1 code implementation • BioNLP (ACL) 2022 • Sidhant Chandak, Liqing Zhang, Connor Brown, Lifu Huang
Antibiotic resistance has become a growing worldwide concern as new resistance mechanisms are emerging and spreading globally, and thus detecting and collecting the cause – Antibiotic Resistance Genes (ARGs), have been more critical than ever.
1 code implementation • 7 Nov 2024 • Yuxuan Duan, Yan Hong, Bo Zhang, Jun Lan, Huijia Zhu, Weiqiang Wang, Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
The recent progress in text-to-image models pretrained on large-scale datasets has enabled us to generate various images as long as we provide a text prompt describing what we want.
no code implementations • CVPR 2024 • Zhaohe Liao, Jiangtong Li, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
The video aligner hierarchically selects the relevant video clips based on the question, while the answer aggregator deduces the answer to the question based on its sub-questions, with compositional consistency ensured by the information flow along question decomposition graph and the contrastive learning strategy.
no code implementations • 19 Jun 2024 • Sajib Acharjee Dip, Uddip Acharjee Shuvo, Tran Chau, Haoqiu Song, Petra Choi, Xuan Wang, Liqing Zhang
Pathogen identification is pivotal in diagnosing, treating, and preventing diseases, crucial for controlling infections and safeguarding public health.
no code implementations • 15 Jun 2024 • Lingxiao Lu, Shengyi Wu, Haoxuan Sun, Junhong Gou, Jianlou Si, Chen Qian, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Virtual clothes try-on has emerged as a vital feature in online shopping, offering consumers a critical tool to visualize how clothing fits.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2024 • Linhao Zhong, Yan Hong, Wentao Chen, Binglin Zhou, Yiyi Zhang, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Text-to-image generation models have seen considerable advancement, catering to the increasing interest in personalized image creation.
no code implementations • 25 May 2024 • Tianyi Chen, Jianfu Zhang, Yan Hong, Yiyi Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Image inpainting, the task of reconstructing missing segments in corrupted images using available data, faces challenges in ensuring consistency and fidelity, especially under information-scarce conditions.
no code implementations • 1 Mar 2024 • Han Lu, Siyu Sun, Yichen Xie, Liqing Zhang, Xiaokang Yang, Junchi Yan
In the long-tailed recognition field, the Decoupled Training paradigm has demonstrated remarkable capabilities among various methods.
1 code implementation • 15 Dec 2023 • Li Niu, Junyan Cao, Yan Hong, Liqing Zhang
In particular, we learn a mapping from background style and object information to object style based on painterly objects in artistic paintings.
1 code implementation • 15 Dec 2023 • Li Niu, Yan Hong, Junyan Cao, Liqing Zhang
Painterly image harmonization aims to harmonize a photographic foreground object on the painterly background.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2023 • Yuxuan Duan, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Dataset distillation (DD) is a newly emerging research area aiming at alleviating the heavy computational load in training models on large datasets.
no code implementations • 15 Nov 2023 • Xudong Wang, Li Niu, Junyan Cao, Yan Hong, Liqing Zhang
In this work, we employ adversarial learning to bridge the domain gap between foreground feature map and background feature map.
no code implementations • 26 Oct 2023 • Junhong Gou, Bo Zhang, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Jianlou Si, Chen Qian, Liqing Zhang
Specifically, our approach learns the human body priors and hallucinates the target locations of specified foreground keypoints in the background.
1 code implementation • 11 Aug 2023 • Junhong Gou, Siyu Sun, Jianfu Zhang, Jianlou Si, Chen Qian, Liqing Zhang
Our approach, namely Diffusion-based Conditional Inpainting for Virtual Try-ON (DCI-VTON), effectively utilizes the power of the diffusion model, and the incorporation of the warping module helps to produce high-quality and realistic virtual try-on results.
1 code implementation • 5 Aug 2023 • Linfeng Tan, Jiangtong Li, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
The network comprises a $RGB$ harmonization backbone, an $Lab$ encoding module, and an $Lab$ control module.
