Many tasks are related to determining if a particular text string exists in an image. In this work, we propose a new framework that learns this task in an end-to-end way. The framework takes an image and a text string as input and then outputs the probability of the text string being present in the image. This is the first end-to-end framework that learns such relationships between text and images in scene text area. The framework does not require explicit scene text detection or recognition and thus no bounding box annotations are needed for it. It is also the first work in scene text area that tackles suh a weakly labeled problem. Based on this framework, we developed a model called Guided Attention. Our designed model achieves much better results than several state-of-the-art scene text reading based solutions for a challenging Street View Business Matching task. The task tries to find correct business names for storefront images and the dataset we collected for it is substantially larger, and more challenging than existing scene text dataset. This new real-world task provides a new perspective for studying scene text related problems. We also demonstrate the uniqueness of our task via a comparison between our problem and a typical Visual Question Answering problem.
LSVG: Language-Guided Scene Graphs with 2D-Assisted Multi-Modal Encoding for 3D Visual Grounding
School of Automation Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology（自动化科学与工程学院，华南理工大学）；School of Future Technology, South China University of Technology（未来技术学院，华南理工大学）
Universidad Pablo de Olavide（巴勃罗·德·奥拉维德大学）；Universidad de Sevilla（塞维利亚大学）；Andalusian Research Institute in Data Science and Computational Intelligence (DaSCI)（安达卢西亚数据科学与计算智能研究所（DaSCI））；University of Granada（格拉纳达大学）
Scene graph generation from images is a task of great interest to applications such as robotics, because graphs are the main way to represent knowledge about the world and regulate human-robot interactions in tasks such as Visual Question Answering (VQA). Unfortunately, its corresponding area of machine learning is still relatively in its infancy, and the solutions currently offered do not specialize well in concrete usage scenarios. Specifically, they do not take existing "expert" knowledge about the domain world into account; and that might indeed be necessary in order to provide the level o…
Scene flow describes the 3D position as well as the 3D motion of each pixel in an image. Such algorithms are the basis for many state-of-the-art autonomous or automated driving functions. For verification and training large amounts of ground truth data is required, which is not available for real data. In this paper, we demonstrate a technology to create synthetic data with dense and precise scene flow ground truth.
Consistency Guided Scene Flow Estimation (CGSF) is a self-supervised framework for the joint reconstruction of 3D scene structure and motion from stereo video. The model takes two temporal stereo pairs as input, and predicts disparity and scene flow. The model self-adapts at test time by iteratively refining its predictions. The refinement process is guided by a consistency loss, which combines stereo and temporal photo-consistency with a geometric term that couples disparity and 3D motion. To handle inherent modeling error in the consistency loss (e.g. Lambertian assumptions) and for better g…
Johns Hopkins University（约翰斯·霍普金斯大学）；U.S. Army CCDC Army Research Laboratory（美国陆军CCDC陆军研究实验室）
Polarimetric thermal to visible face verification entails matching two images that contain significant domain differences. Several recent approaches have attempted to synthesize visible faces from thermal images for cross-modal matching. In this paper, we take a different approach in which rather than focusing only on synthesizing visible faces from thermal faces, we also propose to synthesize thermal faces from visible faces. Our intuition is based on the fact that thermal images also contain some discriminative information about the person for verification. Deep features from a pre-trained C…
Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）；University of Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院大学）
Scene text detection task has attracted considerable attention in computer vision because of its wide application. In recent years, many researchers have introduced methods of semantic segmentation into the task of scene text detection, and achieved promising results. This paper proposes a detector framework based on the conditional generative adversarial networks to improve the segmentation effect of scene text detection, called DGST (Discriminator Guided Scene Text detector). Instead of binary text score maps generated by some existing semantic segmentation based methods, we generate a multi…
Manipulating images of complex scenes to reconstruct, insert and/or remove specific object instances is a challenging task. Complex scenes contain multiple semantics and objects, which are frequently cluttered or ambiguous, thus hampering the performance of inpainting models. Conventional techniques often rely on structural information such as object contours in multi-stage approaches that generate unreliable results and boundaries. In this work, we propose a novel deep learning model to alter a complex urban scene by removing a user-specified portion of the image and coherently inserting a ne…
The University of New South Wales（新南威尔士大学）；Australian National University（澳大利亚国立大学）；North South University（北南大学）；University of Technology Sydney（悉尼科技大学）；Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation（联邦科学与工业研究组织）
Zero-shot learning on 3D point cloud data is a related underexplored problem compared to its 2D image counterpart. 3D data brings new challenges for ZSL due to the unavailability of robust pre-trained feature extraction models. To address this problem, we propose a prompt-guided 3D scene generation and supervision method that augments 3D data to learn the network better, exploring the complex interplay of seen and unseen objects. First, we merge point clouds of two 3D models in certain ways described by a prompt. The prompt acts like the annotation describing each 3D scene. Later, we perform c…
