mtybilly/Instruct2DS huggingface dataset:
WateRF: Robust Watermarks in Radiance Fields for Protection of Copyrights
Authors: Youngdong Jang, Dong In Lee, MinHyuk Jang, Jong Wook Kim, Feng Yang, Sangpil Kim
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: The advances in the Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) research offer extensive applications in diverse domains but protecting their copyrights has not yet been researched in depth. Recently NeRF watermarking has been considered one of the pivotal solutions for safely deploying NeRF-based 3D representations. However existing methods are designed to apply only to implicit or explicit NeRF representations. In this work we introduce an innovative watermarking method that can be employed in both representations of NeRF. This is achieved by fine-tuning NeRF to embed binary messages in the rendering process. In detail we propose utilizing the discrete wavelet transform in the NeRF space for watermarking. Furthermore we adopt a deferred back-propagation technique and introduce a combination with the patch-wise loss to improve rendering quality and bit accuracy with minimum trade-offs. We evaluate our method in three different aspects: capacity invisibility and robustness of the embedded watermarks in the 2D-rendered images. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance with faster training speed over the compared state-of-the-art methods. Project page: https://kuai-lab.github.io/cvpr2024waterf/
Gaussian-Flow: 4D Reconstruction with Dynamic 3D Gaussian Particle
Authors: Youtian Lin, Zuozhuo Dai, Siyu Zhu, Yao Yao
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We introduce Gaussian-Flow a novel point-based approach for fast dynamic scene reconstruction and real-time rendering from both multi-view and monocular videos. In contrast to the prevalent NeRF-based approaches hampered by slow training and rendering speeds our approach harnesses recent advancements in point-based 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Specifically a novel Dual-Domain Deformation Model (DDDM) is proposed to explicitly model attribute deformations of each Gaussian point where the time-dependent residual of each attribute is captured by a polynomial fitting in the time domain and a Fourier series fitting in the frequency domain. The proposed DDDM is capable of modeling complex scene deformations across long video footage eliminating the need for training separate 3DGS for each frame or introducing an additional implicit neural field to model 3D dynamics. Moreover the explicit deformation modeling for discretized Gaussian points ensures ultra-fast training and rendering of a 4D scene which is comparable to the original 3DGS designed for static 3D reconstruction. Our proposed approach showcases a substantial efficiency improvement achieving a 5xfaster training speed compared to the per-frame 3DGS modeling. In addition quantitative results demonstrate that the proposed Gaussian-Flow significantly outperforms previous leading methods in novel view rendering quality.
Your Student is Better Than Expected: Adaptive Teacher-Student Collaboration for Text-Conditional Diffusion Models
Authors: Nikita Starodubcev, Dmitry Baranchuk, Artem Fedorov, Artem Babenko
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Knowledge distillation methods have recently shown to be a promising direction to speedup the synthesis of large-scale diffusion models by requiring only a few inference steps. While several powerful distillation methods were recently proposed the overall quality of student samples is typically lower compared to the teacher ones which hinders their practical usage. In this work we investigate the relative quality of samples produced by the teacher text-to-image diffusion model and its distilled student version. As our main empirical finding we discover that a noticeable portion of student samples exhibit superior fidelity compared to the teacher ones despite the approximate nature of the student. Based on this finding we propose an adaptive collaboration between student and teacher diffusion models for effective text-to-image synthesis. Specifically the distilled model produces an initial image sample and then an oracle decides whether it needs further improvements with the teacher model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the designed pipeline surpasses state-of-the-art text-to-image alternatives for various inference budgets in terms of human preference. Furthermore the proposed approach can be naturally used in popular applications such as text-guided image editing and controllable generation.
DiVAS: Video and Audio Synchronization with Dynamic Frame Rates
Authors: Clara Fernandez-Labrador, Mertcan Akçay, Eitan Abecassis, Joan Massich, Christopher Schroers
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Synchronization issues between audio and video are one of the most disturbing quality defects in film production and live broadcasting. Even a discrepancy as short as 45 millisecond can degrade the viewer's experience enough to warrant manual quality checks over entire movies. In this paper we study the automatic discovery of such issues. Specifically we focus on the alignment of lip movements with spoken words targeting realistic production scenarios which can include background noise and music intricate head poses excessive makeup or scenes with multiple individuals where the speaker is unknown. Our model's robustness also extends to various media specifications including different video frame rates and audio sample rates. To address these challenges we present a model fully based on transformers that encodes face crops or full video frames and raw audio using timestamp information identifies the speaker and provides highly accurate synchronization predictions much faster than previous methods.
