mtybilly/Instruct2DS huggingface dataset:
VisionTrap: Vision-Augmented Trajectory Prediction Guided by Textual Descriptions
Authors: Hyun Woo, Hongbeen Park, Haeji Jung, Reza Mahjourian, Hyung-gun Chi, Hyerin Lim, Sangpil Kim, Jinkyu Kim* Seokha Moon
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Predicting future trajectories for other road agents is an essential task for autonomous vehicles. Established trajectory prediction methods primarily use agent tracks generated by a detection and tracking system and HD map as inputs. In this work, we propose a novel method that also incorporates visual input from surround-view cameras, allowing the model to utilize visual cues such as human gazes and gestures, road conditions, vehicle turn signals, etc, which are typically hidden from the model in prior methods. Furthermore, we use textual descriptions generated by a Vision-Language Model (VLM) and refined by a Large Language Model (LLM) as supervision during training to guide the model on what to learn from the input data. Despite using these extra inputs, our method achieves a latency of 53 ms, making it feasible for real-time processing, which is significantly faster than that of previous single-agent prediction methods with similar performance. Our experiments show that both the visual inputs and the textual descriptions contribute to improvements in trajectory prediction performance, and our qualitative analysis highlights how the model is able to exploit these additional inputs. Lastly, in this work we create and release the nuScenes-Text dataset, which augments the established nuScenes dataset with rich textual annotations for every scene, demonstrating the positive impact of utilizing VLM on trajectory prediction. Our project page is at https://moonseokha.github.io/VisionTrap."
Occluded Gait Recognition with Mixture of Experts: An Action Detection Perspective
Authors: Yunjie Peng, Saihui Hou*, Chunshui Cao, Xu Liu, Zhiqiang He, Yongzhen Huang* Panjian Huang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Extensive occlusions in real-world scenarios pose challenges to gait recognition due to missing and noisy information, as well as body misalignment in position and scale. We argue that rich dynamic contextual information within a gait sequence inherently possesses occlusion-solving traits: 1) Adjacent frames with gait continuity allow holistic body regions to infer occluded body regions; 2) Gait cycles allow information integration between holistic actions and occluded actions. Therefore, we introduce an action detection perspective where a gait sequence is regarded as a composition of actions. To detect accurate actions under complex occlusion scenarios, we propose an Action Detection Based Mixture of Experts (GaitMoE), consisting of Mixture of Temporal Experts (MTE) and Mixture of Action Experts (MAE). MTE adaptively constructs action anchors by temporal experts and MAE adaptively constructs action proposals from action anchors by action experts. Especially, action detection as a proxy task with gait recognition is an end-to-end joint training only with ID labels. In addition, due to the lack of a unified occluded benchmark, we construct a pioneering Occluded Gait database (OccGait), containing rich occlusion scenarios and annotations of occlusion types. Extensive experiments on OccGait, OccCASIA-B, Gait3D and GREW demonstrate the superior performance of GaitMoE. OccGait is available at https://github.com/BNU-IVC/OccGait."
EDTalk: Efficient Disentanglement for Emotional Talking Head Synthesis
Authors: Bin Ji, Mengxiao Bi, ye pan* Shuai Tan*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Achieving disentangled control over multiple facial motions and accommodating diverse input modalities greatly enhances the application and entertainment of the talking head generation. This necessitates a deep exploration of the decoupling space for facial features, ensuring that they a) operate independently without mutual interference and b) can be preserved to share with different modal inputs—both aspects often neglected in existing methods. To address this gap, this paper proposes a novel Efficient Disentanglement framework for Talking head generation (EDTalk). Our framework enables individual manipulation of mouth shape, head pose, and emotional expression, conditioned on video or audio inputs. Specifically, we employ three lightweight modules to decompose the facial dynamics into three distinct latent spaces representing mouth, pose, and expression, respectively. Each space is characterized by a set of learnable bases whose linear combinations define specific motions. To ensure independence and accelerate training, we enforce orthogonality among bases and devise an efficient training strategy to allocate motion responsibilities to each space without relying on external knowledge. The learned bases are then stored in corresponding banks, enabling shared visual priors with audio input. Furthermore, considering the properties of each space, we propose an Audio-to-Motion module for audio-driven talking head synthesis. Experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of EDTalk. The code and pretrained models are released at: https://tanshuai0219.github.io/EDTalk/"
Groma: Localized Visual Tokenization for Grounding Multimodal Large Language Models
Authors: Yi Jiang*, Jiannan Wu, Zehuan Yuan, Xiaojuan Qi* Chuofan Ma*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "We introduce Groma, a Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) with grounded and fine-grained visual perception ability. Beyond holistic image understanding, Groma is adept at region-level tasks such as region captioning and visual grounding. Such capabilities are built upon a localized visual tokenization mechanism, where an image input is decomposed into regions of interest and subsequently encoded into region tokens. By integrating region tokens into user instructions and model responses, we seamlessly enable Groma to understand user-specified region inputs and ground its textual output to images. Besides, to enhance the grounded chat ability of Groma, we curate a visually grounded instruction dataset by leveraging the powerful GPT-4V and visual prompting techniques. Compared with MLLMs that rely on the language model or external module for localization, Groma consistently demonstrates superior performances in standard referring and grounding benchmarks, highlighting the advantages of embedding localization into image tokenization. Project page: https://groma-mllm.github.io/."
