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AAAI Conference 2026 Conference Paper

EM-KD: Distilling Efficient Multimodal Large Language Model with Unbalanced Vision Tokens

  • Ze Feng
  • Sen Yang
  • Boqiang Duan
  • Wankou Yang
  • Jingdong Wang

Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) compress vision tokens to reduce resource consumption, but the loss of visual information can degrade comprehension capabilities. Although some priors introduce Knowledge Distillation to enhance student models, they overlook the fundamental differences in fine-grained vision comprehension caused by unbalanced vision tokens between the efficient student and vanilla teacher. In this paper, we propose EM-KD, a novel paradigm that enhances the Efficient MLLMs with Knowledge Distillation. To overcome the challenge of unbalanced vision tokens, we first calculate the Manhattan distance between the vision logits of teacher and student, and then align them in the spatial dimension with the Hungarian matching algorithm. After alignment, EM-KD introduces two distillation strategies: 1) Vision-Language Affinity Distillation (VLAD) and 2) Vision Semantic Distillation (VSD). Specifically, VLAD calculates the affinity matrix between text tokens and aligned vision tokens, and minimizes the smooth L1 distance of the student and the teacher affinity matrices. Considering the semantic richness of vision logits in the final layer, VSD employs the reverse KL divergence to measure the discrete probability distributions of the aligned vision logits over the vocabulary space. Comprehensive evaluation on diverse benchmarks demonstrates that EM-KD trained model outperforms prior Efficient MLLMs on both accuracy and efficiency with a large margin, validating its effectiveness. Compared with previous distillation methods, which are equipped with our proposed vision token matching strategy for fair comparison, EM-KD also achieves better performance.

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AAAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper

Interpretable Face Anti-Spoofing: Enhancing Generalization with Multimodal Large Language Models

  • Guosheng Zhang
  • Keyao Wang
  • Haixiao Yue
  • Ajian Liu
  • Gang Zhang
  • Kun Yao
  • Errui Ding
  • Jingdong Wang

Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) is essential for ensuring the security and reliability of facial recognition systems. Most existing FAS methods are formulated as binary classification tasks, providing confidence scores without interpretation. They exhibit limited generalization in out-of-domain scenarios, such as new environments or unseen spoofing types. In this work, we introduce a multimodal large language model (MLLM) framework for FAS, termed Interpretable Face Anti-Spoofing (I-FAS), which transforms the FAS task into an interpretable visual question answering (VQA) paradigm. Specifically, we propose a Spoof-aware Captioning and Filtering (SCF) strategy to generate high-quality captions for FAS images, enriching the model's supervision with natural language interpretations. To mitigate the impact of noisy captions during training, we develop a Lopsided Language Model (L-LM) loss function that separates loss calculations for judgment and interpretation, prioritizing the optimization of the former. Furthermore, to enhance the model's perception of global visual features, we design a Globally Aware Connector (GAC) to align multi-level visual representations with the language model. Extensive experiments on standard and newly devised One to Eleven cross-domain benchmarks, comprising 12 public datasets, demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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NeurIPS Conference 2025 Conference Paper

MonoLift: Learning 3D Manipulation Policies from Monocular RGB via Distillation

  • Ziru Wang
  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Guang Dai
  • Yongliu Long
  • Jingdong Wang

Although learning 3D manipulation policies from monocular RGB images is lightweight and deployment-friendly, the lack of structural information often leads to inaccurate action estimation. While explicit 3D inputs can mitigate this issue, they typically require additional sensors and introduce data acquisition overhead. An intuitive alternative is to incorporate a pre-trained depth estimator; however, this often incurs substantial inference-time cost. To address this, we propose MonoLift, a tri-level knowledge distillation framework that transfers spatial, temporal, and action-level knowledge from a depth-guided teacher to a monocular RGB student. By jointly distilling geometry-aware features, temporal dynamics, and policy behaviors during training, MonoLift enables the student model to perform 3D-aware reasoning and precise control at deployment using only monocular RGB input. Extensive experiments on both simulated and real-world manipulation tasks show that MonoLift not only outperforms existing monocular approaches but even surpasses several methods that rely on explicit 3D input, offering a resource-efficient and effective solution for vision-based robotic control. The video demonstration is available on our project page: https: //robotasy. github. io/MonoLift/.

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AAAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper

SpotActor: Training-Free Layout-Controlled Consistent Image Generation

  • Jiahao Wang
  • Caixia Yan
  • Weizhan Zhang
  • Haonan Lin
  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Guang Dai
  • Tieliang Gong
  • Hao Sun

Text-to-image diffusion models significantly enhance the efficiency of artistic creation with high-fidelity image generation. However, in typical application scenarios like comic book production, they can neither place each subject into its expected spot nor maintain the consistent appearance of each subject across images. For these issues, we pioneer a novel task, Layout-to-Consistent-Image (L2CI) generation, which produces consistent and compositional images in accordance with the given layout conditions and text prompts. To accomplish this challenging task, we present a new formalization of dual energy guidance with optimization in a dual semantic-latent space and thus propose a training-free pipeline, SpotActor, which features a layout-conditioned optimizing stage and a consistent sampling stage. In the optimizing stage, we innovate a nuanced layout energy function to mimic the attention activations with a sigmoid-like objective. While in the sampling stage, we design Regional Interconnection Self-Attention (RISA) and Semantic Fusion Cross-Attention (SFCA) mechanisms that allow mutual interactions across images. To evaluate the performance, we present ActorBench, a specified benchmark with hundreds of reasonable prompt-box pairs stemming from object detection datasets. Comprehensive experiments are conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. The results prove that SpotActor fulfills the expectations of this task and showcases the potential for practical applications with superior layout alignment, subject consistency, prompt conformity and background diversity.

