mtybilly/Instruct2DS huggingface dataset:
4D Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Dynamic Scene Rendering
Authors: Guanjun Wu, Taoran Yi, Jiemin Fang, Lingxi Xie, Xiaopeng Zhang, Wei Wei, Wenyu Liu, Qi Tian, Xinggang Wang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Representing and rendering dynamic scenes has been an important but challenging task. Especially to accurately model complex motions high efficiency is usually hard to guarantee. To achieve real-time dynamic scene rendering while also enjoying high training and storage efficiency we propose 4D Gaussian Splatting (4D-GS) as a holistic representation for dynamic scenes rather than applying 3D-GS for each individual frame. In 4D-GS a novel explicit representation containing both 3D Gaussians and 4D neural voxels is proposed. A decomposed neural voxel encoding algorithm inspired by HexPlane is proposed to efficiently build Gaussian features from 4D neural voxels and then a lightweight MLP is applied to predict Gaussian deformations at novel timestamps. Our 4D-GS method achieves real-time rendering under high resolutions 82 FPS at an 800*800 resolution on an RTX 3090 GPU while maintaining comparable or better quality than previous state-of-the-art methods. More demos and code are available at https://guanjunwu.github.io/4dgs.
RAM-Avatar: Real-time Photo-Realistic Avatar from Monocular Videos with Full-body Control
Authors: Xiang Deng, Zerong Zheng, Yuxiang Zhang, Jingxiang Sun, Chao Xu, Xiaodong Yang, Lizhen Wang, Yebin Liu
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: This paper focuses on advancing the applicability of human avatar learning methods by proposing RAM-Avatar which learns a Real-time photo-realistic Avatar that supports full-body control from Monocular videos. To achieve this goal RAM-Avatar leverages two statistical templates responsible for modeling the facial expression and hand gesture variations while a sparsely computed dual attention module is introduced upon another body template to facilitate high-fidelity texture rendering for the torsos and limbs. Building on this foundation we deploy a lightweight yet powerful StyleUnet along with a temporal-aware discriminator to achieve real-time realistic rendering. To enable robust animation for out-of-distribution poses we propose a Motion Distribution Align module to compensate for the discrepancies between the training and testing motion distribution. Results and extensive experiments conducted in various experimental settings demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method and a real-time live system is proposed to further push research into applications. The training and testing code will be released for research purposes.
Selective-Stereo: Adaptive Frequency Information Selection for Stereo Matching
Authors: Xianqi Wang, Gangwei Xu, Hao Jia, Xin Yang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Stereo matching methods based on iterative optimization like RAFT-Stereo and IGEV-Stereo have evolved into a cornerstone in the field of stereo matching. However these methods struggle to simultaneously capture high-frequency information in edges and low-frequency information in smooth regions due to the fixed receptive field. As a result they tend to lose details blur edges and produce false matches in textureless areas. In this paper we propose Selective Recurrent Unit (SRU) a novel iterative update operator for stereo matching. The SRU module can adaptively fuse hidden disparity information at multiple frequencies for edge and smooth regions. To perform adaptive fusion we introduce a new Contextual Spatial Attention (CSA) module to generate attention maps as fusion weights. The SRU empowers the network to aggregate hidden disparity information across multiple frequencies mitigating the risk of vital hidden disparity information loss during iterative processes. To verify SRU's universality we apply it to representative iterative stereo matching methods collectively referred to as Selective-Stereo. Our Selective-Stereo ranks first on KITTI 2012 KITTI 2015 ETH3D and Middlebury leaderboards among all published methods. Code is available at https://github.com/Windsrain/Selective-Stereo.
PerAda: Parameter-Efficient Federated Learning Personalization with Generalization Guarantees
Authors: Chulin Xie, De-An Huang, Wenda Chu, Daguang Xu, Chaowei Xiao, Bo Li, Anima Anandkumar
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Personalized Federated Learning (pFL) has emerged as a promising solution to tackle data heterogeneity across clients in FL. However existing pFL methods either (1) introduce high computation and communication costs or (2) overfit to local data which can be limited in scope and vulnerable to evolved test samples with natural distribution shifts. In this paper we propose PerAda a parameter-efficient pFL framework that reduces communication and computational costs and exhibits superior generalization performance especially under test-time distribution shifts. PerAda reduces the costs by leveraging the power of pretrained models and only updates and communicates a small number of additional parameters from adapters. PerAda achieves high generalization by regularizing each client's personalized adapter with a global adapter while the global adapter uses knowledge distillation to aggregate generalized information from all clients. Theoretically we provide generalization bounds of PerAda and we prove its convergence to stationary points under non-convex settings. Empirically PerAda demonstrates higher personalized performance (+4.85% on CheXpert) and enables better out-of-distribution generalization (+5.23% on CIFAR-10-C) on different datasets across natural and medical domains compared with baselines while only updating 12.6% of parameters per model. Our code is available at https://github.com/NVlabs/PerAda.