On the Utility of 3D Hand Poses for Action Recognition
Authors: Dibyadip Chatterjee, Fadime Sener, Shugao Ma, Angela Yao* Md Salman Shamil*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "3D hand pose is an underexplored modality for action recognition. Poses are compact yet informative and can greatly benefit applications with limited compute budgets. However, poses alone offer an incomplete understanding of actions, as they cannot fully capture objects and environments with which humans interact. We propose HandFormer, a novel multimodal transformer, to efficiently model hand-object interactions. HandFormer combines 3D hand poses at a high temporal resolution for fine-grained motion modeling with sparsely sampled RGB frames for encoding scene semantics. Observing the unique characteristics of hand poses, we temporally factorize hand modeling and represent each joint by its short-term trajectories. This factorized pose representation combined with sparse RGB samples is remarkably efficient and highly accurate. Unimodal HandFormer with only hand poses outperforms existing skeleton-based methods at 5× fewer FLOPs. With RGB, we achieve new state-of-the-art performance on Assembly101 and H2O with significant improvements in egocentric action recognition."
DG-PIC: Domain Generalized Point-In-Context Learning for Point Cloud Understanding
Authors: Qianyu Zhou, Yuhang Li, Xuequan Lu*, Meili Wang*, Lizhuang Ma, Jian Chang, Jian Jun Zhang Jincen Jiang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Recent point cloud understanding research suffers from performance drops on unseen data, due to the distribution shifts across different domains. While recent studies use Domain Generalization (DG) techniques to mitigate this by learning domain-invariant features, most are designed for a single task and neglect the potential of testing data. Despite In-Context Learning (ICL) showcasing multi-task learning capability, it usually relies on high-quality context-rich data and considers a single dataset, and has rarely been studied in point cloud understanding. In this paper, we introduce a novel, practical, multi-domain multi-task setting, handling multiple domains and multiple tasks within one unified model for domain generalized point cloud understanding. To this end, we propose Domain Generalized Point-In-Context Learning (DG-PIC) that boosts the generalizability across various tasks and domains at testing time. In particular, we develop dual-level source prototype estimation that considers both global-level shape contextual and local-level geometrical structures for representing source domains and a dual-level test-time feature shifting mechanism that leverages both macro-level domain semantic information and micro-level patch positional relationships to pull the target data closer to the source ones during the testing. Our DG-PIC does not require any model updates during the testing and can handle unseen domains and multiple tasks, i.e., point cloud reconstruction, denoising, and registration, within one unified model. We also introduce a benchmark for this new setting. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that DG-PIC outperforms state-of-the-art techniques significantly."
Operational Open-Set Recognition and PostMax Refinement
Authors: Ryan Rabinowitz, Manuel Günther, Terrance E. Boult Steve Cruz*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Open-Set Recognition (OSR) is a problem with mainly practical applications. However, recent evaluations have largely focused on small-scale data and tuning thresholds over the test set, which disregard the real-world operational needs of parameter selection. Thus, we revisit the original goals of OSR and propose a new evaluation metric, Operational Open-Set Accuracy (OOSA), which requires predicting an operationally relevant threshold from a validation set with known and a surrogate set with unknown samples, and then applying this threshold during testing. With this new measure in mind, we develop a large-scale evaluation protocol suited for operational scenarios. Additionally, we introduce the novel PostMax algorithm that performs post-processing refinement of the logit of the maximal class. This refinement involves normalizing logits by deep feature magnitudes and utilizing an extreme-value-based generalized Pareto distribution to map them into proper probabilities. We evaluate multiple pre-trained deep networks, including leading transformer and convolution-based architectures, on different selections of large-scale surrogate and test sets. Our experiments demonstrate that PostMax advances the state of the art in open-set recognition, showing statistically significant improvements in our novel OOSA metric as well as in previously used metrics such as AUROC, FPR95, and others."
