整个视频序列上的强大而准确的平面跟踪对于许多视觉应用至关重要。平面对象跟踪的关键是在参考图像和跟踪图像之间查找由同谱模型建模的对象对应关系。现有方法倾向于获得错误的对应关系，随着外观变化，相机对象相对运动和遮挡的变化。为了减轻这个问题，我们提出了一个统一的卷积神经网络（CNN）模型，该模型共同考虑了同谱，可见性和信心。首先，我们介绍了相关块，这些块明确地说明了本地外观变化，而相机对象相对运动是我们模型的基础。其次，我们共同学习将相机对象相对运动与遮挡联系起来的同谱和可见性。第三，我们提出了一个置信模块，该模块积极监视从相关块中获得的像素相关分布中的估计质量。所有这些模块都插入了Lucas-Kanade（LK）跟踪管道中，以获得准确且健壮的平面对象跟踪。我们的方法的表现优于公共锅和TMT数据集上的最新方法。在现实世界中，还验证了其出色的性能，从而综合了高质量的视频内广告。

3D面重建结果的评估通常取决于估计的3D模型和地面真相扫描之间的刚性形状比对。我们观察到，将两个形状与不同的参考点进行排列可以在很大程度上影响评估结果。这给精确诊断和改进3D面部重建方法带来了困难。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的评估方法，并采用了新的基准测试，包括100张全球对齐的面部扫描，具有准确的面部关键点，高质量的区域口罩和拓扑符合的网格。我们的方法执行区域形状比对，并导致计算形状误差期间更准确，双向对应关系。细粒度，区域评估结果为我们提供了有关最先进的3D面部重建方法表现的详细理解。例如，我们对基于单图像的重建方法的实验表明，DECA在鼻子区域表现最好，而Ganfit在脸颊区域的表现更好。此外，使用与我们构造的相同过程以对齐和重新构造几个3D面部数据集的新型和高质量的3DMM基础HIFI3D ++。我们将在https://realy3dface.com上发布真正的HIFI3D ++以及我们的新评估管道。

在本文中，据我们所知，我们提供了将各种掩盖机制纳入变形金刚以可扩展方式融入变形金刚结构的第一种综合方法。我们表明，有关线性因果关注的最新结果（Choromanski等，2021）和对数线性RPE注意力（Luo等，2021）是这种一般机制的特殊情况。但是，通过将问题作为对未掩盖注意力的拓扑调制（基于图的）调制，我们以前获得了几个未知结果，包括有效的D维RPE掩盖和图形内掩蔽。我们利用许多数学技术，从光谱分析到动态编程和随机步行到新算法，以求解图形上的马尔可夫过程。我们提供相应的经验评估。

在NAS领域中，可分构造的架构搜索是普遍存在的，因为它的简单性和效率，其中两个范例，多路径算法和单路径方法主导。多路径框架（例如，DARTS）是直观的，但遭受内存使用和培训崩溃。单路径方法（例如，e.g.gdas和proxylesnnas）减轻了内存问题并缩小了搜索和评估之间的差距，但牺牲了性能。在本文中，我们提出了一种概念上简单的且有效的方法来桥接这两个范式，称为相互意识的子图可差架构搜索（MSG-DAS）。我们框架的核心是一个可分辨动的Gumbel-Topk采样器，它产生多个互斥的单路径子图。为了缓解多个子图形设置所带来的Severer Skip-Connect问题，我们提出了一个Dropblock-Identity模块来稳定优化。为了充分利用可用的型号（超级网和子图），我们介绍了一种记忆高效的超净指导蒸馏，以改善培训。所提出的框架击中了灵活的内存使用和搜索质量之间的平衡。我们展示了我们在想象中和CIFAR10上的方法的有效性，其中搜索的模型显示了与最近的方法相当的性能。

Masked image modeling (MIM) performs strongly in pre-training large vision Transformers (ViTs). However, small models that are critical for real-world applications cannot or only marginally benefit from this pre-training approach. In this paper, we explore distillation techniques to transfer the success of large MIM-based pre-trained models to smaller ones. We systematically study different options in the distillation framework, including distilling targets, losses, input, network regularization, sequential distillation, etc, revealing that: 1) Distilling token relations is more effective than CLS token- and feature-based distillation; 2) An intermediate layer of the teacher network as target perform better than that using the last layer when the depth of the student mismatches that of the teacher; 3) Weak regularization is preferred; etc. With these findings, we achieve significant fine-tuning accuracy improvements over the scratch MIM pre-training on ImageNet-1K classification, using all the ViT-Tiny, ViT-Small, and ViT-base models, with +4.2%/+2.4%/+1.4% gains, respectively. Our TinyMIM model of base size achieves 52.2 mIoU in AE20K semantic segmentation, which is +4.1 higher than the MAE baseline. Our TinyMIM model of tiny size achieves 79.6% top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K image classification, which sets a new record for small vision models of the same size and computation budget. This strong performance suggests an alternative way for developing small vision Transformer models, that is, by exploring better training methods rather than introducing inductive biases into architectures as in most previous works. Code is available at https://github.com/OliverRensu/TinyMIM.

