mtybilly/Instruct2DS huggingface dataset:
Region-Adaptive Transform with Segmentation Prior for Image Compression
Authors: Wenhan Yang, Huihui Bai, Yunchao Wei, Yao Zhao Yuxi Liu*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Learned Image Compression (LIC) has shown remarkable progress in recent years. Existing works commonly employ CNN-based or Transformer-based modules as transform methods for compression. However, there is no prior research on neural transform that focuses on specific regions. In response, we introduce the class-agnostic segmentation masks (i.e. semantic masks without category labels) for extracting region-adaptive contextual information. Our proposed module, Region-Adaptive Transform, applies adaptive convolutions on different regions guided by the masks. Additionally, we introduce a plug-and-play module named Scale Affine Layer to incorporate rich contexts from various regions. While there have been prior image compression efforts that involve segmentation masks as additional intermediate inputs, our approach differs significantly from them. Our advantages lie in that, to avoid extra bitrate overhead, we treat these masks as privilege information, which is accessible during the model training stage but not required during the inference phase. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to employ class-agnostic masks as privilege information and achieve superior performance in pixel-fidelity metrics, such as Peak Signal to Noise Ratio (PSNR). The experimental results demonstrate our improvement compared to previously well-performing methods, with about 8.2% bitrate saving compared to VTM-17.0. The source code is available at https://github.com/GityuxiLiu/SegPIC-for-Image-Compression."
Enhancing Tracking Robustness with Auxiliary Adversarial Defense Networks
Authors: Ruilong Yu, Qihe Liu*, Shuying Cheng, Shilin Qiu, Shijie Zhou Zhewei Wu
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Adversarial attacks in visual object tracking have significantly degraded the performance of advanced trackers by introducing imperceptible perturbations into images. However, there is still a lack of research on designing adversarial defense methods for object tracking. To address these issues, we propose an effective auxiliary pre-processing defense network, AADN, which performs defensive transformations on the input images before feeding them into the tracker. Moreover, it can be seamlessly integrated with other visual trackers as a plug-and-play module without parameter adjustments. We train AADN using adversarial training, specifically employing Dua-Loss to generate adversarial samples that simultaneously attack the classification and regression branches of the tracker. Extensive experiments conducted on the OTB100, LaSOT, and VOT2018 benchmarks demonstrate that AADN maintains excellent defense robustness against adversarial attack methods in both adaptive and non-adaptive attack scenarios. Moreover, when transferring the defense network to heterogeneous trackers, it exhibits reliable transferability. Finally, AADN achieves a processing time of up to 5ms/frame, allowing seamless integration with existing high-speed trackers without introducing significant computational overhead."
SLIM: Spuriousness Mitigation with Minimal Human Annotations
Authors: Ziquan Deng, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Kwan-Liu Ma Xiwei Xuan*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Recent studies highlight that deep learning models often learn spurious features mistakenly linked to labels, compromising their reliability in real-world scenarios where such correlations do not hold. Despite the increasing research effort, existing solutions often face two main challenges: they either demand substantial annotations of spurious attributes, or they yield less competitive outcomes with expensive training when additional annotations are absent. In this paper, we introduce , a cost-effective and performance-targeted approach to reducing spurious correlations in deep learning. Our method leverages a human-in-the-loop protocol featuring a novel attention labeling mechanism with a constructed attention representation space. significantly reduces the need for exhaustive additional labeling, requiring human input for fewer than 3% of instances. By prioritizing data quality over complicated training strategies, curates a smaller yet more feature-balanced data subset, fostering the development of spuriousness-robust models. Experimental validations across key benchmarks demonstrate that competes with or exceeds the performance of leading methods while significantly reducing costs. The framework thus presents a promising path for developing reliable models more efficiently. Our code is available in https://github.com/xiweix/SLIM.git/."
