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The Audio-Visual Video Parsing task aims to recognize and temporally localize all events occurring in either the audio or visual stream, or both. Capturing accurate event semantics for each audio/visual segment is vital. Prior works directly utilize the extracted holistic audio and visual features for intra- and cross-modal temporal interactions. However, each segment may contain multiple events, resulting in semantically mixed holistic features that can lead to semantic interference during intra- or cross-modal interactions: the event semantics of one segment may incorporate semantics of unrelated events from other segments. To address this issue, our method begins with a Class-Aware Feature Decoupling (CAFD) module, which explicitly decouples the semantically mixed features into distinct class-wise features, including multiple event-specific features and a dedicated background feature. The decoupled class-wise features enable our model to selectively aggregate useful semantics for each segment from clearly matched classes contained in other segments, preventing semantic interference from irrelevant classes. Specifically, we further design a Fine-Grained Semantic Enhancement module for encoding intra- and cross-modal relations. It comprises a Segment-wise Event Co-occurrence Modeling (SECM) block and a Local-Global Semantic Fusion (LGSF) block. The SECM exploits inter-class dependencies of concurrent events within the same timestamp with the aid of a novel event co-occurrence loss. The LGSF further enhances the event semantics of each segment by incorporating relevant semantics from more informative global video features. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of the proposed modules and loss functions, resulting in a new state-of-the-art parsing performance.

AAAI 2025

Multimodal Class-aware Semantic Enhancement Network for Audio-Visual Video Parsing

We are pleased to announce the Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-25), which will be held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania at the Pennsylvania Convention Center from February 25 to March 4, 2025.

The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and a range of other activities to be announced.

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The purpose of the AAAI conference series is to promote research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and foster scientific exchange between researchers, practitioners, scientists, students, and engineers across the entirety of AI and its affiliated disciplines. AAAI-25 will feature technical paper presentations, special tracks, invited speakers, workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, senior member presentations, competitions, and exhibit programs, and a range of other activities to be announced.



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In this paper, we present CAD2Program, a new method for reconstructing 3D parametric models from 2D CAD drawings. Our proposed method is inspired by recent successes in vision-language models (VLMs), and departs from traditional methods which rely on task-specific data representations and/or algorithms. Specifically, on the input side, we simply treat the 2D CAD drawing as a raster image, regardless of its original format, and encode the image with a standard ViT model. We show that such an encoding scheme achieves competitive performance against existing methods that operate on vector-graphics inputs, while imposing substantially fewer restrictions on the 2D drawings. On the output side, our method auto-regressively predicts a general-purpose language describing 3D parametric models in text form. Compared to other sequence modeling methods for CAD which use domain-specific sequence representations with fixed-size slots, our text-based representation is more flexible, and can be easily extended to arbitrary geometric entities and semantic or functional properties. Experimental results on a large-scale dataset of cabinet models demonstrate the effectiveness of our method.

From 2D CAD Drawings to 3D Parametric Models: A Vision-Language Approach

Customized video generation aims to generate high-quality videos guided by text prompts and subject's reference images. However, since it is only trained on static images, the fine-tuning process of subject learning disrupts abilities of video diffusion models (VDMs) to combine concepts and generate motions. To restore these abilities, some methods use additional video similar to the prompt to fine-tune or guide the model. This requires frequent changes of guiding videos and even re-tuning of the model when generating different motions, which is very inconvenient for users. In this paper, we propose CustomCrafter, a novel framework that preserves the model's motion generation and conceptual combination abilities without additional video and fine-tuning to recovery. For preserving conceptual combination ability, we design a plug-and-play module to update few parameters in VDMs, enhancing the model's ability to capture the appearance details and the ability of concept combinations for new subjects. For motion generation, we observed that VDMs tend to restore the motion of video in the early stage of denoising, while focusing on the recovery of subject details in the later stage. Therefore, we propose Dynamic Weighted Video Sampling Strategy. Using the pluggability of our subject learning modules, we reduce the impact of this module on motion generation in the early stage of denoising, preserving the ability to generate motion of VDMs. In the later stage of denoising, we restore this module to repair the appearance details of the specified subject, thereby ensuring the fidelity of the subject's appearance. Experimental results show that our method has a significant improvement compared to previous methods.

