pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
For A More Comprehensive Evaluation of 6DoF Object Pose Tracking
Authors: Yang Li, Fan Zhong, Xin Wang, Shuangbing Song, Jiachen Li, Xueying Qin, Changhe Tu
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Pose Tracking

Previous evaluations on 6DoF object pose tracking have presented obvious limitations along with the development of this area. In particular, the evaluation protocols are not unified for different methods, the widely-used YCBV dataset contains significant annotation error, and the error metrics also may be biased. As a result, it is hard to fairly compare the methods, which has became a big obstacle for developing new algorithms. In this paper we contribute a unified benchmark to address the above problems. For more accurate annotation of YCBV, we propose a multi-view multi-object global pose refinement method, which can jointly refine the poses of all objects and view cameras, resulting in sub-pixel sub-millimeter alignment errors. The limitations of previous scoring methods and error metrics are analyzed, based on which we introduce our improved evaluation methods. The unified benchmark takes both YCBV and BCOT as base datasets, which are shown to be complementary in scene categories. In experiments, we validate the precision and reliability of the proposed global pose refinement method with a realistic semi-synthesized dataset particularly for YCBV, and then present the benchmark results unifying learning&non-learning and RGB&RGBD methods, with some finds not discovered in previous studies.
Co-Salient Object Detection with Semantic-Level Consensus Extraction and Dispersion
Authors: Peiran Xu, Yadong Mu
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Co-Salient Object Detection, Decoder, Object, object-detection, Object Detection, Salient Object Detection

Given a group of images, co-salient object detection (CoSOD) aims to highlight the common salient object in each image. There are two factors closely related to the success of this task, namely consensus extraction, and the dispersion of consensus to each image. Most previous works represent the group consensus using local features, while we instead utilize a hierarchical Transformer module for extracting semantic-level consensus. Therefore, it can obtain a more comprehensive representation of the common object category, and exclude interference from other objects that share local similarities with the target object. In addition, we propose a Transformer-based dispersion module that takes into account the variation of the co-salient object in different scenes. It distributes the consensus to the image feature maps in an image-specific way while making full use of interactions within the group. These two modules are integrated with a ViT encoder and an FPN-like decoder to form an end-to-end trainable network, without additional branch and auxiliary loss. The proposed method is evaluated on three commonly used CoSOD datasets and achieves state-of-the-art performance.
DT-NeRF: Decomposed Triplane-Hash Neural Radiance Fields for High-Fidelity Talking Portrait Synthesis
Authors: Yaoyu Su, Shaohui Wang, Haoqian Wang
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: NeRF

In this paper, we present the decomposed triplane-hash neural radiance fields (DT-NeRF), a framework that significantly improves the photorealistic rendering of talking faces and achieves state-of-the-art results on key evaluation datasets. Our architecture decomposes the facial region into two specialized triplanes: one specialized for representing the mouth, and the other for the broader facial features. We introduce audio features as residual terms and integrate them as query vectors into our model through an audio-mouth-face transformer. Additionally, our method leverages the capabilities of Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) to enrich the volumetric representation of the entire face through additive volumetric rendering techniques. Comprehensive experimental evaluations corroborate the effectiveness and superiority of our proposed approach.
OmnimatteRF: Robust Omnimatte with 3D Background Modeling
Authors: Geng Lin, Chen Gao, Jia-Bin Huang, Changil Kim, Yipeng Wang, Matthias Zwicker, Ayush Saraf
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Proceeding: ICCV 2023 1
Tasks: Image Matting, Video Matting

Video matting has broad applications, from adding interesting effects to casually captured movies to assisting video production professionals. Matting with associated effects such as shadows and reflections has also attracted increasing research activity, and methods like Omnimatte have been proposed to separate dynamic foreground objects of interest into their own layers. However, prior works represent video backgrounds as 2D image layers, limiting their capacity to express more complicated scenes, thus hindering application to real-world videos. In this paper, we propose a novel video matting method, OmnimatteRF, that combines dynamic 2D foreground layers and a 3D background model. The 2D layers preserve the details of the subjects, while the 3D background robustly reconstructs scenes in real-world videos. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method reconstructs scenes with better quality on various videos.
Dataset Condensation via Generative Model
Authors: David Junhao Zhang, Heng Wang, Chuhui Xue, Rui Yan, Wenqing Zhang, Song Bai, Mike Zheng Shou
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Dataset Condensation, model

