mtybilly/Instruct2DS huggingface dataset:
Weakly-Supervised Emotion Transition Learning for Diverse 3D Co-speech Gesture Generation
Authors: Xingqun Qi, Jiahao Pan, Peng Li, Ruibin Yuan, Xiaowei Chi, Mengfei Li, Wenhan Luo, Wei Xue, Shanghang Zhang, Qifeng Liu, Yike Guo
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Generating vivid and emotional 3D co-speech gestures is crucial for virtual avatar animation in human-machine interaction applications. While the existing methods enable generating the gestures to follow a single emotion label they overlook that long gesture sequence modeling with emotion transition is more practical in real scenes. In addition the lack of large-scale available datasets with emotional transition speech and corresponding 3D human gestures also limits the addressing of this task. To fulfill this goal we first incorporate the ChatGPT-4 and an audio inpainting approach to construct the high-fidelity emotion transition human speeches. Considering obtaining the realistic 3D pose annotations corresponding to the dynamically inpainted emotion transition audio is extremely difficult we propose a novel weakly supervised training strategy to encourage authority gesture transitions. Specifically to enhance the coordination of transition gestures w.r.t. different emotional ones we model the temporal association representation between two different emotional gesture sequences as style guidance and infuse it into the transition generation. We further devise an emotion mixture mechanism that provides weak supervision based on a learnable mixed emotion label for transition gestures. Last we present a keyframe sampler to supply effective initial posture cues in long sequences enabling us to generate diverse gestures. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method outperforms the state-of-the-art models constructed by adapting single emotion-conditioned counterparts on our newly defined emotion transition task and datasets. Our code and dataset will be released on the project page: https://xingqunqi-lab.github.io/Emo-Transition-Gesture/
Multi-Session SLAM with Differentiable Wide-Baseline Pose Optimization
Authors: Lahav Lipson, Jia Deng
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We introduce a new system for Multi-Session SLAM which tracks camera motion across multiple disjoint videos under a single global reference. Our approach couples the prediction of optical flow with solver layers to estimate camera pose. The backbone is trained end-to-end using a novel differentiable solver for wide-baseline two-view pose. The full system can connect disjoint sequences perform visual odometry and global optimization. Compared to existing approaches our design is accurate and robust to catastrophic failures.
A Dual-Augmentor Framework for Domain Generalization in 3D Human Pose Estimation
Authors: Qucheng Peng, Ce Zheng, Chen Chen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: 3D human pose data collected in controlled laboratory settings present challenges for pose estimators that generalize across diverse scenarios. To address this domain generalization is employed. Current methodologies in domain generalization for 3D human pose estimation typically utilize adversarial training to generate synthetic poses for training. Nonetheless these approaches exhibit several limitations. First the lack of prior information about the target domain complicates the application of suitable augmentation through a single pose augmentor affecting generalization on target domains. Moreover adversarial training's discriminator tends to enforce similarity between source and synthesized poses impeding the exploration of out-of-source distributions. Furthermore the pose estimator's optimization is not exposed to domain shifts limiting its overall generalization ability. To address these limitations we propose a novel framework featuring two pose augmentors: the weak and the strong augmentors. Our framework employs differential strategies for generation and discrimination processes facilitating the preservation of knowledge related to source poses and the exploration of out-of-source distributions without prior information about target poses. Besides we leverage meta-optimization to simulate domain shifts in the optimization process of the pose estimator thereby improving its generalization ability. Our proposed approach significantly outperforms existing methods as demonstrated through comprehensive experiments on various benchmark datasets.
Improving Out-of-Distribution Generalization in Graphs via Hierarchical Semantic Environments
Authors: Yinhua Piao, Sangseon Lee, Yijingxiu Lu, Sun Kim
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization in the graph domain is challenging due to complex distribution shifts and a lack of environmental contexts. Recent methods attempt to enhance graph OOD generalization by generating flat environments. However such flat environments come with inherent limitations to capture more complex data distributions. Considering the DrugOOD dataset which contains diverse training environments (e.g. scaffold size etc.) flat contexts cannot sufficiently address its high heterogeneity. Thus a new challenge is posed to generate more semantically enriched environments to enhance graph invariant learning for handling distribution shifts. In this paper we propose a novel approach to generate hierarchical semantic environments for each graph. Firstly given an input graph we explicitly extract variant subgraphs from the input graph to generate proxy predictions on local environments. Then stochastic attention mechanisms are employed to re-extract the subgraphs for regenerating global environments in a hierarchical manner. In addition we introduce a new learning objective that guides our model to learn the diversity of environments within the same hierarchy while maintaining consistency across different hierarchies. This approach enables our model to consider the relationships between environments and facilitates robust graph invariant learning. Extensive experiments on real-world graph data have demonstrated the effectiveness of our framework. Particularly in the challenging dataset DrugOOD our method achieves up to 1.29% and 2.83% improvement over the best baselines on IC50 and EC50 prediction tasks respectively.
