no code implementations • ECCV 2020 • Yifan Yang, Guorong Li, Zhe Wu, Li Su, Qingming Huang, Nicu Sebe
We propose a soft-label sorting network along with the counting network, which sorts the given images by their crowd numbers.
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2025 • Hao Tang, Ling Shao, Nicu Sebe, Luc van Gool
Moreover, we propose two novel cross-attention blocks to effectively transfer and update the person's shape and appearance embeddings for mutual improvement.
1 code implementation • 24 Dec 2024 • Lucas Fernando Alvarenga e Silva, Samuel Felipe dos Santos, Nicu Sebe, Jurandy Almeida
In this work, we introduce a new approach to improve OSDA techniques by extracting a set of high-confidence unknown instances and using it as a hard constraint to tighten the classification boundaries.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2024 • Marco Garosi, Riccardo Tedoldi, Davide Boscaini, Massimiliano Mancini, Nicu Sebe, Fabio Poiesi
Supervised 3D part segmentation models are tailored for a fixed set of objects and parts, limiting their transferability to open-set, real-world scenarios.
no code implementations • 27 Nov 2024 • Yawei Li, Bin Ren, Jingyun Liang, Rakesh Ranjan, Mengyuan Liu, Nicu Sebe, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Luca Benini
To strike a balance between efficiency and model capacity for a generalized transformer-based IR method, we propose a hierarchical information flow mechanism for image restoration, dubbed Hi-IR, which progressively propagates information among pixels in a bottom-up manner.
Ranked #1 on Image Deblurring on HIDE (trained on GOPRO)
no code implementations • 23 Nov 2024 • Hao Tang, Bin Ren, Pingping Wu, Nicu Sebe
In this paper, we present an innovative solution for the challenges of the virtual try-on task: our novel Hierarchical Cross-Attention Network (HCANet).
no code implementations • 22 Nov 2024 • Hao Chen, Francois Bremond, Nicu Sebe, Shiliang Zhang
In this paper, we propose a Dual-level Joint Adaptation and Anti-forgetting (DJAA) framework, which incrementally adapts a model to new domains without forgetting source domain and each adapted target domain.
Domain Adaptive Person Re-Identification Unsupervised Person Re-Identification
1 code implementation • 1 Nov 2024 • Han-Wei Kung, Tuomas Varanka, Sanjay Saha, Terence Sim, Nicu Sebe
Current face anonymization techniques often depend on identity loss calculated by face recognition models, which can be inaccurate and unreliable.
1 code implementation • 24 Oct 2024 • Haiyang Zheng, Nan Pu, Wenjing Li, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong
To address these issues, we propose a novel Prototypical Hash Encoding (PHE) framework consisting of Category-aware Prototype Generation (CPG) and Discriminative Category Encoding (DCE) to mitigate the sensitivity of hash code while preserving rich discriminative information contained in high-dimension feature space, in a two-stage projection fashion.
1 code implementation • 17 Oct 2024 • Xuexun Liu, Xiaoxu Xu, Jinlong Li, Qiudan Zhang, Xu Wang, Nicu Sebe, Lin Ma
Specifically, we design a Point-Word Cross-Modal Alignment module for aligning the fine-grained features of points and textual embedding.
1 code implementation • 28 Sep 2024 • Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Rui Wang, XiaoJun Wu, Nicu Sebe
Specifically, we showcase our framework on the Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) manifold and special orthogonal group, i. e., the set of rotation matrices.
no code implementations • 25 Sep 2024 • Yalan Qin, Nan Pu, Hanzhou Wu, Nicu Sebe
We learn discriminative view-specific feature representations according to the original dataset and build anchors from different views based on these representations, which increase the quality of the shared anchor graph.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2024 • Federico Betti, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Nicu Sebe
Diffusion models have significantly advanced generative AI, but they encounter difficulties when generating complex combinations of multiple objects.
1 code implementation • 29 Aug 2024 • Moreno D'Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Massimiliano Mancini, Xingqian Xu, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe
OpenBias detects and quantifies biases, while GradBias determines the contribution of individual prompt words on biases.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2024 • Yidi Li, Jiahao Wen, Bin Ren, Wenhao Li, Zhenhuan Xu, Hao Guo, Hong Liu, Nicu Sebe
The integration of point and voxel representations is becoming more common in LiDAR-based 3D object detection.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2024 • Yidi Li, Yihan Li, Yixin Guo, Bin Ren, Zhenhuan Xu, Hao Guo, Hong Liu, Nicu Sebe
By transferring knowledge from teacher to student, the student network can better adapt to complex dynamic scenes with incomplete observations.
