pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
PhysicsGen: Can Generative Models Learn from Images to Predict Complex Physical Relations?
Authors: Martin Spitznagel, Jan Vaillant, Janis Keuper
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Image-to-Image Translation, Physical Simulations, Style Transfer

    The image-to-image translation abilities of generative learning models have recently made significant progress in the estimation of complex (steered) mappings between image distributions. While appearance based tasks like image in-painting or style transfer have been studied at length, we propose to investigate the potential of generative models in the context of physical simulations. Providing a dataset of 300k image-pairs and baseline evaluations for three different physical simulation tasks, we propose a benchmark to investigate the following research questions: i) are generative models able to learn complex physical relations from input-output image pairs? ii) what speedups can be achieved by replacing differential equation based simulations? While baseline evaluations of different current models show the potential for high speedups (ii), these results also show strong limitations toward the physical correctness (i). This underlines the need for new methods to enforce physical correctness.
Unboxed: Geometrically and Temporally Consistent Video Outpainting
Authors: Zhongrui Yu, Martina Megaro-Boldini, Robert W. Sumner, Abdelaziz Djelouah
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Denoising, Image Outpainting

    Extending the field of view of video content beyond its original version has many applications: immersive viewing experience with VR devices, reformatting 4:3 legacy content to today's viewing conditions with wide screens, or simply extending vertically captured phone videos. Many existing works focus on synthesizing the video using generative models only. Despite promising results, this strategy seems at the moment limited in terms of quality. In this work, we address this problem using two key ideas: 3D supported outpainting for the static regions of the images, and leveraging pre-trained video diffusion model to ensure realistic and temporally coherent results, particularly for the dynamic parts. In the first stage, we iterate between image outpainting and updating the 3D scene representation - we use 3D Gaussian Splatting. Then we consider dynamic objects independently per frame and inpaint missing pixels. Finally, we propose a denoising scheme that allows to maintain known reliable regions and update the dynamic parts to obtain temporally realistic results.We achieve state-of-the-art video outpainting. This is validated quantitatively and through a user study. We are also able to extend the field of view largely beyond the limits reached by existing methods.
FASTer: Focal token Acquiring-and-Scaling Transformer for Long-term 3D Objection Detection
Authors: Chenxu Dang, Zaipeng Duan, Pei An, Xinmin Zhang, Xuzhong Hu, Jie Ma
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1

    Recent top-performing temporal 3D detectors based on Lidars have increasingly adopted region-based paradigms. They first generate coarse proposals, followed by encoding and fusing regional features. However, indiscriminate sampling and fusion often overlook the varying contributions of individual points and lead to exponentially increased complexity as the number of input frames grows. Moreover, arbitrary result-level concatenation limits the global information extraction. In this paper, we propose a Focal Token Acquring-and-Scaling Transformer (FASTer), which dynamically selects focal tokens and condenses token sequences in an adaptive and lightweight manner. Emphasizing the contribution of individual tokens, we propose a simple but effective Adaptive Scaling mechanism to capture geometric contexts while sifting out focal points. Adaptively storing and processing only focal points in historical frames dramatically reduces the overall complexity. Furthermore, a novel Grouped Hierarchical Fusion strategy is proposed, progressively performing sequence scaling and Intra-Group Fusion operations to facilitate the exchange of global spatial and temporal information. Experiments on the Waymo Open Dataset demonstrate that our FASTer significantly outperforms other state-of-the-art detectors in both performance and efficiency while also exhibiting improved flexibility and robustness. The code is available at https://github.com/MSunDYY/FASTer.git.
I2VGuard: Safeguarding Images against Misuse in Diffusion-based Image-to-Video Models
Authors: Dongnan Gui, Xun Guo, Wengang Zhou, Yan Lu
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Adversarial Attack, Image to Video Generation, Motion Generation, Video Generation

    Recent advances in image-to-video generation have enabled animation of still images and offered pixel-level controllability. While these models hold great potential to transform single images into vivid and dynamic videos, they also carry risks of misuse that could impact privacy, security, and copyright protection. This paper proposes a novel approach that applies imperceptible perturbations on images to degrade the quality of the generated videos, thereby protecting images from misuse in white-box image-to-video diffusion models. Specifically, we function our approach as an adversarial attack, incorporating spatial, temporal, and diffusion attack modules.  The spatial attack shifts image features from their original distribution to a lower-quality target distribution, reducing visual fidelity. The temporal attack disrupts coherent motion by interfering with temporal attention maps that guide motion generation. To enhance the robustness of our approach across different models, we further propose a diffusion attack module leveraging contrastive loss. Our approach can be easily integrated with mainstream diffusion-based I2V models. Extensive experiments on SVD, CogVideoX, and ControlNeXt demonstrate that our method significantly impairs generation quality in terms of visual clarity and motion consistency, while introducing only minimal artifacts to the images. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to explore adversarial attacks on image-to-video generation for security purposes.
CASP: Consistency-aware Audio-induced Saliency Prediction Model for Omnidirectional Video
Authors: Zhaolin Wan, Han Qin, Zhiyang Li, Xiaopeng Fan, WangMeng Zuo, Debin Zhao
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Saliency Prediction

