Jinfa Huang

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2026 QuoTA: Query-oriented Token Assignment via CoT Query Decouple for Long Video Comprehension
abstract
Recent advances in long video understanding typically mitigate visual redundancy through visual token pruning based on attention distribution. However, while existing methods employ post-hoc low-response token pruning in decoder layers, they overlook the input-level semantic correlation between visual tokens and instructions (query). In this paper, we propose QuoTA, an ante-hoc training-free modular that extends existing large video-language models (LVLMs) for visual token assignment based on query-oriented frame-level importance assessment. The query-oriented token selection is crucial as it aligns visual processing with task-specific requirements, optimizing token budget utilization while preserving semantically relevant content. Specifically, (i) QuoTA strategically allocates frame-level importance scores based on query relevance, enabling one-time visual token assignment before cross-modal interactions in decoder layers, (ii) we decouple the query through Chain-of-Thoughts reasoning to facilitate more precise LVLM-based frame importance scoring, and (iii) QuoTA offers a plug-and-play functionality that extends to existing LVLMs. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that implementing QuoTA with LLaVA-Video-7B yields an average performance improvement of 3.2% across six benchmarks (including Video-MME and MLVU) while operating within an identical visual token budget as the baseline.
Yongdong Luo, Wang Chen 0005, Weizhong Huang, Shukang Yin, Haojia Lin, Jinfa Huang, Chaoyou Fu, Jiayi Ji, Xiawu Zheng, Jiebo Luo 0001
AAAI6
2026 Next-Gen AIGC: a review of multimodal foundation models for text-to-media innovations
Jingru Fan, Jinfa Huang, Jinyuan Fu, Tao Mei 0001, Li Yuan 0007, Jiebo Luo 0001
Frontiers Comput. Sci.3
2026 MoE-LLaVA: Mixture of Experts for Large Vision-Language Models
abstract
Recently, remarkable progress has been made in scaling up Large Language Models (LLMs) through the use of the sparse Mixture-of-Expert (MoE) layers without significantly increasing computational cost. However, the transition from a pre-trained LLM to a sparse Large Vision-Language Model (LVLM) with MoE remains an open challenge. Directly fine-tuning an LLM to a sparse LVLM often leads to training collapse, characterized by (1) a large modality feature distribution gap and (2) expert load imbalance. This paper proposes a three-stage decoupled weight training process. In the first two stages, the model learns to adapt the LLM to an LVLM. In the third stage, the FFN weights from the second stage are used as lossless initialization for expert weights, effectively constructing a sparse model with a vast number of parameters while maintaining constant computational cost. Through extensive ablation experiments, we derive three empirical guidelines and propose a sparse LVLM termedMoE-LLaVA. MoE-LLaVA is a MoE-based sparse LVLM architecture, which uniquely activates only the top-$k$experts through routers during deployment, keeping the remaining experts inactive. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MoE-LLaVA outperforms LLaVA-1.5-7B with an average improvement of 4.6 across nine visual understanding benchmarks. Notably, with only 2.2B active parameters, our MoE-LLaVA shows comparable result with LLaVA-1.5-13B (87.0 vs. 85.9) on POPE benchmark. Our work establishes a baseline for sparse LVLMs and provides empirical guidelines for exploring the sparse LVLMs. Our code is available at:https://github.com/PKU-YuanGroup/MoE-LLaVA.
Bin Lin 0014, Zhenyu Tang 0004, Jinfa Huang, Junwu Zhang, Yatian Pang, Peng Jin 0001, Munan Ning, Jiebo Luo 0001, Li Yuan 0007
IEEE Trans. Multim.4
2025 MUSE: Mamba Is Efficient Multi-scale Learner for Text-video Retrieval
abstract
Text-Video Retrieval (TVR) aims to align and associate relevant video content with corresponding natural language queries. Most existing TVR methods are based on large-scale pre-trained vision-language models (e.g., CLIP). However, due to CLIP's inherent plain structure, few TVR methods explore the multi-scale representations which offer richer contextual information for a more thorough understanding. To this end, we propose MUSE, a multi-scale mamba with linear computational complexity for efficient cross-resolution modeling. Specifically, the multi-scale representations are generated by applying a feature pyramid on the last single-scale feature map. Then, we employ the Mamba structure as an efficient multi-scale learner to jointly learn scale-wise representations. Furthermore, we conduct comprehensive studies to investigate different model structures and designs. Extensive results on three popular benchmarks have validated the superiority of MUSE.