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IJCAI Conference 2025 Conference Paper

VidEvo: Evolving Video Editing through Exhaustive Temporal Modeling

  • Sizhe Dang
  • Huan Liu
  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Xin Lai
  • Guang Dai
  • Jingdong Wang

Text-guided video editing (TGVE) has become a recent hotspot due to its entertainment value and practical applications. To reduce overhead, existing methods primarily extend from text-to-image diffusion models and typically involve reconstruction and editing phases. However, challenges persist, particularly in enhancing temporal consistency of a video while adhering to textual alignment requirements. A crucial factor leading to the aforementioned issue is the inadequate and implicit tuning of the attention module within existing methods, which is specifically designed to capture temporal information. In light of this, we introduce VidEvo, a novel one-shot video editing method that leverages explicit cues derived from the original video to enhance temporal modeling. By integrating null-video embedding (NVE) and window-frame attention (WFA) components, VidEvo facilitates the smooth and coherent generation of videos from global and local perspectives simultaneously. To be specific, NVE learns a set of multi-scale temporal embeddings within the visual space during the reconstruction phase. These embeddings are subsequently directly injected into the attention module of the editing phase, explicitly augmenting the temporal consistency of the entire video. On the other hand, WFA enhances local temporal modeling by dynamically optimizing attention mechanisms between adjacent frames, which improves temporal coherence with reduced computational costs. Experimental evaluations show that VidEvo enhances frame-to-frame temporal consistency. Ablation studies confirm NVE and WFA’s effectiveness and their plug-and-play capability with other methods.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

A Multimodal, Multi-Task Adapting Framework for Video Action Recognition

  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Jiazheng Xing
  • Boyuan Jiang
  • Jun Chen
  • Jianbiao Mei
  • Xingxing Zuo
  • Guang Dai
  • Jingdong Wang

Recently, the rise of large-scale vision-language pretrained models like CLIP, coupled with the technology of Parameter-Efficient FineTuning (PEFT), has captured substantial attraction in video action recognition. Nevertheless, prevailing approaches tend to prioritize strong supervised performance at the expense of compromising the models' generalization capabilities during transfer. In this paper, we introduce a novel Multimodal, Multi-task CLIP adapting framework named M2-CLIP to address these challenges, preserving both high supervised performance and robust transferability. Firstly, to enhance the individual modality architectures, we introduce multimodal adapters to both the visual and text branches. Specifically, we design a novel visual TED-Adapter, that performs global Temporal Enhancement and local temporal Difference modeling to improve the temporal representation capabilities of the visual encoder. Moreover, we adopt text encoder adapters to strengthen the learning of semantic label information. Secondly, we design a multi-task decoder with a rich set of supervisory signals, including the original contrastive learning head, a cross-modal classification head, a cross-modal masked language modeling head, and a visual classification head. This multi-task decoder adeptly satisfies the need for strong supervised performance within a multimodal framework. Experimental results validate the efficacy of our approach, demonstrating exceptional performance in supervised learning while maintaining strong generalization in zero-shot scenarios.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Automated Multi-level Preference for MLLMs

  • Mengxi Zhang
  • Wenhao Wu
  • Yu Lu
  • YuXin Song
  • Kang Rong
  • Huanjin Yao
  • Jianbo Zhao
  • Fanglong Liu

Current multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from ''hallucination'', occasionally generating responses that are not grounded in the input images. To tackle this challenge, one promising path is to utilize reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF), which steers MLLMs towards learning superior responses while avoiding inferior ones. We rethink the common practice of using binary preferences ( i. e. , superior, inferior), and find that adopting multi-level preferences ( e. g. , superior, medium, inferior) is better for two benefits: 1) It narrows the gap between adjacent levels, thereby encouraging MLLMs to discern subtle differences. 2) It further integrates cross-level comparisons (beyond adjacent-level comparisons), thus providing a broader range of comparisons with hallucination examples. To verify our viewpoint, we present the Automated Multi-level Preference ( AMP ) framework for MLLMs. To facilitate this framework, we first develop an automated dataset generation pipeline that provides high-quality multi-level preference datasets without any human annotators. Furthermore, we design the Multi-level Direct Preference Optimization (MDPO) algorithm to robustly conduct complex multi-level preference learning. Additionally, we propose a new hallucination benchmark, MRHal-Bench. Extensive experiments across public hallucination and general benchmarks, as well as our MRHal-Bench, demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. Code is available at https: //github. com/takomc/amp.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Dense Connector for MLLMs

  • Huanjin Yao
  • Wenhao Wu
  • Taojiannan Yang
  • YuXin Song
  • Mengxi Zhang
  • Haocheng Feng
  • Yifan Sun
  • Zhiheng Li

Do we fully leverage the potential of visual encoder in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)? The recent outstanding performance of MLLMs in multimodal understanding has garnered broad attention from both academia and industry. In the current MLLM rat race, the focus seems to be predominantly on the linguistic side. We witness the rise of larger and higher-quality instruction datasets, as well as the involvement of larger-sized LLMs. Yet, scant attention has been directed towards the visual signals utilized by MLLMs, often assumed to be the final high-level features extracted by a frozen visual encoder. In this paper, we introduce the Dense Connector - a simple, effective, and plug-and-play vision-language connector that significantly enhances existing MLLMs by leveraging multi-layer visual features, with minimal additional computational overhead. Building on this, we also propose the Efficient Dense Connector, which achieves performance comparable to LLaVA-v1. 5 with only 25% of the visual tokens. Furthermore, our model, trained solely on images, showcases remarkable zero-shot capabilities in video understanding as well. Experimental results across various vision encoders, image resolutions, training dataset scales, varying sizes of LLMs (2. 7B→70B), and diverse architectures of MLLMs (e. g. , LLaVA-v1. 5, LLaVA-NeXT and Mini-Gemini) validate the versatility and scalability of our approach, achieving state-of-the-art performance across 19 image and video benchmarks. We hope that this work will provide valuable experience and serve as a basic module for future MLLM development. Code is available at https: //github. com/HJYao00/DenseConnector.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Evaluation of Text-to-Video Generation Models: A Dynamics Perspective

  • Mingxiang Liao
  • Hannan Lu
  • Xinyu Zhang
  • Fang Wan
  • Tianyu Wang
  • Yuzhong Zhao
  • Wangmeng Zuo
  • Qixiang Ye

Comprehensive and constructive evaluation protocols play an important role when developing sophisticated text-to-video (T2V) generation models. Existing evaluation protocols primarily focus on temporal consistency and content continuity, yet largely ignore dynamics of video content. Such dynamics is an essential dimension measuring the visual vividness and the honesty of video content to text prompts. In this study, we propose an effective evaluation protocol, termed DEVIL, which centers on the dynamics dimension to evaluate T2V generation models, as well as improving existing evaluation metrics. In practice, we define a set of dynamics scores corresponding to multiple temporal granularities, and a new benchmark of text prompts under multiple dynamics grades. Upon the text prompt benchmark, we assess the generation capacity of T2V models, characterized by metrics of dynamics ranges and T2V alignment. Moreover, we analyze the relevance of existing metrics to dynamics metrics, improving them from the perspective of dynamics. Experiments show that DEVIL evaluation metrics enjoy up to about 90\% consistency with human ratings, demonstrating the potential to advance T2V generation models.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Flipped Classroom: Aligning Teacher Attention with Student in Generalized Category Discovery

