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EdMCGS: Event-Driven Markov Chain Gaussian Splatting for Extreme-Low-Frame-Rate Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

We present EdMCGS (Event-driven Markov chain Gaussian Splatting), an end-to-end method for reconstructing dynamic 3D scenes from extreme-low-frame-rate RGB together with an event stream, which can then be rendered at any intermediate timestamp. Methods relying solely on RGB images generate numerous artifacts due to the lack of evidence from between consecutive frames. To supply this missing evidence, we model the scene motion as an event-driven Markov chain, in which the sparse RGB frames anchor the state at their own timestamps while the events recorded within an interval drive the transition across it. Since the transition reads the events of the current interval, it remains active at inference and produces the in-between motion of the 3D Gaussians directly from the events rather than by interpolation, which sets our method apart from prior work that uses events only as training-time supervision. The state is carried by a compact set of control points, each driven by the events sampled in the neighborhood of its own image projection, and a temporal local isometry term keeps the propagated motion locally rigid. Experiments on synthetic and real-world scenes show that EdMCGS outperforms both RGB-based and event-based baselines, while rendering in real time with far fewer Gaussians than the strongest event-based baseline. We release our source code and a new dataset at https://github.com/joseclipse/EdMCGS.

cs.CV

Analytical mobility edge in nonreciprocal quasiperiodic lattices with next-nearest-neighbor hopping

We investigate localization transitions and spectral topology in a one-dimensional non-Hermitian generalization of the Aubry-Andr\'{e} model in which both the nearest-neighbor and the next-nearest-neighbor hopping amplitudes are nonreciprocal. By extending the Fermi-surface point-matching method to nonreciprocal hopping, we derive a closed-form expression for the energy-dependent mobility edge in which the two nonreciprocity parameters are absorbed into exponentially renormalized effective hopping amplitudes. The mobility edge forms a single parabola in the energy--potential plane: nearest-neighbor nonreciprocity rigidly shifts the localization boundary toward stronger potentials, whereas next-nearest-neighbor nonreciprocity reduces the curvature of the boundary and thereby broadens the energy window in which extended and localized states coexist. Exact diagonalization confirms the analytical boundary for purely nearest-neighbor, purely next-nearest-neighbor, and combined nonreciprocity, and recovers the known Hermitian mobility edge in the reciprocal limit. We further analyze the spectral topology under periodic boundary conditions and show that the spectral winding numbers evaluated at base energies near the two band edges directly bracket the mixed phase: the winding number at the lower band edge drops when the mobility edge enters the spectrum and the first localized states appear, while the winding number at the upper band edge drops when the last extended states localize, delineating the full potential-strength window over which extended and localized states coexist. These results provide a compact analytical framework that connects energy-dependent localization, spectral topology, and nonreciprocity in quasiperiodic lattices, and they are directly testable in photonic, atomic, and electrical-circuit platforms.

cond-mat.dis-nn

FMRFusion: Frequency-Aware Multi-View Representation Learning for Heterogeneous Image Fusion

Infrared and visible image fusion aims to generate a composite image that retains significant target information and preserves detailed textures, integrating two heterogeneous modalities. Previous image fusion methods typically adopt a single-module stacking approach to extract features from the two modalities. However, these approaches may result in incomplete learning of their distinct characteristics, thereby limiting the fusion effectiveness and constrain ing robustness in real-world heterogeneous data scenarios. To address these challenges, we propose FMRFusion, a frequency-aware multi-view representation learning network for Heterogeneous Image Fusion. A Multi-Scale Struc tural Perception Module is introduced to effectively capture discriminative structures, extracting fine-grained local structures and essential contextual information. A bilinear frequency decomposition mechanism is employed to sepa rate features into high-frequency and low-frequency components, enabling joint modeling of local details and global representations across different frequency domains. Moreover, a Cross-View Complementary Interaction is incorpo rated to explicitly model and fuse the complementary characteristics between reflected light information and radiative intensity responses, facilitating effective cross-view interaction. We further improve the Performance of the fused results by flow matching, which progressively refines the fused features by learning the transformation from coarse data to high-quality representations. Extensive experiments conducted on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that FMRFusion achieves superior and consistent performance across a range of fusion tasks, especially in nighttime scenarios

cs.CV

Distilled Large Language Model-Driven Dynamic Sparse Expert Activation Mechanism

High inter-class similarity, extreme scale variation, and limited computational budgets hinder reliable visual recognition across diverse real-world data. Existing vision-centric and cross-modal approaches often rely on rigid fusion mechanisms and heavy annotation pipelines, leading to sub-optimal generalization. We propose the Distilled Large Language Model (LLM)-Driven Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (DS-MoE) framework, which integrates text-guided dynamic routing and lightweight multi-scale comprehension. The DS-MoE framework dynamically aligns textual semantics with defect-specific visual patterns through a sparse MoE architecture, where task-relevant experts are adaptively activated based on semantic relevance, resolving inter-class ambiguity. A lightweight MobileSAM encoder enables real-time inference while preserving multi-scale defect details. Extensive experiments on PCB, aluminum foil, and mold defect datasets demonstrate that our framework achieves superior performance compared to existing pure vision models. \textbf{DS-MoE} surpasses YOLOv8/YOLOX with gains of +13.9, +1.4, and +2.0 pp mAP@ 0.5:0.95 on BBMP, aluminum, and PCB, respectively, while also improving precision and recall.

