51 accepted papers
Point clouds provide a compact and expressive representation of 3D objects, and have recently been integrated into multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing methods primarily focus on static objects, while understanding dynamic point cloud sequences remains largely unexplored. This…
Discrete flow matching (DFM) provides a principled framework for generative modeling on discrete state spaces via continuous-time Markov chain dynamics. In practice, sampling for DFM commonly employs discretizations such as $\tau$-leaping, yet efficient sampling methods under a limited number of fun…
Training-free 3D editing aims to modify 3D shapes based on human instructions without model finetuning. It plays a crucial role in 3D content creation. However, existing approaches often struggle to produce strong or geometrically stable edits, largely due to inconsistent latent anchors introduced b
Dual-lens video inpainting aims to simultaneously restore missing or corrupted contents in videos captured by each lens of binocular systems. Although preliminary explorations have been conducted, existing methods still face two key challenges: limited exploitation of long-range reference informatio
In this paper, we explore how to empower general-purpose Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to control humanoid agents. General-purpose VLMs (e.g., GPT-4) exhibit strong open-world generalization, and remove the need for additional fine-tuning data. To build such an agent, two key components are required…
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language understanding, yet processing long visual token sequences remains computationally expensive. Existing approaches mitigate this cost by reducing image tokens, either by discarding them after the visual encod
Recent advances in zero-shot learning (ZSL) have demonstrated the potential of generative models. Typically, generative ZSL synthesizes visual features conditioned on semantic prototypes to model the data distribution of unseen classes, followed by training a classifier on the synthesized data. Howe
With the rapid development of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), their potential in Micro-Action understanding, a vital role in human emotion analysis, remains unexplored due to the absence of specialized benchmarks. To tackle this issue, we present MA-Bench, a benchmark comprising 1,000 vide
This paper explores parallel thinking for Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), aiming to improve Chain-of-Thought (CoT) through multiple diverse reasoning paths. We guide the model to list multiple visual key points and develop an independent reasoning path for each. Therefore, we term this me
Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) remains challenging due to severe noise, color artifacts, and structural degradation in extreme low-light environments. Existing methods primarily rely on photometric cues and often fail to preserve geometric consistency, resulting in blurred edges and distorted te
Recent advancements in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) and video agent systems have significantly improved general video understanding. However, when applied to scientific video understanding and educating--a domain that demands external professional knowledge integration and rigorous step-
Rigged 3D assets are fundamental to 3D deformation and animation. However, existing 3D generation methods face challenges in generating animatable geometry, while rigging techniques lack fine-grained structural control over skeleton creation. To address these limitations, we introduce Stroke3D, a no…
Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have made remarkable progress, but they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks such as logical deduction and planning. This is partly because they rely primarily on token-level probability relationships, which limits their ability to reason effectively. In t…
Human motions are compositional: complex behaviors can be described as combinations of simpler primitives. However, existing approaches primarily focus on forward modeling, e.g., learning holistic mappings from text to motion or composing a complex motion from a set of motion concepts. In this paper
Monocular normal estimation for transparent objects is critical for laboratory automation, yet it remains challenging due to complex light refraction and reflection. These optical properties often lead to catastrophic failures in conventional depth and normal sensors, hindering the deployment of emb…
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged as a powerful paradigm in fundamental cross-modality research, demonstrating significant potential in both image understanding and generation. However, existing research in the face domain primarily faces two challenges: **(1) fragmentation development**…
Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as an effective approach for improving video reasoning in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing methods remain inefficient for two reasons. First, training data are typically organized by task formats rather than underlying reasoning abil
Diffusion-based Text-to-Image (T2I) models have demonstrated significant potential in image restoration. However, existing models continue to grapple with challenges such as complex training and prompt design. We introduce a new perspective for improving image restoration by injecting knowledge from…
Video inpainting aims to fill in corrupted regions of the video with plausible contents. Existing methods generally assume that the locations of corrupted regions are known, focusing primarily on the "how to inpaint". This reliance necessitates manual annotation of the corrupted regions using binary…
Video inpainting aims to fill the missing regions in video with spatial-temporally coherent contents. Existing methods usually treat the missing contents as a whole and adopt a hybrid objective containing a reconstruction loss and an adversarial loss to train the model. However, these two kinds of l
Text-to-3D generation automates 3D content creation from textual descriptions, which offers transformative potential across various fields. However, existing methods often struggle to align generated content with human preferences, limiting their applicability and flexibility. To address these limit…
Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (SMoE) architectures are widely used in large language models (LLMs) due to their computational efficiency. However, though only a few experts are activated for each token, SMoE still requires loading all expert parameters, leading to high memory usage and challenges in dep
We present InfiniDreamer, a novel framework for generating human motions of arbitrary length. Existing methods typically produce only short sequences, limited by the scarcity of long-range motion data. To address this, InfiniDreamer first generates short sub-motions for each textual description, the…
Human body actions are an important form of non-verbal communication in social interactions. This paper specifically focuses on a subset of body actions known as micro-actions, which are subtle, low-intensity body movements with promising applications in human emotion analysis. In real-world scenari…
Zeolites are crystalline porous materials that have been widely utilized in petrochemical industries as well as sustainable chemistry areas. Synthesis of zeolites often requires small molecules termed Organic Structure Directing Agents (OSDAs), which are critical in forming the porous structure. Mol…