  • Haonan Lin
  • Wenbin An
  • Jiahao Wang
  • Yan Chen
  • Feng Tian
  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Guang Dai
  • Qianying Wang

Recent advancements have shown promise in applying traditional Semi-Supervised Learning strategies to the task of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD). Typically, this involves a teacher-student framework in which the teacher imparts knowledge to the student to classify categories, even in the absence of explicit labels. Nevertheless, GCD presents unique challenges, particularly the absence of priors for new classes, which can lead to the teacher's misguidance and unsynchronized learning with the student, culminating in suboptimal outcomes. In our work, we delve into why traditional teacher-student designs falter in generalized category discovery as compared to their success in closed-world semi-supervised learning. We identify inconsistent pattern learning as the crux of this issue and introduce FlipClass—a method that dynamically updates the teacher to align with the student's attention, instead of maintaining a static teacher reference. Our teacher-attention-update strategy refines the teacher's focus based on student feedback, promoting consistent pattern recognition and synchronized learning across old and new classes. Extensive experiments on a spectrum of benchmarks affirm that FlipClass significantly surpasses contemporary GCD methods, establishing new standards for the field.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

LION: Linear Group RNN for 3D Object Detection in Point Clouds

  • Zhe Liu
  • Jinghua Hou
  • Xinyu Wang
  • Xiaoqing Ye
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Hengshuang Zhao
  • Xiang Bai

The benefit of transformers in large-scale 3D point cloud perception tasks, such as 3D object detection, is limited by their quadratic computation cost when modeling long-range relationships. In contrast, linear RNNs have low computational complexity and are suitable for long-range modeling. Toward this goal, we propose a simple and effective window-based framework built on Linear group RNN (i. e. , perform linear RNN for grouped features) for accurate 3D object detection, called LION. The key property is to allow sufficient feature interaction in a much larger group than transformer-based methods. However, effectively applying linear group RNN to 3D object detection in highly sparse point clouds is not trivial due to its limitation in handling spatial modeling. To tackle this problem, we simply introduce a 3D spatial feature descriptor and integrate it into the linear group RNN operators to enhance their spatial features rather than blindly increasing the number of scanning orders for voxel features. To further address the challenge in highly sparse point clouds, we propose a 3D voxel generation strategy to densify foreground features thanks to linear group RNN as a natural property of auto-regressive models. Extensive experiments verify the effectiveness of the proposed components and the generalization of our LION on different linear group RNN operators including Mamba, RWKV, and RetNet. Furthermore, it is worth mentioning that our LION-Mamba achieves state-of-the-art on Waymo, nuScenes, Argoverse V2, and ONCE datasets. Last but not least, our method supports kinds of advanced linear RNN operators (e. g. , RetNet, RWKV, Mamba, xLSTM and TTT) on small but popular KITTI dataset for a quick experience with our linear RNN-based framework.

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TMLR Journal 2024 Journal Article

MaskOCR: Scene Text Recognition with Masked Vision-Language Pre-training

  • Pengyuan Lyu
  • Chengquan Zhang
  • Shanshan Liu
  • Meina Qiao
  • Yangliu Xu
  • Liang Wu
  • Kun Yao
  • Junyu Han

Text images contain both visual and linguistic information. However, existing pre-training techniques for text recognition mainly focus on either visual representation learning or linguistic knowledge learning. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to unify vision and language pre-training in the classical encoder-decoder recognition framework. We adopt the masked image modeling approach to pre-train the feature encoder using a large set of unlabeled real text images, which allows us to learn strong visual representations. In contrast to introducing linguistic knowledge with an additional language model, we directly pre-train the sequence decoder. Specifically, we transform text data into synthesized text images to unify the data modalities of vision and language, and enhance the language modeling capability of the sequence decoder using a proposed masked image-language modeling scheme. Significantly, the encoder is frozen during the pre-training phase of the sequence decoder. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed method achieves superior performance on benchmark datasets, including Chinese and English text images. The code for our approach will be made available.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

MoLE: Enhancing Human-centric Text-to-image Diffusion via Mixture of Low-rank Experts

  • Jie Zhu
  • Yixiong Chen
  • Mingyu Ding
  • Ping Luo
  • Leye Wang
  • Jingdong Wang

Text-to-image diffusion has attracted vast attention due to its impressive image-generation capabilities. However, when it comes to human-centric text-to-image generation, particularly in the context of faces and hands, the results often fall short of naturalness due to insufficient training priors. We alleviate the issue in this work from two perspectives. 1) From the data aspect, we carefully collect a human-centric dataset comprising over one million high-quality human-in-the-scene images and two specific sets of close-up images of faces and hands. These datasets collectively provide a rich prior knowledge base to enhance the human-centric image generation capabilities of the diffusion model. 2) On the methodological front, we propose a simple yet effective method called Mixture of Low-rank Experts (MoLE) by considering low-rank modules trained on close-up hand and face images respectively as experts. This concept draws inspiration from our observation of low-rank refinement, where a low-rank module trained by a customized close-up dataset has the potential to enhance the corresponding image part when applied at an appropriate scale. To validate the superiority of MoLE in the context of human-centric image generation compared to state-of-the-art, we construct two benchmarks and perform evaluations with diverse metrics and human studies. Datasets, model, and code are released at https: //sites. google. com/view/mole4diffuser/.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Multi-Domain Incremental Learning for Face Presentation Attack Detection

  • Keyao Wang
  • Guosheng Zhang
  • Haixiao Yue
  • Ajian Liu
  • Gang Zhang
  • Haocheng Feng
  • Junyu Han
  • Errui Ding

Previous face Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) methods aim to improve the effectiveness of cross-domain tasks. However, in real-world scenarios, the original training data of the pre-trained model is not available due to data privacy or other reasons. Under these constraints, general methods for fine-tuning single-target domain data may lose previously learned knowledge, leading to a catastrophic forgetting problem. To address these issues, we propose a multi-domain incremental learning (MDIL) method for PAD, which not only learns knowledge well from the new domain but also maintains the performance of previous domains stably. Specifically, we propose an adaptive domain-specific experts (ADE) framework based on the vision transformer to preserve the discriminability of previous domains. Furthermore, an asymmetric classifier is designed to keep the output distribution of different classifiers consistent, thereby improving the generalization ability. Extensive experiments show that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to prior methods of incremental learning. Excitingly, under more stringent setting conditions, our method approximates or even outperforms the DA/DG-based methods.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Noisy Correspondence Learning with Self-Reinforcing Errors Mitigation

  • Zhuohang Dang
  • Minnan Luo
  • Chengyou Jia
  • Guang Dai
  • Xiaojun Chang
  • Jingdong Wang

