pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
Libra-Merging: Importance-redundancy and Pruning-merging Trade-off for Acceleration Plug-in in Large Vision-Language Model
Authors: Longrong Yang, Dong Shen, Chaoxiang Cai, Kaibing Chen, Fan Yang, Tingting Gao, Di Zhang, Xi Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Language Modeling, Language Modelling

    Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved significant progress in recent years. However, the expensive inference cost limits the realistic deployment of LVLMs. Some works find that visual tokens are redundant and compress tokens to reduce the inference cost. These works identify important non-redundant tokens as target tokens, then prune the remaining tokens (non-target tokens) or merge them into target tokens. However, target token identification faces the token importance-redundancy dilemma. Besides, token merging and pruning face a dilemma between disrupting target token information and losing non-target token information. To solve these problems, we propose a novel visual token compression scheme, named Libra-Merging. In target token identification, Libra-Merging selects the most important tokens from spatially discrete intervals, achieving a more robust token importance-redundancy trade-off than relying on a hyper-parameter. In token compression, when non-target tokens are dissimilar to target tokens, Libra-Merging does not merge them into the target tokens, thus avoiding disrupting target token information. Meanwhile, Libra-Merging condenses these non-target tokens into an information compensation token to prevent losing important non-target token information. Our method can serve as a plug-in for diverse LVLMs, and extensive experimental results demonstrate its effectiveness. The code will be publicly available at https://github.com/longrongyang/Libra-Merging.
DropoutGS: Dropping Out Gaussians for Better Sparse-view Rendering
Authors: Yexing Xu, Longguang Wang, Minglin Chen, Sheng Ao, Li Li, Yulan Guo
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: 3DGS, Novel View Synthesis

    Although 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated promising results in novel view synthesis, its performance degrades dramatically with sparse inputs and generates undesirable artifacts. As the number of training views decreases, the novel view synthesis task degrades to a highly under-determined problem such that existing methods suffer from the notorious overfitting issue. Interestingly, we observe that models with fewer Gaussian primitives exhibit less overfitting under spare inputs. Inspired by this observation, we propose a Random Dropout Regularization (RDR) to exploit the advantages of low-complexity models to alleviate overfitting. In addition, to remedy the lack of high-frequency details for these models, an Edge-guided Splitting Strategy (ESS) is developed. With these two techniques, our method (termed DropoutGS) provides a simple yet effective plug-in approach to improve the generalization performance of existing 3DGS methods. Extensive experiments show that our DropoutGS produces state-of-the-art performance under sparse views on benchmark datasets including Blender, LLFF, and DTU.
MVPortrait: Text-Guided Motion and Emotion Control for Multi-view Vivid Portrait Animation
Authors: Yukang Lin, Hokit Fung, Jianjin Xu, Zeping Ren, Adela S.M. Lau, Guosheng Yin, Xiu Li
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Portrait Animation, Video Generation

    Recent portrait animation methods have made significant strides in generating realistic lip synchronization. However, they often lack explicit control over head movements and facial expressions, and cannot produce videos from multiple viewpoints, resulting in less controllable and expressive animations. Moreover, text-guided portrait animation remains underexplored, despite its user-friendly nature. In this paper, we present a novel two-stage text-guided framework, MVPortrait, to generate expressive multi-view portrait animations that faithfully capture the described motion and emotion. MVPortrait is the first to introduce FLAME as an intermediate representation, effectively embedding facial movements, expressions, and view transformations within its parameter space. In the first stage, we separately train the FLAME motion and emotion diffusion models based on text input. In the second stage, we train a multi-view video generation model conditioned on a reference portrait image and multi-view FLAME rendering sequences from the first stage. Experimental results exhibit that MVPortrait outperforms existing methods in terms of motion and emotion control, as well as view consistency. Furthermore, by leveraging FLAME as a bridge, MVPortrait becomes the first controllable portrait animation framework that is compatible with text, speech, and video as driving signals.
APT: Adaptive Personalized Training for Diffusion Models with Limited Data
Authors: JungWoo Chae, Jiyoon Kim, Jaewoong Choi, Kyungyul Kim, Sangheum Hwang
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Data Augmentation, Denoising