Uncertainty Calibration with Energy Based Instance-wise Scaling in the Wild Dataset
Authors: Junseok Kwon* Mijoo Kim
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "With the rapid advancement in the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs), there has been significant interest in deploying and incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) systems into real-world scenarios. However, many DNNs lack the ability to represent uncertainty, often exhibiting excessive confidence even when making incorrect predictions. To ensure the reliability of AI systems, particularly in safety-critical cases, DNNs should transparently reflect the uncertainty in their predictions. In this paper, we investigate robust post-hoc uncertainty calibration methods for DNNs within the context of multi-class classification tasks. While previous studies have made notable progress, they still face challenges in achieving robust calibration, particularly in scenarios involving out-of-distribution (OOD). We identify that previous methods lack adaptability to individual input data and struggle to accurately estimate uncertainty when processing inputs drawn from the wild dataset. To address this issue, we introduce a novel instance-wise calibration method based on an energy model. Our method incorporates energy scores instead of softmax confidence scores, allowing for adaptive consideration of DNN uncertainty for each prediction within a logit space. In experiments, we show that the proposed method consistently maintains robust performance across the spectrum, spanning from in-distribution to OOD scenarios, when compared to other state-of-the-art methods. The source code is available at https://github.com/mijoo308/Energy-Calibration. instance-wise scaling"
X-Pose: Detecting Any Keypoints
Authors: Ailing Zeng*, Ruimao Zhang*, Lei Zhang Jie Yang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "This work aims to address an advanced keypoint detection problem: how to accurately detect any keypoints in complex real-world scenarios, which involves massive, messy, and open-ended objects as well as their associated keypoints definitions. Current high-performance keypoint detectors often fail to tackle this problem due to their two-stage schemes, under-explored prompt designs, and limited training data. To bridge the gap, we propose , a novel end-to-end framework with multi-modal (i.e., visual, textual, or their combinations) prompts to detect multi-object keypoints for any articulated (e.g., human and animal), rigid, and soft objects within a given image. Moreover, we introduce a large-scale dataset called , which unifies 13 keypoint detection datasets with 338 keypoints across 1, 237 categories over 400K instances. Training with , effectively aligns text-to-keypoint and image-to-keypoint due to the mutual enhancement of multi-modal prompts based on cross-modality contrastive learning. Our experimental results demonstrate that achieves notable improvements of 27.7 AP, 6.44 PCK, and 7.0 AP compared to state-of-the-art non-promptable, visual prompt-based, and textual prompt-based methods in each respective fair setting. More importantly, the in-the-wild test demonstrates ’s strong fine-grained keypoint localization and generalization abilities across image styles, object categories, and poses, paving a new path to multi-object keypoint detection in real applications."
M^2Depth: Self-supervised Two-Frame Multi-camera Metric Depth Estimation
Authors: Yikang Ding, Xi Qiu, Haoqian Wang*, Haotian Zhang* Yingshuang Zou*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "This paper presents a novel self-supervised two-frame multi-camera metric depth estimation network, termed M2 Depth, which is designed to predict reliable scale-aware surrounding depth in autonomous driving. Unlike the previous works that use multi-view images from a single time-step or multiple time-step images from a single camera, M2 Depth takes temporally adjacent two-frame images from multiple cameras as inputs and produces high-quality surrounding depth. We first construct cost volumes in spatial and temporal domains individually and propose a spatial-temporal fusion module that integrates the spatial-temporal information to yield a strong volume presentation. We additionally combine the neural prior from SAM features with internal features to reduce the ambiguity between foreground and background and strengthen the depth edges. Extensive experimental results on nuScenes and DDAD benchmarks show M2 Depth achieves state-of-the-art performance. More results can be found in project page."
UniMD: Towards Unifying Moment Retrieval and Temporal Action Detection
Authors: Yujie Zhong*, Chengjian Feng, Lin Ma Yingsen Zeng
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Temporal Action Detection (TAD) focuses on detecting pre-defined actions, while Moment Retrieval (MR) aims to identify the events described by open-ended natural language within untrimmed videos. Despite that they focus on different events, we observe they have a significant connection. For instance, most descriptions in MR involve multiple actions from TAD. In this paper, we aim to investigate the potential synergy between TAD and MR. Firstly, we propose a unified architecture, termed Unified Moment Detection (UniMD), for both TAD and MR. It transforms the inputs of the two tasks, namely actions for TAD or events for MR, into a common embedding space, and utilizes two novel query-dependent decoders to generate a uniform output of classification score and temporal segments. Secondly, we explore the efficacy of two task fusion learning approaches, pre-training and co-training, in order to enhance the mutual benefits between TAD and MR. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed task fusion learning scheme enables the two tasks to help each other and outperform the separately trained counterparts. Impressively, UniMD achieves state-of-the-art results on three paired datasets Ego4D, Charades-STA, and ActivityNet. Our code is available at https://github.com/yingsen1/UniMD."
DyFADet: Dynamic Feature Aggregation for Temporal Action Detection
Authors: Ziwei Zheng, Yizeng Han, Hao Cheng, Shiji Song, Gao Huang, Fan Li Le Yang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Recent proposed neural network-based Temporal Action Detection (TAD) models are inherently limited to extracting the discriminative representations and modeling action instances with various lengths from complex scenes by shared-weights detection heads. Inspired by the successes in dynamic neural networks, in this paper, we build a novel dynamic feature aggregation (DFA) module that can simultaneously adapt kernel weights and receptive fields at different timestamps. Based on DFA, the proposed dynamic encoder layer aggregates the temporal features within the action time ranges and guarantees the discriminability of the extracted representations. Moreover, using DFA helps to develop a Dynamic TAD head (DyHead), which adaptively aggregates the multi-scale features with adjusted parameters and learned receptive fields better to detect the action instances with diverse ranges from videos. With the proposed encoder layer and DyHead, a new dynamic TAD model, DyFADet, achieves promising performance on a series of challenging TAD benchmarks, including HACS-Segment, THUMOS14, ActivityNet-1.3, Epic-Kitchen 100, Ego4D-Moment QueriesV1.0, and FineAction. Code is released to https://github.com/yangle15/ DyFADet-pytorch."
