37 accepted papers
3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated exceptional performance in reconstruction and novel view synthesis tasks. However, its reliance on Structure-from-Motion preprocessing may lead to degraded performance under sparse-view scenarios. Recent works attempt to address this limitation by levera
End-to-end planning methods are the de-facto standard of the current autonomous driving system, while the robustness of the data-driven approaches suffers due to the notorious long-tail problem (i.e., rare but safety-critical failure cases). In this work, we explore whether recent diffusion-based vi
Although multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong capabilities across diverse domains, their application in generating fine-grained 3D perception and prediction outputs in autonomous driving remains underexplored. In this paper, we propose DrivePI, a novel spatial-aware 4D MLLM th
In this paper, we rethink model agent behaviors from a geometric structure perspective in multi-agent reinforcement learning. Modeling agent behaviors is essential for understanding how agents interact and facilitating effective decisions. The key lies in capturing the dependencies and sequential re
Just recognizable distortion (JRD) has emerged as a promising paradigm for machine-centric video coding. However, existing JRD-guided coding methods are limited by coarse annotation granularity and high computational cost, which hinder their deployment. In this paper, we first investigate the impact
Text-to-Video (T2V) generation has advanced greatly, yet maintaining consistency remains challenging, especially for tuning-free long video generation. We attribute the consistency problem to cumulative deviations for long video generation at three levels: the random noise lacking correlation resu
Open-vocabulary part segmentation (OVPS) aims to segment objects into fine-grained parts while generalizing to unseen categories. Existing VLM-based methods face two challenges: (1) object over-segmentation, caused by overly broad semantic activations, and (2) part under-segmentation, resulting from
Based on an RGB-D image pair, semantic scene completion (SSC) provides a description for 3D scene understanding by predicting 3D semantic occupancy map. Recent methods extract RGB-D multi-modal features and fuse them in spatial domain, which disregards the misalignment caused by the imperfect raw mu
Trajectory planning for autonomous driving is challenging due to agents' behavioral uncertainty and intricate multi-agent interaction modeling. Most existing studies generate trajectories without explicitly exploiting possible scene evolution, while world models predict consequences from ego behavio…
High-quality video editing and processing are crucial in domains such as filmmaking and autonomous driving, where accurate visual refinement and data preparation are essential. However, it is challenging to achieve precise control over dynamic objects while maintaining spatiotemporal consistency. Cu
Generating RGB-A videos, which include alpha channels for transparency, has wide applications. However, current methods often suffer from low quality due to confusion between RGB and alpha. In this paper, we address this problem by learning shiftable RGB-A distributions. We adjust both the latent sp
Vision-and-Language Navigation in Continuous Environments (VLN-CE) presents challenges due to environmental variations and domain shifts, making it difficult for agents to generalize beyond seen environments. Most existing methods rely on learning correlations between observations and actions from t
The recent progress in semantic point cloud segmentation is attributed to deep networks, which require a large amount of point cloud data for training. However, how to collect substantial point-wise annotations of the point clouds at affordable cost for the end-to-end network training still needs to…
High-quality video generation is crucial for many fields, including the film industry and autonomous driving. However, generating videos with spatiotemporal consistencies remains challenging. Current methods typically utilize attention mechanisms or modify noise to achieve consistent videos, neglect…
Open-vocabulary part segmentation (OVPS) struggles with structurally connected boundaries due to the inherent conflict between continuous image features and discrete classification mechanism. To address this, we propose PBAPS, a novel training-free framework specifically designed for OVPS. PBAPS lev…
Pedestrian trajectory prediction ensures safe navigation in autonomous driving and intelligent robots. Existing methods have shown promising results but still face challenges in handling dynamic environments, social interactions, and high-dimensional data. In this paper, we propose a novel PhysGCN-D
Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual content. While existing works demonstrate these models' vulnerability to deliberately placed adversarial texts, such texts are often easily identifiable as anomalous. In this paper, we present the first ap…
Vehicle trajectory prediction is a crucial aspect of autonomous driving, which requires extensive trajectory data to train prediction models to understand the complex, varied, and unpredictable patterns of vehicular interactions. However, acquiring real-world data is expensive, so we advocate using…
The increasing number of presentation attacks on reliable face matching has raised concerns and garnered attention towards face anti-spoofing (FAS). However, existing methods for FAS modeling commonly fuse multiple visual modalities (e.g., RGB, Depth, and Infrared) in a straightforward manner, disre…