ScaleDreamer: Scalable Text-to-3D Synthesis with Asynchronous Score Distillation
Authors: Yuxiang Wei, Yabin Zhang, Xiangyu Zhu, Zhen Lei, Lei Zhang Zhiyuan Ma*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "By leveraging the text-to-image diffusion prior, score distillation can synthesize 3D contents without paired text-3D training data. Instead of spending hours of online optimization per text prompt, recent studies have been focused on learning a text-to-3D generative network for amortizing multiple text-3D relations, which can synthesize 3D contents in seconds. However, existing score distillation methods are hard to scale up to a large amount of text prompts due to the difficulties in aligning pretrained diffusion prior with the distribution of rendered images from various text prompts. Current state-of-the-arts such as Variational Score Distillation finetune the pretrained diffusion model to minimize the noise prediction error so as to align the distributions, which are however unstable to train and will impair the model’s comprehension capability to numerous text prompts. Based on the observation that the diffusion models tend to have lower noise prediction errors at earlier timesteps, we propose Asynchronous Score Distillation (ASD), which minimizes the noise prediction error by shifting the diffusion timestep to earlier ones. ASD is stable to train and can scale up to 100k prompts. It reduces the noise prediction error without changing the weights of pre-trained diffusion model, thus keeping its strong comprehension capability to prompts. We conduct extensive experiments using different text-to-3D architectures, including Hyper-iNGP and 3DConv-Net. The results demonstrate ASD’s effectiveness in stable 3D generator training, high-quality 3D content synthesis, and its superior prompt-consistency, especially under large prompt corpus. Code is available at https://github.com/theEricMa/ScaleDreamer."
SINDER: Repairing the Singular Defects of DINOv2
Authors: Tong Zhang, Mathieu Salzmann* Haoqi Wang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Vision Transformer models trained on large-scale datasets, although effective, often exhibit artifacts in the patch token they extract. While such defects can be alleviated by re-training the entire model with additional classification tokens, the underlying reasons for the presence of these tokens remain unclear. In this paper, we conduct a thorough investigation of this phenomenon, combining theoretical analysis with empirical observations. Our findings reveal that these artifacts originate from the pre-trained network itself, specifically stemming from the leading left singular vector of the network’s weights. Furthermore, to mitigate these defects, we propose a novel fine-tuning smooth regularization that rectifies structural deficiencies using only a small dataset, thereby avoiding the need for complete re-training. We validate our method on various downstream tasks, including unsupervised segmentation, classification, supervised segmentation, and depth estimation, demonstrating its effectiveness in improving model performance. Codes and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/haoqiwang/sinder."
"SEA-RAFT: Simple, Efficient, Accurate RAFT for Optical Flow"
Authors: Lahav O Lipson, Jia Deng Yihan Wang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "We introduce SEA-RAFT, a more simple, efficient, and accurate RAFT for optical flow. Compared with RAFT, SEA-RAFT is trained with a new loss (mixture of Laplace). It directly regresses an initial flow for faster convergence in iterative refinements and introduces rigid-motion pre-training to improve generalization. SEA-RAFT achieves state-of-the-art accuracy on the Spring benchmark with a 3.69 endpoint-error (EPE) and a 0.36 1-pixel outlier rate (1px), representing 22.9% and 17.8% error reduction from best published results. In addition, SEA-RAFT obtains the best cross-dataset generalization on KITTI and Spring. With its high efficiency, SEA-RAFT operates at least 2.3× faster than existing methods while maintaining competitive performance. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/princeton-vl/SEA-RAFT."
Learning Differentially Private Diffusion Models via Stochastic Adversarial Distillation
Authors: Pengju Wang, Shiming Ge* Bochao Liu
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "While the success of deep learning relies on large amounts of training datasets, data is often limited in privacy-sensitive domains. To address this challenge, generative model learning with differential privacy has emerged as a solution to train private generative models for desensitized data generation. However, the quality of the images generated by existing methods is limited due to the complexity of modeling data distribution. We build on the success of diffusion models and introduce DP-SAD, which trains a private diffusion model by a stochastic adversarial distillation method. Specifically, we first train a diffusion model as a teacher and then train a student by distillation, in which we achieve differential privacy by adding noise to the gradients from other models to the student. For better generation quality, we introduce a discriminator to distinguish whether an image is from the teacher or the student, which forms the adversarial training. Extensive experiments and analysis clearly demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method."