1 code implementation • 20 Aug 2024 • Mingrui Ma, Weijie Wang, Jie Ning, Jianfeng He, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri
Specifically, we first utilize a CNN encoder to extract deep visual features from cross-modal image pairs, then we use the first adapter to adjust these tokens, and use LoRA in pre-trained LLMs to fine-tune their weights, both aimed at eliminating the domain gap between the pre-trained LLMs and the MDIR task.
no code implementations • 20 Aug 2024 • Qi Ma, Yue Li, Bin Ren, Nicu Sebe, Ender Konukoglu, Theo Gevers, Luc van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel
In particular, we show that (1) the distribution of the optimized GS centroids significantly differs from the uniformly sampled point cloud (used for initialization) counterpart; (2) this change in distribution results in degradation in classification but improvement in segmentation tasks when using only the centroids; (3) to leverage additional Gaussian parameters, we propose Gaussian feature grouping in a normalized feature space, along with splats pooling layer, offering a tailored solution to effectively group and embed similar Gaussians, which leads to notable improvement in finetuning tasks.
no code implementations • 15 Aug 2024 • Pingping Zhang, Jinlong Li, Meng Wang, Nicu Sebe, Sam Kwong, Shiqi Wang
Existing codecs are designed to eliminate intrinsic redundancies to create a compact representation for compression.
1 code implementation • 13 Aug 2024 • Vlad Hondru, Florinel Alin Croitoru, Shervin Minaee, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Nicu Sebe
In this work, we survey recent studies on masked image modeling (MIM), an approach that emerged as a powerful self-supervised learning technique in computer vision.
no code implementations • 1 Aug 2024 • Xuri Ge, Junchen Fu, Fuhai Chen, Shan An, Nicu Sebe, Joemon M. Jose
Facial action units (AUs), as defined in the Facial Action Coding System (FACS), have received significant research interest owing to their diverse range of applications in facial state analysis.
1 code implementation • 25 Jul 2024 • Tuomas Varanka, Huai-Qian Khor, Yante Li, Mengting Wei, HanWei Kung, Nicu Sebe, Guoying Zhao
In this work, we propose the use of AUs (action units) for facial expression control in face generation.
1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2024 • Bin Ren, Eduard Zamfir, Zongwei Wu, Yawei Li, Yidi Li, Danda Pani Paudel, Radu Timofte, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Nicu Sebe
With the proliferation of mobile devices, the need for an efficient model to restore any degraded image has become increasingly significant and impactful.
Ranked #5 on 5-Degradation Blind All-in-One Image Restoration on 5-Degradation Blind All-in-One Image Restoration
5-Degradation Blind All-in-One Image Restoration Benchmarking
no code implementations • 15 Jul 2024 • Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Xiao-Jun Wu, Gaowen Liu, Nicu Sebe
Global Covariance Pooling (GCP) has been demonstrated to improve the performance of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) by exploiting second-order statistics of high-level representations.
1 code implementation • 13 Jul 2024 • Xiaoxu Xu, Yitian Yuan, Jinlong Li, Qiudan Zhang, Zequn Jie, Lin Ma, Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe, Xu Wang
In this paper, we propose 3DSS-VLG, a weakly supervised approach for 3D Semantic Segmentation with 2D Vision-Language Guidance, an alternative approach that a 3D model predicts dense-embedding for each point which is co-embedded with both the aligned image and text spaces from the 2D vision-language model.
no code implementations • 11 Jul 2024 • Jinlong Li, Dong Zhao, Zequn Jie, Elisa Ricci, Lin Ma, Nicu Sebe
Previous works primarily focus on prompt learning to adapt the CLIP into a variety of downstream tasks, however, suffering from task overfitting when fine-tuned on a small data set.
1 code implementation • 8 Jul 2024 • Bin Ren, Guofeng Mei, Danda Pani Paudel, Weijie Wang, Yawei Li, Mengyuan Liu, Rita Cucchiara, Luc van Gool, Nicu Sebe
To answer this question, we first empirically validate that integrating MAE-based point cloud pre-training with the standard contrastive learning paradigm, even with meticulous design, can lead to a decrease in performance.
no code implementations • 2 Jul 2024 • Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Xiao-Jun Wu, Nicu Sebe
Further, by Cholesky decomposition, the proposed deformed metrics and gyro structures are pulled back to SPD manifolds.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2024 • André Sacilotti, Samuel Felipe dos Santos, Nicu Sebe, Jurandy Almeida
DTAB compels ViT to focus on the spatio-temporal transferability relationship among video frames by changing the self-attention mechanism to a transferability attention mechanism.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2024 • Dong Zhao, Shuang Wang, Qi Zang, Licheng Jiao, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong
Specifically, we introduce the Stable Neighbor Denoising (SND) approach, which effectively discovers highly correlated stable and unstable samples by nearest neighbor retrieval and guides the reliable optimization of unstable samples by bi-level learning.
no code implementations • 30 May 2024 • Bin Ren, Yawei Li, Jingyun Liang, Rakesh Ranjan, Mengyuan Liu, Rita Cucchiara, Luc van Gool, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Nicu Sebe
Additionally, for IR, it is commonly noted that small segments of a degraded image, particularly those closely aligned semantically, provide particularly relevant information to aid in the restoration process, as they contribute essential contextual cues crucial for accurate reconstruction.
no code implementations • 22 May 2024 • Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Vlad Hondru, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Nicu Sebe, Mubarak Shah
Our approach, Curriculum DPO, is compared against state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches on three benchmarks, outperforming the competing methods in terms of text alignment, aesthetics and human preference.
