pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
InternVideo: General Video Foundation Models via Generative and Discriminative Learning
Authors: Yi Wang, Kunchang Li, Yizhuo Li, Yinan He, Bingkun Huang, Zhiyu Zhao, Hongjie Zhang, Jilan Xu, Yi Liu, Zun Wang, Sen Xing, Guo Chen, Junting Pan, Jiashuo Yu, Yali Wang, LiMin Wang, Yu Qiao
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: Action Classification, Action Recognition, Contrastive Learning, Open Set Action Recognition, Spatio-Temporal Action Localization, Temporal Action Localization, Video Question Answering, Video Retrieval, Video Understanding, Visual Question Answering (VQA), Zero-Shot Video Question Answer, Zero-Shot Video Retrieval

The foundation models have recently shown excellent performance on a variety of downstream tasks in computer vision. However, most existing vision foundation models simply focus on image-level pretraining and adpation, which are limited for dynamic and complex video-level understanding tasks. To fill the gap, we present general video foundation models, InternVideo, by taking advantage of both generative and discriminative self-supervised video learning. Specifically, InternVideo efficiently explores masked video modeling and video-language contrastive learning as the pretraining objectives, and selectively coordinates video representations of these two complementary frameworks in a learnable manner to boost various video applications. Without bells and whistles, InternVideo achieves state-of-the-art performance on 39 video datasets from extensive tasks including video action recognition/detection, video-language alignment, and open-world video applications. Especially, our methods can obtain 91.1% and 77.2% top-1 accuracy on the challenging Kinetics-400 and Something-Something V2 benchmarks, respectively. All of these results effectively show the generality of our InternVideo for video understanding. The code will be released at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/InternVideo .
Towards Energy Efficient Mobile Eye Tracking for AR Glasses through Optical Sensor Technology
Authors: Johannes Meyer
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00

After the introduction of smartphones and smartwatches, AR glasses are considered the next breakthrough in the field of wearables. While the transition from smartphones to smartwatches was based mainly on established display technologies, the display technology of AR glasses presents a technological challenge. Many display technologies, such as retina projectors, are based on continuous adaptive control of the display based on the user's pupil position. Furthermore, head-mounted systems require an adaptation and extension of established interaction concepts to provide the user with an immersive experience. Eye-tracking is a crucial technology to help AR glasses achieve a breakthrough through optimized display technology and gaze-based interaction concepts. Available eye-tracking technologies, such as VOG, do not meet the requirements of AR glasses, especially regarding power consumption, robustness, and integrability. To further overcome these limitations and push mobile eye-tracking for AR glasses forward, novel laser-based eye-tracking sensor technologies are researched in this thesis. The thesis contributes to a significant scientific advancement towards energy-efficient mobile eye-tracking for AR glasses.
Rethinking the Objectives of Vector-Quantized Tokenizers for Image Synthesis
Authors: YuChao Gu, Xintao Wang, Yixiao Ge, Ying Shan, XiaoHu Qie, Mike Zheng Shou
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Conditional Image Generation, Decoder, Image Generation, Semantic Compression

Vector-Quantized (VQ-based) generative models usually consist of two basic components, i.e., VQ tokenizers and generative transformers. Prior research focuses on improving the reconstruction fidelity of VQ tokenizers but rarely examines how the improvement in reconstruction affects the generation ability of generative transformers. In this paper, we surprisingly find that improving the reconstruction fidelity of VQ tokenizers does not necessarily improve the generation. Instead, learning to compress semantic features within VQ tokenizers significantly improves generative transformers' ability to capture textures and structures. We thus highlight two competing objectives of VQ tokenizers for image synthesis: semantic compression and details preservation. Different from previous work that only pursues better details preservation, we propose Semantic-Quantized GAN (SeQ-GAN) with two learning phases to balance the two objectives. In the first phase, we propose a semantic-enhanced perceptual loss for better semantic compression. In the second phase, we fix the encoder and codebook, but enhance and finetune the decoder to achieve better details preservation. The proposed SeQ-GAN greatly improves VQ-based generative models and surpasses the GAN and Diffusion Models on both unconditional and conditional image generation. Our SeQ-GAN (364M) achieves Frechet Inception Distance (FID) of 6.25 and Inception Score (IS) of 140.9 on 256x256 ImageNet generation, a remarkable improvement over VIT-VQGAN (714M), which obtains 11.2 FID and 97.2 IS.
FacT: Factor-Tuning for Lightweight Adaptation on Vision Transformer
Authors: Shibo Jie, Zhi-Hong Deng
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: 8k, Transfer Learning