CustomCrafter: Customized Video Generation with Preserving Motion and Concept Composition Abilities

Noise is an inevitable aspect of point cloud acquisition, necessitating filtering as a fundamental task within the realm of 3D vision. Existing learning-based filtering methods have shown promising capabilities on commonly used datasets. Nonetheless, the effectiveness of these methods is constrained when dealing with a substantial quantity of point clouds. This limitation primarily stems from their limited denoising capabilities for dense and large-scale point clouds and their inclination to generate noisy outliers after denoising. To deal with this challenge, we introduce 3DMambaIPF, for the first time, exploiting Selective State Space Models (SSMs) architecture to handle highly-dense and large-scale point clouds, capitalizing on its strengths in selective input processing and large context modeling capabilities. Additionally, we present a robust and fast differentiable rendering loss to constrain the noisy points around the surface. In contrast to previous methodologies, this differentiable rendering loss enhances the visual realism of denoised geometric structures and aligns point cloud boundaries more closely with those observed in real-world objects. Extensive evaluations on commonly used datasets (typically with up to 50K points) demonstrate that 3DMambaIPF achieves state-of-the-art results. Moreover, we showcase the superior scalability and efficiency of 3DMambaIPF on highly dense and large-scale point clouds with up to 500K points compared to off-the-shelf methods.

3DMambaIPF: A State Space Model for Iterative Point Cloud Filtering via Differentiable Rendering

In numerous settings, agents lack sufficient data to learn a model directly. Collaborating with other agents may help, but introduces a bias-variance trade-off when local data distributions differ.
A key challenge is for each agent to identify clients with similar distributions while learning the model, a problem that remains largely unresolved.
This study focuses on a particular instance of the overarching problem, where each agent collects samples from a real-valued distribution over time to estimate its mean. Existing algorithms face impractical per-agent space and time complexities (linear in the number of agents $|\mathcal{A}|$). 
To address scalability challenges, we propose a framework where agents self-organize into a graph, allowing each agent to communicate with only a selected number of peers $r$. We propose two collaborative mean estimation algorithms: one employs a consensus-based approach, while the other uses a message-passing scheme, with complexity  $\mathcal O(r)$ and $\mathcal O(r \cdot \log |\mathcal{A}|)$, respectively. 
We establish conditions for both algorithms to yield asymptotically optimal estimates and we provide a theoretical characterization of their performance.

Scalable Decentralized Algorithms for Online Personalized Mean Estimation

Human motion generative models have enabled compelling applications, but the ability of text-to-motion (T2M) models to produce realistic motions raises security concerns if exploited maliciously. Despite growing interest in T2M, few methods focus on safeguarding these models against adversarial attacks, with existing work on text-to-image models proving insufficient for the unique motion domain. In the paper, we propose ALERT-Motion, an autonomous framework that leverages large language models (LLMs) to craft targeted adversarial attacks against black-box T2M models. Unlike prior methods that modify prompts through predefined rules, ALERT-Motion uses the knowledge of LLMs of human motion to autonomously generate subtle yet powerful adversarial text descriptions. It comprises two key modules: an adaptive dispatching module that constructs an LLM-based agent to iteratively refine and search for adversarial prompts; and a multimodal information contrastive module that extracts semantically relevant motion information to guide the agent's search. Through this LLM-driven approach, ALERT-Motion crafts adversarial prompts querying victim models to produce outputs closely matching targeted motions, while avoiding obvious perturbations. Evaluations across popular T2M models demonstrate ALERT-Motion's superiority over previous methods, achieving higher attack success rates with stealthier adversarial prompts. This pioneering work on T2M adversarial attacks highlights the urgency of developing defensive measures as motion generation technology advances, urging further research into safe and responsible deployment.

Autonomous LLM-Enhanced Adversarial Attack for Text-to-Motion

Deep neural networks (DNNs) typically employ an end-to-end (E2E) training paradigm which presents several challenges, including high GPU memory consumption, inefficiency, and difficulties in model parallelization during training. Recent research has sought to address these issues, with one promising approach being local learning. This method involves partitioning the backbone network into gradient-isolated modules and manually designing auxiliary networks to train these local modules. Existing methods often neglect the interaction of information between local modules, leading to myopic issues and a performance gap compared to E2E training. To address these limitations, we propose the Multilaminar Leap Augmented Auxiliary Network (MLAAN). Specifically, MLAAN comprises Multilaminar Local Modules (MLM) and Leap Augmented Modules (LAM). MLM captures both local and global features through independent and cascaded auxiliary networks, alleviating performance issues caused by insufficient global features. However, overly simplistic auxiliary networks can impede MLM's ability to capture global information. To address this, we further design LAM, an enhanced auxiliary network that uses the Exponential Moving Average (EMA) method to facilitate information exchange between local modules, thereby mitigating the shortsightedness resulting from inadequate interaction. The synergy between MLM and LAM has demonstrated excellent performance. Our experiments on the CIFAR-10, STL-10, SVHN, and ImageNet datasets show that MLAAN can be seamlessly integrated into existing local learning frameworks, significantly enhancing their performance and even surpassing end-to-end (E2E) training methods, while also reducing GPU memory consumption.

