GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Learning Connectivity of Neural Networks from a Topological Perspective
Authors: Kun Yuan; Quanquan Li; Jing Shao; Junjie Yan
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Seeking effective neural networks is a critical and practical field in deep learning. Besides designing the depth, type of convolution, normalization, and nonlinearities, the topological connectivity of neural networks is also important. Previous principles of rule-based modular design simplify the difficulty of building an effective architecture, but constrain the possible topologies in limited spaces. In this paper, we attempt to optimize the connectivity in neural networks. We propose a topological perspective to represent a network into a complete graph for analysis, where nodes carry out aggregation and transformation of features, and edges determine the flow of information. By assigning learnable parameters to the edges which reflect the magnitude of connections, the learning process can be performed in a differentiable manner. We further attach auxiliary sparsity constraint to the distribution of connectedness, which promotes the learned topology focus on critical connections. This learning process is compatible with existing networks and owns adaptability to larger search spaces and different tasks. Quantitative results of experiments reflect the learned connectivity is superior to traditional rule-based ones, such as random, residual and complete. In addition, it obtains significant improvements in image classification and object detection without introducing excessive computation burden."
JSTASR: Joint Size and Transparency-Aware Snow Removal Algorithm Based on Modified Partial Convolution and Veiling Effect Removal
Authors: Wei-Ting Chen; Hao-Yu Fang; Jian-Jiun Ding; Cheng-Che Tsai; Sy-Yen Kuo
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Snow removal usually affects the performance of computer vision. Comparing with other atmospheric phenomenon (e.g., haze and rain), snow is more complicated due to its transparency, various size, and accumulation of veiling effect, which make single image de-snowing more challenging. In this paper, first, we reformulate the snow model. Different from that in the previous works, in the proposed snow model, the veiling effect is included. Second, a novel joint size and transparency-aware snow removal algorithm called JSTASR is proposed. It can classify snow particles according to their sizes and conduct snow removal in different scales. Moreover, to remove the snow with different transparency, the transparency-aware snow removal is developed. It can address both transparent and non-transparent snow particles by applying the modified partial convolution. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves significant improvement on both synthetic and real-world datasets and is very helpful for object detection on snow images."
Ocean: Object-aware Anchor-free Tracking
Authors: Zhipeng Zhang; Houwen Peng; Jianlong Fu Bing Li; Weiming Hu
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Anchor-based Siamese trackers have achieved remarkable advancements in accuracy, yet the further improvement is restricted by the lagged tracking robustness. We find the underlying reason is that the regression network in anchor-based methods is only trained on the positive anchor boxes ($IoU \geq 0.6$). This mechanism makes it difficult to refine the anchors whose overlap with the target objects are small. In this paper, we propose a novel object-aware anchor-free network to address this issue. First, instead of refining the reference anchor boxes, we directly predict the position and scale of target objects in an anchor-free fashion. Since each pixel in the groundtruth box is well trained, the tracker is capable of rectifying the weak predictions of target objects during inference. Second, we introduce a feature alignment module to learn an object-aware feature which corresponds with the predicted bounding box. The object-aware feature can further contribute to the classification of target object and background. Moreover, we present a novel Siamese tracking framework based on the anchor-free model. The experiments show that our anchor-free tracker achieves state-of-the-art performance on five benchmarks, including VOT-2018, VOT-2019, OTB-100, GOT-10k and LaSOT. The source code is available at https://github.com/researchmm/TracKit."
Object Tracking using Spatio-Temporal Networks for Future Prediction Location
Authors: Yuan Liu; Ruoteng Li; Yu Cheng; Robby T. Tan; Xiubao Sui
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: We introduce an object tracking algorithm that predicts the future locations of the target object and assists the tracker to handle object occlusion. Given a few frames of an object that are extracted from a complete input sequence, we aim to predict the object’s location in the future frames. To facilitate the future prediction ability, we follow three key observations: 1) object motion trajectory is affected significantly by camera motion; 2) the past trajectory of an object can act as a salient cue to estimate the object motion in the spatial domain; 3) previous frames contain the surroundings and appearance of the target object, which is useful for predicting the target object’s future locations. We incorporate these three observations into our method that employs a multi-stream convolutional-LSTM network. By combining the heatmap scores from our tracker (that utilises appearance inference) and the locations of the target object from our trajectory inference, we predict the final target’s location in each frame. Comprehensive evaluations show that our method sets new state-of-the-art performance on a few commonly used tracking benchmarks."