Recent work has explored the potential to adapt a pre-trained vision transformer (ViT) by updating only a few parameters so as to improve storage efficiency, called parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL). Current PETL methods have shown that by tuning only 0.5% of the parameters, ViT can be adapted to downstream tasks with even better performance than full fine-tuning. In this paper, we aim to further promote the efficiency of PETL to meet the extreme storage constraint in real-world applications. To this end, we propose a tensorization-decomposition framework to store the weight increments, in which the weights of each ViT are tensorized into a single 3D tensor, and their increments are then decomposed into lightweight factors. In the fine-tuning process, only the factors need to be updated and stored, termed Factor-Tuning (FacT). On VTAB-1K benchmark, our method performs on par with NOAH, the state-of-the-art PETL method, while being 5x more parameter-efficient. We also present a tiny version that only uses 8K (0.01% of ViT's parameters) trainable parameters but outperforms full fine-tuning and many other PETL methods such as VPT and BitFit. In few-shot settings, FacT also beats all PETL baselines using the fewest parameters, demonstrating its strong capability in the low-data regime.
Self-supervised and Weakly Supervised Contrastive Learning for Frame-wise Action Representations
Authors: Minghao Chen, Renbo Tu, Chenxi Huang, Yuqi Lin, Boxi Wu, Deng Cai
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: Action Classification, Contrastive Learning, Representation Learning, Retrieval, Self-Supervised Learning, Video Alignment

Previous work on action representation learning focused on global representations for short video clips. In contrast, many practical applications, such as video alignment, strongly demand learning the intensive representation of long videos. In this paper, we introduce a new framework of contrastive action representation learning (CARL) to learn frame-wise action representation in a self-supervised or weakly-supervised manner, especially for long videos. Specifically, we introduce a simple but effective video encoder that considers both spatial and temporal context by combining convolution and transformer. Inspired by the recent massive progress in self-supervised learning, we propose a new sequence contrast loss (SCL) applied to two related views obtained by expanding a series of spatio-temporal data in two versions. One is the self-supervised version that optimizes embedding space by minimizing KL-divergence between sequence similarity of two augmented views and prior Gaussian distribution of timestamp distance. The other is the weakly-supervised version that builds more sample pairs among videos using video-level labels by dynamic time wrapping (DTW). Experiments on FineGym, PennAction, and Pouring datasets show that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art by a large margin for downstream fine-grained action classification and even faster inference. Surprisingly, although without training on paired videos like in previous works, our self-supervised version also shows outstanding performance in video alignment and fine-grained frame retrieval tasks.
Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks for Image Captioning
Authors: Jianjie Luo, Yehao Li, Yingwei Pan, Ting Yao, Jianlin Feng, Hongyang Chao, Tao Mei
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2023 1
Tasks: Cross-Modal Retrieval, Decoder, Image Captioning, Image Generation, Retrieval, Sentence, Text to Image Generation, Text-to-Image Generation

