Zhikang Zou

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 17 · 4 first-author · 13 since 2021Graphics, computer vision, multimedia, augmented reality and games · 17 · 4 first-author · 13 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 3 · 3 since 2021
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2026 SOOD++: Leveraging Unlabeled Data to Boost Oriented Object Detection
abstract
Semi-supervised object detection (SSOD), leveraging unlabeled data to boost object detectors, has become a hot topic recently. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving oriented objects common in aerial images unexplored. At the same time, the annotation cost of oriented objects is significantly higher than that of their horizontal counterparts (an approximate 36.5% increase in costs). Therefore, in this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Semi-supervised Oriented Object Detection method termed SOOD++. Specifically, we observe that objects from aerial images usually have arbitrary orientations, small scales, and dense distribution, which inspires the following core designs: a Simple Instance-aware Dense Sampling (SIDS) strategy is used to generate comprehensive dense pseudo-labels; the Geometry-aware Adaptive Weighting (GAW) loss dynamically modulates the importance of each pair between pseudo-label and corresponding prediction by leveraging the intricate geometric information of aerial objects; we treat aerial images as global layouts and explicitly build the many-to-many relationship between the sets of pseudo-labels and predictions via the proposed Noise-driven Global Consistency (NGC). Extensive experiments conducted on various oriented object datasets under various labeled settings demonstrate the effectiveness of our method. For example, on the DOTA-V2.0/DOTA-V1.5 benchmark, the proposed method outperforms previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) by a large margin (+2.90/2.14, +2.16/2.18, and +2.66/2.32) mAP under 10%, 20%, and 30% labeled data settings, respectively, with single-scale training and testing. More importantly, it still improves upon a strong supervised baseline with 70.66 mAP, trained using the full DOTA-V1.5 train-val set, by +1.82 mAP, resulting in a 72.48 mAP, pushing the new state-of-the-art. Moreover, our method demonstrates stable generalization ability across different oriented detectors, even for multi-view oriented 3D object detectors.
Dingkang Liang, Wei Hua 0005, Chunsheng Shi, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.4
2025 Uni2Det: Unified and Universal Framework for Prompt-Guided Multi-dataset 3D Detection
abstract
We present Uni$^2$Det, a brand new framework for unified and universal multi-dataset training on 3D detection, enabling robust performance across diverse domains and generalization to unseen domains. Due to substantial disparities in data distribution and variations in taxonomy across diverse domains, training such a detector by simply merging datasets poses a significant challenge. Motivated by this observation, we introduce multi-stage prompting modules for multi-dataset 3D detection, which leverages prompts based on the characteristics of corresponding datasets to mitigate existing differences. This elegant design facilitates seamless plug-and-play integration within various advanced 3D detection frameworks in a unified manner, while also allowing straightforward adaptation for universal applicability across datasets. Experiments are conducted across multiple dataset consolidation scenarios involving KITTI, Waymo, and nuScenes, demonstrating that our Uni$^2$Det outperforms existing methods by a large margin in multi-dataset training. Notably, results on zero-shot cross-dataset transfer validate the generalization capability of our proposed method. Our code is available at https://github.com/ThomasWangY/Uni2Det.
Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan 0001, Errui Ding, Cairong Zhao
ICLR2
2025 AVS-Net: Point sampling with adaptive voxel size for 3D scene understanding
Hongcheng Yang, Dingkang Liang, Dingyuan Zhang, Zhe Liu 0033, Zhikang Zou, Xingyu Jiang 0005, Yingying Zhu 0005
Neurocomputing5
2025 Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning in Spectral Domain for Point Cloud Learning
abstract
Recently, leveraging pre-training techniques to enhance point cloud models has become a prominent research topic. However, existing approaches typically require full fine-tuning of pre-trained models to achieve satisfactory performance on downstream tasks, which is storage-intensive and computationally demanding. To address this issue, we propose a novel Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) method for point cloud, called PointGST (Point cloud Graph Spectral Tuning). PointGST freezes the pre-trained model and introduces a lightweight, trainable Point Cloud Spectral Adapter (PCSA) for fine-tuning parameters in the spectral domain. The core idea is built on two observations: 1) The inner tokens from frozen models might present confusion in the spatial domain; 2) Task-specific intrinsic information is important for transferring the general knowledge to the downstream task. Specifically, PointGST transfers the point tokens from the spatial domain to the spectral domain, effectively de-correlating confusion among tokens by using orthogonal components for separation. Moreover, the generated spectral basis involves intrinsic information about the downstream point clouds, enabling more targeted tuning. As a result, PointGST facilitates the efficient transfer of general knowledge to downstream tasks while significantly reducing training costs. Extensive experiments on challenging point cloud datasets across various tasks demonstrate that PointGST not only outperforms its fully fine-tuning counterpart but also significantly reduces trainable parameters, making it a promising solution for efficient point cloud learning. Moreover, it achieves superior accuracies of 99.48%, 97.76%, and 96.18% on the ScanObjNN OBJ_BG, OBJ_ONLY, and PB_T50_RS datasets, respectively, establishing a new state-of-the-art, while using only 0.67% of the trainable parameters.
Dingkang Liang, Tianrui Feng, Xin Zhou 0013, Zhikang Zou, Xiang Bai
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.5
2025 An Empirical Study of Ground Segmentation for 3-D Object Detection
abstract
The ratio of foreground and background points directly impacts the accuracy and speed of the lidar-based 3D object detection methods. However, existing methods generally ignore the impact of ground points. Although some traditional ground segmentation algorithms are available to remove ground point clouds, they usually suffer from over-segmentation, which leads to a sub-optimal and even worse performance for the downstream 3D detection task. We conduct an in-depth analysis and attribute this phenomenon to the reason that some crucial foreground points attached to the ground (e.g., the wheels of Cars, or the feet of Pedestrians) are directly removed due to over-segmentation. To this end, we propose a new Attached Point Restoring (APR) module to recover these discarded foreground points. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of APR by integrating it into various ground segmentation algorithms to boost the performance or the running time of 3D detection on KITTI and Waymo datasets. Finally, we hope this paper can serve as a new guide to inspire future research in this field. Code is available athttps://github.com/yhc2021/GPR.
Hongcheng Yang, Dingkang Liang, Zhe Liu 0033, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.5
2025 Coupling and Decoupling: Towards Temporal Feedback for 3D Object Detection
abstract
3D object detection has garnered significant attention within the academic community, primarily due to its broad utility in domains such as autonomous driving and robotics. Prior research efforts have predominantly concentrated on leveraging temporal contextual information embedded within sequential data to enhance the current feature representations. However, a notable limitation of these endeavors lies in their inadequate treatment of the inherent noise present within historical sequences, thereby constraining the efficiency of fusion methods. In this paper, we propose a new temporal feedback network, named TFNet, to model and correct the temporal noise by designing acoupling-decouplingmechanism. Central to our approach are two distinct modules: (i) Foreground Feature Enhancement, which amplifies sparse instance details across temporal frames, thereby furnishing essential local information priors for subsequent fusion; and (ii) Coupling-Decoupling Feature Interaction, designed to first aggregate temporal contextual information and then disentangle fusion features into frame-specific representations. Leveraging a feedback strategy, this module can adaptively enhance useful information and eliminate noise within individual frame features. Empirical evaluations conducted on the nuScenes benchmark demonstrate the effectiveness of TFNet, achieving the new state-of-the-art performance without any bells and whistles.