Pillar-based Object Detection for Autonomous Driving
Authors: Yue Wang; Alireza Fathi; Abhijit Kundu; David A. Ross; Caroline Pantofaru; Tom Funkhouser; Justin Solomon
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: We present a simple and flexible object detection framework optimized for autonomous driving. Building on the observation that point clouds in this application are extremely sparse, we propose a practical pillar-based approach to fix the imbalance issue caused by anchors. In particular, our algorithm incorporates a cylindrical projection into multi-view feature learning, predicts bounding box parameters per pillar rather than per point or per anchor, and includes an aligned pillar-to-point projection module to improve the final prediction. Our anchor-free approach avoids hyperparameter search associated with past methods, simplifying 3D object detection while significantly improving upon state-of-the-art. "
Sparse Adversarial Attack via Perturbation Factorization
Authors: Yanbo Fan; Baoyuan Wu; Tuanhui Li; Yong Zhang; Mingyang Li; Zhifeng Li; Yujiu Yang
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: This work studies the sparse adversarial attack, which aims to generate adversarial perturbations onto partial positions of one benign image, such that the perturbed image is incorrectly predicted by one deep neural network (DNN) model. The sparse adversarial attack involves two challenges, i.e., where to perturb, and how to determine the perturbation magnitude. Many existing works determined the perturbed positions manually or heuristically, and then optimized the magnitude using a proper algorithm designed for the dense adversarial attack. In this work, we propose to factorize the perturbation at each pixel to the product of two variables, including the perturbation magnitude and one binary selection factor (i.e., 0 or 1). One pixel is perturbed if its selection factor is 1, otherwise not perturbed. Based on this factorization, we formulate the sparse attack problem as a mixed integer programming (MIP) to jointly optimize the binary selection factors and continuous perturbation magnitudes of all pixels, with a cardinality constraint on selection factors to explicitly control the degree of sparsity. Besides, the perturbation factorization provides the extra flexibility to incorporate other meaningful constraints on selection factors or magnitudes to achieve some desired performance, such as the group-wise sparsity or the enhanced visual imperceptibility. We develop an efficient algorithm by equivalently reformulating the MIP problem as a continuous optimization problem. Experiments on benchmark databases demonstrate the superiority of the proposed method over several state-of-the-art sparse attack methods. "
3D Scene Reconstruction from a Single Viewport
Authors: Maximilian Denninger; Rudolph Triebel
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: We present a novel approach to infer volumetric reconstructions from a single viewport, based only on an RGB image and a reconstructed normal image. To overcome the problem of reconstructing regions in 3D that are occluded in the 2D image, we propose to learn this information from synthetically generated high-resolution data. To do this, we introduce a deep network architecture that is specifically designed for volumetric TSDF data by featuring a specific tree net architecture. Our framework can handle a 3D resolution of $512^3$ by introducing a dedicated compression technique based on a modified autoencoder. Furthermore, we introduce a novel loss shaping technique for 3D data that guides the learning process towards regions where free and occupied space are close to each other. As we show in experiments on synthetic and realistic benchmark data, this leads to very good reconstruction results, both visually and in terms of quantitative measures. "
Learning to Optimize Domain Specific Normalization for Domain Generalization
Authors: Seonguk Seo; Yumin Suh; Dongwan Kim; Geeho Kim; Jongwoo Han; Bohyung Han
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: We propose a simple but effective multi-source domain generalization technique based on deep neural networks by incorporating optimized normalization layers that are specific to individual domains. Our approach employs multiple normalization methods while learning separate affine parameters per domain. For each domain, the activations are normalized by a weighted average of multiple normalization statistics. The normalization statistics are kept track of separately for each normalization type if necessary. Specifically, we employ batch and instance normalizations in our implementation to identify the best combination of these two normalization methods in each domain. The optimized normalization layers are effective to enhance the generalizability of the learned model. We demonstrate the state-of-the-art accuracy of our algorithm in the standard domain generalization benchmarks, as well as viability to further tasks such as multi-source domain adaptation and domain generalization in the presence of label noise."
Self-supervised Outdoor Scene Relighting
Authors: Ye Yu; Abhimitra Meka; Mohamed Elgharib; Hans-Peter Seidel; Christian Theobalt; William A. P. Smith
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Outdoor scene relighting is a challenging problem that requires good understanding of the scene geometry, illumination and albedo. Current techniques are completely supervised, requiring high quality synthetic renderings to train a solution. Such renderings are synthesized using priors learned from limited data. In contrast, we propose a self-supervised approach for relighting. Our approach is trained only on corpora of images collected from the internet without any user-supervision. This virtually endless source of training data allows training a general relighting solution. Our approach first decomposes an image into its albedo, geometry and illumination. A novel relighting is then produced by modifying the illumination parameters. Our solution capture shadow using a dedicated shadow prediction map, and does not rely on accurate geometry estimation. We evaluate our technique subjectively and objectively using a new dataset with ground-truth relighting. Results show the ability of our technique to produce photo-realistic and physically plausible results, that generalizes to unseen scenes. "
Privacy Preserving Visual SLAM
Authors: Mikiya Shibuya; Shinya Sumikura; Ken Sakurada
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: This study proposes a privacy-preserving Visual SLAM framework for estimating camera poses and performing bundle adjustment with mixed line and point clouds in real time. Previous studies have proposed localization methods to estimate a camera pose using a line-cloud map for a single image or a reconstructed point cloud. These methods offer a scene privacy protection against the inversion attacks by converting a point cloud to a line cloud, which reconstruct the scene images from the point cloud. However, they are not directly applicable to a video sequence because they do not address computational efficiency. This is a critical issue to solve for estimating camera poses and performing bundle adjustment with mixed line and point clouds in real time. Moreover, there has been no study on a method to optimize a line-cloud map of a server with a point cloud reconstructed from a client video because any observation points on the image coordinates are not available to prevent the inversion attacks, namely the reversibility of the 3D lines. The experimental results with synthetic and real data show that our Visual SLAM framework achieves the intended privacy-preserving formation and real-time performance using a line-cloud map."
