pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
Distribution-aware Knowledge Prototyping for Non-exemplar Lifelong Person Re-identification
Authors: Kunlun Xu, Xu Zou, Yuxin Peng, Jiahuan Zhou
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Diversity, Knowledge Distillation, Person Re-Identification, Transfer Learning

    Lifelong person re-identification (LReID) suffers from the catastrophic forgetting problem when learning from non-stationary data. Existing exemplar-based and knowledge distillation-based LReID methods encounter data privacy and limited acquisition capacity respectively. In this paper we instead introduce the prototype which is under-investigated in LReID to better balance knowledge forgetting and acquisition. Existing prototype-based works primarily focus on the classification task where the prototypes are set as discrete points or statistical distributions. However they either discard the distribution information or omit instance-level diversity which are crucial fine-grained clues for LReID. To address the above problems we propose Distribution-aware Knowledge Prototyping (DKP) where the instance-level diversity of each sample is modeled to transfer comprehensive fine-grained knowledge for prototyping and facilitating LReID learning. Specifically an Instance-level Distribution Modeling network is proposed to capture the local diversity of each instance. Then the Distribution-oriented Prototype Generation algorithm transforms the instance-level diversity into identity-level distributions as prototypes which is further explored by the designed Prototype-based Knowledge Transfer module to enhance the knowledge anti-forgetting and acquisition capacity of the LReID model. Extensive experiments verify that our method achieves superior plasticity and stability balancing and outperforms existing LReID methods by 8.1%/9.1% average mAP/R@1 improvement. The code is available at https://github.com/zhoujiahuan1991/CVPR2024-DKP
Disentangled Prompt Representation for Domain Generalization
Authors: De Cheng, Zhipeng Xu, Xinyang Jiang, Nannan Wang, Dongsheng Li, Xinbo Gao
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Domain Generalization, Language Modelling, Large Language Model, Visual Prompt Tuning

    Domain Generalization (DG) aims to develop a versatile model capable of performing well on unseen target domains. Recent advancements in pre-trained Visual Foundation Models (VFMs) such as CLIP show significant potential in enhancing the generalization abilities of deep models. Although there is a growing focus on VFM-based domain prompt tuning for DG effectively learning prompts that disentangle invariant features across all domains remains a major challenge. In this paper we propose addressing this challenge by leveraging the controllable and flexible language prompt of the VFM. Observing that the text modality of VFMs is inherently easier to disentangle we introduce a novel text feature guided visual prompt tuning framework. This framework first automatically disentangles the text prompt using a large language model (LLM) and then learns domain-invariant visual representation guided by the disentangled text feature. Moreover we also devise domain-specific prototype learning to fully exploit domain-specific information to combine with the invariant feature prediction. Extensive experiments on mainstream DG datasets namely PACS VLCS OfficeHome DomainNet and TerraInc demonstrate that the proposed method achieves superior performances to state-of-the-art DG methods.
MPOD123: One Image to 3D Content Generation Using Mask-enhanced Progressive Outline-to-Detail Optimization
Authors: Jimin Xu, Tianbao Wang, Tao Jin, Shengyu Zhang, Dongjie Fu, Zhe Wang, Jiangjing Lyu, Chengfei Lv, Chaoyue Niu, Zhou Yu, Zhou Zhao, Fei Wu
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Image to 3D

