pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
Prompt2Perturb (P2P): Text-Guided Diffusion-Based Adversarial Attack on Breast Ultrasound Images
Authors: Yasamin Medghalchi, Moein Heidari, Clayton Allard, Leonid Sigal, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Adversarial Attack, Prompt Learning

    Deep neural networks (DNNs)  offer significant promise for improving breast cancer diagnosis in medical imaging. However, these models are highly susceptible to adversarial attacks--small, imperceptible changes that can mislead classifiers--raising critical concerns about their reliability and security. Traditional attack methods typically either require substantial extra data for malicious model pre-training, or involve a fixed norm perturbation budget, which does not align with human perception of these alterations. In medical imaging, however, this is often unfeasible due to the limited availability of datasets. Building on recent advancements in learnable prompts, we propose Prompt2Perturb (P2P), a novel language-guided semantic attack method capable of generating meaningful perturbations driven by text instructions. During the prompt learning phase, our approach leverages learnable prompts within the text encoder to create subtle, yet impactful, perturbations that remain imperceptible while guiding the model towards targeted outcomes.In contrast to current prompt learning-based approaches, our P2P stands out by directly updating text embeddings, avoiding the need for retraining diffusion models or using large pre-trained models which is typically infeasible in medical domain. Further, we leverage the finding that optimizing only the early reverse diffusion steps boosts efficiency while ensuring that the generated adversarial examples incorporate subtle low-frequency noise, thus preserving ultrasound image quality without introducing noticeable artifacts. We show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art attack techniques across three breast ultrasound datasets. Moreover, the generated images are both more natural in appearance and more effective compared to existing adversarial attacks.
Flexible Frame Selection for Efficient Video Reasoning
Authors: Shyamal Buch, Arsha Nagrani, Anurag Arnab, Cordelia Schmid
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Language Modeling, Language Modelling, Question Answering, Video Question Answering, Video Understanding

    Video-language models have shown promise for addressing a range of multimodal tasks for video understanding, such as video question-answering. However, the inherent computational challenges of processing long video data and increasing model sizes have led to standard approaches that are limited by the number of frames they can process. In this work, we propose the Flexible Frame Selector (FFS), a learnable policy model with a new flexible selection operation, that helps alleviate input context restrictions by enabling video-language models to focus on the most informative frames for the downstream multimodal task, without adding undue processing cost. Our method differentiates from prior work due to its learnability, efficiency, and flexibility. We verify the efficacy of our method on standard video-question answering and reasoning benchmarks, and observe that our model can improve base video-language model accuracy while reducing the number of downstream processed frames.
SceneDiffuser++: City-Scale Traffic Simulation via a Generative World Model
Authors: Shuhan Tan, John Lambert, Hong Jeon, Sakshum Kulshrestha, Yijing Bai, Jing Luo, Dragomir Anguelov, Mingxing Tan, Chiyu Max Jiang
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Scene Generation

    The goal of traffic simulation is to augment a potentially limited amount of manually-driven miles that is available for testing and validation, with a much larger amount of simulated synthetic miles. The culmination of this vision would be a generative simulated city, where given a map of the city and an autonomous vehicle (AV) software stack, the simulator can seamlessly simulate the trip from point A to point B by populating the city around the AV and controlling all aspects of the scene, from animating the dynamic agents (e.g., vehicles, pedestrians) to controlling the traffic light states. We refer to this vision as CitySim, which requires an agglomeration of simulation technologies: scene generation to populate the initial scene, agent behavior modeling to animate the scene, occlusion reasoning, dynamic scene generation to seamlessly spawn and remove agents, and environment simulation for factors such as traffic lights. While some key technologies have been separately studied in various works, others such as dynamic scene generation and environment simulation have received less attention in the research community. We propose SceneDiffuser++, the first end-to-end generative world model trained on a single loss function capable of point A-to-B simulation on a city scale integrating all the requirements above. We demonstrate the city-scale traffic simulation capability of SceneDiffuser++ and study its superior realism under long simulation conditions.We evaluate the simulation quality on an augmented version of the Waymo Open Motion Dataset (WOMD) with larger map regions to support trip-level simulation.
DefMamba: Deformable Visual State Space Model
Authors: Leiye Liu, Miao Zhang, Jihao Yin, TingWei Liu, Wei Ji, Yongri Piao, Huchuan Lu
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Computational Efficiency, image-classification, Image Classification, Instance Segmentation, Mamba, model, object-detection, Object Detection, Semantic Segmentation, State Space Models