Meng Cao 0002, Jinfa Huang, Ruyang Liu, Peng Jin 0001, Ge Li 0002, Xiaodan Liang
AAAI3
2025 Evolver: Chain-of-Evolution Prompting to Boost Large Multimodal Models for Hateful Meme Detection
abstract
Hateful memes continuously evolve as new ones emerge by blending progressive cultural ideas, rendering existing methods that rely on extensive training obsolete or ineffective. In this work, we propose Evolver, which incorporates Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) via Chain-of-Evolution (CoE) Prompting, by integrating the evolution attribute and in-context information of memes. Specifically, Evolver simulates the evolving and expressing process of memes and reasons through LMMs in a step-by-step manner using an evolutionary pair mining module, an evolutionary information extractor, and a contextual relevance amplifier. Extensive experiments on public FHM, MAMI, and HarM datasets show that CoE prompting can be incorporated into existing LMMs to improve their performance. More encouragingly, it can serve as an interpretive tool to promote the understanding of the evolution of memes.
Jinfa Huang, Jinsheng Pan, Zhongwei Wan, Hanjia Lyu, Jiebo Luo 0001
COLING1
2025 Identity-Preserving Text-to-Video Generation by Frequency Decomposition
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Identity-Preserving text-to-video (IPT2V) generation aims to create high-fidelity videos with consistent human identity. It is an important task in video generation but remains an open problem for generative models. This paper pushes the technical frontier of IPT2V in two directions that have not been resolved in the literature: (1) A tuning-free pipeline without tedious case-by-case finetuning, and (2) A frequency-aware heuristic identity-preserving Diffusion Transformer (DiT)-based control scheme. To achieve these goals, we propose ConsisID, a tuning-free DiT-based controllable IPT2V model to keep human-identity consistent in the generated video. Inspired by prior findings in frequency analysis of vision/diffusion transformers, it employs identity-control signals base on frequency domain, since facial features can be decomposed into low-frequency global features (e.g., profile, proportions) and high-frequency intrinsic features (e.g., identity markers that remain unaffected by pose changes). Extensive experiments demonstrate that our frequency-aware heuristic scheme provides an optimal control solution for DiT-based models, making strides towards more effective IPT2V.
Shenghai Yuan 0002, Jinfa Huang, Xianyi He, Yunyang Ge, Yujun Shi, Liuhan Chen, Jiebo Luo 0001, Li Yuan 0007
CVPR2
2025 TACO: Enhancing Multimodal In-context Learning via Task Mapping-Guided Sequence Configuration
abstract
Multimodal in-context learning (ICL) has emerged as a key mechanism for harnessing the capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs).However, its effectiveness remains highly sensitive to the quality of input ICL sequences, particularly for tasks involving complex reasoning or open-ended generation.A major limitation is our limited understanding of how LVLMs actually exploit these sequences during inference.To bridge this gap, we systematically interpret multimodal ICL through the lens of task mapping, which reveals how local and global relationships within and among demonstrations guide model reasoning.Building on this insight, we present TACO, a lightweight transformer-based model equipped with task-aware attention that dynamically configures ICL sequences.By injecting task-mapping signals into the autoregressive decoding process, TACO creates a bidirectional synergy between sequence construction and task reasoning.Experiments on five LVLMs and nine datasets demonstrate that TACO consistently surpasses baselines across diverse ICL tasks.These results position task mapping as a novel and valuable perspective for interpreting and improving multimodal ICL.