LLaMA-VID: An Image is Worth 2 Tokens in Large Language Models
Authors: Chengyao Wang, Jiaya Jia Yanwei Li*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "In this work, we present a novel method to tackle the token generation challenge in Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video and image understanding, called LLaMA-VID. Current VLMs, while proficient in tasks like image captioning and visual question answering, face computational burdens when processing long videos due to the excessive visual tokens. LLaMA-VID addresses this issue by representing each frame with two distinct tokens, namely context token and content token. The context token encodes the overall image context based on user input, whereas the content token encapsulates visual cues in each frame. This dual-token strategy significantly reduces the overload of long videos while preserving critical information. Generally, LLaMA-VID empowers existing frameworks to support hour-long videos and pushes their upper limit with an extra context token. It is demonstrated to surpass previous methods on most of video- or image-based benchmarks. Code and models are available at https://github.com/dvlab-research/LLaMA-VID."
MetaCap: Meta-learning Priors from Multi-View Imagery for Sparse-view Human Performance Capture and Rendering
Authors: Rishabh Dabral, Pascal Fua, Christian Theobalt, Marc Habermann Guoxing Sun*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Faithful human performance capture and free-view rendering from sparse RGB observations is a long-standing problem in Vision and Graphics. The main challenges are the lack of observations and the inherent ambiguities of the setting, e.g. occlusions and depth ambiguity. As a result, radiance fields, which have shown great promise in capturing high-frequency appearance and geometry details in dense setups, perform poorly when naı̈vely supervising them on sparse camera views, as the field simply overfits to the sparse-view inputs. To address this, we propose , a method for efficient and high-quality geometry recovery and novel view synthesis given very sparse or even a single view of the human. Our key idea is to meta-learn the radiance field weights solely from potentially sparse multi-view videos, which can serve as a prior when fine-tuning them on sparse imagery depicting the human. This prior provides a good network weight initialization, thereby effectively addressing ambiguities in sparse-view capture. Due to the articulated structure of the human body and motion-induced surface deformations, learning such a prior is non-trivial. Therefore, we propose to meta-learn the field weights in a pose-canonicalized space, which reduces the spatial feature range and makes feature learning more effective. Consequently, one can fine-tune our field parameters to quickly generalize to unseen poses, novel illumination conditions as well as novel and sparse (even monocular) camera views. For evaluating our method under different scenarios, we collect a new dataset, , which contains subjects captured in, both, a dense camera dome and in-the-wild sparse camera rigs, and demonstrate superior results compared to recent state-of-the-art methods on, both, public and dataset."
DiffPMAE: Diffusion Masked Autoencoders for Point Cloud Reconstruction
Authors: Chamara Madarasingha, Kanchana Thilakarathna Yanlong LI*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Point cloud streaming is increasingly getting popular, evolving into the norm for interactive service delivery and the future Metaverse. However, the substantial volume of data associated with point clouds presents numerous challenges, particularly in terms of high bandwidth consumption and large storage capacity. Despite various solutions proposed thus far, with a focus on point cloud compression, upsampling, and completion, these reconstruction-related methods continue to fall short in delivering high fidelity point cloud output. As a solution, in , we propose an effective point cloud reconstruction architecture. Inspired by self-supervised learning concepts, we combine Masked Autoencoder and Diffusion Model to remotely reconstruct point cloud data. By the nature of this reconstruction process, can be extended to many related downstream tasks including point cloud compression, upsampling and completion. Leveraging ShapeNet-55 and ModelNet datasets with over 60000 objects, we validate the performance of exceeding many state-of-the-art methods in terms of autoencoding and downstream tasks considered. Our source code is available at : https://github.com/TyraelDLee/DiffPMAE"
Multi-branch Collaborative Learning Network for 3D Visual Grounding
Authors: Yiwei Ma, Zhekai Lin, Jiayi Ji, Xiawu Zheng, Xiaoshuai Sun*, Rongrong Ji Zhipeng Qian
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "3D referring expression comprehension (3DREC) and segmentation (3DRES) have overlapping objectives, indicating their potential for collaboration. However, existing collaborative approaches predominantly depend on the results of one task to make predictions for the other, limiting effective collaboration. We argue that employing separate branches for 3DREC and 3DRES tasks enhances the model’s capacity to learn specific information for each task, enabling them to acquire complementary knowledge. Thus, we propose the MCLN framework, which includes independent branches for 3DREC and 3DRES tasks. This enables dedicated exploration of each task and effective coordination between the branches. Furthermore, to facilitate mutual reinforcement between these branches, we introduce a Relative Superpoint Aggregation (RSA) module and an Adaptive Soft Alignment (ASA) module. These modules significantly contribute to the precise alignment of prediction results from the two branches, directing the module to allocate increased attention to key positions. Comprehensive experimental evaluation demonstrates that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both the 3DREC and 3DRES tasks, with an increase of 2.05% in Acc@0.5 for 3DREC and 3.96% in mIoU for 3DRES. Our code is available at https://github.com/qzp2018/MCLN."