    Recently, state space models (SSM), particularly Mamba, have attracted significant attention from scholars due to their ability to effectively balance computational efficiency and performance. However, most existing visual Mamba methods flatten images into 1D sequences using predefined scan orders, which results the model being less capable of utilizing the spatial structural information of the image during the feature extraction process. To address this issue, we proposed a novel visual foundation model called DefMamba. This model includes a multi-scale backbone structure and deformable mamba (DM) blocks, which dynamically adjust the scanning path to prioritize important information, thus enhancing the capture and processing of relevant input features. By combining a deformable scanning (DS) strategy, this model significantly improves its ability to learn image structures and detects changes in object details. Numerous experiments have shown that DefMamba achieves state-of-the-art performance in various visual tasks, including image classification, object detection, instance segmentation, and semantic segmentation. The code is open source on DefMamba.
Explainable Saliency: Articulating Reasoning with Contextual Prioritization
Authors: Nuo Chen, Ming Jiang, Qi Zhao
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Navigate, Saliency Prediction

    Deep saliency models, which predict what parts of an image capture our attention, are often like black boxes. This limits their use, especially in areas where understanding why a model makes a decision is crucial. Our research tackles this challenge by developing an explainable saliency (XSal) model that not only identifies what is important in an image, but also explains its choices in a way that makes sense to humans. We achieve this by using vision-language models to reason about images and by focusing the model's attention on the most crucial information using a contextual prioritization mechanism. Unlike prior approaches that rely on fixation descriptions or soft-attention based semantic aggregation, our method directly models the reasoning steps involved in saliency prediction, generating selectively prioritized explanations clarify why specific regions are prioritized. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness of our model in generating high-quality saliency maps and coherent, contextually relevant explanations. This research is a step towards more transparent and trustworthy AI systems that can help us understand and navigate the world around us.
MIMO: A Medical Vision Language Model with Visual Referring Multimodal Input and Pixel Grounding Multimodal Output
Authors: Yanyuan Chen, Dexuan Xu, Yu Huang, Songkun Zhan, Hanpin Wang, Dongxue Chen, Xueping Wang, Meikang Qiu, Hang Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Instruction Following, Language Modeling, Language Modelling, Question Answering

    Currently, medical vision language models are widely used in medical vision question answering tasks. However, existing models are confronted with two issues: for input, the model only relies on text instructions and lacks direct understanding of visual clues in the image; for output, the model only gives text answers and lacks connection with key areas in the image. To address these issues, we propose a unified medical vision language model MIMO, with visual referring Multimodal Input and pixel grounding Multimodal Output. MIMO can not only combine visual clues and textual instructions to understand complex medical images and semantics, but can also ground medical terminologies in textual output within the image. To overcome the scarcity of relevant data in the medical field, we propose MIMOSeg, a comprehensive medical multimodal dataset including 895K samples. MIMOSeg is constructed from four different perspectives, covering basic instruction following and complex question answering with multimodal input and multimodal output. We conduct experiments on several downstream medical multimodal tasks. Extensive experimental results verify that MIMO can uniquely combine visual referring and pixel grounding capabilities, which are not available in previous models. Our project can be found in https://github.com/pkusixspace/MIMO.
ICP: Immediate Compensation Pruning for Mid-to-high Sparsity
Authors: Xin Luo, Xueming Fu, Zihang Jiang, S. Kevin Zhou
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: GPU

    The increasing adoption of large-scale models under 7 billion parameters in both language and vision domains enables inference tasks on a single consumer-grade GPU but makes fine-tuning models of this scale, especially 7B models, challenging. This limits the applicability of pruning methods that require full fine-tuning. Meanwhile, pruning methods that do not require fine-tuning perform well at low sparsity levels (10%-50%) but struggle at mid-to-high sparsity levels (50%-70%), where the error behaves equivalently to that of semi-structured pruning. To address these issues, this paper introduces ICP, which finds a balance between full fine-tuning and zero fine-tuning. First, Sparsity Rearrange is used to reorganize the predefined sparsity levels, followed by Block-wise Compensate Pruning, which alternates pruning and compensation on the model's backbone, fully utilizing inference results while avoiding full model fine-tuning. Experiments show that ICP improves performance at mid-to-high sparsity levels compared to baselines, with only a slight increase in pruning time and no additional peak memory overhead.
Style-Editor: Text-driven Object-centric Style Editing
Authors: Jihun Park, Jongmin Gim, Kyoungmin Lee, Seunghun Lee, Sunghoon Im
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Object

    We present Text-driven object-centric style editing model named Style-Editor, a novel method that guides style editing at an object-centric level using textual inputs.The core of Style-Editor is our Patch-wise Co-Directional (PCD) loss, meticulously designed for precise object-centric editing that are closely aligned with the input text. This loss combines a patch directional loss for text-guided style direction and a patch distribution consistency loss for even CLIP embedding distribution across object regions. It ensures a seamless and harmonious style editing across object regions.Key to our method are the Text-Matched Patch Selection (TMPS) and Pre-fixed Region Selection (PRS) modules for identifying object locations via text, eliminating the need for segmentation masks. Lastly, we introduce an Adaptive Background Preservation (ABP) loss to maintain the original style and structural essence of the image's background. This loss is applied to dynamically identified background areas.Extensive experiments underline the effectiveness of our approach in creating visually coherent and textually aligned style editing.
Let Samples Speak: Mitigating Spurious Correlation by Exploiting the Clusterness of Samples
Authors: Weiwei Li, Junzhuo Liu, Yuanyuan Ren, Yuchen Zheng, Yahao Liu, Wen Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1

