pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
Looking Here or There? Gaze Following in 360-Degree Images
Authors: Yunhao Li, Wei Shen, Zhongpai Gao, Yucheng Zhu, Guangtao Zhai, Guodong Guo
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10

    Gaze following, i.e., detecting the gaze target of a human subject, in 2D images has become an active topic in computer vision. However, it usually suffers from the out of frame issue due to the limited field-of-view (FoV) of 2D images. In this paper, we introduce a novel task, gaze following in 360-degree images which provide an omnidirectional FoV and can alleviate the out of frame issue. We collect the first dataset, "GazeFollow360", for this task, containing around 10,000 360-degree images with complex gaze behaviors under various scenes. Existing 2D gaze following methods suffer from performance degradation in 360-degree images since they may use the assumption that a gaze target is in the 2D gaze sight line. However, this assumption is no longer true for long-distance gaze behaviors in 360-degree images, due to the distortion brought by sphere-to-plane projection. To address this challenge, we propose a 3D sight line guided dual-pathway framework, to detect the gaze target within a local region (here) and from a distant region (there), parallelly. Specifically, the local region is obtained as a 2D cone-shaped field along the 2D projection of the sight line starting at the human subject's head position, and the distant region is obtained by searching along the sight line in 3D sphere space. Finally, the location of the gaze target is determined by fusing the estimations from both the local region and the distant region. Experimental results show that our method achieves significant improvements over previous 2D gaze following methods on our GazeFollow360 dataset.
Persistent Homology Based Graph Convolution Network for Fine-Grained 3D Shape Segmentation
Authors: Chi-Chong Wong, Chi-Man Vong
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Segmentation, Topological Data Analysis

    Fine-grained 3D segmentation is an important task in 3D object understanding, especially in applications such as intelligent manufacturing or parts analysis for 3D objects. However, many challenges involved in such problem are yet to be solved, such as i) interpreting the complex structures located in different regions for 3D objects; ii) capturing fine-grained structures with sufficient topology correctness. Current deep learning and graph machine learning methods fail to tackle such challenges and thus provide inferior performance in fine-grained 3D analysis. In this work, methods in topological data analysis are incorporated with geometric deep learning model for the task of fine-grained segmentation for 3D objects. We propose a novel neural network model called Persistent Homology based Graph Convolution Network (PHGCN), which i) integrates persistent homology into graph convolution network to capture multi-scale structural information that can accurately represent complex structures for 3D objects; ii) applies a novel Persistence Diagram Loss that provides sufficient topology correctness for segmentation over the fine-grained structures. Extensive experiments on fine-grained 3D segmentation validate the effectiveness of the proposed PHGCN model and show significant improvements over current state-of-the-art methods.
STEM: An Approach to Multi-Source Domain Adaptation With Guarantees
Authors: Van-Anh Nguyen, Tuan Nguyen, Trung Le, Quan Hung Tran, Dinh Phung
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Domain Adaptation, Multi-Source Unsupervised Domain Adaptation, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Multi-source Domain Adaptation (MSDA) is more practical but challenging than the conventional unsupervised domain adaptation due to the involvement of diverse multiple data sources. Two fundamental challenges of MSDA are: (i) how to deal with the diversity in the multiple source domains and (ii) how to cope with the data shift between the target domain and the source domains. In this paper, to address the first challenge, we propose a theoretical-guaranteed approach to combine domain experts locally trained on its own source domain to achieve a combined multi-source teacher that globally predicts well on the mixture of source domains. To address the second challenge, we propose to bridge the gap between the target domain and the mixture of source domains in the latent space via a generator or feature extractor. Together with bridging the gap in the latent space, we train a student to mimic the predictions of the teacher expert on both source and target examples. In addition, our approach is guaranteed with rigorous theory offered insightful justifications of how each component influences the transferring performance. Extensive experiments conducted on three benchmark datasets show that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performances to the best of our knowledge.
Toward Human-Like Grasp: Dexterous Grasping via Semantic Representation of Object-Hand
Authors: Tianqiang Zhu, Rina Wu, Xiangbo Lin, Yi Sun
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10

    In recent years, many dexterous robotic hands have been designed to assist or replace human hands in executing various tasks. But how to teach them to perform dexterous operations like human hands is still a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a grasp synthesis framework to make robots grasp and manipulate objects like human beings. We first build a dataset by accurately segmenting the functional areas of the object and annotating semantic touch code for each functional area to guide the dexterous hand to complete the functional grasp and post-grasp manipulation. This dataset contains 18 categories of 129 objects selected from four datasets, and 15 people participated in data annotation. Then we carefully design four loss functions to constrain the network, which successfully generates the functional grasp of dexterous hand under the guidance of semantic touch code. The thorough experiments in synthetic data show our model can robustly generate functional grasp, even for objects that the model has not see before.
Joint Audio-Visual Deepfake Detection
Authors: Yipin Zhou, Ser-Nam Lim
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: DeepFake Detection, Face Swapping, Misinformation, text-to-speech, Text to Speech, Voice Conversion

