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Jian Ren

50 accepted papers

2025

Lightweight Predictive 3D Gaussian Splats

ICLR 2025poster

Recent approaches representing 3D objects and scenes using Gaussian splats show increased rendering speed across a variety of platforms and devices. While rendering such representations is indeed extremely efficient, storing and transmitting them is often prohibitively expensive. To represent large-…

2025

MaskControl: Spatio-Temporal Control for Masked Motion Synthesis

ICCV 2025poster

Recent advances in motion diffusion models have enabled spatially controllable text-to-motion generation. However, these models struggle to achieve high-precision control while maintaining high-quality motion generation. To address these challenges, we propose MaskControl, the first approach to intr…

2025

Scalable Ranked Preference Optimization for Text-to-Image Generation

ICCV 2025poster

Direct Preference Optimization (DPO) has emerged as a powerful approach to align text-to-image (T2I) models with human feedback. Unfortunately, successful application of DPO to T2I models requires a huge amount of resources to collect and label large-scale datasets, e.g., millions of generated paire…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

SnapGen-V: Generating a Five-Second Video within Five Seconds on a Mobile Device

CVPR 2025poster

We have witnessed the unprecedented success of diffusion-based video generation over the past year. Recently proposed models from the community have wielded the power to generate cinematic and high-resolution videos with smooth motions from arbitrary input prompts. However, as a supertask of image g…

Cited by 2SourcePDFScholar
2025

SnapGen: Taming High-Resolution Text-to-Image Models for Mobile Devices with Efficient Architectures and Training

CVPR 2025highlight

Existing text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models face several limitations, including large model sizes, slow runtime, and low-quality generation on mobile devices. This paper aims to address all of these challenges by developing an extremely small and fast T2I model that generates high-resolution and h…

2025

Towards Physical Understanding in Video Generation: A 3D Point Regularization Approach

NeurIPS 2025poster

We present a novel video generation framework that integrates 3-dimensional geometry and dynamic awareness. To achieve this, we augment 2D videos with 3D point trajectories and align them in pixel space. The resulting 3D-aware video dataset, PointVid, is then used to fine-tune a latent diffusion mod…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2025

Wonderland: Navigating 3D Scenes from a Single Image

CVPR 2025poster

This paper addresses a challenging question: how can we efficiently create high-quality, wide-scope 3D scenes from a single arbitrary image?Existing methods face several constraints, such as requiring multi-view data, time-consuming per-scene optimization, low visual quality, and distorted reconstru…

Cited by 12SourcePDFScholar
2024

AsCAN: Asymmetric Convolution-Attention Networks for Efficient Recognition and Generation

NeurIPS 2024poster

Neural network architecture design requires making many crucial decisions. The common desiderata is that similar decisions, with little modifications, can be reused in a variety of tasks and applications. To satisfy that, architectures must provide promising latency and performance trade-offs, suppo…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2024

BitsFusion: 1.99 bits Weight Quantization of Diffusion Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion-based image generation models have achieved great success in recent years by showing the capability of synthesizing high-quality content. However, these models contain a huge number of parameters, resulting in a significantly large model size. Saving and transferring them is a major bottle…

2024

E$^2$GAN: Efficient Training of Efficient GANs for Image-to-Image Translation

ICML 2024poster

One highly promising direction for enabling flexible real-time on-device image editing is utilizing data distillation by leveraging large-scale text-to-image diffusion models to generate paired datasets used for training generative adversarial networks (GANs). This approach notably alleviates the st…

Cited by 8SourcePDFScholar
2024

Efficient Training with Denoised Neural Weights

ECCV 2024poster

"Good weight initialization serves as an effective measure to reduce the training cost of a deep neural network (DNN) model. The choice of how to initialize parameters is challenging and may require manual tuning, which can be time-consuming and prone to human error. To overcome such limitations, th…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2024