1 code implementation • 13 May 2024 • Jian Liu, Wei Sun, Hui Yang, Zhiwen Zeng, Chongpei Liu, Jin Zheng, Xingyu Liu, Hossein Rahmani, Nicu Sebe, Ajmal Mian
Object pose estimation is a fundamental computer vision problem with broad applications in augmented reality and robotics.
1 code implementation • 22 Apr 2024 • Weijie Wang, Jichao Zhang, Chang Liu, Xia Li, Xingqian Xu, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri
To solve the above problems, we introduce a novel method, UVMap-ID, which is a controllable and personalized UV Map generative model.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2024 • Moreno D'Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Massimiliano Mancini, Dejia Xu, Vidit Goel, Xingqian Xu, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe
In this paper, we tackle the challenge of open-set bias detection in text-to-image generative models presenting OpenBias, a new pipeline that identifies and quantifies the severity of biases agnostically, without access to any precompiled set.
no code implementations • 11 Apr 2024 • Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Angus Addlesee, Daniel Hernández García, Chris Reinke, Soraya Arias, Federica Arrigoni, Alex Auternaud, Lauriane Blavette, Cigdem Beyan, Luis Gomez Camara, Ohad Cohen, Alessandro Conti, Sébastien Dacunha, Christian Dondrup, Yoav Ellinson, Francesco Ferro, Sharon Gannot, Florian Gras, Nancie Gunson, Radu Horaud, Moreno D'Incà, Imad Kimouche, Séverin Lemaignan, Oliver Lemon, Cyril Liotard, Luca Marchionni, Mordehay Moradi, Tomas Pajdla, Maribel Pino, Michal Polic, Matthieu Py, Ariel Rado, Bin Ren, Elisa Ricci, Anne-Sophie Rigaud, Paolo Rota, Marta Romeo, Nicu Sebe, Weronika Sieińska, Pinchas Tandeitnik, Francesco Tonini, Nicolas Turro, Timothée Wintz, Yanchao Yu
Despite the many recent achievements in developing and deploying social robotics, there are still many underexplored environments and applications for which systematic evaluation of such systems by end-users is necessary.
1 code implementation • 17 Mar 2024 • Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Yunmei Liu, Nicu Sebe
Using the deformation concept, we generalize the existing Lie groups on SPD manifolds into three families of parameterized Lie groups.
2 code implementations • 13 Mar 2024 • Yihao Liu, Feng Xue, Anlong Ming, Mingshuai Zhao, Huadong Ma, Nicu Sebe
Firstly, to obtain consistent depth across diverse scenes, we propose a novel metric scale modeling, i. e., variation-based unnormalized depth bins.
1 code implementation • 12 Mar 2024 • Haiyang Zheng, Nan Pu, Wenjing Li, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong
In this paper, we study the problem of Generalized Category Discovery (GCD), which aims to cluster unlabeled data from both known and unknown categories using the knowledge of labeled data from known categories.
no code implementations • 11 Mar 2024 • Runze Guo, Feng Xue, Anlong Ming, Nicu Sebe
Recently, neural networks (NN) have made great strides in combinatorial optimization.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2024 • Ti Wang, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Bin Ren, Yingxuan You, Wenhao Li, Nicu Sebe, Xia Li
We observe that previous optimization-based methods commonly rely on projection constraint, which only ensures alignment in 2D space, potentially leading to the overfitting problem.
no code implementations • 4 Feb 2024 • Bin Ren, Yawei Li, Jingyun Liang, Rakesh Ranjan, Mengyuan Liu, Rita Cucchiara, Luc van Gool, Nicu Sebe
While it is crucial to capture global information for effective image restoration (IR), integrating such cues into transformer-based methods becomes computationally expensive, especially with high input resolution.
no code implementations • 24 Jan 2024 • Mingxuan Liu, Subhankar Roy, Wenjing Li, Zhun Zhong, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
Identifying subordinate-level categories from images is a longstanding task in computer vision and is referred to as fine-grained visual recognition (FGVR).
no code implementations • 15 Jan 2024 • Hao Tang, Ling Shao, Nicu Sebe, Luc van Gool
Finally, we propose a novel self-guided pre-training method for graph representation learning.
Generative Adversarial Network Graph Representation Learning +1
1 code implementation • 7 Jan 2024 • Peng Zheng, Dehong Gao, Deng-Ping Fan, Li Liu, Jorma Laaksonen, Wanli Ouyang, Nicu Sebe
It comprises two essential components: the localization module (LM) and the reconstruction module (RM) with our proposed bilateral reference (BiRef).
Ranked #1 on Camouflaged Object Segmentation on COD (using extra training data)
Camouflaged Object Segmentation Dichotomous Image Segmentation +3
no code implementations • 4 Jan 2024 • Elia Peruzzo, Vidit Goel, Dejia Xu, Xingqian Xu, Yifan Jiang, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe
Recently, several works tackled the video editing task fostered by the success of large-scale text-to-image generative models.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2024 • Vidit Goel, Elia Peruzzo, Yifan Jiang, Dejia Xu, Xingqian Xu, Nicu Sebe, Trevor Darrell, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi
We propose PAIR Diffusion a generic framework that enables a diffusion model to control the structure and appearance properties of each object in the image.
