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Zheng Chen, Yu Zeng, Zehui Chen, Hongzhi Gao, Lin Chen, Jiaming Liu, Feng Zhao

Although pre-trained large vision foundation models (VFM) yield superior results on various downstream tasks, full fine-tuning is often impractical due to its high computational cost and storage requirements. Recent advancements in parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) of VFM for image classification show significant promise. However, the application of PEFT techniques to dense prediction tasks remains largely unexplored. Our analysis of existing methods reveals that the underlying premise of utilizing low-rank parameter matrices, despite their efficacy in specific applications, may not be adequately suitable for dense prediction tasks. To this end, we propose a novel PEFT learning approach tailored for dense prediction tasks, namely VFM-Adapter. Specifically, the VFM-Adapter introduces a hybrid operation mapping technique that seamlessly integrates local information with global modeling to the adapter module. It capitalizes on the distinct inductive biases inherent in different operations. Additionally, we dynamically generate parameters for the VFM-Adapter, enabling flexibility of feature extraction given specific inputs. To validate the efficacy of VFM-Adapter, we conduct extensive experiments across object detection, semantic segmentation, and instance segmentation tasks. Results on multiple benchmarks consistently demonstrate the superiority of our method over previous approaches. Notably, with only three percent of the trainable parameters of the SAM-Base backbone, our approach achieves competitive or even superior performance compared to full fine-tuning. The code will be available.

Zehao Chen, Zhanfeng Liao, De Ma, Huajin Tang, Qian Zheng, Gang Pan

We present EvHDR-NeRF to recover a High Dynamic Range (HDR) radiance field from event streams and a set of Low Dynamic Range (LDR) views with single exposures. Using the EvHDR-NeRF, we can generate both novel HDR views and novel LDR views under different exposures. The key to our method is to model the new relationship between events streams and LDR images, which considers both the Camera Response Function (CRF) and exposure time. Based on this relationship, we categorize events into inter-frame events and intra-exposure. The former is utilized for building HDR radiance field and the latter is used to deblur potentially blurred images. Compared to existing methods, this method can effectively reconstruct the HDR radiance field even when the input images are degraded. Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art HDR reconstruction, providing a more adaptable and accurate solution for complex imaging applications.

Zehao Chen, Zhan Lu, De Ma, Huajin Tang, Xudong Jiang, Qian Zheng, Gang Pan

High Dynamic Range (HDR) video reconstruction seeks to accurately restore the extensive dynamic range present in real-world scenes and is widely employed in downstream applications. Existing methods typically operate on one or a small number of consecutive frames, which often leads to inconsistent brightness across the video due to their limited perspective on the video sequence. Moreover, supervised learning-based approaches are susceptible to data bias, resulting in reduced effectiveness when confronted with test inputs exhibiting a domain gap relative to the training data. To address these limitations, we present an event-guided HDR video reconstruction method through building 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS), to ensure consistent brightness imposed by 3D consistency. We introduce HDR 3D Gaussians capable of simultaneously representing HDR and low-dynamic-range (LDR) colors. Furthermore, we incorporate a learnable HDR-to-LDR transformation optimized by input event streams and LDR frames to eliminate the data bias. Experimental results on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance.

Zehao Chen, Rong Pan

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) are essential XML-based formats for versatile graphics, offering resolution independence and scalability. Unlike raster images, SVGs use geometric shapes and support interactivity, animation, and manipulation via CSS and JavaScript. Current SVG generation methods face challenges related to high computational costs and complexity. In contrast, human designers use component-based tools for efficient SVG creation. Inspired by this, SVGBuilder introduces a component-based, autoregressive model for generating high-quality colored SVGs from textual input. It significantly reduces computational overhead and improves efficiency compared to traditional methods. Our model generates SVGs up to 604 times faster than optimization-based approaches. To address the limitations of existing SVG datasets and support our research, we introduce ColorSVG-100K, the first large-scale dataset of colored SVGs, comprising 100,000 graphics. This dataset fills the gap in color information for SVG generation models and enhances diversity in model training. Evaluation against state-of-the-art models demonstrates SVGBuilder's superior performance in practical applications, highlighting its efficiency and quality in generating complex SVG graphics.