General and Task-Oriented Video Segmentation
Authors: Liulei Li, Wenguan Wang, Ruijie Quan, Yi Yang* Mu Chen
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "We present GvSeg, a general video segmentation framework for addressing four different video segmentation tasks (, instance, semantic, panoptic, and exemplar-guided) while maintaining an identical architectural design. Currently, there is a trend towards developing general video segmentation solutions that can be applied across multiple tasks. This streamlines research endeavors and simplifies deployment. However, such a highly homogenized framework in current design, where each element maintains uniformity, could overlook the inherent diversity among different tasks and lead to suboptimal performance. To tackle this, GvSeg: i) provides a holistic disentanglement and modeling for segment targets, thoroughly examining them from the perspective of appearance, position, and shape, and on this basis, ii) reformulates the query initialization, matching and sampling strategies in alignment with the task-specific requirement. These architecture-agnostic innovations empower GvSeg to effectively address each unique task by accommodating the specific properties that characterize them. Extensive experiments on seven gold-standard benchmark datasets demonstrate that GvSeg surpasses all existing specialized/general solutions by a significant margin on four different video segmentation tasks."
VISAGE: Video Instance Segmentation with Appearance-Guided Enhancement
Authors: Jaehyun Kang, Miran Heo, Sukjun Hwang, Seoung Wug Oh, Seon Joo Kim* Hanjung Kim
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "In recent years, online Video Instance Segmentation (VIS) methods have shown remarkable advancement with their powerful query-based detectors. Utilizing the output queries of the detector at the frame-level, these methods achieve high accuracy on challenging benchmarks. However, our observations demonstrate that these methods heavily rely on location information, which often causes incorrect associations between objects. This paper presents that a key axis of object matching in trackers is appearance information, which becomes greatly instructive under conditions where positional cues are insufficient for distinguishing their identities. Therefore, we suggest a simple yet powerful extension to object decoders that explicitly extract embeddings from backbone features and drive queries to capture the appearances of objects, which greatly enhances instance association accuracy. Furthermore, recognizing the limitations of existing benchmarks in fully evaluating appearance awareness, we have constructed a synthetic dataset to rigorously validate our method. By effectively resolving the over-reliance on location information, we achieve state-of-the-art results on YouTube-VIS 2019/2021 and Occluded VIS (OVIS). Code is available at https://github.com/KimHanjung/VISAGE."
LiFT: A Surprisingly Simple Lightweight Feature Transform for Dense ViT Descriptors
Authors: Matthew Walmer, Kamal Gupta, Abhinav Shrivastava Saksham Suri*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "We present a simple self-supervised method to enhance the performance of ViT features for dense downstream tasks. Our Lightweight Feature Transform (LiFT) is a straightforward and compact postprocessing network that can be applied to enhance the features of any pre-trained ViT backbone. LiFT is fast and easy to train with a self-supervised objective, and it boosts the density of ViT features for minimal extra inference cost. Furthermore, we demonstrate that LiFT can be applied with approaches that use additional task-specific downstream modules, as we integrate LiFT with ViTDet for COCO detection and segmentation. Despite the simplicity of LiFT, we find that it is not simply learning a more complex version of bilinear interpolation. Instead, our LiFT training protocol leads to several desirable emergent properties that benefit ViT features in dense downstream tasks. This includes greater scale invariance for features, and better object boundary maps. By simply training LiFT for a few epochs, we show improved performance on keypoint correspondence, detection, segmentation, and object discovery tasks. Overall, LiFT provides an easy way to unlock the benefits of denser feature arrays for a fraction of the computational cost. For more details, refer to our magentaproject page."
ControlNet++: Improving Conditional Controls with Efficient Consistency Feedback
Authors: Taojiannan Yang, Huafeng Kuang, Jie Wu, Zhaoning Wang, Xuefeng Xiao, Chen Chen Ming Li*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "To enhance the controllability of text-to-image diffusion models, existing efforts like ControlNet incorporated image-based conditional controls. In this paper, we reveal that existing methods still face significant challenges in generating images that align with the image conditional controls. To this end, we propose ControlNet++, a novel approach that improves controllable generation by explicitly optimizing pixel-level cycle consistency between generated images and conditional controls. Specifically, for an input conditional control, we use a pre-trained discriminative reward model to extract the corresponding condition of the generated images, and then optimize the consistency loss between the input conditional control and extracted condition. A straightforward implementation would be generating images from random noises and then calculating the consistency loss, but such an approach requires storing gradients for multiple sampling timesteps, leading to considerable time and memory costs. To address this, we introduce an efficient reward strategy that deliberately disturbs the input images by adding noise, and then uses the single-step denoised images for reward fine-tuning. This avoids the extensive costs associated with image sampling, allowing for more efficient reward fine-tuning. Extensive experiments show that ControlNet++ significantly improves controllability under various conditional controls. For example, it achieves improvements over ControlNet by 11.1% mIoU, 13.4% SSIM, and 7.6% RMSE, respectively, for segmentation mask, line-art edge, and depth conditions. All the code, models, demo and organized data have been open sourced on our magentaGithub Repo."