Recent advances on text-to-image generation have witnessed the rise of diffusion models which act as powerful generative models. Nevertheless, it is not trivial to exploit such latent variable models to capture the dependency among discrete words and meanwhile pursue complex visual-language alignment in image captioning. In this paper, we break the deeply rooted conventions in learning Transformer-based encoder-decoder, and propose a new diffusion model based paradigm tailored for image captioning, namely Semantic-Conditional Diffusion Networks (SCD-Net). Technically, for each input image, we first search the semantically relevant sentences via cross-modal retrieval model to convey the comprehensive semantic information. The rich semantics are further regarded as semantic prior to trigger the learning of Diffusion Transformer, which produces the output sentence in a diffusion process. In SCD-Net, multiple Diffusion Transformer structures are stacked to progressively strengthen the output sentence with better visional-language alignment and linguistical coherence in a cascaded manner. Furthermore, to stabilize the diffusion process, a new self-critical sequence training strategy is designed to guide the learning of SCD-Net with the knowledge of a standard autoregressive Transformer model. Extensive experiments on COCO dataset demonstrate the promising potential of using diffusion models in the challenging image captioning task. Source code is available at \url{https://github.com/YehLi/xmodaler/tree/master/configs/image_caption/scdnet}.
Unifying Short and Long-Term Tracking with Graph Hierarchies
Authors: Orcun Cetintas, Guillem Brasó, Laura Leal-Taixé
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2023 1
Tasks: Multiple Object Tracking

Tracking objects over long videos effectively means solving a spectrum of problems, from short-term association for un-occluded objects to long-term association for objects that are occluded and then reappear in the scene. Methods tackling these two tasks are often disjoint and crafted for specific scenarios, and top-performing approaches are often a mix of techniques, which yields engineering-heavy solutions that lack generality. In this work, we question the need for hybrid approaches and introduce SUSHI, a unified and scalable multi-object tracker. Our approach processes long clips by splitting them into a hierarchy of subclips, which enables high scalability. We leverage graph neural networks to process all levels of the hierarchy, which makes our model unified across temporal scales and highly general. As a result, we obtain significant improvements over state-of-the-art on four diverse datasets. Our code and models are available at bit.ly/sushi-mot.
IncepFormer: Efficient Inception Transformer with Pyramid Pooling for Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Lihua Fu, Haoyue Tian, Xiangping Bryce Zhai, Pan Gao, Xiaojiang Peng
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Classification, Semantic Segmentation

Semantic segmentation usually benefits from global contexts, fine localisation information, multi-scale features, etc. To advance Transformer-based segmenters with these aspects, we present a simple yet powerful semantic segmentation architecture, termed as IncepFormer. IncepFormer has two critical contributions as following. First, it introduces a novel pyramid structured Transformer encoder which harvests global context and fine localisation features simultaneously. These features are concatenated and fed into a convolution layer for final per-pixel prediction. Second, IncepFormer integrates an Inception-like architecture with depth-wise convolutions, and a light-weight feed-forward module in each self-attention layer, efficiently obtaining rich local multi-scale object features. Extensive experiments on five benchmarks show that our IncepFormer is superior to state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and speed, e.g., 1) our IncepFormer-S achieves 47.7% mIoU on ADE20K which outperforms the existing best method by 1% while only costs half parameters and fewer FLOPs. 2) Our IncepFormer-B finally achieves 82.0% mIoU on Cityscapes dataset with 39.6M parameters. Code is available:github.com/shendu0321/IncepFormer.
AbHE: All Attention-based Homography Estimation
Authors: Mingxiao Huo, Zhihao Zhang, Xinyang Ren, Xianqiang Yang
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: All, Homography Estimation, regression

