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Zhixiang Wei, Lin Chen, Yi Jin, Xiaoxiao Ma, Tianle Liu, Pengyang Ling, Ben Wang, Huaian Chen, Jinjin Zheng

In this paper we first assess and harness various Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) in the context of Domain Generalized Semantic Segmentation (DGSS). Driven by the motivation that Leveraging Stronger pre-trained models and Fewer trainable parameters for Superior generalizability we introduce a robust fine-tuning approach namely "Rein" to parameter-efficiently harness VFMs for DGSS. Built upon a set of trainable tokens each linked to distinct instances Rein precisely refines and forwards the feature maps from each layer to the next layer within the backbone. This process produces diverse refinements for different categories within a single image. With fewer trainable parameters Rein efficiently fine-tunes VFMs for DGSS tasks surprisingly surpassing full parameter fine-tuning. Extensive experiments across various settings demonstrate that Rein significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods. Remarkably with just an extra 1% of trainable parameters within the frozen backbone Rein achieves a mIoU of 68.1% on the Cityscapes without accessing any real urban-scene datasets. Code is available at https://github.com/w1oves/Rein.git.

Jisu Nam, Heesu Kim, DongJae Lee, Siyoon Jin, Seungryong Kim, Seunggyu Chang

The objective of text-to-image (T2I) personalization is to customize a diffusion model to a user-provided reference concept generating diverse images of the concept aligned with the target prompts. Conventional methods representing the reference concepts using unique text embeddings often fail to accurately mimic the appearance of the reference. To address this one solution may be explicitly conditioning the reference images into the target denoising process known as key-value replacement. However prior works are constrained to local editing since they disrupt the structure path of the pre-trained T2I model. To overcome this we propose a novel plug-in method called DreamMatcher which reformulates T2I personalization as semantic matching. Specifically DreamMatcher replaces the target values with reference values aligned by semantic matching while leaving the structure path unchanged to preserve the versatile capability of pre-trained T2I models for generating diverse structures. We also introduce a semantic-consistent masking strategy to isolate the personalized concept from irrelevant regions introduced by the target prompts. Compatible with existing T2I models DreamMatcher shows significant improvements in complex scenarios. Intensive analyses demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.

Jiawei Yao, Qi Qian, Juhua Hu

Multiple clustering has gained significant attention in recent years due to its potential to reveal multiple hidden structures of data from different perspectives. The advent of deep multiple clustering techniques has notably advanced the performance by uncovering complex patterns and relationships within large datasets. However a major challenge arises as users often do not need all the clusterings that algorithms generate and figuring out the one needed requires a substantial understanding of each clustering result. Traditionally aligning a user's brief keyword of interest with the corresponding vision components was challenging but the emergence of multi-modal and large language models (LLMs) has begun to bridge this gap. In response given unlabeled target visual data we propose Multi-Map a novel method employing a multi-modal proxy learning process. It leverages CLIP encoders to extract coherent text and image embeddings with GPT-4 integrating users' interests to formulate effective textual contexts. Moreover reference word constraint and concept-level constraint are designed to learn the optimal text proxy according to the user's interest. Multi-Map not only adeptly captures a user's interest via a keyword but also facilitates identifying relevant clusterings. Our extensive experiments show that Multi-Map consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in all benchmark multi-clustering vision tasks. Our code is available at https://github.com/Alexander-Yao/Multi-MaP.

Zhi-Fan Wu, Chaojie Mao, Xue Wang, Jianwen Jiang, Yiliang Lv, Rong Jin

Despite encouraging results from recent developments in transfer learning for adapting pre-trained model to downstream tasks the performance of model probing is still lagging behind the state-of-the-art parameter efficient tuning methods. Our investigation reveals that existing model probing methods perform well for the easy case when the source domain (where models are pre-trained) and the adapted domain are similar but fail for the difficult case when the two domains are significantly different. Simply incorporating features extracted from multiple layers and increasing complexity of the probing model can mitigate the gap in the difficult case but degrades the performance in the easy case. To address this challenge we propose structured model probing (SMP) that is able to deliver good performance for both cases through structured regularization. The regularization performs feature selection leveraging model structure as a prior and controls the complexity of the probing model through the weights of selected structures. This enables us to construct a simple adaptation model with a small number of selected features and a linear prediction model for the easy case; and to automatically increase the complexity of adaptation model with a large number of selected features and a non-linear model for the difficult case. Our extensive empirical studies show that SMP significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods for parameter efficient tuning and at the same time still maintains the advantage of computational efficiency for probing-based methods.

