Document images are a ubiquitous source of data where the text is organized in a complex hierarchical structure ranging from fine granularity (e.g., words), medium granularity (e.g., regions such as paragraphs or figures), to coarse granularity (e.g., the whole page). The spatial hierarchical relationships between content at different levels of granularity are crucial for document image understanding tasks. Existing methods learn features from either word-level or region-level but fail to consider both simultaneously. Word-level models are restricted by the fact that they originate from pure-text language models, which only encode the word-level context. In contrast, region-level models attempt to encode regions corresponding to paragraphs or text blocks into a single embedding, but they perform worse with additional word-level features. To deal with these issues, we propose MGDoc, a new multi-modal multi-granular pre-training framework that encodes page-level, region-level, and word-level information at the same time. MGDoc uses a unified text-visual encoder to obtain multi-modal features across different granularities, which makes it possible to project the multi-granular features into the same hyperspace. To model the region-word correlation, we design a cross-granular attention mechanism and specific pre-training tasks for our model to reinforce the model of learning the hierarchy between regions and words. Experiments demonstrate that our proposed model can learn better features that perform well across granularities and lead to improvements in downstream tasks.

In dense image segmentation tasks (e.g., semantic, panoptic), existing methods can hardly generalize well to unseen image domains, predefined classes, and image resolution & quality variations. Motivated by these observations, we construct a large-scale entity segmentation dataset to explore fine-grained entity segmentation, with a strong focus on open-world and high-quality dense segmentation. The dataset contains images spanning diverse image domains and resolutions, along with high-quality mask annotations for training and testing. Given the high-quality and -resolution nature of the dataset, we propose CropFormer for high-quality segmentation, which can improve mask prediction using high-res image crops that provide more fine-grained image details than the full image. CropFormer is the first query-based Transformer architecture that can effectively ensemble mask predictions from multiple image crops, by learning queries that can associate the same entities across the full image and its crop. With CropFormer, we achieve a significant AP gain of $1.9$ on the challenging fine-grained entity segmentation task. The dataset and code will be released at http://luqi.info/entityv2.github.io/.

In this paper, we introduce a novel concept of user-entity differential privacy (UeDP) to provide formal privacy protection simultaneously to both sensitive entities in textual data and data owners in learning natural language models (NLMs). To preserve UeDP, we developed a novel algorithm, called UeDP-Alg, optimizing the trade-off between privacy loss and model utility with a tight sensitivity bound derived from seamlessly combining user and sensitive entity sampling processes. An extensive theoretical analysis and evaluation show that our UeDP-Alg outperforms baseline approaches in model utility under the same privacy budget consumption on several NLM tasks, using benchmark datasets.

视频场景图（Vidsgg）旨在将视频内容解析到场景图中，其中涉及对视频中的时尚上下文信息进行建模。但是，由于数据集中的长尾训练数据，现有Vidsgg模型的概括性能可能会受到时空条件偏置问题的影响。在这项工作中，从元学习的角度来看，我们提出了一个新颖的元视频场景图（MVSGG）框架来解决这种偏见问题。具体而言，要处理各种类型的时空条件偏差，我们的框架首先构建了一个支持集和一组查询集，其中每个查询集的数据分布与支持集W.R.T.的数据分布不同。一种条件偏见。然后，通过执行新颖的元训练和测试过程，以优化模型，以在支持集的训练后在这些查询集上获得良好的测试性能，我们的框架可以有效地指导该模型学会对偏见进行良好的概括。广泛的实验证明了我们提出的框架的功效。

为了提高实例级别检测/分割性能，现有的自我监督和半监督方法从未标记的数据提取非常任务 - 无关或非常任务特定的训练信号。我们认为这两种方法在任务特异性频谱的两端是任务性能的次优。利用太少的任务特定的培训信号导致底下地区任务的地面真理标签导致磨损，而相反的原因会在地面真理标签上过度装修。为此，我们提出了一种新的类别无关的半监督预测（CASP）框架，在提取来自未标记数据的训练信号中实现更有利的任务特异性平衡。与半监督学习相比，CASP通过忽略伪标签中的类信息并具有仅使用任务 - 不相关的未标记数据的单独预先预订阶段来减少训练信号的任务特异性。另一方面，CASP通过利用盒子/面具级伪标签来保留适量的任务特异性。因此，我们的预磨模模型可以更好地避免在下游任务上的FineTuned时避免在地面真理标签上抵抗/过度拟合。使用3.6M未标记的数据，我们在对象检测上实现了4.7％的显着性能增益。我们的预制模型还展示了对其他检测和分割任务/框架的优异可转移性。