Homography estimation is a basic computer vision task, which aims to obtain the transformation from multi-view images for image alignment. Unsupervised learning homography estimation trains a convolution neural network for feature extraction and transformation matrix regression. While the state-of-theart homography method is based on convolution neural networks, few work focuses on transformer which shows superiority in highlevel vision tasks. In this paper, we propose a strong-baseline model based on the Swin Transformer, which combines convolution neural network for local features and transformer module for global features. Moreover, a cross non-local layer is introduced to search the matched features within the feature maps coarsely. In the homography regression stage, we adopt an attention layer for the channels of correlation volume, which can drop out some weak correlation feature points. The experiment shows that in 8 Degree-of-Freedoms(DOFs) homography estimation our method overperforms the state-of-the-art method.
Iterative Next Boundary Detection for Instance Segmentation of Tree Rings in Microscopy Images of Shrub Cross Sections
Authors: Alexander Gillert, Giulia Resente, Alba Anadon-Rosell, Martin Wilmking, Uwe Freiherr von Lukas
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2023 1
Tasks: Boundary Detection, Instance Segmentation, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation

We address the problem of detecting tree rings in microscopy images of shrub cross sections. This can be regarded as a special case of the instance segmentation task with several unique challenges such as the concentric circular ring shape of the objects and high precision requirements that result in inadequate performance of existing methods. We propose a new iterative method which we term Iterative Next Boundary Detection (INBD). It intuitively models the natural growth direction, starting from the center of the shrub cross section and detecting the next ring boundary in each iteration step. In our experiments, INBD shows superior performance to generic instance segmentation methods and is the only one with a built-in notion of chronological order. Our dataset and source code are available at http://github.com/alexander-g/INBD.
GD-MAE: Generative Decoder for MAE Pre-training on LiDAR Point Clouds
Authors: Honghui Yang, Tong He, Jiaheng Liu, Hua Chen, Boxi Wu, Binbin Lin, Xiaofei He, Wanli Ouyang
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2023 1
Tasks: Decoder

Despite the tremendous progress of Masked Autoencoders (MAE) in developing vision tasks such as image and video, exploring MAE in large-scale 3D point clouds remains challenging due to the inherent irregularity. In contrast to previous 3D MAE frameworks, which either design a complex decoder to infer masked information from maintained regions or adopt sophisticated masking strategies, we instead propose a much simpler paradigm. The core idea is to apply a \textbf{G}enerative \textbf{D}ecoder for MAE (GD-MAE) to automatically merges the surrounding context to restore the masked geometric knowledge in a hierarchical fusion manner. In doing so, our approach is free from introducing the heuristic design of decoders and enjoys the flexibility of exploring various masking strategies. The corresponding part costs less than \textbf{12\%} latency compared with conventional methods, while achieving better performance. We demonstrate the efficacy of the proposed method on several large-scale benchmarks: Waymo, KITTI, and ONCE. Consistent improvement on downstream detection tasks illustrates strong robustness and generalization capability. Not only our method reveals state-of-the-art results, but remarkably, we achieve comparable accuracy even with \textbf{20\%} of the labeled data on the Waymo dataset. Code will be released at https://github.com/Nightmare-n/GD-MAE.
Supervised Image Segmentation for High Dynamic Range Imaging
Authors: Ali Reza Omrani, Davide Moroni
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Vocal Bursts Intensity Prediction

Regular cameras and cell phones are able to capture limited luminosity. Thus, in terms of quality, most of the produced images from such devices are not similar to the real world. They are overly dark or too bright, and the details are not perfectly visible. Various methods, which fall under the name of High Dynamic Range (HDR) Imaging, can be utilised to cope with this problem. Their objective is to produce an image with more details. However, unfortunately, most methods for generating an HDR image from Multi-Exposure images only concentrate on how to combine different exposures and do not have any focus on choosing the best details of each image. Therefore, it is strived in this research to extract the most visible areas of each image with the help of image segmentation. Two methods of producing the Ground Truth were considered, as manual threshold and Otsu threshold, and a neural network will be used to train segment these areas. Finally, it will be shown that the neural network is able to segment the visible parts of pictures acceptably.
3DGazeNet: Generalizing Gaze Estimation with Weak-Supervision from Synthetic Views
Authors: Evangelos Ververas, Polydefkis Gkagkos, Jiankang Deng, Michail Christos Doukas, Jia Guo, Stefanos Zafeiriou
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: 3D geometry, Domain Adaptation, Gaze Estimation, Hand Pose Estimation, Pose Estimation

