In this work, we propose a semantic flow-guided two-stage framework for shape-aware face swapping, namely FlowFace. Unlike most previous methods that focus on transferring the source inner facial features but neglect facial contours, our FlowFace can transfer both of them to a target face, thus leading to more realistic face swapping. Concretely, our FlowFace consists of a face reshaping network and a face swapping network. The face reshaping network addresses the shape outline differences between the source and target faces. It first estimates a semantic flow (i.e., face shape differences) between the source and the target face, and then explicitly warps the target face shape with the estimated semantic flow. After reshaping, the face swapping network generates inner facial features that exhibit the identity of the source face. We employ a pre-trained face masked autoencoder (MAE) to extract facial features from both the source face and the target face. In contrast to previous methods that use identity embedding to preserve identity information, the features extracted by our encoder can better capture facial appearances and identity information. Then, we develop a cross-attention fusion module to adaptively fuse inner facial features from the source face with the target facial attributes, thus leading to better identity preservation. Extensive quantitative and qualitative experiments on in-the-wild faces demonstrate that our FlowFace outperforms the state-of-the-art significantly.

链接预测是一项重要的任务，在各个域中具有广泛的应用程序。但是，大多数现有的链接预测方法都假定给定的图遵循同质的假设，并设计基于相似性的启发式方法或表示学习方法来预测链接。但是，许多现实世界图是异性图，同义假设不存在，这挑战了现有的链接预测方法。通常，在异性图中，有许多引起链接形成的潜在因素，并且两个链接的节点在一个或两个因素中往往相似，但在其他因素中可能是不同的，导致总体相似性较低。因此，一种方法是学习每个节点的分离表示形式，每个矢量捕获一个因子上的节点的潜在表示，这铺平了一种方法来模拟异性图中的链接形成，从而导致更好的节点表示学习和链接预测性能。但是，对此的工作非常有限。因此，在本文中，我们研究了一个新的问题，该问题是在异性图上进行链接预测的分离表示学习。我们提出了一种新颖的框架分解，可以通过建模链接形成并执行感知因素的消息来学习以促进链接预测来学习解开的表示形式。在13个现实世界数据集上进行的广泛实验证明了Disenlink对异性恋和血友病图的链接预测的有效性。我们的代码可从https://github.com/sjz5202/disenlink获得

在过去的几年中，引起了独特的图像字幕（DIC）（DIC） - 生成独特的标题来描述目标图像的独特细节。最近的DIC工作建议通过将目标图像与一组语义相似的参考图像（即基于参考的DIC（REF-DIC））进行比较来生成独特的字幕。它的目的是使生成的字幕可以分开目标图像和参考图像。不幸的是，现有参考作品使用的参考图像易于区分：这些参考图像仅类似于场景级别的目标图像，并且几乎没有常见的对象，因此，即使不考虑该模型，Ref-DIC模型也可以微不足道地生成独特的字幕参考图像。为了确保Ref-DIC模型真正了解目标图像中的唯一对象（或属性），我们首先提出了两个新的Ref-DIC基准。具体而言，我们设计了一个两阶段的匹配机制，该机制严格控制对象 - /属性级别的目标和参考图像之间的相似性（相对于场景级别）。其次，为了产生独特的标题，我们开发了一个强大的基于变压器的ref-DIC基线，称为传播。它不仅从目标图像中提取视觉特征，而且还编码目标和参考图像中对象之间的差异。最后，为了获得更值得信赖的基准测试，我们提出了一个新的评估度量指标，名为Ref-DIC的Discider，评估生成的字幕的准确性和独特性。实验结果表明，我们的传统可以产生独特的标题。此外，它在不同指标上的两个新基准测试中的几个最先进的模型都优于多种最先进的模型。

激活压缩训练〜（ACT）已被证明是减少训练深神经网络中记忆消耗的一种有希望的方法。但是，现有的ACT工作依赖于在深神经网络（DNN）训练期间寻找最佳的位宽度以减少量化噪声，从而使过程变得复杂且透明。为此，我们提出了一种简单有效的DNN培训方法。我们的方法是由观察结果激励的：\ emph {DNN向后传播主要取决于激活图的低频组分〜（LFC），而不是高频组件〜（HFC）}。它表明激活图的HFC在DNN训练过程中是高度冗余和可压缩的，这激发了我们提出的双重激活精度〜（分裂）。在培训期间，分裂估计激活图的LFC和HFC，并将HFC压缩到低精度副本中以消除冗余。这可以大大减少记忆消耗，而不会对DNN向后传播的精度产生负面影响。这样，部门可以实现可比的表现与正常培训。三个基准数据集的实验结果表明，在记忆消耗，模型准确性和跑步速度方面，分裂的表现优于最先进的基线方法。

在本文中，我们研究了在非全粒图上进行节点表示学习的自我监督学习的问题。现有的自我监督学习方法通​​常假定该图是同质的，其中链接的节点通常属于同一类或具有相似的特征。但是，这种同质性的假设在现实图表中并不总是正确的。我们通过为图神经网络开发脱钩的自我监督学习（DSSL）框架来解决这个问题。 DSSL模仿了节点的生成过程和语义结构的潜在变量建模的链接，该过程将不同邻域之间的不同基础语义解散到自我监督的节点学习过程中。我们的DSSL框架对编码器不可知，不需要预制的增强，因此对不同的图表灵活。为了通过潜在变量有效地优化框架，我们得出了自我监督目标的较低范围的证据，并开发了具有变异推理的可扩展培训算法。我们提供理论分析，以证明DSSL享有更好的下游性能。与竞争性的自我监督学习基线相比，对各种类图基准的广泛实验表明，我们提出的框架可以显着取得更好的性能。

在边缘设备上部署深层神经网络〜（DNNS）为现实世界任务提供了有效的解决方案。边缘设备已用于在不同域中有效地收集大量数据。DNN是用于数据处理和分析的有效工具。但是，由于计算资源和内存有限，在边缘设备上设计DNN是具有挑战性的。为了应对这一挑战，我们演示了最大78000 DNN加速器上边缘设备的对象检测系统。它分别与摄像头和用于图像采集和检测展览的LCD显示器集成了启动DNN的推断。床是一种简洁，有效且详细的解决方案，包括模型培训，量化，合成和部署。实验结果表明，床可以通过300 kb微小的DNN模型产生准确的检测，该模型仅需91.9 ms的推理时间和1.845 MJ的能量。

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.