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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved performance across various image-language applications. Recently, there has been a growing interest in adapting image pre-trained MLLMs for video-related tasks. However,…

Remote sensing change detection (RSCD) is vital for identifying land-cover changes, yet existing methods, including state-of-the-art State Space Models (SSMs), often lack explicit mechanisms to handle geometric misalignments and struggle to…

We propose DepthTCM, a physics-aware end-to-end framework for depth map compression. In our framework of DepthTCM, the high-bit depth map is first converted to a conventional 3-channel image representation losslessly using a method inspired…

Lightweight Temporal Compression (LTC) is among the lossy stream compression methods that provide the highest compression rate for the lowest CPU and memory consumption. As such, it is well suited to compress data streams in…

3D human pose estimation can be handled by encoding the geometric dependencies between the body parts and enforcing the kinematic constraints. Recently, Transformer has been adopted to encode the long-range dependencies between the joints…

In visually ambiguous manipulation such as detecting button click tactile feedback is often the sole source of ground truth. However, fusing tactile data poses a significant challenge due to a spatiotemporal mismatch: tactile perception…

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models enable generalist robotic manipulation but suffer from high inference latency. This bottleneck stems from the massive number of visual tokens processed by large language backbones. Existing methods either…

Tensor robust principal component analysis (TRPCA) is a classical way for low-rank tensor recovery, which minimizes the convex surrogate of tensor rank by shrinking each tensor singular value equally. However, for real-world visual data,…

We present R3-Avatar, incorporating a temporal codebook, to overcome the inability of human avatars to be both animatable and of high-fidelity rendering quality. Existing video-based reconstruction of 3D human avatars either focuses solely…

Principal component analysis (PCA) is a well-known linear dimension-reduction method that has been widely used in data analysis and modeling. It is an unsupervised learning technique that identifies a suitable linear subspace for the input…

3D representations of highly deformable 3D models, such as dynamic 3D meshes, have recently become very popular due to their wide applicability in various domains. This trend inevitably leads to a demand for storage and transmission of…

Acquisition and rendering of photo-realistic human heads is a highly challenging research problem of particular importance for virtual telepresence. Currently, the highest quality is achieved by volumetric approaches trained in a person…

Video anomaly detection is a fundamental task in video surveillance, with broad applications in public safety and intelligent monitoring systems. Although previous methods leverage Euclidean representations in RGB or depth domains, such…

Monocular 3D human pose estimation poses significant challenges due to the inherent depth ambiguities that arise during the reprojection process from 2D to 3D. Conventional approaches that rely on estimating an over-fit projection matrix…

This work highlights a semantics misalignment in 3D human pose estimation. For the task of test-time adaptation, the misalignment manifests as overly smoothed and unguided predictions. The smoothing settles predictions towards some average…

In human-level NLP tasks, such as predicting mental health, personality, or demographics, the number of observations is often smaller than the standard 768+ hidden state sizes of each layer within modern transformer-based language models,…

We propose a novel framework for computing the medial axis transform of 3D shapes while preserving their medial features via restricted power diagram (RPD). Medial features, including external features such as the sharp edges and corners of…

The end-to-end Human Mesh Recovery (HMR) approach has been successfully used for 3D body reconstruction. However, most HMR-based frameworks reconstruct human body by directly learning mesh parameters from images or videos, while lacking…

Text-to-Image Person Retrieval (TIPR) is a cross-modal matching task designed to identify the person images that best correspond to a given textual description. The key difficulty in TIPR is to realize robust correspondence between the…