GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
StyleStudio: Text-Driven Style Transfer with Selective Control of Style Elements
Authors: Mingkun Lei; Xue Song; Beier Zhu; Hao Wang; Chi Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Text-driven style transfer aims to merge the style of a reference image with content described by a text prompt.  Recent advancements in text-to-image models have improved the nuance of style transformations, yet significant challenges remain, particularly with overfitting to reference styles, limiting stylistic control, and misaligning with textual content.In this paper, we propose three complementary strategies to address these issues. First, we introduce a cross-modal Adaptive Instance Normalization (AdaIN) mechanism for better integration of style and text features, enhancing alignment. Second, we develop a Style-based Classifier-Free Guidance (SCFG) approach that enables selective control over stylistic elements, reducing irrelevant influences. Finally, we incorporate a teacher model during early generation stages to stabilize spatial layouts and mitigate artifacts. Our extensive evaluations demonstrate significant improvements in style transfer quality and alignment with textual prompts.  Furthermore, our approach can be integrated into existing style transfer frameworks without fine-tuning.
CTRL-O: Language-Controllable Object-Centric Visual Representation Learning
Authors: Aniket Didolkar; Andrii Zadaianchuk; Rabiul Awal; Maximilian Seitzer; Efstratios Gavves; Aishwarya Agrawal
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Object-centric representation learning aims to decompose visual scenes into fixed-size vectors called "slots" or "object files", where each slot captures a distinct object. Current state-of-the-art object-centric models have shown remarkable success in object discovery in diverse domains including complex real-world scenes. However, these models suffer from a key limitation: they lack controllability. Specifically, current object-centric models learn representations based on their preconceived understanding of objects and parts, without allowing user input to guide which objects are represented. Introducing controllability into object-centric models could unlock a range of useful capabilities, such as the ability to extract instance-specific representations from a scene. In this work, we propose a novel approach for user-directed control over slot representations by conditioning slots on language descriptions. The proposed ConTRoLlable Object-centric representation learning approach, which we term CTRL-O, achieves targeted object-language binding in complex real-world scenes without requiring mask supervision. Next, we apply these controllable slot representations on two downstream vision language tasks: text-to-image generation and visual question answering. We find that the proposed approach enables instance-specific text-to-image generation and also achieves strong performance on visual question answering.
PO3AD: Predicting Point Offsets toward Better 3D Point Cloud Anomaly Detection
Authors: Jianan Ye; Weiguang Zhao; Xi Yang; Guangliang Cheng; Kaizhu Huang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Point cloud anomaly detection under the anomaly-free setting poses significant challenges as it requires accurately capturing the features of 3D normal data to identify deviations indicative of anomalies. Current efforts focus on devising reconstruction tasks, such as acquiring normal data representations by restoring normal samples from altered, pseudo-anomalous counterparts. Our findings reveal that distributing attention equally across normal and pseudo-anomalous data tends to dilute the model's focus on anomalous deviations. The challenge is further compounded by the inherently disordered and sparse nature of 3D point cloud data. In response to those predicaments, we introduce an innovative approach that emphasizes learning point offsets, targeting more informative pseudo-abnormal points, thus fostering more effective distillation of normal data representations. We also have crafted an augmentation technique that is steered by normal vectors, facilitating the creation of credible pseudo anomalies that enhance the efficiency of the training process. Our comprehensive experimental evaluation on the Anomaly-ShapeNet and Real3D-AD datasets evidences that our proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art approaches, achieving an average enhancement of 9.0% and 1.4% in the AUC-ROC detection metric across these datasets, respectively. Code is available at https://github.com/yjnanan/PO3AD.