Cross-modal retrieval relies on well-matched large-scale datasets that are laborious in practice. Recently, to alleviate expensive data collection, co-occurring pairs from the Internet are automatically harvested for training. However, it inevitably includes mismatched pairs, i.e., noisy correspondences, undermining supervision reliability and degrading performance. Current methods leverage deep neural networks' memorization effect to address noisy correspondences, which overconfidently focus on similarity-guided training with hard negatives and suffer from self-reinforcing errors. In light of above, we introduce a novel noisy correspondence learning framework, namely Self-Reinforcing Errors Mitigation (SREM). Specifically, by viewing sample matching as classification tasks within the batch, we generate classification logits for the given sample. Instead of a single similarity score, we refine sample filtration through energy uncertainty and estimate model's sensitivity of selected clean samples using swapped classification entropy, in view of the overall prediction distribution. Additionally, we propose cross-modal biased complementary learning to leverage negative matches overlooked in hard-negative training, further improving model optimization stability and curbing self-reinforcing errors. Extensive experiments on challenging benchmarks affirm the efficacy and efficiency of SREM.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Octopus: A Multi-modal LLM with Parallel Recognition and Sequential Understanding

  • Chuyang Zhao
  • YuXin Song
  • Junru Chen
  • Kang Rong
  • Haocheng Feng
  • Gang Zhang
  • Shufan Ji
  • Jingdong Wang

A mainstream of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have two essential functions, i. e. , visual recognition (e. g. , grounding) and understanding (e. g. , visual question answering). Presently, all these MLLMs integrate visual recognition and understanding in a same sequential manner in the LLM head, i. e. , generating the response token-by-token for both recognition and understanding. We think unifying them in the same sequential manner is not optimal for two reasons: 1) parallel recognition is more efficient than sequential recognition and is actually prevailing in deep visual recognition, and 2) the recognition results can be integrated to help high-level cognition (while the current manner does not). Such motivated, this paper proposes a novel “parallel recognition → sequential understanding” framework for MLLMs. The bottom LLM layers are utilized for parallel recognition and the recognition results are relayed into the top LLM layers for sequential understanding. Specifically, parallel recognition in the bottom LLM layers is implemented via object queries, a popular mechanism in DEtection TRansformer, which we find to harmonize well with the LLM layers. Empirical studies show our MLLM named Octopus improves accuracy on popular MLLM tasks and is up to 5× faster on visual grounding tasks.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

OpenGaussian: Towards Point-Level 3D Gaussian-based Open Vocabulary Understanding

  • Yanmin Wu
  • Jiarui Meng
  • Haijie Li
  • Chenming Wu
  • Yahao Shi
  • Xinhua Cheng
  • Chen Zhao
  • Haocheng Feng

This paper introduces OpenGaussian, a method based on 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) that possesses the capability for 3D point-level open vocabulary understanding. Our primary motivation stems from observing that existing 3DGS-based open vocabulary methods mainly focus on 2D pixel-level parsing. These methods struggle with 3D point-level tasks due to weak feature expressiveness and inaccurate 2D-3D feature associations. To ensure robust feature presentation and 3D point-level understanding, we first employ SAM masks without cross-frame associations to train instance features with 3D consistency. These features exhibit both intra-object consistency and inter-object distinction. Then, we propose a two-stage codebook to discretize these features from coarse to fine levels. At the coarse level, we consider the positional information of 3D points to achieve location-based clustering, which is then refined at the fine level. Finally, we introduce an instance-level 3D-2D feature association method that links 3D points to 2D masks, which are further associated with 2D CLIP features. Extensive experiments, including open vocabulary-based 3D object selection, 3D point cloud understanding, click-based 3D object selection, and ablation studies, demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. The source code is available at our project page https: //3d-aigc. github. io/OpenGaussian.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

PLIP: Language-Image Pre-training for Person Representation Learning

  • Jialong Zuo
  • Jiahao Hong
  • Feng Zhang
  • Changqian Yu
  • Hanyu Zhou
  • Changxin Gao
  • Nong Sang
  • Jingdong Wang

Language-image pre-training is an effective technique for learning powerful representations in general domains. However, when directly turning to person representation learning, these general pre-training methods suffer from unsatisfactory performance. The reason is that they neglect critical person-related characteristics, i. e. , fine-grained attributes and identities. To address this issue, we propose a novel language-image pre-training framework for person representation learning, termed PLIP. Specifically, we elaborately design three pretext tasks: 1) Text-guided Image Colorization, aims to establish the correspondence between the person-related image regions and the fine-grained color-part textual phrases. 2) Image-guided Attributes Prediction, aims to mine fine-grained attribute information of the person body in the image; and 3) Identity-based Vision-Language Contrast, aims to correlate the cross-modal representations at the identity level rather than the instance level. Moreover, to implement our pre-train framework, we construct a large-scale person dataset with image-text pairs named SYNTH-PEDES by automatically generating textual annotations. We pre-train PLIP on SYNTH-PEDES and evaluate our models by spanning downstream person-centric tasks. PLIP not only significantly improves existing methods on all these tasks, but also shows great ability in the zero-shot and domain generalization settings. The code, dataset and weight will be made publicly available.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

Schedule Your Edit: A Simple yet Effective Diffusion Noise Schedule for Image Editing

  • Haonan Lin
  • Yan Chen
  • Jiahao Wang
  • Wenbin An
  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Feng Tian
  • Yong Liu
  • Guang Dai

Text-guided diffusion models have significantly advanced image editing, enabling high-quality and diverse modifications driven by text prompts. However, effective editing requires inverting the source image into a latent space, a process often hindered by prediction errors inherent in DDIM inversion. These errors accumulate during the diffusion process, resulting in inferior content preservation and edit fidelity, especially with conditional inputs. We address these challenges by investigating the primary contributors to error accumulation in DDIM inversion and identify the singularity problem in traditional noise schedules as a key issue. To resolve this, we introduce the Logistic Schedule, a novel noise schedule designed to eliminate singularities, improve inversion stability, and provide a better noise space for image editing. This schedule reduces noise prediction errors, enabling more faithful editing that preserves the original content of the source image. Our approach requires no additional retraining and is compatible with various existing editing methods. Experiments across eight editing tasks demonstrate the Logistic Schedule's superior performance in content preservation and edit fidelity compared to traditional noise schedules, highlighting its adaptability and effectiveness. The project page is available at https: //lonelvino. github. io/SYE/.

