pwc-archive/papers-with-abstracts huggingface dataset:
Fast Underwater Scene Reconstruction using Multi-View Stereo and Physical Imaging
Authors: Shuyi Hu, Qi Liu
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: Depth Estimation, NeRF

Underwater scene reconstruction poses a substantial challenge because of the intricate interplay between light and the medium, resulting in scattering and absorption effects that make both depth estimation and rendering more complex. While recent Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) based methods for underwater scenes achieve high-quality results by modeling and separating the scattering medium, they still suffer from slow training and rendering speeds. To address these limitations, we propose a novel method that integrates Multi-View Stereo (MVS) with a physics-based underwater image formation model. Our approach consists of two branches: one for depth estimation using the traditional cost volume pipeline of MVS, and the other for rendering based on the physics-based image formation model. The depth branch improves scene geometry, while the medium branch determines the scattering parameters to achieve precise scene rendering. Unlike traditional MVSNet methods that rely on ground-truth depth, our method does not necessitate the use of depth truth, thus allowing for expedited training and rendering processes. By leveraging the medium subnet to estimate the medium parameters and combining this with a color MLP for rendering, we restore the true colors of underwater scenes and achieve higher-fidelity geometric representations. Experimental results show that our method enables high-quality synthesis of novel views in scattering media, clear views restoration by removing the medium, and outperforms existing methods in rendering quality and training efficiency.
FNIN: A Fourier Neural Operator-based Numerical Integration Network for Surface-form-gradients
Authors: Jiaqi Leng, Yakun Ju, Yuanxu Duan, Jiangnan Zhang, Qingxuan Lv, Zuxuan Wu, Hao Fan
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: Form, Numerical Integration, Self-Learning, Surface Reconstruction

Surface-from-gradients (SfG) aims to recover a three-dimensional (3D) surface from its gradients. Traditional methods encounter significant challenges in achieving high accuracy and handling high-resolution inputs, particularly facing the complex nature of discontinuities and the inefficiencies associated with large-scale linear solvers. Although recent advances in deep learning, such as photometric stereo, have enhanced normal estimation accuracy, they do not fully address the intricacies of gradient-based surface reconstruction. To overcome these limitations, we propose a Fourier neural operator-based Numerical Integration Network (FNIN) within a two-stage optimization framework. In the first stage, our approach employs an iterative architecture for numerical integration, harnessing an advanced Fourier neural operator to approximate the solution operator in Fourier space. Additionally, a self-learning attention mechanism is incorporated to effectively detect and handle discontinuities. In the second stage, we refine the surface reconstruction by formulating a weighted least squares problem, addressing the identified discontinuities rationally. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves significant improvements in both accuracy and efficiency compared to current state-of-the-art solvers. This is particularly evident in handling high-resolution images with complex data, achieving errors of fewer than 0.1 mm on tested objects.
EmbodiedEval: Evaluate Multimodal LLMs as Embodied Agents
Authors: Zhili Cheng, Yuge Tu, Ran Li, Shiqi Dai, Jinyi Hu, Shengding Hu, Jiahao Li, Yang Shi, Tianyu Yu, Weize Chen, Lei Shi, Maosong Sun
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: Attribute, Question Answering

