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Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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DiN: Diffusion Model for Robust Medical VQA with Semantic Noisy Labels

Erjian Guo, Zhen Zhao, Zicheng Wang, Tong Chen, Yunyi Liu, Luping Zhou

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Medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) systems benefit the interpretation of medical images containing critical clinical information. However, the challenge of noisy labels and limited high-quality datasets remains underexplored. To address this, we establish the first benchmark for noisy labels in Med-VQA by simulating human mislabeling with semantically designed noise types. More importantly, we introduce the DiN framework, which leverages a diffusion model to handle noisy labels in Med-VQA. Unlike the dominant classification-based VQA approaches that directly predict answers, our Answer Diffuser (AD) module employs a coarse-to-fine process, refining answer candidates with a diffusion model for improved accuracy. The Answer Condition Generator (ACG) further enhances this process by generating task-specific conditional information via integrating answer embeddings with fused image-question features. To address label noise, our Noisy Label Refinement(NLR) module introduces a robust loss function and dynamic answer adjustment to further boost the performance of the AD module. Our DiN framework consistently outperforms existing methods across multiple benchmarks with varying noise levels.

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DiGIT: Multi-Dilated Gated Encoder and Central-Adjacent Region Integrated Decoder for Temporal Action Detection Transformer

Ho-Joong Kim, Yearang Lee, Jung-Ho Hong, Seong-Whan Lee

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In this paper, we examine a key limitation in query-based detectors for temporal action detection (TAD), which arises from their direct adaptation of originally designed architectures for object detection. Despite the effectiveness of the existing models, they struggle to fully address the unique challenges of TAD, such as the redundancy in multi-scale features and the limited ability to capture sufficient temporal context. To address these issues, we propose a multi-dilated gated encoder and central-adjacent region integrated decoder for temporal action detection transformer (DiGIT). Our approach replaces the existing encoder that consists of multi-scale deformable attention and feedforward network with our multi-dilated gated encoder. Our proposed encoder reduces the redundant information caused by multi-level features while maintaining the ability to capture fine-grained and long-range temporal information. Furthermore, we introduce a central-adjacent region integrated decoder that leverages a more comprehensive sampling strategy for deformable cross-attention to capture the essential information. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DiGIT achieves state-of-the-art performance on THUMOS14, ActivityNet v1.3, and HACS-Segment.

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DiG: Scalable and Efficient Diffusion Models with Gated Linear Attention

Lianghui Zhu, Zilong Huang, Bencheng Liao, Jun Hao Liew, Hanshu Yan, Jiashi FENG, Xinggang Wang

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Diffusion models with large-scale pre-training have achieved significant success in the field of visual content generation, particularly exemplified by Diffusion Transformers (DiT). However, DiT models have faced challenges with quadratic complexity efficiency, especially when handling long sequences. In this paper, we aim to incorporate the sub-quadratic modeling capability of Gated Linear Attention (GLA) into the 2D diffusion backbone. Specifically, we introduce Diffusion Gated Linear Attention Transformers (DiG), a simple, adoptable solution with minimal parameter overhead. We offer two variants, i.e., a plain and U-shape architecture, showing superior efficiency and competitive effectiveness. In addition to superior performance to DiT and other sub-quadratic-time diffusion models at 256x256 resolution, DiG demonstrates greater efficiency than these methods starting from a 512 resolution. Specifically, DiG-S/2 is 2.5x faster and saves 75.7% GPU memory compared to DiT-S/2 at a 1792 resolution. Additionally, DiG-XL/2 is 4.2x faster than the Mamba-based model at a 1024 resolution and 1.8x faster than DiT with FlashAttention-2 at a 2048 resolution. The code is released at https://github.com/hustvl/DiG.