SHViT: Single-Head Vision Transformer with Memory Efficient Macro Design
Authors: Seokju Yun, Youngmin Ro
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recently efficient Vision Transformers have shown great performance with low latency on resource-constrained devices. Conventionally they use 4x4 patch embeddings and a 4-stage structure at the macro level while utilizing sophisticated attention with multi-head configuration at the micro level. This paper aims to address computational redundancy at all design levels in a memory-efficient manner. We discover that using larger-stride patchify stem not only reduces memory access costs but also achieves competitive performance by leveraging token representations with reduced spatial redundancy from the early stages. Furthermore our preliminary analyses suggest that attention layers in the early stages can be substituted with convolutions and several attention heads in the latter stages are computationally redundant. To handle this we introduce a single-head attention module that inherently prevents head redundancy and simultaneously boosts accuracy by parallelly combining global and local information. Building upon our solutions we introduce SHViT a Single-Head Vision Transformer that obtains the state-of-the-art speed-accuracy tradeoff. For example on ImageNet-1k our SHViT-S4 is 3.3x 8.1x and 2.4x faster than MobileViTv2x1.0 on GPU CPU and iPhone12 mobile device respectively while being 1.3% more accurate. For object detection and instance segmentation on MS COCO using Mask-RCNN head our model achieves performance comparable to FastViT-SA12 while exhibiting 3.8x and 2.0x lower backbone latency on GPU and mobile device respectively.
HDRFlow: Real-Time HDR Video Reconstruction with Large Motions
Authors: Gangwei Xu, Yujin Wang, Jinwei Gu, Tianfan Xue, Xin Yang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Reconstructing High Dynamic Range (HDR) video from image sequences captured with alternating exposures is challenging especially in the presence of large camera or object motion. Existing methods typically align low dynamic range sequences using optical flow or attention mechanism for deghosting. However they often struggle to handle large complex motions and are computationally expensive. To address these challenges we propose a robust and efficient flow estimator tailored for real-time HDR video reconstruction named HDRFlow. HDRFlow has three novel designs: an HDR-domain alignment loss (HALoss) an efficient flow network with a multi-size large kernel (MLK) and a new HDR flow training scheme. The HALoss supervises our flow network to learn an HDR-oriented flow for accurate alignment in saturated and dark regions. The MLK can effectively model large motions at a negligible cost. In addition we incorporate synthetic data Sintel into our training dataset utilizing both its provided forward flow and backward flow generated by us to supervise our flow network enhancing our performance in large motion regions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our HDRFlow outperforms previous methods on standard benchmarks. To the best of our knowledge HDRFlow is the first real-time HDR video reconstruction method for video sequences captured with alternating exposures capable of processing 720p resolution inputs at 25ms.
SPIDeRS: Structured Polarization for Invisible Depth and Reflectance Sensing
Authors: Tomoki Ichikawa, Shohei Nobuhara, Ko Nishino
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Can we capture shape and reflectance in stealth? Such capability would be valuable for many application domains in vision xR robotics and HCI. We introduce structured polarization for invisible depth and reflectance sensing (SPIDeRS) the first depth and reflectance sensing method using patterns of polarized light. The key idea is to modulate the angle of linear polarization (AoLP) of projected light at each pixel. The use of polarization makes it invisible and lets us recover not only depth but also directly surface normals and even reflectance. We implement SPIDeRS with a liquid crystal spatial light modulator (SLM) and a polarimetric camera. We derive a novel method for robustly extracting the projected structured polarization pattern from the polarimetric object appearance. We evaluate the effectiveness of SPIDeRS by applying it to a number of real-world objects. The results show that our method successfully reconstructs object shapes of various materials and is robust to diffuse reflection and ambient light. We also demonstrate relighting using recovered surface normals and reflectance. We believe SPIDeRS opens a new avenue of polarization use in visual sensing.