Text Augmented Correlation Transformer For Few-shot Classification & Segmentation
Authors: Srinivasa Rao Nandam; Sara Atito; Zhenhua Feng; Josef Kittler; Muhammad Awais
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Foundation models like CLIP and ALIGN have transformed few-shot and zero-shot vision applications by fusing visual and textual data, yet the integrative few-shot classification and segmentation (FS-CS) task primarily leverages visual cues, overlooking the potential of textual support. In FS-CS scenarios, ambiguous object boundaries and overlapping classes often hinder model performance, as limited visual data struggles to fully capture high-level semantics. To bridge this gap, we present a novel multi-modal FS-CS framework that integrates textual cues into support data, facilitating enhanced semantic disambiguation and fine-grained segmentation. Our approach first investigates the unique contributions of exclusive text-based support, using only class labels to achieve FS-CS. This strategy alone achieves performance competitive with vision-only methods on FS-CS tasks, underscoring the power of textual cues in few-shot learning. Building on this, we introduce a dual-modal prediction mechanism that synthesizes insights from both textual and visual support sets, yielding robust multi-modal predictions. This integration significantly elevates FS-CS performance, with classification and segmentation improvements of +3.7/6.6% (1-way 1-shot) and +8.0/6.5% (2-way 1-shot) on COCO-20^i, and +2.2/3.8% (1-way 1-shot) and +4.3/4.0% (2-way 1-shot) on Pascal-5^i. Additionally, in weakly supervised FS-CS settings, our method surpasses visual-only benchmarks using textual support exclusively, further enhanced by our dual-modal predictions. By rethinking the role of text in FS-CS, our work establishes new benchmarks for multi-modal few-shot learning and demonstrates the efficacy of textual cues for improving model generalization and segmentation accuracy.
F^3OCUS - Federated Finetuning of Vision-Language Foundation Models with Optimal Client Layer Updating Strategy via Multi-objective Meta-Heuristics
Authors: Pramit Saha; Felix Wagner; Divyanshu Mishra; Can Peng; Anshul Thakur; David A. Clifton; Konstantinos Kamnitsas; J. Alison Noble
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Effective training of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on resource-constrained client devices in Federated Learning (FL) requires the usage of parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) strategies. To this end, we demonstrate the impact of two factors, viz., client-specific layer importance score that selects the most important VLM layers for fine-tuning and inter-client layer diversity score that encourages diverse layer selection across clients for optimal VLM layer selection. We first theoretically motivate and leverage the principal eigenvalue magnitude of layerwise Neural Tangent Kernels and show its effectiveness as client-specific layer importance score. Next, we propose a novel layer updating strategy dubbed F^3OCUS that jointly optimizes the layer importance and diversity factors by employing a data-free, multi-objective, meta-heuristic optimization on the server. We explore 5 different meta-heuristic algorithms and compare their effectiveness for selecting model layers and adapter layers towards PEFT-FL. Furthermore, we release a new MedVQA-FL dataset involving overall 707,962 VQA triplets and 9 modality-specific clients and utilize it to train and evaluate our method. Overall, we conduct more than 10,000 client-level experiments on 6 Vision-Language FL task settings involving 58 medical image datasets and 4 different VLM architectures of varying sizes to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. Project Page: https://pramitsaha.github.io/FOCUS/
ICT: Image-Object Cross-Level Trusted Intervention for Mitigating Object Hallucination in Large Vision-Language Models
Authors: Junzhe Chen; Tianshu Zhang; Shiyu Huang; Yuwei Niu; Linfeng Zhang; Lijie Wen; Xuming Hu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Despite the recent breakthroughs achieved by Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) in understanding and responding to complex visual-textual contexts, their inherent hallucination tendencies limit their practical application in real-world scenarios that demand high levels of precision. Existing methods typically either fine-tune the LVLMs using additional data, which incurs extra costs in manual annotation and computational resources or perform comparisons at the decoding stage, which may eliminate useful language priors for reasoning while introducing inference time overhead. Therefore, we propose ICT, a lightweight, training-free method that calculates an intervention direction to shift the model's focus towards different levels of visual information, enhancing its attention to high-level and fine-grained visual details.  During the forward pass stage, the intervention is applied to the attention heads that encode the overall image information and the fine-grained object details, effectively mitigating the phenomenon of overly language priors, and thereby alleviating hallucinations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that ICT achieves strong performance with a small amount of data and generalizes well across different datasets and models. Our code will be public.