Yanshu Li, Jianjiang Yang, Tian Yun 0001, Pinyuan Feng, Jinfa Huang, Ruixiang Tang
EMNLP5
2025 Reti-Diff: Illumination Degradation Image Restoration with Retinex-based Latent Diffusion Model
abstract
Illumination degradation image restoration (IDIR) techniques aim to improve the visibility of degraded images and mitigate the adverse effects of deteriorated illumination. Among these algorithms, diffusion-based models (DM) have shown promising performance but are often burdened by heavy computational demands and pixel misalignment issues when predicting the image-level distribution. To tackle these problems, we propose to leverage DM within a compact latent space to generate concise guidance priors and introduce a novel solution called Reti-Diff for the IDIR task. Specifically, Reti-Diff comprises two significant components: the Retinex-based latent DM (RLDM) and the Retinex-guided transformer (RGformer). RLDM is designed to acquire Retinex knowledge, extracting reflectance and illumination priors to facilitate detailed reconstruction and illumination correction. RGformer subsequently utilizes these compact priors to guide the decomposition of image features into their respective reflectance and illumination components. Following this, RGformer further enhances and consolidates these decomposed features, resulting in the production of refined images with consistent content and robustness to handle complex degradation scenarios. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Reti-Diff outperforms existing methods on three IDIR tasks, as well as downstream applications.
Chunming He, Chengyu Fang 0001, Yulun Zhang 0001, Longxiang Tang, Jinfa Huang, Kai Li 0012, Zhenhua Guo 0001, Xiu Li 0001, Sina Farsiu
ICLR5
2025 CR2PQ: Continuous Relative Rotary Positional Query for Dense Visual Representation Learning
abstract
Dense visual contrastive learning (DRL) shows promise for learning localized information in dense prediction tasks, but struggles with establishing pixel/patch correspondence across different views (cross-contrasting). Existing methods primarily rely on self-contrasting the same view with variations, limiting input variance and hindering downstream performance. This paper delves into the mechanisms of self-contrasting and cross-contrasting, identifying the crux of the issue: transforming discrete positional embeddings to continuous representations. To address the correspondence problem, we propose a Continuous Relative Rotary Positional Query ({\mname}), enabling patch-level representation learning. Our extensive experiments on standard datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art (SOTA) results. Compared to the previous SOTA method (PQCL), our approach achieves significant improvements on COCO: with 300 epochs of pretraining, {\mname} obtains \textbf{3.4\%} mAP$^{bb}$ and \textbf{2.1\%} mAP$^{mk}$ improvements for detection and segmentation tasks, respectively. Furthermore, {\mname} exhibits faster convergence, achieving \textbf{10.4\%} mAP$^{bb}$ and \textbf{7.9\%} mAP$^{mk}$ improvements over SOTA with just 40 epochs of pretraining.
Shaofeng Zhang, Qiang Zhou 0001, Sitong Wu, Haoru Tan, Zhibin Wang 0004, Jinfa Huang, Junchi Yan
ICLR6
2025 Video-RAG: Visually-aligned Retrieval-Augmented Long Video Comprehension
abstract
Existing large video-language models (LVLMs) struggle to comprehend long videos correctly due to limited context. To address this problem, fine-tuning long-context LVLMs and employing GPT-based agents have emerged as promising solutions. However, fine-tuning LVLMs would require extensive high-quality data and substantial GPU resources, while GPT-based agents would rely on proprietary models (e.g., GPT-4o). In this paper, we propose Video Retrieval-Augmented Generation (Video-RAG), a training-free and cost-effective pipeline that employs visually-aligned auxiliary texts to help facilitate cross-modality alignment while providing additional information beyond the visual content. Specifically, we leverage open-source external tools to extract visually-aligned information from pure video data (e.g., audio, optical character, and object detection), and incorporate the extracted information into an existing LVLM as auxiliary texts, alongside video frames and queries, in a plug-and-play manner. Our Video-RAG offers several key advantages: (i) lightweight with low computing overhead due to single-turn retrieval; (ii) easy implementation and compatibility with any LVLM; and (iii) significant, consistent performance gains across long video understanding benchmarks, including Video-MME, MLVU, and LongVideoBench. Notably, our model demonstrates superior performance over proprietary models like Gemini-1.5-Pro and GPT-4o when utilized with a 72B model.