    Deep learning models are known to often learn features that spuriously correlate with the class label during training but are irrelevant to the prediction task. Existing methods typically address this issue by annotating potential spurious attributes, or filtering spurious features based on some empirical assumptions (e.g., simplicity of bias). However, these methods may yield unsatisfying performance due to the intricate and elusive nature of spurious correlations in real-world data. In this paper, we propose a data-oriented approach to mitigate the spurious correlation in deep learning models. We observe that samples that are influenced by spurious features tend to exhibit a dispersed distribution in the learned feature space. This allows us to identify the presence of spurious features. Subsequently, we obtain a bias-invariant representation by neutralizing the spuriousfeatures based on a simple grouping strategy. Then, we learn a feature transformation to eliminate the spuriousfeatures by aligning with this bias-invariant representation. Finally, we update the classifier by incorporating the learned feature transformation and obtain an unbiased model. By integrating the aforementioned identifying, neutralizing, eliminating and updating procedures, we build an effective pipeline for mitigating spurious correlation. Experiments on image and NLP debiasing benchmarks show an improvement in worst group accuracy of more than 20% compared to standard empirical risk minimization (ERM).  Codes and checkpoints are available at https://github.com/davelee-uestc/nsf_debiasing.
Beyond Single-Modal Boundary: Cross-Modal Anomaly Detection through Visual Prototype and Harmonization
Authors: Kai Mao, Ping Wei, Yiyang Lian, Yangyang Wang, Nanning Zheng
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Anomaly Detection

    Anomaly detection is a significant task for its application and research value. While existing methods have made impressive progress within the same modality, cross-modal anomaly detection remains an open and challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a cross-modal anomaly detection model that is trained using data from a variety of existing modalities and can be generalized well to unseen modalities. The model consists of three major components: 1) the Transferable Visual Prototype directly learns normal/abnormal semantics in visual space; 2) the Prototype Harmonization strategy  adaptively utilizes the Transferable Visual Prototypes from various modalities for inference on the unknown modality; 3) the Visual Discrepancy Inference under the few-shot setting enhances performance. In the zero-shot setting, the proposed method achieves AUROC improvements of 4.1%, 6.1%, 7.6%, and 6.8% over the best competing methods in the RGB, 3D, MRI/CT, and Thermal modalities, respectively. In the few-shot setting, our model also achieves the highest AUROC/AP on ten datasets in four modalities, substantially outperforming existing methods. Codes are available at https://github.com/Kerio99/CMAD.
EnliveningGS: Active Locomotion of 3DGS
Authors: Siyuan Shen, Tianjia Shao, Kun Zhou, Chenfanfu Jiang, Yin Yang
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: 3DGS, Friction

    This paper presents a novel pipeline named EnliveningGS, which enables active locomotion of 3D models represented with 3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS). We are inspired by the fact that real-world lives pose their bodies in a natural and physically meaningful manner by compressing or elongating muscle fibers embedded in the body. EnliveningGS aims to replicate the similar functionality of 3DGS models so that the object within a 3DGS scene acts like a living creature rather than a static shape --- they walk, jump, and twist in the scene under provided motion trajectories driven by muscle activations. While the concept is straightforward, many challenging technical difficulties need to be taken care of. Synthesizing realistic locomotion of a 3DGS model embodies an inverse physics problem of very high dimensions. The core challenge is how to efficiently and robustly model frictional contacts between an "enlivened model" and the environment, as it is the composition of contact/collision/friction forces triggered by muscle activation that generates the final movement of the object. We propose a hybrid numerical method mixing LCP and penalty method to tackle this NP-hard problem robustly. Our pipeline also addresses the limitation of existing 3DGS deformation algorithms and inpainting the missing information when models move around.
Adaptive Dropout: Unleashing Dropout across Layers for Generalizable Image Super-Resolution
Authors: Hang Xu, Jie Huang, Wei Yu, Jiangtong Tan, Zhen Zou, Feng Zhao
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Attribute, Blind Super-Resolution, Image Restoration, Image Super-Resolution, Super-Resolution

