GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
AdaSpark: Adaptive Sparsity for Efficient Long-Video Understanding
Authors: Handong Li; Zikang Liu; Longteng Guo; Tongtian Yue; Yepeng Tang; Xinxin Zhu; Chuanyang Zheng; Ziming Wang; Zhibin Wang; Jun Song; Cheng Yu; Bo Zheng; Jing Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Processing long-form videos with Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) is computationally prohibitive. Current efficiency methods often compromise fine-grained perception through irreversible information disposal or inhibit long-range temporal modeling via rigid, predefined sparse patterns. This paper introduces AdaSpark, an adaptive sparsity framework designed to address these limitations. AdaSpark first partitions video inputs into 3D spatio-temporal cubes. It then employs two co-designed, context-aware components: (1) Adaptive Cube-Selective Attention (AdaS-Attn), which dynamically selects a subset of relevant video cubes to attend for each query token, and (2) Adaptive Token-Selective FFN (AdaS-FFN), which selectively processes only the most salient tokens within each cube. An entropy-based (Top-p) selection mechanism adaptively allocates computational resources based on input complexity. Experiments demonstrate that AdaSpark significantly reduces computational load by up to 57% FLOPs while maintaining comparable performance to dense models and preserving fine-grained, long-range dependencies, as validated on challenging hour-scale video benchmarks.
Solvability of the Viewing Graph Under the Affine Camera Model
Authors: Gabriele Pedroni; Rakshith Madhavan; Federica Arrigoni
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: In this paper we focus on the viewing graph, which is used to represent cameras (as nodes) and their pairwise relationships (as edges) in the context of Structure from Motion. By analyzing this graph, it is possible to establish if the available pairwise relationships (e.g., fundamental matrices in the uncalibrated case) are theoretically enough to uniquely determine the cameras, in which case the graph is termed "solvable". Previous results considered calibrated and uncalibrated settings, whereas other camera models have not been explored in the context of viewing graph solvability: this work represents the first study under the affine camera model. We provide a characterization of the problem in terms of a linear system, from which we derive a practical method to check affine solvability. We complement this by some theoretical results providing sufficient/necessary conditions for affine solvability, in order to give further insights on the problem. Thanks to our experiments, we analyze synthetic graphs and real graphs coming from structure-from-motion datasets, where we focus on understanding the differences among different camera models (calibrated, uncalibrated and affine) in terms of solvability. In this context, we also raise an open research question and conjecture a possible answer, which is supported by empirical evidence.
Seeing Beyond 8bits: Subjective and Objective Quality Assessment of HDR-UGC Videos
Authors: Shreshth Saini; Bowen Chen; Yilin Wang; Neil Birkbeck; Balu Adsumilli; Alan C. Bovik
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: High Dynamic Range (HDR) user-generated (UGC) videos are rapidly proliferating across social platforms, yet most perceptual video quality assessment (VQA) systems remain tailored to Standard Dynamic Range (SDR). HDR's higher bit depth, wide color gamut, and elevated luminance range expose distortions such as near-black crushing, highlight clipping, banding, and exposure flicker that amplify UGC artifacts and challenge SDR models. To catalyze progress, we curate HDR-UGC-44K, a large-scale subjective dataset of ~44K videos from 6.5K sources with >1.5M crowd ratings, spanning diverse scenes, capture conditions, and compression settings. We further introduce HDR-Q, the first Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) for HDR-UGC VQA. We propose (i) a novel HDR-aware vision encoder to produce HDR-sensitive embeddings, and (ii) HDR-Aware Policy Optimization (HAPO), an RL finetuning framework that anchors reasoning to HDR cues. HAPO augments GRPO via an HDR-SDR contrastive KL that encourages token reliance on HDR inputs and a gaussian weighted regression reward for fine-grained MOS calibration. Across HDR-UGC-44K and public HDR-VQA benchmarks, HDR-Q delivers state-of-the-art performance. Project page: https://shreshthsaini.github.io/Beynod8Bits
Direction-aware 3D Large Multimodal Models