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NeurIPS Conference 2024 Conference Paper

ShowMaker: Creating High-Fidelity 2D Human Video via Fine-Grained Diffusion Modeling

  • Quanwei Yang
  • Jiazhi Guan
  • Kaisiyuan Wang
  • Lingyun Yu
  • Wenqing Chu
  • Hang Zhou
  • Zhiqiang Feng
  • Haocheng Feng

Although significant progress has been made in human video generation, most previous studies focus on either human facial animation or full-body animation, which cannot be directly applied to produce realistic conversational human videos with frequent hand gestures and various facial movements simultaneously. To address these limitations, we propose a 2D human video generation framework, named ShowMaker, capable of generating high-fidelity half-body conversational videos via fine-grained diffusion modeling. We leverage dual-stream diffusion models as the backbone of our framework and carefully design two novel components for crucial local regions (i. e. , hands and face) that can be easily integrated into our backbone. Specifically, to handle the challenging hand generation caused by sparse motion guidance, we propose a novel Key Point-based Fine-grained Hand Modeling module by amplifying positional information from raw hand key points and constructing a corresponding key point-based codebook. Moreover, to restore richer facial details in generated results, we introduce a Face Recapture module, which extracts facial texture features and global identity features from the aligned human face and integrates them into the diffusion process for face enhancement. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate the superior visual quality and temporal consistency of our method.

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AAAI Conference 2024 Conference Paper

SSMG: Spatial-Semantic Map Guided Diffusion Model for Free-Form Layout-to-Image Generation

  • Chengyou Jia
  • Minnan Luo
  • Zhuohang Dang
  • Guang Dai
  • Xiaojun Chang
  • Mengmeng Wang
  • Jingdong Wang

Despite significant progress in Text-to-Image (T2I) generative models, even lengthy and complex text descriptions still struggle to convey detailed controls. In contrast, Layout-to-Image (L2I) generation, aiming to generate realistic and complex scene images from user-specified layouts, has risen to prominence. However, existing methods transform layout information into tokens or RGB images for conditional control in the generative process, leading to insufficient spatial and semantic controllability of individual instances. To address these limitations, we propose a novel Spatial-Semantic Map Guided (SSMG) diffusion model that adopts the feature map, derived from the layout, as guidance. Owing to rich spatial and semantic information encapsulated in well-designed feature maps, SSMG achieves superior generation quality with sufficient spatial and semantic controllability compared to previous works. Additionally, we propose the Relation-Sensitive Attention (RSA) and Location-Sensitive Attention (LSA) mechanisms. The former aims to model the relationships among multiple objects within scenes while the latter is designed to heighten the model's sensitivity to the spatial information embedded in the guidance. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SSMG achieves highly promising results, setting a new state-of-the-art across a range of metrics encompassing fidelity, diversity, and controllability.

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TMLR Journal 2023 Journal Article

CAE v2: Context Autoencoder with CLIP Latent Alignment

  • Xinyu Zhang
  • Jiahui Chen
  • Junkun Yuan
  • Qiang Chen
  • Jian Wang
  • Xiaodi Wang
  • Shumin Han
  • Xiaokang Chen

Masked image modeling (MIM) learns visual representations by predicting the masked patches on a pre-defined target. Inspired by MVP(Wei et al., 2022b) that displays impressive gains with CLIP, in this work, we also employ the semantically rich CLIP latent as target and further tap its potential by introducing a new MIM pipeline, CAE v2, to learn a high-quality encoder and facilitate model convergence on the pre-training task. CAE v2 is an improved variant of CAE (Chen et al., 2023), applying the CLIP latent on two pretraining tasks, i.e., visible latent alignment and masked latent alignment. Visible latent alignment directly mimics the visible latent representations from the encoder to the corresponding CLIP latent, which is beneficial for facilitating model convergence and improving the representative ability of the encoder. Masked latent alignment predicts the representations of masked patches within the feature space of CLIP latent as standard MIM task does, effectively aligning the representations computed from the encoder and the regressor into the same domain. We pretrain CAE v2 on ImageNet-1K images and evaluate on various downstream vision tasks, including image classification, semantic segmentation, object detection and instance segmentation. Experiments show that our CAE v2 achieves competitive performance and even outperforms the CLIP vision encoder, demonstrating the effectiveness of our method. Code is available at https://github.com/Atten4Vis/CAE.

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AAAI Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Cyclically Disentangled Feature Translation for Face Anti-spoofing

  • Haixiao Yue
  • Keyao Wang
  • Guosheng Zhang
  • Haocheng Feng
  • Junyu Han
  • Errui Ding
  • Jingdong Wang

Current domain adaptation methods for face anti-spoofing leverage labeled source domain data and unlabeled target domain data to obtain a promising generalizable decision boundary. However, it is usually difficult for these methods to achieve a perfect domain-invariant liveness feature disentanglement, which may degrade the final classification performance by domain differences in illumination, face category, spoof type, etc. In this work, we tackle cross-scenario face anti-spoofing by proposing a novel domain adaptation method called cyclically disentangled feature translation network (CDFTN). Specifically, CDFTN generates pseudo-labeled samples that possess: 1) source domain-invariant liveness features and 2) target domain-specific content features, which are disentangled through domain adversarial training. A robust classifier is trained based on the synthetic pseudo-labeled images under the supervision of source domain labels. We further extend CDFTN for multi-target domain adaptation by leveraging data from more unlabeled target domains. Extensive experiments on several public datasets demonstrate that our proposed approach significantly outperforms the state of the art. Code and models are available at https://github.com/vis-face/CDFTN.

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NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

DAC-DETR: Divide the Attention Layers and Conquer

  • Zhengdong Hu
  • Yifan Sun
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Yi Yang

This paper reveals a characteristic of DEtection Transformer (DETR) that negatively impacts its training efficacy, i. e. , the cross-attention and self-attention layers in DETR decoder have contrary impacts on the object queries (though both impacts are important). Specifically, we observe the cross-attention tends to gather multiple queries around the same object, while the self-attention disperses these queries far away. To improve the training efficacy, we propose a Divide-And-Conquer DETR (DAC-DETR) that divides the cross-attention out from this contrary for better conquering. During training, DAC-DETR employs an auxiliary decoder that focuses on learning the cross-attention layers. The auxiliary decoder, while sharing all the other parameters, has NO self-attention layers and employs one-to-many label assignment to improve the gathering effect. Experiments show that DAC-DETR brings remarkable improvement over popular DETRs. For example, under the 12 epochs training scheme on MS-COCO, DAC-DETR improves Deformable DETR (ResNet-50) by +3. 4 AP and achieves 50. 9 (ResNet-50) / 58. 1 AP (Swin-Large) based on some popular methods (i. e. , DINO and an IoU-related loss). Our code will be made available at https: //github. com/huzhengdongcs/DAC-DETR.

