45 accepted papers
While 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has demonstrated impressive real-time rendering performance, its efficacy remains constrained by a reliance on heuristic density control. Despite numerous refinements to these handcrafted rules, such methods inherently lack the flexibility to adapt to diverse scene…
Real-world multimodal systems inevitably face partial observability due to sensor dropout and degradation. Standard robustness methods can improve average performance, but they often remain unreliable in rare, adverse long-tail conditions. Under a locked same-support contract, we uncover a same-supp…
Reconstructing transparent objects from a set of multi-view images is a challenging task due to the complicated nature and indeterminate behavior of light propagation. Typical methods are primarily tailored to specific scenarios, such as objects following a uniform topology, exhibiting ideal transpa…
Diffusion-based virtual try-on methods rely on vast high-quality garment-person pairs, which are scarce in practice due to the high cost of data collection and preprocessing, limiting their performance in real-world scenarios.To overcome this bottleneck, we propose Cycle-Consistent Virtual Try-On (C
Diffusion-based generative image steganography converts the input single secret image into noise, and generates the stego image with it serves as the initial noise. Nevertheless, existing methods exhibit three severe limitations: (1) the fixed hiding space constrains their capacity to one secret ima…
3D single object tracking (SOT) remains a highly challenging task due to the inherent crux in learning representations from point clouds to effectively capture both spatial shape features and temporal motion features. Most existing methods employ a category-specific optimization paradigm, training t…
Prompt tuning introduces learnable prompt vectors that adapt pretrained vision-language models to downstream tasks in a parameter-efficient manner. However, under limited supervision, prompt tuning alters pretrained representations and drives downstream features away from the pretrained manifold tow…
Vision-language models (VLMs) face significant computational inefficiencies caused by excessive generation of visual tokens. While prior work shows that a large fraction of visual tokens are redundant, existing compression methods struggle to balance \textit{importance preservation} and \textit{info…
Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of vision tasks, yet they remain highly vulnerable to adversarial perturbations due to the lack of explicit region-level semantic modeling. Adversarial perturbations are typically local and spatially structured, whereas
Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have greatly improved visual quality, yet producing images that appear visually authentic to real-world photography remains challenging. This is partly due to biases in existing evaluation paradigms: human ratings and preference-trained metrics often
Poison-only Clean-label Backdoor Attacks (PCBAs) aim to covertly inject attacker-desired behavior into DNNs by merely poisoning the dataset without changing the labels. To effectively implant a backdoor, multiple triggers are proposed for various attack requirements of Attack Success Rate (ASR) and…
Edit-based approaches for Grammatical Error Correction (GEC) have attracted volume attention due to their outstanding explanations of the correction process and rapid inference. Through exploring the characteristics of the generalized and specific knowledge learning for GEC, we discover that efficie…
Existing Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) models often suffer from language biases, where spurious correlations between question types and answer categories are inadvertently established. To address these issues, we propose a novel Cause-Effect Driven Optimization framework called CEDO, t
Adapting pre-trained image models to video modality has proven to be an effective strategy for robust few-shot action recognition. In this work, we explore the potential of adapter tuning in image-to-video model adaptation and propose a novel video adapter tuning framework, called Disentangled-and-D…
Adapting pretrained diffusion-based generative models for text-driven image editing with negligible tuning overhead has demonstrated remarkable potential. A classical adaptation paradigm, as followed by these methods, first infers the generative trajectory inversely for a given source image by image…
Image steganography hides multiple images for multiple recipients into a single cover image. All secret images are usually revealed without authentication, which reduces security among multiple recipients. It is elegant to design an authentication mechanism for isolated reception. We explore such me…
Recent advances in point cloud perception have demonstrated remarkable progress in scene understanding through vision-language alignment leveraging large language models (LLMs). However, existing methods may still encounter challenges in handling complex instructions that require accurate spatial re…
Asymmetric retrieval is a typical scenario in real-world retrieval systems, where compatible models of varying capacities are deployed on platforms with different resource configurations. Existing methods generally train pre-defined networks or subnetworks with capacities specifically designed for p…
Image steganography ensures secure information transmission and storage by concealing secret messages within images. Recently, the diffusion model has been incorporated into the generative image steganography task, with text prompts being employed to guide the entire process. However, existing metho…
Visual Question Answering (VQA) has garnered significant attention as a crucial link between vision and language, aimed at generating accurate responses to visual queries. However, current VQA models still struggle with the challenges of minority class collapse and spurious semantic correlations pos…
Dental caries has been widely recognized as one of the most prevalent chronic diseases in the field of public health. Despite advancements in automated diagnosis across various medical domains, it remains a substantial challenge for dental caries detection due to its inherent variability and intrica…
The feature dispersion, arising from the inherent constraints of data scarcity, has emerged as a prominent challenge in the domain of few-shot learning. In this paper, we propose a novel Self-adaptive Distribution Regularization (SADR) approach, which can adaptively bridge the semantic gaps across d…
Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) has achieved great success on segmenting objects of novel classes supported by only a few annotated samples. However existing FSS methods often underperform in the presence of domain shifts especially when encountering new domain styles that are unseen during tra…