In this paper, we propose a robust 3D detector, named Cross Modal Transformer (CMT), for end-to-end 3D multi-modal detection. Without explicit view transformation, CMT takes the image and point clouds tokens as inputs and directly outputs accurate 3D bounding boxes. The spatial alignment of multi-modal tokens is performed implicitly, by encoding the 3D points into multi-modal features. The core design of CMT is quite simple while its performance is impressive. CMT obtains 73.0% NDS on nuScenes benchmark. Moreover, CMT has a strong robustness even if the LiDAR is missing. Code will be released at https://github.com/junjie18/CMT.

Dataset distillation has emerged as a prominent technique to improve data efficiency when training machine learning models. It encapsulates the knowledge from a large dataset into a smaller synthetic dataset. A model trained on this smaller distilled dataset can attain comparable performance to a model trained on the original training dataset. However, the existing dataset distillation techniques mainly aim at achieving the best trade-off between resource usage efficiency and model utility. The security risks stemming from them have not been explored. This study performs the first backdoor attack against the models trained on the data distilled by dataset distillation models in the image domain. Concretely, we inject triggers into the synthetic data during the distillation procedure rather than during the model training stage, where all previous attacks are performed. We propose two types of backdoor attacks, namely NAIVEATTACK and DOORPING. NAIVEATTACK simply adds triggers to the raw data at the initial distillation phase, while DOORPING iteratively updates the triggers during the entire distillation procedure. We conduct extensive evaluations on multiple datasets, architectures, and dataset distillation techniques. Empirical evaluation shows that NAIVEATTACK achieves decent attack success rate (ASR) scores in some cases, while DOORPING reaches higher ASR scores (close to 1.0) in all cases. Furthermore, we conduct a comprehensive ablation study to analyze the factors that may affect the attack performance. Finally, we evaluate multiple defense mechanisms against our backdoor attacks and show that our attacks can practically circumvent these defense mechanisms.

Blind image quality assessment (BIQA) remains challenging due to the diversity of distortion and image content variation, which complicate the distortion patterns crossing different scales and aggravate the difficulty of the regression problem for BIQA. However, existing BIQA methods often fail to consider multi-scale distortion patterns and image content, and little research has been done on learning strategies to make the regression model produce better performance. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective Progressive Multi-Task Image Quality Assessment (PMT-IQA) model, which contains a multi-scale feature extraction module (MS) and a progressive multi-task learning module (PMT), to help the model learn complex distortion patterns and better optimize the regression issue to align with the law of human learning process from easy to hard. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed PMT-IQA model, we conduct experiments on four widely used public datasets, and the experimental results indicate that the performance of PMT-IQA is superior to the comparison approaches, and both MS and PMT modules improve the model's performance.

Automatic music generation with artificial intelligence typically requires a large amount of data which is hard to obtain for many less common genres and musical instruments. To tackle this issue, we present ongoing work and preliminary findings on the possibility for deep models to transfer knowledge from language to music, by finetuning large language models pre-trained on a massive text corpus on only hundreds of MIDI files of drum performances. We show that by doing so, one of the largest, state-of-the-art models (GPT3) is capable of generating reasonable drum grooves, while models that are not pre-trained (Transformer) shows no such ability beyond naive repetition. Evaluating generated music is a challenging task, more so is evaluating drum grooves with little precedence in literature. Hence, we propose a tailored structural evaluation method and analyze drum grooves produced by GPT3 compared to those played by human professionals, exposing the strengths and weaknesses of such generation by language-to-music transfer. Our findings suggest that language-to-music transfer learning with large language models is viable and promising.

Few Shot Instance Segmentation (FSIS) requires models to detect and segment novel classes with limited several support examples. In this work, we explore a simple yet unified solution for FSIS as well as its incremental variants, and introduce a new framework named Reference Twice (RefT) to fully explore the relationship between support/query features based on a Transformer-like framework. Our key insights are two folds: Firstly, with the aid of support masks, we can generate dynamic class centers more appropriately to re-weight query features. Secondly, we find that support object queries have already encoded key factors after base training. In this way, the query features can be enhanced twice from two aspects, i.e., feature-level and instance-level. In particular, we firstly design a mask-based dynamic weighting module to enhance support features and then propose to link object queries for better calibration via cross-attention. After the above steps, the novel classes can be improved significantly over our strong baseline. Additionally, our new framework can be easily extended to incremental FSIS with minor modification. When benchmarking results on the COCO dataset for FSIS, gFSIS, and iFSIS settings, our method achieves a competitive performance compared to existing approaches across different shots, e.g., we boost nAP by noticeable +8.2/+9.4 over the current state-of-the-art FSIS method for 10/30-shot. We further demonstrate the superiority of our approach on Few Shot Object Detection. Code and model will be available.