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DiET-GS: Diffusion Prior and Event Stream-Assisted Motion Deblurring 3D Gaussian Splatting

Seungjun Lee, Gim Hee Lee

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Reconstructing sharp 3D representations from blurry multi-view images are long-standing problem in computer vision. Recent works attempt to enhance high-quality novel view synthesis from the motion blur by leveraging event-based cameras, benefiting from high dynamic range and microsecond temporal resolution. However, they often reach sub-optimal visual quality in either restoring inaccurate color or losing fine-grained details. In this paper, we present DiET-GS, a diffusion prior and event stream-assisted motion deblurring 3DGS. Our framework effectively leverages blur-free event streams and diffusion prior in a two-stage training strategy. Specifically, we introduce the novel framework to constraint 3DGS with event double integral, achieving both accurate color and well-defined details. Additionally, we propose a simple technique to leverage diffusion prior to further enhance the edge details. Qualitative and quantitative results on both synthetic and real-world data demonstrate that our DiET-GS is capable of producing better quality of novel views compared to the existing baselines. The project page link is attached in main paper.

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DiC: Rethinking Conv3x3 Designs in Diffusion Models

Yuchuan Tian, Jing Han, Chengcheng Wang, Yuchen Liang, Chao Xu, Hanting Chen

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Diffusion models have shown exceptional performance in visual generation tasks. Recently, these models have shifted from traditional U-Shaped CNN-Attention hybrid structures to fully transformer-based isotropic architectures. While these transformers exhibit strong scalability and performance, their reliance on complicated self-attention operation results in slow inference speeds. Contrary to these works, we rethink one of the simplest yet fastest module in deep learning, 3x3 Convolution, to construct a scaled-up purely convolutional diffusion model. We first discover that an Encoder-Decoder Hourglass design outperforms scalable isotropic architectures for Conv3x3, but still under-performing our expectation. Further improving the architecture, we introduce sparse skip connections to reduce redundancy and improve scalability. Based on the architecture, we introduce conditioning improvements including stage-specific embeddings, mid-block condition injection, and conditional gating. These improvements lead to our proposed Diffusion CNN (DiC), which serves as a swift yet competitive diffusion architecture baseline. Experiments on various scales and settings show that DiC surpasses existing diffusion transformers by considerable margins in terms of performance while keeping a good speed advantage. Project page: https://github.com/YuchuanTian/DiC

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DexHandDiff: Interaction-aware Diffusion Planning for Adaptive Dexterous Manipulation

Zhixuan Liang, Yao Mu, Yixiao Wang, Tianxing Chen, Wenqi Shao, Wei Zhan, Masayoshi Tomizuka, Ping Luo, Mingyu Ding

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Dexterous manipulation with contact-rich interactions is crucial for advanced robotics. While recent diffusion-based planning approaches show promise for simple manipulation tasks, they often produce unrealistic ghost states (e.g., the object automatically moves without hand contact) or lack adaptability when handling complex sequential interactions. In this work, we introduce DexHandDiff, an interaction-aware diffusion planning framework for adaptive dexterous manipulation. DexHandDiff models joint state-action dynamics through a dual-phase diffusion process which consists of pre-interaction contact alignment and post-contact goal-directed control, enabling goal-adaptive generalizable dexterous manipulation. Additionally, we incorporate dynamics model-based dual guidance and leverage large language models for automated guidance function generation, enhancing generalizability for physical interactions and facilitating diverse goal adaptation through language cues. Experiments on physical interaction tasks such as door opening, pen and block re-orientation, object relocation, and hammer striking demonstrate DexHandDiff's effectiveness on goals outside training distributions, achieving over twice the average success rate (59.2% vs. 29.5%) compared to existing methods. Our framework achieves an average of 70.7% success rate on goal adaptive dexterous tasks, highlighting its robustness and flexibility in contact-rich manipulation.

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Devils in Middle Layers of Large Vision-Language Models: Interpreting, Detecting and Mitigating Object Hallucinations via Attention Lens

Zhangqi Jiang, Junkai Chen, Beier Zhu, Tingjin Luo, Yankun Shen, Xu Yang

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Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) significantly undermine their reliability, motivating researchers to explore the causes of hallucination. However, most studies primarily focus on the language aspect rather than the visual. In this paper, we address how LVLMs process visual information and whether this process causes hallucination. Firstly, we use the attention lens to identify the stages at which LVLMs handle visual data, discovering that the middle layers are crucial. Moreover, we find that these layers can be further divided into two stages: "visual information enrichment" and "semantic refinement" which respectively propagate visual data to object tokens and interpret it through text. By analyzing attention patterns during the visual information enrichment stage, we find that real tokens consistently receive higher attention weights than hallucinated ones, serving as a strong indicator of hallucination. Further examination of multi-head attention maps reveals that hallucination tokens often result from heads interacting with inconsistent objects. Based on these insights, we propose a simple inference-time method that adjusts visual attention by integrating information across various heads. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this approach effectively mitigates hallucinations in mainstream LVLMs without additional training costs.