cs.CV

Improving generative adversarial network inversion via fine-tuning GAN encoders

Generative adversarial networks (GANs) can synthesize high-quality (HQ) images, and GAN inversion is a technique that discovers how to invert given images back to latent space. While existing methods perform on StyleGAN inversion, they have limited performance and are not generalized to different GANs. To address these issues, we proposed a self-supervised method to pre-train and fine-tune GAN encoders. First, we designed an adaptive block to fit different encoder architectures for inverting diverse GANs. Then we pre-train GAN encoders using synthesized images and emphasize local regions through cropping images. Finally, we fine-tune the pre-trained GAN encoder for inverting real images. Compared with state-of-the-art methods, our method achieved better results that reconstructed high-quality images on mainstream GANs. Our code and pre-trained models are available at: https://github.com/disanda/Deep-GAN-Encoders.

cs.CV

Adaptively Aligned Image Captioning via Adaptive Attention Time

Recent neural models for image captioning usually employ an encoder-decoder framework with an attention mechanism. However, the attention mechanism in such a framework aligns one single (attended) image feature vector to one caption word, assuming one-to-one mapping from source image regions and target caption words, which is never possible. In this paper, we propose a novel attention model, namely Adaptive Attention Time (AAT), to align the source and the target adaptively for image captioning. AAT allows the framework to learn how many attention steps to take to output a caption word at each decoding step. With AAT, an image region can be mapped to an arbitrary number of caption words while a caption word can also attend to an arbitrary number of image regions. AAT is deterministic and differentiable, and doesn't introduce any noise to the parameter gradients. In this paper, we empirically show that AAT improves over state-of-the-art methods on the task of image captioning. Code is available at https://github.com/husthuaan/AAT.

cs.CV

Brain-Inspired Inference on Missing Video Sequence

In this paper, we propose a novel end-to-end architecture that could generate a variety of plausible video sequences correlating two given discontinuous frames. Our work is inspired by the human ability of inference. Specifically, given two static images, human are capable of inferring what might happen in between as well as present diverse versions of their inference. We firstly train our model to learn the transformation to understand the movement trends within given frames. For the sake of imitating the inference of human, we introduce a latent variable sampled from Gaussian distribution. By means of integrating different latent variables with learned transformation features, the model could learn more various possible motion modes. Then applying these motion modes on the original frame, we could acquire various corresponding intermediate video sequence. Moreover, the framework is trained in adversarial fashion with unsupervised learning. Evaluating on the moving Mnist dataset and the 2D Shapes dataset, we show that our model is capable of imitating the human inference to some extent.

cs.CV

Attention on Attention for Image Captioning

Attention mechanisms are widely used in current encoder/decoder frameworks of image captioning, where a weighted average on encoded vectors is generated at each time step to guide the caption decoding process. However, the decoder has little idea of whether or how well the attended vector and the given attention query are related, which could make the decoder give misled results. In this paper, we propose an Attention on Attention (AoA) module, which extends the conventional attention mechanisms to determine the relevance between attention results and queries. AoA first generates an information vector and an attention gate using the attention result and the current context, then adds another attention by applying element-wise multiplication to them and finally obtains the attended information, the expected useful knowledge. We apply AoA to both the encoder and the decoder of our image captioning model, which we name as AoA Network (AoANet). Experiments show that AoANet outperforms all previously published methods and achieves a new state-of-the-art performance of 129.8 CIDEr-D score on MS COCO Karpathy offline test split and 129.6 CIDEr-D (C40) score on the official online testing server. Code is available at https://github.com/husthuaan/AoANet.