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2023 • Dong Zhao, Ruizhi Yang, Shuang Wang, Qi Zang, Yang Hu, Licheng Jiao, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong
This approach formulates pseudo-labels at the connectivity level and thus can facilitate learning structured and low-noise semantics.
1 code implementation • 5 Dec 2023 • Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Nicola Dall'Asen, Yiming Wang, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
Few-shot image classification aims to learn an image classifier using only a small set of labeled examples per class.
no code implementations • 5 Dec 2023 • Weijie Wang, Wenqi Ren, Guofeng Mei, Bin Ren, Xiaoshui Huang, Fabio Poiesi, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri
To address this, we construct scene graphs to capture spatial relationships among objects and apply a graph matching algorithm to these graphs to accurately identify matched objects.
1 code implementation • 23 Nov 2023 • Yue Song, Wei Wang, Nicu Sebe
This observation motivates us to propose \texttt{RankFeat}, a simple yet effective \emph{post hoc} approach for OOD detection by removing the rank-1 matrix composed of the largest singular value and the associated singular vectors from the high-level feature.
Out-of-Distribution Detection Out of Distribution (OOD) Detection
1 code implementation • CVPR 2024 • Wenhao Li, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Pichao Wang, Jialun Cai, Nicu Sebe
Transformers have been successfully applied in the field of video-based 3D human pose estimation.
1 code implementation • 2 Nov 2023 • Moreno D'Incà, Christos Tzelepis, Ioannis Patras, Nicu Sebe
These paths are then applied to augment images to improve the fairness of a given dataset.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2023 • Yue Song, T. Anderson Keller, Nicu Sebe, Max Welling
A prominent goal of representation learning research is to achieve representations which are factorized in a useful manner with respect to the ground truth factors of variation.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2023 • Samuel Felipe dos Santos, Nicu Sebe, Jurandy Almeida
In this paper, we propose a further study of the computational cost of deep models designed for the frequency domain, evaluating the cost of decoding and passing the images through the network.
no code implementations • 20 Sep 2023 • Samuel Felipe dos Santos, Rodrigo Berriel, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Nicu Sebe, Jurandy Almeida
We achieve this by encouraging all domains to use a similar subset of filters from the baseline model, up to the amount defined by the user's budget.
no code implementations • 16 Sep 2023 • Lucas Fernando Alvarenga e Silva, Nicu Sebe, Jurandy Almeida
Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have brought revolutionary advances to many research areas due to their capacity of learning from raw data.
no code implementations • 3 Sep 2023 • Weijie Wang, Zhengyu Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri
Although effective deepfake detectors have been proposed, they are substantially vulnerable to adversarial attacks.
1 code implementation • 28 Aug 2023 • Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Nicu Sebe, Fabio Poiesi, Elisa Ricci
In this study, we introduce compositional semantic mixing for point cloud domain adaptation, representing the first unsupervised domain adaptation technique for point cloud segmentation based on semantic and geometric sample mixing.
no code implementations • 31 Jul 2023 • Elia Peruzzo, Willi Menapace, Vidit Goel, Federica Arrigoni, Hao Tang, Xingqian Xu, Arman Chopikyan, Nikita Orlov, Yuxiao Hu, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
This paper advances the state of the art in this emerging research domain by proposing the first approach for Interactive NP.
1 code implementation • 22 Jul 2023 • Hao Tang, Guolei Sun, Nicu Sebe, Luc van Gool
To tackle 2), we design an effective module to selectively highlight class-dependent feature maps according to the original semantic layout to preserve the semantic information.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2023 • Federico Betti, Jacopo Staiano, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Nicu Sebe
Research in Image Generation has recently made significant progress, particularly boosted by the introduction of Vision-Language models which are able to produce high-quality visual content based on textual inputs.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2023 • Yue Song, Jichao Zhang, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), especially the recent style-based generators (StyleGANs), have versatile semantics in the structured latent space.
no code implementations • 25 May 2023 • Weizhi Nie, Ruidong Chen, Weijie Wang, Bruno Lepri, Nicu Sebe
Meanwhile, to effectively integrate multi-modal prior knowledge into textual information, we adopt a novel multi-layer transformer structure to progressively fuse related shape and textual information, which can effectively compensate for the lack of structural information in the text and enhance the final performance of the 3D generation model.
no code implementations • CVPR 2024 • Nan Pu, Zhun Zhong, Xinyuan Ji, Nicu Sebe
On each client, GCL builds class-level contrastive learning with both local and global GMMs.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2024 • Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Gaowen Liu, Ramana Rao Kompella, XiaoJun Wu, Nicu Sebe
Besides, our framework offers a novel intrinsic explanation for the most popular LogEig classifier in existing SPD networks.