Yongdong Luo, Xiawu Zheng, Shukang Yin, Haojia Lin, Chaoyou Fu, Jinfa Huang, Jiayi Ji, Fei Chao 0001, Jiebo Luo 0001, Rongrong Ji
NeurIPS7
2025 OpenS2V-Nexus: A Detailed Benchmark and Million-Scale Dataset for Subject-to-Video Generation
abstract
Subject-to-Video (S2V) generation aims to create videos that faithfully incorporate reference content, providing enhanced flexibility in the production of videos. To establish the infrastructure for S2V generation, we propose OpenS2V-Nexus, consisting of (i) OpenS2V‑Eval, a fine‑grained benchmark, and (ii) OpenS2V‑5M, a million‑scale dataset.In contrast to existing S2V benchmarks inherited from VBench that focus on global and coarse-grained assessment of generated videos, OpenS2V-Eval focuses on the model's ability to generate subject-consistent videos with natural subject appearance and identity fidelity. For these purposes, OpenS2V-Eval introduces 180 prompts from seven major categories of S2V, which incorporate both real and synthetic test data. Furthermore, to accurately align human preferences with S2V benchmarks, we propose three automatic metrics, NexusScore, NaturalScore and GmeScore, to separately quantify subject consistency, naturalness, and text relevance in generated videos. Building on this, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of 18 representative S2V models, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses across different content. Moreover, we create the first open-source large-scale S2V generation dataset OpenS2V-5M, which consists of five million high-quality 720P subject-text-video triplets. Specifically, we ensure subject‐information diversity in our dataset by (1) segmenting subjects and building pairing information via cross‐video associations and (2) prompting GPT-4o on raw frames to synthesize multi-view representations. Through OpenS2V-Nexus, we deliver a robust infrastructure to accelerate future S2V generation research.
Shenghai Yuan 0002, Xianyi He, Yufan Deng, Jinfa Huang, Bin Lin 0014, Chongyang Ma, Jiebo Luo 0001, Li Yuan 0007
NeurIPS5
2025 Aligning, Autoencoding and Prompting Large Language Models for Novel Disease Reporting
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Given radiology images, automatic radiology report generation aims to produce informative text that reports diseases. It can benefit current clinical practice in diagnostic radiology. Existing methods typically rely on large-scale medical datasets annotated by clinicians to train desirable models. However, for novel diseases, sufficient training data are typically not available. We propose a prompt-based deep learning framework, i.e., PromptLLM, to align, autoencode, and prompt the (large) language model to generate reports for novel diseases accurately and efficiently. Our method includes three major steps: 1) aligning visual images and textual reports to learn general knowledge across modalities from diseases where labeled data are sufficient, 2) autoencoding the LLM using unlabeled data of novel diseases to learn the specific knowledge and writing styles of the novel disease, and 3) prompting the LLM with learned knowledge and writing styles to report the novel diseases contained in the radiology images. Through the above three steps, with limited labels on novel diseases, we show that PromptLLM can rapidly learn the corresponding knowledge for accurate novel disease reporting. The experiments on COVID-19 and diverse thorax diseases show that our approach, utilizing 1% of the training data, achieves desirable performance compared to previous methods. It shows that our approach allows us to relax the reliance on labeled data that is common to existing methods. It could have a real-world impact on data analysis during the early stages of novel diseases.
Xian Wu 0001, Jinfa Huang, Bang Yang, Kim Branson 0001, Patrick Schwab, Lei A. Clifton, Ping Zhang 0016, Jiebo Luo 0001, Yefeng Zheng 0001, David A. Clifton
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.3
2025 MagicTime: Time-Lapse Video Generation Models as Metamorphic Simulators
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Recent advances in text-to-video generation (T2V) have achieved remarkable success in synthesizing high-quality general videos from textual descriptions. A largely overlooked problem in T2V is that existing models have not adequately encoded physical knowledge of the real world, thus generated videos tend to have limited motion and poor variations. In this paper, we propose MagicTime, a metamorphic time-lapse video generation model, which learns real-world physics knowledge from time-lapse videos and implements metamorphic generation. First, we design a simple yet effective two-stage Magic Adaptive Strategy, encode more physical knowledge from metamorphic videos, and transform pre-trained T2V models to generate metamorphic videos. Second, we introduce a Dynamic Frames Extraction strategy to adapt to metamorphic time-lapse videos, which have a wider variation range and cover dramatic object metamorphic processes, thus embodying more physical knowledge than general videos. Finally, we introduce a Magic Text-Encoder to improve the understanding of metamorphic video prompts. Furthermore, we create a time-lapse video-text dataset called ChronoMagic, specifically curated to unlock the metamorphic video generation ability. Extensive experiments demonstrate the superiority and effectiveness of MagicTime for generating high-quality and dynamic metamorphic videos, suggesting time-lapse video generation is a promising path toward building metamorphic simulators of the physical world.