Cross-modal hashing has garnered considerable research interest due to its rapid retrieval and low storage costs. However, the majority of existing methods suffer from the limitations of context loss and information redundancy, particularly in simulated textual environments enriched with manually an…
Recently, various deep denoising methods have been proposed to solve the insufficient feature problem in image denoising. These methods can be mainly classified into two categories: (1) Injecting learnable tensors into denoising backbone to supplement feature, which is effective to some extent but m…
Since Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) and Vision Transformer perform well in learning generalizable image priors from large-scale data, these models have been widely used in image denoising tasks. However, vanilla DCNNs and Transformer suffer from two problems. First, the vanilla DCNNs an…
3D single object tracking remains a challenging problem due to the sparsity and incompleteness of the point clouds. Existing algorithms attempt to address the challenges in two strategies. The first strategy is to learn dense geometric features based on the captured sparse point cloud. Nevertheless,…
As a prominent parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique in NLP, prompt tuning is being explored its potential in computer vision. Typical methods for visual prompt tuning follow the sequential modeling paradigm stemming from NLP, which represents an input image as a flattened sequence of token embe…
Person-job fit is an essential part of online recruitment platforms in serving various downstream applications like Job Search and Candidate Recommendation. Recently, pretrained large language models have further enhanced the effectiveness by leveraging richer textual information in user profiles an…
"Typical inverse rendering methods focus on learning implicit neural scene representations by modeling the geometry, materials and illumination separately, which entails significant computations for optimization. In this work we design a Unified Voxelization framework for explicit learning of scene…
"Transcription-only Supervised Text Spotting aims to learn text spotters relying only on transcriptions but no text boundaries for supervision, thus eliminating expensive boundary annotation. The crux of this task lies in locating each transcription in scene text images without location annotations.…
Effective image restoration with large-size corruptions, such as blind image inpainting, entails precise detection of corruption region masks which remains extremely challenging due to diverse shapes and patterns of corruptions. In this work, we present a novel method for automatic corruption detect…
Hashing is widely used in large-scale image retrieval because of its efficiency in storage and computation. Although longer hash codes can lead to higher search accuracy, the retrieval cost increases linearly with the increase of the number of hash bits. Most deep hashing methods suffer from the pro…
"While fine-tuning based methods for few-shot object detection have achieved remarkable progress, a crucial challenge that has not been addressed well is the potential class-specific overfitting on base classes and sample-specific overfitting on novel classes. In this work we design a novel knowledg…
In this paper, we study deep unsupervised hashing, a critical problem for approximate nearest neighbor research. Most recent methods solve this problem by semantic similarity reconstruction for guiding hashing network learning or contrastive learning of hash codes. However, in multi-label scenarios,…
Thanks for the cross-modal retrieval techniques, visible-infrared (RGB-IR) person re-identification (Re-ID) is achieved by projecting them into a common space, allowing person Re-ID in 24-hour surveillance systems. However, with respect to the "probe-to-gallery", almost all existing RGB-IR based cro…
Multi-modal emotion recognition aims to extract sentiment-related information from multiple sources and integrate different modal representations for sentiment analysis. Alignment is an effective strategy to achieve semantically consistent representations for multi-modal emotion recognition, while t…
"Most of existing methods for few-shot object detection follow the fine-tuning paradigm, which potentially assumes that the class-agnostic generalizable knowledge can be learned and transferred implicitly from base classes with abundant samples to novel classes with limited samples via such a two-st…
Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) and emotion recognition in conversation (ERC) are key research topics for computers to understand human behaviors. From a psychological perspective, emotions are the expression of affect or feelings during a short period, while sentiments are formed and held for a…
The surface electromyography (sEMG) signal-based human-machine interface (HMI) has been widely used for various scenarios of physical human-robot interaction. However, current HMIs based on bipolar myoelectric sensors are hindered by the limitations of global sEMG features, which are prone to variab…
Emotion cause extraction (ECE) aims to extract the causes behind the certain emotion in text. Some works related to the ECE task have been published and attracted lots of attention in recent years. However, these methods neglect two major issues: 1) pay few attentions to the effect of document-level…
Many studies on automatic speech emotion recognition (SER) have been devoted to extracting meaningful emotional features for generating emotion-relevant representations. However, they generally ignore the complementary learning of static and dynamic features, leading to limited performances. In this…
Due to its powerful capability of representation learning and high-efficiency computation, deep hashing has made significant progress in large-scale image retrieval. However, deep hashing networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples, which is a practical secure problem but seldom studied in hashi…
This paper proposes a new learning paradigm called filter grafting, which aims to improve the representation capability of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). The motivation is that DNNs have unimportant (invalid) filters (e.g., l1 norm close to 0). These filters limit the potential of DNNs since they are…
Pruning has become a very powerful and effective technique to compress and accelerate modern neural networks. Existing pruning methods can be grouped into two categories: filter pruning (FP) and weight pruning (WP). FP wins at hardware compatibility but loses at the compression ratio compared with W…