Yuying Chen, Mingde Yao, Wenbo Li, Renjing Pei, Jinjing Zhao, Wenqi Ren

Single image super-solution (SR) aims to restore a high-resolution (HR) image from a degraded low-resolution (LR) image. However, existing SR models still face a significant domain gap between synthetic and real-world datasets due to the mismatched degradation distributions, hindering SR models from achieving optimal results. In this paper, we propose an unsupervised diffusion-based degradation modeling framework (UDDM) to effectively capture real-world degradation distributions. Specifically, given unpaired LR and HR images, a diffusion-based degradation module (DDM) first models the degradation distribution by diffusing real-world LR images to downsampled LR images, which does not require HR images. It then applies reverse diffusion to generate real-world LR images from extremely downsampled HR images. This approach allows DDM to model and generate real-world degradation distributions without requiring paired data, by using extreme downsampling to link unpaired LR and HR images. Additionally, we introduce a physics-based dynamic degradation module (P-DDM) that adaptively models content-aware degradation, ensuring both content and structural accuracy. Finally, the LR images generated by DDM and P-DDM are adaptively weighted to produce the final LR images, which are paired with the given HR images for training the SR network. Extensive experiments across multiple real-world datasets demonstrate that our framework achieves state-of-the-art performance in both qualitative and quantitative comparison.

Yujia Chen, Rui Sun, Wangkai Li, Huayu Mai, Naisong Luo, Yuwen Pan, Tianzhu Zhang

Mitochondria segmentation from electron microscopy (EM) images plays a crucial role in biological and medical research. However, models trained on source domains often suffer from performance degradation when applied to target domains due to domain shift. Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) methods have been proposed to address this issue, but they often overlook the reliability of pseudo-labels and the effectiveness of supervision signals. In this paper, we propose R4MITO, a novel UDA framework for robust mitochondria segmentation. First, we introduce Reliable Prototype Pseudo-labels to mitigate the inconsistency of class-level features between across domains by leveraging source prototypes to model target prototypes. Second, we devise Correlation-wise Consistency Regularization to exploit inter-pixel correlations, aligning agent-level correlations under various perturbations. Third, we propose Rank-aware Relationship Consistency Regularization to fully utilize the rich information encoded in inter-agent relationships by imposing rank-aware constraints on agent-ranking probability distributions. Extensive experiments on multiple EM datasets demonstrate the superiority of our R4MITO over existing state-of-the-art UDA methods for mitochondria segmentation.

Yuchong Chen, Jian Yu, Shaoyan Gai, Zeyu Cai, Feipeng Da

In structured light systems, the accuracy of measurement notably diminishes when assessing complex texture objects, especially encountering boundaries between various colors. To address this challenge, this paper meticulously analyzes and establishes an error model, elaborating the correlation between phase errors and the gradients of phase and gray-scale. Based on this analysis, a novel high-precision method is proposed for measuring complex texture objects via bidirectional fringe projection. This approach firstly leverages horizontal and vertical fringe projections to derive bidirectional phase information and calculates the angles between the tangent of the texture edges and the phase gradient. Subsequently, a refined temporal phase correction algorithm is formulated based on the epipolar matching algorithm and the devised error model, effectively mitigating numerical instability issues within the algorithm and significantly reducing errors of bidirectional phases. Ultimately, corrected point clouds are calculated based on bidirectional phases, and the obtained point clouds are merged to further diminish phase errors. Comparison experiments indicate that this method can reduce Mean Absolute Error (MAE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) by 65.74% and 67.75%, respectively. Compared to existing methods, it improves performance by 27.29% and 33.74%, respectively, demonstrating superior performance.