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown significant advancements, providing a promising future for embodied agents. Existing benchmarks for evaluating MLLMs primarily utilize static images or videos, limiting assessments to non-interactive scenarios. Meanwhile, existing embodied AI benchmarks are task-specific and not diverse enough, which do not adequately evaluate the embodied capabilities of MLLMs. To address this, we propose EmbodiedEval, a comprehensive and interactive evaluation benchmark for MLLMs with embodied tasks. EmbodiedEval features 328 distinct tasks within 125 varied 3D scenes, each of which is rigorously selected and annotated. It covers a broad spectrum of existing embodied AI tasks with significantly enhanced diversity, all within a unified simulation and evaluation framework tailored for MLLMs. The tasks are organized into five categories: navigation, object interaction, social interaction, attribute question answering, and spatial question answering to assess different capabilities of the agents. We evaluated the state-of-the-art MLLMs on EmbodiedEval and found that they have a significant shortfall compared to human level on embodied tasks. Our analysis demonstrates the limitations of existing MLLMs in embodied capabilities, providing insights for their future development. We open-source all evaluation data and simulation framework at https://github.com/thunlp/EmbodiedEval.
WaveNet-SF: A Hybrid Network for Retinal Disease Detection Based on Wavelet Transform in the Spatial-Frequency Domain
Authors: Jilan Cheng, Guoli Long, Zeyu Zhang, Zhenjia Qi, Hanyu Wang, Libin Lu, Shuihua Wang, Yudong Zhang, Jin Hong
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: Lesion Detection

Retinal diseases are a leading cause of vision impairment and blindness, with timely diagnosis being critical for effective treatment. Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) has become a standard imaging modality for retinal disease diagnosis, but OCT images often suffer from issues such as speckle noise, complex lesion shapes, and varying lesion sizes, making interpretation challenging. In this paper, we propose a novel framework, WaveNet-SF, to enhance retinal disease detection by integrating spatial-domain and frequency-domain learning. The framework utilizes wavelet transforms to decompose OCT images into low- and high-frequency components, enabling the model to extract both global structural features and fine-grained details. To improve lesion detection, we introduce a multi-scale wavelet spatial attention (MSW-SA) module, which enhances the model's focus on regions of interest at multiple scales. Additionally, a high-frequency feature compensation block (HFFC) is incorporated to recover edge information lost during wavelet decomposition, suppress noise, and preserve fine details crucial for lesion detection. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) classification accuracies of 97.82% and 99. 58% on the OCT-C8 and OCT2017 datasets, respectively, surpassing existing methods. These results demonstrate the efficacy of WaveNet-SF in addressing the challenges of OCT image analysis and its potential as a powerful tool for retinal disease diagnosis.
Survey on Monocular Metric Depth Estimation
Authors: Jiuling Zhang
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: 3D Reconstruction, Autonomous Driving, Data Augmentation, Depth Estimation, Monocular Depth Estimation, Novel View Synthesis, Survey, Zero-shot Generalization

Monocular Depth Estimation (MDE) is fundamental to computer vision, enabling spatial understanding, 3D reconstruction, and autonomous driving. Deep learning-based MDE predicts relative depth from a single image, but the lack of metric scale introduces inconsistencies, limiting applicability in tasks such as visual SLAM, 3D reconstruction, and novel view synthesis. Monocular Metric Depth Estimation (MMDE) overcomes this limitation by enabling precise scene-scale inference, improving depth consistency, enhancing stability in sequential tasks, and streamlining integration into practical systems. This paper systematically reviews the evolution of depth estimation, from traditional geometric methods to deep learning breakthroughs, emphasizing scale-agnostic approaches in zero-shot generalization which is crucial for advancing MMDE. Recent progress in zero-shot MMDE is examined, focusing on challenges such as model generalization and boundary detail loss. To address these issues, researchers have explored unlabeled data augmentation, image patching, architectural optimization, and generative techniques. This review analyzes these developments, assessing their impact and limitations. Key findings are synthesized, unresolved challenges outlined, and future research direction proposal. By providing a clear technical roadmap and insight into emerging trends, this work aims to drive innovation and expand the real-world applications of MMDE.
TFLOP: Table Structure Recognition Framework with Layout Pointer Mechanism
Authors: Minsoo Khang, Teakgyu Hong
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: Information Retrieval