DynamiCrafter: Animating Open-domain Images with Video Diffusion Priors
Authors: Menghan Xia, Yong Zhang, Haoxin Chen, Wangbo Yu, Hanyuan Liu, Gongye Liu, Xintao Wang, Ying Shan, Tien-Tsin Wong Jinbo Xing*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Animating a still image offers an engaging visual experience. Traditional image animation techniques mainly focus on animating natural scenes with stochastic dynamics (e.g. clouds and fluid) or domain-specific motions (e.g. human hair or body motions), and thus limits their applicability to more general visual content. To overcome this limitation, we explore the synthesis of dynamic content for open-domain images, converting them into animated videos. The key idea is to utilize the motion prior of text-to-video diffusion models by incorporating the image into the generative process as guidance. Given an image, we first project it into a text-aligned rich image context representation space using a query Transformer, which facilitates the video model to digest the image content in a compatible fashion. However, some visual details still struggle to be preserved in the resultant videos. To supplement with more precise image information, we further feed the full image to the diffusion model by concatenating it with the initial noises. Experimental results show that our proposed method can produce visually convincing and more logical & natural motions, as well as higher conformity to the input image. Comparative evaluation demonstrates the notable superiority of our approach over existing competitors."
Motion Aware Event Representation-driven Image Deblurring
Authors: Xueyang Fu, Longzhuo Huang, Aiping Liu, Zheng-Jun Zha* Zhijing Sun
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Traditional image deblurring struggles with high-quality reconstruction due to limited motion data from single blurred images. Excitingly, the high-temporal resolution of event cameras records motion more precisely in a different modality, transforming image deblurring. However, many event camera-based methods, which only care about the final value of the polarity accumulation, ignore the influence of the absolute intensity change where events generate so fall short in perceiving motion patterns and effectively aiding image reconstruction. To overcome this, in this work, we propose a new event preprocessing technique that accumulates the deviation from the initial moment each time the event is updated. This process can distinguish the order of events to improve the perception of object motion patterns. To complement our proposed event representation, we create a recurrent module designed to meticulously extract motion features across local and global time scales. To further facilitate the event feature and image feature integration, which assists in image reconstruction, we develop a bi-directional feature alignment and fusion module. This module works to lessen inter-modal inconsistencies. Our approach has been thoroughly tested through rigorous experiments carried out on several datasets with different distributions. These trials have delivered promising results, with our method achieving top-tier performance in both quantitative and qualitative assessments. Code is available at https://github.com/ZhijingS/DA event deblur."
Turbo: Informativity-Driven Acceleration Plug-In for Vision-Language Large Models
Authors: Haicheng Wang, Haozhe Cheng, Xu Chen, Zhonghua Zhai, Weilin Huang, Jinsong Lan, Shuai Xiao*, Bo Zheng Chen Ju*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Vision-Language Large Models (VLMs) recently become primary backbone of AI, due to the impressive performance. However, their expensive computation costs, i.e., throughput and delay, impede potentials in the real-world scenarios. To achieve acceleration for VLMs, most existing methods focus on the model perspective: pruning, distillation, quantization, but completely overlook the data-perspective redundancy. To fill the overlook, this paper pioneers the severity of data redundancy, and designs one plug-and-play Turbo module guided by information degree to prune inefficient tokens from visual or textual data. In pursuit of efficiency-performance trade-offs, information degree takes two crucial factors into consideration: mutual redundancy and semantic value. Concretely, the former evaluates data duplication between sequential tokens; while the latter evaluates each token by its contribution to the overall semantics. As a result, tokens with high information degree carry less redundancy and stronger semantics. For VLMs’ calculation, Turbo works as a user-friendly plug-in that sorts data referring to information degree, utilizing only top-level ones to save costs. Its advantages are multifaceted, e.g., being generally compatible to various VLMs across understanding and generation, simple use without re-training and trivial engineering efforts. On multiple VLMs benchmarks, we fully experiment to demonstrate the good acceleration of Turbo, under negligible performance drop."