    Personalizing diffusion models using limited data presents significant challenges, including overfitting, loss of prior knowledge, and degradation of text alignment. Overfitting leads to shifts in the noise prediction distribution, disrupting the denoising trajectory and causing the model to lose semantic coherence. In this paper, we propose Adaptive Personalized Training, a novel framework that mitigates overfitting by employing adaptive training strategies and regularizing the model's internal representations during fine-tuning. APT consists of three key components: (1) Adaptive Training Adjustment, which introduces an overfitting indicator to detect the degree of overfitting at each time step bin and applies adaptive data augmentation and adaptive loss weighting based on this indicator; (2)Representation Stabilization, which regularizes the mean and variance of intermediate feature maps to prevent excessive shifts in noise prediction; and (3) Attention Alignment for Prior Knowledge Preservation, which aligns the cross-attention maps of the fine-tuned model with those of the pretrained model to maintain prior knowledge and semantic coherence. Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that APT effectively mitigates overfitting, preserves prior knowledge, and outperforms existing methods in generating high-quality, diverse images with limited reference data.
DViN: Dynamic Visual Routing Network for Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Comprehension
Authors: Xiaofu Chen, Yaxin Luo, Gen Luo, Jiayi Ji, Henghui Ding, Yiyi Zhou
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Descriptive, Referring Expression, Referring Expression Comprehension, Referring Expression Segmentation, Weakly Supervised Referring Expression Segmentation

    In this paper, we focus on weakly supervised referring expression comprehension (REC), and identify that the lack of fine-grained visual capability greatly limits the upper performance bound of existing methods. To address this issue, we propose a novel framework for weakly supervised REC, namely Dynamic Visual routing Network (DViN), which overcomes the visual shortcomings from the perspective of feature combination and alignment. In particular, DViN is equipped with a novel sparse routing mechanism to efficiently combine features of multiple visual encoders in a dynamic manner, thus improving the visual descriptive power. Besides, we further propose an innovative weakly supervised objective, namely Routing-based Feature Alignment (RFA), which facilitates the visual understanding of routed features through the intra-modal and inter-modal alignment. To validate DViN, we conduct extensive experiments on four REC benchmark datasets. Experiments demonstrate that DViN achieves state-of-the-art results on four benchmarks while maintaining competitive inference efficiency. Besides, the strong generalization ability of DViN is also validated on weakly supervised referring expression segmentation. Source codes are anonymously released at: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/DViN-7736.
Viewpoint Rosetta Stone: Unlocking Unpaired Ego-Exo Videos for View-invariant Representation Learning
Authors: Mi Luo, Zihui Xue, Alex Dimakis, Kristen Grauman
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Action Recognition, Contrastive Learning, Representation Learning

    Egocentric and exocentric perspectives of human action differ significantly, yet overcoming this extreme viewpoint gap is critical for applications in augmented reality and robotics. We propose ViewpointRosetta, an approach that unlocks large-scale unpaired ego and exo video data to learn clip-level viewpoint-invariant video representations. Our framework introduces (1) a diffusion-based Rosetta Stone Translator (RST), which, leveraging a moderate amount of synchronized multi-view videos, serves as a translator in feature space to decipher the alignments between unpaired ego and exo data, and (2) a dual encoder that aligns unpaired data representations through contrastive learning with RST-based synthetic feature augmentation and soft alignment. To evaluate the learned features in a standardized setting, we construct a new cross-view benchmark using Ego-Exo4D, covering cross-view retrieval, action recognition, and skill assessment. Our framework demonstrates superior cross-view understanding compared to previous view-invariant learning and egocentric video representation learning approaches, and opens the door to bringing vast amounts of traditional third-person video to bear on the more nascent first-person setting.
MODfinity: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Multimodal Information Flow Intertwining
Authors: Shanglin Liu, Jianming Lv, Jingdan Kang, Huaidong Zhang, Zequan Liang, Shengfeng He
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Domain Adaptation, Model Selection, multimodal interaction, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation

    Multimodal unsupervised domain adaptation leverages unlabeled data in the target domain to enhance multimodal systems continuously. While current state-of-the-art methods encourage interaction between sub-models of different modalities through pseudo-labeling and feature-level exchange, varying sample quality across modalities can lead to the propagation of inaccurate information, resulting in error accumulation. To address this, we propose Modal-Affinity Multimodal Domain Adaptation (MODfinity), a method that dynamically manages multimodal information flow through fine-grained control over teacher model selection, guiding information intertwining at both feature and label levels. By treating labels as an independent modality, MODfinity enables balanced performance assessment across modalities, employing a novel modal-affinity measurement to evaluate information quality. Additionally, we introduce a modal-affinity distillation technique to control sample-level information exchange, ensuring reliable multimodal interaction based on affinity evaluations within the feature space. Extensive experiments on three multimodal datasets demonstrate that our framework consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, particularly in high-noise environments.
Self-supervised ControlNet with Spatio-Temporal Mamba for Real-world Video Super-resolution
Authors: Shijun Shi, Jing Xu, Lijing Lu, Zhihang Li, Kai Hu
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Contrastive Learning, Mamba, Self-Supervised Learning, Super-Resolution, Video Super-Resolution