SuperNormal: Neural Surface Reconstruction via Multi-View Normal Integration
Authors: Xu Cao, Takafumi Taketomi
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present SuperNormal a fast high-fidelity approach to multi-view 3D reconstruction using surface normal maps. With a few minutes SuperNormal produces detailed surfaces on par with 3D scanners. We harness volume rendering to optimize a neural signed distance function (SDF) powered by multi-resolution hash encoding. To accelerate training we propose directional finite difference and patchbased ray marching to approximate the SDF gradients numerically. While not compromising reconstruction quality this strategy is nearly twice as efficient as analytical gradients and about three times faster than axis-aligned finite difference. Experiments on the benchmark dataset demonstrate the superiority of SuperNormal in efficiency and accuracy compared to existing multi-view photometric stereo methods. On our captured objects SuperNormal produces more fine-grained geometry than recent neural 3D reconstruction methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/CyberAgentAILab/SuperNormal.git.
Instance-aware Contrastive Learning for Occluded Human Mesh Reconstruction
Authors: Mi-Gyeong Gwon, Gi-Mun Um, Won-Sik Cheong, Wonjun Kim
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: A simple yet effective method for occlusion-robust 3D human mesh reconstruction from a single image is presented in this paper. Although many recent studies have shown the remarkable improvement in human mesh reconstruction it is still difficult to generate accurate meshes when person-to-person occlusion occurs due to the ambiguity of who a body part belongs to. To address this problem we propose an instance-aware contrastive learning scheme. Specifically joint features belonging to the target human are trained to be proximate with the anchor feature (i.e. feature extracted from the body center position). On the other hand anchor features of different human instances are forced to be far apart so that joint features of each person can be clearly distinguished from others. By interpreting the joint possession based on such contrastive learning scheme the proposed method easily understands the spatial occupancy of body parts for each person in a given image thus can reconstruct reliable human meshes even with severely overlapped cases between multiple persons. Experimental results on benchmark datasets demonstrate the robustness of the proposed method compared to previous approaches under person-to-person occlusions. The code and model are publicly available at: https://github.com/DCVL-3D/InstanceHMR_release.
ADFactory: An Effective Framework for Generalizing Optical Flow with NeRF
Authors: Han Ling, Quansen Sun, Yinghui Sun, Xian Xu, Xinfeng Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: A significant challenge facing current optical flow methods is the difficulty in generalizing them well to the real world. This is mainly due to the lack of large-scale real-world datasets and existing self-supervised methods are limited by indirect loss and occlusions resulting in fuzzy outcomes. To address this challenge we introduce a novel optical flow training framework: automatic data factory (ADF). ADF only requires RGB images as input to effectively train the optical flow network on the target data domain. Specifically we use advanced NeRF technology to reconstruct scenes from photo groups collected by a monocular camera and then calculate optical flow labels between camera pose pairs based on the rendering results. To eliminate erroneous labels caused by defects in the scene reconstructed by NeRF we screened the generated labels from multiple aspects such as optical flow matching accuracy radiation field confidence and depth consistency. The filtered labels can be directly used for network supervision. Experimentally the generalization ability of ADF on KITTI surpasses existing self-supervised optical flow and monocular scene flow algorithms. In addition ADF achieves impressive results in real-world zero-point generalization evaluations and surpasses most supervised methods.
Robust Noisy Correspondence Learning with Equivariant Similarity Consistency
Authors: Yuchen Yang, Likai Wang, Erkun Yang, Cheng Deng
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: The surge in multi-modal data has propelled cross-modal matching to the forefront of research interest. However the challenge lies in the laborious and expensive process of curating a large and accurately matched multimodal dataset. Commonly sourced from the Internet these datasets often suffer from a significant presence of mismatched data impairing the performance of matching models. To address this problem we introduce a novel regularization approach named Equivariant Similarity Consistency (ESC) which can facilitate robust clean and noisy data separation and improve the training for cross-modal matching. Intuitively our method posits that the semantic variations caused by image changes should be proportional to those caused by text changes for any two matched samples. Accordingly we first calculate the ESC by comparing image and text semantic variations between a set of elaborated anchor points and other undivided training data. Then pairs with high ESC are filtered out as noisy correspondence pairs. We implement our method by combining the ESC with a traditional hinge-based triplet loss. Extensive experiments on three widely used datasets including Flickr30K MS-COCO and Conceptual Captions verify the effectiveness of our method.
