Reconstructing high dynamic range (HDR) images from low dynamic range (LDR) bursts plays an essential role in the computational photography. Impressive progress has been achieved by learning-based algorithms which require LDR-HDR image pairs. However, these pairs are hard to obtain, which motivates researchers to delve into the problem of annotation-efficient HDR image reconstructing: how to achieve comparable performance with limited HDR ground truths (GTs). This work attempts to address this problem from the view of semi-supervised learning where a teacher model generates pseudo HDR GTs for the LDR samples without GTs and a student model learns from pseudo GTs. Nevertheless, the confirmation bias, i.e., the student may learn from the artifacts in pseudo HDR GTs, presents an impediment. To remove this impediment, an uncertainty-based masking process is proposed to discard unreliable parts of pseudo GTs at both pixel and patch levels, then the student can learn from the trusted areas. With this novel masking process, our semi-supervised HDR reconstructing method not only outperforms previous annotation-efficient algorithms, but also achieves comparable performance with up-to-date fully-supervised methods by using only 6.7% HDR GTs.

To accurately predict short-term traffic flow, considering the time characteristics of traffic flow and combining the characteristics of DFT, KNN and LSTM models, a DFT-KNN-LSTM hybrid model is proposed. The model first uses the DFT method to decompose the traffic flow data into trend term and residual term data to remove the influence of residual term data on traffic flow prediction. Second, the KNN algorithm based on Euclidean distance is used to screen the traffic flow data with high similarity between K days and target forecast days in the data. Furthermore, the filtered data are used as the training set, and the target day’s data are used as the test set, which is substituted into the LSTM model for prediction; finally, the Mean Absolute Error (MAE), Mean Square Error (MSE) and Root Mean Square Error (RMSE) were used as evaluation indexes to analyze and evaluate the prediction results. Taking the traffic flow data collected from Xizhaosi Street in the Dongcheng District of Beijing as an example, the prediction performance of the combined model is analyzed. The results show that compared with other commonly used prediction models, the MSE of the DFT-KNN-LSTM combined model is improved by 3.24–19.05%, RMSE is improved by 1.54–9.98%, and MAE is improved by 3.05–8.97%. It can be seen that the combined model has better prediction performance than the traditional single model and other combined models, and can be better applied to short-term traffic flow prediction.

Class-agnostic motion prediction methods aim to comprehend motion within open-world scenarios, holding significance for autonomous driving systems. However, training a high-performance model in a fully-supervised manner always requires substantial amounts of manually annotated data, which can be both expensive and time-consuming to obtain. To address this challenge, our study explores the potential of semi-supervised learning (SSL) for class-agnostic motion prediction. Our SSL framework adopts a consistency-based self-training paradigm, enabling the model to learn from unlabeled data by generating pseudo labels through test-time inference. To improve the quality of pseudo labels, we propose a novel motion selection and re-generation module. This module effectively selects reliable pseudo labels and re-generates unreliable ones. Furthermore, we propose two data augmentation strategies: temporal sampling and BEVMix. These strategies facilitate consistency regularization in SSL. Experiments conducted on nuScenes demonstrate that our SSL method can surpass the self-supervised approach by a large margin by utilizing only a tiny fraction of labeled data. Furthermore, our method exhibits comparable performance to weakly and some fully supervised methods. These results highlight the ability of our method to strike a favorable balance between annotation costs and performance. Code will be available at https://github.com/kwwcv/SSMP.

Current 3D stylization methods often assume static scenes, which violates the dynamic nature of our real world. To address this limitation, we present S-DyRF, a reference-based spatio-temporal stylization method for dynamic neu-ral radiance fields. However, stylizing dynamic 3D scenes is inherently challenging due to the limited availability of stylized reference images along the temporal axis. Our key insight lies in introducing additional temporal cues besides the provided reference. To this end, we generate temporal pseudo-references from the given stylized reference. These pseudo-references facilitate the propagation of style infor-mation from the reference to the entire dynamic 3D scene. For coarse style transfer, we enforce novel views and times to mimic the style details present in pseudo-references at the feature level. To preserve high-frequency details, we create a collection of stylized temporal pseudo-rays from temporal pseudo-references. These pseudo-rays serve as detailed and explicit stylization guidance for achieving fine style trans-fer. Experiments on both synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that our method yields plausible stylized re-sults of space-time view synthesis on dynamic 3D scenes.