Yubo Cui, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan 0001, Zhiheng Li 0003, Zheng Fang 0001
IEEE Trans. Multim.2
2024 Dynamic Adapter Meets Prompt Tuning: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Point Cloud Analysis
abstract
Point cloud analysis has achieved outstanding performance by transferring point cloud pretrained models. However, existing methods for model adaptation usually update all model parameters, i.e., full fine-tuning paradigm, which is inefficient as it relies on high computational costs (e.g., training GPU memory) and massive storage space. In this paper, we aim to study parameter-efficient transfer learning for point cloud analysis with an ideal tradeoff between task performance and parameter efficiency. To achieve this goal, we freeze the parameters of the default pretrained models and then propose the Dynamic Adapter, which generates a dynamic scale for each token, considering the token significance to the downstream task. We further seamlessly integrate Dynamic Adapter with Prompt Tuning (DAPT) by constructing Internal Prompts, capturing the instance-specific features for interaction. Extensive experiments conducted on five challenging datasets demonstrate that the proposed DAPT achieves superior performance compared to the full fine-tuning counterparts while significantly reducing the trainable parameters and training GPU memory by 95% and 35%, respectively. Code is available at https://github.com/LMD0311/DAPT.
Xin Zhou 0013, Dingkang Liang, Wei Xu 0037, Xingkui Zhu, Zhikang Zou, Xiang Bai
CVPR6
2024 PointMamba: A Simple State Space Model for Point Cloud Analysis
abstract
Transformers have become one of the foundational architectures in point cloud analysis tasks due to their excellent global modeling ability. However, the attention mechanism has quadratic complexity, making the design of a linear complexity method with global modeling appealing. In this paper, we propose PointMamba, transferring the success of Mamba, a recent representative state space model (SSM), from NLP to point cloud analysis tasks. Unlike traditional Transformers, PointMamba employs a linear complexity algorithm, presenting global modeling capacity while significantly reducing computational costs. Specifically, our method leverages space-filling curves for effective point tokenization and adopts an extremely simple, non-hierarchical Mamba encoder as the backbone. Comprehensive evaluations demonstrate that PointMamba achieves superior performance across multiple datasets while significantly reducing GPU memory usage and FLOPs. This work underscores the potential of SSMs in 3D vision-related tasks and presents a simple yet effective Mamba-based baseline for future research. The code is available at https://github.com/LMD0311/PointMamba.
Dingkang Liang, Xin Zhou 0013, Wei Xu 0037, Xingkui Zhu, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiao Tan 0001, Xiang Bai
NeurIPS5
2024 SAM3D: zero-shot 3D object detection via the segment anything model
Dingyuan Zhang, Dingkang Liang, Hongcheng Yang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhe Liu 0033, Xiang Bai
Sci. China Inf. Sci.4
2024 Multi-Modal 3D Object Detection by Box Matching
abstract
Multi-modal 3D object detection has received growing attention as the information from different sensors like LiDAR and cameras are complementary. Most fusion methods for 3D detection rely on an accurate alignment and calibration between 3D point clouds and RGB images. However, such an assumption is not reliable in a real-world self-driving system, as the alignment between different modalities is easily affected by asynchronous sensors and disturbed sensor placement. We propose a novel Fusion network by Box Matching (FBMNet) for multi-modal 3D detection, which provides an alternative way for cross-modal feature alignment by learning the correspondence at the bounding box level to free up the dependency of calibration during inference. With the learned assignments between 3D and 2D object proposals, the fusion for detection can be effectively performed by combining their ROI features. Extensive experiments on the nuScenes dataset demonstrate that our method is much more robust in dealing with challenging cases such as asynchronous sensors, misaligned sensor placement, and degenerated camera images than existing fusion methods. We hope that our FBMNet could provide an available solution to dealing with these challenging cases for safety in real autonomous driving scenarios.
Zhe Liu 0033, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhikang Zou, Xinwei He 0001, Xiao Tan 0001, Errui Ding, Jingdong Wang 0001, Xiang Bai
IEEE Trans. Intell. Transp. Syst.3
2023 SOOD: Towards Semi-Supervised Oriented Object Detection
abstract
Semi-Supervised Object Detection (SSOD), aiming to explore unlabeled data for boosting object detectors, has become an active task in recent years. However, existing SSOD approaches mainly focus on horizontal objects, leaving multi-oriented objects that are common in aerial images unexplored. This paper proposes a novel Semi-supervised Oriented Object Detection model, termed SOOD, built upon the mainstream pseudo-labeling framework. Towards oriented objects in aerial scenes, we design two loss functions to provide better supervision. Focusing on the orientations of objects, the first loss regularizes the consistency between each pseudo-label-prediction pair (includes a prediction and its corresponding pseudo label) with adaptive weights based on their orientation gap. Focusing on the layout of an image, the second loss regularizes the similarity and explicitly builds the many-to-many relation between the sets of pseudo-labels and predictions. Such a global consistency constraint can further boost semi-supervised learning. Our experiments show that when trained with the two proposed losses, SOOD surpasses the state-of-the-art SSOD methods under various settings on the DOTAv1.5 benchmark. The code will be available at https://github.com/HamPerdredes/SOOD.