CommonCanvas: Open Diffusion Models Trained on Creative-Commons Images
Authors: Aaron Gokaslan, A. Feder Cooper, Jasmine Collins, Landan Seguin, Austin Jacobson, Mihir Patel, Jonathan Frankle, Cory Stephenson, Volodymyr Kuleshov
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We train a set of open text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models on a dataset of curated Creative-Commons-licensed (CC) images which yields models that are competitive with Stable Diffusion 2 (SD2). This task presents two challenges: (1) high-resolution CC images lack the captions necessary to train T2I models; (2) CC images are relatively scarce. To address these challenges we use an intuitive transfer learning technique to produce a set of high-quality synthetic captions paired with our assembled CC images. We then develop a data- and compute-efficient training recipe that requires as little as 3% of the LAION data (i.e. roughly 70 million examples) needed to train existing SD2 models but obtains the same quality. These results indicate that we have a sufficient number of CC images (also roughly 70 million) for training high-quality models. Our recipe also implements a variety of optimizations that achieve 2.71x training speed-ups enabling rapid model iteration. We leverage this recipe to train several high-quality T2I mod- els which we dub the CommonCanvas family. Our largest model achieves comparable performance to SD2 on human evaluation even though we use a synthetically captioned CC-image dataset that is only <3% the size of LAION for training. We release our models data and code on GitHub.
Prompt-Driven Referring Image Segmentation with Instance Contrasting
Authors: Chao Shang, Zichen Song, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang, Fanman Meng, Hongliang Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Referring image segmentation (RIS) aims to segment the target referent described by natural language. Recently large-scale pre-trained models e.g. CLIP and SAM have been successfully applied in many downstream tasks but they are not well adapted to RIS task due to inter-task differences. In this paper we propose a new prompt-driven framework named Prompt-RIS which bridges CLIP and SAM end-to-end and transfers their rich knowledge and powerful capabilities to RIS task through prompt learning. To adapt CLIP to pixel-level task we first propose a Cross-Modal Prompting method which acquires more comprehensive vision-language interaction and fine-grained text-to-pixel alignment by performing bidirectional prompting. Then the prompt-tuned CLIP generates masks points and text prompts for SAM to generate more accurate mask predictions. Moreover we further propose Instance Contrastive Learning to improve the model's discriminability to different instances and robustness to diverse languages describing the same instance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the performance of our method outperforms the state-of-the-art methods consistently in both general and open-vocabulary settings.
Image Sculpting: Precise Object Editing with 3D Geometry Control
Authors: Jiraphon Yenphraphai, Xichen Pan, Sainan Liu, Daniele Panozzo, Saining Xie
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present Image Sculpting a new framework for editing 2D images by incorporating tools from 3D geometry and graphics. This approach differs markedly from existing methods which are confined to 2D spaces and typically rely on textual instructions leading to ambiguity and limited control. Image Sculpting converts 2D objects into 3D enabling direct interaction with their 3D geometry. Post-editing these objects are re-rendered into 2D merging into the original image to produce high-fidelity results through a coarse-to-fine enhancement process. The framework supports precise quantifiable and physically-plausible editing options such as pose editing rotation translation 3D composition carving and serial addition. It marks an initial step towards combining the creative freedom of generative models with the precision of graphics pipelines.
Compositional Video Understanding with Spatiotemporal Structure-based Transformers
Authors: Hoyeoung Yun, Jinwoo Ahn, Minseo Kim, Eun-Sol Kim
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: In this paper we suggest a new novel method to understand complex semantic structures through long video inputs. Conventional methods for understanding videos have been focused on short-term clips and trained to get visual representations for the short clips using convolutional neural networks or transformer architectures. However most real-world videos are composed of long videos ranging from minutes to hours therefore it essentially brings limitations to understanding the overall semantic structures of the long videos by dividing them into small clips and learning the representations of them. We suggest a new algorithm to learn the multi-granular semantic structures of videos by defining spatiotemporal high-order relationships among object-based representations as semantic units. The proposed method includes a new transformer architecture capable of learning spatiotemporal graphs and a compositional learning method to learn disentangled features for each semantic unit. Using the suggested method we resolve the challenging video task which is compositional generalization understanding of unseen videos. In experiments we demonstrate new state-of-the-art performances for two challenging video datasets.