Xiangheng Shan, Dongyue Wu, Guilin Zhu, Yuanjie Shao, Nong Sang, Changxin Gao

Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation is a challenging task which requires the model to output semantic masks of an image beyond a close-set vocabulary. Although many efforts have been made to utilize powerful CLIP models to accomplish this task they are still easily overfitting to training classes due to the natural gaps in semantic information between training and new classes. To overcome this challenge we propose a novel framework for open-vocabulary semantic segmentation called EBSeg incorporating an Adaptively Balanced Decoder (AdaB Decoder) and a Semantic Structure Consistency loss (SSC Loss). The AdaB Decoder is designed to generate different image embeddings for both training and new classes. Subsequently these two types of embeddings are adaptively balanced to fully exploit their ability to recognize training classes and generalization ability for new classes. To learn a consistent semantic structure from CLIP the SSC Loss aligns the inter-classes affinity in the image feature space with that in the text feature space of CLIP thereby improving the generalization ability of our model. Furthermore we employ a frozen SAM image encoder to complement the spatial information that CLIP features lack due to the low training image resolution and image-level supervision inherent in CLIP. Extensive experiments conducted across various benchmarks demonstrate that the proposed EBSeg outperforms the state-of-the-art methods. Our code and trained models will be here: https://github.com/slonetime/EBSeg.

Yuqing Wen, Yucheng Zhao, Yingfei Liu, Fan Jia, Yanhui Wang, Chong Luo, Chi Zhang, Tiancai Wang, Xiaoyan Sun, Xiangyu Zhang

The field of autonomous driving increasingly demands high-quality annotated training data. In this paper we propose Panacea an innovative approach to generate panoramic and controllable videos in driving scenarios capable of yielding an unlimited numbers of diverse annotated samples pivotal for autonomous driving advancements. Panacea addresses two critical challenges: 'Consistency' and 'Controllability.' Consistency ensures temporal and cross-view coherence while Controllability ensures the alignment of generated content with corresponding annotations. Our approach integrates a novel 4D attention and a two-stage generation pipeline to maintain coherence supplemented by the ControlNet framework for meticulous control by the Bird's-Eye-View (BEV) layouts. Extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations of Panacea on the nuScenes dataset prove its effectiveness in generating high-quality multi-view driving-scene videos. This work notably propels the field of autonomous driving by effectively augmenting the training dataset used for advanced BEV perception techniques.

Zixuan Huang, Justin Johnson, Shoubhik Debnath, James M. Rehg, Chao-Yuan Wu

We present PointInfinity an efficient family of point cloud diffusion models. Our core idea is to use a transformer-based architecture with a fixed-size resolution-invariant latent representation. This enables efficient training with low-resolution point clouds while allowing high-resolution point clouds to be generated during inference. More importantly we show that scaling the test-time resolution beyond the training resolution improves the fidelity of generated point clouds and surfaces. We analyze this phenomenon and draw a link to classifier-free guidance commonly used in diffusion models demonstrating that both allow trading off fidelity and variability during inference. Experiments on CO3D show that PointInfinity can efficiently generate high-resolution point clouds (up to 131k points 31 times more than Point-E) with state-of-the-art quality.

Yaqing Ding, Jonathan Astermark, Magnus Oskarsson, Viktor Larsson

Two-view homography estimation is a classic and fundamental problem in computer vision. While conceptually simple the problem quickly becomes challenging when multiple planes are visible in the image pair. Even with correct matches each individual plane (homography) might have a very low number of inliers when comparing to the set of all correspondences. In practice this requires a large number of RANSAC iterations to generate a good model hypothesis. The current state-of-the-art methods therefore seek to reduce the sample size from four point correspondences originally by including additional information such as keypoint orientation/angles or local affine information. In this work we continue in this direction and propose a novel one-point solver that leverages different approximate constraints derived from the same auxiliary information. In experiments we obtain state-of-the-art results with execution time speed-ups on large benchmark datasets and show that it is more beneficial for the solver to be sample efficient compared to generating more accurate homographies.

