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Prevailing scene coordinate regression methods for LiDAR localization suffer from localization ambiguities, as distinct locations can exhibit similar geometric signatures -- a challenge that current geometry-based regression approaches have yet to solve. Recent vision-language models show that textual descriptions can enrich scene understanding, supplying potential localization cues missing from point cloud geometries. In this paper, we propose GTR-Loc, a novel text-assisted LiDAR localization framework that effectively generates and integrates geospatial text regularization to enhance localization accuracy. We propose two novel designs: a Geospatial Text Generator that produces discrete pose-aware text descriptions, and a LiDAR-Anchored Text Embedding Refinement module that dynamically constructs view-specific embeddings conditioned on current LiDAR features. The geospatial text embeddings act as regularization to effectively reduce localization ambiguities. Furthermore, we introduce a Modality Reduction Distillation strategy to transfer textual knowledge. It enables high-performance LiDAR-only localization during inference, without requiring runtime text generation. Extensive experiments on challenging large-scale outdoor datasets, including QEOxford, Oxford Radar RobotCar, and NCLT, demonstrate the effectiveness of GTR-Loc. Our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, notably achieving a 9.64%/8.04%


BackdoorDM: AComprehensive Benchmark for Backdoor Learning on Diffusion Model

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Backdoor learning is a critical research topic for understanding the vulnerabilities of deep neural networks. While the diffusion model (DM) has been broadly deployed in public over the past few years, the understanding of its backdoor vulnerability is still in its infancy compared to the extensive studies in discriminative models. Recently, many different backdoor attack and defense methods have been proposed for DMs, but a comprehensive benchmark for backdoor learning on DMs is still lacking. This absence makes it difficult to conduct fair comparisons and thorough evaluations of the existing approaches, thus hindering future research progress. To address this issue, we propose BackdoorDM, the first comprehensive benchmark designed for backdoor learning on DMs. It comprises nine state-ofthe-art (SOTA) attack methods, four SOTA defense strategies, and three useful visualization analysis tools.



SnapMoGen: Human Motion Generation from Expressive Texts

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Text-to-motion generation has experienced remarkable progress in recent years. However, current approaches remain limited to synthesizing motion from short or general text prompts, primarily due to dataset constraints. This limitation undermines fine-grained controllability and generalization to unseen prompts. In this paper, we introduce SnapMoGen, a new text-motion dataset featuring highquality motion capture data paired with accurate, expressive textual annotations. The dataset comprises 20K motion clips totaling 44 hours, accompanied by 122K detailed textual descriptions averaging 48 words per description (vs.


Supplementary Materials for MUVR: AMulti-Modal Untrimmed Video Retrieval Benchmark with Multi-Level Visual Correspondence Anonymous Author(s) Affiliation Address email

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In this supplementary material, we elaborate on the MLLMs prompting details in Section 1. We1 further illustrate the annotation instructions in Section 2. Then, some visualization examples are2 provided in Section 3. Limitations and social impact are introduced in Section 4.3 The evaluation prompts for MLLMs are listed in Table 1 and 2. Although we attempted to maintain5 consistency across models, slight variations were necessary due to differing prompting requirements.6 We take the relationship annotation of9 the News partition as an example, while other partitions have different visual correspondences.10 3 Visualization11 Figure 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 provide several relevant examples of different partitions from MUVR, with a12 text description of the query video and the tag of each video.13 MUVR relies on human annotators to annotate videos with rich semantics.


MUVR: AMulti-Modal Untrimmed Video Retrieval Benchmark with Multi-Level Visual Correspondence

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We propose the Multi-modal Untrimmed Video Retrieval task, along with a new benchmark (MUVR) to advance video retrieval for long-video platforms. MUVR aims to retrieve untrimmed videos containing relevant segments using multi-modal queries. It has the following features: 1) Practical retrieval paradigm: MUVR supports video-centric multi-modal queries, expressing fine-grained retrieval needs through long text descriptions, video tag prompts, and mask prompts. It adopts a one-to-many retrieval paradigm and focuses on untrimmed videos, tailored for long-video platform applications.


VideoLucy: Deep Memory Backtracking for Long Video Understanding

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Recent studies have shown that agent-based systems leveraging large language models (LLMs) for key information retrieval and integration have emerged as a promising approach for long video understanding. However, these systems face two major challenges. First, they typically perform modeling and reasoning on individual frames, struggling to capture the temporal context of consecutive frames. Second, to reduce the cost of dense frame-level captioning, they adopt sparse frame sampling, which risks discarding crucial information. To overcome these limitations, we propose VideoLucy, a deep memory backtracking framework for long video understanding.


Object-centric binding in Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining

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Recent advances in vision language models (VLM) have been driven by contrastive models such as CLIP, which learn to associate visual information with their corresponding text descriptions. However, these models have limitations in understanding complex compositional scenes involving multiple objects and their spatial relationships. To address these challenges, we propose a novel approach that diverges from commonly used strategies that rely on the design of finegrained hard-negative augmentations. Instead, our work focuses on integrating inductive biases into the pretraining of CLIP-like models to improve their compositional understanding. To that end, we introduce a binding module that connects a scene graph, derived from a text description, with a slot-structured image representation, facilitating a structured similarity assessment between the two modalities.


3D-Agent: A Tri-Modal Multi-Agent Responsive Framework for Comprehensive 3D Object Annotation

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Driven by the applications in autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, 3D object annotation is a critical task compared to 2D annotation, such as spatial complexity, occlusion, and viewpoint inconsistency.


Uni-ControlNet: All-in-One Control to Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

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Text-to-Image diffusion models have made tremendous progress over the past two years, enabling the generation of highly realistic images based on open-domain text descriptions. However, despite their success, text descriptions often struggle to adequately convey detailed controls, even when composed of long and complex texts. Moreover, recent studies have also shown that these models face challenges in understanding such complex texts and generating the corresponding images. Therefore, there is a growing need to enable more control modes beyond text description. In this paper, we introduce Uni-ControlNet, a unified framework that allows for the simultaneous utilization of different local controls (e.g., edge maps, depth map, segmentation masks) and global controls (e.g., CLIP image embeddings) in a flexible and composable manner within one single model. Unlike existing methods, Uni-ControlNet only requires the fine-tuning of two additional adapters upon frozen pre-trained text-to-image diffusion models, eliminating the huge cost of training from scratch. Moreover, thanks to some dedicated adapter designs, Uni-ControlNet only necessitates a constant number (i.e., 2) of adapters, regardless of the number of local or global controls used. This not only reduces the fine-tuning costs and model size, making it more suitable for real-world deployment, but also facilitate composability of different conditions. Through both quantitative and qualitative comparisons, Uni-ControlNet demonstrates its superiority over existing methods in terms of controllability, generation quality and composability.