The perception of motion behavior in a dynamic environment holds significant importance for autonomous driving systems, wherein class-agnostic motion prediction methods directly predict the motion of the entire point cloud. While most existing methods rely on fully-supervised learning, the manual labeling of point cloud data is laborious and time-consuming. Therefore, several annotation-efficient methods have been proposed to address this challenge. Al-though effective, these methods rely on weak annotations or additional multi-modal data like images, and the potential benefits inherent in the point cloud sequence are still underexplored. To this end, we explore the feasibility of self-supervised motion prediction with only unlabeled Li-DAR point clouds. Initially, we employ an optimal transport solver to establish coarse correspondences between current and future point clouds as the coarse pseudo motion labels. Training models directly using such coarse labels leads to noticeable spatial and temporal prediction in-consistencies. To mitigate these issues, we introduce three simple spatial and temporal regularization losses, which fa-cilitate the self-supervised training process effectively. Experimental results demonstrate the significant superiority of our approach over the state-of-the-art self-supervised methods. Code will be available at https://github.com/kwwcv/SelfMotion.

3D content creation has long been a complex and time-consuming process, often requiring specialized skills and resources. While re- cent advancements have allowed for text-guided 3D object and scene generation, they still fall short of providing sufficient control over the generation process, leading to a gap between the user’s creative vision and the generated results. In this paper, we present iControl3D, a novel interactive system that empowers users to gen- erate and render customizable 3D scenes with precise control. To this end, a 3D creator interface has been developed to provide users with fine-grained control over the creation process. Technically, we leverage 3D meshes as an intermediary proxy to iteratively merge individual 2D diffusion-generated images into a cohesive and uni- fied 3D scene representation. To ensure seamless integration of 3D meshes, we propose to perform boundary-aware depth alignment before fusing the newly generated mesh with the existing one in 3D space. Additionally, to effectively manage depth discrepancies between remote content and foreground, we propose to model re- mote content separately with an environment map instead of 3D meshes. Finally, our neural rendering interface enables users to build a radiance field of their scene online and navigate the entire scene. Extensive experiments have been conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness of our system. The code will be made available at https://github.com/xingyi- li/iControl3D.

Large-scale datasets with point-wise semantic and instance labels are crucial to 3D instance segmentation but also expensive. To leverage unlabeled data, previous semi-supervised 3D instance segmentation approaches have explored self-training frameworks, which rely on high-quality pseudo labels for consistency regularization. They intuitively utilize both instance and semantic pseudo labels in a joint learning manner. However, semantic pseudo labels contain numerous noise derived from the imbalanced category distribution and natural confusion of similar but distinct categories, which leads to severe collapses in self-training. Motivated by the observation that 3D instances are non-overlapping and spatially separable, we ask whether we can solely rely on instance consistency regularization for improved semi-supervised segmentation. To this end, we propose a novel self-training network InsTeacher3D to explore and exploit pure instance knowledge from unlabeled data. We first build a parallel base 3D instance segmentation model DKNet, which distinguishes each instance from the others via discriminative instance kernels without reliance on semantic segmentation. Based on DKNet, we further design a novel instance consistency regularization framework to generate and leverage high-quality instance pseudo labels. Experimental results on multiple large-scale datasets show that the InsTeacher3D significantly outperforms prior state-of-the-art semi-supervised approaches.

Cropping box regression algorithms re-frame the images with predicted cropping boxes for better composition quality, which can save considerable manpower and time for massive image retouching work. Yet, recent learning-based cropping box regression algorithms require expert annotations, which makes the scale of training limited. This consequently incurs a performance bottleneck. To address this issue, previous works seek the help from auxiliary datasets of related tasks,e.g., the composition classification. However, the domain gap between related tasks and the likewise restricted scale of auxiliary datasets are still limiting factors. Hence, our work provides a novel semi-supervised framework that can learn better re-framing knowledge with unlimited unlabeled data. We make use of the unlabeled data via pseudo-labeling, where the model learns from the pseudo labels generated from a temporal ensemble version of itself. To prevent the model learns from its own mistakes,a.k.a. the problem of confirmation bias, we propose to rectify the mistakes by fusing multiple candidate pseudo labels into the better ones. The fusion procedure is based on the uncertainty estimation for each boundary of the candidate cropping boxes. The multiple candidates are from the proposed aesthetic region proposal network. Extensive experimental results explain how the uncertainty-based pseudo label fusion procedure overcomes the confirmation bias and demonstrate the superiority of our semi-supervised cropping box regression framework.