Yitong Chen, Wenhao Yao, Lingchen Meng, Sihong Wu, Zuxuan Wu, Yu-Gang Jiang

Enabling models to recognize vast open-world categories has been a longstanding pursuit in object detection. By leveraging the generalization capabilities of vision-language models, current open-world detectors can recognize a broader range of vocabularies, despite being trained on limited categories. However, when the scale of the category vocabularies during training expands to a real-world level, previous classifiers aligned with coarse class names significantly reduce the recognition performance of these detectors. In this paper, we introduce Prova, a multi-modal prototype classifier for vast-vocabulary object detection. Prova extracts comprehensive multi-modal prototypes as initialization of alignment classifiers to tackle the vast-vocabulary object recognition failure problem. On V3Det, this simple method greatly enhances the performance among one-stage, two-stage, and DETR-based detectors with only additional projection layers in both supervised and open-vocabulary settings. In particular, Prova improves Faster R-CNN, FCOS, and DINO by 3.3, 6.2, and 2.9 AP respectively in the supervised setting of V3Det. For the open-vocabulary setting, Prova achieves a new state-of-the-art performance with 32.8 base AP and 11.0 novel AP, which is of 2.6 and 4.3 gain over the previous methods.

Yirui Chen, Xudong Huang, Quan Zhang, Wei Li, Mingjian Zhu, Qiangyu Yan, Simiao Li, Hanting Chen, Hailin Hu, Jie Yang 等

The extraordinary ability of generative models emerges as a new trend in image editing and generating realistic images, posing a serious threat to the trustworthiness of multimedia data and driving the research of image manipulation detection and location (IMDL). However, the lack of a large-scale data foundation makes the IMDL task unattainable. In this paper, we build a local manipulation data generation pipeline that integrates the powerful capabilities of SAM, LLM, and generative models. Upon this basis, we propose the GIM dataset, which has the following advantages: 1) Large scale, GIM includes over one million pairs of AI-manipulated images and real images. 2) Rich image content, GIM encompasses a broad range of image classes. 3) Diverse generative manipulation, the images are manipulated images with state-of-the-art generators and various manipulation tasks. The aforementioned advantages allow for a more comprehensive evaluation of IMDL methods, extending their applicability to diverse images. We introduce the GIM benchmark with two settings to evaluate existing IMDL methods. In addition, we propose a novel IMDL framework, termed GIMFormer, which consists of a ShadowTracer, Frequency-Spatial block (FSB), and a Multi-Window Anomalous Modeling (MWAM) module. Extensive experiments on the GIM demonstrate that GIMFormer surpasses the previous state-of-the-art approach on two different benchmarks.

Yiliang Chen, Steven SC Ho, Cheng Xu, Yao Jie Xie, Wing-Fai Yeung, Shengfeng He, Jing Qin

Tongue diagnosis is a vital tool in both Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine, providing key insights into a patient's health by analyzing tongue attributes. The COVID-19 pandemic has heightened the need for accurate remote medical assessments, emphasizing the importance of precise tongue attribute recognition via telehealth. To address this, we propose a Sign-Oriented multi-label Attributes Detection Framework. Our approach begins with an adaptive tongue feature extraction module that standardizes tongue images and mitigates environmental factors. This is followed by a Sign-oriented Network (SignNet) that identifies specific tongue attributes, emulating the diagnostic process of experienced practitioners and enabling comprehensive health evaluations. To validate our methodology, we developed an extensive tongue image dataset specifically designed for telemedicine. Unlike existing datasets, ours is tailored for remote diagnosis, with a comprehensive set of attribute labels. This dataset will be openly available, providing a valuable resource for research. Initial tests have shown improved accuracy in detecting various tongue attributes, highlighting our framework's potential as an essential tool for remote medical assessments.