    Deepfakes ("deep learning" + "fake") are synthetically-generated videos from AI algorithms. While they could be entertaining, they could also be misused for falsifying speeches and spreading misinformation. The process to create deepfakes involves both visual and auditory manipulations. Exploration on detecting visual deepfakes has produced a number of detection methods as well as datasets, while audio deepfakes (e.g. synthetic speech from text-to-speech or voice conversion systems) and the relationship between the visual and auditory modalities have been relatively neglected. In this work, we propose a novel visual / auditory deepfake joint detection task and show that exploiting the intrinsic synchronization between the visual and auditory modalities could benefit deepfake detection. Experiments demonstrate that the proposed joint detection framework outperforms independently trained models, and at the same time, yields superior generalization capability on unseen types of deepfakes.
Deep Symmetric Network for Underexposed Image Enhancement With Recurrent Attentional Learning
Authors: Lin Zhao, Shao-Ping Lu, Tao Chen, Zhenglu Yang, Ariel Shamir
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Decoder, Image Enhancement

    Underexposed image enhancement is of importance in many research domains. In this paper, we take this problem as image feature transformation between the underexposed image and its paired enhanced version, and we propose a deep symmetric network for the issue. Our symmetric network adapts invertible neural networks (INN) for bidirectional feature learning between images, and to ensure the mutual propagation invertible we specifically construct two pairs of encoder-decoder with the same pretrained parameters. This invertible mechanism with bidirectional feature transformations enable us to both avoid colour bias and recover the content effectively for image enhancement. In addition, we propose a new recurrent residual-attention module (RRAM), where the recurrent learning network is designed to gradually perform the desired colour adjustments. Ablation experiments are executed to show the role of each component of our new architecture. We conduct a large number of experiments on two datasets to demonstrate that our method achieves the state-of-the-art effect in underexposed image enhancement. Code is available at https://www.shaopinglu.net/proj-iccv21/ImageEnhancement.html
UASNet: Uncertainty Adaptive Sampling Network for Deep Stereo Matching
Authors: Yamin Mao, Zhihua Liu, Weiming Li, Yuchao Dai, Qiang Wang, Yun-Tae Kim, Hong-Seok Lee
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Stereo Matching

    Recent studies have shown that cascade cost volume can play a vital role in deep stereo matching to achieve high resolution depth map with efficient hardware usage. However, how to construct good cascade volume as well as effective sampling for them are still under in-depth study. Previous cascade-based methods usually perform uniform sampling in a predicted disparity range based on variance, which easily misses the ground truth disparity and decreases disparity map accuracy. In this paper, we propose an uncertainty adaptive sampling network (UASNet) featuring two modules: an uncertainty distribution-guided range prediction (URP) model and an uncertainty-based disparity sampler (UDS) module. The URP explores the more discriminative uncertainty distribution to handle the complex matching ambiguities and to improve disparity range prediction. The UDS adaptively adjusts sampling interval to localize disparity with improved accuracy. With the proposed modules, our UASNet learns to construct cascade cost volume and predict full-resolution disparity map directly. Extensive experiments show that the proposed method achieves the highest ground truth covering ratio compared with other cascade cost volume based stereo matching methods. Our method also achieves top performance on both SceneFlow dataset and KITTI benchmark.
DCT-SNN: Using DCT To Distribute Spatial Information Over Time for Low-Latency Spiking Neural Networks
Authors: Isha Garg, Sayeed Shafayet Chowdhury, Kaushik Roy
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Computational Efficiency

    Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a promising alternative to traditional deep learning frameworks, since they provide higher computational efficiency due to event-driven information processing. SNNs distribute the analog values of pixel intensities into binary spikes over time. However, the most widely used input coding schemes, such as Poisson based rate-coding, do not leverage the additional temporal learning capability of SNNs effectively. Moreover, these SNNs suffer from high inference latency which is a major bottleneck to their deployment. To overcome this, we propose a time-based encoding scheme that utilizes the Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) to reduce the number of timesteps required for inference. DCT decomposes an image into a weighted sum of sinusoidal basis images. At each time step, a single frequency base, taken in order and modulated by its corresponding DCT coefficient, is input to an accumulator that generates spikes upon crossing a threshold. We use the proposed scheme to learn DCT-SNN, a low-latency deep SNN with leaky-integrate-and-fire neurons, trained using surrogate gradient descent based backpropagation. We achieve top-1 accuracy of 89.94%, 68.3% and 52.43% on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and TinyImageNet, respectively using VGG architectures. Notably, DCT-SNN performs inference with 2-14X reduced latency compared to other state-of-the-art SNNs, while achieving comparable accuracy to their standard deep learning counterparts. The dimension of the transform allows us to control the number of timesteps required for inference. Additionally, we can trade-off accuracy with latency in a principled manner by dropping the highest frequency components during inference. The code is publicly available*.
Anonymizing Egocentric Videos
Authors: Daksh Thapar, Aditya Nigam, Chetan Arora
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Activity Recognition, object-detection, Object Detection, Optical Flow Estimation