TF-FAS: Twofold-Element Fine-Grained Semantic Guidance for Generalizable Face Anti-Spoofing
Authors: Ke-Yue Zhang, Taiping Yao*, Qianyu Zhou, Shouhong Ding, Pingyang Dai*, Rongrong Ji Xudong Wang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Generalizable Face anti-spoofing (FAS) approaches have recently garnered considerable attention due to their robustness in unseen scenarios. Some recent methods incorporate vision-language models into FAS, leveraging their impressive pre-trained performance to improve the generalization. However, these methods only utilize coarse-grained or single-element prompts for fine-tuning FAS tasks, without fully exploring the potential of language supervision, leading to unsatisfactory generalization ability. To address these concerns, we propose a novel framework called TF-FAS, which aims to thoroughly explore and harness twofold-element fine-grained semantic guidance to enhance generalization. Specifically, the Content Element Decoupling Module (CEDM) is proposed to comprehensively explore the semantic elements related to content. It is subsequently employed to supervise the decoupling of categorical features from content-related features, thereby enhancing the generalization abilities. Moreover, recognizing the subtle differences within the data of each class in FAS, we present a Fine-Grained Categorical Element Module (FCEM) to explore fine-grained categorical element guidance, then adaptively integrate them to facilitate the distribution modeling for each class. Comprehensive experiments and analysis demonstrate the superiority of our method over state-of-the-art competitors. Code:https://github.com/xudongww/TF-FAS"
Prompting Future Driven Diffusion Model for Hand Motion Prediction
Authors: Kaihao Zhang*, Wenhan Luo*, Wei Liu, HONGDONG LI Bowen Tang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Hand motion prediction from both first- and third-person perspectives is vital for enhancing user experience in AR/VR and ensuring safe remote robotic arm control. Previous works typically focus on predicting hand motion trajectories or human body motion, with direct hand motion prediction remaining largely unexplored - despite the additional challenges posed by compact skeleton size. To address this, we propose a prompt-based Future Driven Diffusion Model (PromptFDDM) for predicting hand motion with guidance and prompts. Specifically, we develop a Spatial-Temporal Extractor Network (STEN) to predict hand motion with guidance, a Ground Truth Extractor Network (GTEN), and a Reference Data Generator Network (RDGN), which extract ground truth and substitute future data with generated reference data, respectively, to guide STEN. Additionally, interactive prompts generated from observed motions further enhance model performance. Experimental results on the FPHA and HO3D datasets demonstrate that the proposed PromptFDDM achieves state-of-the-art performance in both first- and third-person perspectives."
Defect Spectrum: A Granular Look of Large-scale Defect Datasets with Rich Semantics
Authors: ZhiFei Chen, Pengguang Chen, Xi Fang, Yixun Liang, Shu Liu*, Yingcong Chen* Shuai Yang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Defect inspection is paramount within the closed-loop manufacturing system. However, existing datasets for defect inspection often lack the precision and semantic granularity required for practical applications. In this paper, we introduce the Defect Spectrum, a comprehensive benchmark that offers precise, semantic-abundant, and large-scale annotations for a wide range of industrial defects. Building on four key industrial benchmarks, our dataset refines existing annotations and introduces rich semantic details, distinguishing multiple defect types within a single image. With our dataset, we were able to achieve an increase of 10.74% in the Recall rate, and a decrease of 33.10% in the False Positive Rate (FPR) from the industrial simulation experiment. Furthermore, we introduce Defect-Gen, a two-stage diffusion-based generator designed to create high-quality and diverse defective images, even when working with limited defective data. The synthetic images generated by Defect-Gen significantly enhance the performance of defect segmentation models, achieving an improvement in mIoU scores up to 9.85 on Defect-Spectrum subsets. Overall, The Defect Spectrum dataset demonstrates its potential in defect inspection research, offering a solid platform for testing and refining advanced models. Our project page is in https://envision-research.github.io/Defect_Spectrum/."