Dataset condensation aims to condense a large dataset with a lot of training samples into a small set. Previous methods usually condense the dataset into the pixels format. However, it suffers from slow optimization speed and large number of parameters to be optimized. When increasing image resolutions and classes, the number of learnable parameters grows accordingly, prohibiting condensation methods from scaling up to large datasets with diverse classes. Moreover, the relations among condensed samples have been neglected and hence the feature distribution of condensed samples is often not diverse. To solve these problems, we propose to condense the dataset into another format, a generative model. Such a novel format allows for the condensation of large datasets because the size of the generative model remains relatively stable as the number of classes or image resolution increases. Furthermore, an intra-class and an inter-class loss are proposed to model the relation of condensed samples. Intra-class loss aims to create more diverse samples for each class by pushing each sample away from the others of the same class. Meanwhile, inter-class loss increases the discriminability of samples by widening the gap between the centers of different classes. Extensive comparisons with state-of-the-art methods and our ablation studies confirm the effectiveness of our method and its individual component. To our best knowledge, we are the first to successfully conduct condensation on ImageNet-1k.
ChromaDistill: Colorizing Monochrome Radiance Fields with Knowledge Distillation
Authors: Ankit Dhiman, R Srinath, Srinjay Sarkar, Lokesh R Boregowda, R Venkatesh Babu
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: 3DGS, Colorization, Image Colorization, Knowledge Distillation, NeRF, Novel View Synthesis

Colorization is a well-explored problem in the domains of image and video processing. However, extending colorization to 3D scenes presents significant challenges. Recent Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) and Gaussian-Splatting(3DGS) methods enable high-quality novel-view synthesis for multi-view images. However, the question arises: How can we colorize these 3D representations? This work presents a method for synthesizing colorized novel views from input grayscale multi-view images. Using image or video colorization methods to colorize novel views from these 3D representations naively will yield output with severe inconsistencies. We introduce a novel method to use powerful image colorization models for colorizing 3D representations. We propose a distillation-based method that transfers color from these networks trained on natural images to the target 3D representation. Notably, this strategy does not add any additional weights or computational overhead to the original representation during inference. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method produces high-quality colorized views for indoor and outdoor scenes, showcasing significant cross-view consistency advantages over baseline approaches. Our method is agnostic to the underlying 3D representation and easily generalizable to NeRF and 3DGS methods. Further, we validate the efficacy of our approach in several diverse applications: 1.) Infra-Red (IR) multi-view images and 2.) Legacy grayscale multi-view image sequences. Project Webpage: https://val.cds.iisc.ac.in/chroma-distill.github.io/
Towards Robust and Unconstrained Full Range of Rotation Head Pose Estimation
Authors: Thorsten Hempel, Ahmed A. Abdelrahman, Ayoub Al-Hamadi
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Head Pose Estimation, Pose Estimation, Pose Prediction, Prediction

Estimating the head pose of a person is a crucial problem for numerous applications that is yet mainly addressed as a subtask of frontal pose prediction. We present a novel method for unconstrained end-to-end head pose estimation to tackle the challenging task of full range of orientation head pose prediction. We address the issue of ambiguous rotation labels by introducing the rotation matrix formalism for our ground truth data and propose a continuous 6D rotation matrix representation for efficient and robust direct regression. This allows to efficiently learn full rotation appearance and to overcome the limitations of the current state-of-the-art. Together with new accumulated training data that provides full head pose rotation data and a geodesic loss approach for stable learning, we design an advanced model that is able to predict an extended range of head orientations. An extensive evaluation on public datasets demonstrates that our method significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art methods in an efficient and robust manner, while its advanced prediction range allows the expansion of the application area. We open-source our training and testing code along with our trained models: https://github.com/thohemp/6DRepNet360.
Indoor Scene Reconstruction with Fine-Grained Details Using Hybrid Representation and Normal Prior Enhancement
Authors: Sheng Ye, Yubin Hu, Matthieu Lin, Yu-Hui Wen, Wang Zhao, Yong-Jin Liu, Wenping Wang
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Denoising, Indoor Scene Reconstruction

The reconstruction of indoor scenes from multi-view RGB images is challenging due to the coexistence of flat and texture-less regions alongside delicate and fine-grained regions. Recent methods leverage neural radiance fields aided by predicted surface normal priors to recover the scene geometry. These methods excel in producing complete and smooth results for floor and wall areas. However, they struggle to capture complex surfaces with high-frequency structures due to the inadequate neural representation and the inaccurately predicted normal priors. This work aims to reconstruct high-fidelity surfaces with fine-grained details by addressing the above limitations. To improve the capacity of the implicit representation, we propose a hybrid architecture to represent low-frequency and high-frequency regions separately. To enhance the normal priors, we introduce a simple yet effective image sharpening and denoising technique, coupled with a network that estimates the pixel-wise uncertainty of the predicted surface normal vectors. Identifying such uncertainty can prevent our model from being misled by unreliable surface normal supervisions that hinder the accurate reconstruction of intricate geometries. Experiments on the benchmark datasets show that our method outperforms existing methods in terms of reconstruction quality. Furthermore, the proposed method also generalizes well to real-world indoor scenarios captured by our hand-held mobile phones. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/yec22/Fine-Grained-Indoor-Recon.
SwitchGPT: Adapting Large Language Models for Non-Text Outputs
Authors: Xinyu Wang, Bohan Zhuang, Qi Wu
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00