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Devil is in the Detail: Towards Injecting Fine Details of Image Prompt in Image Generation via Conflict-free Guidance and Stratified Attention

Kyungmin Jo, Jooyeol Yun, Jaegul Choo

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While large-scale text-to-image diffusion models enable the generation of high-quality, diverse images from text prompts, these prompts struggle to capture intricate details, such as textures, preventing the user intent from being reflected. This limitation has led to efforts to generate images conditioned on user-provided images, referred to as image prompts. Recent work modifies the self-attention mechanism to impose image conditions in generated images by replacing or concatenating the keys and values from the image prompt. This enables the self-attention layer to work like a cross-attention layer, generally used to incorporate text prompts.In this paper, we identify two common issues in existing methods of modifying self-attention that hinder diffusion models from reflecting the image prompt. By addressing these issues, we propose a novel method that generates images that properly reflect the details of image prompts. First, existing approaches often neglect the importance of image prompts in classifier-free guidance, which directs the model towards the intended conditions and away from those undesirable. Specifically, current methods use image prompts as both desired and undesired conditions, causing conflicting signals. To resolve this, we propose conflict-free guidance by using image prompts only as desired conditions, ensuring that the generated image faithfully reflects the image prompt.In addition, we observe that the two most common self-attention modifications involve a trade-off between the realism of the generated image and alignment with the image prompt, achieved by selectively using keys and values from both images. Specifically, selecting more keys and values from the image prompt improves alignment, while selecting more from the generated image enhances realism. To balance both, we propose an alternative self-attention modification method, Stratified Attention, which jointly uses keys and values from both images rather than selecting between them.Through extensive experiments across three distinct image generation tasks, we demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms existing image-prompting models in faithfully reflecting the image prompt.

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Deterministic-to-Stochastic Diverse Latent Feature Mapping for Human Motion Synthesis

Yu Hua, Weiming Liu, Gui Xu, Yaqing Hou, Yew-Soon Ong, Qiang Zhang

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Human motion synthesis aims to generate plausible human motion sequences, which has raised widespread attention in computer animation. Recent score-based generative models (SGMs) have demonstrated impressive results on this task. However, their training process involves complex curvature trajectories, leading to unstable training process.In this paper, we propose a Deterministic-to-Stochastic Diverse Latent Feature Mapping (DSDFM) method for human motion synthesis.DSDFM consists of two stages. The first human motion reconstruction stage aims to learn the latent space distribution of human motions. The second diverse motion generation stage aims to build connections between the Gaussian distribution and the latent space distribution of human motions, thereby enhancing the diversity and accuracy of the generated human motions. This stage is achieved by the designed deterministic feature mapping procedure with DerODE and stochastic diverse output generation procedure with DivSDE. DSDFM is easy to train compared to previous SGMs-based methods and can enhance diversity without introducing additional training parameters.Through qualitative and quantitative experiments, DSDFM achieves state-of-the-art results surpassing the latest methods, validating its superiority in human motion synthesis.

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Deterministic Image-to-Image Translation via Denoising Brownian Bridge Models with Dual Approximators

Bohan Xiao, Peiyong Wang, Qisheng He, Ming Dong

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Image-to-Image (I2I) translation involves converting an im- age from one domain to another. Deterministic I2I transla- tion, such as in image super-resolution, extends this con- cept by guaranteeing that each input generates a consistent and predictable output, closely matching the ground truth (GT) with high fidelity. In this paper, we propose a denois- ing Brownian bridge model with dual approximators (Dual- approx Bridge), a novel generative model that exploits the Brownian bridge dynamics and two neural network-based approximators (one for forward and one for reverse pro- cess) to produce faithful output with negligible variance and high image quality in I2I translations. Our extensive exper- iments on benchmark datasets including image generation and super-resolution demonstrate the consistent and supe- rior performance of Dual-approx Bridge in terms of im- age quality and faithfulness to GT when compared to both stochastic and deterministic baselines. Project page and code: https://github.com/bohan95/dual-app-bridge