3D LiDAR Mapping in Dynamic Environments using a 4D Implicit Neural Representation
Authors: Xingguang Zhong, Yue Pan, Cyrill Stachniss, Jens Behley
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Building accurate maps is a key building block to enable reliable localization planning and navigation of autonomous vehicles. We propose a novel approach for building accurate 3D maps of dynamic environments utilizing a sequence of LiDAR scans. To this end we propose encoding the 4D scene into a novel spatio-temporal implicit neural map representation by fitting a time-dependent truncated signed distance function to each point. Using our representation we can extract the static map by filtering the dynamic parts. Our neural representation is based on sparse feature grids a globally shared decoder and time-dependent basis functions which can be jointly optimized in an unsupervised fashion. To learn this representation from a sequence of LiDAR scans we design a simple yet efficient loss function to supervise the map optimization in a piecewise way. We evaluate our approach on various scenes containing moving objects in terms of the reconstruction quality of static maps and the segmentation of dynamic point clouds. The experimental results demonstrate that our method is capable of removing the dynamic part of the input point clouds while reconstructing accurate and complete large-scale 3D maps outperforming several state-of-the-art methods for static map generation and scene reconstruction.
What When and Where? Self-Supervised Spatio-Temporal Grounding in Untrimmed Multi-Action Videos from Narrated Instructions
Authors: Brian Chen, Nina Shvetsova, Andrew Rouditchenko, Daniel Kondermann, Samuel Thomas, Shih-Fu Chang, Rogerio Feris, James Glass, Hilde Kuehne
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Spatio-temporal grounding describes the task of localizing events in space and time e.g. in video data based on verbal descriptions only. Models for this task are usually trained with human-annotated sentences and bounding box supervision. This work addresses this task from a multimodal supervision perspective proposing a framework for spatio-temporal action grounding trained on loose video and subtitle supervision only without human annotation. To this end we combine local representation learning which focuses on leveraging fine-grained spatial information with a global representation encoding that captures higher-level representations and incorporates both in a joint approach. To evaluate this challenging task in a real-life setting a new benchmark dataset is proposed providing dense spatio-temporal grounding annotations in long untrimmed multi-action instructional videos for over 5K events. We evaluate the proposed approach and other methods on the proposed and standard downstream tasks showing that our method improves over current baselines in various settings including spatial temporal and untrimmed multi-action spatio-temporal grounding.
FoundationPose: Unified 6D Pose Estimation and Tracking of Novel Objects
Authors: Bowen Wen, Wei Yang, Jan Kautz, Stan Birchfield
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present FoundationPose a unified foundation model for 6D object pose estimation and tracking supporting both model-based and model-free setups. Our approach can be instantly applied at test-time to a novel object without finetuning as long as its CAD model is given or a small number of reference images are captured. Thanks to the unified framework the downstream pose estimation modules are the same in both setups with a neural implicit representation used for efficient novel view synthesis when no CAD model is available. Strong generalizability is achieved via large-scale synthetic training aided by a large language model (LLM) a novel transformer-based architecture and contrastive learning formulation. Extensive evaluation on multiple public datasets involving challenging scenarios and objects indicate our unified approach outperforms existing methods specialized for each task by a large margin. In addition it even achieves comparable results to instance-level methods despite the reduced assumptions. Project page: https://nvlabs.github.io/FoundationPose/
How Far Can We Compress Instant-NGP-Based NeRF?
Authors: Yihang Chen, Qianyi Wu, Mehrtash Harandi, Jianfei Cai
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: In recent years Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) has demonstrated remarkable capabilities in representing 3D scenes. To expedite the rendering process learnable explicit representations have been introduced for combination with implicit NeRF representation which however results in a large storage space requirement. In this paper we introduce the Context-based NeRF Compression (CNC) framework which leverages highly efficient context models to provide a storage-friendly NeRF representation. Specifically we excavate both level-wise and dimension-wise context dependencies to enable probability prediction for information entropy reduction. Additionally we exploit hash collision and occupancy grids as strong prior knowledge for better context modeling. To the best of our knowledge we are the first to construct and exploit context models for NeRF compression. We achieve a size reduction of 100X and 70X with improved fidelity against the baseline Instant-NGP on Synthesic-NeRF and Tanks and Temples datasets respectively. Additionally we attain 86.7% and 82.3% storage size reduction against the SOTA NeRF compression method BiRF. Our code is available here: https://github.com/YihangChen-ee/CNC.
