GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
PFAvatar: Pose-Fusion 3D Personalized Avatar Reconstruction from Real-World Outfit-of-the-Day Photos
Authors: Dianbing Xi; Guoyuan An; Jingsen Zhu; Zhijian Liu; Yuan Liu; Ruiyuan Zhang; Jiayuan Lu; Yuchi Huo; Rui Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: We propose PFAvatar (Pose-Fusion Avatar), a new method that reconstructs high-quality 3D avatars from Outfit of the Day (OOTD) photos, which exhibit diverse poses, occlusions, and complex backgrounds. Our method consists of two stages: (1) fine-tuning a pose-aware diffusion model from few-shot OOTD examples and (2) distilling a 3D avatar represented by a neural radiance field (NeRF). In the first stage, unlike previous methods that segment images into assets (e.g. garments, accessories) for 3D assembly, which is prone to inconsistency, we avoid decomposition and directly model the full-body appearance. By integrating a pre-trained ControlNet for pose estimation and a novel Condition Prior Preservation Loss (CPPL), our method enables end-to-end learning of fine details while mitigating language drift in few-shot training. Our method completes personalization in just 5 minutes, achieving a 48x speed-up compared to previous approaches. In the second stage, we introduce a NeRF-based avatar representation optimized by canonical SMPL-X space sampling and Multi-Resolution 3D-SDS. Compared to mesh-based representations that suffer from resolution-dependent discretization and erroneous occluded geometry, our continuous radiance field can preserve high-frequency textures (e.g., hair) and handle occlusions correctly through transmittance. 
Experiments demonstrate that PFAvatar outperforms state-of-the-art methods in terms of reconstruction fidelity, detail preservation, and robustness to occlusions/truncations, advancing practical 3D avatar generation from real-world OOTD albums. In addition, the reconstructed 3D avatars support downstream applications such as virtual try-on, animation, and human video reenactment, further demonstrating the versatility and practical value of our approach.
3DDM: Physically-based Anisotropic 3D Diffusion Model with 3D Gaussian for Point Cloud Completion
Authors: Long Xi; Jia Ma; ZhenYu Yuan; Tao Xue; Wen Tang; Wen Lv
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: A 3D point cloud completion task is to generate completed 3D objects given partial observations. Auto-encoder-based models suffer from poor generalization ability to untrained 3D data. Current diffusion-based models add isotropic noise with the same variance in three x, y, z axes. More importantly, these models ignore real-world anisotropic evolution properties of 3D particles from a non-equilibrium state to thermodynamic equilibrium in the real physical world due to the velocity and energy thermodynamics of the particles, leading to unstable completions of 3D object topology. This paper presents a novel physically-based anisotropic 3D diffusion model (3DDM) to address these issues. We also present derivations of our proposed forward and reverse processes and a loss function in closed form, thus reproducibility. The 3DDM contains anisotropic energy-aware forward and reverse processes with a novel anisotropic quadratic loss function. The forward process adds anisotropic 3D Gaussian noises per-axis and mimics the thermal non-equilibrium evolution towards Maxwellian equilibrium based on velocity and kinetic energy evolutions of 3D particles in the real physical space. The reverse process learns to denoise along per-axis and per-timestep anisotropically. The anisotropic quadratic loss function penalizes errors along certain axes, yielding a highly flexible and anisotropic reverse diffusion process and a physically realistic generative model. The 3DDM denoises along x, y, z axes with different velocities from the non-equilibrium evolution, achieving fewer than 20 diffusion steps and strong generalization to unseen 3D objects and real-world scenes that were not trained.