CN-RMA: Combined Network with Ray Marching Aggregation for 3D Indoor Object Detection from Multi-view Images
Authors: Guanlin Shen, Jingwei Huang, Zhihua Hu, Bin Wang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: This paper introduces CN-RMA a novel approach for 3D indoor object detection from multi-view images. We observe the key challenge as the ambiguity of image and 3D correspondence without explicit geometry to provide occlusion information. To address this issue CN-RMA leverages the synergy of 3D reconstruction networks and 3D object detection networks where the reconstruction network provides a rough Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF) and guides image features to vote to 3D space correctly in an end-to-end manner. Specifically we associate weights to sampled points of each ray through ray marching representing the contribution of a pixel in an image to corresponding 3D locations. Such weights are determined by the predicted signed distances so that image features vote only to regions near the reconstructed surface. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance in 3D object detection from multi-view images as measured by mAP@0.25 and mAP@0.5 on the ScanNet and ARKitScenes datasets. The code and models are released at https://github.com/SerCharles/CN-RMA.
ACT-Diffusion: Efficient Adversarial Consistency Training for One-step Diffusion Models
Authors: Fei Kong, Jinhao Duan, Lichao Sun, Hao Cheng, Renjing Xu, Hengtao Shen, Xiaofeng Zhu, Xiaoshuang Shi, Kaidi Xu
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Though diffusion models excel in image generation their step-by-step denoising leads to slow generation speeds. Consistency training addresses this issue with single-step sampling but often produces lower-quality generations and requires high training costs. In this paper we show that optimizing consistency training loss minimizes the Wasserstein distance between target and generated distributions. As timestep increases the upper bound accumulates previous consistency training losses. Therefore larger batch sizes are needed to reduce both current and accumulated losses. We propose Adversarial Consistency Training (ACT) which directly minimizes the Jensen-Shannon (JS) divergence between distributions at each timestep using a discriminator. Theoretically ACT enhances generation quality and convergence. By incorporating a discriminator into the consistency training framework our method achieves improved FID scores on CIFAR10 and ImageNet 64x64 and LSUN Cat 256x256 datasets retains zero-shot image inpainting capabilities and uses less than 1/6 of the original batch size and fewer than 1/2 of the model parameters and training steps compared to the baseline method this leads to a substantial reduction in resource consumption. Our code is available: https://github.com/kong13661/ACT
Spectral Meets Spatial: Harmonising 3D Shape Matching and Interpolation
Authors: Dongliang Cao, Marvin Eisenberger, Nafie El Amrani, Daniel Cremers, Florian Bernard
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Although 3D shape matching and interpolation are highly interrelated they are often studied separately and applied sequentially to relate different 3D shapes thus resulting in sub-optimal performance. In this work we present a unified framework to predict both point-wise correspondences and shape interpolation between 3D shapes. To this end we combine the deep functional map framework with classical surface deformation models to map shapes in both spectral and spatial domains. On the one hand by incorporating spatial maps our method obtains more accurate and smooth point-wise correspondences compared to previous functional map methods for shape matching. On the other hand by introducing spectral maps our method gets rid of commonly used but computationally expensive geodesic distance constraints that are only valid for near-isometric shape deformations. Furthermore we propose a novel test-time adaptation scheme to capture both pose-dominant and shape-dominant deformations. Using different challenging datasets we demonstrate that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods for both shape matching and interpolation even compared to supervised approaches.
Emu Edit: Precise Image Editing via Recognition and Generation Tasks
Authors: Shelly Sheynin, Adam Polyak, Uriel Singer, Yuval Kirstain, Amit Zohar, Oron Ashual, Devi Parikh, Yaniv Taigman
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Instruction-based image editing holds immense potential for a variety of applications as it enables users to perform any editing operation using a natural language instruction. However current models in this domain often struggle with accurately executing user instructions. We present Emu Edit a multi-task image editing model which sets state-of-the-art results in instruction-based image editing. To develop Emu Edit we train it to multi-task across an unprecedented range of tasks such as region-based editing free-form editing and Computer Vision tasks all of which are formulated as generative tasks. Additionally to enhance Emu Edit's multi-task learning abilities we provide it with learned task embeddings which guide the generation process towards the correct edit type. Both these elements are essential for Emu Edit's outstanding performance. Furthermore we show that Emu Edit can generalize to new tasks such as image inpainting super-resolution and compositions of editing tasks with just a few labeled examples. This capability offers a significant advantage in scenarios where high-quality samples are scarce. Lastly to facilitate a more rigorous and informed assessment of instructable image editing models we release a new challenging and versatile benchmark that includes seven different image editing tasks.