Unveiling Advanced Frequency Disentanglement Paradigm for Low-Light Image Enhancement
Authors: Xinyu Lin, Wenbo Li, Xiaogang Xu, Yuanhao Cai, Zhonghang Liu, Xiaoguang Han, Jiangbo Lu Kun Zhou*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Previous low-light image enhancement (LLIE) approaches, while employing frequency decomposition techniques to address the intertwined challenges of low frequency (e.g., illumination recovery) and high frequency (e.g., noise reduction), primarily focused on the development of dedicated and complex networks to achieve improved performance. In contrast, we reveal that an advanced disentanglement paradigm is sufficient to consistently enhance state-of-the-art methods with minimal computational overhead. Leveraging the image Laplace decomposition scheme, we propose a novel low-frequency consistency method, facilitating improved frequency disentanglement optimization. Our method, seamlessly integrating with various models such as CNNs, Transformers, and flow-based and diffusion models, demonstrates remarkable adaptability. Noteworthy improvements are showcased across five popular benchmarks, with up to 7.68dB gains on PSNR achieved for six state-of-the-art models. Impressively, our approach maintains efficiency with only 88K extra parameters, setting a new standard in the challenging realm of low-light image enhancement. https://github.com/redrock303/ ADF-LLIE."
RAPiD-Seg: Range-Aware Pointwise Distance Distribution Networks for 3D LiDAR Segmentation
Authors: Hubert P. H. Shum, Toby P Breckon Li Li*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "[-4] 3D point clouds play a pivotal role in outdoor scene perception, especially in the context of autonomous driving. Recent advancements in 3D LiDAR segmentation often focus intensely on the spatial positioning and distribution of points for accurate segmentation. However, these methods, while robust in variable conditions, encounter challenges due to sole reliance on coordinates and point intensity, leading to poor isometric invariance and suboptimal segmentation. To tackle this challenge, our work introduces Range-Aware Pointwise Distance Distribution () features and the associated architecture. Our features exhibit rigid transformation invariance and effectively adapt to variations in point density, with a design focus on capturing the localized geometry of neighboring structures. They utilize inherent LiDAR isotropic radiation and semantic categorization for enhanced local representation and computational efficiency, while incorporating a 4D distance metric that integrates geometric and surface material reflectivity for improved semantic segmentation. To effectively embed high-dimensional features, we propose a double-nested autoencoder structure with a novel class-aware embedding objective to encode high-dimensional features into manageable voxel-wise embeddings. Additionally, we propose which incorporates a channel-wise attention fusion and two effective -Seg variants, further optimizing the embedding for enhanced performance and generalization. Our method outperforms contemporary LiDAR segmentation work in terms of mIoU on SemanticKITTI (76.1) and nuScenes (83.6) datasets."
UMBRAE: Unified Multimodal Brain Decoding
Authors: Raoul de Charette, A. Cengiz Oztireli, Jing-Hao Xue Weihao Xia*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "We address prevailing challenges of the brain-powered research, departing from the observation that the literature hardly recover accurate spatial information and require subject-specific models. To address these challenges, we propose UMBRAE, a unified multimodal decoding of brain signals. First, to extract instance-level conceptual and spatial details from neural signals, we introduce an efficient universal brain encoder for multimodal-brain alignment and recover object descriptions at multiple levels of granularity from subsequent multimodal large language model (MLLM). Second, we introduce a cross-subject training strategy mapping subject-specific features to a common feature space. This allows a model to be trained on multiple subjects without extra resources, even yielding superior results compared to subject-specific models. Further, we demonstrate this supports weakly-supervised adaptation to new subjects, with only a fraction of the total training data. Experiments demonstrate that not only achieves superior results in the newly introduced tasks but also outperforms methods in well established tasks. To assess our method, we construct and share with the community a comprehensive brain understanding benchmark . Our code and benchmark are available at https://weihaox.github.io/UMBRAE."
NavGPT-2: Unleashing Navigational Reasoning Capability for Large Vision-Language Models
Authors: Yicong Hong, Zun Wang, Xin Eric Wang, Qi Wu Gengze Zhou*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Capitalizing on the remarkable advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs), there is a burgeoning initiative to harness LLMs for instruction following robotic navigation. Such a trend underscores the potential of LLMs to generalize navigational reasoning and diverse language understanding. However, a significant discrepancy in agent performance is observed when integrating LLMs in the Vision-and-Language navigation (VLN) tasks compared to previous downstream specialist models. Furthermore, the inherent capacity of language to interpret and facilitate communication in agent interactions is often underutilized in these integrations. In this work, we strive to bridge the divide between VLN-specialized models and LLM-based navigation paradigms, while maintaining the interpretative prowess of LLMs in generating linguistic navigational reasoning. By aligning visual content in a frozen LLM, we encompass visual observation comprehension for LLMs and exploit a way to incorporate LLMs and navigation policy networks for effective action predictions and navigational reasoning. We demonstrate the data efficiency of the proposed methods and eliminate the gap between LM-based agents and state-of-the-art VLN specialists. The source code is available at https://github.com/GengzeZhou/NavGPT-2."