    Recent advancements in single image driven 3D content generation have been propelled by leveraging prior knowledge from pretrained 2D diffusion models. However the 3D content generated by existing methods often exhibits distorted outline shapes and inadequate details. To solve this problem we propose a novel framework called Mask-enhanced Progressive Outline-to-Detail optimization (aka. MPOD123) which consists of two stages. Specifically in the first stage MPOD123 utilizes the pretrained view-conditioned diffusion model to guide the outline shape optimization of the 3D content. Given certain viewpoint we estimate outline shape priors in the form of 2D mask from the 3D content by leveraging opacity calculation. In the second stage MPOD123 incorporates Detail Appearance Inpainting (DAI) to guide the refinement on local geometry and texture with the shape priors. The essence of DAI lies in the Mask Rectified Cross-Attention (MRCA) which can be conveniently plugged in the stable diffusion model. The MRCA module utilizes the mask to rectify the attention map from each cross-attention layer. Accompanied with this new module DAI is capable of guiding the detail refinement of the 3D content while better preserves the outline shape. To assess the applicability in practical scenarios we contribute a new dataset modeled on real-world e-commerce environments. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments on this dataset and open benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of MPOD123 over the state-of-the-arts.
Person-in-WiFi 3D: End-to-End Multi-Person 3D Pose Estimation with Wi-Fi
Authors: Kangwei Yan, Fei Wang, Bo Qian, Han Ding, Jinsong Han, Xing Wei
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: 3D Pose Estimation, Pose Estimation

    Wi-Fi signals in contrast to cameras offer privacy protection and occlusion resilience for some practical scenarios such as smart homes elderly care and virtual reality. Recent years have seen remarkable progress in the estimation of single-person 2D pose single-person 3D pose and multi-person 2D pose. This paper takes a step forward by introducing Person-in-WiFi 3D a pioneering Wi-Fi system that accomplishes multi-person 3D pose estimation. Person-in-WiFi 3D has two main updates. Firstly it has a greater number of Wi-Fi devices to enhance the capability for capturing spatial reflections from multiple individuals. Secondly it leverages the Transformer for end-to-end estimation. Compared to its predecessor Person-in-WiFi 3D is storage-efficient and fast. We deployed a proof-of-concept system in 4mx3.5m areas and collected a dataset of over 97K frames with seven volunteers. Person-in-WiFi 3D attains 3D joint localization errors of 91.7mm (1-person) 108.1mm (2-person) and 125.3mm (3-person) comparable to cameras and millimeter-wave radars.
MR-VNet: Media Restoration using Volterra Networks
Authors: Siddharth Roheda, Amit Unde, Loay Rashid
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Image Deblurring, Video Restoration

    This research paper presents a novel class of restoration network architecture based on the Volterra series formulation. By incorporating non-linearity into the system response function through higher order convolutions instead of traditional activation functions we introduce a general framework for image/video restoration. Through extensive experimentation we demonstrate that our proposed architecture achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance in the field of Image/Video Restoration. Moreover we establish that the recently introduced Non-Linear Activation Free Network (NAF-NET) can be considered a special case within the broader class of Volterra Neural Networks. These findings highlight the potential of Volterra Neural Networks as a versatile and powerful tool for addressing complex restoration tasks in computer vision.
A-Teacher: Asymmetric Network for 3D Semi-Supervised Object Detection
Authors: Hanshi Wang, Zhipeng Zhang, Jin Gao, Weiming Hu
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: 3D Object Detection, object-detection, Object Detection, Semi-Supervised Object Detection

    This work proposes the first online asymmetric semi-supervised framework namely A-Teacher for LiDAR-based 3D object detection. Our motivation stems from the observation that 1) existing symmetric teacher-student methods for semi-supervised 3D object detection have characterized simplicity but impede the distillation performance between teacher and student because of the demand for an identical model structure and input data format. 2) The offline asymmetric methods with a complex teacher model constructed differently can generate more precise pseudo-labels but is challenging to jointly optimize the teacher and student model. Consequently in this paper we devise a different path from the conventional paradigm which can harness the capacity of a strong teacher while preserving the advantages of online teacher model updates. The essence is the proposed attention-based refinement model that can be seamlessly integrated into a vanilla teacher. The refinement model works in the divide-and-conquer manner that respectively handles three challenging scenarios including 1) objects detected in the current timestamp but with suboptimal box quality 2) objects are missed in the current timestamp but are detected in past or future frames 3) objects are neglected in all frames. It is worth noting that even while tackling these complex cases our model retains the efficiency of the online teacher-student semi-supervised framework. Experimental results on Waymo show that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art HSSDA for 4.7 on mAP (L1) while consuming fewer training resources.
Tumor Micro-environment Interactions Guided Graph Learning for Survival Analysis of Human Cancers from Whole-slide Pathological Images
Authors: Wei Shao, Yangyang Shi, Daoqiang Zhang, Junjie Zhou, Peng Wan
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Graph Attention, Graph Embedding, Graph Learning, Prognosis, Survival Analysis, Survival Prediction