Face2Diffusion for Fast and Editable Face Personalization
Authors: Kaede Shiohara, Toshihiko Yamasaki
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Face personalization aims to insert specific faces taken from images into pretrained text-to-image diffusion models. However it is still challenging for previous methods to preserve both the identity similarity and editability due to overfitting to training samples. In this paper we propose Face2Diffusion (F2D) for high-editability face personalization. The core idea behind F2D is that removing identity-irrelevant information from the training pipeline prevents the overfitting problem and improves editability of encoded faces. F2D consists of the following three novel components: 1) Multi-scale identity encoder provides well-disentangled identity features while keeping the benefits of multi-scale information which improves the diversity of camera poses. 2) Expression guidance disentangles face expressions from identities and improves the controllability of face expressions. 3) Class-guided denoising regularization encourages models to learn how faces should be denoised which boosts the text-alignment of backgrounds. Extensive experiments on the FaceForensics++ dataset and diverse prompts demonstrate our method greatly improves the trade-off between the identity- and text-fidelity compared to previous state-of-the-art methods. Code is available at https://github.com/mapooon/Face2Diffusion.
Causal-CoG: A Causal-Effect Look at Context Generation for Boosting Multi-modal Language Models
Authors: Shitian Zhao, Zhuowan Li, Yadong Lu, Alan Yuille, Yan Wang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: While Multi-modal Language Models (MLMs) demon strate impressive multimodal ability they still struggle on providing factual and precise responses for tasks like vi sual question answering (VQA). In this paper we address this challenge from the perspective of contextual informa tion. We propose Causal Context Generation Causal-CoG which is a prompting strategy that engages contextual infor mation to enhance precise VQA during inference. Specifi cally we prompt MLMs to generate contexts i.e text de scription of an image and engage the generated contexts for question answering. Moreover we investigate the ad vantage of contexts on VQA from a causality perspective introducing causality filtering to select samples for which contextual information is helpful. To show the effective ness of Causal-CoG we run extensive experiments on 10 multimodal benchmarks and showconsistent improvements e.g. +6.30% on POPE +13.69% on Vizwiz and +6.43% on VQAv2 compared to direct decoding surpassing exist ing methods. We hope Casual-CoG inspires explorations of context knowledge in multimodal models and serves as a plug-and-play strategy for MLM decoding.
Hide in Thicket: Generating Imperceptible and Rational Adversarial Perturbations on 3D Point Clouds
Authors: Tianrui Lou, Xiaojun Jia, Jindong Gu, Li Liu, Siyuan Liang, Bangyan He, Xiaochun Cao
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Adversarial attack methods based on point manipulation for 3D point cloud classification have revealed the fragility of 3D models yet the adversarial examples they produce are easily perceived or defended against. The trade-off between the imperceptibility and adversarial strength leads most point attack methods to inevitably introduce easily detectable outlier points upon a successful attack. Another promising strategy shape-based attack can effectively eliminate outliers but existing methods often suffer significant reductions in imperceptibility due to irrational deformations. We find that concealing deformation perturbations in areas insensitive to human eyes can achieve a better trade-off between imperceptibility and adversarial strength specifically in parts of the object surface that are complex and exhibit drastic curvature changes. Therefore we propose a novel shape-based adversarial attack method HiT-ADV which initially conducts a two-stage search for attack regions based on saliency and imperceptibility scores and then adds deformation perturbations in each attack region using Gaussian kernel functions. Additionally HiT-ADV is extendable to physical attack. We propose that by employing benign resampling and benign rigid transformations we can further enhance physical adversarial strength with little sacrifice to imperceptibility. Extensive experiments have validated the superiority of our method in terms of adversarial and imperceptible properties in both digital and physical spaces.