    Omnidirectional videos (ODVs) present distinct challenges for accurate audio-visual saliency prediction due to their immersive nature, which combines spatial audio with panoramic visuals to enhance the user experience. While auditory cues are crucial for guiding visual attention across the panoramic scene, the interaction between audio and visual stimuli in ODVs remains underexplored. Existing models primarily focus on spatiotemporal visual cues and treat audio signals separately from their spatial and temporal contexts, often leading to misalignments between audio and visual content and undermining temporal consistency across frames. To bridge these gaps, we propose a novel audio-induced saliency prediction model for ODVs that holistically integrates audio and visual inputs through a multi-modal encoder, an audio-visual interaction module, and an audio-visual transformer. Unlike conventional methods that isolate audio cue locations and attributes, our model employs a query-based framework, where learnable audio queries capture comprehensive audio-visual dependencies, thus enhancing saliency prediction by dynamically aligning with audio cues. Besides, we introduce a novel consistency loss to enforce temporal coherence in saliency regions across frames. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods in predicting audio-visual salient regions in ODVs, establishing its robustness and superior performance.
UNIALIGN: Scaling Multimodal Alignment within One Unified Model
Authors: Bo Zhou, Liulei Li, Yujia Wang, Huafeng Liu, Yazhou Yao, Wenguan Wang
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Mixture-of-Experts

    We present UNIALIGN, a unified model to align an arbitrary number of modalities (\text e.g. , image, text, audio, 3D point cloud, etc.) through one  encoder and a single training phase. Existing solutions typically employ distinct encoders for each modality, resulting in increased parameters as the number of modalities grows. In contrast, UNIALIGN proposes a modality-aware adaptation of the powerful mixture-of-experts (MoE) schema and further integrates it with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA),  efficiently scaling the encoder to accommodate inputs in diverse modalities while maintaining a fixed computational overhead.Moreover, prior work often requires separate training for each extended modality. This leads to task-specific models and further hinders the communication between modalities.To address this, we propose a soft modality binding strategy that aligns all modalities using unpaired data samples across datasets. Two additional training objectives are introduced to distill knowledge from well-aligned anchor modalities and prior multimodal models, elevating UNIALIGN into a high performance multimodal foundation model.Experiments on 11 benchmarks across 6 different modalities demonstrate that UNIALIGN could achieve comparable performance to SOTA approaches, while using merely 7.8M trainable parameters and maintaining an identical model with the same weight across all tasks. Our code shall be released.
ImagineFSL: Self-Supervised Pretraining Matters on Imagined Base Set for VLM-based Few-shot Learning
Authors: Haoyuan Yang, Xiaoou Li, Jiaming Lv, Xianjun Cheng, Qilong Wang, Peihua Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Few-Shot Learning, Image Generation, In-Context Learning, Self-Supervised Image Classification (with CLIP)

    Adapting CLIP models for few-shot recognition has recently attracted significant attention. Despite considerable progress, these adaptations remain hindered by the pervasive challenge of data scarcity. Text-to-image models, capable of generating abundant photorealistic labeled images, offer a promising solution. However, existing approaches treat synthetic images merely as complements to real images, rather than as standalone knowledge repositories stemming from distinct foundation models. To overcome this limitation, we reconceptualize synthetic images as an *imagined base set*, i.e., a unique, large-scale synthetic dataset encompassing diverse concepts. We introduce a novel CLIP adaptation methodology called *ImagineFSL*, involving pretraining on the imagined base set followed by fine-tuning on downstream few-shot tasks. We find that, compared to no pretraining, both supervised   and self-supervised pretraining are beneficial, with the latter providing better performance. Building on this finding, we propose an improved self-supervised method tailored for few-shot scenarios, enhancing the transferability of representations from synthetic to real image domains. Additionally, we present an image generation pipeline that employs chain-of-thought and in-context learning techniques, harnessing foundation models to automatically generate diverse, realistic images. Our methods are validated across eleven datasets, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods by substantial margins.
SKDream: Controllable Multi-view and 3D Generation with Arbitrary Skeletons
Authors: Yuanyou Xu, Zongxin Yang, Yi Yang
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: 3D Generation, Anatomy