Leveraging Acoustic Images for Effective Self-Supervised Audio Representation Learning
Authors: Valentina Sanguineti; Pietro Morerio; Niccolò Pozzetti; Danilo Greco; Marco Cristani; Vittorio Murino
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose the use of a new modality characterized by a richer information content, namely acoustic images, for the sake of audio-visual scene understanding. Each pixel in such images is characterized by a spectral signature, associated to a specific direction in space and obtained by processing the audio signals coming from an array of microphones. By coupling such array with a video camera, we obtain spatio-temporal alignment of acoustic images and video frames. This constitutes a powerful source of self-supervision, which can be exploited in the learning pipeline we are proposing, without resorting to expensive data annotations. However, since 2D planar arrays are cumbersome and not as widespread as ordinary microphones, we propose that the richer information content of acoustic images can be distilled, through a self-supervised learning scheme, into more powerful audio and visual feature representations. The learnt feature representations can then be employed for downstream tasks such as classification and cross-modal retrieval, without the need of a microphone array. To prove that, we introduce a novel multimodal dataset consisting in RGB videos, raw audio signals and acoustic images, aligned in space and synchronized in time. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of our hypothesis and the effectiveness of the proposed pipeline, also when tested for tasks and datasets different from those used for training."
Learning Joint Visual Semantic Matching Embeddings for Language-guided Retrieval
Authors: Yanbei Chen; Loris Bazzani
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Interactive image retrieval is an emerging research topic with the objective of integrating inputs from multiple modalities as query for retrieval, e.g., textual feedback from users to guide, modify or refine image retrieval. In this work, we study the problem of composing images and textual modifications for language-guided retrieval in the context of fashion applications. We propose a unified Joint Visual Semantic Matching (JVSM) model that learns image-text compositional embeddings by jointly associating visual and textual modalities in a shared discriminative embedding space via compositional losses. JVSM has been designed with versatility and flexibility in mind, being able to perform multiple image and text tasks in a single model, such as text-image matching and language-guided retrieval. We show the effectiveness of our approach in the fashion domain, where it is difficult to express keyword-based queries given the complex specificity of fashion terms. Our experiments on three datasets (Fashion-200k, UT-Zap50k, and Fashion-iq) show that JVSM achieves state-of-the-art results on language-guided retrieval and additionally we show its capabilities to perform image and text retrieval. "
Globally Optimal and Efficient Vanishing Point Estimation in Atlanta World
Authors: Haoang Li; Pyojin Kim; Ji Zhao; Kyungdon Joo; Zhipeng Cai; Zhe Liu; Yun-Hui Liu
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Atlanta world holds for the scenes composed of a vertical dominant direction and several horizontal dominant directions. Vanishing point (VP) is the intersection of the image lines projected from parallel 3D lines. In Atlanta world, given a set of image lines, we aim to cluster them by the unknown-but-sought VPs whose number is unknown. Existing approaches are prone to missing partial inliers, rely on prior knowledge of the number of VPs, and/or lead to low efficiency. To overcome these limitations, we propose the novel mine-and-stab (MnS) algorithm and embed it in the branch-and-bound (BnB) algorithm. Different from BnB that iteratively branches the full parameter intervals, our MnS directly mines the narrow sub-intervals and then stabs them by probes. We simultaneously search for the vertical VP by BnB and horizontal VPs by MnS. The proposed collaboration between BnB and MnS guarantees global optimality in terms of maximizing the number of inliers. It can also automatically determine the number of VPs. Moreover, its efficiency is suitable for practical applications. Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets showed that our method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in terms of accuracy and/or efficiency."