Ranked #1 on Image Harmonization on HAdobe5k(1024$\times$1024)
1 code implementation • 4 Aug 2023 • Lingxiao Lu, Jiangtong Li, Junyan Cao, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
Painterly image harmonization aims to insert photographic objects into paintings and obtain artistically coherent composite images.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2023 • Li Niu, Junyan Cao, Wenyan Cong, Liqing Zhang
In particular, our designed SYthetic COmposite Network (SycoNet) takes in a real image with foreground mask and a random vector to learn suitable color transformation, which is applied to the foreground of this real image to produce a synthetic composite image.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2023 • Li Niu, Linfeng Tan, Xinhao Tao, Junyan Cao, Fengjun Guo, Teng Long, Liqing Zhang
Given a composite image, image harmonization aims to adjust the foreground illumination to be consistent with background.
no code implementations • 17 May 2023 • Haohui Wang, Baoyu Jing, Kaize Ding, Yada Zhu, Wei Cheng, Si Zhang, Yonghui Fan, Liqing Zhang, Dawei Zhou
To bridge this gap, we propose a generalization bound for long-tail classification on graphs by formulating the problem in the fashion of multi-task learning, i. e., each task corresponds to the prediction of one particular class.
1 code implementation • 11 May 2023 • Yuxuan Duan, Li Niu, Yan Hong, Liqing Zhang
In this work, we introduce WeditGAN, which realizes model transfer by editing the intermediate latent codes $w$ in StyleGANs with learned constant offsets ($\Delta w$), discovering and constructing target latent spaces via simply relocating the distribution of source latent spaces.
1 code implementation • 4 Mar 2023 • Yuxuan Duan, Yan Hong, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
First, we train a data-efficient StyleGAN2 on defect-free images as the backbone.
no code implementations • ICCV 2023 • Li Niu, Xing Zhao, Bo Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Visible watermark removal aims to erase the watermark from watermarked image and recover the background image, which is a challenging task due to the diverse watermarks.
no code implementations • ICCV 2023 • Jiangtong Li, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
To tackle the challenge that the confounder in VideoQA is unobserved and non-enumerable in general, we propose a model-agnostic framework called Knowledge Proxy Intervention (KPI), which introduces an extra knowledge proxy variable in the causal graph to cut the backdoor path and remove the confounder.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Chao Wang, Li Niu, Bo Zhang, Liqing Zhang
To address the first issue, we propose spatial-aware feature to encode the spatial relationship between candidate crops and aesthetic elements, by feeding the concatenation of crop mask and selectively aggregated feature maps to a light-weighted encoder.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2022 • Penghao Wu, Li Niu, Jing Liang, Liqing Zhang
Synthetic images created by image editing operations are prevalent, but the color or illumination inconsistency between the manipulated region and background may make it unrealistic.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2022 • Penghao Wu, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
Based on the extracted style features, we also propose a novel style voting module to guide the localization of inharmonious region.
1 code implementation • 5 Oct 2022 • Junjie Chen, Li Niu, Siyuan Zhou, Jianlou Si, Chen Qian, Liqing Zhang
Proposal segmentation allows proposal-pixel similarity transfer from base classes to novel classes, which enables the mask learning of novel classes.
2 code implementations • 23 Jul 2022 • Siyuan Zhou, Liu Liu, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
Object placement aims to place a foreground object over a background image with a suitable location and size.
no code implementations • 22 Jul 2022 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Few-shot image translation disentangles an image into style vector and content map.
1 code implementation • 21 Jul 2022 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
In this work, we propose a novel Delta Generative Adversarial Network (DeltaGAN), which consists of a reconstruction subnetwork and a generation subnetwork.
1 code implementation • 21 Jul 2022 • Bo Zhang, Li Niu, Xing Zhao, Liqing Zhang
Image cropping aims to find visually appealing crops in an image, which is an important yet challenging task.
no code implementations • 6 Jul 2022 • Bo Zhang, Yue Liu, Kaixin Lu, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
Instead, we propose a novel correspondence learning network (CorrelNet) to model the correspondence between foreground and background using cross-attention maps, based on which we can predict the target coordinate that each source coordinate of foreground should be mapped to on the background.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Jiangtong Li, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
We hope that Causal-VidQA can guide the research of video understanding from representation learning to deeper reasoning.
1 code implementation • 2 May 2022 • Xinyuan Lu, Shengyuan Huang, Li Niu, Wenyan Cong, Liqing Zhang
Video harmonization aims to adjust the foreground of a composite video to make it compatible with the background.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Zhangxuan Gu, Changhua Meng, Ke Wang, Jun Lan, Weiqiang Wang, Ming Gu, Liqing Zhang
Recently, various multimodal networks for Visually-Rich Document Understanding(VRDU) have been proposed, showing the promotion of transformers by integrating visual and layout information with the text embeddings.
document understanding Optical Character Recognition (OCR) +1
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2022 • Zhengkai Jiang, Zhangxuan Gu, Jinlong Peng, Hang Zhou, Liang Liu, Yabiao Wang, Ying Tai, Chengjie Wang, Liqing Zhang
In contrast, we present a simple and efficient single-stage VIS framework based on the instance segmentation method CondInst by adding an extra tracking head.