MAFA: Managing False Negatives for Vision-Language Pre-training
Authors: Jaeseok Byun, Dohoon Kim, Taesup Moon
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We consider a critical issue of false negatives in Vision- Language Pre-training (VLP) a challenge that arises from the inherent many-to-many correspondence of image-text pairs in large-scale web-crawled datasets. The presence of false negatives can impede achieving optimal performance and even lead to a significant performance drop. To address this challenge we propose MAFA (MAnaging FAlse nega- tives) which consists of two pivotal components building upon the recently developed GRouped mIni-baTch sampling (GRIT) strategy: 1) an efficient connection mining process that identifies and converts false negatives into positives and 2) label smoothing for the image-text contrastive (ITC) loss. Our comprehensive experiments verify the effectiveness of MAFA across multiple downstream tasks emphasizing the crucial role of addressing false negatives in VLP potentially even surpassing the importance of addressing false posi- tives. In addition the compatibility of MAFA with the recent BLIP-family model is also demonstrated. Code is available at https://github.com/jaeseokbyun/MAFA.
Video Prediction by Modeling Videos as Continuous Multi-Dimensional Processes
Authors: Gaurav Shrivastava, Abhinav Shrivastava
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Diffusion models have made significant strides in image generation mastering tasks such as unconditional image synthesis text-image translation and image-to-image conversions. However their capability falls short in the realm of video prediction mainly because they treat videos as a collection of independent images relying on external constraints such as temporal attention mechanisms to enforce temporal coherence. In our paper we introduce a novel model class that treats video as a continuous multi-dimensional process rather than a series of discrete frames. Through extensive experimentation we establish state-of-the-art performance in video prediction validated on benchmark datasets including KTH BAIR Human3.6M and UCF101.
PICTURE: PhotorealistIC virtual Try-on from UnconstRained dEsigns
Authors: Shuliang Ning, Duomin Wang, Yipeng Qin, Zirong Jin, Baoyuan Wang, Xiaoguang Han
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: In this paper we propose a novel virtual try-on from unconstrained designs (ucVTON) task to enable photorealistic synthesis of personalized composite clothing on input human images. Unlike prior arts constrained by specific input types our method allows flexible specification of style (text or image) and texture (full garment cropped sections or texture patches) conditions. To address the entanglement challenge when using full garment images as conditions we develop a two-stage pipeline with explicit disentanglement of style and texture. In the first stage we generate a human parsing map reflecting the desired style conditioned on the input. In the second stage we composite textures onto the parsing map areas based on the texture input. To represent complex and non-stationary textures that have never been achieved in previous fashion editing works we first propose extracting hierarchical and balanced CLIP features and applying position encoding in VTON. Experiments demonstrate superior synthesis quality and personalization enabled by our method. The flexible control over style and texture mixing brings virtual try-on to a new level of user experience for online shopping and fashion design.
InfLoRA: Interference-Free Low-Rank Adaptation for Continual Learning
Authors: Yan-Shuo Liang, Wu-Jun Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Continual learning requires the model to learn multiple tasks sequentially. In continual learning the model should possess the ability to maintain its performance on old tasks (stability) and the ability to adapt to new tasks continuously (plasticity). Recently parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) which involves freezing a pre-trained model and injecting a small number of learnable parameters to adapt to downstream tasks has gained increasing popularity in continual learning. Although existing continual learning methods based on PEFT have demonstrated superior performance compared to those not based on PEFT most of them do not consider how to eliminate the interference of the new task on the old tasks which inhibits the model from making a good trade-off between stability and plasticity. In this work we propose a new PEFT method called interference-free low-rank adaptation (InfLoRA) for continual learning. InfLoRA injects a small number of parameters to reparameterize the pre-trained weights and shows that fine-tuning these injected parameters is equivalent to fine-tuning the pre-trained weights within a subspace. Furthermore InfLoRA designs this subspace to eliminate the interference of the new task on the old tasks making a good trade-off between stability and plasticity. Experimental results show that InfLoRA outperforms existing state-of-the-art continual learning methods on multiple datasets.