PFStorer: Personalized Face Restoration and Super-Resolution
Authors: Tuomas Varanka, Tapani Toivonen, Soumya Tripathy, Guoying Zhao, Erman Acar
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recent developments in face restoration have achieved remarkable results in producing high-quality and lifelike outputs. The stunning results however often fail to be faithful with respect to the identity of the person as the models lack necessary context. In this paper we explore the potential of personalized face restoration with diffusion models. In our approach a restoration model is personalized using a few images of the identity leading to tailored restoration with respect to the identity while retaining fine-grained details. By using independent trainable blocks for personalization the rich prior of a base restoration model can be exploited to its fullest. To avoid the model relying on parts of identity left in the conditioning low-quality images a generative regularizer is employed. With a learnable parameter the model learns to balance between the details generated based on the input image and the degree of personalization. Moreover we improve the training pipeline of face restoration models to enable an alignment-free approach. We showcase the robust capabilities of our approach in several real-world scenarios with multiple identities demonstrating our method's ability to generate fine-grained details with faithful restoration. In the user study we evaluate the perceptual quality and faithfulness of the generated details with our method being voted best 61% of the time compared to the second best with 25% of the votes.
TextureDreamer: Image-Guided Texture Synthesis Through Geometry-Aware Diffusion
Authors: Yu-Ying Yeh, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Lei Xiao, Thu Nguyen-Phuoc, Numair Khan, Cheng Zhang, Manmohan Chandraker, Carl S Marshall, Zhao Dong, Zhengqin Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present TextureDreamer a novel image-guided texture synthesis method to transfer relightable textures from a small number of input images (3 to 5) to target 3D shapes across arbitrary categories. Texture creation is a pivotal challenge in vision and graphics. Industrial companies hire experienced artists to manually craft textures for 3D assets. Classical methods require densely sampled views and accurately aligned geometry while learning-based methods are confined to category-specific shapes within the dataset. In contrast TextureDreamer can transfer highly detailed intricate textures from real-world environments to arbitrary objects with only a few casually captured images potentially significantly democratizing texture creation. Our core idea personalized geometry-aware score distillation (PGSD) draws inspiration from recent advancements in diffuse models including personalized modeling for texture information extraction score distillation for detailed appearance synthesis and explicit geometry guidance with ControlNet. Our integration and several essential modifications substantially improve the texture quality. Experiments on real images spanning different categories show that TextureDreamer can successfully transfer highly realistic semantic meaningful texture to arbitrary objects surpassing the visual quality of previous state-of-the-art. Project page: https://texturedreamer.github.io
Boosting Image Quality Assessment through Efficient Transformer Adaptation with Local Feature Enhancement
Authors: Kangmin Xu, Liang Liao, Jing Xiao, Chaofeng Chen, Haoning Wu, Qiong Yan, Weisi Lin
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Image Quality Assessment (IQA) constitutes a fundamental task within the field of computer vision yet it remains an unresolved challenge owing to the intricate distortion conditions diverse image contents and limited availability of data. Recently the community has witnessed the emergence of numerous large-scale pretrained foundation models. However it remains an open problem whether the scaling law in high-level tasks is also applicable to IQA tasks which are closely related to low-level clues. In this paper we demonstrate that with a proper injection of local distortion features a larger pretrained vision transformer (ViT) foundation model performs better in IQA tasks. Specifically for the lack of local distortion structure and inductive bias of the large-scale pretrained ViT we use another pretrained convolution neural networks (CNNs) which is well known for capturing the local structure to extract multi-scale image features. Further we propose a local distortion extractor to obtain local distortion features from the pretrained CNNs and a local distortion injector to inject the local distortion features into ViT. By only training the extractor and injector our method can benefit from the rich knowledge in the powerful foundation models and achieve state-of-the-art performance on popular IQA datasets indicating that IQA is not only a low-level problem but also benefits from stronger high-level features drawn from large-scale pretrained models. Codes are publicly available at: https://github.com/NeosXu/LoDa.
Hyperbolic Anomaly Detection
Authors: Huimin Li, Zhentao Chen, Yunhao Xu, Junlin Hu
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Anomaly detection is a challenging computer vision task in industrial scenario. Advancements in deep learning constantly revolutionize vision-based anomaly detection methods and considerable progress has been made in both supervised and self-supervised anomaly detection. The commonly-used pipeline is to optimize the model by constraining the feature embeddings using a distance-based loss function. However these methods work in Euclidean space and they cannot well exploit the data lied in non-Euclidean space. In this paper we are the first to explore anomaly detection task in hyperbolic space that is a representative of non-Euclidean space and propose a hyperbolic anomaly detection (HypAD) method. Specifically we first extract image features and then map them from Euclidean space to hyperbolic space where the hyperbolic distance metric is employed to optimize the proposed HypAD. Extensive experiments on the benchmarking datasets including MVTec AD and VisA show that our HypAD approach obtains the state-of-the-art performance demonstrating the effectiveness of our HypAD and the promise of investigating anomaly detection in hyperbolic space.