Wei Hua 0005, Dingkang Liang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai
CVPR5
2023 CrowdCLIP: Unsupervised Crowd Counting via Vision-Language Model
abstract
Supervised crowd counting relies heavily on costly manual labeling, which is difficult and expensive, especially in dense scenes. To alleviate the problem, we propose a novel unsupervised framework for crowd counting, named CrowdCLIP. The core idea is built on two observations: 1) the recent contrastive pre-trained vision-language model (CLIP) has presented impressive performance on various downstream tasks; 2) there is a natural mapping between crowd patches and count text. To the best of our knowledge, CrowdCLIP is the first to investigate the vision-language knowledge to solve the counting problem. Specifically, in the training stage, we exploit the multi-modal ranking loss by constructing ranking text prompts to match the size-sorted crowd patches to guide the image encoder learning. In the testing stage, to deal with the diversity of image patches, we propose a simple yet effective progressive filtering strategy to first select the highly potential crowd patches and then map them into the language space with various counting intervals. Extensive experiments on five challenging datasets demonstrate that the proposed CrowdCLIP achieves superior performance compared to previous unsupervised state-of-the-art counting methods. Notably, CrowdCLIP even surpasses some pop-ular fully-supervised methods under the cross-dataset setting. The source code will be available at https://github.com/dk-liang/CrowdCLIP.
Dingkang Liang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Wei Xu 0037, Xiang Bai
CVPR3
2023 A Simple Vision Transformer for Weakly Semi-supervised 3D Object Detection
abstract
Advanced 3D object detection methods usually rely on large-scale, elaborately labeled datasets to achieve good performance. However, labeling the bounding boxes for the 3D objects is difficult and expensive. Although semi-supervised (SS3D) and weakly-supervised 3D object detection (WS3D) methods can effectively reduce the annotation cost, they suffer from two limitations: 1) their performance is far inferior to the fully-supervised counterparts; 2) they are difficult to adapt to different detectors or scenes (e.g, indoor or outdoor). In this paper, we study weakly semi-supervised 3D object detection (WSS3D) with point annotations, where the dataset comprises a small number of fully labeled and massive weakly labeled data with a single point annotated for each 3D object. To fully exploit the point annotations, we employ the plain and non-hierarchical vision transformer to form a point-to-box converter, termed ViT-WSS3D. By modeling global interactions between LiDAR points and corresponding weak labels, our ViT-WSS3D can generate high-quality pseudo-bounding boxes, which are then used to train any 3D detectors without exhaustive tuning. Extensive experiments on indoor and outdoor datasets (SUN RGBD and KITTI) show the effectiveness of our method. In particular, when only using 10% fully labeled and the rest as point labeled data, our ViT-WSS3D can enable most detectors to achieve similar performance with the oracle model using 100% fully labeled data.