Towards Robust 3D Pose Transfer with Adversarial Learning
Authors: Haoyu Chen, Hao Tang, Ehsan Adeli, Guoying Zhao
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: 3D pose transfer that aims to transfer the desired pose to a target mesh is one of the most challenging 3D generation tasks. Previous attempts rely on well-defined parametric human models or skeletal joints as driving pose sources. However to obtain those clean pose sources cumbersome but necessary pre-processing pipelines are inevitable hindering implementations of the real-time applications. This work is driven by the intuition that the robustness of the model can be enhanced by introducing adversarial samples into the training leading to a more invulnerable model to the noisy inputs which even can be further extended to directly handling the real-world data like raw point clouds/scans without intermediate processing. Furthermore we propose a novel 3D pose Masked Autoencoder (3D-PoseMAE) a customized MAE that effectively learns 3D extrinsic presentations (i.e. pose). 3D-PoseMAE facilitates learning from the aspect of extrinsic attributes by simultaneously generating adversarial samples that perturb the model and learning the arbitrary raw noisy poses via a multi-scale masking strategy. Both qualitative and quantitative studies show that the transferred meshes given by our network result in much better quality. Besides we demonstrate the strong generalizability of our method on various poses different domains and even raw scans. Experimental results also show meaningful insights that the intermediate adversarial samples generated in the training can successfully attack the existing pose transfer models.
Error Detection in Egocentric Procedural Task Videos
Authors: Shih-Po Lee, Zijia Lu, Zekun Zhang, Minh Hoai, Ehsan Elhamifar
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present a new egocentric procedural error dataset containing videos with various types of errors as well as normal videos and propose a new framework for procedural error detection using error-free training videos only. Our framework consists of an action segmentation model and a contrastive step prototype learning module to segment actions and learn useful features for error detection. Based on the observation that interactions between hands and objects often inform action and error understanding we propose to combine holistic frame features with relations features which we learn by building a graph using active object detection followed by a Graph Convolutional Network. To handle errors unseen during training we use our contrastive step prototype learning to learn multiple prototypes for each step capturing variations of error-free step executions. At inference time we use feature-prototype similarities for error detection. By experiments on three datasets we show that our proposed framework outperforms state-of-the-art video anomaly detection methods for error detection and provides smooth action and error predictions.
EAGLE: Eigen Aggregation Learning for Object-Centric Unsupervised Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Chanyoung Kim, Woojung Han, Dayun Ju, Seong Jae Hwang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Semantic segmentation has innately relied on extensive pixel-level annotated data leading to the emergence of unsupervised methodologies. Among them leveraging self-supervised Vision Transformers for unsupervised semantic segmentation (USS) has been making steady progress with expressive deep features. Yet for semantically segmenting images with complex objects a predominant challenge remains: the lack of explicit object-level semantic encoding in patch-level features. This technical limitation often leads to inadequate segmentation of complex objects with diverse structures. To address this gap we present a novel approach EAGLE which emphasizes object-centric representation learning for unsupervised semantic segmentation. Specifically we introduce EiCue a spectral technique providing semantic and structural cues through an eigenbasis derived from the semantic similarity matrix of deep image features and color affinity from an image. Further by incorporating our object-centric contrastive loss with EiCue we guide our model to learn object-level representations with intra- and inter-image object-feature consistency thereby enhancing semantic accuracy. Extensive experiments on COCO-Stuff Cityscapes and Potsdam-3 datasets demonstrate the state-of-the-art USS results of EAGLE with accurate and consistent semantic segmentation across complex scenes.
AVID: Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model
Authors: Zhixing Zhang, Bichen Wu, Xiaoyan Wang, Yaqiao Luo, Luxin Zhang, Yinan Zhao, Peter Vajda, Dimitris Metaxas, Licheng Yu
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recent advances in diffusion models have successfully enabled text-guided image inpainting. While it seems straightforward to extend such editing capability into the video domain there have been fewer works regarding text-guided video inpainting. Given a video a masked region at its initial frame and an editing prompt it requires a model to do infilling at each frame following the editing guidance while keeping the out-of-mask region intact. There are three main challenges in text-guided video inpainting: (i) temporal consistency of the edited video (ii) supporting different inpainting types at different structural fidelity levels and (iii) dealing with variable video length. To address these challenges we introduce Any-Length Video Inpainting with Diffusion Model dubbed as AVID. At its core our model is equipped with effective motion modules and adjustable structure guidance for fixed-length video inpainting. Building on top of that we propose a novel Temporal MultiDiffusion sampling pipeline with a middle-frame attention guidance mechanism facilitating the generation of videos with any desired duration. Our comprehensive experiments show our model can robustly deal with various inpainting types at different video duration ranges with high quality.