WildRefer: 3D Object Localization in Large-scale Dynamic Scenes with Multi-modal Visual Data and Natural Language
Authors: Xidong Peng, Peishan Cong, Ge Zheng, Yujing Sun, Yuenan HOU, Xinge Zhu, Sibei Yang, Yuexin Ma* Zhenxiang Lin
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "We introduce the task of 3D visual grounding in large-scale dynamic scenes based on natural linguistic descriptions and online captured multi-modal visual data, including 2D images and 3D LiDAR point clouds. We present a novel method, dubbed WildRefer, for this task by fully utilizing the rich appearance information in images, the position and geometric clues in point cloud as well as the semantic knowledge of language descriptions. Besides, we propose two novel datasets, i.e., STRefer and LifeRefer, which focus on large-scale human-centric daily-life scenarios accompanied with abundant 3D object and natural language annotations. Our datasets are significant for the research of 3D visual grounding in the wild and has huge potential to boost the development of autonomous driving and service robots. Extensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the proposed benchmarks. The code is provided in https://github.com/4DVLab/WildRefer."
RCS-Prompt: Learning Prompt to Rearrange Class Space for Prompt-based Continual Learning
Authors: Hanbin Zhao, Yunlong Yu*, Xiaodong Zeng, Xi Li* Longrong Yang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Prompt-based Continual Learning is an emerging direction in leveraging pre-trained knowledge for downstream continual learning. While arriving at a new session, existing prompt-based continual learning methods usually adapt features from pre-trained models to new data by introducing prompts. However, these prompts lack an optimization objective explicitly modeling inter-session class relationships, thus failing to construct clear inter-session class margins. Moreover, some old samples use new prompts during inference, resulting in the prompt-ambiguity overlap space - a special situation where old and new class spaces overlap. To address these issues, we propose an innovative approach called RCS-Prompt to Rearrange Class Space by bidirectionally optimizing prompts. RCS-Prompt optimizes prompts to signify discriminative regions across different sessions in the class space. Additionally, it mitigates the prompt-ambiguity overlap space by altering the labels of a small subset of new samples to old classes and training them with a customized symmetric loss. The proposed method effectively reduces the overlap between old and new class spaces, thereby establishing clear inter-session class margins. We extensively evaluate RCS-Prompt on public datasets, demonstrating its effectiveness in prompt-based continual learning. Code is available at https://github.com/longrongyang/RCS-Prompt."
Text-Anchored Score Composition: Tackling Condition Misalignment in Text-to-Image Diffusion Models
Authors: Guibao Shen, Wenhang Ge, Guangyong Chen, Yijun Li, Yingcong Chen* Luozhou Wang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Text-to-image diffusion models have advanced towards more controllable generation via supporting various additional conditions (e.g., depth map, bounding box) beyond text. However, these models are learned based on the premise of perfect alignment between the text and extra conditions. If this alignment is not satisfied, the final output could be either dominated by one condition, or ambiguity may arise, failing to meet user expectations. To address this issue, we present a training-free approach called Text-Anchored Score Composition (TASC) to further improve the controllability of existing models when provided with partially aligned conditions. The TASC firstly separates conditions based on pair relationships, computing the result individually for each pair. This ensures that each pair no longer has conflicting conditions. Then we propose an attention realignment operation to realign these independently calculated results via a cross-attention mechanism to avoid new conflicts when combining them back. Both qualitative and quantitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach in handling unaligned conditions, which performs favorably against recent methods and more importantly adds flexibility to the controllable image generation process."
Grounding DINO: Marrying DINO with Grounded Pre-Training for Open-Set Object Detection
Authors: Zhaoyang Zeng, Tianhe Ren, Feng Li, Hao Zhang, Jie Yang, Qing Jiang, Chunyuan Li, Jianwei Yang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhang* Shilong Liu*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "In this paper, we develop an open-set object detector, called Grounding DINO, by marrying Transformer-based detector DINO with grounded pre-training, which can detect arbitrary objects with human inputs such as category names or referring expressions. The key solution of open-set object detection is introducing language to a closed-set detector for open-set concept generalization. To effectively fuse language and vision modalities, we conceptually divide a closed-set detector into three phases and propose a tight fusion solution, which includes a feature enhancer, a language-guided query selection, and a cross-modality decoder for modalities fusion. We first pre-train Grounding DINO on large-scale datasets, including object detection data, grounding data, and caption data, and evaluate the model on both open-set object detection and referring object detection benchmarks. Grounding DINO performs remarkably well on all three settings, including benchmarks on COCO, LVIS, ODinW, and RefCOCO/+/g. Grounding DINO achieves a 52.5 AP on the COCO zero-shot1 detection benchmark. It sets a new record on the ODinW zero-shot benchmark with a mean 26.1 AP. We release some checkpoints and inference codes at https://github.com/ IDEA-Research/GroundingDINO. 1 In this paper, ‘zero-shot’ refers to scenarios where the training split of the test dataset is not utilized in the training process."