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Deterministic Certification of Graph Neural Networks against Graph Poisoning Attacks with Arbitrary Perturbations

Jiate Li, Meng Pang, Yun Dong, Binghui Wang

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Graph neural networks (GNNs) are becoming the de facto method to learn on the graph data and have achieved the state-of-the-art on node and graph classification tasks. However, recent works show GNNs are vulnerable to training-time poisoning attacks -- marginally perturbing edges, nodes, and node features of training graphs can largely degrade the GNN performance. Most previous defenses against such attacks are empirical and are soon broken by adaptive / stronger ones. A few provable defenses provide robustness guarantees, but have large gaps when applied in practice: 1) all restrict the attacker's capability to only one type of perturbation; 2) all are designed for a particular GNN task; and 3) their robustness guarantees are not 100% accurate. In this work, we bridge all these gaps by developing PGNNCert, the first certified defense of GNNs against poisoning attacks under arbitrary (edge, node, and node feature) perturbations with deterministic (100% accurate) robustness guarantees. PGNNCert is also applicable to the two most widely-studied node and graph classification tasks. Extensive evaluations on multiple node and graph classification datasets and GNNs demonstrate the effectiveness of PGNNCert to provably defend against arbitrary poisoning perturbations. PGNNCert is also shown to significantly outperform the state-of-the-art certified defenses against edge perturbation or node perturbation during GNN training.

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Detecting Out-of-Distribution Through the Lens of Neural Collapse

Litian Liu, Yao Qin

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Out-of-Distribution (OOD) detection is critical for safe deployment; however, existing detectors often struggle to generalize across datasets of varying scales and model architectures, and some can incur high computational costs in real-world applications. Inspired by the phenomenon of Neural Collapse, we propose a versatile and efficient OOD detection method. Specifically, we re-characterize prior observations that in-distribution (ID) samples form clusters, demonstrating that, with appropriate centering, these clusters align closely with model weight vectors. Additionally, we reveal that ID features tend to expand into a simplex Equiangular Tight Frame, explaining the common observation that ID features are situated farther from the origin than OOD features. Incorporating both insights from Neural Collapse, our OOD detector leverages feature proximity to weight vectors and complements this approach by using feature norms to effectively filter out OOD samples. Extensive experiments on off-the-shelf models demonstrate the robustness of our OOD detector across diverse scenarios, mitigating generalization discrepancies and enhancing overall performance, with inference latency comparable to that of the basic softmax-confidence detector. Code is available at: https://github.com/litianliu/NCI-OOD.

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Detecting Open World Objects via Partial Attribute Assignment

Muli Yang, Gabriel James Goenawan, Huaiyuan Qin, Kai Han, Xi Peng, Yanhua Yang, Hongyuan Zhu

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Despite being trained on massive data, today's vision foundation models still fall short in detecting open world objects. Apart from recognizing known objects from training, a successful Open World Object Detection (OWOD) system must also be able to detect unknown objects never seen before, without confusing them with the backgrounds. Unlike prevailing prior works that rely on probability models to learn "objectness", we focus on learning fine-grained, class-agnostic attributes, allowing the detection of both known and unknown objects in an explainable manner. In this paper, we propose Partial Attribute Assignment (PASS), aiming to automatically select and optimize a small, relevant subset of attributes from a large attribute pool. Specifically, we model attribute selection as a Partial Optimal Transport (POT) problem between known visual objects and the attribute pool, in which more relevant attributes signify more transported mass. PASS follows a curriculum schedule that progressively selects and optimizes a targeted subset of attributes during training, promoting stability and accuracy. Our method enjoys end-to-end optimization by minimizing the POT distance and the classification loss on known visual objects, demonstrating high training efficiency and superior OWOD performance among extensive experimental evaluations.