NoiseCollage: A Layout-Aware Text-to-Image Diffusion Model Based on Noise Cropping and Merging
Authors: Takahiro Shirakawa, Seiichi Uchida
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Layout-aware text-to-image generation is a task to generate multi-object images that reflect layout conditions in addition to text conditions. The current layout-aware text-to-image diffusion models still have several issues including mismatches between the text and layout conditions and quality degradation of generated images. This paper proposes a novel layout-aware text-to-image diffusion model called NoiseCollage to tackle these issues. During the denoising process NoiseCollage independently estimates noises for individual objects and then crops and merges them into a single noise. This operation helps avoid condition mismatches; in other words it can put the right objects in the right places. Qualitative and quantitative evaluations show that NoiseCollage outperforms several state-of-the-art models. These successful results indicate that the crop-and-merge operation of noises is a reasonable strategy to control image generation. We also show that NoiseCollage can be integrated with ControlNet to use edges sketches and pose skeletons as additional conditions. Experimental results show that this integration boosts the layout accuracy of ControlNet. The code is available at https://github.com/univ-esuty/noisecollage.
Uncertainty-Guided Never-Ending Learning to Drive
Authors: Lei Lai, Eshed Ohn-Bar, Sanjay Arora, John Seon Keun Yi
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present a highly scalable self-training framework for incrementally adapting vision-based end-to-end autonomous driving policies in a semi-supervised manner i.e. over a continual stream of incoming video data. To facilitate large-scale model training (e.g. open web or unlabeled data) we do not assume access to ground-truth labels and instead estimate pseudo-label policy targets for each video. Our framework comprises three key components: knowledge distillation a sample purification module and an exploration and knowledge retention mechanism. First given sequential image frames we pseudo-label the data and estimate uncertainty using an ensemble of inverse dynamics models. The uncertainty is used to select the most informative samples to add to an experience replay buffer. We specifically select high-uncertainty pseudo-labels to facilitate the exploration and learning of new and diverse driving skills. However in contrast to prior work in continual learning that assumes ground-truth labeled samples the uncertain pseudo-labels can introduce significant noise. Thus we also pair the exploration with a label refinement module which makes use of consistency constraints to re-label the noisy exploratory samples and effectively learn from diverse data. Trained as a complete never-ending learning system we demonstrate state-of-the-art performance on training from domain-changing data as well as millions of images from the open web.
FakeInversion: Learning to Detect Images from Unseen Text-to-Image Models by Inverting Stable Diffusion
Authors: George Cazenavette, Avneesh Sud, Thomas Leung, Ben Usman
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Due to the high potential for abuse of GenAI systems the task of detecting synthetic images has recently become of great interest to the research community. Unfortunately existing image space detectors quickly become obsolete as new high-fidelity text-to-image models are developed at blinding speed. In this work we propose a new synthetic image detector that uses features obtained by inverting an open-source pre-trained Stable Diffusion model. We show that these inversion features enable our detector to generalize well to unseen generators of high visual fidelity (e.g. DALL*E 3) even when the detector is trained only on lower fidelity fake images generated via Stable Diffusion. This detector achieves new state-of-the-art across multiple training and evaluation setups. Moreover we introduce a new challenging evaluation protocol that uses reverse image search to mitigate stylistic and thematic biases in the detector evaluation. We show that the resulting evaluation scores align well with detectors' in-the-wild performance and release these datasets as public benchmarks for future research.
PLGSLAM: Progressive Neural Scene Represenation with Local to Global Bundle Adjustment
Authors: Tianchen Deng, Guole Shen, Tong Qin, Jianyu Wang, Wentao Zhao, Jingchuan Wang, Danwei Wang, Weidong Chen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Neural implicit scene representations have recently shown encouraging results in dense visual SLAM. However existing methods produce low-quality scene reconstruction and low-accuracy localization performance when scaling up to large indoor scenes and long sequences. These limitations are mainly due to their single global radiance field with finite capacity which does not adapt to large scenarios. Their end-to-end pose networks are also not robust enough with the growth of cumulative errors in large scenes. To this end we introduce PLGSLAM a neural visual SLAM system capable of high-fidelity surface reconstruction and robust camera tracking in real-time. To handle large-scale indoor scenes PLGSLAM proposes a progressive scene representation method which dynamically allocates new local scene representation trained with frames within a local sliding window. This allows us to scale up to larger indoor scenes and improves robustness (even under pose drifts). In local scene representation PLGSLAM utilizes tri-planes for local high-frequency features with multi-layer perceptron (MLP) networks for the low-frequency feature achieving smoothness and scene completion in unobserved areas. Moreover we propose local-to-global bundle adjustment method with a global keyframe database to address the increased pose drifts on long sequences. Experimental results demonstrate that PLGSLAM achieves state-of-the-art scene reconstruction results and tracking performance across various datasets and scenarios (both in small and large-scale indoor environments).