    Controllable generation has achieved substantial progress in both 2D and 3D domains, yet current conditional generation methods still face limitations in describing detailed shape structures. Skeletons can effectively represent and describe object anatomy and pose. Unfortunately, past studies are often limited to human skeletons. In this work, we generalize skeletal conditioned generation to arbitrary structures. First, we design a reliable mesh skeletonization pipeline to generate a large-scale mesh-skeleton paired dataset.Based on the dataset, a multi-view and 3D generation pipeline is built. We propose to represent 3D skeletons by Coordinate Color Encoding as 2D conditional images. A Skeletal Correlation Module is designed to extract global skeletal features for condition injection. After multi-view images are generated, 3D assets can be obtained by incorporating a large reconstruction model, followed by a UV texture refinement stage. As a result, our method achieves instant generation of multi-view and 3D contents that are aligned with given skeletons. The proposed techniques largely improve the object-skeleton alignment and generation quality.
Self-Evolving Visual Concept Library using Vision-Language Critics
Authors: Atharva Sehgal, Patrick Yuan, Ziniu Hu, Yisong Yue, Jennifer J. Sun, Swarat Chaudhuri
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: In-Context Learning

    We study the problem of building a visual concept library for visual recognition. Building effective visual concept libraries is challenging, as manual definition is labor-intensive, while relying solely on LLMs for concept generation can result in concepts that lack discriminative power or fail to account for the complex interactions between them. Our approach, ESCHER, takes a library learning perspective to iteratively discover and improve visual concepts. ESCHER uses a vision-language model (VLM) as a critic to iteratively refine the concept library, including accounting for interactions between concepts and how they affect downstream classifiers. By leveraging the in-context learning abilities of LLMs and the history of performance using various concepts, ESCHER dynamically improves its concept generation strategy based on the VLM critic's feedback. Finally, ESCHER does not require any human annotations, and is thus an automated plug-and-play framework. We empirically demonstrate the ability of ESCHER to learn a concept library for zero-shot, few-shot, and fine-tuning visual classification tasks. This work represents, to our knowledge, the first application of concept library learning to real-world visual tasks.
Shadow Generation Using Diffusion Model with Geometry Prior
Authors: Haonan Zhao, Qingyang Liu, Xinhao Tao, Li Niu, Guangtao Zhai
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: model

    Image composition involves integrating foreground object into background image to obtain a composite image. One of the key challenges is to produce realistic shadow for the inserted foreground object. Recently, diffusion-based methods have shown superior performance compared to GAN-based methods in shadow generation. However, they are still struggling to generate shadows with plausible geometry in complex cases. In this paper, we focus on promoting diffusion-based methods by leveraging geometry priors. Specifically, we first predict the rotated bounding box and matched shadow shapes for the foreground shadow. Then, the geometry information of rotated bounding box and matched shadow shapes is injected into ControlNet to facilitate shadow generation. Extensive experiments on both DESOBAv2 dataset and real composite images validate the effectiveness of our proposed method.
Heterogeneous Skeleton-Based Action Representation Learning
Authors: Hongsong Wang, Xiaoyan Ma, Jidong Kuang, Jie Gui
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Action Recognition, Action Understanding, Representation Learning, Temporal Action Localization

    Skeleton-based human action recognition has received widespread attention in recent years due to its diverse range of application scenarios. Due to the different sources of human skeletons, skeleton data naturally exhibit heterogeneity. The previous works, however, overlook the heterogeneity of human skeletons and solely construct models tailored for homogeneous skeletons. This work addresses the challenge of heterogeneous skeleton-based action representation learning, specifically focusing on processing skeleton data that varies in joint dimensions and topological structures. The proposed framework comprises two primary components: heterogeneous skeleton processing and unified representation learning. The former first converts two-dimensional skeleton data into three-dimensional skeleton via an auxiliary network, and then constructs a prompted unified skeleton using skeleton-specific prompts. We also design an additional modality named semantic motion encoding to harness the semantic information within skeletons. The latter module learns a unified action representation using a shared backbone network that processes different heterogeneous skeletons. Extensive experiments on the NTU-60, NTU-120, and PKU-MMD II datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method in various tasks of action understanding. Our approach can be applied to action recognition in robots with different humanoid structures.
Model Diagnosis and Correction via Linguistic and Implicit Attribute Editing
Authors: Xuanbai Chen, Xiang Xu, Zhihua Li, Tianchen Zhao, Pietro Perona, Qin Zhang, Yifan Xing
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Attribute, counterfactual