    Existing diffusion-based video super-resolution (VSR) methods are susceptible to introducing complex degradations and noticeable artifacts into high-resolution videos due to their inherent randomness. In this paper, we propose a noise-robust real-world VSR framework by incorporating self-supervised learning and Mamba into pre-trained latent diffusion models. To ensure content consistency across adjacent frames, we enhance the diffusion model with a global spatio-temporal attention mechanism using the Video State-Space block with a 3D Selective Scan module, which reinforces coherence at an affordable computational cost. To further reduce artifacts in generated details, we introduce a self-supervised ControlNet that leverages HR features as guidance and employs contrastive learning to extract degradation-insensitive features from LR videos. Finally, a three-stage training strategy based on a mixture of HR-LR videos is proposed to stabilize VSR training. The proposed Self-supervised ControlNet with Spatio-Temporal Continuous Mamba based VSR algorithm achieves superior perceptual quality than state-of-the-arts on real-world VSR benchmark datasets, validating the effectiveness of the proposed model design and training strategies.
Adaptive Non-Uniform Timestep Sampling for Accelerating Diffusion Model Training
Authors: Myunsoo Kim, Donghyeon Ki, Seong-Woong Shim, Byung-Jun Lee
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Combinatorial Optimization, Image Generation, Scheduling

    As a highly expressive generative model, diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional success across various domains, including image generation, natural language processing, and combinatorial optimization. However, as data distributions grow more complex, training these models to convergence becomes increasingly computationally intensive. While diffusion models are typically trained using uniform timestep sampling, our research shows that the variance in stochastic gradients varies significantly across timesteps, with high-variance timesteps becoming bottlenecks that hinder faster convergence. To address this issue, we introduce a non-uniform timestep sampling method that prioritizes these more critical timesteps. Our method tracks the impact of gradient updates on the objective for each timestep, adaptively selecting those most likely to minimize the objective effectively. Experimental results demonstrate that this approach not only accelerates the training process, but also leads to improved performance at convergence. Furthermore, our method shows robust performance across various datasets, scheduling strategies, and diffusion architectures, outperforming previously proposed timestep sampling and weighting heuristics that lack this degree of robustness.
Where's the Liability in the Generative Era? Recovery-based Black-Box Detection of AI-Generated Content
Authors: Haoyue Bai, Yiyou Sun, Wei Cheng, Haifeng Chen
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Misinformation

    The recent proliferation of photorealistic images created by generative models has sparked both excitement and concern, as these images are increasingly indistinguishable from real ones to the human eye. While offering new creative and commercial possibilities, the potential for misuse, such as in misinformation and fraud, highlights the need for effective detection methods. Current detection approaches often rely on access to model weights or require extensive collections of real image datasets, limiting their scalability and practical application in real-world scenarios. In this work, we introduce a novel black-box detection framework that requires only API access, sidestepping the need for model weights or large auxiliary datasets. Our approach leverages a corrupt-and-recover strategy: by masking part of an image and assessing the model's ability to reconstruct it, we measure the likelihood that the image was generated by the model itself. For black-box models that do not support masked-image inputs, we incorporate a cost-efficient surrogate model trained to align with the target model's distribution, enhancing detection capability. Our framework demonstrates strong performance, outperforming baseline methods by 4.31% in mean average precision across eight diffusion model variant datasets.
EdgeDiff: Edge-aware Diffusion Network for Building Reconstruction from Point Clouds
Authors: Yujun Liu, Ruisheng Wang, Shangfeng Huang, Guorong Cai
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Denoising

    Building reconstruction is a challenging problem at the intersection of computer vision, photogrammetry and computer graphics. 3D wireframe presents a compelling representation for building modeling through its compact structure. Existing wireframe reconstruction methods employing vertex detection and edge regression have achieved promising results. In this paper, we develop an Edge-aware Diffusion network, dubbed EdgeDiff. As a novel paradigm for wireframe reconstruction, the EdgeDiff generates wireframe models from noise using a conditional diffusion model. During the training process, the ground truth wireframes firstly are formulated as a set of parameterized edges and then diffused into a random noise distribution. EdgeDiff learns both the noise reversal process and the network structure simultaneously. During inference, EdgeDiff iteratively refines the generated edge distribution using the denoising diffusion implicit model, enabling flexible single- or multi-step denoising and dynamic adaptation to buildings of varying complexity. Additionally, given the unique structure of wireframes, we introduce an edge attention module to extract point-wise attention from point features, using it as auxiliary information to facilitate learning of edge cues and guide the network toward improved edge awareness. Extensive experiments on the real-world Building3D dataset demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance.
DyCON: Dynamic Uncertainty-aware Consistency and Contrastive Learning for Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation
Authors: Maregu Assefa, Muzammal Naseer, Iyyakutti Iyappan Ganapathi, Syed Sadaf Ali, Mohamed L Seghier, Naoufel Werghi
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Contrastive Learning, Image Segmentation, Medical Image Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Semi-supervised Medical Image Segmentation