1 code implementation • 25 Apr 2023 • Yue Song, T. Anderson Keller, Nicu Sebe, Max Welling
In this work, we instead propose to model latent structures with a learned dynamic potential landscape, thereby performing latent traversals as the flow of samples down the landscape's gradient.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Nan Pu, Zhun Zhong, Nicu Sebe
This leads traditional novel category discovery (NCD) methods to be incapacitated for GCD, due to their assumption of unlabeled data are only from novel categories.
1 code implementation • 30 Mar 2023 • Vidit Goel, Elia Peruzzo, Yifan Jiang, Dejia Xu, Xingqian Xu, Nicu Sebe, Trevor Darrell, Zhangyang Wang, Humphrey Shi
We propose PAIR Diffusion, a generic framework that can enable a diffusion model to control the structure and appearance properties of each object in the image.
1 code implementation • 28 Mar 2023 • Mingxuan Liu, Subhankar Roy, Zhun Zhong, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
Discovering novel concepts in unlabelled datasets and in a continuous manner is an important desideratum of lifelong learners.
no code implementations • 26 Mar 2023 • Ziheng Chen, Yue Song, Tianyang Xu, Zhiwu Huang, Xiao-Jun Wu, Nicu Sebe
Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices have received wide attention in machine learning due to their intrinsic capacity to encode underlying structural correlation in data.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Simone Barattin, Christos Tzelepis, Ioannis Patras, Nicu Sebe
By optimizing the latent codes directly, we ensure both that the identity is of a desired distance away from the original (with an identity obfuscation loss), whilst preserving the facial attributes (using a novel feature-matching loss in FaRL's deep feature space).
1 code implementation • 16 Mar 2023 • Zipeng Xu, Songlong Xing, Enver Sangineto, Nicu Sebe
However, directly using CLIP to guide style transfer leads to undesirable artifacts (mainly written words and unrelated visual entities) spread over the image.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2023 • Zipeng Xu, Enver Sangineto, Nicu Sebe
Despite the progress made in the style transfer task, most previous work focus on transferring only relatively simple features like color or texture, while missing more abstract concepts such as overall art expression or painter-specific traits.
no code implementations • CVPR 2023 • Hao Tang, Zhenyu Zhang, Humphrey Shi, Bo Li, Ling Shao, Nicu Sebe, Radu Timofte, Luc van Gool
We present a novel graph Transformer generative adversarial network (GTGAN) to learn effective graph node relations in an end-to-end fashion for the challenging graph-constrained house generation task.
2 code implementations • 7 Mar 2023 • Juanjuan Weng, Zhiming Luo, Zhun Zhong, Shaozi Li, Nicu Sebe
In this work, we provide a comprehensive investigation of the CE loss function and find that the logit margin between the targeted and untargeted classes will quickly obtain saturation in CE, which largely limits the transferability.
no code implementations • 10 Jan 2023 • Mengyi Zhao, Mengyuan Liu, Bin Ren, Shuling Dai, Nicu Sebe
Diffusion-based generative models have recently emerged as powerful solutions for high-quality synthesis in multiple domains.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Wei Wang, Zhun Zhong, Weijie Wang, Xi Chen, Charles Ling, Boyu Wang, Nicu Sebe
In this paper, we study the application of Test-time domain adaptation in semantic segmentation (TTDA-Seg) where both efficiency and effectiveness are crucial.
1 code implementation • 18 Dec 2022 • Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Na Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Gim Hee Lee
Furthermore, we present a novel style hallucination module (SHM) to generate style-diversified samples that are essential to consistency learning.
1 code implementation • 11 Dec 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Extensive experiments on visual recognition demonstrate that our methods can simultaneously improve covariance conditioning and generalization.
no code implementations • 8 Dec 2022 • Xinyan Liu, Guorong Li, Yuankai Qi, Zhenjun Han, Qingming Huang, Ming-Hsuan Yang, Nicu Sebe
Crowd localization aims to predict the spatial position of humans in a crowd scenario.
1 code implementation • 18 Nov 2022 • Daichi Horita, Jiaolong Yang, Dong Chen, Yuki Koyama, Kiyoharu Aizawa, Nicu Sebe
The structure generator generates an edge image representing plausible structures within the holes, which is then used for guiding the texture generation process.
no code implementations • 12 Nov 2022 • Hao Tang, Lei Ding, Songsong Wu, Bin Ren, Nicu Sebe, Paolo Rota
The proposed TSDPC is a generic and powerful framework and it has two advantages compared with previous works, one is that it can calculate the number of key frames automatically.
1 code implementation • 12 Nov 2022 • Hao Tang, Ling Shao, Philip H. S. Torr, Nicu Sebe
To further capture the change in pose of each part more precisely, we propose a novel part-aware bipartite graph reasoning (PBGR) block to decompose the task of reasoning the global structure transformation with a bipartite graph into learning different local transformations for different semantic body/face parts.
1 code implementation • 17 Oct 2022 • Guofeng Mei, Fabio Poiesi, Cristiano Saltori, Jian Zhang, Elisa Ricci, Nicu Sebe
Probabilistic 3D point cloud registration methods have shown competitive performance in overcoming noise, outliers, and density variations.
no code implementations • 14 Oct 2022 • Samuel Felipe dos Santos, Rodrigo Berriel, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Nicu Sebe, Jurandy Almeida
Nevertheless, the models are usually larger than the baseline for a single domain.