Large Language Models (LLMs), primarily trained on text-based datasets, exhibit exceptional proficiencies in understanding and executing complex linguistic instructions via text outputs. However, they falter when requests to generate non-text ones. Concurrently, modality conversion models, such as text-to-image, despite generating high-quality images, suffer from a lack of extensive textual pretraining. As a result, these models are only capable of accommodating specific image descriptions rather than comprehending more complex instructions. To bridge this gap, we propose a novel approach, \methodname, from a modality conversion perspective that evolves a text-based LLM into a multi-modal one. We specifically employ a minimal dataset to instruct LLMs to recognize the intended output modality as directed by the instructions. Consequently, the adapted LLM can effectively summon various off-the-shelf modality conversion models from the model zoos to generate non-text responses. This circumvents the necessity for complicated pretraining that typically requires immense quantities of paired multi-modal data, while simultaneously inheriting the extensive knowledge of LLMs and the ability of high-quality generative models. To evaluate and compare the adapted multi-modal LLM with its traditional counterparts, we have constructed a multi-modal instruction benchmark that solicits diverse modality outputs. The experiment results reveal that, with minimal training, LLMs can be conveniently adapted to comprehend requests for non-text responses, thus achieving higher flexibility in multi-modal scenarios. Code and data will be made available at https://github.com/xinke-wang/SwitchGPT.
Road Disease Detection based on Latent Domain Background Feature Separation and Suppression
Authors: Juwu Zheng, Jiangtao Ren
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Contrastive Learning

Road disease detection is challenging due to the the small proportion of road damage in target region and the diverse background,which introduce lots of domain information.Besides, disease categories have high similarity,makes the detection more difficult. In this paper, we propose a new LDBFSS(Latent Domain Background Feature Separation and Suppression) network which could perform background information separation and suppression without domain supervision and contrastive enhancement of object features.We combine our LDBFSS network with YOLOv5 model to enhance disease features for better road disease detection. As the components of LDBFSS network, we first design a latent domain discovery module and a domain adversarial learning module to obtain pseudo domain labels through unsupervised method, guiding domain discriminator and model to train adversarially to suppress background information. In addition, we introduce a contrastive learning module and design k-instance contrastive loss, optimize the disease feature representation by increasing the inter-class distance and reducing the intra-class distance for object features. We conducted experiments on two road disease detection datasets, GRDDC and CNRDD, and compared with other models,which show an increase of nearly 4% on GRDDC dataset compared with optimal model, and an increase of 4.6% on CNRDD dataset. Experimental results prove the effectiveness and superiority of our model.
Towards a universal mechanism for successful deep learning
Authors: Yuval Meir, Yarden Tzach, Shiri Hodassman, Ofek Tevet, Ido Kanter
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Deep Learning

Recently, the underlying mechanism for successful deep learning (DL) was presented based on a quantitative method that measures the quality of a single filter in each layer of a DL model, particularly VGG-16 trained on CIFAR-10. This method exemplifies that each filter identifies small clusters of possible output labels, with additional noise selected as labels outside the clusters. This feature is progressively sharpened with each layer, resulting in an enhanced signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), which leads to an increase in the accuracy of the DL network. In this study, this mechanism is verified for VGG-16 and EfficientNet-B0 trained on the CIFAR-100 and ImageNet datasets, and the main results are as follows. First, the accuracy and SNR progressively increase with the layers. Second, for a given deep architecture, the maximal error rate increases approximately linearly with the number of output labels. Third, similar trends were obtained for dataset labels in the range [3, 1,000], thus supporting the universality of this mechanism. Understanding the performance of a single filter and its dominating features paves the way to highly dilute the deep architecture without affecting its overall accuracy, and this can be achieved by applying the filter's cluster connections (AFCC).
RigNet++: Semantic Assisted Repetitive Image Guided Network for Depth Completion
Authors: Zhiqiang Yan, Xiang Li, Le Hui, Zhenyu Zhang, Jun Li, Jian Yang
Date: 2023-09-01 00:00:00
Tasks: Depth Completion, Depth Estimation, Depth Prediction

