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9 papers

cs.CV2025

Walk and Read Less: Improving the Efficiency of Vision-and-Language Navigation via Tuning-Free Multimodal Token Pruning

Wenda Qin, Andrea Burns, Bryan A. Plummer +1

Large models achieve strong performance on Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, but are costly to run in resource-limited environments. Token pruning offers appealing tradeo…

cs.CV2025

Gen-AFFECT: Generation of Avatar Fine-grained Facial Expressions with Consistent identiTy

Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margrit Betke +1

Different forms of customized 2D avatars are widely used in gaming applications, virtual communication, education, and content creation. However, existing approaches often fail to…

cs.CV2025

LoRA-Loop: Closing the Synthetic Replay Cycle for Continual VLM Learning

Kaihong Wang, Donghyun Kim, Margrit Betke

Continual learning for vision-language models has achieved remarkable performance through synthetic replay, where samples are generated using Stable Diffusion to regularize during…

cs.CV2025

ExeChecker: Where Did I Go Wrong?

Yiwen Gu, Mahir Patel, Margrit Betke

In this paper, we present a contrastive learning based framework, ExeChecker, for the interpretation of rehabilitation exercises. Our work builds upon state-of-the-art advances in…

cs.CV2025

GenEAva: Generating Cartoon Avatars with Fine-Grained Facial Expressions from Realistic Diffusion-based Faces

Hao Yu, Rupayan Mallick, Margrit Betke +1

Cartoon avatars have been widely used in various applications, including social media, online tutoring, and gaming. However, existing cartoon avatar datasets and generation methods…

cs.CV2025

DebiasPI: Inference-time Debiasing by Prompt Iteration of a Text-to-Image Generative Model

Sarah Bonna, Yu-Cheng Huang, Ekaterina Novozhilova +11

Ethical intervention prompting has emerged as a tool to counter demographic biases of text-to-image generative AI models. Existing solutions either require to retrain the model or…