Table Structure Recognition (TSR) is a task aimed at converting table images into a machine-readable format (e.g. HTML), to facilitate other applications such as information retrieval. Recent works tackle this problem by identifying the HTML tags and text regions, where the latter is used for text extraction from the table document. These works however, suffer from misalignment issues when mapping text into the identified text regions. In this paper, we introduce a new TSR framework, called TFLOP (TSR Framework with LayOut Pointer mechanism), which reformulates the conventional text region prediction and matching into a direct text region pointing problem. Specifically, TFLOP utilizes text region information to identify both the table's structure tags and its aligned text regions, simultaneously. Without the need for region prediction and alignment, TFLOP circumvents the additional text region matching stage, which requires finely-calibrated post-processing. TFLOP also employs span-aware contrastive supervision to enhance the pointing mechanism in tables with complex structure. As a result, TFLOP achieves the state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks such as PubTabNet, FinTabNet, and SynthTabNet. In our extensive experiments, TFLOP not only exhibits competitive performance but also shows promising results on industrial document TSR scenarios such as documents with watermarks or in non-English domain.
Provably effective detection of effective data poisoning attacks
Authors: Jonathan Gallagher, Yasaman Esfandiari, Callen MacPhee, Michael Warren
Date: 2025-01-21 00:00:00
Tasks: Data Poisoning

This paper establishes a mathematically precise definition of dataset poisoning attack and proves that the very act of effectively poisoning a dataset ensures that the attack can be effectively detected. On top of a mathematical guarantee that dataset poisoning is identifiable by a new statistical test that we call the Conformal Separability Test, we provide experimental evidence that we can adequately detect poisoning attempts in the real world.
Generating visual explanations from deep networks using implicit neural representations
Authors: Michal Byra, Henrik Skibbe
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Deep Learning

Explaining deep learning models in a way that humans can easily understand is essential for responsible artificial intelligence applications. Attribution methods constitute an important area of explainable deep learning. The attribution problem involves finding parts of the network's input that are the most responsible for the model's output. In this work, we demonstrate that implicit neural representations (INRs) constitute a good framework for generating visual explanations. Firstly, we utilize coordinate-based implicit networks to reformulate and extend the extremal perturbations technique and generate attribution masks. Experimental results confirm the usefulness of our method. For instance, by proper conditioning of the implicit network, we obtain attribution masks that are well-behaved with respect to the imposed area constraints. Secondly, we present an iterative INR-based method that can be used to generate multiple non-overlapping attribution masks for the same image. We depict that a deep learning model may associate the image label with both the appearance of the object of interest as well as with areas and textures usually accompanying the object. Our study demonstrates that implicit networks are well-suited for the generation of attribution masks and can provide interesting insights about the performance of deep learning models.
EfficientVITON: An Efficient Virtual Try-On Model using Optimized Diffusion Process
Authors: Mostafa Atef, Mariam Ayman, Ahmed Rashed, Ashrakat Saeed, Abdelrahman Saeed, Ahmed Fares
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Image-to-Image Translation, Virtual Try-on

Would not it be much more convenient for everybody to try on clothes by only looking into a mirror ? The answer to that problem is virtual try-on, enabling users to digitally experiment with outfits. The core challenge lies in realistic image-to-image translation, where clothing must fit diverse human forms, poses, and figures. Early methods, which used 2D transformations, offered speed, but image quality was often disappointing and lacked the nuance of deep learning. Though GAN-based techniques enhanced realism, their dependence on paired data proved limiting. More adaptable methods offered great visuals but demanded significant computing power and time. Recent advances in diffusion models have shown promise for high-fidelity translation, yet the current crop of virtual try-on tools still struggle with detail loss and warping issues. To tackle these challenges, this paper proposes EfficientVITON, a new virtual try-on system leveraging the impressive pre-trained Stable Diffusion model for better images and deployment feasibility. The system includes a spatial encoder to maintain clothings finer details and zero cross-attention blocks to capture the subtleties of how clothes fit a human body. Input images are carefully prepared, and the diffusion process has been tweaked to significantly cut generation time without image quality loss. The training process involves two distinct stages of fine-tuning, carefully incorporating a balance of loss functions to ensure both accurate try-on results and high-quality visuals. Rigorous testing on the VITON-HD dataset, supplemented with real-world examples, has demonstrated that EfficientVITON achieves state-of-the-art results.
A Review Paper of the Effects of Distinct Modalities and ML Techniques to Distracted Driving Detection
Authors: Anthony. Dontoh, Stephanie. Ivey, Logan. Sirbaugh, Armstrong. Aboah
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00