Multi-Task Dense Prediction via Mixture of Low-Rank Experts
Authors: Yuqi Yang, Peng-Tao Jiang, Qibin Hou, Hao Zhang, Jinwei Chen, Bo Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Previous multi-task dense prediction methods based on the Mixture of Experts (MoE) have received great performance but they neglect the importance of explicitly modeling the global relations among all tasks. In this paper we present a novel decoder-focused method for multi-task dense prediction called Mixture-of-Low-Rank-Experts (MLoRE). To model the global task relationships MLoRE adds a generic convolution path to the original MoE structure where each task feature can go through this path for explicit parameter sharing. Furthermore to control the parameters and computational cost brought by the increase in the number of experts we take inspiration from LoRA and propose to leverage the low-rank format of a vanilla convolution in the expert network. Since the low-rank experts have fewer parameters and can be dynamically parameterized into the generic convolution the parameters and computational cost do not change much with the increase of experts. Benefiting from this design we increase the number of experts and its reception field to enlarge the representation capacity facilitating multiple dense tasks learning in a unified network. Extensive experiments on the PASCAL-Context and NYUD-v2 benchmarks show that our MLoRE achieves superior performance compared to previous state-of-the-art methods on all metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/YuqiYang213/MLoRE.
Binding Touch to Everything: Learning Unified Multimodal Tactile Representations
Authors: Fengyu Yang, Chao Feng, Ziyang Chen, Hyoungseob Park, Daniel Wang, Yiming Dou, Ziyao Zeng, Xien Chen, Rit Gangopadhyay, Andrew Owens, Alex Wong
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: The ability to associate touch with other modalities has huge implications for humans and computational systems. However multimodal learning with touch remains challenging due to the expensive data collection process and non-standardized sensor outputs. We introduce UniTouch a unified tactile model for vision-based touch sensors connected to multiple modalities including vision language and sound. We achieve this by aligning our UniTouch embeddings to pretrained image embeddings already associated with a variety of other modalities. We further propose learnable sensor-specific tokens allowing the model to learn from a set of heterogeneous tactile sensors all at the same time. UniTouch is capable of conducting various touch sensing tasks in the zero-shot setting from robot grasping prediction to touch image question answering. To the best of our knowledge UniTouch is the first to demonstrate such capabilities.
Attribute-Guided Pedestrian Retrieval: Bridging Person Re-ID with Internal Attribute Variability
Authors: Yan Huang, Zhang Zhang, Qiang Wu, Yi Zhong, Liang Wang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: In various domains such as surveillance and smart retail pedestrian retrieval centering on person re-identification (Re-ID) plays a pivotal role. Existing Re-ID methodologies often overlook subtle internal attribute variations which are crucial for accurately identifying individuals with changing appearances. In response our paper introduces the Attribute-Guided Pedestrian Retrieval (AGPR) task focusing on integrating specified attributes with query images to refine retrieval results. Although there has been progress in attribute-driven image retrieval there remains a notable gap in effectively blending robust Re-ID models with intra-class attribute variations. To bridge this gap we present the Attribute-Guided Transformer-based Pedestrian Retrieval (ATPR) framework. ATPR adeptly merges global ID recognition with local attribute learning ensuring a cohesive linkage between the two. Furthermore to effectively handle the complexity of attribute interconnectivity ATPR organizes attributes into distinct groups and applies both inter-group correlation and intra-group decorrelation regularizations. Our extensive experiments on a newly established benchmark using the RAP dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of ATPR within the AGPR paradigm.
Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval
Authors: Jiamian Wang, Guohao Sun, Pichao Wang, Dongfang Liu, Sohail Dianat, Majid Rabbani, Raghuveer Rao, Zhiqiang Tao
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: The increasing prevalence of video clips has sparked growing interest in text-video retrieval. Recent advances focus on establishing a joint embedding space for text and video relying on consistent embedding representations to compute similarity. However the text content in existing datasets is generally short and concise making it hard to fully describe the redundant semantics of a video. Correspondingly a single text embedding may be less expressive to capture the video embedding and empower the retrieval. In this study we propose a new stochastic text modeling method T-MASS i.e. text is modeled as a stochastic embedding to enrich text embedding with a flexible and resilient semantic range yielding a text mass. To be specific we introduce a similarity-aware radius module to adapt the scale of the text mass upon the given text-video pairs. Plus we design and develop a support text regularization to further control the text mass during the training. The inference pipeline is also tailored to fully exploit the text mass for accurate retrieval. Empirical evidence suggests that T-MASS not only effectively attracts relevant text-video pairs while distancing irrelevant ones but also enables the determination of precise text embeddings for relevant pairs. Our experimental results show a substantial improvement of T-MASS over baseline (3% 6.3% by R@1). Also T-MASS achieves state-of-the-art performance on five benchmark datasets including MSRVTT LSMDC DiDeMo VATEX and Charades.