    The recent advance of deep learning technology brings the possibility of assisting the pathologist to predict the patients' survival from whole-slide pathological images (WSIs). However most of the prevalent methods only worked on the sampled patches in specifically or randomly selected tumor areas of WSIs which has very limited capability to capture the complex interactions between tumor and its surrounding micro-environment components. As a matter of fact tumor is supported and nurtured in the heterogeneous tumor micro-environment(TME) and the detailed analysis of TME and their correlation with tumors are important to in-depth analyze the mechanism of cancer development. In this paper we considered the spatial interactions among tumor and its two major TME components (i.e. lymphocytes and stromal fibrosis) and presented a Tumor Micro-environment Interactions Guided Graph Learning (TMEGL) algorithm for the prognosis prediction of human cancers. Specifically we firstly selected different types of patches as nodes to build graph for each WSI. Then a novel TME neighborhood organization guided graph embedding algorithm was proposed to learn node representations that can preserve their topological structure information. Finally a Gated Graph Attention Network is applied to capture the survival-associated intersections among tumor and different TME components for clinical outcome prediction. We tested TMEGL on three cancer cohorts derived from The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) and the experimental results indicated that TMEGL not only outperforms the existing WSI-based survival analysis models but also has good explainable ability for survival prediction.
Global and Hierarchical Geometry Consistency Priors for Few-shot NeRFs in Indoor Scenes
Authors: Xiaotian Sun, Qingshan Xu, Xinjie Yang, Yu Zang, Cheng Wang
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Depth Estimation, Depth Prediction, Monocular Depth Estimation, NeRF

    It is challenging for Neural Radiance Fields (NeRFs) in the few-shot setting to reconstruct high-quality novel views and depth maps in 360^\circ outward-facing indoor scenes. The captured sparse views for these scenes usually contain large viewpoint variations. This greatly reduces the potential consistency between views leading NeRFs to degrade a lot in these scenarios. Existing methods usually leverage pretrained depth prediction models to improve NeRFs. However these methods cannot guarantee geometry consistency due to the inherent geometry ambiguity in the pretrained models thus limiting NeRFs' performance. In this work we present P\textsuperscript 2 NeRF to capture global and hierarchical geometry consistency priors from pretrained models thus facilitating few-shot NeRFs in 360^\circ outward-facing indoor scenes. On the one hand we propose a matching-based geometry warm-up strategy to provide global geometry consistency priors for NeRFs. This effectively avoids the overfitting of early training with sparse inputs. On the other hand we propose a group depth ranking loss and ray weight mask regularization based on the monocular depth estimation model. This provides hierarchical geometry consistency priors for NeRFs. As a result our approach can fully leverage the geometry consistency priors from pretrained models and help few-shot NeRFs achieve state-of-the-art performance on two challenging indoor datasets. Our code is released at https://github.com/XT5un/P2NeRF.
Unifying Automatic and Interactive Matting with Pretrained ViTs
Authors: Zixuan Ye, Wenze Liu, He guo, Yujia Liang, Chaoyi Hong, Hao Lu, Zhiguo Cao
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Image Matting