Dingyuan Zhang, Dingkang Liang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Zhe Liu 0033, Xiao Tan 0001, Xiang Bai
ICCV3
2023 Understanding Depth Map Progressively: Adaptive Distance Interval Separation for Monocular 3d Object Detection
abstract
Monocular 3D object detection aims to locate objects in different scenes with just a single image. Due to the absence of depth information, several monocular 3D detection techniques have emerged that rely on auxiliary depth maps from the depth estimation task. There are multiple approaches to understanding the representation of depth maps, including treating them as pseudo-LiDAR point clouds, leveraging implicit end-to-end learning of depth information, or considering them as an image input. However, these methods have certain drawbacks, such as their reliance on the accuracy of estimated depth maps and suboptimal utilization of depth maps due to their image-based nature. While LiDAR-based methods and convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can be utilized for pseudo point clouds and depth maps, respectively, it is always an alternative. In this paper, we propose a framework named the Adaptive Distance Interval Separation Network (ADISN) that adopts a novel perspective on understanding depth maps, as a form that lies between LiDAR and images. We utilize an adaptive separation approach that partitions the depth map into various subgraphs based on distance and treats each of these subgraphs as an individual image for feature extraction. After adaptive separations, each subgraph solely contains pixels within a learned interval range. If there is a truncated object within this range, an evident curved edge will appear, which we can leverage for texture extraction using CNNs to obtain rich depth information in pixels. Meanwhile, to mitigate the inaccuracy of depth estimation, we designed an uncertainty module. To take advantage of both images and depth maps, we use different branches to learn localization detection tasks and appearance tasks separately. Our approach significantly enhances the baseline and outperforms depth-assisted techniques, as shown by our extensive experiments on the KITTI monocular 3D object detection benchmark.
Xianhui Cheng, Shoumeng Qiu, Zhikang Zou, Jian Pu, Xiangyang Xue 0001
IJCNN3
2023 Query-based Temporal Fusion with Explicit Motion for 3D Object Detection
abstract
Effectively utilizing temporal information to improve 3D detection performance is vital for autonomous driving vehicles. Existing methods either conduct temporal fusion based on the dense BEV features or sparse 3D proposal features. However, the former does not pay more attention to foreground objects, leading to more computation costs and sub-optimal performance. The latter implements time-consuming operations to generate sparse 3D proposal features, and the performance is limited by the quality of 3D proposals. In this paper, we propose a simple and effective Query-based Temporal Fusion Network (QTNet). The main idea is to exploit the object queries in previous frames to enhance the representation of current object queries by the proposed Motion-guided Temporal Modeling (MTM) module, which utilizes the spatial position information of object queries along the temporal dimension to construct their relevance between adjacent frames reliably. Experimental results show our proposed QTNet outperforms BEV-based or proposal-based manners on the nuScenes dataset. Besides, the MTM is a plug-and-play module, which can be integrated into some advanced LiDAR-only or multi-modality 3D detectors and even brings new SOTA performance with negligible computation cost and latency on the nuScenes dataset. These experiments powerfully illustrate the superiority and generalization of our method. The code is available at https://github.com/AlmoonYsl/QTNet.
Jinghua Hou, Zhe Liu 0033, Dingkang Liang, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Xiang Bai
NeurIPS4
2023 Diffusion-Based 3D Object Detection with Random Boxes
Xin Zhou 0013, Jinghua Hou, Dingkang Liang, Zhe Liu 0033, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Jianwei Cheng, Xiang Bai
PRCV (2)6
2022 Repainting and Imitating Learning for Lane Detection
abstract
Current lane detection methods are struggling with the invisibility lane issue caused by heavy shadows, severe road mark degradation, and serious vehicle occlusion. As a result, discriminative lane features can be barely learned by the network despite elaborate designs due to the inherent invisibility of lanes in the wild. In this paper, we target at finding an enhanced feature space where the lane features are distinctive while maintaining a similar distribution of lanes in the wild. To achieve this, we propose a novel Repainting and Imitating Learning (RIL) framework containing a pair of teacher and student without any extra data or extra laborious labeling. Specifically, in the repainting step, an enhanced ideal virtual lane dataset is built in which only the lane regions are repainted while non-lane regions are kept unchanged, maintaining the similar distribution of lanes in the wild. The teacher model learns enhanced discriminative representation based on the virtual data and serves as the guidance for a student model to imitate. In the imitating learning step, through the scale-fusing distillation module, the student network is encouraged to generate features that mimic the teacher model both on the same scale and cross scales. Furthermore, the coupled adversarial module builds the bridge to connect not only teacher and student models but also virtual and real data, adjusting the imitating learning process dynamically. Note that our method introduces no extra time cost during inference and can be plug-and-play in various cutting-edge lane detection networks. Experimental results prove the effectiveness of the RIL framework both on CULane and TuSimple for four modern lane detection methods. The code and model will be available soon.