HyperHuman: Hyper-Realistic Human Generation with Latent Structural Diffusion

ICLR 2024poster

Despite significant advances in large-scale text-to-image models, achieving hyper-realistic human image generation remains a desirable yet unsolved task. Existing models like Stable Diffusion and DALL·E 2 tend to generate human images with incoherent parts or unnatural poses. To tackle these challen…

Cited by 51SourcePDFScholar
2024

Magic123: One Image to High-Quality 3D Object Generation Using Both 2D and 3D Diffusion Priors

ICLR 2024poster

We present ``Magic123'', a two-stage coarse-to-fine approach for high-quality, textured 3D mesh generation from a single image in the wild using *both 2D and 3D priors*. In the first stage, we optimize a neural radiance field to produce a coarse geometry. In the second stage, we adopt a memory-effic…

2024

Panda-70M: Captioning 70M Videos with Multiple Cross-Modality Teachers

CVPR 2024poster

The quality of the data and annotation upper-bounds the quality of a downstream model. While there exist large text corpora and image-text pairs high-quality video-text data is much harder to collect. First of all manual labeling is more time-consuming as it requires an annotator to watch an entire…

Cited by 190SourcePDFScholar
2024

SF-V: Single Forward Video Generation Model

NeurIPS 2024poster

Diffusion-based video generation models have demonstrated remarkable success in obtaining high-fidelity videos through the iterative denoising process. However, these models require multiple denoising steps during sampling, resulting in high computational costs. In this work, we propose a novel appr…

2024

SPAD: Spatially Aware Multi-View Diffusers

CVPR 2024poster

We present SPAD a novel approach for creating consistent multi-view images from text prompts or single images. To enable multi-view generation we repurpose a pretrained 2D diffusion model by extending its self-attention layers with cross-view interactions and fine-tune it on a high quality subset of…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2024

Snap Video: Scaled Spatiotemporal Transformers for Text-to-Video Synthesis

CVPR 2024highlight

Contemporary models for generating images show remarkable quality and versatility. Swayed by these advantages the research community repurposes them to generate videos. Since video content is highly redundant we argue that naively bringing advances of image models to the video generation domain redu…

Cited by 66SourcePDFScholar
2024

TextCraftor: Your Text Encoder Can be Image Quality Controller

CVPR 2024poster

Diffusion-based text-to-image generative models e.g. Stable Diffusion have revolutionized the field of content generation enabling significant advancements in areas like image editing and video synthesis. Despite their formidable capabilities these models are not without their limitations. It is sti…

Cited by 18SourcePDFScholar
2023

3D generation on ImageNet

ICLR 2023top-5%

All existing 3D-from-2D generators are designed for well-curated single-category datasets, where all the objects have (approximately) the same scale, 3D location, and orientation, and the camera always points to the center of the scene. This makes them inapplicable to diverse, in-the-wild datasets o…

2023

A Mathematical Model for Neuronal Activity and Brain Information Processing Capacity

ICASSP 2023accepted

Neurophysiological measurements suggest that human information processing is evinced by neuronal activity. However, the quantitative relationship between the activity of a brain region and its information processing capacity remains unclear. In this paper, we introduce an information conservation la…

Cited by 0SourceScholar
2023

CLGT: A Graph Transformer for Student Performance Prediction in Collaborative Learning

AAAI 2023technical

Modeling and predicting the performance of students in collaborative learning paradigms is an important task. Most of the research presented in literature regarding collaborative learning focuses on the discussion forums and social learning networks. There are only a few works that investigate how s…

2023

COMCAT: Towards Efficient Compression and Customization of Attention-Based Vision Models

ICML 2023poster

Attention-based vision models, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants, have shown promising performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these emerging architectures suffer from large model sizes and high computational costs, calling for efficient model compression solutions. To…

2023

Discrete Contrastive Diffusion for Cross-Modal Music and Image Generation

ICLR 2023poster

Diffusion probabilistic models (DPMs) have become a popular approach to conditional generation, due to their promising results and support for cross-modal synthesis. A key desideratum in conditional synthesis is to achieve high correspondence between the conditioning input and generated output. Most…