Towards Efficient Low-rate Image Compression with Frequency-aware Diffusion Prior Refinement
Authors: Yichong Xia; Yimin Zhou; Jinpeng Wang; Bin Chen
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent advancements in diffusion-based generative priors have enabled visually plausible image compression at extremely low bit rates. However, existing approaches suffer from slow sampling processes and suboptimal bit allocation due to fragmented training paradigms. In this work, we propose Accelerate Diffusion-based Image Compression via Consistency Prior Refinement (DiffCR), a novel compression framework for efficient and high-fidelity image reconstruction. At the heart of DiffCR is a Frequency-aware Skip Estimation (FaSE) module that refines the epsilon-prediction prior from a pre-trained latent diffusion model and aligns it with compressed latents at different timesteps via Frequency Decoupling Attention (FDA). Furthermore, a lightweight consistency estimator enables fast two-step decoding by preserving the semantic trajectory of diffusion sampling. Without updating the backbone diffusion model, DiffCR achieves substantial bitrate savings (27.2% BD-rate(LPIPS) and 65.1%  BD-rate(PSNR)) and over 10 times speed-up compared to SOTA diffusion-based compression baselines.
Probabilistic Deformation Consistency for Unsupervised Shape Matching
Authors: Yifan Xia; Tianwei Ye; Jun Huang; Xiaoguang Mei; Jiayi Ma
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised shape matching framework based on probabilistic deformation consistency in the spectral domain, termed as PDCMatch. Axiomatic optimization methods suffer from expensive geodesic distance calculations and vulnerability to local optima, and learning-based methods typically lack geometric consistency in pointwise correspondences. To overcome both limitations, we develop a non-Euclidean probabilistic deformation model that jointly estimates the underlying deformation and the correspondence probability via a linear Expectation-Maximization procedure. Building on this formulation, we further design a task-specific deformation loss that explicitly encourages geometric smoothness and structural consistency in an unsupervised manner. This tailored loss function plays a central role in improving the matching performance across challenging scenarios. Extensive experiments on public benchmarks involving near-isometric shapes, anisotropic meshing, cross-dataset generalization, topological noise, and non-isometric shapes demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods, highlighting both its effectiveness and generalizability.
SWIFT：A General Sensitive Weight Identification Framework for Fast Sensor-Transfer Pansharpening
Authors: Zeyu Xia; Chenxi Sun; Tianyu Xin; Yubo Zeng; Haoyu Chen; Liang-Jian Deng
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Although deep learning-based methods have achieved promising performance in Pansharpening, they generally suffer from severe performance degradation when applied to data from unseen sensors. Existing cross-domain strategies, including retraining, fine-tuning, and zero-shot methods, fail to simultaneously preserve model architecture and maintain low adaptation costs. Therefore, we are the first to define and address a novel task in the pansharpening field: enhancing a model's cross-sensor generalization at an extremely low cost while keeping the model architecture invariant. To tackle this task, we propose SWIFT (Sensitive Weight Identification for Fast Transfer), a plug-and-play framework. SWIFT first employs an unsupervised manifold-based sampling strategy to efficiently select a high-fidelity subset the most informative target-domain samples. It then leverages this subset to probe a source-domain pre-trained model, identifying and updating only the weight subset most sensitive to the domain shift by analyzing the gradient behavior of its parameters. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SWIFT can be applied to various deep learning models, boosting adaptation efficiency by up to 30-fold. On a single NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPU, this reduces adaptation time from hours to as little as one minute. The adapted models not only substantially outperform direct-transfer baselines but also achieve performance competitive with, or even superior to full retraining while using only 3% of the target domain dataset and adapting nearly 10% to 30% of the model’s parameters. This establishs a new state-of-the-art on the WorldView-2 and QuickBird datasets.
VGGS: VGGT-guided Gaussian Splatting for Efficient and Faithful Sparse-View Surface Reconstruction
Authors: Peng Xiang; Liang Han; Hui Zhang; Yu-Shen Liu; Zhizhong Han
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reconstructing a faithful geometric surface from sparse images remains a fundamental challenge in 3D computer vision. While recent methods have achieved remarkable progress, they still struggle to recover reliable geometry due to the lack of multi-view geometric cues, particularly in non-overlapping regions. To address this issue, we introduce VGGS, a Gaussian Splatting (GS) method that exploits multi-view geometric priors from VGGT for efficient and high-fidelity sparse-view surface reconstruction. Our primary contribution is an anchor-calibrated depth estimation scheme, which yields accurate depth maps. The insight is to align the VGGT depth prior to the underlying surface with a sparse set of multi-view consistent anchors, then infer depth for unreliable regions by relative depth estimation. Furthermore, to mitigate misalignment in complex scenes, we propose a relative depth consistency loss that penalizes the rendered depth if its relative depth relationship in local regions is inconsistent to the multi-view prior. Extensive experiments on widely-used benchmarks show that VGGS surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both accuracy and efficiency, delivering 4–7× faster optimization while reducing memory consumption compared to previous GS-based approaches.