SG-BEV: Satellite-Guided BEV Fusion for Cross-View Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Junyan Ye, Qiyan Luo, Jinhua Yu, Huaping Zhong, Zhimeng Zheng, Conghui He, Weijia Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: This paper aims at achieving fine-grained building attribute segmentation in a cross-view scenario i.e. using satellite and street-view image pairs. The main challenge lies in overcoming the significant perspective differences between street views and satellite views. In this work we introduce SG-BEV a novel approach for satellite-guided BEV fusion for cross-view semantic segmentation. To overcome the limitations of existing cross-view projection methods in capturing the complete building facade features we innovatively incorporate Bird's Eye View (BEV) method to establish a spatially explicit mapping of street-view features. Moreover we fully leverage the advantages of multiple perspectives by introducing a novel satellite-guided reprojection module optimizing the uneven feature distribution issues associated with traditional BEV methods. Our method demonstrates significant improvements on four cross-view datasets collected from multiple cities including New York San Francisco and Boston. On average across these datasets our method achieves an increase in mIOU by 10.13% and 5.21% compared with the state-of-the-art satellite-based and cross-view methods. The code and datasets of this work will be released at https://github.com/sysu-liweijia-lab/SG-BEV.
Brush2Prompt: Contextual Prompt Generator for Object Inpainting
Authors: Mang Tik Chiu, Yuqian Zhou, Lingzhi Zhang, Zhe Lin, Connelly Barnes, Sohrab Amirghodsi, Eli Shechtman, Humphrey Shi
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Object inpainting is a task that involves adding objects to real images and seamlessly compositing them. With the recent commercialization of products like Stable Diffusion and Generative Fill inserting objects into images by using prompts has achieved impressive visual results. In this paper we propose a prompt suggestion model to simplify the process of prompt input. When the user provides an image and a mask our model predicts suitable prompts based on the partial contextual information in the masked image and the shape and location of the mask. Specifically we introduce a concept-diffusion in the CLIP space that predicts CLIP-text embeddings from a masked image. These diffused embeddings can be directly injected into open-source inpainting models like Stable Diffusion and its variants. Alternatively they can be decoded into natural language for use in other publicly available applications such as Generative Fill. Our prompt suggestion model demonstrates a balanced accuracy and diversity showing its capability to be both contextually aware and creatively adaptive.
Joint-Task Regularization for Partially Labeled Multi-Task Learning
Authors: Kento Nishi, Junsik Kim, Wanhua Li, Hanspeter Pfister
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Multi-task learning has become increasingly popular in the machine learning field but its practicality is hindered by the need for large labeled datasets. Most multi-task learning methods depend on fully labeled datasets wherein each input example is accompanied by ground-truth labels for all target tasks. Unfortunately curating such datasets can be prohibitively expensive and impractical especially for dense prediction tasks which require per-pixel labels for each image. With this in mind we propose Joint-Task Regularization (JTR) an intuitive technique which leverages cross-task relations to simultaneously regularize all tasks in a single joint-task latent space to improve learning when data is not fully labeled for all tasks. JTR stands out from existing approaches in that it regularizes all tasks jointly rather than separately in pairs---therefore it achieves linear complexity relative to the number of tasks while previous methods scale quadratically. To demonstrate the validity of our approach we extensively benchmark our method across a wide variety of partially labeled scenarios based on NYU-v2 Cityscapes and Taskonomy.
Shallow-Deep Collaborative Learning for Unsupervised Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification
Authors: Bin Yang, Jun Chen, Mang Ye
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Unsupervised visible-infrared person re-identification (US-VI-ReID) centers on learning a cross-modality retrieval model without labels reducing the reliance on expensive cross-modality manual annotation. Previous US-VI-ReID works gravitate toward learning cross-modality information with the deep features extracted from the ultimate layer. Nevertheless interfered by the multiple discrepancies solely relying on deep features is insufficient for accurately learning modality-invariant features resulting in negative optimization. The shallow feature from the shallow layers contains nuanced detail information which is critical for effective cross-modality learning but is disregarded regrettably by the existing methods. To address the above issues we design a Shallow-Deep Collaborative Learning (SDCL) framework based on the transformer with shallow-deep contrastive learning incorporating Collaborative Neighbor Learning (CNL) and Collaborative Ranking Association (CRA) module. Specifically CNL unveils the intrinsic homogeneous and heterogeneous collaboration which are harnessed for neighbor alignment enhancing the robustness in a dynamic manner. Furthermore CRA associates the cross-modality labels with the ranking association between shallow and deep features furnishing valuable supervision for cross-modality learning. Extensive experiments validate the superiority of our method even outperforming certain supervised counterparts.