2023

Invertible Neural Skinning

CVPR 2023poster

Building animatable and editable models of clothed humans from raw 3D scans and poses is a challenging problem. Existing reposing methods suffer from the limited expressiveness of Linear Blend Skinning (LBS), require costly mesh extraction to generate each new pose, and typically do not preserve sur…

2023

LightSpeed: Light and Fast Neural Light Fields on Mobile Devices

NeurIPS 2023poster

Real-time novel-view image synthesis on mobile devices is prohibitive due to the limited computational power and storage. Using volumetric rendering methods, such as NeRF and its derivatives, on mobile devices is not suitable due to the high computational cost of volumetric rendering. On the other h…

Cited by 11SourcePDFScholar
2023

Make-a-Story: Visual Memory Conditioned Consistent Story Generation

CVPR 2023poster

There has been a recent explosion of impressive generative models that can produce high quality images (or videos) conditioned on text descriptions. However, all such approaches rely on conditional sentences that contain unambiguous descriptions of scenes and main actors in them. Therefore employing…

2023

Real-Time Neural Light Field on Mobile Devices

CVPR 2023poster

Recent efforts in Neural Rendering Fields (NeRF) have shown impressive results on novel view synthesis by utilizing implicit neural representation to represent 3D scenes. Due to the process of volumetric rendering, the inference speed for NeRF is extremely slow, limiting the application scenarios of…

2023

Rethinking Vision Transformers for MobileNet Size and Speed

ICCV 2023poster

With the success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision tasks, recent arts try to optimize the performance and complexity of ViTs to enable efficient deployment on mobile devices. Multiple approaches are proposed to accelerate attention mechanism, improve inefficient designs, or incorporat…

Cited by 242PDFcodeScholar
2023

SINE: SINgle Image Editing With Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

CVPR 2023poster

Recent works on diffusion models have demonstrated a strong capability for conditioning image generation, e.g., text-guided image synthesis. Such success inspires many efforts trying to use large-scale pre-trained diffusion models for tackling a challenging problem--real image editing. Works conduct…

2023

SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices within Two Seconds

NeurIPS 2023poster

Text-to-image diffusion models can create stunning images from natural language descriptions that rival the work of professional artists and photographers. However, these models are large, with complex network architectures and tens of denoising iterations, making them computationally expensive and…

Cited by 174SourcePDFScholar
2023

Unsupervised Volumetric Animation

CVPR 2023poster

We propose a novel approach for unsupervised 3D animation of non-rigid deformable objects. Our method learns the 3D structure and dynamics of objects solely from single-view RGB videos, and can decompose them into semantically meaningful parts that can be tracked and animated. Using a 3D autodecoder…

Cited by 25SourcePDFScholar
2022

Cross-Modal 3D Shape Generation and Manipulation

ECCV 2022poster

"Creating and editing the shape and color of 3D objects require tremendous human effort and expertise. Compared to direct manipulation in 3D interfaces, 2D interactions such as sketches and scribbles are usually much more natural and intuitive for the users. In this paper, we propose a generic multi…

Cited by 34SourcePDFScholar
2022

EfficientFormer: Vision Transformers at MobileNet Speed

NeurIPS 2022accept

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown rapid progress in computer vision tasks, achieving promising results on various benchmarks. However, due to the massive number of parameters and model design, e.g., attention mechanism, ViT-based models are generally times slower than lightweight convolutional n…

Cited by 453SourcePDFScholar
2022

F8Net: Fixed-Point 8-bit Only Multiplication for Network Quantization

ICLR 2022oral

Neural network quantization is a promising compression technique to reduce memory footprint and save energy consumption, potentially leading to real-time inference. However, there is a performance gap between quantized and full-precision models. To reduce it, existing quantization approaches require…

2022

InOut: Diverse Image Outpainting via GAN Inversion

CVPR 2022poster

Image outpainting seeks for a semantically consistent extension of the input image beyond its available content. Compared to inpainting --- filling in missing pixels in a way coherent with the neighboring pixels --- outpainting can be achieved in more diverse ways since the problem is less constrain…