Yiqun Mei, Yu Zeng, He Zhang, Zhixin Shu, Xuaner Zhang, Sai Bi, Jianming Zhang, HyunJoon Jung, Vishal M. Patel

At the core of portrait photography is the search for ideal lighting and viewpoint. The process often requires advanced knowledge in photography and an elaborate studio setup. In this work we propose Holo-Relighting a volumetric relighting method that is capable of synthesizing novel viewpoints and novel lighting from a single image. Holo-Relighting leverages the pretrained 3D GAN (EG3D) to reconstruct geometry and appearance from an input portrait as a set of 3D-aware features. We design a relighting module conditioned on a given lighting to process these features and predict a relit 3D representation in the form of a tri-plane which can render to an arbitrary viewpoint through volume rendering. Besides viewpoint and lighting control Holo-Relighting also takes the head pose as a condition to enable head-pose-dependent lighting effects. With these novel designs Holo-Relighting can generate complex non-Lambertian lighting effects (e.g. specular highlights and cast shadows) without using any explicit physical lighting priors. We train Holo-Relighting with data captured with a light stage and propose two data-rendering techniques to improve the data quality for training the volumetric relighting system. Through quantitative and qualitative experiments we demonstrate Holo-Relighting can achieve state-of-the-arts relighting quality with better photorealism 3D consistency and controllability.

Yiwen Chen, Zilong Chen, Chi Zhang, Feng Wang, Xiaofeng Yang, Yikai Wang, Zhongang Cai, Lei Yang, Huaping Liu, Guosheng Lin

3D editing plays a crucial role in many areas such as gaming and virtual reality. Traditional 3D editing methods which rely on representations like meshes and point clouds often fall short in realistically depicting complex scenes. On the other hand methods based on implicit 3D representations like Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) render complex scenes effectively but suffer from slow processing speeds and limited control over specific scene areas. In response to these challenges our paper presents GaussianEditor the first 3D editing algorithm based on Gaussian Splatting (GS) a novel 3D representation. GaussianEditor enhances precision and control in editing through our proposed Gaussian semantic tracing which traces the editing target throughout the training process. Additionally we propose Hierarchical Gaussian splatting (HGS) to achieve stabilized and fine results under stochastic generative guidance from 2D diffusion models. We also develop editing strategies for efficient object removal and integration a challenging task for existing methods. Our comprehensive experiments demonstrate GaussianEditor's superior control effective and efficient performance marking a significant advancement in 3D editing.

Ziyang Luo, Nian Liu, Wangbo Zhao, Xuguang Yang, Dingwen Zhang, Deng-Ping Fan, Fahad Khan, Junwei Han

Salient object detection (SOD) and camouflaged object detection (COD) are related yet distinct binary mapping tasks. These tasks involve multiple modalities sharing commonalities and unique cues. Existing research often employs intricate task-specific specialist models potentially leading to redundancy and suboptimal results. We introduce VSCode a generalist model with novel 2D prompt learning to jointly address four SOD tasks and three COD tasks. We utilize VST as the foundation model and introduce 2D prompts within the encoder-decoder architecture to learn domain and task-specific knowledge on two separate dimensions. A prompt discrimination loss helps disentangle peculiarities to benefit model optimization. VSCode outperforms state-of-the-art methods across six tasks on 26 datasets and exhibits zero-shot generalization to unseen tasks by combining 2D prompts such as RGB-D COD. Source code has been available at https://github.com/Sssssuperior/VSCode.

Omer Yair, Elias Nehme, Tomer Michaeli

In ill-posed inverse problems it is commonly desirable to obtain insight into the full spectrum of plausible solutions rather than extracting only a single reconstruction. Information about the plausible solutions and their likelihoods is encoded in the posterior distribution. However for high-dimensional data this distribution is challenging to visualize. In this work we introduce a new approach for estimating and visualizing posteriors by employing energy-based models (EBMs) over low-dimensional subspaces. Specifically we train a conditional EBM that receives an input measurement and a set of directions that span some low-dimensional subspace of solutions and outputs the probability density function of the posterior within that space. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method across a diverse range of datasets and image restoration problems showcasing its strength in uncertainty quantification and visualization. As we show our method outperforms a baseline that projects samples from a diffusion-based posterior sampler while being orders of magnitude faster. Furthermore it is more accurate than a baseline that assumes a Gaussian posterior.