Yi Chen, Jian Xu, Xu-Yao Zhang, Wen-Zhuo Liu, Yang-Yang Liu, Cheng-Lin Liu

With the advancement of large-scale language modeling techniques, large multimodal models combining visual encoders with large language models have demonstrated exceptional performance in various visual tasks. Most of the current large multimodal models achieve this by mapping visual features obtained from the visual encoder into a large language model and using them as inputs alongside text for downstream tasks. Therefore, the number of visual tokens directly affects the training and inference speed of the model. There has been significant work on token pruning for visual transformers, but for large multimodal models, only relying on visual information for token pruning or compression may lead to significant loss of important information. On the other hand, the textual input in the form of a question may contain valuable information that can aid in answering the question, providing additional knowledge to the model. To address the potential oversimplification and excessive pruning that can occur with most purely visual token pruning methods, we propose a text information-guided dynamic visual token recovery mechanism that does not require training. This mechanism leverages the similarity between the question text and visual tokens to recover visually meaningful tokens with important text information while merging other less important tokens, to achieve efficient computation for large multimodal models. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves comparable performance to the original approach while compressing the visual tokens to an average of 10\% of the original quantity.

Yi Chen, Muyoung Son, Chuanbo Hua, Joo-Young Kim

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) is a powerful foundation model for image segmentation, showing robust zero-shot generalization through prompt engineering. However, relying on manual prompts is impractical for real-world applications, particularly in scenarios where rapid prompt provision and resource efficiency are crucial. In this paper, we propose the Automation of Prompts for SAM (AoP-SAM), a novel approach that learns to generate essential prompts in optimal locations automatically. AoP-SAM enhances SAM’s efficiency and usability by eliminating manual input, making it better suited for real-world tasks. Our approach employs a lightweight yet efficient Prompt Predictor model that detects key entities across images and identifies the optimal regions for placing prompt candidates. This method leverages SAM’s image embeddings, preserving its zero-shot generalization capabilities without requiring fine-tuning. Additionally, we introduce a test-time instance-level Adaptive Sampling and Filtering mechanism that generates prompts in a coarse-to-fine manner. This notably enhances both prompt and mask generation efficiency by reducing computational overhead and minimizing redundant mask refinements. Evaluations of three datasets demonstrate that AoP-SAM substantially improves both prompt generation efficiency and mask generation accuracy, making SAM more effective for automated segmentation tasks.

Xuesong Chen, Shaoshuai Shi, Tao Ma, Jingqiu Zhou, Simon See, Ka Chun Cheung, Hongsheng Li

The perception system for autonomous driving generally requires to handle multiple diverse sub-tasks. However, current algorithms typically tackle individual sub-tasks separately, which leads to low efficiency when aiming at obtaining full-perception results. Some multi-task learning methods try to unify multiple tasks with one model, but do not solve the conflicts in multi-task learning. In this paper, we introduce M3Net, a novel multimodal and multi-task network that simultaneously tackles detection, segmentation, and 3D occupancy prediction for autonomous driving and achieves superior performance than single task model. M3Net takes multimodal data as input and multiple tasks via query-token interactions. To enhance the integration of multi-modal features for multi-task learning, we first propose the Modality-Adaptive Feature Integration (MAFI) module, which enables single-modality features to predict channel-wise attention weights for their high-performing tasks, respectively. Based on integrated features, we then develop task-specific query initialization strategies to accommodate the needs of detection/segmentation and 3D occupancy prediction. Leveraging the properly initialized queries, a shared decoder transforms queries and BEV features layer-wise, facilitating multi-task learning. Furthermore, we propose a Task-oriented Channel Scaling (TCS) module in the decoder to mitigate conflicts between optimizing for different tasks. Additionally, our proposed multi-task querying and TCS module support both Transformer-based decoder and Mamba-based decoder, demonstrating its flexibility to different architectures. M3Net achieves state-of-the-art multi-task learning performance on the nuScenes benchmarks.