Distracted driving remains a significant global challenge with severe human and economic repercussions, demanding improved detection and intervention strategies. While previous studies have extensively explored single-modality approaches, recent research indicates that these systems often fall short in identifying complex distraction patterns, particularly cognitive distractions. This systematic review addresses critical gaps by providing a comprehensive analysis of machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques applied across various data modalities - visual,, sensory, auditory, and multimodal. By categorizing and evaluating studies based on modality, data accessibility, and methodology, this review clarifies which approaches yield the highest accuracy and are best suited for specific distracted driving detection goals. The findings offer clear guidance on the advantages of multimodal versus single-modal systems and capture the latest advancements in the field. Ultimately, this review contributes valuable insights for developing robust distracted driving detection frameworks, supporting enhanced road safety and mitigation strategies.
A generalizable 3D framework and model for self-supervised learning in medical imaging
Authors: Tony Xu, Sepehr Hosseini, Chris Anderson, Anthony Rinaldi, Rahul G. Krishnan, Anne L. Martel, Maged Goubran
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Medical Image Segmentation, Self-Supervised Learning

Current self-supervised learning methods for 3D medical imaging rely on simple pretext formulations and organ- or modality-specific datasets, limiting their generalizability and scalability. We present 3DINO, a cutting-edge SSL method adapted to 3D datasets, and use it to pretrain 3DINO-ViT: a general-purpose medical imaging model, on an exceptionally large, multimodal, and multi-organ dataset of ~100,000 3D medical imaging scans from over 10 organs. We validate 3DINO-ViT using extensive experiments on numerous medical imaging segmentation and classification tasks. Our results demonstrate that 3DINO-ViT generalizes across modalities and organs, including out-of-distribution tasks and datasets, outperforming state-of-the-art methods on the majority of evaluation metrics and labeled dataset sizes. Our 3DINO framework and 3DINO-ViT will be made available to enable research on 3D foundation models or further finetuning for a wide range of medical imaging applications.
Are generative models fair? A study of racial bias in dermatological image generation
Authors: Miguel López-Pérez, Søren Hauberg, Aasa Feragen
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Diversity, Fairness, Image Generation, Uncertainty Quantification

Racial bias in medicine, particularly in dermatology, presents significant ethical and clinical challenges. It often results from the underrepresentation of darker skin tones in training datasets for machine learning models. While efforts to address bias in dermatology have focused on improving dataset diversity and mitigating disparities in discriminative models, the impact of racial bias on generative models remains underexplored. Generative models, such as Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), are increasingly used in healthcare applications, yet their fairness across diverse skin tones is currently not well understood. In this study, we evaluate the fairness of generative models in clinical dermatology with respect to racial bias. For this purpose, we first train a VAE with a perceptual loss to generate and reconstruct high-quality skin images across different skin tones. We utilize the Fitzpatrick17k dataset to examine how racial bias influences the representation and performance of these models. Our findings indicate that the VAE is influenced by the diversity of skin tones in the training dataset, with better performance observed for lighter skin tones. Additionally, the uncertainty estimates produced by the VAE are ineffective in assessing the model's fairness. These results highlight the need for improved uncertainty quantification mechanisms to detect and address racial bias in generative models for trustworthy healthcare technologies.
FaceQSORT: a Multi-Face Tracking Method based on Biometric and Appearance Features
Authors: Robert Jöchl, Andreas Uhl
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00