Minyue Jiang, Xiaoqing Ye, Liang Du 0004, Zhikang Zou, Wei Zhang 0197, Xiao Tan 0001, Errui Ding
ACM Multimedia5
2022 Paint and Distill: Boosting 3D Object Detection with Semantic Passing Network
abstract
3D object detection task from lidar or camera sensors is essential for autonomous driving. Pioneer attempts at multi-modality fusion complement the sparse lidar point clouds with rich semantic texture information from images at the cost of extra network designs and overhead. In this work, we propose a novel semantic passing framework, named SPNet, to boost the performance of existing lidar-based 3D detection models with the guidance of rich context painting, with no extra computation cost during inference. Our key design is to first exploit the potential instructive semantic knowledge within the ground-truth labels by training a semantic-painted teacher model and then guide the pure-lidar network to learn the semantic-painted representation via knowledge passing modules at different granularities: class-wise passing, pixel-wise passing and instance-wise passing. Experimental results show that the proposed SPNet can seamlessly cooperate with most existing 3D detection frameworks with 1$\sim$5% AP gain and even achieve new state-of-the-art 3D detection performance on the KITTI test benchmark. Code is available at: https://github.com/jb892/SPNet.
Bo Ju, Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Minyue Jiang, Xiao Tan 0001, Errui Ding, Jingdong Wang 0001
ACM Multimedia2
2021 Revealing the Reciprocal Relations between Self-Supervised Stereo and Monocular Depth Estimation
abstract
Current self-supervised depth estimation algorithms mainly focus on either stereo or monocular only, neglecting the reciprocal relations between them. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective framework to improve both stereo and monocular depth estimation by leveraging the underlying complementary knowledge of the two tasks. Our approach consists of three stages. In the first stage, the proposed stereo matching network termed StereoNet is trained on image pairs in a self-supervised manner. Second, we introduce an occlusion-aware distillation (OA Distillation) module, which leverages the predicted depths from StereoNet in non-occluded regions to train our monocular depth estimation network named SingleNet. At last, we design an occlusion-aware fusion module (OA Fusion), which generates more reliable depths by fusing estimated depths from StereoNet and SingleNet given the occlusion map. Furthermore, we also take the fused depths as pseudo labels to supervise StereoNet in turn, which brings StereoNet’s performance to a new height. Extensive experiments on KITTI dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed framework. We achieve new SOTA performance on both stereo and monocular depth estimation tasks.
Zhi Chen 0026, Xiaoqing Ye, Wei Yang 0011, Zhenbo Xu, Xiao Tan 0001, Zhikang Zou, Errui Ding, Xinming Zhang 0001, Liusheng Huang
ICCV6
2021 The Devil is in the Task: Exploiting Reciprocal Appearance-Localization Features for Monocular 3D Object Detection
abstract
Low-cost monocular 3D object detection plays a fundamental role in autonomous driving, whereas its accuracy is still far from satisfactory. In this paper, we dig into the 3D object detection task and reformulate it as the sub-tasks of object localization and appearance perception, which benefits to a deep excavation of reciprocal information underlying the entire task. We introduce a Dynamic Feature Reflecting Network, named DFR-Net, which contains two novel standalone modules: (i) the Appearance-Localization Feature Reflecting module (ALFR) that first separates task-specific features and then self-mutually reflects the reciprocal features; (ii) the Dynamic Intra-Trading module (DIT) that adaptively realigns the training processes of various sub-tasks via a self-learning manner. Extensive experiments on the challenging KITTI dataset demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization of DFR-Net. We rank 1stamong all the monocular 3D object detectors in the KITTI test set (till March 16th, 2021). The proposed method is also easy to be plug-and-play in many cutting-edge 3D detection frameworks at negligible cost to boost performance. The code will be made publicly available.