Your Transferability Barrier is Fragile: Free-Lunch for Transferring the Non-Transferable Learning
Authors: Ziming Hong, Li Shen, Tongliang Liu
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recently non-transferable learning (NTL) was proposed to restrict models' generalization toward the target domain(s) which serves as state-of-the-art solutions for intellectual property (IP) protection. However the robustness of the established "transferability barrier" for degrading the target domain performance has not been well studied. In this paper we first show that the generalization performance of NTL models is widely impaired on third-party domains (i.e. the unseen domain in the NTL training stage). We explore the impairment patterns and find that: due to the dominant generalization of non-transferable task NTL models tend to make target-domain-consistent predictions on third-party domains even though only a slight distribution shift from the third-party domain to the source domain. Motivated by these findings we uncover the potential risks of NTL by proposing a simple but effective method (dubbed as TransNTL) to recover the target domain performance with few source domain data. Specifically by performing a group of different perturbations on the few source domain data we obtain diverse third-party domains that evoke the same impairment patterns as the unavailable target domain. Then we fine-tune the NTL model under an impairment-repair self-distillation framework where the source-domain predictions are used to teach the model itself how to predict on third-party domains thus repairing the impaired generalization. Empirically experiments on standard NTL benchmarks show that the proposed TransNTL reaches up to  72% target-domain improvements by using only 10% source domain data. Finally we also explore a feasible defense method and empirically demonstrate its effectiveness.
Arbitrary Motion Style Transfer with Multi-condition Motion Latent Diffusion Model
Authors: Wenfeng Song, Xingliang Jin, Shuai Li, Chenglizhao Chen, Aimin Hao, Xia Hou, Ning Li, Hong Qin
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Computer animation's quest to bridge content and style has historically been a challenging venture with previous efforts often leaning toward one at the expense of the other. This paper tackles the inherent challenge of content-style duality ensuring a harmonious fusion where the core narrative of the content is both preserved and elevated through stylistic enhancements. We propose a novel Multi-condition Motion Latent Diffusion Model (MCM-LDM) for Arbitrary Motion Style Transfer (AMST). Our MCM-LDM significantly emphasizes preserving trajectories recognizing their fundamental role in defining the essence and fluidity of motion content. Our MCM-LDM's cornerstone lies in its ability first to disentangle and then intricately weave together motion's tripartite components: motion trajectory motion content and motion style. The critical insight of MCM-LDM is to embed multiple conditions with distinct priorities. The content channel serves as the primary flow guiding the overall structure and movement while the trajectory and style channels act as auxiliary components and synchronize with the primary one dynamically. This mechanism ensures that multi-conditions can seamlessly integrate into the main flow enhancing the overall animation without overshadowing the core content. Empirical evaluations underscore the model's proficiency in achieving fluid and authentic motion style transfers setting a new benchmark in the realm of computer animation. The source code and model are available at https://github.com/XingliangJin/MCM-LDM.git.
Know Your Neighbors: Improving Single-View Reconstruction via Spatial Vision-Language Reasoning
Authors: Rui Li, Tobias Fischer, Mattia Segu, Marc Pollefeys, Luc Van Gool, Federico Tombari
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recovering the 3D scene geometry from a single view is a fundamental yet ill-posed problem in computer vision. While classical depth estimation methods infer only a 2.5D scene representation limited to the image plane recent approaches based on radiance fields reconstruct a full 3D representation. However these methods still struggle with occluded regions since inferring geometry without visual observation requires (i) semantic knowledge of the surroundings and (ii) reasoning about spatial context. We propose KYN a novel method for single-view scene reconstruction that reasons about semantic and spatial context to predict each point's density. We introduce a vision-language modulation module to enrich point features with fine-grained semantic information. We aggregate point representations across the scene through a language-guided spatial attention mechanism to yield per-point density predictions aware of the 3D semantic context. We show that KYN improves 3D shape recovery compared to predicting density for each 3D point in isolation. We achieve state-of-the-art results in scene and object reconstruction on KITTI-360 and show improved zero-shot generalization compared to prior work. Project page: https://ruili3.github.io/kyn
Complementing Event Streams and RGB Frames for Hand Mesh Reconstruction
Authors: Jianping Jiang, Xinyu Zhou, Bingxuan Wang, Xiaoming Deng, Chao Xu, Boxin Shi
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Reliable hand mesh reconstruction (HMR) from commonly-used color and depth sensors is challenging especially under scenarios with varied illuminations and fast motions. Event camera is a highly promising alternative for its high dynamic range and dense temporal resolution properties but it lacks key texture appearance for hand mesh reconstruction. In this paper we propose EvRGBHand -- the first approach for 3D hand mesh reconstruction with an event camera and an RGB camera compensating for each other. By fusing two modalities of data across time space and information dimensionsEvRGBHand can tackle overexposure and motion blur issues in RGB-based HMR and foreground scarcity and background overflow issues in event-based HMR. We further propose EvRGBDegrader which allows our model to generalize effectively in challenging scenes even when trained solely on standard scenes thus reducing data acquisition costs. Experiments on real-world data demonstrate that EvRGBHand can effectively solve the challenging issues when using either type of camera alone via retaining the merits of both and shows the potential of generalization to outdoor scenes and another type of event camera. Our code models and dataset will be made public after acceptance.