Not Just What’s There: Enabling CLIP to Comprehend Negated Visual Descriptions Without Fine-Tuning
Authors: Junhao Xiao; Zhiyu Wu; Hao Lin; Yi Chen; Yahui Liu; Xiaoran Zhao; Zixu Wang; Zejiang He
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) like CLIP struggle to understand negation, often embedding affirmatives and negatives similarly (e.g., matching "no dog" with dog images). Existing methods refine negation understanding via fine-tuning CLIP’s text encoder, risking overfitting. In this work, we propose CLIPGlasses, a plug-and-play framework that enhances CLIP’s ability to comprehend negated visual descriptions. CLIPGlasses adapts a dual-stage design: a Lens module disentangles negated semantics from text embeddings, and a Frame module predicts context-aware repulsion strength, which is integrated into the modified similarity computation to penalize alignment with negated semantics, thereby reducing false positive matches. Experiments show that CLIP equipped with CLIPGlasses achieves competitive in-domain performance and outperforms state-of-the-art methods in cross-domain generalization. Its superiority is especially evident under low-resource conditions, indicating stronger robustness across domains.
Training-free Boosting for Few-shot Segmentation via Generalizing Semantic Mining
Authors: Kangyu Xiao; Zilei Wang; Yixin Zhang; Junjie Li
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Few-shot Semantic Segmentation (FSS) aims to segment the novel target objects with the guidance of minimal annotated reference examples. 
The affinity-based method has great advantages in the FSS inference stage for both specialist model and foundation model. However, current affinity calculation merely relies on only support-query matching, without considering the query-specific semantic or the semantic correlation among inter-support samples, which limits the representation ability of affinity map. In this paper, we propose the Generalizing Semantic Mining (GSM) that focuses on exploiting generalizing semantic to improve the affinity calculation. Concretely, we first organize the affinity-based inference into three main steps to reveal the crucial role of affinity map. To address the low-data problem, Target Semantic Reusing module considers the query sample as a proxy reference and assigns it with proxy mask identifying its most generalizing semantic regions. Then, to generate the high-fidelity proxy mask, Query-specific Semantic Modeling module pinpoints the most generalizing regions through prior semantic analysis. Finally, Representative Re-weighting module explicitly modulates affinity calculation via generalization-aware weighting. Experiments on FSS benchmarks demonstrate that our GSM can serve as a plug-and-play free lunch for both specialist models and foundation models.
DcSplat: Dual-Constraint Human Gaussian Splatting with Latent Multi-View Consistency
Authors: Tengfei Xiao; Yue Wu; Zhigang Gao; Yongzhe Yuan; Can Qin; Hao Li; Mingyang Zhang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Human Novel View Synthesis (HNVS) aims to synthesize photorealistic human images from novel viewpoints given observations from known views. Despite significant advances achieved by existing methods such as NeRF, diffusion models, and 3DGS, they still face substantial challenges in achieving stable modeling from a single image. In this paper,  we introduce Dual-Constraint Human Gaussian Splatting (DcSplat), a novel, simple, and efficient 3D Gaussian-based framework for single-view 3D human reconstruction. To address occlusion-induced texture missing and depth ambiguities, we introduce two key components: a Latent Multi-View Consistency Constraint Mechanism and a Geometric Constraint Module. The former employs a Latent-space Appearance Transformer (LatentFormer) to learn semantically coherent, view-consistent appearance priors via SMPL-guided pseudo-view fusion. The latter refines noisy SMPL-based depth through a U-Net-like structure conditioned on latent appearance features. These two modules are jointly optimized to generate high-quality Gaussian parameters in a unified latent space. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DcSplat outperforms existing SOTA methods in both geometry and texture quality, while achieving fast inference and lower computational cost.
