ConsistencyTrack: A Robust Multi-Object Tracker with a Generation Strategy of Consistency Model

Multi-object tracking (MOT) is a critical technology in computer vision, designed to detect multiple targets in video sequences and assign each target a unique ID per frame. Existed MOT methods excel at accurately tracking multiple objects in real-time across various scenarios. However, these methods still face challenges such as poor noise resistance and frequent ID switches. In this research, we propose a novel ConsistencyTrack, joint detection and tracking(JDT) framework that formulates detection and association as a denoising diffusion process on perturbed bounding boxes. This progressive denoising strategy significantly improves the model's noise resistance. During the training phase, paired object boxes within two adjacent frames are diffused from ground-truth boxes to a random distribution, and then the model learns to detect and track by reversing this process. In inference, the model refines randomly generated boxes into detection and tracking results through minimal denoising steps. ConsistencyTrack also introduces an innovative target association strategy to address target occlusion. Experiments on the MOT17 and DanceTrack datasets demonstrate that ConsistencyTrack outperforms other compared methods, especially better than DiffusionTrack in inference speed and other performance metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/Tankowa/ConsistencyTrack.

Multi-method Integration with Confidence-based Weighting for Zero-shot Image Classification

This paper introduces a novel framework for zero-shot learning (ZSL), i.e., to recognize new categories that are unseen during training, by using a multi-model and multi-alignment integration method. Specifically, we propose three strategies to enhance the model's performance to handle ZSL: 1) Utilizing the extensive knowledge of ChatGPT and the powerful image generation capabilities of DALL-E to create reference images that can precisely describe unseen categories and classification boundaries, thereby alleviating the information bottleneck issue; 2) Integrating the results of text-image alignment and image-image alignment from CLIP, along with the image-image alignment results from DINO, to achieve more accurate predictions; 3) Introducing an adaptive weighting mechanism based on confidence levels to aggregate the outcomes from different prediction methods. Experimental results on multiple datasets, including CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, and TinyImageNet, demonstrate that our model can significantly improve classification accuracy compared to single-model approaches, achieving AUROC scores above 96% across all test datasets, and notably surpassing 99% on the CIFAR-10 dataset.

Reducing Domain Gap in Frequency and Spatial domain for Cross-modality Domain Adaptation on Medical Image Segmentation

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to learn a model trained on source domain and performs well on unlabeled target domain. In medical image segmentation field, most existing UDA methods depend on adversarial learning to address the domain gap between different image modalities, which is ineffective due to its complicated training process. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective UDA method based on frequency and spatial domain transfer uner multi-teacher distillation framework. In the frequency domain, we first introduce non-subsampled contourlet transform for identifying domain-invariant and domain-variant frequency components (DIFs and DVFs), and then keep the DIFs unchanged while replacing the DVFs of the source domain images with that of the target domain images to narrow the domain gap. In the spatial domain, we propose a batch momentum update-based histogram matching strategy to reduce the domain-variant image style bias. Experiments on two cross-modality medical image segmentation datasets (cardiac, abdominal) show that our proposed method achieves superior performance compared to state-of-the-art methods.

TransFuse: A Unified Transformer-based Image Fusion Framework using Self-supervised Learning

Image fusion is a technique to integrate information from multiple source images with complementary information to improve the richness of a single image. Due to insufficient task-specific training data and corresponding ground truth, most existing end-to-end image fusion methods easily fall into overfitting or tedious parameter optimization processes. Two-stage methods avoid the need of large amount of task-specific training data by training encoder-decoder network on large natural image datasets and utilizing the extracted features for fusion, but the domain gap between natural images and different fusion tasks results in limited performance. In this study, we design a novel encoder-decoder based image fusion framework and propose a destruction-reconstruction based self-supervised training scheme to encourage the network to learn task-specific features. Specifically, we propose three destruction-reconstruction self-supervised auxiliary tasks for multi-modal image fusion, multi-exposure image fusion and multi-focus image fusion based on pixel intensity non-linear transformation, brightness transformation and noise transformation, respectively. In order to encourage different fusion tasks to promote each other and increase the generalizability of the trained network, we integrate the three self-supervised auxiliary tasks by randomly choosing one of them to destroy a natural image in model training. In addition, we design a new encoder that combines CNN and Transformer for feature extraction, so that the trained model can exploit both local and global information. Extensive experiments on multi-modal image fusion, multi-exposure image fusion and multi-focus image fusion tasks demonstrate that our proposed method achieves the state-of-the-art performance in both subjective and objective evaluations. The code will be publicly available soon.