MLAAN: Scaling Supervised Local Learning with Multilaminar Leap Augmented Auxiliary Network

Personalized image generation enables customized content creation based on the text-to-image diffusion models.However, existing personalization methods focus on fine-tuning generative models to learn to generate specific single individuals or concepts, such as an image of a specific Corgi, but are unable to generate data for multiple individuals or concepts with common characteristics, such as images of multiple different Corgis. In this work, we focus on personalizing a diffusion model to generated varied data usually containing multiple subjects, which has a more diverse and complex data distribution. Our basic assumption is that the varied data distribution is composed of the common features shared among all samples, as well as the reasonable variations within it. Accordingly, we are capable to decompose the learning process of complex data distributions into two simpler sub-tasks, employing a divide-and-conquer approach. To this end we propose Dis2Booth, a framework that can learn complex image Distribution by Disentangling data distribution in an unsupervised manner.Specifically, Dis2Booth contains two modules, Anchor LoRA and Delta LoRA, that are tasked with learning the common features and variational features constrained by Contextual Loss and Delta Loss unsupervisedly. Besides, the Asynchronous Optimization Strategy is proposed to ensure the collaborative training of the two modules. Extensive experiments suggest that Dis2Booth is able to learn the data distribution with higher diversity and complexity while maintaining the same level of flexibility as LoRA.

Dis²Booth: Learning Image Distribution with Disentangled Features for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

In time-lapse microscopy, inherent noise significantly limits imaging sensitivity and increases measurement uncertainty. Due to the scarcity of clean data, zero-shot approaches have emerged as highly data-efficient solutions for microscopy denoising. However, existing methods typically process video frames independently, resulting in long training times and issues such as temporal noise and over-smoothing. In this paper, we introduce MDSR-Zero, a zero-shot online learning method designed for plug-and-play noise suppression and super-resolution of microscopy videos. Our approach leverages an efficient online training strategy that reuses denoising models from previous frames. By treating the video as a continuous stream, our model significantly reduces training time and ensures temporally consistent denoising. Additionally, we propose a novel loss function tailored for denoising in the context of super-resolution, which enhances the detail in the denoised results. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world noise demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance among zero-shot denoising approaches and is competitive with self-supervised methods. Notably, our method can reduce training time by up to 10x compared to the previous SOTA method.

Efficient Online Training for Zero-Shot Time-Lapse Microscopy Denoising and Super-Resolution

With the benefit of explicit object-oriented reasoning capabilities of scene graphs, scene graph-to-image generation has  made remarkable advancements in comprehending object coherence and interactive relations. Recent state-of-the-arts typically predict the scene layouts as an intermediate representation of a scene graph before synthesizing the image. Nevertheless, transforming a scene graph into an exact layout may  restrict its representation capabilities, leading to discrepancies  in interactive relationships (such as standing on, wearing, or  covering) between the generated image and the input scene  graph. In this paper, we propose a Scene Graph-Grounded Image Generation (SGG-IG) method to mitigate the above  issues. Specifically, to enhance the scene graph representation,  we design a masked auto-encoder module and a relation embeddings learning module to integrate structural knowledge  and contextual information of the scene graph with a mask  self-supervised manner. Subsequently, to bridge the scene  graph with visual content, we introduce a spatial constraint and  image-scene alignment constraint to capture the fine-grained  visual correlation between the scene graph symbol representation and the corresponding image representation, thereby  generating semantically consistent and high-quality images. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of the  method both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Scene Graph-Grounded Image Generation

In safety-critical domains such as medical diagnostics and autonomous driving, single-image evidence is sometimes insufficient to reflect the inherent ambiguity of vision problems. Therefore, multiple plausible assumptions that match the image semantics may be needed to reflect the actual distribution of targets and support downstream tasks. However, balancing and improving the diversity and consistency of segmentation predictions under the high-dimensional output spaces and potential multimodal distributions is still challenging. This paper presents Hierarchical Self-Regulation Diffusion (HSRDiff), a unified framework that simulates joint probability distribution over entire labels. Our model self-regulates the balance between the two modes of predicting the label and noise in a novel ``differentiation to unification" pipeline and dynamically fits the optimal path to model the aleatoric uncertainty rooted in observations. In addition, we preserve the high-fidelity reconstruction of the delicate structure in images by leveraging the hierarchical multi-scale condition priors. We validate HSRDiff in three different semantic scenarios. The experimental results show that HSRDiff is superior to the comparison method with a considerable performance gap. Our code is attached to the supplementary material.

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