Depth completion aims to recover dense depth maps from sparse ones, where color images are often used to facilitate this task. Recent depth methods primarily focus on image guided learning frameworks. However, blurry guidance in the image and unclear structure in the depth still impede their performance. To tackle these challenges, we explore a repetitive design in our image guided network to gradually and sufficiently recover depth values. Specifically, the repetition is embodied in both the image guidance branch and depth generation branch. In the former branch, we design a dense repetitive hourglass network (DRHN) to extract discriminative image features of complex environments, which can provide powerful contextual instruction for depth prediction. In the latter branch, we present a repetitive guidance (RG) module based on dynamic convolution, in which an efficient convolution factorization is proposed to reduce the complexity while modeling high-frequency structures progressively. Furthermore, in the semantic guidance branch, we utilize the well-known large vision model, i.e., segment anything (SAM), to supply RG with semantic prior. In addition, we propose a region-aware spatial propagation network (RASPN) for further depth refinement based on the semantic prior constraint. Finally, we collect a new dataset termed TOFDC for the depth completion task, which is acquired by the time-of-flight (TOF) sensor and the color camera on smartphones. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on KITTI, NYUv2, Matterport3D, 3D60, VKITTI, and our TOFDC.
A Multi-scale Generalized Shrinkage Threshold Network for Image Blind Deblurring in Remote Sensing
Authors: Yujie Feng, Yin Yang, Xiaohong Fan, Zhengpeng Zhang, Jianping Zhang
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Deblurring, Image Deblurring, Image Restoration

Remote sensing images are essential for many applications of the earth's sciences, but their quality can usually be degraded due to limitations in sensor technology and complex imaging environments. To address this, various remote sensing image deblurring methods have been developed to restore sharp and high-quality images from degraded observational data. However, most traditional model-based deblurring methods usually require predefined {hand-crafted} prior assumptions, which are difficult to handle in complex applications. On the other hand, deep learning-based deblurring methods are often considered as black boxes, lacking transparency and interpretability. In this work, we propose a new blind deblurring learning framework that utilizes alternating iterations of shrinkage thresholds. This framework involves updating blurring kernels and images, with a theoretical foundation in network design. Additionally, we propose a learnable blur kernel proximal mapping module to improve the accuracy of the blur kernel reconstruction. Furthermore, we propose a deep proximal mapping module in the image domain, which combines a generalized shrinkage threshold with a multi-scale prior feature extraction block. This module also incorporates an attention mechanism to learn adaptively the importance of prior information, improving the flexibility and robustness of prior terms, and avoiding limitations similar to hand-crafted image prior terms. Consequently, we design a novel multi-scale generalized shrinkage threshold network (MGSTNet) that focuses specifically on learning deep geometric prior features to enhance image restoration. Experimental results on real and synthetic remote sensing image datasets demonstrate the superiority of our MGSTNet framework compared to existing deblurring methods.
Dhan-Shomadhan: A Dataset of Rice Leaf Disease Classification for Bangladeshi Local Rice
Authors: Md. Fahad Hossain
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Decision Making

This dataset represents almost all the harmful diseases for rice in Bangladesh. This dataset consists of 1106 image of five harmful diseases called Brown Spot, Leaf Scaled, Rice Blast, Rice Turngo, Steath Blight in two different background variation named field background picture and white background picture. Two different background variation helps the dataset to perform more accurately so that the user can use this data for field use as well as white background for decision making. The data is collected from rice field of Dhaka Division. This dataset can use for rice leaf diseases classification, diseases detection using Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for different rice leaf disease.
RecycleNet: Latent Feature Recycling Leads to Iterative Decision Refinement
Authors: Gregor Koehler, Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, David Zimmerer, Paul F. Jaeger, Jörg K. H. Franke, Simon Kohl, Fabian Isensee, Klaus H. Maier-Hein
Date: 2023-09-14 00:00:00
Tasks: Decision Making, Image Segmentation, Medical Image Segmentation, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation

Despite the remarkable success of deep learning systems over the last decade, a key difference still remains between neural network and human decision-making: As humans, we cannot only form a decision on the spot, but also ponder, revisiting an initial guess from different angles, distilling relevant information, arriving at a better decision. Here, we propose RecycleNet, a latent feature recycling method, instilling the pondering capability for neural networks to refine initial decisions over a number of recycling steps, where outputs are fed back into earlier network layers in an iterative fashion. This approach makes minimal assumptions about the neural network architecture and thus can be implemented in a wide variety of contexts. Using medical image segmentation as the evaluation environment, we show that latent feature recycling enables the network to iteratively refine initial predictions even beyond the iterations seen during training, converging towards an improved decision. We evaluate this across a variety of segmentation benchmarks and show consistent improvements even compared with top-performing segmentation methods. This allows trading increased computation time for improved performance, which can be beneficial, especially for safety-critical applications.