    Semi-supervised learning in medical image segmentation leverages unlabeled data to reduce annotation burdens through consistency learning. However, current methods struggle with class imbalance and high uncertainty from pathology variations, leading to inaccurate segmentation in 3D medical images. To address these challenges, we present DyCON, a Dynamic Uncertainty-aware Consistency and Contrastive Learning framework that enhances the generalization of consistency methods with two complementary losses: Uncertainty-aware Consistency Loss (UnCL) and Focal Entropy-aware Contrastive Loss (FeCL). UnCL enforces global consistency by dynamically weighting the contribution of each voxel to the consistency loss based on its uncertainty, preserving high-uncertainty regions instead of filtering them out. Initially, UnCL prioritizes learning from uncertain voxels with lower penalties, encouraging the model to explore challenging regions. As training progress, the penalty shift towards confident voxels to refine predictions and ensure global consistency. Meanwhile, FeCL enhances local feature discrimination in imbalanced regions by introducing dual focal mechanisms and adaptive confidence adjustments into the contrastive principle. These mechanisms jointly prioritizes hard positives and negatives while focusing on uncertain sample pairs, effectively capturing subtle lesion variations under class imbalance. Extensive evaluations on four diverse medical image segmentation datasets (ISLES'22, BraTS'19, LA, Pancreas) show DyCON's superior performance against SOTA methods(\href https://dycon25.github.io/) Project Page: https://dycon25.github.io/  .
A Unified Approach to Interpreting Self-supervised Pre-training Methods for 3D Point Clouds via Interactions
Authors: Qiang Li, Jian Ruan, Fanghao Wu, Yuchi Chen, Zhihua Wei, Wen Shen
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1

    Recently, many self-supervised pre-training methods have been proposed to improve the performance of deep neural networks (DNNs) for 3D point clouds processing. However, the common mechanism underlying the effectiveness of different pre-training methods remains unclear. In this paper, we use game-theoretic interactions as a unified approach to explore the common mechanism of pre-training methods. Specifically, we decompose the output score of a DNN into the sum of numerous effects of interactions, with each interaction representing a distinct 3D substructure of the input point cloud. Based on the decomposed interactions, we draw the following conclusions. (1) The common mechanism across different pre-training methods is that they enhance the strength of high-order interactions encoded by DNNs, which represent complex and global 3D structures, while reducing the strength of low-order interactions, which represent simple and local 3D structures. (2) Sufficient pre-training and adequate fine-tuning data for downstream tasks further reinforce the mechanism described above. (3) Pre-training methods carry a potential risk of reducing the transferability of features encoded by DNNs. Inspired by the observed common mechanism, we propose a new method to directly enhance the strength of high-order interactions and reduce the strength of low-order interactions encoded by DNNs, improving performance without the need for pre-training on large-scale datasets. Experiments show that our method achieves performance comparable to traditional pre-training methods.
Rethinking Personalized Aesthetics Assessment: Employing Physique Aesthetics Assessment as An Exemplification
Authors: Haobin Zhong, Shuai He, Anlong Ming, Huadong Ma
Date: 2025-01-01 00:00:00
Proceeding: CVPR 2025 1
Tasks: Continual Learning

    The Personalized Aesthetics Assessment (PAA) aims to accurately predict an individual's unique perception of aesthetics. With the surging demand for customization, PAA enables applications to generate personalized outcomes by aligning with individual aesthetic preferences. The prevailing PAA paradigm involves two stages: pre-training and fine-tuning, but it faces three inherent challenges: 1) The model is pre-trained using datasets of the Generic Aesthetics Assessment (GAA), but the collective preferences of GAA lead to conflicts in individualized aesthetic predictions. 2) The scope and stage of personalized surveys are related to both the user and the assessed object; however, the prevailing personalized surveys fail to adequately address assessed objects' characteristics. 3) During application usage, the cumulative multimodal feedback from an individual holds great value that should be considered for improving the PAA model but unfortunately attracts insufficient attention. To address the aforementioned challenges, we introduce a new PAA paradigm called PAA+, which is structured into three distinct stages: pre-training, fine-tuning, and continual learning. Furthermore, to better reflect individual differences, we employ a familiar and intuitive application, physique aesthetics assessment (PhysiqueAA), to validate the PAA+ paradigm.  We propose a dataset called PhysiqueAA50K, consisting of over 50,000 annotated physique images. Furthermore, we develop a PhysiqueAA framework (PhysiqueFrame) and conduct a large-scale benchmark, achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Our research is expected to provide an innovative roadmap and application for the PAA community. The code and dataset are available in here.