    Automatic and interactive matting largely improve image matting by respectively alleviating the need for auxiliary input and enabling object selection. Due to different settings on whether prompts exist they either suffer from weakness in instance completeness or region details. Also when dealing with different scenarios directly switching between the two matting models introduces inconvenience and higher workload. Therefore we wonder whether we can alleviate the limitations of both settings while achieving unification to facilitate more convenient use. Our key idea is to offer saliency guidance for automatic mode to enable its attention to detailed regions and also refine the instance completeness in interactive mode by replacing the binary mask guidance with a more probabilistic form. With different guidance for each mode we can achieve unification through adaptable guidance defined as saliency information in automatic mode and user cue for interactive one. It is instantiated as candidate feature in our method an automatic switch for class token in pretrained ViTs and average feature of user prompts controlled by the existence of user prompts. Then we use the candidate feature to generate a probabilistic similarity map as the guidance to alleviate the over-reliance on binary mask. Extensive experiments show that our method can adapt well to both automatic and interactive scenarios with more light-weight framework. Code available at https://github.com/coconuthust/SmartMatting.
MRFS: Mutually Reinforcing Image Fusion and Segmentation
Authors: Hao Zhang, Xuhui Zuo, Jie Jiang, Chunchao Guo, Jiayi Ma
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation

    This paper proposes a coupled learning framework to break the performance bottleneck of infrared-visible image fusion and segmentation called MRFS. By leveraging the intrinsic consistency between vision and semantics it emphasizes mutual reinforcement rather than treating these tasks as separate issues. First we embed weakened information recovery and salient information integration into the image fusion task employing the CNN-based interactive gated mixed attention (IGM-Att) module to extract high-quality visual features. This aims to satisfy human visual perception producing fused images with rich textures high contrast and vivid colors. Second a transformer-based progressive cycle attention (PC-Att) module is developed to enhance semantic segmentation. It establishes single-modal self-reinforcement and cross-modal mutual complementarity enabling more accurate decisions in machine semantic perception. Then the cascade of IGM-Att and PC-Att couples image fusion and semantic segmentation tasks implicitly bringing vision-related and semantics-related features into closer alignment. Therefore they mutually provide learning priors to each other resulting in visually satisfying fused images and more accurate segmentation decisions. Extensive experiments on public datasets showcase the advantages of our method in terms of visual satisfaction and decision accuracy. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/HaoZhang1018/MRFS.
Learning Diffusion Texture Priors for Image Restoration
Authors: Tian Ye, Sixiang Chen, Wenhao Chai, Zhaohu Xing, Jing Qin, Ge Lin, Lei Zhu
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Image Generation, Image Restoration

    Diffusion Models have shown remarkable performance in image generation tasks which are capable of generating diverse and realistic image content. When adopting diffusion models for image restoration the crucial challenge lies in how to preserve high-level image fidelity in the randomness diffusion process and generate accurate background structures and realistic texture details. In this paper we propose a general framework and develop a Diffusion Texture Prior Model (DTPM) for image restoration tasks. DTPM explicitly models high-quality texture details through the diffusion process rather than global contextual content. In phase one of the training stage we pre-train DTPM on approximately 55K high-quality image samples after which we freeze most of its parameters. In phase two we insert conditional guidance adapters into DTPM and equip it with an initial predictor thereby facilitating its rapid adaptation to downstream image restoration tasks. Our DTPM could mitigate the randomness of traditional diffusion models by utilizing encapsulated rich and diverse texture knowledge and background structural information provided by the initial predictor during the sampling process. Our comprehensive evaluations of five image restoration tasks demonstrate DTPM's superiority over existing regression and diffusion-based image restoration methods in perceptual quality and its exceptional generalization capabilities.
Check Locate Rectify: A Training-Free Layout Calibration System for Text-to-Image Generation
Authors: Biao Gong, Siteng Huang, Yutong Feng, Shiwei Zhang, Yuyuan Li, Yu Liu
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Image Generation, Text to Image Generation, Text-to-Image Generation