cs.CV

ParNet: Position-aware Aggregated Relation Network for Image-Text matching

Exploring fine-grained relationship between entities(e.g. objects in image or words in sentence) has great contribution to understand multimedia content precisely. Previous attention mechanism employed in image-text matching either takes multiple self attention steps to gather correspondences or uses image objects (or words) as context to infer image-text similarity. However, they only take advantage of semantic information without considering that objects' relative position also contributes to image understanding. To this end, we introduce a novel position-aware relation module to model both the semantic and spatial relationship simultaneously for image-text matching in this paper. Given an image, our method utilizes the location of different objects to capture spatial relationship innovatively. With the combination of semantic and spatial relationship, it's easier to understand the content of different modalities (images and sentences) and capture fine-grained latent correspondences of image-text pairs. Besides, we employ a two-step aggregated relation module to capture interpretable alignment of image-text pairs. The first step, we call it intra-modal relation mechanism, in which we computes responses between different objects in an image or different words in a sentence separately; The second step, we call it inter-modal relation mechanism, in which the query plays a role of textual context to refine the relationship among object proposals in an image. In this way, our position-aware aggregated relation network (ParNet) not only knows which entities are relevant by attending on different objects (words) adaptively, but also adjust the inter-modal correspondence according to the latent alignments according to query's content. Our approach achieves the state-of-the-art results on MS-COCO dataset.

cs.CV

Local Patch Encoding-Based Method for Single Image Super-Resolution

Recent learning-based super-resolution (SR) methods often focus on dictionary learning or network training. In this paper, we discuss in detail a new SR method based on local patch encoding (LPE) instead of traditional dictionary learning. The proposed method consists of a learning stage and a reconstructing stage. In the learning stage, image patches are classified into different classes by means of the proposed LPE, and then a projection matrix is computed for each class by utilizing a simple constraint. In the reconstructing stage, an input LR patch can be simply reconstructed by computing its LPE code and then multiplying the corresponding projection matrix. Furthermore, we discuss the relationship between the proposed method and the anchored neighborhood regression methods; we also analyze the extendibility of the proposed method. The experimental results on several image sets demonstrate the effectiveness of the LPE-based methods.

cs.CV

Video Imagination from a Single Image with Transformation Generation

In this work, we focus on a challenging task: synthesizing multiple imaginary videos given a single image. Major problems come from high dimensionality of pixel space and the ambiguity of potential motions. To overcome those problems, we propose a new framework that produce imaginary videos by transformation generation. The generated transformations are applied to the original image in a novel volumetric merge network to reconstruct frames in imaginary video. Through sampling different latent variables, our method can output different imaginary video samples. The framework is trained in an adversarial way with unsupervised learning. For evaluation, we propose a new assessment metric $RIQA$. In experiments, we test on 3 datasets varying from synthetic data to natural scene. Our framework achieves promising performance in image quality assessment. The visual inspection indicates that it can successfully generate diverse five-frame videos in acceptable perceptual quality.

cs.CV

Long-Term Video Interpolation with Bidirectional Predictive Network

This paper considers the challenging task of long-term video interpolation. Unlike most existing methods that only generate few intermediate frames between existing adjacent ones, we attempt to speculate or imagine the procedure of an episode and further generate multiple frames between two non-consecutive frames in videos. In this paper, we present a novel deep architecture called bidirectional predictive network (BiPN) that predicts intermediate frames from two opposite directions. The bidirectional architecture allows the model to learn scene transformation with time as well as generate longer video sequences. Besides, our model can be extended to predict multiple possible procedures by sampling different noise vectors. A joint loss composed of clues in image and feature spaces and adversarial loss is designed to train our model. We demonstrate the advantages of BiPN on two benchmarks Moving 2D Shapes and UCF101 and report competitive results to recent approaches.

cs.CV

Beyond Monte Carlo Tree Search: Playing Go with Deep Alternative Neural Network and Long-Term Evaluation

Monte Carlo tree search (MCTS) is extremely popular in computer Go which determines each action by enormous simulations in a broad and deep search tree. However, human experts select most actions by pattern analysis and careful evaluation rather than brute search of millions of future nteractions. In this paper, we propose a computer Go system that follows experts way of thinking and playing. Our system consists of two parts. The first part is a novel deep alternative neural network (DANN) used to generate candidates of next move. Compared with existing deep convolutional neural network (DCNN), DANN inserts recurrent layer after each convolutional layer and stacks them in an alternative manner. We show such setting can preserve more contexts of local features and its evolutions which are beneficial for move prediction. The second part is a long-term evaluation (LTE) module used to provide a reliable evaluation of candidates rather than a single probability from move predictor. This is consistent with human experts nature of playing since they can foresee tens of steps to give an accurate estimation of candidates. In our system, for each candidate, LTE calculates a cumulative reward after several future interactions when local variations are settled. Combining criteria from the two parts, our system determines the optimal choice of next move. For more comprehensive experiments, we introduce a new professional Go dataset (PGD), consisting of 253233 professional records. Experiments on GoGoD and PGD datasets show the DANN can substantially improve performance of move prediction over pure DCNN. When combining LTE, our system outperforms most relevant approaches and open engines based on MCTS.

cs.AI