PreciseCam: Precise Camera Control for Text-to-Image Generation
Authors: Edurne Bernal-Berdun; Ana Serrano; Belen Masia; Matheus Gadelha; Yannick Hold-Geoffroy; Xin Sun; Diego Gutierrez
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Images as an artistic medium often rely on specific camera angles and lens distortions to convey ideas or emotions; however, such precise control is missing in current text-to-image models. We propose an efficient and general solution that allows precise control over the camera when generating both photographic and artistic images. Unlike prior methods that rely on predefined shots, we rely solely on four simple extrinsic and intrinsic camera parameters, removing the need for pre-existing geometry, reference 3D objects, and multi-view data.We also present a novel dataset with more than 57,000 images, along with their text prompts and ground-truth camera parameters. Our evaluation shows precise camera control in text-to-image generation, surpassing traditional prompt engineering approaches.
3D Occupancy Prediction with Low-Resolution Queries via Prototype-aware View Transformation
Authors: Gyeongrok Oh; Sungjune Kim; Heeju Ko; Hyung-gun Chi; Jinkyu Kim; Dongwook Lee; Daehyun Ji; Sungjoon Choi; Sujin Jang; Sangpil Kim
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: The resolution of voxel queries significantly influences the quality of view transformation in camera-based 3D occupancy prediction. However, computational constraints and the practical necessity for real-time deployment require smaller query resolutions, which inevitably leads to an information loss. Therefore, it is essential to encode and preserve rich visual details within limited query sizes while ensuring a comprehensive representation of 3D occupancy. To this end, we introduce ProtoOcc, a novel occupancy network that leverages prototypes of clustered image segments in view transformation to enhance low-resolution context. In particular, the mapping of 2D prototypes onto 3D voxel queries encodes high-level visual geometries and complements the loss of spatial information from reduced query resolutions. Additionally, we design a multi-perspective decoding strategy to efficiently disentangle the densely compressed visual cues into a high-dimensional 3D occupancy scene. Experimental results on both Occ3D and SemanticKITTI benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method, showing clear improvements over the baselines. More importantly, ProtoOcc achieves competitive performance against the baselines even with 75% reduced voxel resolution.
Unified Dense Prediction of Video Diffusion
Authors: Lehan Yang; Lu Qi; Xiangtai Li; Sheng Li; Varun Jampani; Ming-Hsuan Yang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: We present a unified network for simultaneously generating videos and their corresponding entity segmentation and depth maps from text prompts. We utilize colormap to represent entity masks and depth maps, tightly integrating dense prediction with RGB video generation. Introducing dense prediction information improves video generation's consistency and motion smoothness without increasing computational costs. Incorporating learnable task embeddings brings multiple dense prediction tasks into a single model, enhancing flexibility and further boosting performance. We further propose a large-scale dense prediction video dataset Panda-Dense, addressing the issue that existing datasets do not concurrently contain captions, videos, segmentation, or depth maps. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate the high efficiency of our method, surpassing the state-of-the-art in terms of video quality, consistency, and motion smoothness.
Can Large Vision-Language Models Correct Semantic Grounding Errors By Themselves?
Authors: Yuan-Hong Liao; Rafid Mahmood; Sanja Fidler; David Acuna
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Improving semantic grounding in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often involves collecting domain-specific training data, refining the network architectures, or modifying the training recipes. In this work, we venture into an orthogonal direction and explore self-correction in VLMs focusing on semantic grounding. We find that VLMs can correct their own semantic grounding mistakes when properly prompted and framed for the task, without any fine-tuning or even access to oracle feedback. We also introduce a self-correction framework in an iterative setting which consistently improves performance across all models investigated. Overall, we show that iterative self-correction consistently improves VLM performance in semantic grounding by up to 8.4 accuracy points across all models investigated, without requiring fine-tuning, additional architectural changes, or external data. Our exploration of self-correction also reveals that, even after several rounds of feedback, strong models like GPT-4V and GPT-4o  retain limited capability in leveraging oracle feedback, suggesting promising directions for further research.