1 code implementation • 6 Oct 2022 • Guofeng Mei, Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Poiesi, Jian Zhang, Elisa Ricci, Nicu Sebe, Qiang Wu
Unsupervised learning on 3D point clouds has undergone a rapid evolution, especially thanks to data augmentation-based contrastive methods.
no code implementations • 5 Oct 2022 • Ye Zhu, Yu Wu, Nicu Sebe, Yan Yan
We are perceiving and communicating with the world in a multisensory manner, where different information sources are sophisticatedly processed and interpreted by separate parts of the human brain to constitute a complex, yet harmonious and unified sensing system.
1 code implementation • 3 Oct 2022 • Yahui Liu, Enver Sangineto, Yajing Chen, Linchao Bao, Haoxian Zhang, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri, Marco De Nadai
Multi-domain image-to-image (I2I) translations can transform a source image according to the style of a target domain.
no code implementations • 30 Sep 2022 • Weijie Wang, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri
Due to the subjective crowdsourcing annotations and the inherent inter-class similarity of facial expressions, the real-world Facial Expression Recognition (FER) datasets usually exhibit ambiguous annotation.
Facial Expression Recognition Facial Expression Recognition (FER)
1 code implementation • 18 Sep 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
The task of out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for deploying machine learning models in real-world settings.
1 code implementation • 5 Sep 2022 • Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe
We propose a simple yet powerful Landmark guided Generative Adversarial Network (LandmarkGAN) for the facial expression-to-expression translation using a single image, which is an important and challenging task in computer vision since the expression-to-expression translation is a non-linear and non-aligned problem.
Facial Expression Translation Generative Adversarial Network +1
1 code implementation • 26 Aug 2022 • Jichao Zhang, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Yahui Liu, Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Generative Neural Radiance Fields (GNeRF)-based 3D-aware GANs have showcased remarkable prowess in crafting high-fidelity images while upholding robust 3D consistency, particularly face generation.
1 code implementation • 16 Aug 2022 • Subhankar Roy, Martin Trapp, Andrea Pilzer, Juho Kannala, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci, Arno Solin
Source-free domain adaptation (SFDA) aims to adapt a classifier to an unlabelled target data set by only using a pre-trained source model.
1 code implementation • 26 Jul 2022 • Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Nicu Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci
On the other hand, the performance of a model in action recognition is heavily affected by domain shift.
2 code implementations • 20 Jul 2022 • Cristiano Saltori, Evgeny Krivosheev, Stéphane Lathuilière, Nicu Sebe, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Poiesi
Our experiments show the effectiveness of our segmentation approach on thousands of real-world point clouds.
2 code implementations • 20 Jul 2022 • Cristiano Saltori, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Poiesi
We propose a new approach of sample mixing for point cloud UDA, namely Compositional Semantic Mix (CoSMix), the first UDA approach for point cloud segmentation based on sample mixing.
1 code implementation • 18 Jul 2022 • Subhankar Roy, Mingxuan Liu, Zhun Zhong, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
We study the new task of class-incremental Novel Class Discovery (class-iNCD), which refers to the problem of discovering novel categories in an unlabelled data set by leveraging a pre-trained model that has been trained on a labelled data set containing disjoint yet related categories.
1 code implementation • 11 Jul 2022 • Zhun Zhong, Yuyang Zhao, Gim Hee Lee, Nicu Sebe
Experiments on two synthetic-to-real semantic segmentation benchmarks demonstrate that AdvStyle can significantly improve the model performance on unseen real domains and show that we can achieve the state of the art.
1 code implementation • 9 Jul 2022 • Bin Ren, Hao Tang, Yiming Wang, Xia Li, Wei Wang, Nicu Sebe
For semantic-guided cross-view image translation, it is crucial to learn where to sample pixels from the source view image and where to reallocate them guided by the target view semantic map, especially when there is little overlap or drastic view difference between the source and target images.
1 code implementation • 9 Jul 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
EigenDecomposition (ED) is at the heart of many computer vision algorithms and applications.
1 code implementation • 5 Jul 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Inserting an SVD meta-layer into neural networks is prone to make the covariance ill-conditioned, which could harm the model in the training stability and generalization abilities.
1 code implementation • 4 Jul 2022 • Baptiste Chopin, Hao Tang, Naima Otberdout, Mohamed Daoudi, Nicu Sebe
To address this limitation, we propose a novel interaction Transformer (InterFormer) consisting of a Transformer network with both temporal and spatial attention.
1 code implementation • 1 Jul 2022 • Jichao Zhang, Jingjing Chen, Hao Tang, Enver Sangineto, Peng Wu, Yan Yan, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Solving this problem using an unsupervised method remains an open problem, especially for high-resolution face images in the wild, which are not easy to annotate with gaze and head pose labels.