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NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

HAP: Structure-Aware Masked Image Modeling for Human-Centric Perception

  • Junkun Yuan
  • Xinyu Zhang
  • Hao Zhou
  • Jian Wang
  • Zhongwei Qiu
  • Zhiyin Shao
  • Shaofeng Zhang
  • Sifan Long

Model pre-training is essential in human-centric perception. In this paper, we first introduce masked image modeling (MIM) as a pre-training approach for this task. Upon revisiting the MIM training strategy, we reveal that human structure priors offer significant potential. Motivated by this insight, we further incorporate an intuitive human structure prior - human parts - into pre-training. Specifically, we employ this prior to guide the mask sampling process. Image patches, corresponding to human part regions, have high priority to be masked out. This encourages the model to concentrate more on body structure information during pre-training, yielding substantial benefits across a range of human-centric perception tasks. To further capture human characteristics, we propose a structure-invariant alignment loss that enforces different masked views, guided by the human part prior, to be closely aligned for the same image. We term the entire method as HAP. HAP simply uses a plain ViT as the encoder yet establishes new state-of-the-art performance on 11 human-centric benchmarks, and on-par result on one dataset. For example, HAP achieves 78. 1% mAP on MSMT17 for person re-identification, 86. 54% mA on PA-100K for pedestrian attribute recognition, 78. 2% AP on MS COCO for 2D pose estimation, and 56. 0 PA-MPJPE on 3DPW for 3D pose and shape estimation.

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NeurIPS Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Leveraging Vision-Centric Multi-Modal Expertise for 3D Object Detection

  • Linyan Huang
  • Zhiqi Li
  • Chonghao Sima
  • Wenhai Wang
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Yu Qiao
  • Hongyang Li

Current research is primarily dedicated to advancing the accuracy of camera-only 3D object detectors (apprentice) through the knowledge transferred from LiDAR- or multi-modal-based counterparts (expert). However, the presence of the domain gap between LiDAR and camera features, coupled with the inherent incompatibility in temporal fusion, significantly hinders the effectiveness of distillation-based enhancements for apprentices. Motivated by the success of uni-modal distillation, an apprentice-friendly expert model would predominantly rely on camera features, while still achieving comparable performance to multi-modal models. To this end, we introduce VCD, a framework to improve the camera-only apprentice model, including an apprentice-friendly multi-modal expert and temporal-fusion-friendly distillation supervision. The multi-modal expert VCD-E adopts an identical structure as that of the camera-only apprentice in order to alleviate the feature disparity, and leverages LiDAR input as a depth prior to reconstruct the 3D scene, achieving the performance on par with other heterogeneous multi-modal experts. Additionally, a fine-grained trajectory-based distillation module is introduced with the purpose of individually rectifying the motion misalignment for each object in the scene. With those improvements, our camera-only apprentice VCD-A sets new state-of-the-art on nuScenes with a score of 63. 1% NDS. The code will be released at https: //github. com/OpenDriveLab/Birds-eye-view-Perception.

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AAAI Conference 2023 Conference Paper

Robust Video Portrait Reenactment via Personalized Representation Quantization

  • Kaisiyuan Wang
  • Changcheng Liang
  • Hang Zhou
  • Jiaxiang Tang
  • Qianyi Wu
  • Dongliang He
  • Zhibin Hong
  • Jingtuo Liu

While progress has been made in the field of portrait reenactment, the problem of how to produce high-fidelity and robust videos remains. Recent studies normally find it challenging to handle rarely seen target poses due to the limitation of source data. This paper proposes the Video Portrait via Non-local Quantization Modeling (VPNQ) framework, which produces pose- and disturbance-robust reenactable video portraits. Our key insight is to learn position-invariant quantized local patch representations and build a mapping between simple driving signals and local textures with non-local spatial-temporal modeling. Specifically, instead of learning a universal quantized codebook, we identify that a personalized one can be trained to preserve desired position-invariant local details better. Then, a simple representation of projected landmarks can be used as sufficient driving signals to avoid 3D rendering. Following, we employ a carefully designed Spatio-Temporal Transformer to predict reasonable and temporally consistent quantized tokens from the driving signal. The predicted codes can be decoded back to robust and high-quality videos. Comprehensive experiments have been conducted to validate the effectiveness of our approach.

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TMLR Journal 2023 Journal Article

Understanding Self-Supervised Pretraining with Part-Aware Representation Learning

  • Jie Zhu
  • Jiyang Qi
  • Mingyu Ding
  • Xiaokang Chen
  • Ping Luo
  • Xinggang Wang
  • Wenyu Liu
  • Leye Wang

In this paper, we are interested in understanding self-supervised pretraining through studying the capability that self-supervised methods learn part-aware representations. The study is mainly motivated by that random views, used in contrastive learning, and random masked (visible) patches, used in masked image modeling, are often about object parts. We explain that contrastive learning is a part-to-whole task: the projection layer hallucinates the whole object representation from the object part representation learned from the encoder, and that masked image modeling is a part-to-part task: the masked patches of the object are hallucinated from the visible patches. The explanation suggests that the self-supervised pretrained encoder leans toward understanding the object part. We empirically compare the off-the-shelf encoders pretrained with several representative methods on object-level recognition and part-level recognition. The results show that the fully-supervised model outperforms self-supervised models for object-level recognition, and most self-supervised contrastive learning and masked image modeling methods outperform the fully-supervised method for part-level recognition. It is observed that the combination of contrastive learning and masked image modeling further improves the performance.

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NeurIPS Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Delving into Sequential Patches for Deepfake Detection

  • Jiazhi Guan
  • Hang Zhou
  • Zhibin Hong
  • Errui Ding
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Chengbin Quan
  • Youjian Zhao

Recent advances in face forgery techniques produce nearly visually untraceable deepfake videos, which could be leveraged with malicious intentions. As a result, researchers have been devoted to deepfake detection. Previous studies have identified the importance of local low-level cues and temporal information in pursuit to generalize well across deepfake methods, however, they still suffer from robustness problem against post-processings. In this work, we propose the Local- & Temporal-aware Transformer-based Deepfake Detection (LTTD) framework, which adopts a local-to-global learning protocol with a particular focus on the valuable temporal information within local sequences. Specifically, we propose a Local Sequence Transformer (LST), which models the temporal consistency on sequences of restricted spatial regions, where low-level information is hierarchically enhanced with shallow layers of learned 3D filters. Based on the local temporal embeddings, we then achieve the final classification in a global contrastive way. Extensive experiments on popular datasets validate that our approach effectively spots local forgery cues and achieves state-of-the-art performance.

