Weihong Zhong

Weihong Zhong, Mao Zheng, Duyu Tang et al.

Although large-scale video-language pre-training models, which usually build a global alignment between the video and the text, have achieved remarkable progress on various downstream tasks, the idea of adopting fine-grained information during the pre-training stage is not well explored. In this work, we propose STOA-VLP, a pre-training framework that jointly models object and action information across spatial and temporal dimensions. More specifically, the model regards object trajectories across frames and multiple action features from the video as fine-grained features. Besides, We design two auxiliary tasks to better incorporate both kinds of information into the pre-training process of the video-language model. The first is the dynamic object-text alignment task, which builds a better connection between object trajectories and the relevant noun tokens. The second is the spatial-temporal action set prediction, which guides the model to generate consistent action features by predicting actions found in the text. Extensive experiments on three downstream tasks (video captioning, text-video retrieval, and video question answering) demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed STOA-VLP (e.g. 3.7 Rouge-L improvements on MSR-VTT video captioning benchmark, 2.9% accuracy improvements on MSVD video question answering benchmark, compared to previous approaches).

Minzhe Huang, Changwei Nie, Weihong Zhong

In recent years, Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) has played a crucial role in preserving the security of face recognition technology. With the rise of counterfeit face generation techniques, the challenge posed by digitally edited faces to face anti-spoofing is escalating. Existing FAS technologies primarily focus on intercepting physically forged faces and lack a robust solution for cross-domain FAS challenges. Moreover, determining an appropriate threshold to achieve optimal deployment results remains an issue for intra-domain FAS. To address these issues, we propose a visualization method that intuitively reflects the training outcomes of models by visualizing the prediction results on datasets. Additionally, we demonstrate that employing data augmentation techniques, such as downsampling and Gaussian blur, can effectively enhance performance on cross-domain tasks. Building upon our data visualization approach, we also introduce a methodology for setting threshold values based on the distribution of the training dataset. Ultimately, our methods secured us second place in both the Unified Physical-Digital Face Attack Detection competition and the Snapshot Spectral Imaging Face Anti-spoofing contest. The training code is available at https://github.com/SeaRecluse/CVPRW2024.

Yuxuan Gu, Wenjie Wang, Xiaocheng Feng et al.

Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive instruction following capabilities, while still struggling to accurately manage the length of the generated text, which is a fundamental requirement in many real-world applications. Existing length control methods involve fine-tuning the parameters of LLMs, which is inefficient and suboptimal for practical use. In this paper, we propose a novel iterative sampling framework for text length control, integrating the Metropolis-Hastings algorithm with an importance sampling acceleration strategy. This framework efficiently and reliably regulates LLMs to generate length-constrained text without modifying the underlying parameters, thereby preserving the original capabilities of LLMs. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework achieves almost 100\% success rates of length control on Llama3.1 for tasks such as length-controlled abstractive summarization and length-constrained instruction following, with minimal additional computational overhead. This also highlights the significant potential of our method for precise length control across a broader range of applications, without compromising the versatility of LLMs.