Empowering Resampling Operation for Ultra-High-Definition Image Enhancement with Model-Aware Guidance
Authors: Wei Yu, Jie Huang, Bing Li, Kaiwen Zheng, Qi Zhu, Man Zhou, Feng Zhao
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Image enhancement algorithms have made remarkable advancements in recent years but directly applying them to Ultra-high-definition (UHD) images presents intractable computational overheads. Therefore previous straightforward solutions employ resampling techniques to reduce the resolution by adopting a "Downsampling-Enhancement-Upsampling" processing paradigm. However this paradigm disentangles the resampling operators and inner enhancement algorithms which results in the loss of information that is favored by the model further leading to sub-optimal outcomes. In this paper we propose a novel method of Learning Model-Aware Resampling (LMAR) which learns to customize resampling by extracting model-aware information from the UHD input image under the guidance of model knowledge. Specifically our method consists of two core designs namely compensatory kernel estimation and steganographic resampling. At the first stage we dynamically predict compensatory kernels tailored to the specific input and resampling scales. At the second stage the image-wise compensatory information is derived with the compensatory kernels and embedded into the rescaled input images. This promotes the representation of the newly derived downscaled inputs to be more consistent with the full-resolution UHD inputs as perceived by the model. Our LMAR enables model-aware and model-favored resampling while maintaining compatibility with existing resampling operators. Extensive experiments on multiple UHD image enhancement datasets and different backbones have shown consistent performance gains after correlating resizer and enhancer e.g. up to 1.2dB PSNR gain for x1.8 resampling scale on UHD-LOL4K. The code is available at \href https://github.com/YPatrickW/LMAR  https://github.com/YPatrickW/LMAR .
ViT-CoMer: Vision Transformer with Convolutional Multi-scale Feature Interaction for Dense Predictions
Authors: Chunlong Xia, Xinliang Wang, Feng Lv, Xin Hao, Yifeng Shi
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Although Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved significant success in computer vision it does not perform well in dense prediction tasks due to the lack of inner-patch information interaction and the limited diversity of feature scale. Most existing studies are devoted to designing vision-specific transformers to solve the above problems which introduce additional pre-training costs. Therefore we present a plain pre-training-free and feature-enhanced ViT backbone with Convolutional Multi-scale feature interaction named ViT-CoMer which facilitates bidirectional interaction between CNN and transformer. Compared to the state-of-the-art ViT-CoMer has the following advantages: (1) We inject spatial pyramid multi-receptive field convolutional features into the ViT architecture which effectively alleviates the problems of limited local information interaction and single-feature representation in ViT. (2) We propose a simple and efficient CNN-Transformer bidirectional fusion interaction module that performs multi-scale fusion across hierarchical features which is beneficial for handling dense prediction tasks. (3) We evaluate the performance of ViT-CoMer across various dense prediction tasks different frameworks and multiple advanced pre-training. Notably our ViT-CoMer-L achieves 64.3% AP on COCO val2017 without extra training data and 62.1% mIoU on ADE20K val both of which are comparable to state-of-the-art methods. We hope ViT-CoMer can serve as a new backbone for dense prediction tasks to facilitate future research. The code will be released at https://github.com/Traffic-X/ViT-CoMer.
