29 accepted papers
Face animation is a challenging task. Existing model-based methods (utilizing 3DMMs or landmarks) often result in a model-like reconstruction effect, which doesn't effectively preserve identity. Conversely, model-free approaches face challenges in attaining a decoupled and semantically rich feature…
The recent progress in Large Language Models (LLM) has spurred various advancements in image-language conversation agents while how to build a proficient video-based dialogue system is still under exploration. Considering the extensive scale of LLM and visual backbone minimal GPU memory is left for…
The efficient storage and transportation requirements of point clouds promote the development of point cloud compression algorithms. In this paper, we develop a novel point cloud geometry compression using sequential slice representation. Unlike the limited contexts in conventional codecs and other…
Prior multi-frame optical flow methods typically estimate flow repeatedly in a pair-wise manner, leading to significant computational redundancy. To mitigate this, we implement a Streamlined In-batch Multi-frame (SIM) pipeline, specifically tailored to video inputs to minimize redundant calculations…
Open-world object detection (OWOD), as a more general and challenging goal, requires the model trained from data on known objects to detect both known and unknown objects and incrementally learn to identify these unknown objects. The existing works which employ standard detection framework and fixed…
Visual attention does not always capture the essential object representation desired for robust predictions. Attention modules tend to underline not only the target object but also the common co-occurring context that the module thinks helpful in the training. The problem is rooted in the confoundin…
Image super-resolution (SR) aims to learn a mapping from low-resolution (LR) to high-resolution (HR) using paired HR-LR training images. Conventional SR methods typically gather the paired training data by synthesizing LR images from HR images using a predetermined degradation model, e.g., Bicubic d…
Learning to navigate to an image-specified goal is an important but challenging task for autonomous systems like household robots. The agent is required to well understand and reason the location of the navigation goal from a picture shot in the goal position. Existing methods try to solve this prob…
Zero-shot quantization (ZSQ) is promising for compressing and accelerating deep neural networks when the data for training full-precision models are inaccessible. In ZSQ, network quantization is performed using synthetic samples, thus, the performance of quantized models depends heavily on the quali…
Recently, self-attention networks achieve impressive performance in point cloud segmentation due to their superiority in modeling long-range dependencies. However, compared to self-attention mechanism, we find graph convolutions show a stronger ability in capturing local geometry information with le…
As a crucial infrastructure of intelligent mobile robots, LiDAR-Inertial odometry (LIO) provides the basic capability of state estimation by tracking LiDAR scans. The high-accuracy tracking generally involves the k\text{NN}k\text{NN} search, which is used with minimizing the point-to-plane distance.…
Vision-and-language navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to navigate in realistic 3D environments using natural language instructions. Existing VLN methods suffer from training on small-scale environments or unreasonable path-instruction datasets, limiting the generalization to unseen environ…
How to learn discriminative video representation from unlabeled videos is challenging but crucial for video analysis. The latest attempts seek to learn a representation model by predicting the appearance contents in the masked regions. However, simply masking and recovering appearance contents may n…
Image-text pretrained models, e.g., CLIP, have shown impressive general multi-modal knowledge learned from large-scale image-text data pairs, thus attracting increasing attention for their potential to improve visual representation learning in the video domain. In this paper, based on the CLIP model…
To copy with the extreme variations of illumination and rotation in the real world, popular descriptors have captured more invariance recently, but more invariance makes descriptors less informative. So this paper designs a unique attention guided framework (named AISLFD) to select appropriate invar…
Keypoint extraction including both keypoint detection and description is a fundamental step in a wide range of geometric multimedia applications. In recent years, many learning-based approaches for keypoint extraction emerge and achieve promising results. However, they usually design network archite…
Getting robots to navigate to multiple objects autonomously is essential yet difficult in robot applications. One of the key challenges is how to explore environments efficiently with camera sensors only. Existing navigation methods mainly focus on fixed cameras and few attempts have been made to na…
We deal with the controllable person image synthesis task which aims to re-render a human from a reference image with explicit control over body pose and appearance. Observing that person images are highly structured, we propose to generate desired images by extracting and distributing semantic enti…
We address a practical yet challenging problem of training robot agents to navigate in an environment following a path described by some language instructions. The instructions often contain descriptions of objects in the environment. To achieve accurate and efficient navigation, it is critical to b…
Visual-inertial odometry (VIO) aims to predict trajectory by ego- motion estimation. In recent years, end-to-end VIO has made great progress. However, how to handle visual and inertial measurements and make full use of the complementarity of cameras and inertial sensors remains a challenge. In the p…
Generating portrait images by controlling the motions of existing faces is an important task of great consequence to social media industries. For easy use and intuitive control, semantically meaningful and fully disentangled parameters should be used as modifications. However, many existing techniqu…
Pose-guided virtual try-on task aims to modify the fashion item based on pose transfer task. These two tasks that belong to person image synthesis have strong correlations and similarities. However, existing methods treat them as two individual tasks and do not explore correlations between them. Mor…
Pose-guided person image generation is to transform a source person image to a target pose. This task requires spatial manipulations of source data. However, Convolutional Neural Networks are limited by the lack of ability to spatially transform the inputs. In this paper, we propose a differentiable…
Generic object detection algorithms have proven their excellent performance in recent years. However, object detection on underwater datasets is still less explored. In contrast to generic datasets, underwater images usually have color shift and low contrast; sediment would cause blurring in underwa…
Action classification combined with location regression is a widely-utilized mechanism in existing temporal action detection methods. However, there exists an inconsistency problem between locations and categories of action instances in this mechanism. More specifically, while the location of the pr…
Despite tremendous progress achieved in temporal action detection, state-of-the-art methods still suffer from the sharp performance deterioration when localizing the starting and ending temporal action boundaries. Although most methods apply boundary regression paradigm to tackle this problem, we ar…
Temporal action detection in untrimmed videos is an important yet challenging task. How to locate complex actions accurately is still an open question due to the ambiguous boundaries between action instances and the background. Recently a newly proposed work exploits Structured Segment Networks (SSN…
Video anomaly detection under weak labels is formulated as a typical multiple-instance learning problem in previous works. In this paper, we provide a new perspective, i.e., a supervised learning task under noisy labels. In such a viewpoint, as long as cleaning away label noise, we can directly appl…
Image inpainting techniques have shown significant improvements by using deep neural networks recently. However, most of them may either fail to reconstruct reasonable structures or restore fine-grained textures. In order to solve this problem, in this paper, we propose a two-stage model which split…