Make Your ViT-based Multi-view 3D Detectors Faster via Token Compression
Authors: Dingkang Liang*, Zichang Tan, Xiaoqing Ye, Cheng Zhang, Jingdong Wang, Xiang Bai* Dingyuan Zhang
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Slow inference speed is one of the most crucial concerns for deploying multi-view 3D detectors to tasks with high real-time requirements like autonomous driving. Although many sparse query-based methods have already attempted to improve the efficiency of 3D detectors, they neglect to consider the backbone, especially when using Vision Transformers (ViT) for better performance. To tackle this problem, we explore the efficient ViT backbones for multi-view 3D detection via token compression and propose a simple yet effective method called TokenCompression3D (ToC3D). By leveraging history object queries as foreground priors of high quality, modeling 3D motion information in them, and interacting them with image tokens through the attention mechanism, ToC3D can effectively determine the magnitude of information densities of image tokens and segment the salient foreground tokens. With the introduced dynamic router design, ToC3D can weigh more computing resources to important foreground tokens while compressing the information loss, leading to a more efficient ViT-based multi-view 3D detector. Extensive results on the large-scale nuScenes dataset show that our method can nearly maintain the performance of recent SOTA with up to 30% inference speedup, and the improvements are consistent after scaling up the ViT and input resolution. The code will be made at https://github.com/DYZhang09/ToC3D."
OV-Uni3DETR: Towards Unified Open-Vocabulary 3D Object Detection via Cycle-Modality Propagation
Authors: Ya-Li Li, TAICHI LIU, Hengshuang Zhao, Shengjin Wang Zhenyu Wang*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "In the current state of 3D object detection research, the severe scarcity of annotated 3D data, substantial disparities across different data modalities, and the absence of a unified architecture, have impeded the progress towards the goal of universality. In this paper, we propose OV-Uni3DETR, a unified open-vocabulary 3D detector via cycle-modality propagation. Compared with existing 3D detectors, OV-Uni3DETR offers distinct advantages: 1) Open-vocabulary 3D detection: During training, it leverages various accessible data, especially extensive 2D detection images, to boost training diversity. During inference, it can detect both seen and unseen classes. 2) Modality unifying: It seamlessly accommodates input data from any given modality, effectively addressing scenarios involving disparate modalities or missing sensor information, thereby supporting test-time modality switching. 3) Scene unifying: It provides a unified multi-modal model architecture for diverse scenes collected by distinct sensors. Specifically, we propose the cycle-modality propagation, aimed at propagating knowledge bridging 2D and 3D modalities, to support the aforementioned functionalities. 2D semantic knowledge from large-vocabulary learning guides novel class discovery in the 3D domain, and 3D geometric knowledge provides localization supervision for 2D detection images. OV-Uni3DETR achieves the state-of-the-art performance on various scenarios, surpassing existing methods by more than 6% on average. Its performance using only RGB images is on par with or even surpasses that of previous point cloud based methods. Code is available at https://github. com/zhenyuw16/Uni3DETR."
CatchBackdoor: Backdoor Detection via Critical Trojan Neural Path Fuzzing
Authors: Ruoxi Chen, Jinyin Chen, Haibin Zheng, Yang Zhang, Haohan Wang* Haibo Jin
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "The success of deep neural networks (DNNs) in real-world applications has benefited from abundant pre-trained models. However, the backdoored pre-trained models can pose a significant trojan threat to the deployment of downstream DNNs. Numerous backdoor detection methods have been proposed but are limited to two aspects: (1) high sensitivity on trigger size, especially on stealthy attacks (i.e., blending attacks and defense adaptive attacks); (2) rely heavily on benign examples for reverse engineering. To address these challenges, we empirically observed that trojaned behaviors triggered by various trojan attacks can be attributed to the trojan path, composed of top-k critical neurons with more significant contributions to model prediction changes. Motivated by it, we propose CatchBackdoor, a detection method against trojan attacks. Based on the close connection between trojaned behaviors and trojan path to trigger errors, CatchBackdoor starts from the benign path and gradually approximates the trojan path through differential fuzzing. We then reverse triggers from the trojan path, to trigger errors caused by diverse trojaned attacks. Extensive experiments on MINST, CIFAR-10, and a-ImageNet datasets and 7 models (LeNet, ResNet, and VGG) demonstrate the superiority of CatchBackdoor over the state-of-the-art methods, in terms of (1) effective - it shows better detection performance, especially on stealthy attacks (∼ × 2 on average); (2) extensible it is robust to trigger size and can conduct detection without benign examples."