Zhikang Zou, Xiaoqing Ye, Liang Du 0004, Xianhui Cheng, Xiao Tan 0001, Li Zhang 0040, Jianfeng Feng, Xiangyang Xue 0001, Errui Ding
ICCV1
2021 DSANet: Dynamic Segment Aggregation Network for Video-Level Representation Learning
abstract
Long-range and short-range temporal modeling are two complementary and crucial aspects of video recognition. Most of the state-of-the-arts focus on short-range spatio-temporal modeling and then average multiple snippet-level predictions to yield the final video-level prediction. Thus, their video-level prediction does not consider spatio-temporal features of how video evolves along the temporal dimension. In this paper, we introduce a novel Dynamic Segment Aggregation (DSA) module to capture relationship among snippets. To be more specific, we attempt to generate a dynamic kernel for a convolutional operation to aggregate long-range temporal information among adjacent snippets adaptively. The DSA module is an efficient plug-and-play module and can be combined with the off-the-shelf clip-based models (i.e., TSM, I3D) to perform powerful long-range modeling with minimal overhead. The final video architecture, coined as DSANet. We conduct extensive experiments on several video recognition benchmarks (i.e., Mini-Kinetics-200, Kinetics-400, Something-Something V1 and ActivityNet) to show its superiority. Our proposed DSA module is shown to benefit various video recognition models significantly. For example, equipped with DSA modules, the top-1 accuracy of I3D ResNet-50 is improved from 74.9% to 78.2% on Kinetics-400. Codes are available at https://github.com/whwu95/DSANet.
Yanwu Xu 0003, Xiao Tan 0001, Dongliang He, Zhikang Zou, Jin Ye 0006, Mingde Yao, Zichao Dong, Yifeng Shi
ACM Multimedia6
2021 Towards Adversarial Patch Analysis and Certified Defense against Crowd Counting
abstract
Crowd counting has drawn much attention due to its importance in safety-critical surveillance systems. Especially, deep neural network (DNN) methods have significantly reduced estimation errors for crowd counting missions. Recent studies have demonstrated that DNNs are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, i.e., normal images with human-imperceptible perturbations could mislead DNNs to make false predictions. In this work, we propose a robust attack strategy called Adversarial Patch Attack with Momentum (APAM) to systematically evaluate the robustness of crowd counting models, where the attacker's goal is to create an adversarial perturbation that severely degrades their performances, thus leading to public safety accidents (e.g., stampede accidents). Especially, the proposed attack leverages the extreme-density background information of input images to generate robust adversarial patches via a series of transformations (e.g., interpolation, rotation, etc.). We observe that by perturbing less than 6% of image pixels, our attacks severely degrade the performance of crowd counting systems, both digitally and physically. To better enhance the adversarial robustness of crowd counting models, we propose the first regression model-based Randomized Ablation (RA), which is more sufficient than Adversarial Training (ADT) (Mean Absolute Error of RA is 5 lower than ADT on clean samples and 30 lower than ADT on adversarial examples). Extensive experiments on five crowd counting models demonstrate the effectiveness and generality of the proposed method.
Zhikang Zou, Pan Zhou 0001, Xiaoqing Ye, Binghui Wang, Ang Li 0005
ACM Multimedia2
2021 Coarse to Fine: Domain Adaptive Crowd Counting via Adversarial Scoring Network
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Recent deep networks have convincingly demonstrated high capability in crowd counting, which is a critical task attracting widespread attention due to its various industrial applications. Despite such progress, trained data-dependent models usually can not generalize well to unseen scenarios because of the inherent domain shift. To facilitate this issue, this paper proposes a novel adversarial scoring network (ASNet) to gradually bridge the gap across domains from coarse to fine granularity. In specific, at the coarse-grained stage, we design a dual-discriminator strategy to adapt source domain to be close to the targets from the perspectives of both global and local feature space via adversarial learning. The distributions between two domains can thus be aligned roughly. At the fine-grained stage, we explore the transferability of source characteristics by scoring how similar the source samples are to target ones from multiple levels based on generative probability derived from coarse stage. Guided by these hierarchical scores, the transferable source features are properly selected to enhance the knowledge transfer during the adaptation process. With the coarse-to-fine design, the generalization bottleneck induced from the domain discrepancy can be effectively alleviated. Three sets of migration experiments show that the proposed methods achieve state-of-the-art counting performance compared with major unsupervised methods.