    Diffusion models have recently achieved remarkable progress in generating realistic images. However challenges remain in accurately understanding and synthesizing the layout requirements in the textual prompts. To align the generated image with layout instructions we present a training-free layout calibration system SimM that intervenes in the generative process on the fly during inference time. Specifically following a "check-locate-rectify" pipeline the system first analyses the prompt to generate the target layout and compares it with the intermediate outputs to automatically detect errors. Then by moving the located activations and making intra- and inter-map adjustments the rectification process can be performed with negligible computational overhead. To evaluate SimM over a range of layout requirements we present a benchmark SimMBench that compensates for the lack of superlative spatial relations in existing datasets. And both quantitative and qualitative results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed SimM in calibrating the layout inconsistencies. Our project page is at https://simm-t2i.github.io/SimM.
3DFIRES: Few Image 3D REconstruction for Scenes with Hidden Surfaces
Authors: Linyi Jin, Nilesh Kulkarni, David F. Fouhey
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: 3D Reconstruction

    This paper introduces 3DFIRES a novel system for scene-level 3D reconstruction from posed images. Designed to work with as few as one view 3DFIRES reconstructs the complete geometry of unseen scenes including hidden surfaces. With multiple view inputs our method produces full reconstruction within all camera frustums. A key feature of our approach is the fusion of multi-view information at the feature level enabling the production of coherent and comprehensive 3D reconstruction. We train our system on non-watertight scans from large-scale real scene dataset. We show it matches the efficacy of single-view reconstruction methods with only one input and surpasses existing techniques in both quantitative and qualitative measures for sparse-view 3D reconstruction.
SVDTree: Semantic Voxel Diffusion for Single Image Tree Reconstruction
Authors: Yuan Li, Zhihao Liu, Bedrich Benes, Xiaopeng Zhang, Jianwei Guo
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: 3D geometry

    Efficiently representing and reconstructing the 3D geometry of biological trees remains a challenging problem in computer vision and graphics. We propose a novel approach for generating realistic tree models from single-view photographs. We cast the 3D information inference problem to a semantic voxel diffusion process which converts an input image of a tree to a novel Semantic Voxel Structure (SVS) in 3D space. The SVS encodes the geometric appearance and semantic structural information (e.g. classifying trunks branches and leaves) which retains the intricate internal tree features. Tailored to the SVS we present SVDTree a new hybrid tree modeling approach by combining structure-oriented branch reconstruction and self-organization-based foliage reconstruction. We validate SVDTree by using images from both synthetic and real trees. The comparison results show that our approach can better preserve tree details and achieve more realistic and accurate reconstruction results than previous methods.
Reg-PTQ: Regression-specialized Post-training Quantization for Fully Quantized Object Detector
Authors: Yifu Ding, Weilun Feng, Chuyan Chen, Jinyang Guo, Xianglong Liu
Date: 2024-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2024 1
Tasks: Object, object-detection, Object Detection, Quantization, regression

    Although deep learning based object detection is of great significance for various applications it faces challenges when deployed on edge devices due to the computation and energy limitations. Post-training quantization (PTQ) can improve inference efficiency through integer computing. However they suffer from severe performance degradation when performing full quantization due to overlooking the unique characteristics of regression tasks in object detection. In this paper we are the first to explore regression-friendly quantization and conduct full quantization on various detectors. We reveal the intrinsic reason behind the difficulty of quantizing regressors with empirical and theoretical justifications and introduce a novel Regression-specialized Post-Training Quantization (Reg-PTQ) scheme. It includes Filtered Global Loss Integration Calibration to combine the global loss with a two-step filtering mechanism mitigating the adverse impact of false positive bounding boxes and Learnable Logarithmic-Affine Quantizer tailored for the non-uniform distributed parameters in regression structures. Extensive experiments on prevalent detectors showcase the effectiveness of the well-designed Reg-PTQ. Notably our Reg-PTQ achieves 7.6 times and 5.4 times reduction in computation and storage consumption under INT4 with little performance degradation which indicates the immense potential of fully quantized detectors in real-world object detection applications.