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NeurIPS Conference 2022 Conference Paper

RTFormer: Efficient Design for Real-Time Semantic Segmentation with Transformer

  • Jian Wang
  • Chenhui Gou
  • Qiman Wu
  • Haocheng Feng
  • Junyu Han
  • Errui Ding
  • Jingdong Wang

Recently, transformer-based networks have shown impressive results in semantic segmentation. Yet for real-time semantic segmentation, pure CNN-based approaches still dominate in this field, due to the time-consuming computation mechanism of transformer. We propose RTFormer, an efficient dual-resolution transformer for real-time semantic segmenation, which achieves better trade-off between performance and efficiency than CNN-based models. To achieve high inference efficiency on GPU-like devices, our RTFormer leverages GPU-Friendly Attention with linear complexity and discards the multi-head mechanism. Besides, we find that cross-resolution attention is more efficient to gather global context information for high-resolution branch by spreading the high level knowledge learned from low-resolution branch. Extensive experiments on mainstream benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed RTFormer, it achieves state-of-the-art on Cityscapes, CamVid and COCOStuff, and shows promising results on ADE20K.

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IJCAI Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Self-Guided Hard Negative Generation for Unsupervised Person Re-Identification

  • Dongdong Li
  • Zhigang Wang
  • Jian Wang
  • Xinyu Zhang
  • Errui Ding
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang

Recent unsupervised person re-identification (reID) methods mostly apply pseudo labels from clustering algorithms as supervision signals. Despite great success, this fashion is very likely to aggregate different identities with similar appearances into the same cluster. In result, the hard negative samples, playing important role in training reID models, are significantly reduced. To alleviate this problem, we propose a self-guided hard negative generation method for unsupervised person re-ID. Specifically, a joint framework is developed which incorporates a hard negative generation network (HNGN) and a re-ID network. To continuously generate harder negative samples to provide effective supervisions in the contrastive learning, the two networks are alternately trained in an adversarial manner to improve each other, where the reID network guides HNGN to generate challenging data and HNGN enforces the re-ID network to enhance discrimination ability. During inference, the performance of re-ID network is improved without introducing any extra parameters. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method significantly outperforms a strong baseline and also achieves better results than state-of-the-art methods.

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NeurIPS Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Singular Value Fine-tuning: Few-shot Segmentation requires Few-parameters Fine-tuning

  • Yanpeng Sun
  • Qiang Chen
  • Xiangyu He
  • Jian Wang
  • Haocheng Feng
  • Junyu Han
  • Errui Ding
  • Jian Cheng

Freezing the pre-trained backbone has become a standard paradigm to avoid overfitting in few-shot segmentation. In this paper, we rethink the paradigm and explore a new regime: {\em fine-tuning a small part of parameters in the backbone}. We present a solution to overcome the overfitting problem, leading to better model generalization on learning novel classes. Our method decomposes backbone parameters into three successive matrices via the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD), then {\em only fine-tunes the singular values} and keeps others frozen. The above design allows the model to adjust feature representations on novel classes while maintaining semantic clues within the pre-trained backbone. We evaluate our {\em Singular Value Fine-tuning (SVF)} approach on various few-shot segmentation methods with different backbones. We achieve state-of-the-art results on both Pascal-5$^i$ and COCO-20$^i$ across 1-shot and 5-shot settings. Hopefully, this simple baseline will encourage researchers to rethink the role of backbone fine-tuning in few-shot settings.

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NeurIPS Conference 2021 Conference Paper

HRFormer: High-Resolution Vision Transformer for Dense Predict

  • Yuhui Yuan
  • Rao Fu
  • Lang Huang
  • Weihong Lin
  • Chao Zhang
  • Xilin Chen
  • Jingdong Wang

We present a High-Resolution Transformer (HRFormer) that learns high-resolution representations for dense prediction tasks, in contrast to the original Vision Transformer that produces low-resolution representations and has high memory and computational cost. We take advantage of the multi-resolution parallel design introduced in high-resolution convolutional networks (HRNet [45]), along with local-window self-attention that performs self-attention over small non-overlapping image windows [21], for improving the memory and computation efficiency. In addition, we introduce a convolution into the FFN to exchange information across the disconnected image windows. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the HighResolution Transformer on both human pose estimation and semantic segmentation tasks, e. g. , HRFormer outperforms Swin transformer [27] by 1. 3 AP on COCO pose estimation with 50% fewer parameters and 30% fewer FLOPs. Code is available at: https: //github. com/HRNet/HRFormer

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NeurIPS Conference 2021 Conference Paper

SPANN: Highly-efficient Billion-scale Approximate Nearest Neighborhood Search

  • Qi Chen
  • Bing Zhao
  • Haidong Wang
  • Mingqin Li
  • ChuanJie Liu
  • Zengzhong Li
  • Mao Yang
  • Jingdong Wang

The in-memory algorithms for approximate nearest neighbor search (ANNS) have achieved great success for fast high-recall search, but are extremely expensive when handling very large scale database. Thus, there is an increasing request for the hybrid ANNS solutions with small memory and inexpensive solid-state drive (SSD). In this paper, we present a simple but efficient memory-disk hybrid indexing and search system, named SPANN, that follows the inverted index methodology. It stores the centroid points of the posting lists in the memory and the large posting lists in the disk. We guarantee both disk-access efficiency (low latency) and high recall by effectively reducing the disk-access number and retrieving high-quality posting lists. In the index-building stage, we adopt a hierarchical balanced clustering algorithm to balance the length of posting lists and augment the posting list by adding the points in the closure of the corresponding clusters. In the search stage, we use a query-aware scheme to dynamically prune the access of unnecessary posting lists. Experiment results demonstrate that SPANN is 2X faster than the state-of-the-art ANNS solution DiskANN to reach the same recall quality 90% with same memory cost in three billion-scale datasets. It can reach 90% recall@1 and recall@10 in just around one millisecond with only about 10% of original memory cost. Code is available at: https: //github. com/microsoft/SPTAG.

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IJCAI Conference 2019 Conference Paper

Disparity-preserved Deep Cross-platform Association for Cross-platform Video Recommendation

  • Shengze Yu
  • Xin Wang
  • Wenwu Zhu
  • Peng Cui
  • Jingdong Wang

Cross-platform recommendation aims to improve recommendation accuracy through associating information from different platforms. Existing cross-platform recommendation approaches assume all cross-platform information to be consistent with each other and can be aligned. However, there remain two unsolved challenges: i) there exist inconsistencies in cross-platform association due to platform-specific disparity, and ii) data from distinct platforms may have different semantic granularities. In this paper, we propose a cross-platform association model for cross-platform video recommendation, i. e. , Disparity-preserved Deep Cross-platform Association (DCA), taking platform-specific disparity and granularity difference into consideration. The proposed DCA model employs a partially-connected multi-modal autoencoder, which is capable of explicitly capturing platform-specific information, as well as utilizing nonlinear mapping functions to handle granularity differences. We then present a cross-platform video recommendation approach based on the proposed DCA model. Extensive experiments for our cross-platform recommendation framework on real-world dataset demonstrate that the proposed DCA model significantly outperform existing cross-platform recommendation methods in terms of various evaluation metrics.