Zhikang Zou, Xiaoye Qu, Pan Zhou 0001, Shuangjie Xu, Xiaoqing Ye, Jin Ye 0006
ACM Multimedia1
2020 Crowd Counting via Hierarchical Scale Recalibration Network
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The task of crowd counting is extremely challenging due to complicated difficulties, especially the huge variation in vision scale.Previous works tend to adopt a naive concatenation of multiscale information to tackle it, while the scale shifts between the feature maps are ignored.In this paper, we propose a novel Hierarchical Scale Recalibration Network (HSRNet), which addresses the above issues by modeling rich contextual dependencies and recalibrating multiple scale-associated information.Specifically, a Scale Focus Module (SFM) first integrates global context into local features by modeling the semantic inter-dependencies along channel and spatial dimensions sequentially.In order to reallocate channel-wise feature responses, a Scale Recalibration Module (SRM) adopts a step-bystep fusion to generate final density maps.Furthermore, we propose a novel Scale Consistency loss to constrain that the scale-associated outputs are coherent with groundtruth of different scales.With the proposed modules, our approach can ignore various noises selectively and focus on appropriate crowd scales automatically.Extensive experiments on crowd counting datasets (ShanghaiTech, MALL, WorldEXPO'10, and UCSD) show that our HSRNet can deliver superior results over all state-of-the-art approaches.More remarkably, we extend experiments on an extra vehicle dataset , whose results indicate that the proposed model is generalized to other applications.
Zhikang Zou, Yifan Liu 0004, Shuangjie Xu, Wei Wei 0002, Shiping Wen 0001, Pan Zhou 0001
ECAI1
2020 HANet: Hybrid Attention-aware Network for Crowd Counting
abstract
An essential yet challenging issue in crowd counting is the diverse background variations under complicated real-life environments, which makes attention based methods favorable in recent years. However, most existing methods only rely on first-order attention schemes (e.g. 2D position-wise attention), while ignoring the higher-order information within the congested scenes completely. In this paper, we propose a hybrid attention-aware network (HANet) with a high-order attention module (HAM) and an adaptive compensation loss (ACLoss) to tackle this problem. On the one hand, the HAM applies 3D attention to capture the subtle discriminative features around each people in the crowd. On the other hand, with the distributed supervision, the ACLoss exploits the prior knowledge from higher-level stages to guide the density map prediction at a lower level. The proposed HANet is then established with HAM and ACLoss working as different roles and promoting each other. Extensive experimental results show the superiority of our HANet against the state-of-the-arts on three challenging benchmarks.
Xinxing Su, Yuchen Yuan, Xiangbo Su, Zhikang Zou, Shilei Wen, Pan Zhou 0001
ICPR4
2020 Fine-grained Iterative Attention Network for Temporal Language Localization in Videos
abstract
Temporal language localization in videos aims to ground one video segment in an untrimmed video based on a given sentence query. To tackle this task, designing an effective model to extract ground-ing information from both visual and textual modalities is crucial. However, most previous attempts in this field only focus on unidirectional interactions from video to query, which emphasizes which words to listen and attends to sentence information via vanilla soft attention, but clues from query-by-video interactions implying where to look are not taken into consideration. In this paper, we propose a Fine-grained Iterative Attention Network (FIAN) that consists of an iterative attention module for bilateral query-video in-formation extraction. Specifically, in the iterative attention module, each word in the query is first enhanced by attending to each frame in the video through fine-grained attention, then video iteratively attends to the integrated query. Finally, both video and query information is utilized to provide robust cross-modal representation for further moment localization. In addition, to better predict the target segment, we propose a content-oriented localization strategy instead of applying recent anchor-based localization. We evaluate the proposed method on three challenging public benchmarks: ActivityNet Captions, TACoS, and Charades-STA. FIAN significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches.
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