Eunsu Baek, Keondo Park, Jiyoon Kim, Hyung-Sin Kim

Computer vision applications predict on digital images acquired by a camera from physical scenes through light. However conventional robustness benchmarks rely on perturbations in digitized images diverging from distribution shifts occurring in the image acquisition process. To bridge this gap we introduce a new distribution shift dataset ImageNet-ES comprising variations in environmental and camera sensor factors by directly capturing 202k images with a real camera in a controllable testbed. With the new dataset we evaluate out-of-distribution (OOD) detection and model robustness. We find that existing OOD detection methods do not cope with the covariate shifts in ImageNet-ES implying that the definition and detection of OOD should be revisited to embrace real-world distribution shifts. We also observe that the model becomes more robust in both ImageNet-C and -ES by learning environment and sensor variations in addition to existing digital augmentations. Lastly our results suggest that effective shift mitigation via camera sensor control can significantly improve performance without increasing model size. With these findings our benchmark may aid future research on robustness OOD and camera sensor control for computer vision. Our code and dataset are available at https://github.com/Edw2n/ImageNet-ES.

Penghao Wu, Saining Xie

When we look around and perform complex tasks how we see and selectively process what we see is crucial. However the lack of this visual search mechanism in current multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) hinders their ability to focus on important visual details especially when handling high-resolution and visually crowded images. To address this we introduce V* an LLM-guided visual search mechanism that employs the world knowledge in LLMs for efficient visual querying. When combined with an MLLM this mechanism enhances collaborative reasoning contextual understanding and precise visual grounding. This integration results in a new MLLM meta-architecture named Show sEArch and TelL (SEAL). We further create V*Bench a benchmark specifically designed to evaluate MLLMs in their ability to process high-resolution images and focus on visual details. Our study highlights the necessity of incorporating visual search capabilities into multimodal systems. The code is available at https://github.com/penghao-wu/vstar

Keith G. Mills, Fred X. Han, Mohammad Salameh, Shengyao Lu, Chunhua Zhou, Jiao He, Fengyu Sun, Di Niu

Neural Architecture Search is a costly practice. The fact that a search space can span a vast number of design choices with each architecture evaluation taking nontrivial overhead makes it hard for an algorithm to sufficiently explore candidate networks. In this paper we propose AutoBuild a scheme which learns to align the latent embeddings of operations and architecture modules with the ground-truth performance of the architectures they appear in. By doing so AutoBuild is capable of assigning interpretable importance scores to architecture modules such as individual operation features and larger macro operation sequences such that high-performance neural networks can be constructed without any need for search. Through experiments performed on state-of-the-art image classification segmentation and Stable Diffusion models we show that by mining a relatively small set of evaluated architectures AutoBuild can learn to build high-quality architectures directly or help to reduce search space to focus on relevant areas finding better architectures that outperform both the original labeled ones and ones found by search baselines. Code available at https://github.com/Ascend-Research/AutoBuild

Inhwan Bae, Junoh Lee, Hae-Gon Jeon

Language models have demonstrated impressive ability in context understanding and generative performance. Inspired by the recent success of language foundation models in this paper we propose LMTraj (Language-based Multimodal Trajectory predictor) which recasts the trajectory prediction task into a sort of question-answering problem. Departing from traditional numerical regression models which treat the trajectory coordinate sequence as continuous signals we consider them as discrete signals like text prompts. Specially we first transform an input space for the trajectory coordinate into the natural language space. Here the entire time-series trajectories of pedestrians are converted into a text prompt and scene images are described as text information through image captioning. The transformed numerical and image data are then wrapped into the question-answering template for use in a language model. Next to guide the language model in understanding and reasoning high-level knowledge such as scene context and social relationships between pedestrians we introduce an auxiliary multi-task question and answering. We then train a numerical tokenizer with the prompt data. We encourage the tokenizer to separate the integer and decimal parts well and leverage it to capture correlations between the consecutive numbers in the language model. Lastly we train the language model using the numerical tokenizer and all of the question-answer prompts. Here we propose a beam-search-based most-likely prediction and a temperature-based multimodal prediction to implement both deterministic and stochastic inferences. Applying our LMTraj we show that the language-based model can be a powerful pedestrian trajectory predictor and outperforms existing numerical-based predictor methods. Extensive experiments show that our LMTraj can successfully understand social relationships and accurately extrapolate the multimodal futures on the public pedestrian trajectory prediction benchmark. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/inhwanbae/LMTrajectory.