StyleGAN2 Distillation for Feed-forward Image Manipulation
Authors: Yuri Viazovetskyi; Vladimir Ivashkin; Evgeny Kashin
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: StyleGAN2 is a state-of-the-art network in generating realistic images. Besides, it was explicitly trained to have disentangled directions in latent space, which allows efficient image manipulation by varying latent factors. Editing existing image requires embedding a given image into the latent space of StyleGAN2. Latent code optimization via backpropagation is commonly used for qualitative embedding of real world images, although it is prohibitively slow for many applications. We propose a way to distill a particular image manipulation of StyleGAN2 into image-to-image network trained in paired way. The resulting pipeline is an alternative to existing GANs, trained on unpaired data. We provide results of human faces’ transformation: gender swap, aging/rejuvenation, style transfer and image morphing. We show that the quality of generation using our method comparable to StyleGAN2 backpropagation and current state-of-the-art methods in these particular tasks."
Self-Prediction for Joint Instance and Semantic Segmentation of Point Clouds
Authors: Jinxian Liu; Minghui Yu; Bingbing Ni⁴; Ye Chen
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: We develop a novel learning scheme named Self-Prediction for 3D instance and semantic segmentation of point clouds. Distinct from most existing methods that focus on designing convolutional operators, our method designs a new learning scheme to enhance point relation exploring for better segmentation. More specifically, we divide a point cloud sample into two subsets and construct a complete graph based on their representations. Then we use label propagation algorithm to predict labels of one subset when given labels of the other subset. By training with this Self-Prediction task, the backbone network is constrained to fully explore relational context/geometric/shape information and learn more discriminative features for segmentation. Moreover, a general associated framework equipped with our Self-Prediction scheme is designed for enhancing instance and semantic segmentation simultaneously, where instance and semantic representations are combined to perform Self-Prediction. Through this way, instance and semantic segmentation are collaborated and mutually reinforced. Significant performance improvements on instance and semantic segmentation compared with baseline are achieved on S3DIS and ShapeNet. Our method achieves state-of-the-art instance segmentation results on S3DIS and comparable semantic segmentation results compared with state-of-the-arts on S3DIS and ShapeNet when we only take PointNet++ as the backbone network."
Learning Disentangled Representations via Mutual Information Estimation
Authors: Eduardo Hugo Sanchez; Mathieu Serrurier; Mathias Ortner
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the problem of learning disentangled representations. Given a pair of images sharing some attributes, we aim to create a low-dimensional representation which is split into two parts: a shared representation that captures the common information between the images and an exclusive representation that contains the specific information of each image. To address this issue, we propose a model based on mutual information estimation without relying on image reconstruction or image generation. Mutual information maximization is performed to capture the attributes of data in the shared and exclusive representations while we minimize the mutual information between the shared and exclusive representation to enforce representation disentanglement. We show that these representations are useful to perform downstream tasks such as image classification and image retrieval based on the shared or exclusive component. Moreover, classification results show that our model outperforms the state-of-the-art models based on VAE/GAN approaches in representation disentanglement."
Challenge-Aware RGBT Tracking
Authors: Chenglong Li; Lei Liu; Andong Lu; Qing Ji; Jin Tang
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: RGB and thermal source data suffer from both shared and specific challenges, and how to explore and exploit them plays a critical role to represent the target appearance in RGBT tracking. In this paper, we propose a novel challenge-aware neural network to handle the modality-shared challenges (e.g., fast motion, scale variation and occlusion) and the modality-specific ones (e.g., illumination variation and thermal crossover) for RGBT tracking. In particular, we design several parameter-shared branches in each layer to model the target appearance under the modality-shared challenges, and several parameter-independent branches under the modality-specific ones. Based on the observation that the modality-specific cues of different modalities usually contains the complementary advantages, we propose a guidance module to transfer discriminative features from one modality to another one, which could enhance the discriminative ability of some weak modality. Moreover, all branches are aggregated together in an adaptive manner and parallel embedded in the backbone network to efficiently form more discriminative target representations. These challenge-aware branches are able to model the target appearance under certain challenges so that the target representations can be learnt by a few parameters even in the situation of insufficient training data. From the experimental results we will show that our method operates at a real-time speed while performing well against the state-of-the-art methods on three benchmark datasets."
Fully Trainable and Interpretable Non-Local Sparse Models for Image Restoration
Authors: Bruno Lecouat; Jean Ponce; Julien Mairal
Venue: ECCV 2020 (main)

Abstract: Non-local self-similarity and sparsity principles have proven to be powerful priors for natural image modeling. We propose a novel differentiable relaxation of joint sparsity that exploits both principles and leads to a general framework for image restoration which is (1) trainable end to end, (2) fully interpretable, and (3) much more compact than competing deep learning architectures. We apply this approach to denoising, jpeg deblocking, and demosaicking, and show that, with as few as 100K parameters, its performance on several standard benchmarks is on par or better than state-of-the-art methods that may have an order of magnitude or more parameters."