With the rise of new 3D representations like NeRF and 3D Gaussian splatting, creating realistic 3D scenes is easier than ever before. However, the incompatibility of these 3D representations with existing editing software has also introduced unprecedented challenges to 3D editing tasks. Although recent advances in text-to-image generative models have made some progress in 3D editing, these methods either lack precision or require users to manually specify the editing areas in 3D space, complicating the editing process. To overcome these issues, we propose Edit3D, an innovative 3D editing method designed to enhance editing quality. Specifically, we propose a multi-turn editing framework and introduce an attention-driven open-set segmentation (ADSS) technique within this framework. ADSS allows for more precise segmentation of parts, which enhances the editing precision and minimizes interference with pixels in areas that are not being edited. Additionally, we propose a fine-tuning phase, intended to further improve the overall editing quality without compromising the training efficiency. Experiments demonstrate that Edit3D effectively adjusts 3D scenes based on textual instructions. Through continuous and multiple turns of editing, it achieves more intricate combinations, enhancing the diversity of 3D editing effects. Code is available at https://github.com/PeterouZh/Edit3D.
19 August 2023 in Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers
Visual tracking is an important area in computer vision. Based on the Siamese network, current tracking methods employ the self‐attention block in convolutional networks to extract semantic features containing the image structure information of an object. However, spatial continuity is a point of contradiction between two seemingly unrelated challenges, that is, occlusion and similar distractor, in tracking methods. At the same time, it is a spatially discontinuous task to locate a target reappearing after occlusion accurately. The prediction of bounding boxes should be constrained by spatial continuity to prevent them from jumping into similar distractors. This study proposes a novel tracking method for introducing spatial continuity in visual tracking called M‐CoTransT; the novel tracking method is developed through the confidence‐based adaptive Markov motion model (M‐model) and a novel correlation‐based feature fusion network (CoTransT). In particular, the M‐model provides confidence for the nodes of the Markov motion model to estimate the motion state continuity. It also predicts a more accurate search region for CoTransT, which then adds a cross‐correlation branch into the self‐attention tracking network to enhance the continuity of target appearance in the feature space. Extensive experiments on five challenging datasets (LaSOT, GOT‐10k, TrackingNet, OTB‐2015 and UAV123) demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed M‐CoTransT in visual tracking.
8 February 2022 in Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience
Visual object tracking is an important topic in computer vision, which has successfully utilized pretrained convolutional neural networks, such as VGG and ResNet. However, the features extracted by these pretrained models are high dimensional, and the redundant feature channels reduce target localization and scale estimation precision, leading to tracking drifting. In this paper, a novel visual object tracking method, called learning enhanced feature responses tracking (LEFRT), is proposed, which adopts the target-specific features to enhance target localization and scale estimation responses. First, a channel attention module, called target-specific network (TSNet), is presented to reduce the redundant feature channels. Secondly, the scale estimation network (SCENet) is introduced to extract spatial structural features to generate a more precise response for the scale estimation. Extensive experiments on six tracking benchmarks, including LaSOT, GOT-10k, TrackingNet, OTB-2013, OTB-2015, and TC-128, demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can effectively improve the precision and speed of visual object tracking. LEFRT achieves 90.4% precision and a 71.2% success rate on the OTB-2015 dataset, improving the tracking methods based on the pretrained features.
Fall detection is an important application in computer vision. However, the image data for fall detection contain unprotected privacy. For example, the silhouette of a person who falls may divulge information about whether the person is disabled. In addition, privacy, such as the age and height of the fallen person, will also be apparent in the image. To tackle these issues, this paper proposes a novel approach, called Black Cloud for Falling Detection (BCFD), to protect the privacy information of the fallen person. We introduce a new image segmentation method to estimate the contour of the human body image, and we generate 'black clouds' to accurately cover the complete human images. The detector was conducted using the contour information to obtain the fallen person. We also propose a method to construct a privacy-protected fall detection dataset and provide a sample dataset. The proposed method can protect the privacy information precisely compared with the state-of-the-art methods. We have validated our method on the proposed PPFD-sample dataset, observing 90.2% precision and 81.8% recall. Experimental results demonstrate that our approach can protect image privacy effectively in the fallen person detection task.