VLP: Vision Language Planning for Autonomous Driving
Authors: Chenbin Pan, Burhaneddin Yaman, Tommaso Nesti, Abhirup Mallik, Alessandro G Allievi, Senem Velipasalar, Liu Ren
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Autonomous driving is a complex and challenging task that aims at safe motion planning through scene understanding and reasoning. While vision-only autonomous driving methods have recently achieved notable performance through enhanced scene understanding several key issues including lack of reasoning low generalization performance and long-tail scenarios still need to be addressed. In this paper we present VLP a novel Vision-Language-Planning framework that exploits language models to bridge the gap between linguistic understanding and autonomous driving. VLP enhances autonomous driving systems by strengthening both the source memory foundation and the self-driving car's contextual understanding. VLP achieves state-of-the-art end-to-end planning performance on the challenging NuScenes dataset by achieving 35.9% and 60.5% reduction in terms of average L2 error and collision rates respectively compared to the previous best method. Moreover VLP shows improved performance in challenging long-tail scenarios and strong generalization capabilities when faced with new urban environments.
Attention Calibration for Disentangled Text-to-Image Personalization
Authors: Yanbing Zhang, Mengping Yang, Qin Zhou, Zhe Wang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recent thrilling progress in large-scale text-to-image (T2I) models has unlocked unprecedented synthesis quality of AI-generated content (AIGC) including image generation 3D and video composition. Further personalized techniques enable appealing customized production of a novel concept given only several images as reference. However an intriguing problem persists: Is it possible to capture multiple novel concepts from one single reference image? In this paper we identify that existing approaches fail to preserve visual consistency with the reference image and eliminate cross-influence from concepts. To alleviate this we propose an attention calibration mechanism to improve the concept-level understanding of the T2I model. Specifically we first introduce new learnable modifiers bound with classes to capture attributes of multiple concepts. Then the classes are separated and strengthened following the activation of the cross-attention operation ensuring comprehensive and self-contained concepts. Additionally we suppress the attention activation of different classes to mitigate mutual influence among concepts. Together our proposed method dubbed DisenDiff can learn disentangled multiple concepts from one single image and produce novel customized images with learned concepts. We demonstrate that our method outperforms the current state of the art in both qualitative and quantitative evaluations. More importantly our proposed techniques are compatible with LoRA and inpainting pipelines enabling more interactive experiences.
ProMark: Proactive Diffusion Watermarking for Causal Attribution
Authors: Vishal Asnani, John Collomosse, Tu Bui, Xiaoming Liu, Shruti Agarwal
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Generative AI (GenAI) is transforming creative workflows through the capability to synthesize and manipulate images via high-level prompts. Yet creatives are not well supported to receive recognition or reward for the use of their content in GenAI training. To this end we propose ProMark a causal attribution technique to attribute a synthetically generated image to its training data concepts like objects motifs templates artists or styles. The concept information is proactively embedded into the input training images using imperceptible watermarks and the diffusion models (unconditional or conditional) are trained to retain the corresponding watermarks in generated images. We show that we can embed as many as 2^ 16  unique watermarks into the training data and each training image can contain more than one watermark. ProMark can maintain image quality whilst outperforming correlation-based attribution. Finally several qualitative examples are presented providing the confidence that the presence of the watermark conveys a causative relationship between training data and synthetic images.
One-Shot Structure-Aware Stylized Image Synthesis
Authors: Hansam Cho, Jonghyun Lee, Seunggyu Chang, Yonghyun Jeong
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: While GAN-based models have been successful in image stylization tasks they often struggle with structure preservation while stylizing a wide range of input images. Recently diffusion models have been adopted for image stylization but still lack the capability to maintain the original quality of input images. Building on this we propose OSASIS: a novel one-shot stylization method that is robust in structure preservation. We show that OSASIS is able to effectively disentangle the semantics from the structure of an image allowing it to control the level of content and style implemented to a given input. We apply OSASIS to various experimental settings including stylization with out-of-domain reference images and stylization with text-driven manipulation. Results show that OSASIS outperforms other stylization methods especially for input images that were rarely encountered during training providing a promising solution to stylization via diffusion models.