    Blind Super-Resolution(blind SR) aims to enhance the model's generalization ability with unknown degradation, yet it still encounters severe overfitting issues. Some previous methods inspired by dropout, which enhances generalization by regularizing features, have shown promising results in blind SR. Nevertheless, these methods focus solely on regularizing features before the final layer and overlook the need for generalization in features at intermediate layers. Without explicit regularization of features at intermediate layers, the blind SR network struggles to obtain well-generalized feature representations. However, the key challenge is that directly applying dropout to intermediate layers leads to a significant performance drop, which we attribute to the inconsistency in training-testing and across layers it introduced. Therefore, we propose Adaptive Dropout, a new regularization method for blind SR models, which mitigates the inconsistency and facilitates application across intermediate layers of networks. Specifically, for training-testing inconsistency, we re-design the form of dropout and integrate the features before and after dropout adaptively. For inconsistency in generalization requirements across different layers, we innovatively design an adaptive training strategy to strengthen feature propagation by layer-wise annealing. Experimental results show that our method outperforms all past regularization methods on both synthetic and real-world benchmark datasets, also highly effective in other image restoration tasks.
RivuletMLP: An MLP-based Architecture for Efficient Compressed Video Quality Enhancement
Authors: Gang He, Weiran Wang, Guancheng Quan, Shihao Wang, Dajiang Zhou, Yunsong Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Computational Efficiency, Video Compression

    Quality degradation from video compression manifests both spatially along texture edges and temporally with continuous motion changes. Despite recent advances, extracting aligned spatiotemporal information from adjacent frames remains challenging. This is mainly due to limitations in receptive field size and computational complexity, which makes existing methods struggle to efficiently enhance video quality. To address this issue, we propose RivuletMLP, an MLP-based network architecture. Specifically, our framework first employs a Dynamically Guided Deformable Alignment (DDA) module to adaptively explore and align multi-frame feature information. Subsequently, we introduce two modules for feature reconstruction: a Spatiotemporal Feature Flow (SFF) Module  and a Benign Selection Compensation (BSC) module. The SFF module establishes non-local dependencies through an innovative feature permutation mechanism. Additionally, the BSC module utilizes a collaborative strategy of deep feature extraction and local region refinement to alleviate inter frame motion discontinuity caused by compression. Experimental results demonstrate that RivuletMLP achieves superior computational efficiency while maintaining powerful reconstruction capabilities.
Revisiting Source-Free Domain Adaptation: Insights into Representativeness, Generalization, and Variety
Authors: Ronghang Zhu, Mengxuan Hu, Weiming Zhuang, Lingjuan Lyu, Xiang Yu, Sheng Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Domain Adaptation, Source-Free Domain Adaptation

    Domain adaptation addresses the challenge where the distribution of target inference data differs from that of the source training data. Recently, data privacy has become a significant constraint, limiting access to the source domain. To mitigate this issue, Source-Free Domain Adaptation (SFDA) methods bypass source domain data by generating source-like data or pseudo-labeling the unlabeled target domain. However, these approaches often lack theoretical grounding. In this work, we provide a theoretical analysis of the SFDA problem, focusing on the general empirical risk of the unlabeled target domain. Our analysis offers a comprehensive understanding of how representativeness, generalization, and variety contribute to controlling the upper bound of target domain empirical risk in SFDA settings. We further explore how to balance this trade-off from three perspectives: sample selection, semantic domain alignment, and a progressive learning framework. These insights inform the design of novel algorithms. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on three benchmark datasets--Office-Home, DomainNet, and VisDA-C--yielding relative improvements of 3.2%, 9.1%, and 7.5%, respectively, over the representative SFDA method, SHOT.
Overcoming Shortcut Problem in VLM for Robust Out-of-Distribution Detection
Authors: Zhuo Xu, Xiang Xiang, Yifan Liang
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Out-of-Distribution Detection, Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection

    Vision-language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have shown remarkable capabilities in downstream tasks. However, the coupling of semantic information between the foreground and the background in images leads to significant shortcut issues that adversely affect out-of-distribution (OOD) detection abilities. When confronted with a background OOD sample, VLMs are prone to misidentifying it as in-distribution (ID) data. In this paper, we analyze the OOD problem from the perspective of shortcuts in VLMs and propose OSPCoOp which includes background decoupling and mask-guided region regularization. We first decouple images into ID-relevant and ID-irrelevant regions and utilize the latter to generate a large number of augmented OOD background samples as pseudo-OOD supervision. We then use the masks from background decoupling to adjust the model's attention, minimizing its focus on ID-irrelevant regions. To assess the model's robustness against background interference, we introduce a new OOD evaluation dataset, ImageNet-Bg, which solely consists of background images with all ID-relevant regions removed. Our method demonstrates exceptional performance in few-shot scenarios, achieving strong results even in one-shot setting, and outperforms existing methods. The code and proposed ImageNet-Bg are available at https://github.com/HAIV-Lab/OSPCoOp_Imagenet-bg.