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Detecting Adversarial Data Using Perturbation Forgery

Qian Wang, Chen Li, Yuchen Luo, Hefei Ling, Shijuan Huang, Ruoxi Jia, Ning Yu

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As a defense strategy against adversarial attacks, adversarial detection aims to identify and filter out adversarial data from the data flow based on discrepancies in distribution and noise patterns between natural and adversarial data. Although previous detection methods achieve high performance in detecting gradient-based adversarial attacks, new attacks based on generative models with imbalanced and anisotropic noise patterns evade detection. Even worse, the significant inference time overhead and limited performance against unseen attacks make existing techniques impractical for real-world use. In this paper, we explore the proximity relationship among adversarial noise distributions and demonstrate the existence of an open covering for these distributions. By training on the open covering of adversarial noise distributions, a detector with strong generalization performance against various types of unseen attacks can be developed. Based on this insight, we heuristically propose Perturbation Forgery, which includes noise distribution perturbation, sparse mask generation, and pseudo-adversarial data production, to train an adversarial detector capable of detecting any unseen gradient-based, generative-based, and physical adversarial attacks. Comprehensive experiments conducted on multiple general and facial datasets, with a wide spectrum of attacks, validate the strong generalization of our method.

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Detect-and-Guide: Self-regulation of Diffusion Models for Safe Text-to-Image Generation via Guideline Token Optimization

Feifei Li, Mi Zhang, Yiming Sun, Min Yang

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Text-to-image diffusion models have achieved state-of-the-art results in synthesis tasks; however, there is a growing concern about their potential misuse in creating harmful content. To mitigate these risks, post-hoc model intervention techniques, such as concept unlearning and safety guidance, have been developed. However, fine-tuning model weights or adapting the hidden states of the diffusion model operates in an uninterpretable way, making it unclear which part of the intermediate variables is responsible for unsafe generation. These interventions severely affect the sampling trajectory when erasing harmful concepts from complex, multi-concept prompts, thus hindering their practical use in real-world settings. In this work, we propose the safe generation framework Detect-and-Guide (DAG), leveraging the internal knowledge of diffusion models to perform self-diagnosis and fine-grained self-regulation during the sampling process. DAG first detects harmful concepts from noisy latents using refined cross-attention maps of optimized tokens, then applies safety guidance with adaptive strength and editing regions to negate unsafe generation. The optimization only requires a small annotated dataset and can provide precise detection maps with generalizability and concept specificity. Moreover, DAG does not require fine-tuning of diffusion models, and therefore introduces no loss to their generation diversity. Experiments on erasing sexual content show that DAG achieves state-of-the-art safe generation performance, balancing harmfulness mitigation and text-following performance on multi-concept real-world prompts.

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Detect Any Mirrors: Boosting Learning Reliability on Large-Scale Unlabeled Data with an Iterative Data Engine

Zhaohu Xing, Lihao Liu, Yijun Yang, Hongqiu Wang, Tian Ye, Sixiang Chen, Wenxue Li, Guang Liu, Lei Zhu

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Mirror detection is a challenging task because a mirror's visual appearance varies depending on the reflected content. Due to limited annotated data, current methods failed to generalize well for detecting diverse mirror scenes. Semi-supervised learning with large-scale unlabeled data can improve generalization capabilities on mirror detection, but these methods often suffer from unreliable pseudo-labels due to distribution differences between labeled and unlabeled data, therefore affecting the learning process. To address this issue, we first collect a large-scale dataset of approximately 0.4 million mirror-related images from the internet, significantly expanding the data scale for mirror detection. To effectively exploit this unlabeled dataset, we propose the first semi-supervised framework (namely an iterative data engine) consisting of four steps: (1) mirror detection model training, (2) pseudo label prediction, (3) dual guidance scoring, and (4) selection of highly reliable pseudo labels. In each iteration of the data engine, we employ a geometric accuracy scoring approach to assess pseudo labels based on multiple segmentation metrics, and design a multi-modal agent-driven semantic scoring approach to enhance the semantic perception of pseudo labels. These two scoring approaches can effectively improve the reliability of pseudo labels by selecting unlabeled samples with higher scores. Our method demonstrates promising performance across three mirror detection tasks and exhibits strong generalization on unseen examples. Our code will be publicly available at \href https://github.com/ge-xing/DAM https://github.com/ge-xing/DAM .