Developing gaze estimation models that generalize well to unseen domains and in-the-wild conditions remains a challenge with no known best solution. This is mostly due to the difficulty of acquiring ground truth data that cover the distribution of faces, head poses, and environments that exist in the real world. Most recent methods attempt to close the gap between specific source and target domains using domain adaptation. In this work, we propose to train general gaze estimation models which can be directly employed in novel environments without adaptation. To do so, we leverage the observation that head, body, and hand pose estimation benefit from revising them as dense 3D coordinate prediction, and similarly express gaze estimation as regression of dense 3D eye meshes. To close the gap between image domains, we create a large-scale dataset of diverse faces with gaze pseudo-annotations, which we extract based on the 3D geometry of the scene, and design a multi-view supervision framework to balance their effect during training. We test our method in the task of gaze generalization, in which we demonstrate improvement of up to 30% compared to state-of-the-art when no ground truth data are available, and up to 10% when they are. The project material are available for research purposes at https://github.com/Vagver/3DGazeNet.
Sparse Message Passing Network with Feature Integration for Online Multiple Object Tracking
Authors: Bisheng Wang, Horst Possegger, Horst Bischof, Guo Cao
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: Multiple Object Tracking, Object Tracking

Existing Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) methods design complex architectures for better tracking performance. However, without a proper organization of input information, they still fail to perform tracking robustly and suffer from frequent identity switches. In this paper, we propose two novel methods together with a simple online Message Passing Network (MPN) to address these limitations. First, we explore different integration methods for the graph node and edge embeddings and put forward a new IoU (Intersection over Union) guided function, which improves long term tracking and handles identity switches. Second, we introduce a hierarchical sampling strategy to construct sparser graphs which allows to focus the training on more difficult samples. Experimental results demonstrate that a simple online MPN with these two contributions can perform better than many state-of-the-art methods. In addition, our association method generalizes well and can also improve the results of private detection based methods.
Proximal methods for point source localisation
Authors: Tuomo Valkonen
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00

Point source localisation is generally modelled as a Lasso-type problem on measures. However, optimisation methods in non-Hilbert spaces, such as the space of Radon measures, are much less developed than in Hilbert spaces. Most numerical algorithms for point source localisation are based on the Frank-Wolfe conditional gradient method, for which ad hoc convergence theory is developed. We develop extensions of proximal-type methods to spaces of measures. This includes forward-backward splitting, its inertial version, and primal-dual proximal splitting. Their convergence proofs follow standard patterns. We demonstrate their numerical efficacy.
A new eye segmentation method based on improved U2Net in TCM eye diagnosis
Authors: Peng Hong
Date: 2022-12-06 00:00:00
Tasks: Segmentation

For the diagnosis of Chinese medicine, tongue segmentation has reached a fairly mature point, but it has little application in the eye diagnosis of Chinese medicine.First, this time we propose Res-UNet based on the architecture of the U2Net network, and use the Data Enhancement Toolkit based on small datasets, Finally, the feature blocks after noise reduction are fused with the high-level features.Finally, the number of network parameters and inference time are used as evaluation indicators to evaluate the model. At the same time, different eye data segmentation frames were compared using Miou, Precision, Recall, F1-Score and FLOPS. To convince people, we cite the UBIVIS. V1 public dataset this time, in which Miou reaches 97.8%, S-measure reaches 97.7%, F1-Score reaches 99.09% and for 320*320 RGB input images, the total parameter volume is 167.83 MB,Due to the excessive number of parameters, we experimented with a small-scale U2Net combined with a Res module with a parameter volume of 4.63 MB, which is similar to U2Net in related indicators, which verifies the effectiveness of our structure.which achieves the best segmentation effect in all the comparison networks and lays a foundation for the application of subsequent visual apparatus recognition symptoms.