Visual object tracking plays a critical role in visual-based autonomous systems, as it aims to estimate the position and size of the object of interest within a live video. Despite significant progress made in this field, state-of-the-art (SOTA) trackers often fail when faced with adversarial pertur…
The latest research on wildfire forecast and backtracking has adopted AI models, which require a large amount of data from wildfire scenarios to capture fire spread patterns. This paper explores using cost-effective simulated wildfire scenarios to train AI models and apply them to the analysis of re…
Semantic scene completion is a difficult task that involves completing the geometry and semantics of a scene from point clouds in a large-scale environment. Many current methods use 3D/2D convolutions or attention mechanisms, but these have limitations in directly constructing geometry and accuratel…
LiDAR sensors are widely used in autonomous driving, and the growing storage and transmission demands have made LiDAR point cloud compression (LPCC) a hot research topic. To address the challenges posed by the large-scale and uneven-distribution (spatial and categorical) of LiDAR point data, this pa…
Semantic scene completion (SSC) requires an accurate understanding of the geometric and semantic relationships between the objects in the 3D scene for reasoning the occluded objects. The popular SSC methods voxelize the 3D objects, allowing the deep 3D convolutional network (3D CNN) to learn the obj…
Fully-supervised shadow removal methods achieve the best restoration qualities on public datasets but still generate some shadow remnants. One of the reasons is the lack of large-scale shadow & shadow-free image pairs. Unsupervised methods can alleviate the issue but their restoration qualities are…
Many methods of semantic image segmentation have borrowed the success of open compound domain adaptation. They minimize the style gap between the images of source and target domains, more easily predicting the accurate pseudo annotations for target domain's images that train segmentation network. Th…
Visual context is of crucial importance for image inpainting. The contextual information captures the appearance and semantic correlation between the image regions, helping to propagate the information of the complete regions for reasoning the content of the corrupted regions. Many inpainting method…
Semantic scene completion (SSC) requires the estimation of the 3D geometric occupancies of objects in the scene, along with the object categories. Currently, many methods employ RGB-D images to capture the geometric and semantic information of objects. These methods use simple but popular spatial- a…
Image rain removal requires the accurate separation between the pixels of the rain streaks and object textures. But the confusing appearances of rains and objects lead to the misunderstanding of pixels, thus remaining the rain streaks or missing the object details in the result. In this paper, we pr…
Although achieving significant progress, existing deep generative inpainting methods still show low generalization across different scenes. As a result, the generated images usually contain artifacts or the filled pixels differ greatly from the ground truth, making them far from real-world applicati…
Recent semantic segmentation methods model the relationship between pixels to construct the contextual representations. In this paper, we introduce the \emph{Region Attention Network} (RANet), a novel attention network for modeling the relationship between object regions. RANet divides the image int…
Multi-scale context information has proven to be essential for object segmentation tasks. Recent works construct the multi-scale context by aggregating convolutional feature maps extracted by different levels of a deep neural network. This is typically done by propagating and fusing features in a on…
Accurate semantic image segmentation requires the joint consideration of local appearance, semantic information, and global scene context. In today’s age of pre-trained deep networks and their powerful convolutional features, state-of-the-art semantic segmentation approaches differ mostly in how the…
Fully convolutional network (FCN) has been successfully applied in semantic segmentation of scenes represented with RGB images. Images augmented with depth channel provide more understanding of the geometric information of the scene in the image. The question is how to best exploit this additional i…
While crowdsourcing has been a cost and time efficient method to label massive samples, one critical issue is quality control, for which the key challenge is to infer the ground truth from noisy or even adversarial data by various users. A large class of crowdsourcing problems, such as those involvi…
Large-scale data are of crucial importance for learning semantic segmentation models, but annotating per-pixel masks is a tedious and inefficient procedure. We note that for the topic of interactive image segmentation, scribbles are very widely used in academic research and commercial software, and…
We propose a fine-grained recognition system that incorporates part localization, alignment, and classification in one deep neural network. This is a nontrivial process, as the input to the classification module should be functions that enable back-propagation in constructing the solver. Our major c…