Dancing with Still Images: Video Distillation via Static-Dynamic Disentanglement
Authors: Ziyu Wang, Yue Xu, Cewu Lu, Yong-Lu Li
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Recently dataset distillation has paved the way towards efficient machine learning especially for image datasets. However the distillation for videos characterized by an exclusive temporal dimension remains an underexplored domain. In this work we provide the first systematic study of video distillation and introduce a taxonomy to categorize temporal compression. Our investigation reveals that the temporal information is usually not well learned during distillation and the temporal dimension of synthetic data contributes little. The observations motivate our unified framework of disentangling the dynamic and static information in the videos. It first distills the videos into still images as static memory and then compensates the dynamic and motion information with a learnable dynamic memory block. Our method achieves state-of-the-art on video datasets at different scales with notably smaller memory storage budget. Our code is available at https://github.com/yuz1wan/video_distillation.
Context-Aware Integration of Language and Visual References for Natural Language Tracking
Authors: Yanyan Shao, Shuting He, Qi Ye, Yuchao Feng, Wenhan Luo, Jiming Chen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Tracking by natural language specification (TNL) aims to consistently localize a target in a video sequence given a linguistic description in the initial frame. Existing methodologies perform language-based and template-based matching for target reasoning separately and merge the matching results from two sources which suffer from tracking drift when language and visual templates miss-align with the dynamic target state and ambiguity in the later merging stage. To tackle the issues we propose a joint multi-modal tracking framework with 1) a prompt modulation module to leverage the complementarity between temporal visual templates and language expressions enabling precise and context-aware appearance and linguistic cues and 2) a unified target decoding module to integrate the multi-modal reference cues and executes the integrated queries on the search image to predict the target location in an end-to-end manner directly. This design ensures spatio-temporal consistency by leveraging historical visual information and introduces an integrated solution generating predictions in a single step. Extensive experiments conducted on TNL2K OTB-Lang LaSOT and RefCOCOg validate the efficacy of our proposed approach. The results demonstrate competitive performance against state-of-the-art methods for both tracking and grounding. Code is available at https://github.com/twotwo2/QueryNLT
An Edit Friendly DDPM Noise Space: Inversion and Manipulations
Authors: Inbar Huberman-Spiegelglas, Vladimir Kulikov, Tomer Michaeli
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Denoising diffusion probabilistic models (DDPMs) employ a sequence of white Gaussian noise samples to generate an image. In analogy with GANs those noise maps could be considered as the latent code associated with the generated image. However this native noise space does not possess a convenient structure and is thus challenging to work with in editing tasks. Here we propose an alternative latent noise space for DDPM that enables a wide range of editing operations via simple means and present an inversion method for extracting these edit-friendly noise maps for any given image (real or synthetically generated). As opposed to the native DDPM noise space the edit-friendly noise maps do not have a standard normal distribution and are not statistically independent across timesteps. However they allow perfect reconstruction of any desired image and simple transformations on them translate into meaningful manipulations of the output image (e.g. shifting color edits). Moreover in text-conditional models fixing those noise maps while changing the text prompt modifies semantics while retaining structure. We illustrate how this property enables text-based editing of real images via the diverse DDPM sampling scheme (in contrast to the popular non-diverse DDIM inversion). We also show how it can be used within existing diffusion-based editing methods to improve their quality and diversity. The code of the method is attached to this submission.
LEAP-VO: Long-term Effective Any Point Tracking for Visual Odometry
Authors: Weirong Chen, Le Chen, Rui Wang, Marc Pollefeys
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Visual odometry estimates the motion of a moving camera based on visual input. Existing methods mostly focusing on two-view point tracking often ignore the rich temporal context in the image sequence thereby overlooking the global motion patterns and providing no assessment of the full trajectory reliability. These shortcomings hinder performance in scenarios with occlusion dynamic objects and low-texture areas. To address these challenges we present the Long-term Effective Any Point Tracking (LEAP) module. LEAP innovatively combines visual inter-track and temporal cues with mindfully selected anchors for dynamic track estimation. Moreover LEAP's temporal probabilistic formulation integrates distribution updates into a learnable iterative refinement module to reason about point-wise uncertainty. Based on these traits we develop LEAP-VO a robust visual odometry system adept at handling occlusions and dynamic scenes. Our mindful integration showcases a novel practice by employing long-term point tracking as the front-end. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed pipeline significantly outperforms existing baselines across various visual odometry benchmarks.