Ranked #38 on Video Instance Segmentation on YouTube-VIS validation
no code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Wentao Wang, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Xue Yang, Liqing Zhang
Different from feed-forward methods, they seek for a closest latent code to the corrupted image and feed it to a pretrained generator.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Yan Liu, Zhijie Zhang, Li Niu, Junjie Chen, Liqing Zhang
Specifically, the ability of using mask prior to help detect objects is learned from base categories and transferred to novel categories.
no code implementations • 4 Oct 2021 • Siyuan Zhou, Li Niu, Jianlou Si, Chen Qian, Liqing Zhang
As a result, we find that pixel-level annotation of base categories can facilitate affinity learning and propagation, leading to higher-quality CAMs of novel categories.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Jianfu Zhang, Yan Hong, Liqing Zhang, Qibin Zhao
Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are fragile to adversarial attacks.
no code implementations • 29 Sep 2021 • Jianfu Zhang, Yan Hong, Dawei Cheng, Liqing Zhang, Qibin Zhao
In this paper, we propose a tensor-based framework for GNNs to learn robust graphs from adversarial graphs by aggregating predefined robust graphs to enhance the robustness of GNNs via tensor approximation.
1 code implementation • 18 Sep 2021 • Xinyuan Lu, Shengyuan Huang, Li Niu, Wenyan Cong, Liqing Zhang
In this work, we construct a new video harmonization dataset HYouTube by adjusting the foreground of real videos to create synthetic composite videos.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Wenyan Cong, Xinhao Tao, Li Niu, Jing Liang, Xuesong Gao, Qihao Sun, Liqing Zhang
Conventional image harmonization methods learn global RGB-to-RGB transformation which could effortlessly scale to high resolution, but ignore diverse local context.
Ranked #3 on Image Harmonization on HAdobe5k(1024$\times$1024)
1 code implementation • 8 Aug 2021 • Jing Liang, Li Niu, Fengjun Guo, Teng Long, Liqing Zhang
In the refinement stage, we integrate multi-level features to improve the texture quality of watermarked area.
1 code implementation • 3 Aug 2021 • Yifan Xu, Zhijie Zhang, Mengdan Zhang, Kekai Sheng, Ke Li, WeiMing Dong, Liqing Zhang, Changsheng Xu, Xing Sun
Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but the huge computational cost is still a severe issue.
Ranked #11 on Efficient ViTs on ImageNet-1K (with DeiT-T)
4 code implementations • 5 Jul 2021 • Liu Liu, Zhenchen Liu, Bo Zhang, Jiangtong Li, Li Niu, Qingyang Liu, Liqing Zhang
Image composition aims to generate realistic composite image by inserting an object from one image into another background image, where the placement (e. g., location, size, occlusion) of inserted object may be unreasonable, which would significantly degrade the quality of the composite image.
5 code implementations • 28 Jun 2021 • Li Niu, Wenyan Cong, Liu Liu, Yan Hong, Bo Zhang, Jing Liang, Liqing Zhang
We have also contributed the first image composition toolbox: libcom https://github. com/bcmi/libcom, which assembles 10+ image composition related functions (e. g., image blending, image harmonization, object placement, shadow generation, generative composition).
1 code implementation • 23 May 2021 • Lu He, Qianyu Zhou, Xiangtai Li, Li Niu, Guangliang Cheng, Xiao Li, Wenxuan Liu, Yunhai Tong, Lizhuang Ma, Liqing Zhang
Recently, DETR and Deformable DETR have been proposed to eliminate the need for many hand-designed components in object detection while demonstrating good performance as previous complex hand-crafted detectors.
1 code implementation • 21 Apr 2021 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
In this work, we focus on generating plausible shadow for the foreground object in the composite image.
1 code implementation • 19 Apr 2021 • Jing Liang, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
The advance of image editing techniques allows users to create artistic works, but the manipulated regions may be incompatible with the background.
1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2021 • Bo Zhang, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
Image composition assessment is crucial in aesthetic assessment, which aims to assess the overall composition quality of a given image.