UCIP: A Universal Framework for Compressed Image Super-Resolution using Dynamic Prompt
Authors: Bingchen Li, Yeying Jin, Cuiling Lan, Hanxin Zhu, Yulin Ren, Zhibo Chen Xin Li*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Compressed Image Super-resolution (CSR) aims to simultaneously super-resolve the compressed images and tackle the challenging hybrid distortions caused by compression. However, existing works on CSR usually focus on single compression codec, , JPEG, ignoring the diverse traditional or learning-based codecs in the practical application, , HEVC, VVC, HIFIC, etc. In this work, we propose the first universal CSR framework, dubbed UCIP, with dynamic prompt learning, intending to jointly support the CSR distortions of any compression codecs/modes. Particularly, an efficient dynamic prompt strategy is proposed to mine the content/spatial-aware task-adaptive contextual information for the universal CSR task, using only a small amount of prompts with spatial size 1 × 1. To simplify contextual information mining, we introduce the novel MLP-like framework backbone for our UCIP by adapting the Active Token Mixer (ATM) to CSR tasks for the first time, where the global information modeling is only taken in horizontal and vertical directions with offset prediction. We also build an all-in-one benchmark dataset for the CSR task by collecting the datasets with the popular 6 diverse traditional and learning-based codecs, including JPEG, HEVC, VVC, HIFIC, etc., resulting in 23 common degradations. Extensive experiments have shown the consistent and excellent performance of our UCIP on universal CSR tasks. The project can be found in magentahttps://lixinustc. github.io/UCIP.github.io"
LLaVA-Plus: Learning to Use Tools for Creating Multimodal Agents
Authors: Hao Cheng, Haotian Liu, Hao Zhang, Feng Li, Tianhe Ren, Xueyan Zou, Jianwei Yang, Hang Su, Jun Zhu, Lei Zhang, Jianfeng Gao, Chunyuan Li* Shilong Liu*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "This paper presents (), a general-purpose multimodal assistant trained using an end-to-end approach that systematically expands the capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs). maintains a skill repository that contains a wide range of vision and vision-language pre-trained models (tools), and is able to activate relevant tools, given users’ multimodal inputs, to compose their execution results on the fly to fulfill many real-world tasks. To acquire the ability of using tools, is trained on multimodal instruction-following data that we have curated. The training data covers many tool use examples of visual understanding, generation, external knowledge retrieval and their compositions. Empirical results show that outperforms LLaVA in existing capabilities, and exhibits many new capabilities. Compared with tool-augmented LLMs, is distinct in that the image query is directly grounded in and actively engaged throughout the entire human-AI interaction sessions, significantly improving tool use performance and enabling new scenarios."
ClearCLIP: Decomposing CLIP Representations for Dense Vision-Language Inference
Authors: Chaofeng Chen, Yiping Ke, Xinjiang Wang, Litong Feng*, Wayne Zhang Mengcheng Lan
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Despite the success of large-scale pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) especially CLIP in various open-vocabulary tasks, their application to semantic segmentation remains challenging, producing noisy segmentation maps with mis-segmented regions. In this paper, we carefully re-investigate the architecture of CLIP, and identify residual connections as the primary source of noise that degrades segmentation quality. With a comparative analysis of statistical properties in the residual connection and the attention output across different pretrained models, we discover that CLIP’s image-text contrastive training paradigm emphasizes global features at the expense of local discriminability, leading to noisy segmentation results. In response, we propose ClearCLIP, a novel approach that decomposes CLIP’s representations to enhance open-vocabulary semantic segmentation. We introduce three simple modifications to the final layer: removing the residual connection, implementing the self-self attention, and discarding the feed-forward network. ClearCLIP consistently generates clearer and more accurate segmentation maps and outperforms existing approaches across multiple benchmarks, affirming the significance of our discoveries."
Two-Stage Active Learning for Efficient Temporal Action Segmentation
Authors: Ehsan Elhamifar* Yuhao Su
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Training a temporal action segmentation (TAS) model on long and untrimmed videos requires gathering framewise video annotations, which is very costly. We propose a two-stage active learning framework to efficiently learn a TAS model using only a small amount of video annotations. Our framework consists of three components that work together in each active learning iteration. 1) Using current labeled frames, we learn a TAS model and action prototypes using a novel contrastive learning method. Leveraging prototypes not only enhances the model performance, but also increases the computational efficiency of both video and frame selection for labeling, which are the next components of our framework. 2) Using the currently learned TAS model and action prototypes, we select informative unlabeled videos for annotation. To do so, we find unlabeled videos that have low alignment scores to learned action prototype sequences in labeled videos. 3) To annotate a small subset of informative frames in each selected unlabeled video, we propose a video-aligned summary selection method and an efficient greedy search algorithm. By evaluation on four benchmark datasets (50Salads, GTEA, Breakfast, CrossTask), we show that our method significantly reduces the annotation costs, while consistently surpassing baselines over active learning iterations. Our method achieves comparable or better performance than other weakly supervised methods while using a small amount of labeled frames. We further extend our framework to a semi-supervised active learning setting. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work studying active learning for TAS."