RoDLA: Benchmarking the Robustness of Document Layout Analysis Models
Authors: Yufan Chen, Jiaming Zhang, Kunyu Peng, Junwei Zheng, Ruiping Liu, Philip Torr, Rainer Stiefelhagen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Before developing a Document Layout Analysis (DLA) model in real-world applications conducting comprehensive robustness testing is essential. However the robustness of DLA models remains underexplored in the literature. To address this we are the first to introduce a robustness benchmark for DLA models which includes 450K document images of three datasets. To cover realistic corruptions we propose a perturbation taxonomy with 12 common document perturbations with 3 severity levels inspired by real-world document processing. Additionally to better understand document perturbation impacts we propose two metrics Mean Perturbation Effect (mPE) for perturbation assessment and Mean Robustness Degradation (mRD) for robustness evaluation. Furthermore we introduce a self-titled model i.e. Robust Document Layout Analyzer (RoDLA) which improves attention mechanisms to boost extraction of robust features. Experiments on the proposed benchmarks (PubLayNet-P DocLayNet-P and M6Doc-P) demonstrate that RoDLA obtains state-of-the-art mRD scores of 115.7 135.4 and 150.4 respectively. Compared to previous methods RoDLA achieves notable improvements in mAP of +3.8% +7.1% and +12.1% respectively.
UniRepLKNet: A Universal Perception Large-Kernel ConvNet for Audio Video Point Cloud Time-Series and Image Recognition
Authors: Xiaohan Ding, Yiyuan Zhang, Yixiao Ge, Sijie Zhao, Lin Song, Xiangyu Yue, Ying Shan
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Large-kernel convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) have recently received extensive research attention but two unresolved and critical issues demand further investigation. 1) The architectures of existing large-kernel ConvNets largely follow the design principles of conventional ConvNets or transformers while the architectural design for large-kernel ConvNets remains under-addressed. 2) As transformers have dominated multiple modalities it remains to be investigated whether ConvNets also have a strong universal perception ability in domains beyond vision. In this paper we contribute from two aspects. 1) We propose four architectural guidelines for designing large-kernel ConvNets the core of which is to exploit the essential characteristics of large kernels that distinguish them from small kernels - they can see wide without going deep. Following such guidelines our proposed large-kernel ConvNet shows leading performance in image recognition (ImageNet accuracy of 88.0% ADE20K mIoU of 55.6% and COCO box AP of 56.4%) demonstrating better performance and higher speed than the recent powerful competitors. 2) We discover large kernels are the key to unlocking the exceptional performance of ConvNets in domains where they were originally not proficient. With certain modality-related preprocessing approaches the proposed model achieves state-of-the-art performance on time-series forecasting and audio recognition tasks even without modality-specific customization to the architecture. All the code and models are publicly available on GitHub and Huggingface.
Unveiling the Unknown: Unleashing the Power of Unknown to Known in Open-Set Source-Free Domain Adaptation
Authors: Fuli Wan, Han Zhao, Xu Yang, Cheng Deng
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Open-Set Source-Free Domain Adaptation aims to transfer knowledge in realistic scenarios where the target domain has additional unknown classes compared to the limited-access source domain. Due to the absence of information on unknown classes existing methods mainly transfer knowledge of known classes while roughly grouping unknown classes as one attenuating the knowledge transfer and generalization. In contrast this paper advocates that exploring unknown classes can better identify known ones and proposes a domain adaptation model to transfer knowledge on known and unknown classes jointly. Specifically given a source pre-trained model we first introduce an unknown diffuser that can determine whether classes in space need to be split and merged through similarity measures to estimate and generate a wider class space distribution including known and unknown classes. Based on such a wider space distribution we enhance the reliability of known class knowledge in the source pre-trained model through contrastive constraint. Finally various supervision information including reliable known class knowledge and clustered pseudo-labels optimize the model for impressive knowledge transfer and generalization. Extensive experiments show that our network can achieve superior exploration and knowledge generalization on unknown classes while with excellent known class transfer. The code is available at https://github.com/xdwfl/UPUK.
BilevelPruning: Unified Dynamic and Static Channel Pruning for Convolutional Neural Networks
Authors: Shangqian Gao, Yanfu Zhang, Feihu Huang, Heng Huang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Most existing dynamic or runtime channel pruning methods have to store all weights to achieve efficient inference which brings extra storage costs. Static pruning methods can reduce storage costs directly but their performance is limited by using a fixed sub-network to approximate the original model. Most existing pruning works suffer from these drawbacks because they were designed to only conduct either static or dynamic pruning. In this paper we propose a novel method to solve both efficiency and storage challenges via simultaneously conducting dynamic and static channel pruning for convolutional neural networks. We propose a new bi-level optimization based model to naturally integrate the static and dynamic channel pruning. By doing so our method enjoys benefits from both sides and the disadvantages of dynamic and static pruning are reduced. After pruning we permanently remove redundant parameters and then finetune the model with dynamic flexibility. Experimental results on CIFAR-10 and ImageNet datasets suggest that our method can achieve state-of-the-art performance compared to existing dynamic and static channel pruning methods.
