37 accepted papers
Reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) require explicit derivations compared to general question-answering, supervised fine-tuning (SFT) can empower multiple reasoning abilities in LLMs via learning from various datasets. However, neither training the datasets jointly (mix-up) nor conti…
3D hand pose estimation (HPE) from sparse inertial measurement units (IMUs) has shown great potential in human-computer interaction. However, due to the significant semantic gap between sparse local motion information and structured global pose information, estimating hand poses from sparse IMU sign
Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF)-based Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) achieve superior scene geometric modeling and robust camera tracking by leveraging neural representations. Existing methods typically relied on multi-resolution hash encoding with truncated signed distance field
Despite the impressive performance of large multimodal models (LMMs) in high-level visual tasks, their capacity for image quality assessment (IQA) remains limited. One main reason is that LMMs are primarily trained for high-level tasks (e.g., image captioning), emphasizing unified image semantics ex
Online micro gesture recognition from hand skeletons is critical for VR/AR interaction but faces challenges due to limited public datasets and task-specific algorithms. Micro gestures involve subtle motion patterns, which make constructing datasets with precise skeletons and frame-level annotations
We introduce physics-as-representation, a learning paradigm that encodes physical structure and geometric laws into visual representations, enabling models to see the unseen—the underlying 3D geometry and motion dynamics not apparent in raw pixels. We instantiate this paradigm in gaze perception by …
Manually annotating accurate 3D hand poses is extremely time-consuming and labor-intensive. Existing self-supervised hand pose estimation methods leverage the discrepancy between input images and rendered outputs, or multi-view consistency constraints, as the driving force to optimize networks and p
Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve remarkable reasoning performance by generating long chains-of-thought (CoT). However, standard supervised fine-tuning (SFT) treats all tokens uniformly, indiscriminately minimizing loss across both essential reasoning steps and those that are noisy, redundant, o…
Spatio-temporal time series (STTS) have been widely used in many applications. However, accurately forecasting STTS is challenging due to complex dynamic correlations in both time and space dimensions. Existing graph neural networks struggle to balance effectiveness and efficiency in modeling dynami
Driver fatigue is a significant factor contributing to road accidents, highlighting the need for reliable and accurate detection methods. In this study, we introduce a novel learning-based multi-frame visual feature framework (LMVFF) designed for precise fatigue detection. Our methodology comprises…
The analysis of facial micro-expressions (MEs) has emerged as a significant application and topic within the field of image and video processing. However, challenges persist due to the brief duration and subtle intensity of these spontaneous expressions. This paper presents a novel multi-prior fusio…
Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in natural language tasks, yet their performance in dynamic, real-world financial environments remains underexplored. Existing approaches are confined to historical backtesting, where trading actions cannot influence market price
Task-oriented dexterous grasp generation aims to generate stable and functional grasps that enable a robotic hand to effectively interact with objects to accomplish specific tasks. However, generating high-dimensional hand configurations that seamlessly adapt to diverse task requirements and object
Exploiting large language models (LLMs) to tackle reasoning has garnered growing attention. It still remains highly challenging to achieve satisfactory results in complex logical problems, characterized by plenty of premises within the context and requiring multi-hop reasoning. In particular, the re…
Human cognition is theorized to operate in two modes: fast, intuitive System 1 thinking and slow, deliberate System 2 thinking. While current Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) excel at System 2 thinking, their inability to perform fast thinking leads to high computational overhead and latency. In this w…
3D Gaze estimation is a challenging task due to two main issues. First, existing methods focus on analyzing dense features (e.g., large pixel regions), which are sensitive to local noise (e.g., light spots, blurs) and result in increased computational complexity. Second, an eyeball model can corresp…
Few-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) significantly enhances the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs), functioning as a whole to guide these models in generating reasoning steps toward final answers. However, we observe that isolated segments, words, or tokens within CoT demonstrations c…
Representation Fine-tuning (ReFT), a recently proposed Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method, has attracted widespread attention for significantly improving parameter efficiency by editing representation space alone. In this work, we investigate applying ReFT to complex reasoning tasks. Howe…
Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) achieve great performance on visual-language reasoning tasks, however, the black-box nature of LVLMs hinders in-depth research on the reasoning mechanism. As all images need to be converted into image tokens to fit the input format of large language models (LLMs)…
Local geometry-controllable computer-aided design (CAD) generation aims to modify local parts of CAD models automatically, enhancing design efficiency. It also ensures that the shapes of newly generated local parts follow user-specific geometric instructions (e.g., an isosceles right triangle or a…
In recent years, skeleton-based action recognition has gained significant attention due to its robustness in varying environmental conditions. However, most existing methods struggle to distinguish fine-grained actions due to subtle motion features, minimal inter-class variation, and they often fail…
Prompt Tuning (PT) has emerged as a promising Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) approach by appending trainable continuous prompt vectors to the input, maintaining competitive performance with significantly fewer trainable parameters. While PT has shown effectiveness in enhancing task performan…
Visual speech recognition (VSR), commonly known as lip reading, has garnered significant attention due to its wide-ranging practical applications. The advent of deep learning techniques and advancements in hardware capabilities have significantly enhanced the performance of lip reading models. Despi…
Inertial tracking (IT), independent of the environment and external infrastructure, has long been the ideal solution for providing location services to humans. Despite significant strides in inertial tracking empowered by deep learning, prevailing neural inertial tracking predominantly utilizes conv…
Knowledge distillation (KD) has become a prevalent technique for compressing large language models (LLMs). Existing KD methods are constrained by the need for identical tokenizers (i.e., vocabularies) between teacher and student models, limiting their versatility in handling LLMs of different archit…
The use of dry electrode electroencephalography (EEG) systems holds significant importance in advancing the everyday application of emotion recognition. However, adapting it to real-world applications faces unique challenges due to low signal-to-noise ratios and unreliable emotion labels. To address…
While large language models (LLMs) showcase unprecedented capabilities, they also exhibit certain inherent limitations when facing seemingly trivial tasks. A prime example is the recently debated "reversal curse", which surfaces when models, having been trained on the fact "A is B", struggle to gen…
Large Language Models (LLMs) tend to prioritize adherence to user prompts over providing veracious responses, leading to the sycophancy issue. When challenged by users, LLMs tend to admit mistakes and provide inaccurate responses even if they initially provided the correct answer. Recent works propo…
Zero-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting emerges as a simple and effective strategy for enhancing the performance of large language models (LLMs) in real-world reasoning tasks. Nonetheless, the efficacy of a singular, task-level prompt uniformly applied across the whole of instances is inherently…
Lip reading, the process of interpreting silent speech from visual lip movements, has gained rising attention for its wide range of realistic applications. Deep learning approaches greatly improve current lip reading systems. However, lip reading in cross-speaker scenarios where the speaker identity…
With the proliferation of sensor devices, the extensive utilization of three-dimensional data in multimedia continues to grow. Point clouds are widely adopted within this domain because they are one of the most intuitive representations of three-dimensional data. However, the substantial volume of p…
The task of vision-and-language navigation in continuous environments (VLN-CE) aims at training an autonomous agent to perform low-level actions to navigate through 3D continuous surroundings using visual observations and language instructions. The significant potential of VLN-CE for mobile robots h
Semi-supervised learning aims to leverage numerous unlabeled data to improve the model performance. Current semi-supervised 3D object detection methods typically use a teacher to generate pseudo labels for a student, and the quality of the pseudo labels is essential for the final performance. In thi…
Cross-modal alignment is one key challenge for Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN). Most existing studies concentrate on mapping the global instruction or single sub-instruction to the corresponding trajectory. However, another critical problem of achieving fine-grained alignment at the entity leve…
Modern deep neural networks for classification usually jointly learn a backbone for representation and a linear classifier to output the logit of each class. A recent study has shown a phenomenon called neural collapse that the within-class means of features and the classifier vectors converge to th…
In the peg insertion task, human pays attention to the seam between the peg and the hole and tries to fill it continuously with visual feedback. By imitating the human's behavior, we design architectures with position and orientation estimators based on the seam representation for pose alignment, wh…
Current LiDAR-only 3D detection methods inevitably suffer from the sparsity of point clouds. Many multi-modal methods are proposed to alleviate this issue, while different representations of images and point clouds make it difficult to fuse them, resulting in suboptimal performance. In this paper, w…