Authors: Quan Liu; Weihao Xuan; Junjue Wang; Naoto Yokoya; Ling Shao; Shijian Lu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D large multimodal models (3D LMMs) rely heavily on ego poses for enabling directional question-answering and spatial reasoning. However, most existing point cloud benchmarks contain rich directional queries but lack the corresponding ego poses, making them inherently ill-posed in 3D large multimodal modelling. In this work, we redefine a new and rigorous paradigm that enables direction-aware 3D LMMs by identifying and supplementing ego poses into point cloud benchmarks and transforming the corresponding point cloud data according to the identified ego poses. We enable direction-aware 3D LMMs with two novel designs. The first is PoseRecover, a fully automatic pose recovery pipeline that matches questions with ego poses from RGB-D video extrinsics via object-frustum intersection and visibility check with Z-buffers. The second is PoseAlign that transforms the point cloud data to be aligned with the identified ego poses instead of either injecting ego poses into textual prompts or introducing pose-encoded features in the projection layers. Extensive experiments show that our designs yield consistent improvements across multiple 3D LMM backbones such as LL3DA, LL3DA-SONATA, Chat-Scene, and 3D-LLAVA, improving ScanRefer mIoU by 30.0% and Scan2Cap LLM-as-judge accuracy by 11.7%. In addition, our approach is simple, generic, and training-efficient, requiring only instruction tuning while establishing a strong baseline for direction-aware 3D-LMMs.
DreamingComics: A Story Visualization Pipeline via Subject and Layout Customized Generation using Video Models
Authors: Patrick Kwon; Chen Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current story visualization methods tend to position subjects solely by text and face challenges in maintaining artistic consistency. To address these limitations, we introduce DreamingComics, a layout-aware story visualization framework. We build upon a pretrained video diffusion-transformer (DiT) model, leveraging its spatiotemporal priors to enhance identity and style consistency. For layout-based position control, we propose RegionalRoPE, a region-aware positional encoding scheme that re-indexes embeddings based on the target layout. Additionally, we introduce a masked condition loss to further constrain each subject's visual features to their designated region. To infer layouts from natural language scripts, we integrate an LLM-based layout generator trained to produce comic-style layouts, enabling flexible and controllable layout conditioning. We present a comprehensive evaluation of our approach, showing a 29.2% increase in character consistency and 36.2% increase in style similarity compared to previous methods, while displaying high spatial accuracy.
DeAR: Fine-Grained VLM Adaptation by Decomposing Attention Head Roles
Authors: Yiming Ma; Hongkun Yang; Lionel Z. Wang; Bin Chen; Weizhi Xian; Jianzhi Teng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Prompt learning is a dominant paradigm for adapting pre-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to downstream tasks. However, existing methods often rely on a simplistic, layer-centric view, assuming shallow layers capture general features while deep layers handle task-specific knowledge. This assumption results in uncontrolled interactions between learnable tokens and original tokens. Task-specific knowledge could degrade the model's core generalization and creates a trade-off between task adaptation and the preservation of zero-shot generalization. To address this, we challenge the layer-centric view and propose **DeAR**, a framework that achieves fine-grained VLM adaptation by **De**composing **A**ttention head **R**oles. We posit that the functional specialization within VLMs occurs not between layers, but at the finer-grained level of individual attention heads in the deeper layers. Based on this insight, we introduce a novel metric, Concept Entropy, to systematically classify attention heads into distinct functional roles: *Attribute*, *Generalization*, and *Mixed*. Guided by these roles, we introduce specialized attribute tokens and a Role-Based Attention Mask mechanism to precisely control information flow, ensuring generalization heads remain isolated from task-specific knowledge. We further incorporate a Task-Adaptive Fusion Strategy for inference. Extensive experiments on fifteen datasets show that DeAR achieves a strong balance between task adaptation and generalization, outperforming previous methods across various tasks.