1 code implementation • 13 Jun 2022 • Wenhao Li, Mengyuan Liu, Hong Liu, Tianyu Guo, Ti Wang, Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe
To the best of our knowledge, this is the first MLP-Like architecture for 3D human pose estimation in a single frame and a video sequence.
Ranked #62 on 3D Human Pose Estimation on Human3.6M
1 code implementation • 9 Jun 2022 • Elia Peruzzo, Enver Sangineto, Yahui Liu, Marco De Nadai, Wei Bi, Bruno Lepri, Nicu Sebe
In this work, we propose a different and complementary direction, in which a local bias is introduced using an auxiliary self-supervised task, performed jointly with standard supervised training.
1 code implementation • 26 May 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Inspired by this observation, we propose a network branch dedicated to magnifying the importance of small eigenvalues.
Ranked #7 on Fine-Grained Image Classification on Stanford Dogs
Fine-Grained Image Classification Fine-Grained Visual Categorization +1
1 code implementation • CVPR 2023 • Bin Ren, Yahui Liu, Yue Song, Wei Bi, Rita Cucchiara, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
In particular, MJP first shuffles the selected patches via our block-wise random jigsaw puzzle shuffle algorithm, and their corresponding PEs are occluded.
1 code implementation • 18 May 2022 • Florinel-Alin Croitoru, Nicolae-Catalin Ristea, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Nicu Sebe
In this work, we propose a novel curriculum learning approach termed Learning Rate Curriculum (LeRaC), which leverages the use of a different learning rate for each layer of a neural network to create a data-agnostic curriculum during the initial training epochs.
Ranked #4 on Speech Emotion Recognition on CREMA-D
1 code implementation • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP) 2022 • Jinliang Lin, Zhedong Zheng, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Shaozi Li, Yi Yang, Nicu Sebe
Inspired by the human visual system for mining local patterns, we propose a new framework called RK-Net to jointly learn the discriminative Representation and detect salient Keypoints with a single Network.
Ranked #2 on Drone navigation on University-1652
1 code implementation • 7 Apr 2022 • Aleksandr Ermolov, Enver Sangineto, Nicu Sebe
Inspired by human memory, we propose to represent history with only important changes in the environment and, in our approach, to obtain automatically this representation using self-supervision.
2 code implementations • 6 Apr 2022 • Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Na Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Gim Hee Lee
Furthermore, we present a novel style hallucination module (SHM) to generate style-diversified samples that are essential to consistency learning.
Ranked #4 on Robust Object Detection on DWD
1 code implementation • 22 Mar 2022 • Songsong Wu, Hao Tang, Xiao-Yuan Jing, Haifeng Zhao, Jianjun Qian, Nicu Sebe, Yan Yan
In this paper, we tackle the problem of synthesizing a ground-view panorama image conditioned on a top-view aerial image, which is a challenging problem due to the large gap between the two image domains with different view-points.
2 code implementations • CVPR 2022 • Aleksandr Ermolov, Leyla Mirvakhabova, Valentin Khrulkov, Nicu Sebe, Ivan Oseledets
Following this line of work, we propose a new hyperbolic-based model for metric learning.
Ranked #1 on Metric Learning on CUB-200-2011
no code implementations • 5 Mar 2022 • Fengxiang Yang, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Shaozi Li, Nicu Sebe
During local training, the DFS are used to synthesize novel domain statistics with the proposed domain hallucinating, which is achieved by re-weighting DFS with random weights.
no code implementations • 3 Mar 2022 • Yongguo Ling, Zhun Zhong, Donglin Cao, Zhiming Luo, Yaojin Lin, Shaozi Li, Nicu Sebe
In this manner, the model will focus on reducing the inter-modality discrepancy while paying less attention to intra-identity variations, leading to a more effective modality alignment.
1 code implementation • 28 Feb 2022 • Hao Tang, Ling Shao, Philip H. S. Torr, Nicu Sebe
To learn more discriminative class-specific feature representations for the local generation, we also propose a novel classification module.
no code implementations • 22 Feb 2022 • Yuyu Guo, Lianli Gao, Jingkuan Song, Peng Wang, Nicu Sebe, Heng Tao Shen, Xuelong Li
Inspired by this observation, in this article, we propose a relation regularized network (R2-Net), which can predict whether there is a relationship between two objects and encode this relation into object feature refinement and better SGG.
no code implementations • 8 Feb 2022 • Yue Song, Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Specifically, the detail modeling focuses on capturing the object edges by supervision of explicitly decomposed detail label that consists of the pixels that are nested on the edge and near the edge.
1 code implementation • 29 Jan 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Computing the matrix square root and its inverse in a differentiable manner is important in a variety of computer vision tasks.
1 code implementation • ICLR 2022 • Yue Song, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
Previous methods either adopt the Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) to explicitly factorize the matrix or use the Newton-Schulz iteration (NS iteration) to derive the approximate solution.