SET: Spectral Enhancement for Tiny Object Detection
Authors: Huixin Sun; Runqi Wang; Yanjing Li; Linlin Yang; Shaohui Lin; Xianbin Cao; Baochang Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Deep learning has significantly advanced the object detection field. However, tiny object detection (TOD) remains a challenging problem. We provide a new analysis method to examine the TOD challenge through occlusion-based attribution analysis in the frequency domain. We observe that tiny objects become less distinct after feature encoding and can benefit from the removal of high-frequency information. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named Spectral Enhancement for Tiny object detection (SET), which amplifies the frequency signatures of tiny objects in a heterogeneous architecture. SET includes two modules. The Hierarchical Background Smoothing (HBS) module suppresses high-frequency noise in the background through adaptive smoothing operations. The Adversarial Perturbation Injection (API) module leverages adversarial perturbations to increase feature saliency in critical regions and prompt the refinement of object features during training. Extensive experiments on four datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. Especially, SET boosts the prior art RFLA by 3.2% AP on the AI-TOD dataset.
g3D-LF: Generalizable 3D-Language Feature Fields for Embodied Tasks
Authors: Zihan Wang; Gim Hee Lee
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: We introduce Generalizable 3D-Language Feature Fields (g3D-LF), a 3D representation model pre-trained on large-scale 3D-language dataset for embodied tasks. Our g3D-LF processes posed RGB-D images from agents to encode feature fields for: 1) Novel view representation predictions from any position in the 3D scene; 2) Generations of BEV maps centered on the agent; 3) Querying targets using multi-granularity language within the above-mentioned representations. Our representation can be generalized to unseen environments, enabling real-time construction and dynamic updates. By volume rendering latent features along sampled rays and integrating semantic and spatial relationships through multiscale encoders, our g3D-LF produces representations at different scales and perspectives, aligned with multi-granularity language, via multi-level contrastive learning. Furthermore, we prepare a large-scale 3D-language dataset to align the representations of the feature fields with language. Extensive experiments on Vision-and-Language Navigation under both Panorama and Monocular settings, Zero-shot Object Navigation, and Situated Question Answering tasks highlight the significant advantages and effectiveness of our g3D-LF for embodied tasks. Our source code and dataset will be made open-source upon paper acceptance.
Towards Million-Scale Adversarial Robustness Evaluation With Stronger Individual Attacks
Authors: Yong Xie; Weijie Zheng; Hanxun Huang; Guangnan Ye; Xingjun Ma
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: As deep learning models are increasingly deployed in safety-critical applications, evaluating their vulnerabilities to adversarial perturbations is essential for ensuring their reliability and trustworthiness. Over the past decade, a large number of white-box adversarial robustness methods (i.e., attacks) have been proposed, ranging from single-step to multi-step methods and from individual to ensemble methods. Despite these advances, challenges remain in conducting meaningful and comprehensive robustness evaluations, particularly when it comes to large-scale testing and ensuring evaluations reflect real-world adversarial risks.In this work, we focus on image classification models and propose a novel individual attack method, Probability Margin Attack (PMA), which defines the adversarial margin in the probability space rather than the logits space. We analyze the relationship between PMA and existing cross-entropy or logits-margin-based attacks, showing that PMA outperforms the current state-of-the-art individual methods.Building on PMA, we propose two types of ensemble attacks that balance effectiveness and efficiency. Furthermore, we create a million-scale dataset, CC1M, derived from the existing CC3M dataset, and use it to conduct the first million-scale white-box adversarial robustness evaluation of adversarially-trained ImageNet models. Our findings provide valuable insights into the robustness gaps between individual versus ensemble attacks and small-scale versus million-scale evaluations.