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AAAI Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Decoupled Convolutions for CNNs

  • Guotian Xie
  • Ting Zhang
  • Kuiyuan Yang
  • Jianhuang Lai
  • Jingdong Wang

In this paper, we are interested in designing small CNNs by decoupling the convolution along the spatial and channel domains. Most existing decoupling techniques focus on approximating the filter matrix through decomposition. In contrast, we provide a two-step interpretation of the standard convolution from the filter at a single location to all locations, which is exactly equivalent to the standard convolution. Motivated by the observations in our decoupling view, we propose an effective approach to relax the sparsity of the filter in spatial aggregation by learning a spatial configuration, and reduce the redundancy by reducing the number of intermediate channels. Our approach achieves comparable classification performance with the standard uncoupled convolution, but with a smaller model size over CIFAR-100, CIFAR-10 and ImageNet.

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IJCAI Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Deep Convolutional Neural Networks with Merge-and-Run Mappings

  • Liming Zhao
  • Mingjie Li
  • Depu Meng
  • Xi Li
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang
  • Yueting Zhuang
  • Zhuowen Tu
  • Jingdong Wang

A deep residual network, built by stacking a sequence of residual blocks, is easy to train, because identity mappings skip residual branches and thus improve information flow. To further reduce the training difficulty, we present a simple network architecture, deep merge-and-run neural networks. The novelty lies in a modularized building block, merge-and-run block, which assembles residual branches in parallel through a merge-and-run mapping: average the inputs of these residual branches (Merge), and add the average to the output of each residual branch as the input of the subsequent residual branch (Run), respectively. We show that the merge-and-run mapping is a linear idempotent function in which the transformation matrix is idempotent, and thus improves information flow, making training easy. In comparison with residual networks, our networks enjoy compelling advantages: they contain much shorter paths and the width, i. e. , the number of channels, is increased, and the time complexity remains unchanged. We evaluate the performance on the standard recognition tasks. Our approach demonstrates consistent improvements over ResNets with the comparable setup, and achieves competitive results (e. g. , 3. 06% testing error on CIFAR-10, 17. 55% on CIFAR-100, 1. 51% on SVHN).

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NeurIPS Conference 2018 Conference Paper

Weakly Supervised Dense Event Captioning in Videos

  • Xuguang Duan
  • Wenbing Huang
  • Chuang Gan
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Wenwu Zhu
  • Junzhou Huang

Dense event captioning aims to detect and describe all events of interest contained in a video. Despite the advanced development in this area, existing methods tackle this task by making use of dense temporal annotations, which is dramatically source-consuming. This paper formulates a new problem: weakly supervised dense event captioning, which does not require temporal segment annotations for model training. Our solution is based on the one-to-one correspondence assumption, each caption describes one temporal segment, and each temporal segment has one caption, which holds in current benchmark datasets and most real world cases. We decompose the problem into a pair of dual problems: event captioning and sentence localization and present a cycle system to train our model. Extensive experimental results are provided to demonstrate the ability of our model on both dense event captioning and sentence localization in videos.

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IJCAI Conference 2017 Conference Paper

Random Shifting for CNN: a Solution to Reduce Information Loss in Down-Sampling Layers

  • Gangming Zhao
  • Jingdong Wang
  • Zhaoxiang Zhang

Down-sampling is widely adopted in deep convolutional neural networks (DCNN) for reducing the number of network parameters while preserving the transformation invariance. However, it cannot utilize information effectively because it only adopts a fixed stride strategy, which may result in poor generalization ability and information loss. In this paper, we propose a novel random strategy to alleviate these problems by embedding random shifting in the down-sampling layers during the training process. Random shifting can be universally applied to diverse DCNN models to dynamically adjust receptive fields by shifting kernel centers on feature maps in different directions. Thus, it can generate more robust features in networks and further enhance the transformation invariance of down-sampling operators. In addition, random shifting cannot only be integrated in all down-sampling layers including strided convolutional layers and pooling layers, but also improve performance of DCNN with negligible additional computational cost. We evaluate our method in different tasks (e. g. , image classification and segmentation) with various network architectures (i. e. , AlexNet, FCN and DFN-MR). Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method.

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IJCAI Conference 2015 Conference Paper

Quantized Correlation Hashing for Fast Cross-Modal Search

  • Botong Wu
  • Qiang Yang
  • Wei-Shi Zheng
  • Yizhou Wang
  • Jingdong Wang

Cross-modal hashing is designed to facilitate fast search across domains. In this work, we present a cross-modal hashing approach, called quantized correlation hashing (QCH), which takes into consideration the quantization loss over domains and the relation between domains. Unlike previous approaches that separate the optimization of the quantizer independent of maximization of domain correlation, our approach simultaneously optimizes both processes. The underlying relation between the domains that describes the same objects is established via maximizing the correlation between the hash codes across the domains. The resulting multi-modal objective function is transformed to a unimodal formalization, which is optimized through an alternative procedure. Experimental results on three real world datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art multi-modal hashing methods.

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TIST Journal 2011 Journal Article

Interactive Image Search by Color Map

  • Jingdong Wang
  • Xian-Sheng Hua

The availability of large-scale images from the Internet has made the research on image search attract a lot of attention. Text-based image search engines, for example, Google/Microsoft Bing/Yahoo! image search engines using the surrounding text, have been developed and widely used. However, they suffer from an inability to search image content. In this article, we present an interactive image search system, image search by color map, which can be applied to, but not limited to, enhance text-based image search. This system enables users to indicate how the colors are spatially distributed in the desired images, by scribbling a few color strokes, or dragging an image and highlighting a few regions of interest in an intuitive way. In contrast to the conventional sketch-based image retrieval techniques, our system searches images based on colors rather than shapes, and we, technically, propose a simple but effective scheme to mine the latent search intention from the user’s input, and exploit the dominant color filter strategy to make our system more efficient. We integrate our system to existing Web image search engines to demonstrate its superior performance over text-based image search. The user study shows that our system can indeed help users conveniently find desired images.

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