1 code implementation • 14 Dec 2021 • Haoyu Chen, Hao Tang, Zitong Yu, Nicu Sebe, Guoying Zhao
Specifically, we propose a novel geometry-contrastive Transformer that has an efficient 3D structured perceiving ability to the global geometric inconsistencies across the given meshes.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Nicu Sebe, Gim Hee Lee
We introduce a new setting of Novel Class Discovery in Semantic Segmentation (NCDSS), which aims at segmenting unlabeled images containing new classes given prior knowledge from a labeled set of disjoint classes.
1 code implementation • 2 Dec 2021 • Jichao Zhang, Enver Sangineto, Hao Tang, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Zhun Zhong, Nicu Sebe, Wei Wang
However, they usually struggle to generate high-quality images representing non-rigid objects, such as the human body, which is of a great interest for many computer graphics applications.
1 code implementation • CVPR 2022 • Zipeng Xu, Tianwei Lin, Hao Tang, Fu Li, Dongliang He, Nicu Sebe, Radu Timofte, Luc van Gool, Errui Ding
We propose a novel framework, i. e., Predict, Prevent, and Evaluate (PPE), for disentangled text-driven image manipulation that requires little manual annotation while being applicable to a wide variety of manipulations.
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2021 • Guanglei Yang, Zhun Zhong, Hao Tang, Mingli Ding, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
Specifically, in the image translation stage, Bi-Mix leverages the knowledge of day-night image pairs to improve the quality of nighttime image relighting.
1 code implementation • 19 Nov 2021 • Guanglei Yang, Hao Tang, Humphrey Shi, Mingli Ding, Nicu Sebe, Radu Timofte, Luc van Gool, Elisa Ricci
The global alignment network aims to transfer the input image from the source domain to the target domain.
1 code implementation • 20 Oct 2021 • Haoyu Chen, Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe, Guoying Zhao
Instead, we introduce AniFormer, a novel Transformer-based architecture, that generates animated 3D sequences by directly taking the raw driving sequences and arbitrary same-type target meshes as inputs.
1 code implementation • 19 Oct 2021 • Bin Ren, Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe
To ease this problem, we propose a novel two-stage framework with a new Cascaded Cross MLP-Mixer (CrossMLP) sub-network in the first stage and one refined pixel-level loss in the second stage.
1 code implementation • 26 Sep 2021 • Yahui Liu, Yajing Chen, Linchao Bao, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri, Marco De Nadai
The ISF manipulates the semantics of an input latent code to make the image generated from it lying in the desired visual domain.
1 code implementation • 29 Aug 2021 • Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe
In this paper, we address the task of layout-to-image translation, which aims to translate an input semantic layout to a realistic image.
1 code implementation • ICCV 2021 • Haoyu Chen, Hao Tang, Henglin Shi, Wei Peng, Nicu Sebe, Guoying Zhao
With the strength of deep generative models, 3D pose transfer regains intensive research interests in recent years.
4 code implementations • 3 Aug 2021 • Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Enrico Fini, Moin Nabi, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
This paper presents solo-learn, a library of self-supervised methods for visual representation learning.
1 code implementation • 21 Jun 2021 • Hao Tang, Nicu Sebe
Both generators are mutually connected and trained in an end-to-end fashion and explicitly form three cycled subnets, i. e., one image generation cycle and two guidance generation cycles.
Generative Adversarial Network Image-to-Image Translation +1
1 code implementation • CVPR 2021 • Zhun Zhong, Enrico Fini, Subhankar Roy, Zhiming Luo, Elisa Ricci, Nicu Sebe
In this paper, we address Novel Class Discovery (NCD), the task of unveiling new classes in a set of unlabeled samples given a labeled dataset with known classes.
no code implementations • CVPR 2021 • Yahui Liu, Enver Sangineto, Yajing Chen, Linchao Bao, Haoxian Zhang, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri, Wei Wang, Marco De Nadai
In this paper, we propose a new training protocol based on three specific losses which help a translation network to learn a smooth and disentangled latent style space in which: 1) Both intra- and inter-domain interpolations correspond to gradual changes in the generated images and 2) The content of the source image is better preserved during the translation.
1 code implementation • NeurIPS 2021 • Yahui Liu, Enver Sangineto, Wei Bi, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri, Marco De Nadai
This task encourages the VTs to learn spatial relations within an image and makes the VT training much more robust when training data are scarce.
1 code implementation • 7 Jun 2021 • Yuyang Zhao, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Gim Hee Lee, Nicu Sebe
Second, CPSS can reduce the influence of noisy pseudo-labels and also avoid the model overfitting to the target domain during self-supervised learning, consistently boosting the performance on the target and open domains.
1 code implementation • 31 May 2021 • Jichao Zhang, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Hao Tang, Enver Sangineto, Wei Wang, Humphrey Sh, Nicu Sebe
Moreover, we propose a novel Self-Training Part Replacement (STPR) strategy to refine the model for the texture-transfer task, which improves the quality of the generated clothes and the preservation ability of non-target regions.
1 code implementation • 28 May 2021 • Guanglei Yang, Hao Tang, Zhun Zhong, Mingli Ding, Ling Shao, Nicu Sebe, Elisa Ricci
In this paper, we study the task of source-free domain adaptation (SFDA), where the source data are not available during target adaptation.