Shenghai Yuan 0002, Jinfa Huang, Yujun Shi, Yongqi Xu, Rui-Jie Zhu 0003, Bin Lin 0014, Xinhua Cheng, Li Yuan 0007, Jiebo Luo 0001
IEEE Trans. Pattern Anal. Mach. Intell.2
2025 GPT-4V(ision) as A Social Media Analysis Engine
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Recent research has shed light on the capabilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) across various general vision and language tasks. The performance of LMMs in specialized domains, such as social media, which integrates text, images, videos, and sometimes audio, remains an area of active interest. Effective analysis of such content requires models to interpret the complex interactions between different communication modalities and their influence on the conveyed message. This article explores GPT-4V(ision)’s performance in social multimedia analysis. We evaluate GPT-4V across five representative tasks: sentiment analysis, hate speech detection, fake news identification, demographic inference, and political ideology detection. Our approach includes a preliminary quantitative analysis for each task using existing benchmark datasets, followed by a review of the results and a selection of qualitative samples to demonstrate GPT-4V’s performance in multimodal social media content analysis. GPT-4V shows effectiveness in these tasks, exhibiting capabilities like joint image–text understanding, contextual and cultural awareness, and commonsense knowledge application. However, challenges persist, including struggles with multilingual social multimedia comprehension and difficulty in adapting to the latest social media trends. It also sometimes generates incorrect information about evolving knowledge of celebrities and politicians. This preliminary study aims to inform further research across disciplines, particularly in computational social science and social media studies. The findings highlight the potential of LMMs to enhance our understanding of social media content and its users through multimodal analysis. All images and prompts used in this study will be available at https://github.com/VIStA-H/GPT-4V_Social_Media .
Hanjia Lyu, Jinfa Huang, Daoan Zhang, Xinyi Mou, Jinsheng Pan, Zhengyuan Yang, Zhongyu Wei, Jiebo Luo 0001
ACM Trans. Intell. Syst. Technol.2
2024 Continuous-Multiple Image Outpainting in One-Step via Positional Query and A Diffusion-based Approach
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Image outpainting aims to generate the content of an input sub-image beyond its original boundaries. It is an important task in content generation yet remains an open problem for generative models. This paper pushes the technical frontier of image outpainting in two directions that have not been resolved in literature: 1) outpainting with arbitrary and continuous multiples (without restriction), and 2) outpainting in a single step (even for large expansion multiples). Moreover, we develop a method that does not depend on a pre-trained backbone network, which is in contrast commonly required by the previous SOTA outpainting methods. The arbitrary multiple outpainting is achieved by utilizing randomly cropped views from the same image during training to capture arbitrary relative positional information. Specifically, by feeding one view and positional embeddings as queries, we can reconstruct another view. At inference, we generate images with arbitrary expansion multiples by inputting an anchor image and its corresponding positional embeddings. The one-step outpainting ability here is particularly noteworthy in contrast to previous methods that need to be performed for $N$ times to obtain a final multiple which is $N$ times of its basic and fixed multiple. We evaluate the proposed approach (called PQDiff as we adopt a diffusion-based generator as our embodiment, under our proposed \textbf{P}ositional \textbf{Q}uery scheme) on public benchmarks, demonstrating its superior performance over state-of-the-art approaches. Specifically, PQDiff achieves state-of-the-art FID scores on the Scenery (\textbf{21.512}), Building Facades (\textbf{25.310}), and WikiArts (\textbf{36.212}) datasets. Furthermore, under the 2.25x, 5x and 11.7x outpainting settings, PQDiff only takes \textbf{40.6\%}, \textbf{20.3\%} and \textbf{10.2\%} of the time of the benchmark state-of-the-art (SOTA) method.