A Hybrid Space Model for Misaligned Multi-modality Image Fusion
Authors: Yi Xiao; Jia Wang; Zhu Liu; Di Wang; Jinyuan Liu; Risheng Liu
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Infrared and visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary information, such as thermal saliency from infrared imagery and fine-grained texture details from visible imagery. However, real-world multi-modal misalignment and geometric deformation often introduce severe artifacts. Most existing methods focus on feature extraction within Euclidean space, thereby neglecting the inherent hierarchical structures embedded in multimodal representations. While Euclidean space excels at preserving local structural details and supporting efficient computation, hyperbolic space is naturally suited for modeling hierarchical relationships due to its geometric properties. Building upon these observations, this paper proposes a unified framework that jointly optimizes image registration and fusion through a dual-space architecture. This architecture synergistically combines the local fidelity of Euclidean geometry with the hierarchical modeling capability of hyperbolic geometry to enhance multimodal representation learning. Specifically, this paper introduces Hyperbolic Coupled Contrastive Learning Optimization (HCCLO), which aligns and optimizes the hierarchical structures of infrared and visible embeddings in hyperbolic space. Moreover, this paper designs a task-adaptive dual-space features fusion mechanism, which dynamically balances and fuses Euclidean local features with hyperbolic hierarchical representations, thereby improving adaptability for downstream tasks. Extensive experiments on misaligned multimodal datasets demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, while effectively capturing both spatial dependencies and hierarchical semantics.
Unaligned UAV RGBT Tracking: A Largescale Benchmark and a Novel Approach
Authors: Yun Xiao; Yuhang Wang; Jiandong Jin; Wankang Zhang; Chenglong Li
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: With the rapid development of the low-altitude economy, multimodal visual tracking in UAV scenarios has attracted extensive attention. UAVs are typically equipped with independent visible (RGB) and thermal infrared (TIR) sensors, resulting in an inherent spatial misalignment between the two modalities. However, existing RGBT tracking methods generally rely on spatially aligned data inputs, making them unsuitable for unaligned RGBT tracking task in UAV scenarios. In this work, we introduce the new task called unaligned UAV
RGBT tracking and construct the first large-scale unaligned RGB and TIR video dataset to promote the research and development of this field. The dataset contains 1,453 pairs of UAV-captured RGBT sequences with precise dual-modal bounding box annotations, and covers 42 object categories, 22 typical challenge attributes, and diverse spatial misalignment scales to better simulate real-world challenging scenarios. To address the limitations of existing methods that fail to handle the spatial misalignment issue in UAV scenarios, we propose the novel RGBT tracking approach. In particular, we design a mixture of shift estimation experts module to adaptively estimate the spatial shifts across two modalities at different scales, and a cross-modal alignment and fusion module to further compensate for nonlinear deformations and integrate multimodal information. Extensive experiments on the created dataset demonstrate that the proposed tracker significantly outperforms existing state-of-the-art tracking methods, validating its practicality and robustness in real-world unaligned UAV tracking scenarios.
UniMGS: Unifying Mesh and 3D Gaussian Splatting with Single-Pass Rasterization and Proxy-Based Deformation
Authors: Zeyu Xiao; Mingyang Sun; Yimin Cong; Lintao Wang; Dongliang Kou; Zhenyi Wu; Dingkang Yang; Peng Zhai; Zeyu Wang; Lihua Zhang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Joint rendering and deformation of mesh and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have significant value as both representations offer complementary advantages for graphics applications. However, due to differences in representation and rendering pipelines, existing studies render meshes and 3DGS separately, making it difficult to accurately handle occlusions and transparency. Moreover, the deformed 3DGS still suffers from visual artifacts due to the sensitivity to the topology quality of the proxy mesh. These issues pose serious obstacles to the joint use of 3DGS and meshes, making it difficult to adapt 3DGS to conventional mesh-oriented graphics pipelines. We propose UniMGS, the first unified framework for rasterizing mesh and 3DGS in a single-pass anti-aliased manner, with a novel binding strategy for 3DGS deformation based on proxy mesh. Our key insight is to blend the colors of both triangle and Gaussian fragments by anti-aliased α-blending in a single pass, achieving visually coherent results with precise handling of occlusion and transparency. To improve the visual appearance of the deformed 3DGS, our Gaussian-centric binding strategy employs a proxy mesh and spatially associates Gaussians with the mesh faces, significantly reducing rendering artifacts. With these two components, UniMGS enables the visualization and manipulation of 3D objects represented by mesh or 3DGS within a unified framework, opening up new possibilities in embodied AI, virtual reality, and gaming. We will release our source code to facilitate future research.
