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This work introduces a new training and compression pipeline to build Nested Sparse ConvNets, a class of dynamic Convolutional Neural Networks (ConvNets) suited for inference tasks deployed on resource-constrained devices at the edge of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-08 Matteo Grimaldi , Luca Mocerino , Antonio Cipolletta , Andrea Calimera

Reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from sparse multi-view videos is highly ill-posed, often leading to geometric collapse, trajectory drift, and floating artifacts. Recent attempts introduce generative priors to hallucinate missing content,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zhenlong Wu , Zihan Zheng , Xuanxuan Wang , Qianhe Wang , Hua Yang , Xiaoyun Zhang , Qiang Hu , Wenjun Zhang

Generating videos predicting the future of a given sequence has been an area of active research in recent years. However, an essential problem remains unsolved: most of the methods require large computational cost and memory usage for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Naoya Fushishita , Antonio Tejero-de-Pablos , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

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,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yu Hua , Weiming Liu , Gui Xu , Yaqing Hou , Yew-Soon Ong , Qiang Zhang

In computer animation, game design, and human-computer interaction, synthesizing human motion that aligns with user intent remains a significant challenge. Existing methods have notable limitations: textual approaches offer high-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Yingjie Xi , Jian Jun Zhang , Xiaosong Yang

Human video generation is a dynamic and rapidly evolving task that aims to synthesize 2D human body video sequences with generative models given control conditions such as text, audio, and pose. With the potential for wide-ranging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Wentao Lei , Jinting Wang , Fengji Ma , Guanjie Huang , Li Liu

Sparse tensor operations are increasingly important in diverse applications such as social networks, deep learning, diagnosis, crime, and review analysis. However, a major obstacle in sparse tensor research is the lack of large-scale sparse…

Mathematical Software · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Tugba Torun , Ameer Taweel , Didem Unat

Recent advances in sparse voxel representations have significantly improved the quality of 3D content generation, enabling high-resolution modeling with fine-grained geometry. However, existing frameworks suffer from severe computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Yiwen Chen , Zhihao Li , Yikai Wang , Hu Zhang , Qin Li , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin

Accurately reconstructing complex full multi-object scenes from sparse observations remains a core challenge in computer vision and a key step toward scalable and reliable simulation for robotics. In this work, we introduce RecGen, a…

Mesh generation is of great value in various applications involving computer graphics and virtual content, yet designing generative models for meshes is challenging due to their irregular data structure and inconsistent topology of meshes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Zhaoyang Lyu , Jinyi Wang , Yuwei An , Ya Zhang , Dahua Lin , Bo Dai

Existing approaches for human avatar generation--both NeRF-based and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) based--struggle with maintaining 3D consistency and exhibit degraded detail reconstruction, particularly when training with sparse inputs. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haoyu Zhao , Hao Wang , Chen Yang , Wei Shen

While Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have achieved breakthroughs in video generation, this long sequence generation task remains constrained by the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms, resulting in significant inference latency.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Pengtao Chen , Xianfang Zeng , Maosen Zhao , Peng Ye , Mingzhu Shen , Wei Cheng , Gang Yu , Tao Chen

We target the problem of sparse 3D reconstruction of dynamic objects observed by multiple unsynchronized video cameras with unknown temporal overlap. To this end, we develop a framework to recover the unknown structure without sequencing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-05-24 Enliang Zheng , Dinghuang Ji , Enrique Dunn , Jan-Michael Frahm

Dense and versatile image representations underpin the success of virtually all computer vision applications. However, state-of-the-art networks, such as transformers, produce low-resolution feature grids, which are suboptimal for dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Nikita Araslanov , Anna Sonnweber , Daniel Cremers

We present \textit{VoxelKP}, a novel fully sparse network architecture tailored for human keypoint estimation in LiDAR data. The key challenge is that objects are distributed sparsely in 3D space, while human keypoint detection requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jian Shi , Peter Wonka

Modern video codecs and learning-based approaches struggle for semantic reconstruction at extremely low bit-rates due to reliance on low-level spatiotemporal redundancies. Generative models, especially diffusion models, offer a new paradigm…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-06 Maojun Zhang , Haotian Wu , Richeng Jin , Deniz Gunduz , Krystian Mikolajczyk

Text-driven content creation has evolved to be a transformative technique that revolutionizes creativity. Here we study the task of text-driven human video generation, where a video sequence is synthesized from texts describing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Yuming Jiang , Shuai Yang , Tong Liang Koh , Wayne Wu , Chen Change Loy , Ziwei Liu

We introduce Sparse Forcing, a training-and-inference paradigm for autoregressive video diffusion models that improves long-horizon generation quality while reducing decoding latency. Sparse Forcing is motivated by an empirical observation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Boxun Xu , Yuming Du , Zichang Liu , Siyu Yang , Ziyang Jiang , Siqi Yan , Rajasi Saha , Albert Pumarola , Wenchen Wang , Peng Li

To exploit high temporal correlations in video frames of the same scene, the current frame is predicted from the already-encoded reference frames using block-based motion estimation and compensation techniques. While this approach can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-16 S. M. A. K. Rajin , M. Murshed , M. Paul , S. W. Teng , J. Ma

Recent advances in video generation have made it possible to produce visually compelling videos, with wide-ranging applications in content creation, entertainment, and virtual reality. However, most existing diffusion transformer based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Teng Hu , Jiangning Zhang , Zihan Su , Ran Yi