Shaofeng Zhang, Jinfa Huang, Qiang Zhou 0001, Zhibin Wang 0004, Fan Wang 0019, Jiebo Luo 0001, Junchi Yan
ICLR2
2024 ChronoMagic-Bench: A Benchmark for Metamorphic Evaluation of Text-to-Time-lapse Video Generation
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We propose a novel text-to-video (T2V) generation benchmark, ChronoMagic-Bench, to evaluate the temporal and metamorphic knowledge skills in time-lapse video generation of the T2V models (e.g. Sora and Lumiere). Compared to existing benchmarks that focus on visual quality and text relevance of generated videos, ChronoMagic-Bench focuses on the models’ ability to generate time-lapse videos with significant metamorphic amplitude and temporal coherence. The benchmark probes T2V models for their physics, biology, and chemistry capabilities, in a free-form text control. For these purposes, ChronoMagic-Bench introduces 1,649 prompts and real-world videos as references, categorized into four major types of time-lapse videos: biological, human creation, meteorological, and physical phenomena, which are further divided into 75 subcategories. This categorization ensures a comprehensive evaluation of the models’ capacity to handle diverse and complex transformations. To accurately align human preference on the benchmark, we introduce two new automatic metrics, MTScore and CHScore, to evaluate the videos' metamorphic attributes and temporal coherence. MTScore measures the metamorphic amplitude, reflecting the degree of change over time, while CHScore assesses the temporal coherence, ensuring the generated videos maintain logical progression and continuity. Based on the ChronoMagic-Bench, we conduct comprehensive manual evaluations of eighteen representative T2V models, revealing their strengths and weaknesses across different categories of prompts, providing a thorough evaluation framework that addresses current gaps in video generation research. More encouragingly, we create a large-scale ChronoMagic-Pro dataset, containing 460k high-quality pairs of 720p time-lapse videos and detailed captions. Each caption ensures high physical content and large metamorphic amplitude, which have a far-reaching impact on the video generation community. The source data and code are publicly available on https://pku-yuangroup.github.io/ChronoMagic-Bench.
Shenghai Yuan 0002, Jinfa Huang, Yongqi Xu, Yaoyang Liu, Shaofeng Zhang, Yujun Shi, Rui-Jie Zhu 0003, Xinhua Cheng, Jiebo Luo 0001, Li Yuan 0007
NeurIPS2
2023 Video-Text as Game Players: Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction for Cross-Modal Representation Learning
abstract
Contrastive learning-based video-language representation learning approaches, e.g., CLIP, have achieved outstanding performance, which pursue semantic interaction upon pre-defined video-text pairs. To clarify this coarse-grained global interaction and move a step further, we have to encounter challenging shell-breaking interactions for fine-grained cross-modal learning. In this paper, we creatively model video-text as game players with multivariate cooperative game theory to wisely handle the uncertainty during fine-grained semantic interaction with diverse granularity, flexible combination, and vague intensity. Concretely, we propose Hierarchical Banzhaf Interaction (HBI) to value possible correspondence between video frames and text words for sensitive and explainable cross-modal contrast. To efficiently realize the cooperative game of multiple video frames and multiple text words, the proposed method clusters the original video frames (text words) and computes the Banzhaf Interaction between the merged tokens. By stacking token merge modules, we achieve cooperative games at different semantic levels. Extensive experiments on commonly used text-video retrieval and video-question answering bench-marks with superior performances justify the efficacy of our HBI. More encouragingly, it can also serve as a visualization tool to promote the understanding of cross-modal interaction, which have a far-reaching impact on the community. Project page is available at https://jpthu17.github.io/HBI/.
