最初受生物神经网络（BNN）启发的人工神经网络（ANN）在许多任务（例如视觉表示学习）中取得了巨大的成功。但是，由于缺乏有效的工具来链接和互为两个不同的域，并且缺乏代表的一般有效的框架，ANN和BNN中的视觉表示之间是否存在语义相关性/连接仍然很大程度上尚未探索。 BNN中的视觉语义，例如人类功能性脑网络（FBN）。为了回答这个问题，我们提出了一个新颖的计算框架，即同步激活（同步性），以基于自然主义的功能磁共振成像（NFMRI）数据来对人脑中的ANN和BNN之间的视觉表示空间和语义进行。通过这种方法，我们能够在第一次以人类脑成像得出的生物学上有意义的描述中对神经元进行注释。我们在两个公开观看的NFMRI数据集上评估了同步操作框架。该实验证明了a）FBN中视觉表示与各种卷积神经网络（CNN）模型中的视觉表示之间的显着相关性和相似性； b）CNN的视觉表示与BNN的相似性与其在图像分类任务中的性能之间的紧密关系。总体而言，我们的研究介绍了一个一般有效的范式，以融入ANN和BNNS，并为未来的研究提供新的见解，例如脑启发的人工智能。

快捷方式学习对深度学习模型很常见，但导致了退化的特征表示形式，因此危害了该模型的可推广性和解释性。但是，在广泛使用的视觉变压器框架中的快捷方式学习在很大程度上是未知的。同时，引入特定领域的知识是纠正捷径的主要方法，捷径为背景相关因素。例如，在医学成像领域中，放射科医生的眼睛凝视数据是一种有效的人类视觉先验知识，具有指导深度学习模型的巨大潜力，可以专注于有意义的前景区域。但是，获得眼睛凝视数据是时必的，劳动密集型的，有时甚至是不切实际的。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种新颖而有效的显着性视觉变压器（SGT）模型，以在没有眼神数据的情况下在VIT中纠正快捷方式学习。具体而言，采用计算视觉显着性模型来预测输入图像样本的显着性图。然后，显着图用于散布最有用的图像贴片。在拟议的中士中，图像贴片之间的自我注意力仅集中于蒸馏的信息。考虑到这种蒸馏操作可能会导致全局信息丢失，我们在最后一个编码器层中进一步介绍了一个残留的连接，该连接捕获了所有图像贴片中的自我注意力。四个独立公共数据集的实验结果表明，我们的SGT框架可以有效地学习和利用人类的先验知识，而无需眼睛凝视数据，并且比基线更好。同时，它成功地纠正了有害的快捷方式学习并显着提高了VIT模型的解释性，证明了传递人类先验知识在纠正快捷方式学习方面传递人类先验知识的承诺

Recent CLIP-guided 3D optimization methods, e.g., DreamFields and PureCLIPNeRF achieve great success in zero-shot text-guided 3D synthesis. However, due to the scratch training and random initialization without any prior knowledge, these methods usually fail to generate accurate and faithful 3D structures that conform to the corresponding text. In this paper, we make the first attempt to introduce the explicit 3D shape prior to CLIP-guided 3D optimization methods. Specifically, we first generate a high-quality 3D shape from input texts in the text-to-shape stage as the 3D shape prior. We then utilize it as the initialization of a neural radiance field and then optimize it with the full prompt. For the text-to-shape generation, we present a simple yet effective approach that directly bridges the text and image modalities with a powerful text-to-image diffusion model. To narrow the style domain gap between images synthesized by the text-to-image model and shape renderings used to train the image-to-shape generator, we further propose to jointly optimize a learnable text prompt and fine-tune the text-to-image diffusion model for rendering-style image generation. Our method, namely, Dream3D, is capable of generating imaginative 3D content with better visual quality and shape accuracy than state-of-the-art methods.

To reproduce the success of text-to-image (T2I) generation, recent works in text-to-video (T2V) generation employ large-scale text-video dataset for fine-tuning. However, such paradigm is computationally expensive. Humans have the amazing ability to learn new visual concepts from just one single exemplar. We hereby study a new T2V generation problem$\unicode{x2014}$One-Shot Video Generation, where only a single text-video pair is presented for training an open-domain T2V generator. Intuitively, we propose to adapt the T2I diffusion model pretrained on massive image data for T2V generation. We make two key observations: 1) T2I models are able to generate images that align well with the verb terms; 2) extending T2I models to generate multiple images concurrently exhibits surprisingly good content consistency. To further learn continuous motion, we propose Tune-A-Video with a tailored Sparse-Causal Attention, which generates videos from text prompts via an efficient one-shot tuning of pretrained T2I diffusion models. Tune-A-Video is capable of producing temporally-coherent videos over various applications such as change of subject or background, attribute editing, style transfer, demonstrating the versatility and effectiveness of our method.

Reference-based Super-Resolution (Ref-SR) has recently emerged as a promising paradigm to enhance a low-resolution (LR) input image or video by introducing an additional high-resolution (HR) reference image. Existing Ref-SR methods mostly rely on implicit correspondence matching to borrow HR textures from reference images to compensate for the information loss in input images. However, performing local transfer is difficult because of two gaps between input and reference images: the transformation gap (e.g., scale and rotation) and the resolution gap (e.g., HR and LR). To tackle these challenges, we propose C2-Matching in this work, which performs explicit robust matching crossing transformation and resolution. 1) To bridge the transformation gap, we propose a contrastive correspondence network, which learns transformation-robust correspondences using augmented views of the input image. 2) To address the resolution gap, we adopt teacher-student correlation distillation, which distills knowledge from the easier HR-HR matching to guide the more ambiguous LR-HR matching. 3) Finally, we design a dynamic aggregation module to address the potential misalignment issue between input images and reference images. In addition, to faithfully evaluate the performance of Reference-based Image Super-Resolution under a realistic setting, we contribute the Webly-Referenced SR (WR-SR) dataset, mimicking the practical usage scenario. We also extend C2-Matching to Reference-based Video Super-Resolution task, where an image taken in a similar scene serves as the HR reference image. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed C2-Matching significantly outperforms state of the arts on the standard CUFED5 benchmark and also boosts the performance of video SR by incorporating the C2-Matching component into Video SR pipelines.