IDGuard: Robust General Identity-centric POI Proactive Defense Against Face Editing Abuse
Authors: Yunshu Dai, Jianwei Fei, Fangjun Huang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: In this work we propose IDGuard a novel proactive defense method from the perspective of developers to protect Persons-of-Interest (POI) such as national leaders from face editing abuse. We build a bridge between identities and model behavior safeguarding POI identities rather than merely certain face images. Given a face editing model IDGuard enables it to reject editing any image containing POI identities while retaining its editing functionality for regular use. Specifically we insert an ID Normalization Layer into the original face editing model and introduce an ID Extractor to extract the identities of input images. To differentiate the editing behavior between POI and nonPOI we use a transformer-based ID Encoder to encode extracted POI identities as parameters of the ID Normalization Layer. Our method supports the simultaneous protection of multiple POI and allows for the addition of new POI in the inference stage without the need for retraining. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves 100% protection accuracy on POI images even if they are neither included in the training set nor subject to any preprocessing. Notably our method exhibits excellent robustness against image and model attacks and maintains 100% protection performance when generalized to various face editing models further demonstrating its practicality.
SwiftBrush: One-Step Text-to-Image Diffusion Model with Variational Score Distillation
Authors: Thuan Hoang Nguyen, Anh Tran
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Despite their ability to generate high-resolution and diverse images from text prompts text-to-image diffusion models often suffer from slow iterative sampling processes. Model distillation is one of the most effective directions to accelerate these models. However previous distillation methods fail to retain the generation quality while requiring a significant amount of images for training either from real data or synthetically generated by the teacher model. In response to this limitation we present a novel image-free distillation scheme named SwiftBrush. Drawing inspiration from text-to-3D synthesis in which a 3D neural radiance field that aligns with the input prompt can be obtained from a 2D text-to-image diffusion prior via a specialized loss without the use of any 3D data ground-truth our approach re-purposes that same loss for distilling a pretrained multi-step text-to-image model to a student network that can generate high-fidelity images with just a single inference step. In spite of its simplicity our model stands as one of the first one-step text-to-image generators that can produce images of comparable quality to Stable Diffusion without reliance on any training image data. Remarkably SwiftBrush achieves an FID score of 16.67 and a CLIP score of 0.29 on the COCO-30K benchmark achieving competitive results or even substantially surpassing existing state-of-the-art distillation techniques.
DEADiff: An Efficient Stylization Diffusion Model with Disentangled Representations
Authors: Tianhao Qi, Shancheng Fang, Yanze Wu, Hongtao Xie, Jiawei Liu, Lang Chen, Qian He, Yongdong Zhang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: The diffusion-based text-to-image model harbors immense potential in transferring reference style. However current encoder-based approaches significantly impair the text controllability of text-to-image models while transferring styles. In this paper we introduce DEADiff to address this issue using the following two strategies: 1) a mechanism to decouple the style and semantics of reference images. The decoupled feature representations are first extracted by Q-Formers which are instructed by different text descriptions. Then they are injected into mutually exclusive subsets of cross-attention layers for better disentanglement. 2) A non-reconstructive learning method. The Q-Formers are trained using paired images rather than the identical target in which the reference image and the ground-truth image are with the same style or semantics. We show that DEADiff attains the best visual stylization results and optimal balance between the text controllability inherent in the text-to-image model and style similarity to the reference image as demonstrated both quantitatively and qualitatively. Our project page is https://tianhao-qi.github.io/DEADiff/.
