UniPortrait: A Unified Framework for Identity-Preserving Single- and Multi-Human Image Personalization

This paper presents UniPortrait, an innovative human image personalization framework that unifies single- and multi-ID customization with high face fidelity, extensive facial editability, free-form input description, and diverse layout generation. UniPortrait consists of only two plug-and-play modules: an ID embedding module and an ID routing module. The ID embedding module extracts versatile editable facial features with a decoupling strategy for each ID and embeds them into the context space of diffusion models. The ID routing module then combines and distributes these embeddings adaptively to their respective regions within the synthesized image, achieving the customization of single and multiple IDs. With a carefully designed two-stage training scheme, UniPortrait achieves superior performance in both single- and multi-ID customization. Quantitative and qualitative experiments demonstrate the advantages of our method over existing approaches as well as its good scalability, e.g., the universal compatibility with existing generative control tools. The project page is at https://aigcdesigngroup.github.io/UniPortrait-Page/ .

LIV-GaussMap: LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Fusion for Real-time 3D Radiance Field Map Rendering

We introduce an integrated precise LiDAR, Inertial, and Visual (LIV) multi-modal sensor fused mapping system that builds on the differentiable surface splatting to improve the mapping fidelity, quality, and structural accuracy. Notably, this is also a novel form of tightly coupled map for LiDAR-visual-inertial sensor fusion. This system leverages the complementary characteristics of LiDAR and visual data to capture the geometric structures of large-scale 3D scenes and restore their visual surface information with high fidelity. The initial poses for surface Gaussian scenes are obtained using a LiDAR-inertial system with size-adaptive voxels. Then, we optimized and refined the Gaussians by visual-derived photometric gradients to optimize the quality and density of LiDAR measurements. Our method is compatible with various types of LiDAR, including solid-state and mechanical LiDAR, supporting both repetitive and non-repetitive scanning modes. bolstering structure construction through LiDAR and facilitating real-time generation of photorealistic renderings across diverse LIV datasets. It showcases notable resilience and versatility in generating real-time photorealistic scenes potentially for digital twins and virtual reality while also holding potential applicability in real-time SLAM and robotics domains. We release our software and hardware and self-collected datasets on Github\footnote[3]{https://github.com/sheng00125/LIV-GaussMap} to benefit the community.

FastInst: A Simple Query-Based Model for Real-Time Instance Segmentation

Recent attention in instance segmentation has focused on query-based models. Despite being non-maximum suppression (NMS)-free and end-to-end, the superiority of these models on high-accuracy real-time benchmarks has not been well demonstrated. In this paper, we show the strong potential of query-based models on efficient instance segmentation algorithm designs. We present FastInst, a simple, effective query-based framework for real-time instance segmentation. FastInst can execute at a real-time speed (i.e., 32.5 FPS) while yielding an AP of more than 40 (i.e., 40.5 AP) on COCO test-dev without bells and whistles. Specifically, FastInst follows the meta-architecture of recently introduced Mask2Former. Its key designs include instance activation-guided queries, dual-path update strategy, and ground truth mask-guided learning, which enable us to use lighter pixel decoders, fewer Transformer decoder layers, while achieving better performance. The experiments show that FastInst outperforms most state-of-the-art real-time counterparts, including strong fully convolutional baselines, in both speed and accuracy. Code can be found at https://github.com/junjiehe96/FastInst .

Deep neural network based adaptive learning for switched systems

In this paper, we present a deep neural network based adaptive learning (DNN-AL) approach for switched systems. Currently, deep neural network based methods are actively developed for learning governing equations in unknown dynamic systems, but their efficiency can degenerate for switching systems, where structural changes exist at discrete time instants. In this new DNN-AL strategy, observed datasets are adaptively decomposed into subsets, such that no structural changes within each subset. During the adaptive procedures, DNNs are hierarchically constructed, and unknown switching time instants are gradually identified. Especially, network parameters at previous iteration steps are reused to initialize networks for the later iteration steps, which gives efficient training procedures for the DNNs. For the DNNs obtained through our DNN-AL, bounds of the prediction error are established. Numerical studies are conducted to demonstrate the efficiency of DNN-AL.