Thinking in Uncertainty: Mitigating Hallucinations in MLRMs with Latent Entropy-Aware Decoding
Authors: Zhongxing Xu; Zhonghua Wang; Zhe Qian; Dachuan Shi; Feilong Tang; Ming Hu; Shiyan Su; Xiaocheng Zou; Wei Feng; Dwarikanath Mahapatra; Yifan Peng; Minquan Lin; Zongyuan Ge
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent advancements in multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) have significantly improved performance in visual question answering. However, we observe that transition words (e.g., because, however, and wait) are closely associated with hallucinations and tend to exhibit high-entropy states. We argue that adequate contextual reasoning information can be directly extracted from the token probability distribution. Inspired by superposed representation theory, we propose leveraging latent superposed reasoning to integrate multiple candidate semantics and maintain latent reasoning trajectories. The hypothesis is that reliance on discrete textual inputs may drive the model toward sequential explicit reasoning, underutilizing dense contextual cues during high-entropy reasoning stages. Therefore, we propose constructing rich semantic representations from the token probability distributions to enhance in-context reasoning. With this goal, we present Latent Entropy-Aware Decoding (LEAD), an efficient plug-and-play decoding strategy that leverages semantic context to achieve reliable reasoning. The heart of our method lies in entropy-aware reasoning mode switching. The model employs probability-weighted continuous embeddings under high-entropy states and transitions back to discrete token embeddings as entropy decreases. Moreover, we propose a prior-guided visual anchor injection strategy that encourages the model to focus on visual information. Extensive experiments show that LEAD effectively mitigates hallucinations across various MLRMs on multiple benchmarks.
Hierarchical Action Learning for Weakly-Supervised Action Segmentation
Authors: Junxian Huang; Ruichu Cai; Juntao Fang; Hao Zhu; Boyan Xu; Weilin Chen; Zijian Li; Shenghua Gao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Humans perceive actions through key transitions that structure actions across multiple abstraction levels, whereas machines, relying on visual features, tend to over-segment. This highlights the difficulty of enabling hierarchical reasoning in video understanding. Interestingly, we observe that lower-level visual and high-level action latent variables evolve at different rates, with low-level visual variables changing rapidly, while high-level action variables evolve more slowly, making them easier to identify. Building on this insight, we propose the Hierarchical Action Learning (HAL) model for weakly-supervised action segmentation. Our approach introduces a hierarchical causal data generation process, where high-level latent action govern the dynamics of low-level visual features. To model these varying timescales effectively, we introduce deterministic processes to align these latent variables over time. The HAL model employs a hierarchical pyramid transformer to capture both visual features and latent variables, and a sparse transition constraint is applied to enforce the slower dynamics of high-level action variables. This mechanism enhances the identification of these latent variables over time. Under mild assumptions, we prove that these latent action variables are strictly identifiable. Experimental results on several benchmarks show that the HAL model significantly outperforms existing methods for weakly-supervised action segmentation, confirming its practical effectiveness in real-world applications.
Seeing Both Sides: Towards Bidirectional Semantic Alignment for Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation
Authors: Guohui Zhang; Fuming Sun; Yu Zhao; Yuqiu Kong; Jing Sun; Fasheng Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) aims to segment camouflaged objects from unseen categories under textual guidance precisely. However, existing methods often employ a unidirectional interaction strategy, where textual prompts guide the matching of visual features. Such a design neglects the bidirectional interaction between visual and language modalities, making the model vulnerable to the semantic gap between image-level textual semantics and pixel-level segmentation cues, which in turn leads to severe semantic confusion in complex camouflaged scenarios. To address this challenge, we propose BaCLIP, a novel bidirectional semantic alignment framework for OVCOS. At its core lies the Mutual Refinement and Enhancement Module (MREM), which establishes bidirectional cross-attention between visual and textual features, enabling mutual semantic calibration to resolve ambiguity and strengthen cross-modal alignment. Moreover, we introduce an Adaptive Prompt that transforms refined textual embeddings into semantic-aware prompts for Segment Anything Model (SAM), enabling direct textual guidance and improving mask precision. Experimental results on the OVCamo benchmark demonstrate that BaCLIP consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance with a compact architecture, effectively mitigating semantic confusion and advancing the understanding of cross-modal camouflage perception. Our code is released at https://github.com/okmaybach/BaCLIP-CVPR2026.