Shadow removal aims to restore the image content in shadowed regions. While deep learning-based methods have shown promising results, they still face key challenges: 1) uncontrolled removal of all shadows, or 2) controllable removal but heavily relies on precise shadow region masks. To address these
Micro-Action Recognition (MAR) has gained increasing attention due to its crucial role as a form of non-verbal communication in social interactions, with promising potential for applications in human communication and emotion analysis. However, current approaches often overlook the inherent ambiguit…
Accurately modeling chemical reactions using Artificial Intelligence (AI) can accelerate discovery and development, especially in fields like drug design and material science. Although AI has made remarkable advancements in single molecule recognition, such as predicting molecular properties, the st…
Recent advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved video generation and editing capabilities. However, multi-grained video editing, which encompasses class-level, instance-level, and part-level modifications, remains a formidable challenge. The major difficulties in multi-grained ed…
Animatable head avatar generation typically requires extensive data for training. To reduce the data requirements, a natural solution is to leverage existing data-free static avatar generation methods, such as pre-trained diffusion models with score distillation sampling (SDS), which align avatars w…
Zero-shot learning (ZSL) aims to recognize unseen classes by transferring semantic knowledge from seen classes to unseen ones, guided by semantic information. To this end, existing works have demonstrated remarkable performance by utilizing global visual features from Convolutional Neural Networks (…
Protein representation learning is a challenging task that aims to capture the structure and function of proteins from their amino acid sequences. Previous methods largely ignored the fact that not all amino acids are equally important for protein folding and activity. In this article we propose a n…
Multimodal Sarcasm Understanding (MSU) has a wide range of applications in the news field such as public opinion analysis and forgery detection. However, existing MSU benchmarks and approaches usually focus on sentence-level MSU. In document-level news, sarcasm clues are sparse or small and are of…
Hands are the main medium when people interact with the world. Generating proper 3D motion for hand-object interaction is vital for applications such as virtual reality and robotics. Although grasp tracking or object manipulation synthesis can produce coarse hand motion, this kind of motion is inevi…
"Creating digital avatars from textual prompts has long been a desirable yet challenging task. Despite the promising results achieved with 2D diffusion priors, current methods struggle to create high-quality and consistent animated avatars efficiently. Previous animatable head models like FLAME have…
Previous efforts using frozen Large Language Models (LLMs) for visual understanding, via image captioning or image-text retrieval tasks, face challenges when dealing with complex multimodal scenarios. In order to enhance the capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) in comprehending th…
Recent advancements in image understanding have benefited from the extensive use of web image-text pairs. However, video understanding remains a challenge despite the availability of substantial web video-text data. This difficulty primarily arises from the inherent complexity of videos and the inef…
"This paper presents Invariant Score Distillation (ISD), a novel method for high-fidelity text-to-3D generation. ISD aims to tackle the over-saturation and over-smoothing problems in Score Distillation Sampling (SDS). In this paper, SDS is decoupled into a weighted sum of two components: the reconst…
The structure of proteins involves 3D geometry of amino acid coordinates and 1D sequence of peptide chains. The 3D structure exhibits irregularity because amino acids are distributed unevenly in Euclidean space and their coordinates are continuous variables. In contrast, the 1D structure is regular…
Recently, the community has made tremendous progress in developing effective methods for point cloud video understanding that learn from massive amounts of labeled data. However, annotating point cloud videos is usually notoriously expensive. Moreover, training via one or only a few traditional task…
We propose a unified point cloud video self-supervised learning framework for object-centric and scene-centric data. Previous methods commonly conduct representation learning at the clip or frame level and cannot well capture fine-grained semantics. Instead of contrasting the representations of clip…
Deep neural networks on regular 1D lists (e.g., natural languages) and irregular 3D sets (e.g., point clouds) have made tremendous achievements. The key to natural language processing is to model words and their regular order dependency in texts. For point cloud understanding, the challenge is to un…
Effectively preserving and encoding structure features from objects in irregular and sparse LiDAR points is a crucial challenge to 3D object detection on the point cloud. Recently, Transformer has demonstrated promising performance on many 2D and even 3D vision tasks. Compared with the fixed and ri…
Existing methods of privacy-preserving action recognition (PPAR) mainly focus on frame-level (spatial) privacy removal through 2D CNNs. Unfortunately, they have two major drawbacks. First, they may compromise temporal dynamics in input videos, which are critical for accurate action recognition. Seco…
Automatically localizing a position based on a few natural language instructions is essential for future robots to communicate and collaborate with humans. To approach this goal, we focus on a text-to-point-cloud cross-modal localization problem. Given a textual query, it aims to identify the descri…
"The superiority of deep learning based point cloud representations relies on large-scale labeled datasets, while the annotation of point clouds is notoriously expensive. One of the most effective solutions is to transfer the knowledge from existing labeled source data to unlabeled target data. Howe…
In this paper, we propose an unsupervised domain adaptation method for deep point cloud representation learning. To model the internal structures in target point clouds, we first propose to learn the global representations of unlabeled data by scaling up or down point clouds and then predicting the…
Point cloud sequences are irregular and unordered in the spatial dimension while exhibiting regularities and order in the temporal dimension. Therefore, existing grid based convolutions for conventional video processing cannot be directly applied to spatio-temporal modeling of raw point cloud sequen…
Point cloud videos exhibit irregularities and lack of order along the spatial dimension where points emerge inconsistently across different frames. To capture the dynamics in point cloud videos, point tracking is usually employed. However, as points may flow in and out across frames, computing accur…
Open set domain adaptation aims to diminish the domain shift across domains, with partially shared classes. There exist unknown target samples out of the knowledge of source domain. Compared to the close set setting, how to separate the unknown (unshared) class from the known (shared) ones plays the…
The goal of complex event detection is to automatically detect whether an event of interest happens in temporally untrimmed long videos which usually consist of multiple video shots. Observing some video shots in positive (resp. negative) videos are irrelevant (resp. relevant) to the given event cla…