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Detail-Preserving Latent Diffusion for Stable Shadow Removal

Jiamin Xu, Yuxin Zheng, Zelong Li, Chi Wang, Renshu Gu, Weiwei Xu, Gang Xu

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Achieving high-quality shadow removal with strong generalizability is challenging in scenes with complex global illumination. Due to the limited diversity in shadow removal datasets, current methods are prone to overfitting training data, often leading to reduced performance on unseen cases. To address this, we leverage the rich visual priors of a pre-trained Stable Diffusion (SD) model and propose a two-stage fine-tuning pipeline to adapt the SD model for stable and efficient shadow removal. In the first stage, we fix the VAE and fine-tune the denoiser in latent space, which yields substantial shadow removal but may lose some high-frequency details. To resolve this, we introduce a second stage, called the detail injection stage. This stage selectively extracts features from the VAE encoder to modulate the decoder, injecting fine details into the final results. Experimental results show that our method outperforms state-of-the-art shadow removal techniques. The cross-dataset evaluation further demonstrates that our method generalizes effectively to unseen data, enhancing the applicability of shadow removal methods.

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DesignDiffusion: High-Quality Text-to-Design Image Generation with Diffusion Models

Zhendong Wang, Jianmin Bao, Shuyang Gu, Dong Chen, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li

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In this paper, we present DesignDiffusion, a simple yet effective framework for the novel task of synthesizing design images from textual descriptions. A primary challenge lies in generating accurate and style-consistent textual and visual content. Existing works in a related task of visual text generation often focus on generating text within given specific regions, which limits the creativity of generation models, resulting in style or color inconsistencies between textual and visual elements if applied to design image generation. To address this issue, we propose an end-to-end, one-stage diffusion-based framework that avoids intricate components like position and layout modeling. Specifically, the proposed framework directly synthesizes textual and visual design elements from user prompts. It utilizes a distinctive character embedding derived from the visual text to enhance the input prompt, along with a character localization loss for enhanced supervision during text generation. Furthermore, we employ a self-play Direct Preference Optimization fine-tuning strategy to improve the quality and accuracy of the synthesized visual text. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DesignDiffusion achieves state-of-the-art performance in design image generation.

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Design2GarmentCode: Turning Design Concepts to Tangible Garments Through Program Synthesis

Feng Zhou, Ruiyang Liu, Chen Liu, Gaofeng He, Yong-Lu Li, Xiaogang Jin, Huamin Wang

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Sewing patterns, the essential blueprints for fabric cutting and tailoring, act as a crucial bridge between design concepts and producible garments. However, existing uni-modal sewing pattern generation models struggle to effectively encode complex design concepts with a multi-modal nature and correlate them with vectorized sewing patterns that possess precise geometric structures and intricate sewing relations. In this work, we propose a novel sewing pattern generation approach Design2GarmentCode based on Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), to generate parametric pattern-making programs from multi-modal design concepts. LMM offers an intuitive interface for interpreting diverse design inputs, while pattern-making programs could serve as well-structured and semantically meaningful representations of sewing patterns, and act as a robust bridge connecting the cross-domain pattern-making knowledge embedded in LMMs with vectorized sewing patterns. Experimental results demonstrate that our method can flexibly handle various complex design expressions such as images, textual descriptions, designer sketches, or their combinations, and convert them into size-precise sewing patterns with correct stitches. Compared to previous methods, our approach significantly enhances training efficiency, generation quality, and authoring flexibility. Project page: https://style3d.github.io/design2garmentcode.

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Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Constrained Gradient for Unified XAI

Won Jun Kim, Hyungjin Chung, Jaemin Kim, Sangmin Lee, Byeongsu Sim, Jong Chul Ye

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Gradient-based methods are a prototypical family of "explainability for AI" (XAI) techniques, especially for image-based models. However, they (1) require white-box access to models, (2) are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, and (3) produce attributions that lie off the image manifold, leading to explanations that are not amenable to human perception. To overcome these challenges, we introduce Derivative-Free Diffusion Manifold-Contrained Gradients (FreeMCG): by leveraging ensemble Kalman filters and diffusion models, we derive a derivative-free approximation of the model's gradient projected onto the data manifold, requiring access only to the model's outputs (i.e., black-box setting). We demonstrate the effectiveness of FreeMCG by applying it to both counterfactual generation and feature attribution, which have traditionally been treated as different tasks requiring distinct methods. Through comprehensive evaluation on both counterfactual explanation and feature attribution we show that our method yields state-of-the-art results for both tasks while preserving the essential properties expected of XAI tools. Code: https://github.com/one-june/FreeMCG.

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