Ranked #1 on Aesthetics Quality Assessment on CADB
1 code implementation • 31 Mar 2021 • Junyan Cao, Wenyan Cong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Image harmonization has been significantly advanced with large-scale harmonization dataset.
no code implementations • ICCV 2021 • Wentao Wang, Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Haoyu Ling, Xue Yang, Liqing Zhang
Conventional deep image inpainting methods are based on auto-encoder architecture, in which the spatial details of images will be lost in the down-sampling process, leading to the degradation of generated results.
1 code implementation • 14 Dec 2020 • Ziqi Pan, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
The information bottleneck (IB) method is a technique for extracting information that is relevant for predicting the target random variable from the source random variable, which is typically implemented by optimizing the IB Lagrangian that balances the compression and prediction terms.
1 code implementation • 25 Sep 2020 • Zhangxuan Gu, Siyuan Zhou, Li Niu, Zihan Zhao, Liqing Zhang
Thus, we focus on zero-shot semantic segmentation, which aims to segment unseen objects with only category-level semantic representations provided for unseen categories.
1 code implementation • TKDE 2020 • Dawei Cheng, Xiaoyang Wang, Ying Zhang, Liqing Zhang
But manually generating features needs domain knowledge and may lay behind the modus operandi of fraud, which means we need to automatically focus on the most relevant fraudulent behavior patterns in the online detection system.
1 code implementation • 19 Sep 2020 • Wenyan Cong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Jing Liang, Liqing Zhang
Therefore, we propose an image harmonization network with a novel domain code extractor and well-tailored triplet losses, which could capture the background domain information to guide the foreground harmonization.
Ranked #13 on Image Harmonization on iHarmony4
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Junjie Chen, Li Niu, Liu Liu, Liqing Zhang
In this setting, we propose a method called SimTrans to transfer pairwise semantic similarity from base categories to novel categories.
1 code implementation • 18 Sep 2020 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Jing Liang, Liqing Zhang
In this work, we propose a novel Delta Generative Adversarial Network (DeltaGAN), which consists of a reconstruction subnetwork and a generation subnetwork.
2 code implementations • 16 Aug 2020 • Zhangxuan Gu, Siyuan Zhou, Li Niu, Zihan Zhao, Liqing Zhang
In this paper, we propose a novel context-aware feature generation method for zero-shot segmentation named CaGNet.
Ranked #9 on Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation on PASCAL VOC
1 code implementation • 5 Aug 2020 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Weijie Zhao, Chen Fu, Liqing Zhang
In this paper, we propose a Fusing-and-Filling Generative Adversarial Network (F2GAN) to generate realistic and diverse images for a new category with only a few images.
1 code implementation • AAAI 2020 • Dawei Cheng, Sheng Xiang, Chencheng Shang, Yiyi Zhang, Fangzhou Yang, Liqing Zhang
But manually generating features needs domain knowledge and may lay behind the modus operandi of fraud, which means we need to automatically focus on the most relevant patterns in fraudulent behavior.
no code implementations • 15 Mar 2020 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
To address these issues, we propose our MTL with Selective Augmentation (MTL-SA) method to select the training samples in unlabeled datasets with confident pseudo labels and close data distribution to the labeled dataset.
1 code implementation • 7 Mar 2020 • Yan Hong, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Matching generator can match random vectors with a few conditional images from the same category and generate new images for this category based on the fused features.
no code implementations • 1 Dec 2019 • Yiyi Zhang, Li Niu, Ziqi Pan, Meichao Luo, Jianfu Zhang, Dawei Cheng, Liqing Zhang
Specifically, the VRE module includes a proxy task which imposes pseudo motion label constraint and temporal coherence constraint on unlabeled videos, while the MRA module could predict the motion information of a static action image by exploiting unlabeled videos.
no code implementations • 29 Nov 2019 • Jiangtong Li, Zhixin Ling, Li Niu, Liqing Zhang
The goal of Sketch-Based Image Retrieval (SBIR) is using free-hand sketches to retrieve images of the same category from a natural image gallery.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2020 • Wenyan Cong, Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Liu Liu, Zhixin Ling, Weiyuan Li, Liqing Zhang
Image composition is an important operation in image processing, but the inconsistency between foreground and background significantly degrades the quality of composite image.