培训文本到图像生成模型中的主要挑战之一是需要大量的高质量图像文本对。虽然图像样本通常很容易接近，但相关的文本描述通常需要仔细的人类标题，这是特别的 - 耗时和成本耗费。在本文中，我们提出了第一项工作来培训没有任何文本数据的文本到图像生成模型。我们的方法利用了强大的预训练剪辑模型的良好对齐的多模态语义空间：通过从图像特征生成文本特征，无缝地减轻了文本调节的要求。进行广泛的实验以说明所提出的方法的有效性。我们在标准的文本到图像生成任务中获得最先进的结果。重要的是，拟议的无语模型优于具有完整图像文本对训练的大多数现有型号。此外，我们的方法可以应用于微调预先训练的模型，它可以节省培训文本到图像生成模型的培训时间和成本。我们预先接受的模型在MS-Coco DataSet上获得竞争激烈的结果，在零拍摄的图像集中在MS-Coco DataSet上产生竞争结果，但距离最近提出的大型Dall-E型号的模型大小和培训数据大小约为1％。

开放词汇实例分段旨在分割没有掩码注释的新型类。这是减少艰苦的人类监督的重要一步。大多数现有的作品首先返回覆盖许多小说类的标题图像模型，然后在带有掩模注释的有限基础类上的Finetune。然而，单独从标题预先预先估望中学到的高级文本信息无法有效地编码像素明智分割所需的细节。为解决此问题，我们提出了一种跨模型伪标签框架，它通过在标题中对齐单词语义来生成培训伪掩模，其中具有图像中的对象掩码的可视特征。因此，我们的框架能够通过他们的单词语义来标记新颖的类别来自动训练学生模型。为了考虑伪掩模中的噪声，我们设计了一种强大的学生模型，通过估计掩模噪声水平来选择性地蒸馏掩模知识，因此减轻了嘈杂的伪掩模的不利影响。通过广泛的实验，我们展示了我们框架的有效性，我们在MS-Coco上显着提高了地图得分4.5％，与最先进的大规模打开图像和概念标题数据集有5.1％。

我们介绍了一个新的图像分段任务，称为实体分段（ES），该任务旨在在不预测其语义标签的情况下划分图像中的所有视觉实体（对象和填充）。通过删除类标签预测的需要，对此类任务培训的模型可以更多地关注提高分割质量。它具有许多实际应用，例如图像操纵和编辑，其中分割掩模的质量至关重要，但类标签不太重要。我们通过统一的方式调查第一次研究，以调查卷大中心的代表对分割事物和东西的可行性，并显示这种代表在es的背景下非常好。更具体地说，我们提出了一种类似的完全卷积的架构，具有两种新颖的模块，专门设计用于利用es的类无话和非重叠要求。实验表明，在分割质量方面设计和培训的模型显着优于流行的专用Panoptic分段模型。此外，可以在多个数据集的组合中容易地培训ES模型，而无需解决数据集合并中的标签冲突，并且在一个或多个数据集中培训的模型可以概括到未经看管域的其他测试数据集。代码已在https://github.com/dvlab-research/entity发布。

Large training data and expensive model tweaking are standard features of deep learning for images. As a result, data owners often utilize cloud resources to develop large-scale complex models, which raises privacy concerns. Existing solutions are either too expensive to be practical or do not sufficiently protect the confidentiality of data and models. In this paper, we study and compare novel \emph{image disguising} mechanisms, DisguisedNets and InstaHide, aiming to achieve a better trade-off among the level of protection for outsourced DNN model training, the expenses, and the utility of data. DisguisedNets are novel combinations of image blocktization, block-level random permutation, and two block-level secure transformations: random multidimensional projection (RMT) and AES pixel-level encryption (AES). InstaHide is an image mixup and random pixel flipping technique \cite{huang20}. We have analyzed and evaluated them under a multi-level threat model. RMT provides a better security guarantee than InstaHide, under the Level-1 adversarial knowledge with well-preserved model quality. In contrast, AES provides a security guarantee under the Level-2 adversarial knowledge, but it may affect model quality more. The unique features of image disguising also help us to protect models from model-targeted attacks. We have done an extensive experimental evaluation to understand how these methods work in different settings for different datasets.

A storyboard is a roadmap for video creation which consists of shot-by-shot images to visualize key plots in a text synopsis. Creating video storyboards however remains challenging which not only requires association between high-level texts and images, but also demands for long-term reasoning to make transitions smooth across shots. In this paper, we propose a new task called Text synopsis to Video Storyboard (TeViS) which aims to retrieve an ordered sequence of images to visualize the text synopsis. We construct a MovieNet-TeViS benchmark based on the public MovieNet dataset. It contains 10K text synopses each paired with keyframes that are manually selected from corresponding movies by considering both relevance and cinematic coherence. We also present an encoder-decoder baseline for the task. The model uses a pretrained vision-and-language model to improve high-level text-image matching. To improve coherence in long-term shots, we further propose to pre-train the decoder on large-scale movie frames without text. Experimental results demonstrate that our proposed model significantly outperforms other models to create text-relevant and coherent storyboards. Nevertheless, there is still a large gap compared to human performance suggesting room for promising future work.