LoopAnimate: Loopable Salient Object Animation

Research on diffusion model-based video generation has advanced rapidly. However, limitations in object fidelity and generation length hinder its practical applications. Additionally, specific domains like animated wallpapers require seamless looping, where the first and last frames of the video match seamlessly. To address these challenges, this paper proposes LoopAnimate, a novel method for generating videos with consistent start and end frames. To enhance object fidelity, we introduce a framework that decouples multi-level image appearance and textual semantic information. Building upon an image-to-image diffusion model, our approach incorporates both pixel-level and feature-level information from the input image, injecting image appearance and textual semantic embeddings at different positions of the diffusion model. Existing UNet-based video generation models require to input the entire videos during training to encode temporal and positional information at once. However, due to limitations in GPU memory, the number of frames is typically restricted to 16. To address this, this paper proposes a three-stage training strategy with progressively increasing frame numbers and reducing fine-tuning modules. Additionally, we introduce the Temporal E nhanced Motion Module(TEMM) to extend the capacity for encoding temporal and positional information up to 36 frames. The proposed LoopAnimate, which for the first time extends the single-pass generation length of UNet-based video generation models to 35 frames while maintaining high-quality video generation. Experiments demonstrate that LoopAnimate achieves state-of-the-art performance in both objective metrics, such as fidelity and temporal consistency, and subjective evaluation results.

ADMap: Anti-disturbance framework for reconstructing online vectorized HD map

In the field of autonomous driving, online high-definition (HD) map reconstruction is crucial for planning tasks. Recent research has developed several high-performance HD map reconstruction models to meet this necessity. However, the point sequences within the instance vectors may be jittery or jagged due to prediction bias, which can impact subsequent tasks. Therefore, this paper proposes the Anti-disturbance Map reconstruction framework (ADMap). To mitigate point-order jitter, the framework consists of three modules: Multi-Scale Perception Neck, Instance Interactive Attention (IIA), and Vector Direction Difference Loss (VDDL). By exploring the point-order relationships between and within instances in a cascading manner, the model can monitor the point-order prediction process more effectively. ADMap achieves state-of-the-art performance on the nuScenes and Argoverse2 datasets. Extensive results demonstrate its ability to produce stable and reliable map elements in complex and changing driving scenarios. Code and more demos are available at https://github.com/hht1996ok/ADMap.

GAM : Gradient Attention Module of Optimization for Point Clouds Analysis

In point cloud analysis tasks, the existing local feature aggregation descriptors (LFAD) are unable to fully utilize information in the neighborhood of central points. Previous methods rely solely on Euclidean distance to constrain the local aggregation process, which can be easily affected by abnormal points and cannot adequately fit with the original geometry of the point cloud. We believe that fine-grained geometric information (FGGI) is significant for the aggregation of local features. Therefore, we propose a gradient-based local attention module, termed as Gradient Attention Module (GAM), to address the aforementioned problem. Our proposed GAM simplifies the process that extracts gradient information in the neighborhood and uses the Zenith Angle matrix and Azimuth Angle matrix as explicit representation, which accelerates the module by 35X. Comprehensive experiments were conducted on five benchmark datasets to demonstrate the effectiveness and generalization capability of the proposed GAM for 3D point cloud analysis. Especially on S3DIS dataset, GAM achieves the best performance among current point-based models with mIoU/OA/mAcc of 74.4%/90.6%/83.2%, respectively.

CM-MLP: Cascade Multi-scale MLP with Axial Context Relation Encoder for Edge Segmentation of Medical Image

The convolutional-based methods provide good segmentation performance in the medical image segmentation task. However, those methods have the following challenges when dealing with the edges of the medical images: (1) Previous convolutional-based methods do not focus on the boundary relationship between foreground and background around the segmentation edge, which leads to the degradation of segmentation performance when the edge changes complexly. (2) The inductive bias of the convolutional layer cannot be adapted to complex edge changes and the aggregation of multiple-segmented areas, resulting in its performance improvement mostly limited to segmenting the body of segmented areas instead of the edge. To address these challenges, we propose the CM-MLP framework on MFI (Multi-scale Feature Interaction) block and ACRE (Axial Context Relation Encoder) block for accurate segmentation of the edge of medical image. In the MFI block, we propose the cascade multi-scale MLP (Cascade MLP) to process all local information from the deeper layers of the network simultaneously and utilize a cascade multi-scale mechanism to fuse discrete local information gradually. Then, the ACRE block is used to make the deep supervision focus on exploring the boundary relationship between foreground and background to modify the edge of the medical image. The segmentation accuracy (Dice) of our proposed CM-MLP framework reaches 96.96%, 96.76%, and 82.54% on three benchmark datasets: CVC-ClinicDB dataset, sub-Kvasir dataset, and our in-house dataset, respectively, which significantly outperform the state-of-the-art method. The source code and trained models will be available at https://github.com/ProgrammerHyy/CM-MLP.