still requires a fixed lighting condition among all input views, which is costly or even impractical to capture in outdoor scenes. In this paper, we propose outdoor scene decomposition and relighting with 2D Gaussian splatting (OSDR-GS), a novel inverse rendering strategy under outdoor changing and unknown lighting conditions. Firstly, we present a lighting-based group learning framework that categorizes input images into multiple lighting groups, to learn the separate lighting from each group individually. Secondly, OSDR-GS introduces a fine-grained outdoor lighting component to represent sun-light and sky-light, respectively, which are also adjusted via the correlative exposure factors adaptively. Finally, we construct a visibility-driven shadow module to characterize the nuanced interplay of light and occlusion realistically, for eliminating the uncertainty of dark pixels on lighting-based group learning. Extensive experiments on multiple challenging outdoor datasets validate the effectiveness of OSDR-GS, which achieves the state-of-the-art performance in changing lighting scene inverse rendering.
Active Multimodal Distillation for Few-shot Action Recognition
Authors: Weijia Feng; Yichen Zhu; Ruojia Zhang; Chenyang Wang; Fei Ma; Xiaobao Wang; Xiaobai Li
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Owing to its rapid progress and broad application prospects, few-shot action recognition has attracted considerable interest. However, current methods are predominantly based on limited single-modal data, which does not fully exploit the potential of multimodal information. This paper presents a novel framework that actively identifies reliable modalities for each sample using task-specific contextual cues, thus significantly improving recognition performance. Our framework integrates an Active Sample Inference (ASI) module, which utilizes active inference to predict reliable modalities based on posterior distributions and subsequently organizes them accordingly. Unlike reinforcement learning, active inference replaces rewards with evidence-based preferences, making more stable predictions. Additionally, we introduce an active mutual distillation module that enhances the representation learning of less reliable modalities by transferring knowledge from more reliable ones. Adaptive multimodal inference is employed during the meta-test to assign higher weights to reliable modalities. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing approaches.
Mixture-of-Queries Transformer: Camouflaged Instance Segmentation via Queries Cooperation and Frequency Enhancement
Authors: Weiwei Feng; Nanqing Xu; Tengfei Liu; Weiqiang Wang
Venue: IJCAI 2025 (main)

Abstract: Due to the high similarity between camouflaged instances and the surroundings and the widespread camouflage-like scenarios, the recently proposed camouflaged instance segmentation (CIS) is a challenging and relevant task. Previous approaches achieve some progress on CIS, while many overlook camouflaged objects’ color and contour nature and then decide on each candidate instinctively. In this paper, we contribute a Mixture-of-Queries Transformer (MoQT) in an end-to-end manner for CIS based on two key designs (a Frequency Enhancement Feature Extractor and a Mixture-of-Queries Decoder). First, the Frequency Enhancement Feature Extractor is responsible for capturing the camouflaged clues in the frequency domain. To expose camouflaged instances, the extractor enhances the effectiveness of contour, eliminates the interference color, and obtains suitable features simultaneously. Second, a Mixture-of-Queries Decoder utilizes multiple newly initialized experts of queries (a group of queries considered an expert) in each layer for spotting camouflaged characteristics with cooperation. These experts collaborate to generate outputs with the mixture-of-queries mechanism, refined hierarchically to a fine-grained level for more accurate instance masks. Coupling these two components enables MoQT to use multiple experts to integrate effective clues of camouflaged objects in both spatial and frequency domains. Extensive experimental results demonstrate our MoQT outperforms 19 state-of-the-art CIS approaches on both COD10K and NC4K datasets.