Deep learning models, particularly those based on transformers, often employ numerous stacked structures, which possess identical architectures and perform similar functions. While effective, this stacking paradigm leads to a substantial increase in the number of parameters, posing challenges for practical applications. In today's landscape of increasingly large models, stacking depth can even reach dozens, further exacerbating this issue. To mitigate this problem, we introduce LORS (LOw-rank Residual Structure). LORS allows stacked modules to share the majority of parameters, requiring a much smaller number of unique ones per module to match or even surpass the performance of using entirely distinct ones, thereby significantly reducing parameter usage. We validate our method by applying it to the stacked decoders of a query-based object detector, and conduct extensive experiments on the widely used MS COCO dataset. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our method, as even with a 70% reduction in the parameters of the decoder, our method still enables the model to achieve comparable or even better performance than its original.

Recently, deep learning methods have shown promising results in point cloud compression. However, previous octree-based approaches either lack sufficient context or have high decoding complexity (e.g. > 900s). To address this problem, we propose a sufficient yet efficient context model and design an efficient deep learning codec for point clouds. Specifically, we first propose a segment-constrained multi-group coding strategy to exploit the autoregressive context while maintaining decoding efficiency. Then, we propose a dual transformer architecture to utilize the dependency of current node on its ancestors and siblings. We also propose a random-masking pre-train method to enhance our model. Experimental results show that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance for both lossy and lossless point cloud compression, and saves a significant amount of decoding time compared with previous octree-based SOTA compression methods.

LiDAR point cloud compression is important for autonomous driving as it consumes a lot of storage and bandwidth. Although the fusion of camera and LiDAR for vision perception has been well studied, it remains unexplored that how we can improve the compression of LiDAR point cloud data using cross-modal information from cameras. In this paper’ we propose a multi-modality compression framework for LiDAR point cloud by exploiting the depth information predicted from its paired image. To the best of our knowledge’ our model is the first multi-modality compression framework for point cloud. Specifically’ we first represent point cloud based on octrees to reduce spatial redundancy. Then’ we propose a cross-modal fusion structure to improve the compression of these octrees’ with depth distribution extracted from the camera pixels and acts as side information. Compared to previous state-of-the-art (SOTA) method, our approach obtains up to 8.10% compression rate gain for LiDAR point cloud compression.

Understanding realistic visual scene images together with language descriptions is a fundamental task towards generic visual understanding. Previous works have shown compelling comprehensive results by building hierarchical structures for visual scenes (e.g., scene graphs) and natural languages (e.g., dependency trees), individually. However, how to construct a joint vision-language (VL) structure has barely been investigated. More challenging but worthwhile, we introduce a new task that targets on inducing such a joint VL structure in an unsupervised manner. Our goal is to bridge the visual scene graphs and linguistic dependency trees seamlessly. Due to the lack of VL structural data, we start by building a new dataset VLParse. Rather than using labor-intensive labeling from scratch, we propose an automatic alignment procedure to produce coarse structures followed by human refinement to produce high-quality ones. Moreover, we benchmark our dataset by proposing a contrastive learning (CL)-based framework VLGAE, short for Vision-Language Graph Autoencoder. Our model obtains superior performance on two derived tasks, i.e., language grammar induction and VL phrase grounding. Ablations show the effectiveness of both visual cues and dependency relationships on fine-grained VL structure construction.