GPT4Point: A Unified Framework for Point-Language Understanding and Generation
Authors: Zhangyang Qi, Ye Fang, Zeyi Sun, Xiaoyang Wu, Tong Wu, Jiaqi Wang, Dahua Lin, Hengshuang Zhao
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have excelled in 2D image-text comprehension and image generation but their understanding of the 3D world is notably deficient limiting progress in 3D language understanding and generation. To solve this problem we introduce GPT4Point an innovative groundbreaking point-language multimodal model designed specifically for unified 3D object understanding and generation within the MLLM framework. GPT4Point as a powerful 3D MLLM seamlessly can execute a variety of point-text reference tasks such as point-cloud captioning and Q&A. Additionally GPT4Point is equipped with advanced capabilities for controllable 3D generation it can get high-quality results through a low-quality point-text feature maintaining the geometric shapes and colors. To support the expansive needs of 3D object-text pairs we develop Pyramid-XL a point-language dataset annotation engine. It constructs a large-scale database over 1M objects of varied text granularity levels from the Objaverse-XL dataset essential for training GPT4Point. A comprehensive benchmark has been proposed to evaluate 3D point-language understanding capabilities. In extensive evaluations GPT4Point has demonstrated superior performance in understanding and generation.
SemCity: Semantic Scene Generation with Triplane Diffusion
Authors: Jumin Lee, Sebin Lee, Changho Jo, Woobin Im, Juhyeong Seon, Sung-Eui Yoon
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present "SemCity" a 3D diffusion model for semantic scene generation in real-world outdoor environments. Most 3D diffusion models focus on generating a single object synthetic indoor scenes or synthetic outdoor scenes while the generation of real-world outdoor scenes is rarely addressed. In this paper we concentrate on generating a real-outdoor scene through learning a diffusion model on a real-world outdoor dataset. In contrast to synthetic data real-outdoor datasets often contain more empty spaces due to sensor limitations causing challenges in learning real-outdoor distributions. To address this issue we exploit a triplane representation as a proxy form of scene distributions to be learned by our diffusion model. Furthermore we propose a triplane manipulation that integrates seamlessly with our triplane diffusion model. The manipulation improves our diffusion model's applicability in a variety of downstream tasks related to outdoor scene generation such as scene inpainting scene outpainting and semantic scene completion refinements. In experimental results we demonstrate that our triplane diffusion model shows meaningful generation results compared with existing work in a real-outdoor dataset SemanticKITTI. We also show our triplane manipulation facilitates seamlessly adding removing or modifying objects within a scene. Further it also enables the expansion of scenes toward a city-level scale. Finally we evaluate our method on semantic scene completion refinements where our diffusion model enhances predictions of semantic scene completion networks by learning scene distribution. Our code is available at https://github.com/zoomin-lee/SemCity.
Improving Semantic Correspondence with Viewpoint-Guided Spherical Maps
Authors: Octave Mariotti, Oisin Mac Aodha, Hakan Bilen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recent self-supervised models produce visual features that are not only effective at encoding image-level but also pixel-level semantics. They have been reported to obtain impressive results for dense visual semantic correspondence estimation even outperforming fully-supervised methods. Nevertheless these models still fail in the presence of challenging image characteristics such as symmetries and repeated parts. To address these limitations we propose a new semantic correspondence estimation method that supplements state-of-the-art self-supervised features with 3D understanding via a weak geometric spherical prior. Compared to more involved 3D pipelines our model provides a simple and effective way of injecting informative geometric priors into the learned representation while requiring only weak viewpoint information. We also propose a new evaluation metric that better accounts for repeated part and symmetry-induced mistakes. We show that our method succeeds in distinguishing between symmetric views and repeated parts across many object categories in the challenging SPair-71k dataset and also in generalizing to previously unseen classes in the AwA dataset.
MR-VNet: Media Restoration using Volterra Networks
Authors: Siddharth Roheda, Amit Unde, Loay Rashid
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: This research paper presents a novel class of restoration network architecture based on the Volterra series formulation. By incorporating non-linearity into the system response function through higher order convolutions instead of traditional activation functions we introduce a general framework for image/video restoration. Through extensive experimentation we demonstrate that our proposed architecture achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in the field of Image/Video Restoration. Moreover we establish that the recently introduced Non-Linear Activation Free Network (NAF-NET) can be considered a special case within the broader class of Volterra Neural Networks. These findings highlight the potential of Volterra Neural Networks as a versatile and powerful tool for addressing complex restoration tasks in computer vision.