3D Single-object Tracking in Point Clouds with High Temporal Variation
Authors: Kun Sun, Pei An, Mathieu Salzmann, Yanning Zhang, Jiaqi Yang* Qiao Wu
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "The high temporal variation of the point clouds is the key challenge of 3D single-object tracking (3D SOT). Existing approaches rely on the assumption that the shape variation of the point clouds and the motion of the objects across neighboring frames are smooth, failing to cope with high temporal variation data. In this paper, we present a novel framework for 3D SOT in point clouds with high temporal variation, called HVTrack. HVTrack proposes three novel components to tackle the challenges in the high temporal variation scenario: 1) A Relative-Pose-Aware Memory module to handle temporal point cloud shape variations; 2) a Base-Expansion Feature Cross-Attention module to deal with similar object distractions in expanded search areas; 3) a Contextual Point Guided Self-Attention module for suppressing heavy background noise. We construct a dataset with high temporal variation (KITTI-HV) by setting different frame intervals for sampling in the KITTI dataset. On the KITTI-HV with 5 frame intervals, our HVTrack surpasses the state-of-the-art tracker CXTracker by 11.3%/15.7% in Success/Precision."
Adaptive Multi-task Learning for Few-shot Object Detection
Authors: Yanling Li, Adams Wai-Kin Kong Yan Ren*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "The majority of few-shot object detection methods use a shared feature map for both classification and localization, despite the conflicting requirements of these two tasks. Localization needs scale and positional sensitive features, whereas classification requires features that are robust to scale and positional variations. Although few methods have recognized this challenge and attempted to address it, they may not provide a comprehensive resolution to the issue. To overcome the contradictory preferences between classification and localization in few-shot object detection, an adaptive multi-task learning method, featuring a novel precision-driven gradient balancer, is proposed. This balancer effectively mitigates the conflicts by dynamically adjusting the backward gradient ratios for both tasks. Furthermore, a knowledge distillation and classification refinement scheme based on CLIP is introduced, aiming to enhance individual tasks by leveraging the capabilities of large vision-language models. Experimental results of the proposed method consistently show improvements over strong few-shot detection baselines on benchmark datasets. https://github.com/RY-Paper/MTL-FSOD"
Event Trojan: Asynchronous Event-based Backdoor Attacks
Authors: Qing Guo, Haoliang Li, Renjie Wan* Ruofei Wang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "As asynchronous event data is more frequently engaged in various vision tasks, the risk of backdoor attacks becomes more evident. However, research into the potential risk associated with backdoor attacks in asynchronous event data has been scarce, leaving related tasks vulnerable to potential threats. This paper has uncovered the possibility of directly poisoning event data streams by proposing Event Trojan framework, including two kinds of triggers, , immutable and mutable triggers. Specifically, our two types of event triggers are based on a sequence of simulated event spikes, which can be easily incorporated into any event stream to initiate backdoor attacks. Additionally, for the mutable trigger, we design an adaptive learning mechanism to maximize its aggressiveness. To improve the stealthiness, we introduce a novel loss function that constrains the generated contents of mutable triggers, minimizing the difference between triggers and original events while maintaining effectiveness. Extensive experiments on public event datasets show the effectiveness of the proposed backdoor triggers. We hope that this paper can draw greater attention to the potential threats posed by backdoor attacks on event-based tasks."
Stepwise Multi-grained Boundary Detector for Point-supervised Temporal Action Localization
Authors: Le Wang*, Sanping Zhou, Kun Xia, Qi Wu, Qilin Zhang, Gang Hua Mengnan Liu
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Point-supervised temporal action localization pursues high-accuracy action detection under low-cost data annotation. Despite recent advances, a significant challenge remains: sparse labeling of individual frames leads to semantic ambiguity in determining action boundaries due to the lack of continuity in the highly sparse point-supervision scheme. We propose a Stepwise Multi-grained Boundary Detector (SMBD), which is comprised of a Background Anchor Generator (BAG) and a Dual Boundary Detector (DBD) to provide fine-grained supervision. Specifically, for each epoch in the training process, BAG computes the optimal background snippet between each pair of adjacent action labels, which we term Background Anchor. Subsequently, DBD leverages the background anchor and the action labels to locate the action boundaries from the perspectives of detecting action changes and scene changes. Then, the corresponding labels can be assigned to each side of the boundaries, with the boundaries continuously updated throughout the training process. Consequently, the proposed SMBD could ensure that more snippets contribute to the training process. Extensive experiments on the THUMOS’14, GTEA and BEOID datasets demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods."