Peng Jin 0001, Jinfa Huang, Pengfei Xiong, Shangxuan Tian, Chang Liu 0030, Xiangyang Ji, Li Yuan 0007, Jie Chen 0001
CVPR2
2023 Cross-Modality Time-Variant Relation Learning for Generating Dynamic Scene Graphs
abstract
Dynamic scene graphs generated from video clips could help enhance the semantic visual understanding in a wide range of challenging tasks such as environmental perception, autonomous navigation, and task planning of self-driving vehicles and mobile robots. In the process of temporal and spatial modeling during dynamic scene graph generation, it is particularly intractable to learn time-variant relations in dynamic scene graphs among frames. In this paper, we propose a Time-variant Relation-aware TRansformer (TR2), which aims to model the temporal change of relations in dynamic scene graphs. Explicitly, we leverage the difference of text embeddings of prompted sentences about relation labels as the supervision signal for relations. In this way, cross-modality feature guidance is realized for the learning of time-variant relations. Implicitly, we design a relation feature fusion module with a transformer and an additional message token that describes the difference between adjacent frames. Extensive experiments on the Action Genome dataset prove that our TR2 can effectively model the time-variant relations. TR2 significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods under two different settings by 2.1 % and 2.6% respectively.
Jinfa Huang, Can Zhang 0001, Zhidong Deng
ICRA2
2023 Text-Video Retrieval with Disentangled Conceptualization and Set-to-Set Alignment
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Text-video retrieval is a challenging cross-modal task, which aims to align visual entities with natural language descriptions. Current methods either fail to leverage the local details or are computationally expensive. What's worse, they fail to leverage the heterogeneous concepts in data. In this paper, we propose the Disentangled Conceptualization and Set-to-set Alignment (DiCoSA) to simulate the conceptualizing and reasoning process of human beings. For disentangled conceptualization, we divide the coarse feature into multiple latent factors related to semantic concepts. For set-to-set alignment, where a set of visual concepts correspond to a set of textual concepts, we propose an adaptive pooling method to aggregate semantic concepts to address the partial matching. In particular, since we encode concepts independently in only a few dimensions, DiCoSA is superior at efficiency and granularity, ensuring fine-grained interactions using a similar computational complexity as coarse-grained alignment. Extensive experiments on five datasets, including MSR-VTT, LSMDC, MSVD, ActivityNet, and DiDeMo, demonstrate that our method outperforms the existing state-of-the-art methods.
Peng Jin 0001, Hao Li 0073, Zesen Cheng, Jinfa Huang, Zhennan Wang 0001, Li Yuan 0007, Chang Liu 0030, Jie Chen 0001
IJCAI4
2023 Improving Scene Graph Generation with Superpixel-Based Interaction Learning
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Recent advances in Scene Graph Generation (SGG) typically model the relationships among entities utilizing box-level features from pre-defined detectors. We argue that an overlooked problem in SGG is the coarse-grained interactions between boxes, which inadequately capture contextual semantics for relationship modeling, practically limiting the development of the field. In this paper, we take the initiative to explore and propose a generic paradigm termed Superpixel-based Interaction Learning (SIL) to remedy coarse-grained interactions at the box level. It allows us to model fine-grained interactions at the superpixel level in SGG. Specifically, (i) we treat a scene as a set of points and cluster them into superpixels representing sub-regions of the scene. (ii) We explore intra-entity and cross-entity interactions among the superpixels to enrich fine-grained interactions between entities at an earlier stage. Extensive experiments on two challenging benchmarks (Visual Genome and Open Image V6) prove that our SIL enables fine-grained interaction at the superpixel level above previous box-level methods, and significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art methods across all metrics. More encouragingly, the proposed method can be applied to boost the performance of existing box-level approaches in a plug-and-play fashion. In particular, SIL brings an average improvement of 2.0% mR (even up to 3.4%) of baselines for the PredCls task on Visual Genome, which facilitates its integration into any existing box-level method.