Cited by 95PDFScholar
2022

Layer Freezing & Data Sieving: Missing Pieces of a Generic Framework for Sparse Training

NeurIPS 2022accept

Recently, sparse training has emerged as a promising paradigm for efficient deep learning on edge devices. The current research mainly devotes the efforts to reducing training costs by further increasing model sparsity. However, increasing sparsity is not always ideal since it will inevitably introd…

2022

R2L: Distilling Neural Radiance Field to Neural Light Field for Efficient Novel View Synthesis

ECCV 2022poster

"Recent research explosion on Neural Radiance Field (NeRF) shows the encouraging potential to represent complex scenes with neural networks. One major drawback of NeRF is its prohibitive inference time: Rendering a single pixel requires querying the NeRF network hundreds of times. To resolve it, exi…

2022

RA-Depth: Resolution Adaptive Self-Supervised Monocular Depth Estimation

ECCV 2022poster

"Existing self-supervised monocular depth estimation methods can get rid of expensive annotations and achieve promising results. However, these methods suffer from severe performance degradation when directly adopting a model trained on a fixed resolution to evaluate at other different resolutions.…

2022

Show Me What and Tell Me How: Video Synthesis via Multimodal Conditioning

CVPR 2022poster

Most methods for conditional video synthesis use a single modality as the condition. This comes with major limitations. For example, it is problematic for a model conditioned on an image to generate a specific motion trajectory desired by the user since there is no means to provide motion informatio…

Cited by 57PDFcodeScholar
2021

A Good Image Generator Is What You Need for High-Resolution Video Synthesis

ICLR 2021spotlight

Image and video synthesis are closely related areas aiming at generating content from noise. While rapid progress has been demonstrated in improving image-based models to handle large resolutions, high-quality renderings, and wide variations in image content, achieving comparable video generation re…

2021

Flow Guided Transformable Bottleneck Networks for Motion Retargeting

CVPR 2021poster

Human motion retargeting aims to transfer the motion of one person in a driving video or set of images to another person. Existing efforts leverage a long training video from each target person to train a subject-specific motion transfer model. However, the scalability of such methods is limited, as…

Cited by 29PDFScholar
2021

Lottery Ticket Preserves Weight Correlation: Is It Desirable or Not?

ICML 2021spotlight

In deep model compression, the recent finding "Lottery Ticket Hypothesis" (LTH) pointed out that there could exist a winning ticket (i.e., a properly pruned sub-network together with original weight initialization) that can achieve competitive performance than the original dense network. However, it…

Cited by 38SourcePDFScholar
2021

Motion Representations for Articulated Animation

CVPR 2021poster

We propose novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. In a completely unsupervised manner, our method identifies object parts, tracks them in a driving video, and infers their motions by considering their principal axes. In contrast to the previous k…

Cited by 315PDFcodeScholar
2021

SMIL: Multimodal Learning with Severely Missing Modality

AAAI 2021technical

A common assumption in multimodal learning is the completeness of training data, i.e., full modalities are available in all training examples. Although there exists research endeavor in developing novel methods to tackle the incompleteness of testing data, e.g., modalities are partially missing in t…

2021

Teachers Do More Than Teach: Compressing Image-to-Image Models

CVPR 2021poster

Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) have achieved huge success in generating high-fidelity images, however, they suffer from low efficiency due to tremendous computational cost and bulky memory usage. Recent efforts on compression GANs show noticeable progress in obtaining smaller generators by s…

Cited by 73PDFcodeScholar
2019

EIGEN: Ecologically-Inspired GENetic Approach for Neural Network Structure Searching From Scratch

CVPR 2019poster

Designing the structure of neural networks is considered one of the most challenging tasks in deep learning, especially when there is few prior knowledge about the task domain. In this paper, we propose an Ecologically-Inspired GENetic (EIGEN) approach that uses the concept of succession, extinction…

Cited by 33PDFScholar