ELITE: Efficient Gaussian Head Avatar from a Monocular Video via Learned Initialization and Test-time Generative Adaptation
Authors: Kim Youwang; Lee Hyoseok; Park Subin; Gerard Pons-Moll; Tae-Hyun Oh
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We introduce ELITE, an Efficient Gaussian head avatar synthesis from a monocular video via Learned Initialization and TEst-time generative adaptation. Prior works rely either on a 3D data prior or a 2D generative prior to compensate for missing visual cues in monocular videos. However, 3D data prior methods often struggle to generalize in-the-wild, while 2D generative prior methods are computationally heavy and prone to identity hallucination. We identify a complementary synergy between these two priors and design an efficient system that achieves high-fidelity animatable avatar synthesis with strong in-the-wild generalization. Specifically, we introduce a feed-forward Mesh2Gaussian Prior Model (MGPM) that enables fast initialization of a Gaussian avatar. To further bridge the domain gap at test time, we design a test-time generative adaptation stage, leveraging both real and synthetic images as supervision. Unlike previous full diffusion denoising strategies that are slow and hallucination-prone, we propose a rendering-guided single-step diffusion enhancer that restores missing visual details, grounded on Gaussian avatar renderings. Our experiments demonstrate that ELITE produces visually superior avatars to prior works, even for challenging expressions, while achieving 60x faster synthesis than the 2D generative prior method.
ParaUni: Enhance Generation in Unified Multimodal Model with Reinforcement-driven Hierarchical Parallel Information Interaction
Authors: Jiangtong Tan; Lin Liu; Jie Huang; Xiaopeng Zhang; Qi Tian; Feng Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Unified multimodal models significantly improve visual generation by combining vision-language models (VLMs) with diffusion models. However, existing methods struggle to fully balance sufficient interaction and flexible implementation due to vast representation difference. Considering abundant and hierarchical information in VLM's layers from low-level details to high-level semantics, we propose ParaUni. It extracts features from variants VLM's layers in a Parallel way for comprehensive information interaction and retains a flexible separation architecture to enhance generation in Unified multimodal model. Concretely, visual features from all VLM's layers are fed in parallel into a Layer Integration Module (LIM), which efficiently integrates fine-grained details and semantic abstractions and provides the fused representation as a condition to the diffusion model. To further enhance performance, we reveal that these hierarchical layers respond unequally to different rewards in Reinforcement Learning (RL). Crucially, we design a Layer-wise Dynamic Adjustment Mechanism (LDAM) to facilitate multiple reward improvements that aligns the hierarchical properties of these layers using RL. Extensive experiments show ParaUni leverages complementary multi-layer features to substantially improve generation quality and shows strong potential for multiple reward advances during RL stages.
MuCo: Multi-turn Contrastive Learning for Multimodal Embedding Model
Authors: Geonmo Gu; Byeongho Heo; Jaemyung Yu; Jaehui Hwang; Taekyung Kim; Sangmin Lee; HeeJae Jun; Yoohoon Kang; Sangdoo Yun; Dongyoon Han
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Universal Multimodal embedding models built on Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have traditionally employed contrastive learning, which aligns representations of query-target pairs across different modalities. Yet, despite its empirical success, they are primarily built on a "single-turn" formulation where each query-target pair is treated as an independent data point. This paradigm leads to computational inefficiency when scaling, as it requires a separate forward pass for each pair and overlooks potential contextual relationships between multiple queries that can relate to the same context. In this work, we introduce Multi-Turn Contrastive Learning (MuCo), a dialogue-inspired framework that revisits this process. MuCo leverages the conversational nature of MLLMs to process multiple, related query-target pairs associated with a single image within a single forward pass. This allows us to extract a set of multiple query and target embeddings simultaneously, conditioned on a shared context representation, amplifying the effective batch size and overall training efficiency. Experiments exhibit MuCo with a newly curated 5M multimodal multi-turn dataset (M3T), which yields state-of-the-art retrieval performance on MMEB and M-BEIR benchmarks, while markedly enhancing both training efficiency and representation coherence across modalities. Code and M3T are available at https://github.com/naver-ai/muco
Multi-view Crowd Tracking Transformer with View-Ground Interactions Under Large Real-World Scenes
Authors: Qi Zhang; Jixuan Chen; Kaiyi Zhang; Xinquan Yu; Antoni B. Chan; Hui Huang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multi-view crowd tracking estimates each person's tracking trajectories on the ground of the scene. Recent research works mainly rely on CNNs-based multi-view crowd tracking architectures, and most of them are evaluated and compared on relatively small datasets, such as Wildtrack and MultiviewX. Since these two datasets are collected in small scenes and only contain tens of frames in the evaluation stage, it is difficult for the current methods to be applied to real-world applications where scene size and occlusion are more complicated. In this paper, we propose a Transformer-based multi-view crowd tracking model, MVTrackTrans, which adopts interactions between camera views and the ground plane for enhanced multi-view tracking performance. Besides, for better evaluation, we collect and label two large real-world multi-view tracking datasets, MVCrowdTrack and CityTrack, which contain a much larger scene size over a longer time period. Compared with existing methods on the two large and new datasets, the proposed MVTrackTrans model achieves better performance, demonstrating the advantages of the model design in dealing with large scenes. We believe the proposed datasets and model will push the frontiers of the task to more practical scenarios, and the datasets and code are available at: https://github.com/zqyq/MVTrackTrans.