    How can we troubleshoot a deep visual model, i.e., understand why it makes certain mistakes and further take action to correct its behavior? We design a Model Diagnosis and Correction system (MDC), an automated framework that analyzes the pattern of errors, proposes candidate causes of attributes, conducts hypothesis testing via attribute editing, and ultimately generates counterfactual training samples to improve the performance of the model. Unlike previous methods, in addition to the linguistic attributes, our method also incorporates the analysis for implicit causal attributes, those cannot to be accurately described by language. To achieve this, we propose an image editing module capable of leveraging both implicit and linguistic attributes to generate counterfactual images depicting error patterns and further experimentally validate causality relationships. Lastly, we enrich the training set with synthetic samples depicting verified causal attributes and retrain the model, further boosting accuracy and robustness. Extensive experiments on fine-grained classification and face security applications demonstrate the superiority of our approach in model diagnosis and correction. Specifically, we achieve an average relative improvement of 62.01% in HTER for face security application over state-of-the-art methods.
Leveraging SD Map to Augment HD Map-based Trajectory Prediction
Authors: Zhiwei Dong, Ran Ding, Wei Li, Peng Zhang, Guobin Tang, Jia Guo
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Autonomous Driving, Prediction, Trajectory Prediction

    Latest trajectory prediction models in real-world autonomous driving systems often rely on online High-Definition (HD) maps to understand the road environment.However, online HD maps suffer from perception errors and feature redundancy, which hinder the performance of HD map-based trajectory prediction models.To address these issues, we introduce a framework, termed SD map-Augmented Trajectory Prediction (SATP), which leverages Standard-Definition (SD) maps to enhance HD map-based trajectory prediction models.First, we propose an SD-HD fusion approach to leverage SD maps across the diverse range of HD map-based trajectory prediction models. Second, we design a novel AlignNet to align the SD map with the HD map, further improving the effectiveness of SD maps. Experiments on real-world autonomous driving benchmarks demonstrate that SATP not only improves the performance of HD map-based trajectory prediction up to 25% in real-world scenarios using online HD maps but also brings benefits in ideal scenarios with ground-truth HD maps.
One-shot 3D Object Canonicalization based on Geometric and Semantic Consistency
Authors: Li Jin, Yujie Wang, Wenzheng Chen, Qiyu Dai, Qingzhe Gao, Xueying Qin, Baoquan Chen
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Object

    3D object canonicalization is a fundamental task, essential for various downstream tasks. Existing methods rely on either cumbersome manual processes or priors learned from extensive, per-category training samples. Real-world datasets, however, often exhibit long-tail distributions, challenging existing learning-based methods, especially in categories with limited samples. We address this by introducing the first one-shot category-level object canonicalization framework that operates under arbitrary poses, requiring only a single canonical model as a reference (the "prior model") for each category. To canonicalize any object, our framework first extracts semantic cues with large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs) to establish correspondences with the prior model. We introduce a novel joint energy function to enforce geometric and semantic consistency, aligning object orientations precisely despite significant shape variations. Moreover, we adopt a support-plane strategy to reduce search space for initial poses and utilize a semantic relationship map to select the canonical pose from multiple hypotheses. Extensive experiments on multiple datasets demonstrate that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance and validates key design choices. Using our framework, we create the Canonical Objaverse Dataset (COD), canonicalizing 32K samples in the Objaverse-LVIS dataset, underscoring the effectiveness of our framework on handling large-scale datasets. Project page at https://jinli998.github.io/One-shot_3D_Object_Canonicalization/
PromptHash:Affinity-Prompted Collaborative Cross-Modal Learning for Adaptive Hashing Retrieval
Authors: Qiang Zou, Shuli Cheng, Jiayi Chen
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Contrastive Learning, Image Retrieval, Image to text, Prompt Learning, Retrieval

    Cross-modal hashing is a promising approach for efficient data retrieval and storage optimization. However, contemporary methods exhibit significant limitations in semantic preservation, contextual integrity, and information redundancy, which constrains retrieval efficacy. We present PromptHash, an innovative framework leveraging affinity prompt-aware collaborative learning for adaptive cross-modal hashing. We propose an end-to-end framework for affinity-prompted collaborative hashing, with the following fundamental technical contributions: (i) a text affinity prompt learning mechanism that preserves contextual information while maintaining parameter efficiency, (ii) an adaptive gated selection fusion architecture that synthesizes State Space Model with Transformer network for precise cross-modal feature integration, and (iii) a prompt affinity alignment strategy that bridges modal heterogeneity through hierarchical contrastive learning. To the best of our knowledge, this study presents the first investigation into affinity prompt awareness within collaborative cross-modal adaptive hash learning, establishing a paradigm for enhanced semantic consistency across modalities. Through comprehensive evaluation on three benchmark multi-label datasets, PromptHash demonstrates substantial performance improvements over existing approaches. Notably, on the NUS-WIDE dataset, our method achieves significant gains of 18.22% and 18.65% in image-to-text and text-to-image retrieval tasks, respectively. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/ShiShuMo/PromptHash.