The recurrent structure is a prevalent framework for the task of video super-resolution, which models the temporal dependency between frames via hidden states. When applied to real-world scenarios with unknown and complex degradations, hidden states tend to contain unpleasant artifacts and propagate them to restored frames. In this circumstance, our analyses show that such artifacts can be largely alleviated when the hidden state is replaced with a cleaner counterpart. Based on the observations, we propose a Hidden State Attention (HSA) module to mitigate artifacts in real-world video super-resolution. Specifically, we first adopt various cheap filters to produce a hidden state pool. For example, Gaussian blur filters are for smoothing artifacts while sharpening filters are for enhancing details. To aggregate a new hidden state that contains fewer artifacts from the hidden state pool, we devise a Selective Cross Attention (SCA) module, in which the attention between input features and each hidden state is calculated. Equipped with HSA, our proposed method, namely FastRealVSR, is able to achieve 2x speedup while obtaining better performance than Real-BasicVSR. Codes will be available at https://github.com/TencentARC/FastRealVSR

The ability to understand and generate similes is an imperative step to realize human-level AI. However, there is still a considerable gap between machine intelligence and human cognition in similes, since deep models based on statistical distribution tend to favour high-frequency similes. Hence, a large-scale symbolic knowledge base of similes is required, as it contributes to the modeling of diverse yet unpopular similes while facilitating additional evaluation and reasoning. To bridge the gap, we propose a novel framework for large-scale simile knowledge base construction, as well as two probabilistic metrics which enable an improved understanding of simile phenomena in natural language. Overall, we construct MAPS-KB, a million-scale probabilistic simile knowledge base, covering 4.3 million triplets over 0.4 million terms from 70 GB corpora. We conduct sufficient experiments to justify the effectiveness and necessity of the methods of our framework. We also apply MAPS-KB on three downstream tasks to achieve state-of-the-art performance, further demonstrating the value of MAPS-KB.

Vector-Quantized (VQ-based) generative models usually consist of two basic components, i.e., VQ tokenizers and generative transformers. Prior research focuses on improving the reconstruction fidelity of VQ tokenizers but rarely examines how the improvement in reconstruction affects the generation ability of generative transformers. In this paper, we surprisingly find that improving the reconstruction fidelity of VQ tokenizers does not necessarily improve the generation. Instead, learning to compress semantic features within VQ tokenizers significantly improves generative transformers' ability to capture textures and structures. We thus highlight two competing objectives of VQ tokenizers for image synthesis: semantic compression and details preservation. Different from previous work that only pursues better details preservation, we propose Semantic-Quantized GAN (SeQ-GAN) with two learning phases to balance the two objectives. In the first phase, we propose a semantic-enhanced perceptual loss for better semantic compression. In the second phase, we fix the encoder and codebook, but enhance and finetune the decoder to achieve better details preservation. The proposed SeQ-GAN greatly improves VQ-based generative models and surpasses the GAN and Diffusion Models on both unconditional and conditional image generation. Our SeQ-GAN (364M) achieves Frechet Inception Distance (FID) of 6.25 and Inception Score (IS) of 140.9 on 256x256 ImageNet generation, a remarkable improvement over VIT-VQGAN (714M), which obtains 11.2 FID and 97.2 IS.

Graph neural networks (GNNs) are susceptible to privacy inference attacks (PIAs), given their ability to learn joint representation from features and edges among nodes in graph data. To prevent privacy leakages in GNNs, we propose a novel heterogeneous randomized response (HeteroRR) mechanism to protect nodes' features and edges against PIAs under differential privacy (DP) guarantees without an undue cost of data and model utility in training GNNs. Our idea is to balance the importance and sensitivity of nodes' features and edges in redistributing the privacy budgets since some features and edges are more sensitive or important to the model utility than others. As a result, we derive significantly better randomization probabilities and tighter error bounds at both levels of nodes' features and edges departing from existing approaches, thus enabling us to maintain high data utility for training GNNs. An extensive theoretical and empirical analysis using benchmark datasets shows that HeteroRR significantly outperforms various baselines in terms of model utility under rigorous privacy protection for both nodes' features and edges. That enables us to defend PIAs in DP-preserving GNNs effectively.

只有单个目标扬声器的语音供参考的单发语音转换（VC）已成为一个热门研究主题。现有作品通常会散布音色，而有关音高，节奏和内容的信息仍然混合在一起。为了进一步删除这些语音组件，有效地执行一声VC，我们采用随机重新采样用于音高和内容编码器，并使用互信息的各种对比对数比率上限和基于梯度反向层的对抗性相互信息学习来确保不同部分在训练过程中仅包含所需的分离表示的潜在空间。 VCTK数据集的实验显示该模型就自然性和智能性方面实现了一声VC的最新性能。此外，我们可以通过语音表示分离分别传递音色，音调和节奏的单发VC的特征。我们的代码，预训练的模型和演示可在https://im1eon.github.io/is2022-Srdvc/上获得。