Exploiting Blurry Representations for Event-guided Video Super-Resolution
Authors: Zeyu Xiao; Xinchao Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Blurry video super-resolution (BVSR) remains fundamentally ill-posed due to the simultaneous loss of high-frequency spatial details and reliable motion cues in blurry low-resolution frames. While cascade-based and joint BVSR methods struggle under severe blur, existing event-guided VSR approaches largely assume clean inputs and are ineffective against complex motion degradation. These methods fail to model blurry representations or leverage event signals for blur-aware motion cues, leading to sub-optimal performance. We propose BluR-EVSR, a unified framework that implicitly models Blurry Representations and leverages Event cameras to jointly address both blur and resolution degradation for VSR. The framework begins with a self-supervised degradation learning strategy guided by event streams and neighboring frames, enabling adaptive blur representation without requiring explicit supervision. A dynamic routing mechanism encodes spatially varying degradations, while a motion-saliency degradation-aware attention module injects motion saliency priors to facilitate efficient RGB-event fusion. Integrated into a bidirectional recurrent framework, BluR-EVSR enables temporally consistent and detail-preserving restoration with low computational cost. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks show that our method significantly outperforms prior BVSR and event-based approaches.
PUNO: A Neural Operator Framework for Point Cloud Upsampling
Authors: Zijian Xiao; Yining Xu; Yingjie Huang; Li Yao
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: We propose PUNO, a novel deep operator-based framework for point cloud upsampling, addressing the challenge of reconstructing high-resolution geometries from sparse point clouds. PUNO generalizes the neural operators proven effective in image super-resolution to 3D point cloud upsampling. Moreover, it first designs a network for point cloud tasks to achieve vertex displacement and manifold parameterization, thereby forming a coarse geometric representation that is compatible with super-resolution neural operators. This is followed by iterative kernel integral approximations in the function space and backprojection to generate the target coordinates, fully utilizing the high-frequency information in the function space. Unlike prior work, PUNO performs transformations in both the data domain and the function domain, with the solution space containing richer basis functions, yielding finer results that mitigate the ill-posed nature of sparse data. It also benefits global continuity. Extensive experiments demonstrate its superior accuracy, robustness, and generalization ability.
SimROD: A Simple Baseline for Raw Object Detection with Global and Local Enhancements
Authors: Haiyang Xie; Xi Shen; Shihua Huang; Qirui Wang; Zheng Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Most visual models are designed for sRGB images, yet RAW data offers significant advantages for object detection by preserving sensor information before ISP processing. This enables improved detection accuracy and more efficient hardware designs by bypassing the ISP. However, RAW object detection is challenging due to limited training data, unbalanced pixel distributions, and sensor noise. To address this, we propose SimROD, a lightweight and effective approach for RAW object detection. We introduce a Global Gamma Enhancement (GGE) module, which applies a learnable global gamma transformation with only four parameters, improving feature representation while keeping the model efficient. Additionally, we leverage the green channel's richer signal to enhance local details, aligning with the human eye’s sensitivity and Bayer filter design. Extensive experiments on multiple RAW object detection datasets and detectors demonstrate that SimROD outperforms state-of-the-art methods like RAW-Adapter and DIAP while maintaining efficiency. Our work highlights the potential of RAW data for real-world object detection.