Tracking multiple faces is a difficult problem, as there may be partially occluded or lateral faces. In multiple face tracking, association is typically based on (biometric) face features. However, the models used to extract these face features usually require frontal face images, which can limit the tracking performance. In this work, a multi-face tracking method inspired by StrongSort, FaceQSORT, is proposed. To mitigate the problem of partially occluded or lateral faces, biometric face features are combined with visual appearance features (i.e., generated by a generic object classifier), with both features are extracted from the same face patch. A comprehensive experimental evaluation is performed, including a comparison of different face descriptors, an evaluation of different parameter settings, and the application of a different similarity metric. All experiments are conducted with a new multi-face tracking dataset and a subset of the ChokePoint dataset. The `Paris Lodron University Salzburg Faces in a Queue' dataset consists of a total of seven fully annotated sequences (12730 frames) and is made publicly available as part of this work. Together with this dataset, annotations of 6 sequences from the ChokePoint dataset are also provided.
MedicoSAM: Towards foundation models for medical image segmentation
Authors: Anwai Archit, Luca Freckmann, Constantin Pape
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00
Tasks: Image Segmentation, Interactive Segmentation, Medical Image Segmentation, Segmentation, Semantic Segmentation, Universal Segmentation

Medical image segmentation is an important analysis task in clinical practice and research. Deep learning has massively advanced the field, but current approaches are mostly based on models trained for a specific task. Training such models or adapting them to a new condition is costly due to the need for (manually) labeled data. The emergence of vision foundation models, especially Segment Anything, offers a path to universal segmentation for medical images, overcoming these issues. Here, we study how to improve Segment Anything for medical images by comparing different finetuning strategies on a large and diverse dataset. We evaluate the finetuned models on a wide range of interactive and (automatic) semantic segmentation tasks. We find that the performance can be clearly improved for interactive segmentation. However, semantic segmentation does not benefit from pretraining on medical images. Our best model, MedicoSAM, is publicly available at https://github.com/computational-cell-analytics/medico-sam. We show that it is compatible with existing tools for data annotation and believe that it will be of great practical value.
Mobile-Agent-E: Self-Evolving Mobile Assistant for Complex Tasks
Authors: Zhenhailong Wang, Haiyang Xu, Junyang Wang, Xi Zhang, Ming Yan, Ji Zhang, Fei Huang, Heng Ji
Date: 2025-01-20 00:00:00

Smartphones have become indispensable in modern life, yet navigating complex tasks on mobile devices often remains frustrating. Recent advancements in large multimodal model (LMM)-based mobile agents have demonstrated the ability to perceive and act in mobile environments. However, current approaches face significant limitations: they fall short in addressing real-world human needs, struggle with reasoning-intensive and long-horizon tasks, and lack mechanisms to learn and improve from prior experiences. To overcome these challenges, we introduce Mobile-Agent-E, a hierarchical multi-agent framework capable of self-evolution through past experience. By hierarchical, we mean an explicit separation of high-level planning and low-level action execution. The framework comprises a Manager, responsible for devising overall plans by breaking down complex tasks into subgoals, and four subordinate agents--Perceptor, Operator, Action Reflector, and Notetaker--which handle fine-grained visual perception, immediate action execution, error verification, and information aggregation, respectively. Mobile-Agent-E also features a novel self-evolution module which maintains a persistent long-term memory comprising Tips and Shortcuts. Tips are general guidance and lessons learned from prior tasks on how to effectively interact with the environment. Shortcuts are reusable, executable sequences of atomic operations tailored for specific subroutines. The inclusion of Tips and Shortcuts facilitates continuous refinement in performance and efficiency. Alongside this framework, we introduce Mobile-Eval-E, a new benchmark featuring complex mobile tasks requiring long-horizon, multi-app interactions. Empirical results show that Mobile-Agent-E achieves a 22% absolute improvement over previous state-of-the-art approaches across three foundation model backbones. Project page: https://x-plug.github.io/MobileAgent.