Ranked #6 on Image Harmonization on HAdobe5k(1024$\times$1024)
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2019 • Yi Tu, Li Niu, Weijie Zhao, Dawei Cheng, Liqing Zhang
Aesthetic image cropping is a practical but challenging task which aims at finding the best crops with the highest aesthetic quality in an image.
no code implementations • 24 Nov 2019 • Ruicong Xu, Li Niu, Jianfu Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Activity image-to-video retrieval task aims to retrieve videos containing the similar activity as the query image, which is a challenging task because videos generally have many background segments irrelevant to the activity.
1 code implementation • 28 Aug 2019 • Wenyan Cong, Jianfu Zhang, Li Niu, Liu Liu, Zhixin Ling, Weiyuan Li, Liqing Zhang
Image composition is an important operation in image processing, but the inconsistency between foreground and background significantly degrades the quality of composite image.
no code implementations • CVPR 2020 • Yi Tu, Li Niu, Junjie Chen, Dawei Cheng, Liqing Zhang
However, crawled web images usually have two types of noises, label noise and background noise, which induce extra difficulties in utilizing them effectively.
Ranked #14 on Image Classification on WebVision-1000
1 code implementation • 27 Jun 2019 • Zhangxuan Gu, Li Niu, Haohua Zhao, Liqing Zhang
Specifically, we propose a novel Loss Weight Module, which outputs a loss weight map by employing two depth-related measurements of hard pixels: Depth Prediction Error and Depthaware Segmentation Error.
no code implementations • CVPR 2018 • Jianfu Zhang, Naiyan Wang, Liqing Zhang
In contrary to existing works that aggregate single frames features by time series model such as recurrent neural network, in this paper, we propose an interpretable reinforcement learning based approach to this problem.
no code implementations • 10 Sep 2016 • Keting Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Recently deep neural networks based on tanh activation function have shown their impressive power in image denoising.
1 code implementation • 17 Jun 2016 • Qibin Zhao, Guoxu Zhou, Shengli Xie, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki
In this paper, we introduce a fundamental tensor decomposition model to represent a large dimensional tensor by a circular multilinear products over a sequence of low dimensional cores, which can be graphically interpreted as a cyclic interconnection of 3rd-order tensors, and thus termed as tensor ring (TR) decomposition.
no code implementations • CVPR 2015 • Chaoyang Wang, Long Zhao, Shuang Liang, Liqing Zhang, Jinyuan Jia, Yichen Wei
Hierarchical segmentation based object proposal methods have become an important step in modern object detection paradigm.
1 code implementation • 10 May 2015 • Qibin Zhao, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki
Tucker decomposition is the cornerstone of modern machine learning on tensorial data analysis, which have attracted considerable attention for multiway feature extraction, compressive sensing, and tensor completion.
no code implementations • 9 Oct 2014 • Qibin Zhao, Guoxu Zhou, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki, Shun-ichi Amari
We propose a generative model for robust tensor factorization in the presence of both missing data and outliers.
no code implementations • 3 Oct 2014 • Junhua Li, Zbigniew Struzik, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki
An alternative pathway for the human brain to communicate with the outside world is by means of a brain computer interface (BCI).
1 code implementation • 25 Jan 2014 • Qibin Zhao, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki
CANDECOMP/PARAFAC (CP) tensor factorization of incomplete data is a powerful technique for tensor completion through explicitly capturing the multilinear latent factors.
no code implementations • 23 Oct 2013 • Hao Zhang, Liqing Zhang
Current studies about motor imagery based rehabilitation training systems for stroke subjects lack an appropriate analytic method, which can achieve a considerable classification accuracy, at the same time detects gradual changes of imagery patterns during rehabilitation process and disinters potential mechanisms about motor function recovery.
1 code implementation • 5 Jul 2012 • Qibin Zhao, Cesar F. Caiafa, Danilo P. Mandic, Zenas C. Chao, Yasuo Nagasaka, Naotaka Fujii, Liqing Zhang, Andrzej Cichocki
A new generalized multilinear regression model, termed the Higher-Order Partial Least Squares (HOPLS), is introduced with the aim to predict a tensor (multiway array) $\tensor{Y}$ from a tensor $\tensor{X}$ through projecting the data onto the latent space and performing regression on the corresponding latent variables.
no code implementations • NeurIPS 2008 • Xiaodi Hou, Liqing Zhang
A visual attention system should respond placidly when common stimuli are presented, while at the same time keep alert to anomalous visual inputs.