Can Zhang 0001, Jinfa Huang, Botao Ren, Zhidong Deng
ACM Multimedia3
2023 Weakly-Supervised 3D Spatial Reasoning for Text-Based Visual Question Answering
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Text-based Visual Question Answering (TextVQA) aims to produce correct answers for given questions about the images with multiple scene texts. In most cases, the texts naturally attach to the surface of the objects. Therefore, spatial reasoning between texts and objects is crucial in TextVQA. However, existing approaches are constrained within 2D spatial information learned from the input images and rely on transformer-based architectures to reason implicitly during the fusion process. Under this setting, these 2D spatial reasoning approaches cannot distinguish the fine-grained spatial relations between visual objects and scene texts on the same image plane, thereby impairing the interpretability and performance of TextVQA models. In this paper, we introduce 3D geometric information into the spatial reasoning process to capture the contextual knowledge of key objects step-by-step. Specifically, (i) we propose a relation prediction module for accurately locating the region of interest of critical objects; (ii) we design a depth-aware attention calibration module for calibrating the OCR tokens' attention according to critical objects. Extensive experiments show that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on TextVQA and ST-VQA datasets. More encouragingly, our model surpasses others by clear margins of 5.7% and 12.1% on questions that involve spatial reasoning in TextVQA and ST-VQA valid split. Besides, we also verify the generalizability of our model on the text-based image captioning task.
Hao Li 0073, Jinfa Huang, Peng Jin 0001, Guoli Song, Qi Wu 0001, Jie Chen 0001
IEEE Trans. Image Process.2
2022 Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning for Compact Video-and-Language Representations
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Most video-and-language representation learning approaches employ contrastive learning, e.g., CLIP, to project the video and text features into a common latent space according to the semantic similarities of text-video pairs. However, such learned shared latent spaces are not often optimal, and the modality gap between visual and textual representation can not be fully eliminated. In this paper, we propose Expectation-Maximization Contrastive Learning (EMCL) to learn compact video-and-language representations. Specifically, we use the Expectation-Maximization algorithm to find a compact set of bases for the latent space, where the features could be concisely represented as the linear combinations of these bases. Such feature decomposition of video-and-language representations reduces the rank of the latent space, resulting in increased representing power for the semantics. Extensive experiments on three benchmark text-video retrieval datasets prove that our EMCL can learn more discriminative video-and-language representations than previous methods, and significantly outperform previous state-of-the-art methods across all metrics. More encouragingly, the proposed method can be applied to boost the performance of existing approaches either as a jointly training layer or an out-of-the-box inference module with no extra training, making it easy to be incorporated into any existing methods.
Peng Jin 0001, Jinfa Huang, Xian Wu 0001, Shen Ge, Guoli Song, David A. Clifton, Jie Chen 0001
NeurIPS2
2020 LDNN: Linguistic Knowledge Injectable Deep Neural Network for Group Cohesiveness Understanding
abstract
Group cohesiveness reflects the level of intimacy that people feel with each other, and the development of a dialogue robot that can understand group cohesiveness will lead to the promotion of human communication. However, group cohesiveness is a complex concept that is difficult to predict based only on image pixels. Inspired by the fact that humans intuitively associate linguistic knowledge accumulated in the brain with the visual images they see, we propose a linguistic knowledge injectable deep neural network (LDNN) that builds a visual model (visual LDNN) for predicting group cohesiveness that can automatically associate the linguistic knowledge hidden behind images. LDNN consists of a visual encoder and a language encoder, and applies domain adaptation and linguistic knowledge transition mechanisms to transform linguistic knowledge from a language model to the visual LDNN. We train LDNN by adding descriptions to the training and validation sets of the Group AFfect Dataset 3.0 (GAF 3.0), and test the visual LDNN without any description. Comparing visual LDNN with various fine-tuned DNN models and three state-of-the-art models in the test set, the results demonstrate that the visual LDNN not only improves the performance of the fine-tuned DNN model leading to an MSE very similar to the state-of-the-art model, but is also a practical and efficient method that requires relatively little preprocessing. Furthermore, ablation studies confirm that LDNN is an effective method to inject linguistic knowledge into visual models.
Yanan Wang 0002, Jinfa Huang, Gen Hattori, Yasuhiro Takishima, Shinya Wada, Rui Kimura, Satoshi Kurihara
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