3DitScene: Editing Any Scene via Language-guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting
The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）；Stanford University（斯坦福大学）；Snap Inc.（Snap公司）；University of California Los Angeles（加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校）；ByteDance（字节跳动）
Loop closure detection, the task of identifying locations revisited by a robot in a sequence of odometry and perceptual observations, is typically formulated as a combination of two subtasks: (1) bag-of-words image retrieval and (2) post-verification using RANSAC geometric verification. The main contribution of this study is the proposal of a novel post-verification framework that achieves good precision recall trade-off in loop closure detection. This study is motivated by the fact that not all loop closure hypotheses are equally plausible (e.g., owing to mutual consistency between loop closu…
Scene text image super-resolution (STISR) aims to improve the resolution and visual quality of low-resolution (LR) scene text images, and consequently boost the performance of text recognition. However, most of existing STISR methods regard text images as natural scene images, ignoring the categorical information of text. In this paper, we make an inspiring attempt to embed categorical text prior into STISR model training. Specifically, we adopt the character probability sequence as the text prior, which can be obtained conveniently from a text recognition model. The text prior provides catego…
The University of Trento（特伦托大学）；The University of Sydney（悉尼大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）
Depth estimation and scene parsing are two particularly important tasks in visual scene understanding. In this paper we tackle the problem of simultaneous depth estimation and scene parsing in a joint CNN. The task can be typically treated as a deep multi-task learning problem [42]. Different from previous methods directly optimizing multiple tasks given the input training data, this paper proposes a novel multi-task guided prediction-and-distillation network (PAD-Net), which first predicts a set of intermediate auxiliary tasks ranging from low level to high level, and then the predictions fro…
We propose a method for scene-level sketch-to-photo synthesis with text guidance. Although object-level sketch-to-photo synthesis has been widely studied, whole-scene synthesis is still challenging without reference photos that adequately reflect the target style. To this end, we leverage knowledge from recent large-scale pre-trained generative models, resulting in text-guided sketch-to-photo synthesis without the need for reference images. To train our model, we use self-supervised learning from a set of photographs. Specifically, we use a pre-trained edge detector that maps both color and sk…
LaserHuman: Language-guided Scene-aware Human Motion Generation in Free Environment
ShanghaiTech University（上海科技大学）；University of Pennsylvania（宾夕法尼亚大学）；The University of Hong Kong（香港大学）；University of Adelaide（阿德莱德大学）；University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学）；The Chinese University of Hong Kong（香港中文大学）
Zhengzhou University（郑州大学）；Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院自动化研究所）
It is important to monitor and analyze crowd events for the sake of city safety. In an EDOF (extended depth of field) image with a crowded scene, the distribution of people is highly imbalanced. People far away from the camera look much smaller and often occlude each other heavily, while people close to the camera look larger. In such a case, it is difficult to accurately estimate the number of people by using one technique. In this paper, we propose a Depth Information Guided Crowd Counting (DigCrowd) method to deal with crowded EDOF scenes. DigCrowd first uses the depth information of an ima…
Understanding the flow in 3D space of sparsely sampled points between two consecutive time frames is the core stone of modern geometric-driven systems such as VR/AR, Robotics, and Autonomous driving. The lack of real, non-simulated, labeled data for this task emphasizes the importance of self- or un-supervised deep architectures. This work presents a new self-supervised training method and an architecture for the 3D scene flow estimation under occlusions. Here we show that smart multi-layer fusion between flow prediction and occlusion detection outperforms traditional architectures by a large …
The University of Tokyo（东京大学）；National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)（产业技术综合研究所）
This paper describes a viewpoint-robust object-based change detection network (OBJ-CDNet). Mobile cameras such as drive recorders capture images from different viewpoints each time due to differences in camera trajectory and shutter timing. However, previous methods for pixel-wise change detection are vulnerable to the viewpoint differences because they assume aligned image pairs as inputs. To cope with the difficulty, we introduce a deep graph matching network that establishes object correspondence between an image pair. The introduction enables us to detect object-wise scene changes without …
National Taiwan University（台湾大学）；Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.（高通技术公司）
In this paper, we address the task of semantics-guided image outpainting, which is to complete an image by generating semantically practical content. Different from most existing image outpainting works, we approach the above task by understanding and completing image semantics at the scene graph level. In particular, we propose a novel network of Scene Graph Transformer (SGT), which is designed to take node and edge features as inputs for modeling the associated structural information. To better understand and process graph-based inputs, our SGT uniquely performs feature attention at both nod…