PromptCoT: Align Prompt Distribution via Adapted Chain-of-Thought
Authors: Junyi Yao, Yijiang Liu, Zhen Dong, Mingfei Guo, Helan Hu, Kurt Keutzer, Li Du, Daquan Zhou, Shanghang Zhang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Diffusion-based generative models have exhibited remarkable capability in the production of high-fidelity visual content such as images and videos. However their performance is significantly contingent upon the quality of textual inputs commonly referred to as "prompts". The process of traditional prompt engineering while effective necessitates empirical expertise and poses challenges for inexperienced users. In this paper we introduce PromptCoT an innovative enhancer that autonomously refines prompts for users. PromptCoT is designed based on the observation that prompts which resemble the textual information of high-quality images in the training set often lead to superior generation performance. Therefore we fine-tune the pre-trained Large Language Models (LLM) using a curated text dataset that solely comprises descriptions of high-quality visual content. By doing so the LLM can capture the distribution of high-quality training texts enabling it to generate aligned continuations and revisions to boost the original texts. Nonetheless one drawback of pre-trained LLMs is their tendency to generate extraneous or irrelevant information. We employ the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism to improve the alignment between the original text prompts and their refined versions. CoT can extract and amalgamate crucial information from the aligned continuation and revision enabling reasonable inferences based on the contextual cues to produce a more comprehensive and nuanced final output. Considering computational efficiency instead of allocating a dedicated LLM for prompt enhancement to each individual model or dataset we integrate adapters that facilitate dataset-specific adaptation leveraging a shared pre-trained LLM as the foundation for this process. With independent fine-tuning of these adapters we can adapt PromptCoT to new datasets while minimally increasing training costs and memory usage. We evaluate the effectiveness of PromptCoT by assessing its performance on widely-used latent diffusion models for image and video generation. The results demonstrate significant improvements in key performance metrics.
Hallucination Augmented Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Large Language Model
Authors: Chaoya Jiang, Haiyang Xu, Mengfan Dong, Jiaxing Chen, Wei Ye, Ming Yan, Qinghao Ye, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Shikun Zhang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have been shown to efficiently integrate natural language with visual information to handle multi-modal tasks. However MLLMs still face a fundamental limitation of hallucinations where they tend to generate erroneous or fabricated information. In this paper we address hallucinations in MLLMs from a novel perspective of representation learning. We first analyzed the representation distribution of textual and visual tokens in MLLM revealing two important findings: 1) there is a significant gap between textual and visual representations indicating unsatisfactory cross-modal representation alignment; 2) representations of texts that contain and do not contain hallucinations are entangled making it challenging to distinguish them. These two observations inspire us with a simple yet effective method to mitigate hallucinations. Specifically we introduce contrastive learning into MLLMs and use text with hallucination as hard negative examples naturally bringing representations of non-hallucinative text and visual samples closer while pushing way representations of non-hallucinating and hallucinative text. We evaluate our method quantitatively and qualitatively showing its effectiveness in reducing hallucination occurrences and improving performance across multiple benchmarks. On the MMhal-Bench benchmark our method obtains a 34.66% /29.5% improvement over the baseline MiniGPT-4/LLaVA. Our code is available on https://github.com/X-PLUG/mPLUG-HalOwl/tree/main/hacl.
Preserving Fairness Generalization in Deepfake Detection
Authors: Li Lin, Xinan He, Yan Ju, Xin Wang, Feng Ding, Shu Hu
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Although effective deepfake detection models have been developed in recent years recent studies have revealed that these models can result in unfair performance disparities among demographic groups such as race and gender. This can lead to particular groups facing unfair targeting or exclusion from detection potentially allowing misclassified deepfakes to manipulate public opinion and undermine trust in the model. The existing method for addressing this problem is providing a fair loss function. It shows good fairness performance for intra-domain evaluation but does not maintain fairness for cross-domain testing. This highlights the significance of fairness generalization in the fight against deepfakes. In this work we propose the first method to address the fairness generalization problem in deepfake detection by simultaneously considering features loss and optimization aspects. Our method employs disentanglement learning to extract demographic and domain-agnostic forgery features fusing them to encourage fair learning across a flattened loss landscape. Extensive experiments on prominent deepfake datasets demonstrate our method's effectiveness surpassing state-of-the-art approaches in preserving fairness during cross-domain deepfake detection. The code is available at https://github.com/Purdue-M2/Fairness-Generalization.
Anomaly Score: Evaluating Generative Models and Individual Generated Images based on Complexity and Vulnerability
Authors: Jaehui Hwang, Junghyuk Lee, Jong-Seok Lee
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: With the advancement of generative models the assessment of generated images becomes increasingly more important. Previous methods measure distances between features of reference and generated images from trained vision models. In this paper we conduct an extensive investigation into the relationship between the representation space and input space around generated images. We first propose two measures related to the presence of unnatural elements within images: complexity which indicates how non-linear the representation space is and vulnerability which is related to how easily the extracted feature changes by adversarial input changes. Based on these we introduce a new metric to evaluating image-generative models called anomaly score (AS). Moreover we propose AS-i (anomaly score for individual images) that can effectively evaluate generated images individually. Experimental results demonstrate the validity of the proposed approach.