Imaging Interiors: An Implicit Solution to Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems
Authors: Boxin Shi, Haoliang Li, Renjie Wan* Ziyuan Luo
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Electromagnetic Inverse Scattering Problems (EISP) have gained wide applications in computational imaging. By solving EISP, the internal relative permittivity of the scatterer can be non-invasively determined based on the scattered electromagnetic fields. Despite previous efforts to address EISP, achieving better solutions to this problem has remained elusive, due to the challenges posed by inversion and discretization. This paper tackles those challenges in EISP via an implicit approach. By representing the scatterer’s relative permittivity as a continuous implicit representation, our method is able to address the low-resolution problems arising from discretization. Further, optimizing this implicit representation within a forward framework allows us to conveniently circumvent the challenges posed by inverse estimation. Our approach outperforms existing methods on standard benchmark datasets. Project page: https://luo-ziyuan.github.io/Imaging-Interiors."
Dropout Mixture Low-Rank Adaptation for Visual Parameters-Efficient Fine-Tuning
Authors: Yue Wang, Ran Yi*, Lizhuang Ma Zhengyi Fang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods adjust a small subset of parameters in large models, achieving performance comparable to or even surpassing that of models fine-tuned with the full parameter set, and significantly reducing the time and computational costs associated with the fine-tuning process. Despite the developments of parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods for large models, we observe significant performance disparities across different vision tasks. We attribute this pronounced performance variability to the insufficient robustness of current parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods. In this paper, we propose a robust reparameterization framework for parameter-efficient fine-tuning. This framework has a dynamic training structure and introduces no additional computational overhead during the inference stage. Specifically, we propose Dropout-Mixture Low-Rank Adaptation (DMLoRA), which incorporates multiple up and down branches, to provide the model with a more robust gradient descent path. As training proceeds, DMLoRA gradually drops out branches to achieve a balance between accuracy and regularization. Additionally, we employ a 2-Stage Learning Scalar (LS) strategy to optimize the scale factor for each layer’s DMLoRA module. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the benchmark VTAB-1k and FGVC datasets for parameter-efficient fine-tuning. Paramter-Efficient Fine-Tuning Dropout-Mixture Low-Rank Adaptation Gradual Branch Dropout 2-Stage Learning Scalar"
OneTrack: Demystifying the Conflict Between Detection and Tracking in End-to-End 3D Trackers
Authors: Jiawei He, Yuntao Chen, Zhaoxiang Zhang* Qitai Wang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Existing end-to-end trackers for vision-based 3D perception suffer from performance degradation due to the conflict between detection and tracking tasks. In this work, we get to the bottom of this conflict, which was vaguely attributed to incompatible task-specific object features previously. We find the conflict between the two tasks lies in their partially conflicted classification gradients, which stems from their subtle difference in positive sample assignments. Based on this observation, we propose to coordinate those conflicted gradients from object queries with contradicted polarity in the two tasks. We also dynamically split all object queries into four groups based on their polarity in the two tasks. Attention between query sets with conflicted positive sample assignments is masked. The tracking classification loss is modified to suppress inaccurate predictions. To this end, we propose , the first one-stage joint detection and tracking model that bridges the gap between detection and tracking under a unified object feature representation. On the nuScenes camera-based object tracking benchmark, outperforms previous works by 6.9% AMOTA on the validation set and by 3.1% AMOTA on the test set."
LoA-Trans: Enhancing Visual Grounding by Location-Aware Transformers
Authors: Shin'ichi Satoh Ziling Huang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Given an image and text description, visual grounding will find target region in the image explained by the text. It has two task settings: referring expression comprehension (REC) to estimate bounding-box and referring expression segmentation (RES) to predict segmentation mask. Currently the most promising visual grounding approaches are to learn REC and RES jointly by giving rich ground truth of both bounding-box and segmentation mask of the target object. However, we argue that a very simple but strong constraint has been overlooked by the existing approaches: given an image and a text description, REC and RES refer to the same object. We propose Location Aware Transformer (LoA-Trans) making this constraint explicit by a center prompt, where the system first predicts the center of the target object by Location-Aware Network, and feeds it as a common prompt to both REC and RES. In this way, the system constrains that REC and RES refer to the same object. To mitigate possible inaccuracies in center estimation, we introduce a query selection mechanism. Instead of random initialization queries for bounding-box and segmentation mask decoding, the query selection mechanism generates possible object locations other than the estimated center and use them as location-aware queries as a remedy for possible inaccurate center estimation. We also introduce a TaskSyn Network in the decoder to better coordination between REC and RES. Our method achieved state-of-the-art performance on three commonly used datasets: Refcoco, Refcoco+, and Refcocog. Extensive ablation studies demonstrated the validity of each of the proposed components."