TexDreamer: Towards Zero-Shot High-Fidelity 3D Human Texture Generation
Authors: Junwei Zhu, Junshu Tang, Shijie Zhang, Jiangning Zhang, Weijian Cao, Chengjie Wang, Yunsheng Wu, Dongjin Huang* Yufei Liu
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Texturing 3D humans with semantic UV maps remains a challenge due to the difficulty of acquiring reasonably unfolded UV. Despite recent text-to-3D advancements in supervising multi-view renderings using large text-to-image (T2I) models, issues persist with generation speed, text consistency, and texture quality, resulting in data scarcity among existing datasets. We present TexDreamer, the first zero-shot multimodal high-fidelity 3D human texture generation model. Utilizing an efficient texture adaptation finetuning strategy, we adapt large T2I model to a semantic UV structure while preserving its original generalization capability. Leveraging a novel feature translator module, the trained model is capable of generating high-fidelity 3D human textures from either text or image within seconds. Furthermore, we introduce ArTicuLated humAn textureS (ATLAS), the largest high-resolution (1, 024×1, 024) 3D human texture dataset which contains 50k high-fidelity textures with text descriptions."
MVPGS: Excavating Multi-view Priors for Gaussian Splatting from Sparse Input Views
Authors: Huachen Gao, Shihe Shen, Rui Peng, Jianbo Jiao, Ronggang Wang* Wangze Xu
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Recently, the Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) advancement has facilitated few-shot Novel View Synthesis (NVS), which is a significant challenge in 3D vision applications. Despite numerous attempts to reduce the dense input requirement in NeRF, it still suffers from time-consumed training and rendering processes. More recently, 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) achieves real-time high-quality rendering with an explicit point-based representation. However, similar to NeRF, it tends to overfit the train views for lack of constraints. In this paper, we propose MVPGS, a few-shot NVS method that excavates the multi-view priors based on 3D Gaussian Splatting. We leverage the recent learning-based Multi-view Stereo (MVS) to enhance the quality of geometric initialization for 3DGS. To mitigate overfitting, we propose a forward-warping method for additional appearance constraints conforming to scenes based on the computed geometry. Furthermore, we introduce a view-consistent geometry constraint for Gaussian parameters to facilitate proper optimization convergence and utilize a monocular depth regularization as compensation. Experiments show that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance with real-time rendering speed. Project page: https://zezeaaa.github.io/projects/MVPGS/"
Domain-Adaptive 2D Human Pose Estimation via Dual Teachers in Extremely Low-Light Conditions
Authors: Yifei Qi, Bo Wang, Yu Cheng, Xinchao Wang, Robby T. Tan Yihao Ai*
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Existing 2D human pose estimation research predominantly concentrates on well-lit scenarios, with limited exploration of poor lighting conditions, which are a prevalent aspect of daily life. Recent studies on low-light pose estimation require the use of paired well-lit and low-light images with ground truths for training, which are impractical due to the inherent challenges associated with annotation on low-light images. To this end, we introduce a novel approach that eliminates the need for low-light ground truths. Our primary novelty lies in leveraging two complementary-teacher networks to generate more reliable pseudo labels, enabling our model achieves competitive performance on extremely low-light images without the need for training with low-light ground truths. Our framework consists of two stages. In the first stage, our model is trained on well-lit data with low-light augmentations. In the second stage, we propose a dual-teacher framework to utilize the unlabeled low-light data, where a center-based main teacher produces the pseudo labels for relatively visible cases, while a keypoints-based complementary teacher focuses on producing the pseudo labels for the missed persons of the main teacher. With the pseudo labels from both teachers, we propose a person-specific low-light augmentation to challenge a student model in training to outperform the teachers. Experimental results on real low-light dataset (ExLPose-OCN) show, our method achieves 6.8% (2.4 AP) improvement over the state-of-the-art (SOTA) method, despite no low-light ground-truth data is used in our approach, in contrast to the SOTA method. Our code is available at: DA-LLPose."
Towards More Practical Group Activity Detection: A New Benchmark and Model
Authors: Youngkil Song, Minsu Cho, Suha Kwak* Dongkeun Kim
Published in: European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: "Group activity detection (GAD) is the task of identifying members of each group and classifying the activity of the group at the same time in a video. While GAD has been studied recently, there is still much room for improvement in both dataset and methodology due to their limited capability to address practical GAD scenarios. To resolve these issues, we first present a new dataset, dubbed Café. Unlike existing datasets, Café is constructed primarily for GAD and presents more practical scenarios and metrics, as well as being large-scale and providing rich annotations. Along with the dataset, we propose a new GAD model that deals with an unknown number of groups and latent group members efficiently and effectively. We evaluated our model on three datasets including Café, where it outperformed previous work in terms of both accuracy and inference speed."