    In egocentric videos, the face of a wearer capturing the video is never captured. This gives a false sense of security that the wearer's privacy is preserved while sharing such videos. However, egocentric cameras are typically harnessed to wearer's head, and hence, also capture wearer's gait. Recent works have shown that wearer gait signatures can be extracted from egocentric videos, which can be used to determine if two egocentric videos have the same wearer. In a more damaging scenario, one can even recognize a wearer using hand gestures from egocentric videos, or identify a wearer in third person videos such as from a surveillance camera. We believe, this could be a death knell in sharing of egocentric videos, and fatal for egocentric vision research. In this work, we suggest a novel technique to anonymize egocentric videos, which create carefully crafted, but small, and imperceptible optical flow perturbations in an egocentric video's frames. Importantly, these perturbations do not affect object detection or action/activity recognition from egocentric videos but are strong enough to dis-balance the gait recovery process. In our experiments on benchmark \epic dataset, the proposed perturbation degrades the wearer recognition performance of [??], from 66.3% to 13.4%, while preserving the activity recognition performance of [??] from 89.6% to 87.4%. To test our anonymization with more wearer recognition techniques, we also developed a stronger, and more generalizable wearer recognition method based on camera egomotion cues. The approach achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance of 59.67% on \epicns, compared to 55.06% by [??]. However, the accuracy of our recognition technique also drops to 12% using the proposed anonymizing perturbations.
Tripartite Information Mining and Integration for Image Matting
Authors: Yuhao Liu, Jiake Xie, Xiao Shi, Yu Qiao, Yujie Huang, Yong Tang, Xin Yang
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: 2k, Image Matting

    With the development of deep convolutional neural networks, image matting has ushered in a new phase. Regarding the nature of image matting, most researches have focused on solutions for transition regions. However, we argue that many existing approaches are excessively focused on transition-dominant local fields and ignored the inherent coordination between global information and transition optimisation. In this paper, we propose the Tripartite Information Mining and Integration Network (TIMI-Net) to harmonize the coordination between global and local attributes formally. Specifically, we resort to a novel 3-branch encoder to accomplish comprehensive mining of the input information, which can supplement the neglected coordination between global and local fields.  In order to achieve effective and complete interaction between such multi-branches information, we develop the Tripartite Information Integration (TI^2) Module to transform and integrate the interconnections between the different branches. In addition, we built a large-scale human matting dataset (Human-2K) to advance human image matting, which consists of 2100 high-precision human images (2000 images for training and 100 images for test). Finally, we conduct extensive experiments to prove the performance of our proposed TIMI-Net, which demonstrates that our method performs favourably against the SOTA approaches on the alphamatting.com (Rank First), Composition-1K (MSE-0.006, Grad-11.5), Distinctions-646 and our Human-2K. Also, we have developed an online evaluation website to perform natural image matting. Project page: https://wukaoliu.github.io/TIMI-Net.
Joint Visual and Audio Learning for Video Highlight Detection
Authors: Taivanbat Badamdorj, Mrigank Rochan, Yang Wang, Li Cheng
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Highlight Detection

    In video highlight detection, the goal is to identify the interesting moments within an unedited video. Although the audio component of the video provides important cues for highlight detection, the majority of existing efforts focus almost exclusively on the visual component. In this paper, we argue that both audio and visual components of a video should be modeled jointly to retrieve its best moments. To this end, we propose an audio-visual network for video highlight detection. At the core of our approach lies a bimodal attention mechanism, which captures the interaction between the audio and visual components of a video, and produces fused representations to facilitate highlight detection. Furthermore, we introduce a noise sentinel technique to adaptively discount a noisy visual or audio modality. Empirical evaluations on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the superior performance of our approach over the state-of-the-art methods.
ECS-Net: Improving Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation by Using Connections Between Class Activation Maps
Authors: Kunyang Sun, Haoqing Shi, Zhengming Zhang, Yongming Huang
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Object, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Weakly supervised Semantic Segmentation, Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation

    Image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation is a challenging task. As classification networks tend to capture notable object features and are insensitive to overactivation, class activation map (CAM) is too sparse and rough to guide segmentation network training. Inspired by the fact that erasing distinguishing features force networks to collect new ones from non-discriminative object regions, we using relationships between CAMs to propose a novel weakly supervised method. In this work, we apply these features, learned from erased images, as segmentation supervision, driving network to study robust representation. In specifically, object regions obtained by CAM techniques are erased on images firstly. To provide other regions with segmentation supervision, Erased CAM Supervision Net (ECSNet) generates pixel-level labels by predicting segmentation results of those processed images. We also design the rule of suppressing noise to select reliable labels. Our experiments on PASCAL VOC 2012 dataset show that without data annotations except for ground truth image-level labels, our ECS-Net achieves 67.6% mIoU on test set and 66.6% mIoU on val set, outperforming previous state-of-the-art methods.
Mutual-Complementing Framework for Nuclei Detection and Segmentation in Pathology Image
Authors: Zunlei Feng, Zhonghua Wang, Xinchao Wang, Yining Mao, Thomas Li, Jie Lei, Yuexuan Wang, Mingli Song
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Segmentation

    Detection and segmentation of nuclei are fundamental analysis operations in pathology images, the assessments derived from which serve as the gold standard for cancer diagnosis. Manual segmenting nuclei is expensive and time-consuming. What's more, accurate segmentation detection of nuclei can be challenging due to the large appearance variation, conjoined and overlapping nuclei, and serious degeneration of histological structures. Supervised methods highly rely on massive annotated samples. The existing two unsupervised methods are prone to failure on degenerated samples. This paper proposes a Mutual-Complementing Framework (MCF) for nuclei detection and segmentation in pathology images. Two branches of MCF are trained in the mutual-complementing manner, where the detection branch complements the pseudo mask of the segmentation branch, while the progressive trained segmentation branch complements the missing nucleus templates through calculating the mask residual between the predicted mask and detected result. In the detection branch, two response map fusion strategies and gradient direction based postprocessing are devised to obtain the optimal detection response. Furthermore, the confidence loss combined with the synthetic samples and self-finetuning is adopted to train the segmentation network with only high confidence areas. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MCF achieves comparable performance with only a few nucleus patches as supervision. Especially, MCF possesses good robustness (only dropping by about 6%) on degenerated samples, which are critical and common cases in clinical diagnosis.
Unsupervised Segmentation Incorporating Shape Prior via Generative Adversarial Networks
Authors: Dahye Kim, Byung-Woo Hong
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: Generative Adversarial Network, Image Segmentation, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Unsupervised Image Decomposition

    We present an image segmentation algorithm that is developed in an unsupervised deep learning framework. The delineation of object boundaries often fails due to the nuisance factors such as illumination changes and occlusions. Thus, we initially propose an unsupervised image decomposition algorithm to obtain an intrinsic representation that is robust with respect to undesirable bias fields based on a multiplicative image model. The obtained intrinsic image is subsequently provided to an unsupervised segmentation procedure that is developed based on a piecewise smooth model. The segmentation model is further designed to incorporate a geometric constraint imposed in the generative adversarial network framework where the discrepancy between the distribution of partitioning functions and the distribution of prior shapes is minimized. We demonstrate the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed algorithm in particular with bias fields and occlusions using simple yet illustrative synthetic examples and a benchmark dataset for image segmentation.
Occlude Them All: Occlusion-Aware Attention Network for Occluded Person Re-ID
Authors: Peixian Chen, Wenfeng Liu, Pingyang Dai, Jianzhuang Liu, Qixiang Ye, Mingliang Xu, Qi'an Chen, Rongrong Ji
Date: 2021-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2021 10
Tasks: All, Person Re-Identification

    Person Re-Identification (ReID) has achieved remarkable performance along with the deep learning era. However, most approaches carry out ReID only based upon holistic pedestrian regions. In contrast, real-world scenarios involve occluded pedestrians, which provide partial visual appearances and destroy the ReID accuracy. A common strategy is to locate visible body parts by auxiliary model, which however suffers from significant domain gaps and data bias issues. To avoid such problematic models in occluded person ReID, we propose the Occlusion-Aware Mask Network (OAMN). In particular, we incorporate an attention-guided mask module, which requires guidance from labeled occlusion data. To this end, we propose a novel occlusion augmentation scheme that produces diverse and precisely labeled occlusion for any holistic dataset. The proposed scheme suits real-world scenarios better than existing schemes, which consider only limited types of occlusions. We also offer a novel occlusion unification scheme to tackle ambiguity information at the test phase. The above three components enable existing attention mechanisms to precisely capture body parts regardless of the occlusion. Comprehensive experiments on a variety of person ReID benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of OAMN over state-of-the-arts.