Instance-Adaptive and Geometric-Aware Keypoint Learning for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation
Authors: Xiao Lin, Wenfei Yang, Yuan Gao, Tianzhu Zhang
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Category-level 6D object pose estimation aims to estimate the rotation translation and size of unseen instances within specific categories. In this area dense correspondence-based methods have achieved leading performance. However they do not explicitly consider the local and global geometric information of different instances resulting in poor generalization ability to unseen instances with significant shape variations. To deal with this problem we propose a novel Instance-adaptive and To deal with this problem we propose a novel Instance-Adaptive and Geometric-Aware Keypoint Learning method for category-level 6D object pose estimation (AG-Pose) which includes two key designs: (1) The first design is an Instance-Adaptive Keypoint Detection module which can adaptively detect a set of sparse keypoints for various instances to represent their geometric structures. (2) The second design is a Geometric-Aware Feature Aggregation module which can efficiently integrate the local and global geometric information into keypoint features. These two modules can work together to establish robust keypoint-level correspondences for unseen instances thus enhancing the generalization ability of the model.Experimental results on CAMERA25 and REAL275 datasets show that the proposed AG-Pose outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin without category-specific shape priors.
Universal Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation by Mitigating Common-Class Bias
Authors: Wenyu Zhang, Qingmu Liu, Felix Ong Wei Cong, Mohamed Ragab, Chuan-Sheng Foo
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Domain adaptation is a critical task in machine learning that aims to improve model performance on a target domain by leveraging knowledge from a related source domain. In this work we introduce Universal Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation (UniSSDA) a practical yet challenging setting where the target domain is partially labeled and the source and target label space may not strictly match. UniSSDA is at the intersection of Universal Domain Adaptation (UniDA) and Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation (SSDA): the UniDA setting does not allow for fine-grained categorization of target private classes not represented in the source domain while SSDA focuses on the restricted closed-set setting where source and target label spaces match exactly. Existing UniDA and SSDA methods are susceptible to common-class bias in UniSSDA settings where models overfit to data distributions of classes common to both domains at the expense of private classes. We propose a new prior-guided pseudo-label refinement strategy to reduce the reinforcement of common-class bias due to pseudo-labeling a common label propagation strategy in domain adaptation. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed strategy on benchmark datasets Office-Home DomainNet and VisDA. The proposed strategy attains the best performance across UniSSDA adaptation settings and establishes a new baseline for UniSSDA.
Exact Fusion via Feature Distribution Matching for Few-shot Image Generation
Authors: Yingbo Zhou, Yutong Ye, Pengyu Zhang, Xian Wei, Mingsong Chen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: Few-shot image generation as an important yet challenging visual task still suffers from the trade-off between generation quality and diversity. According to the principle of feature-matching learning existing fusion-based methods usually fuse different features by using similarity measurements or attention mechanisms which may match features inaccurately and lead to artifacts in the texture and structure of generated images. In this paper we propose an exact Fusion via Feature Distribution matching Generative Adversarial Network (F2DGAN) for few-shot image generation. The rationale behind this is that feature distribution matching is much more reliable than feature matching to explore the statistical characters in image feature space for limited real-world data. To model feature distributions from only a few examples for feature fusion we design a novel variational feature distribution matching fusion module to perform exact fusion by empirical cumulative distribution functions. Specifically we employ a variational autoencoder to transform deep image features into distributions and fuse different features exactly by applying histogram matching. Additionally we formulate two effective losses to guide the matching process for better fitting our fusion strategy. Extensive experiments compared with state-of-the-art methods on three public datasets demonstrate the superiority of F2DGAN for few-shot image generation in terms of generation quality and diversity and the effectiveness of data augmentation in downstream classification tasks.
CoDeF: Content Deformation Fields for Temporally Consistent Video Processing
Authors: Hao Ouyang, Qiuyu Wang, Yuxi Xiao, Qingyan Bai, Juntao Zhang, Kecheng Zheng, Xiaowei Zhou, Qifeng Chen, Yujun Shen
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024 (Main Conference Track), 2024

Abstract: We present the content deformation field (CoDeF) as a new type of video representation which consists of a canonical content field aggregating the static contents in the entire video and a temporal deformation field recording the transformations from the canonical image (i.e. rendered from the canonical content field) to each individual frame along the time axis. Given a target video these two fields are jointly optimized to reconstruct it through a carefully tailored rendering pipeline. We advisedly introduce some regularizations into the optimization process urging the canonical content field to inherit semantics (e.g. the object shape) from the video. With such a design CoDeF naturally supports lifting image algorithms for video processing in the sense that one can apply an image algorithm to the canonical image and effortlessly propagate the outcomes to the entire video with the aid of the temporal deformation field. We experimentally show that CoDeF is able to lift image-to-image translation to video-to-video translation and lift keypoint detection to keypoint tracking without any training. More importantly thanks to our lifting strategy that deploys the algorithms on only one image we achieve superior cross-frame consistency in processed videos compared to existing video-to-video translation approaches and even manage to track non-rigid objects like water and smog. Code will be made publicly available.