Geo2: Geometry-Guided Cross-view Geo-Localization and Image Synthesis
Authors: Yancheng Zhang; Xiaohan Zhang; Guangyu Sun; Zonglin Lyu; Safwan Wshah; Chen Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Cross-view geo-spatial learning consists of two important tasks: Cross-View Geo-Localization (CVGL) and Cross-View Image Synthesis (CVIS), both of which rely on establishing geometric correspondences between ground and aerial views. Recent Geometric Foundation Models (GFMs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in extracting generalizable 3D geometric features from images, but their potential in cross-view geo-spatial tasks remains underexplored. In this work, we present Geo^2, a unified framework that leverages Geometric priors from GFMs (e.g., VGGT) to jointly perform geo-spatial tasks, CVGL and bidirectional CVIS. Despite the 3D reconstruction ability of GFMs, directly applying them to CVGL and CVIS remains challenging due to the large viewpoint gap between ground and aerial imagery. We propose GeoMap, which embeds ground and aerial features into a shared 3D-aware latent space, effectively reducing cross-view discrepancies for localization. This shared latent space naturally bridges cross-view image synthesis in both directions. To exploit this, we propose GeoFlow, a flow-matching model conditioned on geometry-aware latent embeddings. We further introduce a consistency loss to enforce latent alignment between the two synthesis directions, ensuring bidirectional coherence. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks, including CVUSA, CVACT, and VIGOR, demonstrate that Geo^2 achieves state-of-the-art performance in both localization and synthesis, highlighting the effectiveness of 3D geometric priors for cross-view geo-spatial learning.
Instruction-Guided Lesion Segmentation for Chest X-rays with Automatically Generated Large-Scale Dataset
Authors: Geon Choi; Hangyul Yoon; Hyunju Shin; Hyunki Park; Sang Hoon Seo; Eunho Yang; Edward Choi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The applicability of current lesion segmentation models for chest X-rays (CXRs) has been limited both by a small number of target labels and the reliance on complex, expert-level text inputs, creating a barrier to practical use. To address these limitations, we introduce instruction-guided lesion segmentation (ILS), a medical-domain adaptation of referring image segmentation (RIS) designed to segment diverse lesion types based on simple, user-friendly instructions. Under this task, we construct MIMIC-ILS, the first large-scale instruction-answer dataset for CXR lesion segmentation, using our fully automated multimodal pipeline that generates annotations from CXR images and their corresponding reports. MIMIC-ILS contains 1.1M instruction-answer pairs derived from 192K images and 91K unique segmentation masks, covering seven major lesion types. To empirically demonstrate its utility, we present ROSALIA, a LISA model fine-tuned on the MIMIC-ILS dataset. ROSALIA can segment diverse lesions and provide textual explanations in response to user instructions. The model achieves high accuracy in our newly proposed task, highlighting the effectiveness of our pipeline and the value of MIMIC-ILS as a foundational resource for pixel-level CXR lesion grounding. The dataset and model are available at https://github.com/checkoneee/ROSALIA.