Xiongren Chen, Jiuyong Li, Jixue Liu, Lin Liu, Stefan Peters, Thuc Duy Le, Wentao Gao, Xiaojing Du, Anthony Walsh

In high-stakes domains such as healthcare, finance, and law, the need for explainable AI is critical. Traditional methods for generating attribution maps, including white-box approaches relying on gradients and black-box techniques that perturb inputs, face challenges like gradient vanishing, blurred attributions, and computational inefficiencies. To overcome these limitations, we introduce a novel approach that leverages diffusion models within the framework of Information Bottleneck (IB) theory. By utilizing the Gaussian noise from diffusion models, we connect the information bottleneck with the Minimum Mean Squared Error (MMSE) from classical information theory, enabling precise calculation of mutual information. This connection leads to a new loss function that minimizes the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR), facilitating efficient optimization and producing high-resolution, pixel-level attribution maps. Our method achieves greater clarity and accuracy in attributions than existing techniques, requiring significantly fewer pixel values to reach the necessary predictive confidence. This work demonstrates the power of diffusion models in advancing explainable AI, particularly in identifying critical input features with high precision.

Xinyue Chen, Miaojing Shi, Zijian Zhou, Lianghua He, Sophia Tsoka

Generalized few-shot semantic segmentation (GFSS) aims to segment objects of both base and novel classes, using sufficient samples of base classes and few samples of novel classes. Representative GFSS approaches typically employ a two-phase training scheme, involving base class pre-training followed by novel class fine-tuning, to learn the classifiers for base and novel classes respectively. Nevertheless, distribution gap exists between base and novel classes in this process. To narrow this gap, we exploit effective knowledge transfer from base to novel classes. First, a novel prototype modulation module is designed to modulate novel class prototypes by exploiting the correlations between base and novel classes. Second, a novel classifier calibration module is proposed to calibrate the weight distribution of the novel classifier according to that of the base classifier. Furthermore, existing GFSS approaches suffer from a lack of contextual information for novel classes due to their limited samples, we thereby introduce a context consistency learning scheme to transfer the contextual knowledge from base to novel classes. Extensive experiments on PASCAL-5i and COCO-20i demonstrate that our approach significantly enhances the state of the art in the GFSS setting.

Xingchi Chen, Zhuoran Zheng, Xuerui Li, Yuying Chen, Shu Wang, Wenqi Ren

With the continuous improvement of device imaging resolution, the popularity of Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) images is increasing. Unfortunately, existing methods for fusing multi-exposure images in dynamic scenes are designed for low-resolution images, which makes them inefficient for generating high-quality UHD images on a resource-constrained device. To alleviate the limitations of extremely long-sequence inputs, inspired by the Large Language Model (LLM) for processing infinitely long texts, we propose a novel learning paradigm to achieve UHD multi-exposure dynamic scene image fusion on a single consumer-grade GPU, named Infinite Pixel Learning (IPL). The design of our approach comes from three key components: The first step is to slice the input sequences to relieve the pressure generated by the model processing the data stream; Second, we develop an attention cache technique, which is similar to the KV cache for infinite data stream processing; Finally, we design a method for attention cache compression to alleviate the storage burden of the cache on the device. In addition, we provide a new UHD benchmark to evaluate the effectiveness of our method. Extensive experimental results show that our method maintains high-quality visual performance while fusing UHD dynamic multi-exposure images in real-time (>40fps) on a single consumer-grade GPU.

Xin Chen, Ben Kang, Wanting Geng, Jiawen Zhu, Yi Liu, Dong Wang, Huchuan Lu

In this paper, we propose a simple yet unified single object tracking (SOT) framework, dubbed SUTrack. It consolidates five SOT tasks (RGB-based, RGB-Depth, RGB-Thermal, RGB-Event, RGB-Language Tracking) into a unified model trained in a single session. Due to the distinct nature of the data, current methods typically design individual architectures and train separate models for each task. This fragmentation results in redundant training processes, repetitive technological innovations, and limited cross-modal knowledge sharing. In contrast, SUTrack demonstrates that a single model with a unified input representation can effectively handle various SOT tasks, eliminating the need for task-specific designs and separate training sessions. Additionally, we introduce a task-recognition training strategy and a soft token type embedding to further enhance SUTrack's performance with minimal overhead. Experiments show that SUTrack outperforms previous task-specific counterparts across 11 datasets spanning five SOT tasks. Moreover, we provide a range of models catering edge devices as well as high-performance GPUs, striking a good trade-off between speed and accuracy. We hope SUTrack could serve as a strong foundation for further compelling research into unified tracking models.

