Jeong-Hwan Kim

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2 Papers

11.8CVOct 10, 2025
Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Guided Image Warping

Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Utkarsh Mishra et al.

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often miss small details and spatial relations in cluttered scenes, leading to errors in fine-grained perceptual grounding. We introduce AttWarp, a lightweight method that allocates more resolution to query-relevant content while compressing less informative areas, all while preserving global context. At test time, the approach uses an MLLM's cross-modal attention to perform rectilinear warping of the input image, reallocating spatial resolution toward regions the model deems important, without changing model weights or architecture. This attention-guided warping preserves all original image information but redistributes it non-uniformly, so small objects and subtle relationships become easier for the same model to read while the global layout remains intact. Across five benchmarks (TextVQA, GQA, DocVQA, POPE, MMMU) and four MLLMs (LLaVA, Qwen-VL, InternVL, and InstructBLIP), AttWarp consistently improves accuracy, strengthens compositional reasoning, and reduces hallucinations, outperforming four competitive baselines that manipulate raw images at test time. Together, these results show that attention-guided warping prioritizes information relevant to the query while preserving context, and that the same MLLMs perform better when given such warped inputs.

26.5CVJan 18, 2024
ParaHome: Parameterizing Everyday Home Activities Towards 3D Generative Modeling of Human-Object Interactions

Jeonghwan Kim, Jisoo Kim, Jeonghyeon Na et al.

To enable machines to understand the way humans interact with the physical world in daily life, 3D interaction signals should be captured in natural settings, allowing people to engage with multiple objects in a range of sequential and casual manipulations. To achieve this goal, we introduce our ParaHome system designed to capture dynamic 3D movements of humans and objects within a common home environment. Our system features a multi-view setup with 70 synchronized RGB cameras, along with wearable motion capture devices including an IMU-based body suit and hand motion capture gloves. By leveraging the ParaHome system, we collect a new human-object interaction dataset, including 486 minutes of sequences across 207 captures with 38 participants, offering advancements with three key aspects: (1) capturing body motion and dexterous hand manipulation motion alongside multiple objects within a contextual home environment; (2) encompassing sequential and concurrent manipulations paired with text descriptions; and (3) including articulated objects with multiple parts represented by 3D parameterized models. We present detailed design justifications for our system, and perform key generative modeling experiments to demonstrate the potential of our dataset.