Qiang Wang, Bingyan Liu, Yawen Li

Federated continual learning (FCL) is a typical mechanism to achieve collaborative model training among clients that own dynamic data. While traditional FCL methods have been proved effective they do not consider the task repeatability and fail to achieve good performance under this practical scenario. In this paper we propose a new paradigm namely Traceable Federated Continual Learning (TFCL) aiming to cope with repetitive tasks by tracing and augmenting them. Following the new paradigm we develop TagFed a framework that enables accurate and effective Tracing augmentation and Federation for TFCL. The key idea is to decompose the whole model into a series of marked sub-models for optimizing each client task before conducting group-wise knowledge aggregation such that the repetitive tasks can be located precisely and federated selectively for improved performance. Extensive experiments on our constructed benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed framework. We will release our code at: https://github.com/P0werWeirdo/TagFCL.

Fushuo Huo, Wenchao Xu, Jingcai Guo, Haozhao Wang, Song Guo

Existing Knowledge Distillation (KD) methods typically focus on transferring knowledge from a large-capacity teacher to a low-capacity student model achieving substantial success in unimodal knowledge transfer. However existing methods can hardly be extended to Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation (CMKD) where the knowledge is transferred from a teacher modality to a different student modality with inference only on the distilled student modality. We empirically reveal that the modality gap i.e. modality imbalance and soft label misalignment incurs the ineffectiveness of traditional KD in CMKD. As a solution we propose a novel \underline C ustomized \underline C rossmodal \underline K nowledge \underline D istillation (C^2KD). Specifically to alleviate the modality gap the pre-trained teacher performs bidirectional distillation with the student to provide customized knowledge. The On-the-Fly Selection Distillation(OFSD) strategy is applied to selectively filter out the samples with misaligned soft labels where we distill cross-modal knowledge from non-target classes to avoid the modality imbalance issue. To further provide receptive cross-modal knowledge proxy student and teacher inheriting unimodal and cross-modal knowledge is formulated to progressively transfer cross-modal knowledge through bidirectional distillation. Experimental results on audio-visual image-text and RGB-depth datasets demonstrate that our method can effectively transfer knowledge across modalities achieving superior performance against traditional KD by a large margin.

Nilesh Kulkarni, Davis Rempe, Kyle Genova, Abhijit Kundu, Justin Johnson, David Fouhey, Leonidas Guibas

We address the problem of generating realistic 3D motions of humans interacting with objects in a scene. Our key idea is to create a neural interaction field attached to a specific object which outputs the distance to the valid interaction manifold given a human pose as input. This interaction field guides the sampling of an object-conditioned human motion diffusion model so as to encourage plausible contacts and affordance semantics. To support interactions with scarcely available data we propose an automated synthetic data pipeline. For this we seed a pre-trained motion model which has priors for the basics of human movement with interaction-specific anchor poses extracted from limited motion capture data. Using our guided diffusion model trained on generated synthetic data we synthesize realistic motions for sitting and lifting with several objects outperforming alternative approaches in terms of motion quality and successful action completion. We call our framework NIFTY: Neural Interaction Fields for Trajectory sYnthesis.

Ling Yang, Haotian Qian, Zhilong Zhang, Jingwei Liu, Bin Cui

Diffusion models have demonstrated exceptional efficacy in various generative applications. While existing models focus on minimizing a weighted sum of denoising score matching losses for data distribution modeling their training primarily emphasizes instance-level optimization overlooking valuable structural information within each mini-batch indicative of pair-wise relationships among samples. To address this limitation we introduce Structure-guided Adversarial training of Diffusion Models (SADM). In this pioneering approach we compel the model to learn manifold structures between samples in each training batch. To ensure the model captures authentic manifold structures in the data distribution we advocate adversarial training of the diffusion generator against a novel structure discriminator in a minimax game distinguishing real manifold structures from the generated ones. SADM substantially outperforms existing methods in image generation and cross-domain fine-tuning tasks across 12 datasets establishing a new state-of-the-art FID of 1.58 and 2.11 on ImageNet for class-conditional image generation at resolutions of 256x256 and 512x512 respectively.