Temporal Action Detection Model Compression by Progressive Block Drop
Authors: Xiaoyong Chen; Yong Guo; Jiaming Liang; Sitong Zhuang; Runhao Zeng; Xiping Hu
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Temporal action detection (TAD) aims to identify and localize action instances in untrimmed videos, which is essential for various video understanding tasks. However, recent improvements in model performance, driven by larger feature extractors and datasets, have led to increased computational demands. This presents a challenge for applications like autonomous driving and robotics, which rely on limited computational resources. While existing channel pruning methods can compress these models, reducing the number of channels often hinders the parallelization efficiency of GPU, due to the inefficient multiplication between small matrices. Instead of pruning channels, we propose a **Progressive Block Drop** method that reduces model depth while retaining layer width. In this way, we still use large matrices for computation but reduce the number of multiplications. Our approach iteratively removes redundant blocks in two steps: first, we drop blocks with minimal impact on model performance; and second, we employ a parameter-efficient cross-depth alignment technique, fine-tuning the pruned model to restore model accuracy. Our method achieves a 25% reduction in computational overhead on two TAD benchmarks (THUMOS14 and ActivityNet-1.3) to achieve lossless compression. More critically, we empirically show that our method is orthogonal to channel pruning methods and can be combined with it to yield further efficiency gains.
Differentiable Inverse Rendering with Interpretable Basis BRDFs
Authors: Hoon-Gyu Chung; Seokjun Choi; Seung-Hwan Baek
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Inverse rendering seeks to reconstruct both geometry and spatially varying BRDFs (SVBRDFs) from captured images. To address the inherent ill-posedness of inverse rendering, basis BRDF representations are commonly used, modeling SVBRDFs as spatially varying blends of a set of basis BRDFs. However, existing methods often yield basis BRDFs that lack intuitive separation and have limited scalability to scenes of varying complexity. In this paper, we introduce a differentiable inverse rendering method that produces interpretable basis BRDFs. Our approach models a scene using 2D Gaussians, where the reflectance of each Gaussian is defined by a weighted blend of basis BRDFs. We efficiently render an image from the 2D Gaussians and basis BRDFs using differentiable rasterization and impose a specular-weighted rendering loss with the input flash photography images. During this analysis-by-synthesis optimization process of differentiable inverse rendering, we dynamically adjust the number of basis BRDFs to fit the target scene while encouraging sparsity in the basis weights. This ensures that the reflectance of each Gaussian is represented by only a few basis BRDFs. This approach enables the reconstruction of accurate geometry and interpretable basis BRDFs that are spatially separated. Consequently, the resulting scene representation, comprising basis BRDFs and 2D Gaussians, supports physically-based novel-view relighting and intuitive scene editing.
EquiPose: Exploiting Permutation Equivariance for Relative Camera Pose Estimation
Authors: Yuzhen Liu; Qiulei Dong
Venue: CVPR 2025 (main)

Abstract: Relative camera pose estimation between two images is a fundamental task in 3D computer vision. Recently, many relative pose estimation networks have been explored for learning a mapping from two input images to their corresponding relative pose, however, the estimated relative poses by these methods do not have the intrinsic Pose Permutation Equivariance (PPE) property: the estimated relative pose from Image A to Image B should be the inverse of that from Image B to Image A. It means that permuting the input order of two images would cause these methods to obtain inconsistent relative poses. To address this problem, we firstly introduce the concept of PPE mapping, which indicates such a mapping that captures the intrinsic PPE property of relative poses. Then by enforcing the aforementioned PPE property, we propose a general framework for relative pose estimation, called EquiPose, which could easily accommodate various relative pose estimation networks in literature as its baseline models. We further theoretically prove that the proposed EquiPose framework could guarantee that its obtained mapping is a PPE mapping. Given a pre-trained baseline model, the proposed EquiPose framework could improve its performance even without fine-tuning, and could further boost its performance with fine-tuning. Experimental results on four public datasets demonstrate that EquiPose could significantly improve the performances of various state-of-the-art models.