Xiao Chen, Xudong Jiang, Yunkang Tao, Zhen Lei, Qing Li, Chenyang Lei, Zhaoxiang Zhang

Removing reflection from a single image is challenging due to the absence of general reflection priors. Although existing methods incorporate extensive user guidance for satisfactory performance, they often lack the flexibility to adapt user guidance in different modalities, and dense user interactions further limit their practicality. To alleviate these problems, this paper presents FIRM, a novel framework for Flexible Interactive image Reflection reMoval with various forms of guidance, where users can provide sparse visual guidance (e.g., points, boxes, or strokes) or text descriptions for better reflection removal. Firstly, we design a novel user guidance conversion module (UGC) to transform different forms of guidance into unified contrastive masks. The contrastive masks provide explicit cues for identifying reflection and transmission layers in blended images. Secondly, we devise a contrastive mask-guided reflection removal network that comprises a newly proposed contrastive guidance interaction block (CGIB). This block leverages a unique cross-attention mechanism that merges contrastive masks with image features, allowing for precise layer separation. The proposed framework requires only 10% of the guidance time needed by previous interactive methods, which makes a step-change in flexibility. Extensive results on public real-world reflection removal datasets validate that our method demonstrates state-of-the-art reflection removal performance.

Wei Chen, Jianwei Niu, Xuefeng Liu, Zhendong Wang, Shaojie Tang, Guogang Zhu

Dense video captioning (DVC) aims to describe multiple events within a video, and its performance is greatly affected by the accuracy of video event detection. Video event detection involves predicting the proposal boundaries (start and end times) and the classification score of each event in a video. Recently, a few methods have applied diffusion models originally designed for image object detection to detect events in DVC. These methods add noise to the ground-truth event proposal boundaries, and subsequently learn the denoising process. However, these methods often overlook the fundamental differences between videos and images. We observe that, whereas in images the important information for object classification is normally around the boundaries of the ground-truth boxes, in videos the key information for event classification is typically centered in the middle of ground-truth event proposals. As a result, the classification module in these existing diffusion models becomes insensitive to boundary changes introduced by the added noise, leading to sub-optimal performance. This paper introduces DiffDVC, an innovative diffusion model for DVC. The core of DiffDVC is a boundary-sensitive detector. The detector increases the sensitivity of the classification module to boundary changes by focusing on frames within a specific range around the start and end times of noisy event proposals. Additionally, this range is dynamically adjusted to suit different event proposals. Comprehensive experiments on ActivityNet-1.3, ActivityNet Captions, and YouCook2 datasets show DiffDVC achieving superior performance.

Siran Chen, Yuxiao Luo, Yue Ma, Yu Qiao, Yali Wang

With the prevalence of Multimodal Large Language Models(MLLMs), autonomous driving has encountered new opportunities and challenges. In particular, multi-modal video understanding is critical to interactively analyze what will happen in the procedure of autonomous driving. However, videos in such a dynamical scene that often contains complex spatial-temporal movements, which restricts the generalization capacity of the existing MLLMs in this field. To bridge the gap, we propose a novel Hierarchical Mamba Adaptation (H-MBA) framework to fit the complicated motion changes in autonomous driving videos. Specifically, our H-MBA consists of two distinct modules, including Context Mamba (C-Mamba) and Query Mamba (Q-Mamba). First, C-Mamba contains various types of structure state space models, which can effectively capture multi-granularity video context for different temporal resolution. Second, Q-Mamba flexibly transforms the current frame as the learnable query, and attentively select multi-granularity video context into query. Consequently, it can adaptively integrate all the video contexts of multi-scale temporal resolutions to enhance video understanding. Via a plug-and-play paradigm in MLLMs, our H-MBA shows the remarkable performance on multi-modal video tasks in autonomous driving, e.g., for risk object detection, it outperforms the previous SOTA method with 5.5% mIoU improvement.