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Chaowei Fang

19 accepted papers

2025

Bridging Knowledge Gap Between Image Inpainting and Large-Area Visible Watermark Removal

AAAI 2025technical

Visible watermark removal which involves watermark cleaning and background content restoration is pivotal to evaluate the resilience of watermarks. Existing deep neural network (DNN)-based models still struggle with large-area watermarks and are overly dependent on the quality of watermark mask pred…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Hierarchically Controlled Deformable 3D Gaussians for Talking Head Synthesis

AAAI 2025technical

Audio-driven talking head synthesis is a critical task in digital human modeling. While recent advances using diffusion models and Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF) have improved visual quality, they often require substantial computational resources, limiting practical deployment. We present a novel fra…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2025

Navigating Semantic Drift in Task-Agnostic Class-Incremental Learning

ICML 2025oral

Class-incremental learning (CIL) seeks to enable a model to sequentially learn new classes while retaining knowledge of previously learned ones. Balancing flexibility and stability remains a significant challenge, particularly when the task ID is unknown. To address this, our study reveals that the…

2025

RegionMatch: Pixel-Region Collaboration for Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images

IJCAI 2025

Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (S4) has shown significant promise in reducing the burden of labor-intensive data annotation. However, existing methods mainly rely on pixel-level information, neglecting the strong region consistency inherent in remote sensing images (RSIs), which limits their

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Screening, Rectifying, and Re-Screening: A Unified Framework for Tuning Vision-Language Models with Noisy Labels

IJCAI 2025

Pre-trained vision-language models have shown remarkable potential for downstream tasks. However, their fine-tuning under noisy labels remains an open problem due to challenges like self-confirmation bias and the limitations of conventional small-loss criteria. In this paper, we propose a unified fr

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Unsupervised Degradation Representation Aware Transform for Real-World Blind Image Super-Resolution

AAAI 2025technical

Blind image super-resolution (blind SR) aims to restore a high-resolution (HR) image from a low-resolution (LR) image with unknown degradation. Many existing methods explicitly estimate degradation information from various LR images. However, in most cases, image degradations are independent of imag…

2024

Diffusion-based Layer-wise Semantic Reconstruction for Unsupervised Out-of-Distribution Detection

NeurIPS 2024poster

Unsupervised out-of-distribution (OOD) detection aims to identify out-of-domain data by learning only from unlabeled In-Distribution (ID) training samples, which is crucial for developing a safe real-world machine learning system. Current reconstruction-based method provides a good alternative appro…

2024

Progressive Feature Self-Reinforcement for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

AAAI 2024technical

Compared to conventional semantic segmentation with pixel-level supervision, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) with image-level labels poses the challenge that it commonly focuses on the most discriminative regions, resulting in a disparity between weakly and fully supervision scenarios…

2024

Removing Interference and Recovering Content Imaginatively for Visible Watermark Removal

AAAI 2024technical

Visible watermarks, while instrumental in protecting image copyrights, frequently distort the underlying content, complicating tasks like scene interpretation and image editing. Visible watermark removal aims to eliminate the interference of watermarks and restore the background content. However, ex…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

Revisiting the Power of Prompt for Visual Tuning

ICML 2024spotlight

Visual prompt tuning (VPT) is a promising solution incorporating learnable prompt tokens to customize pre-trained models for downstream tasks. However, VPT and its variants often encounter challenges like prompt initialization, prompt length, and subpar performance in self-supervised pretraining, hi…

2024

Variance-Insensitive and Target-Preserving Mask Refinement for Interactive Image Segmentation

AAAI 2024technical

Point-based interactive image segmentation can ease the burden of mask annotation in applications such as semantic segmentation and image editing. However, fully extracting the target mask with limited user inputs remains challenging. We introduce a novel method, Variance-Insensitive and Target-Pres…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2023

Adapting Object Size Variance and Class Imbalance for Semi-supervised Object Detection

AAAI 2023technical

Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD) attracts extensive research interest due to its great significance in reducing the data annotation effort. Collecting high-quality and category-balanced pseudo labels for unlabeled images is critical to addressing the SSOD problem. However, most of the existin…

Cited by 13SourcePDFScholar
2023

De-biased Teacher: Rethinking IoU Matching for Semi-supervised Object Detection

AAAI 2023technical

Most of the recent research in semi-supervised object detection follows the pseudo-labeling paradigm evolved from the semi-supervised image classification task. However, the training paradigm of the two-stage object detector inevitably makes the pseudo-label learning process for unlabeled images ful…

2023

Identity-Preserving Talking Face Generation With Landmark and Appearance Priors

CVPR 2023poster

Generating talking face videos from audio attracts lots of research interest. A few person-specific methods can generate vivid videos but require the target speaker's videos for training or fine-tuning. Existing person-generic methods have difficulty in generating realistic and lip-synced videos whi…

2023

RankMatch: Fostering Confidence and Consistency in Learning with Noisy Labels

ICCV 2023poster

Learning with noisy labels (LNL) is one of the most important and challenging problems in weakly-supervised learning. Recent advances adopt the sample selection strategy to mitigate the interference of noisy labels and use small-loss criteria to select clean samples. However, the one-dimensional los…

Cited by 14PDFScholar
2022

Double-Check Soft Teacher for Semi-Supervised Object Detection

IJCAI 2022poster

In the semi-supervised object detection task, due to the scarcity of labeled data and the diversity and complexity of objects to be detected, the quality of pseudo-labels generated by existing methods for unlabeled data is relatively low, which severely restricts the performance of semi-supervised o…

2022

Incremental Cross-View Mutual Distillation for Self-Supervised Medical CT Synthesis

CVPR 2022poster

Due to the constraints of the imaging device and high cost in operation time, computer tomography (CT) scans are usually acquired with low within-slice resolution. Improving the inter-slice resolution is beneficial to the disease diagnosis for both human experts and computer-aided systems. To this e…

Cited by 25PDFScholar
2021

Trash To Treasure: Harvesting OOD Data With Cross-Modal Matching for Open-Set Semi-Supervised Learning

ICCV 2021poster

Open-set semi-supervised learning (open-set SSL) investigates a challenging but practical scenario where out-of-distribution (OOD) samples are contained in the unlabeled data. While the mainstream technique seeks to completely filter out the OOD samples for semi-supervised learning (SSL), we propose…

Cited by 76PDFScholar