GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Efficient and High-Fidelity Omni Modality Retrieval
Authors: Chuong Huynh; Manh Luong; Abhinav Shrivastava
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal retrieval is the task of aggregating information from queries across heterogeneous modalities to retrieve desired targets. State-of-the-art multimodal retrieval models can understand complex queries, yet they are typically limited to two modalities: text and vision. This limitation impedes the development of universal retrieval systems capable of comprehending queries that combine more than two modalities. To advance toward this goal, we present OmniRet, the first retrieval model capable of handling complex, composed queries spanning three key modalities: text, vision, and audio. Our OmniRet model addresses two critical challenges for universal retrieval: computational efficiency and representation fidelity. First, feeding massive token sequences from modality-specific encoders to Large Language Models (LLMs) is computationally inefficient. We therefore introduce an attention-based resampling mechanism to generate compact, fixed-size representations from these sequences. This shared module is designed to maintain representational diversity and generalization capabilities while remaining sensitive to modality-specific information. Second, compressing rich omni-modal data into a single embedding vector inevitably causes information loss and discards fine-grained details. We propose Attention Sliced Wasserstein Pooling to preserve these fine-grained details, leading to improved omni-modal representations. OmniRet is trained on an aggregation of approximately 6 million query-target pairs spanning 30 datasets. We benchmark our model on 13 retrieval tasks and a MMEBv2 subset. Our model demonstrates significant improvements on composed query, audio and video retrieval tasks, while achieving on-par performance with state-of-the-art models on others. Furthermore, we curate a new Audio-Centric Multimodal Benchmark (ACM). This new benchmark introduces two critical, previously missing tasks--composed audio retrieval and audio-visual retrieval--to more comprehensively evaluate a model's omni-modal embedding capacity. We believe our benchmark will facilitate the development of universal retrieval systems.
SynCLIP: Synonym-Coherent Language-Image Pretraining for Robust Open-Vocabulary Dense Perception
Authors: Mingjie Xie; Guangjun He; Dongli Xu; Youtian Lin; Hongjue Li; Pengming Feng; Jian Guan; Yue Deng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Open-vocabulary dense perception (OVDP) aims to localize objects unseen during training by leveraging textual knowledge. Despite the remarkable progress of recent CLIP-based approaches, we identify a critical limitation: synonym-induced grounding inconsistency, where semantically equivalent expressions yield disparate spatial attention patterns. This inconsistency undermines the robustness and performance of existing methods in real-world OVDP applications. To address this issue,  we propose SynCLIP, a Synonym-Coherent Language-Image Pretraining framework that enhances synonym-robust grounding for OVDP. SynCLIP introduces a Semantic-consistent Spatial Attention alignment (SSA) module to enhance spatial attention consistency by minimizing discrepancies between attention maps of original and synonymous expressions. Furthermore, a Spatial Attention Refinement (SAR) module selectively strengthens the most semantically relevant spatial regions within aligned maps for more precise and stable grounding. To support synonym-coherent pretraining, we also construct a Synonym-Enriched Visual Corpus (SEViC), which augments each category with multiple synonyms and textual definitions. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that SynCLIP substantially improves grounding consistency under diverse linguistic variants and achieves state-of-the-art performance among CLIP-based OVDP methods. Code is available at https://github.com/Justlovesmile/SynCLIP.
Dr.Occ: Depth- and Region-Guided 3D Occupancy from Surround-View Cameras for Autonomous Driving
Authors: Xubo Zhu; Haoyang Zhang; Fei He; Rui Wu; Yanhu Shan; Wen Yang; Huai Yu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D semantic occupancy prediction is crucial for autonomous driving perception, offering comprehensive geometric scene understanding and semantic recognition. However, existing methods struggle with geometric misalignment in view transformation due to lack of pixel-level accurate depth estimation, and severe spatial class imbalance where semantic categories exhibit strong spatial anisotropy. To address these challenges, we propose Dr.Occ, a depth- and region-guided occupancy prediction framework. Specifically, we introduce a depth-guided 2D-to-3D View Transformer (D-VFormer) that effectively leverages high-quality dense depth cues from MoGe-2 to construct reliable geometric priors, thereby enabling precise geometric alignment of voxel features. Moreover, inspired by the Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework, we propose a region-guided Expert Transformer (R/R-EFormer) that adaptively allocates region-specific experts to focus on different spatial regions, effectively addressing spatial semantic variations. Thus, the two components make complementary contributions: depth guidance ensures geometric alignment, while region experts enhance semantic learning. Experiments on the Occ3D--nuScenes benchmark demonstrate that Dr.Occ improves the strong baseline BEVDet4D by 7.43% mIoU and 3.09% IoU under the full vision-only setting.
More than the Sum: Panorama-Language Models for Adverse Omni-Scenes
Authors: Weijia Fan; Ruiping Liu; Jiale Wei; Yufan Chen; Junwei Zheng; Zichao Zeng; Jiaming Zhang; Qiufu Li; Linlin Shen; Rainer Stiefelhagen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing vision-language models (VLMs) are tailored for pinhole imagery, stitching multiple narrow field-of-view inputs to piece together a complete omni-scene understanding. Yet, such multi-view perception overlooks the holistic spatial and contextual relationships that a single panorama inherently preserves. In this work, we introduce the Panorama-Language Modeling (PLM) paradigm, a unified 360deg vision-language reasoning that is more than the sum of its pinhole counterparts. Besides, we present PanoVQA, a large-scale panoramic VQA dataset that involves adverse omni-scenes, enabling comprehensive reasoning under object occlusions and driving accidents. To establish a foundation for PLM, we develop a plug-and-play panoramic sparse attention module that allows existing pinhole-based VLMs to process equirectangular panoramas without retraining. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our PLM achieves superior robustness and holistic reasoning under challenging omni-scenes, yielding understanding greater than the sum of its narrow parts. Project page: https://github.com/InSAI-Lab/PanoVQA.
AdaSpot: Spend Resolution Where It Matters for Precise Event Spotting
Authors: Artur Xarles; Sergio Escalera; Thomas B. Moeslund; Albert Clapés
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Precise Event Spotting aims to localize fast-paced actions or events in videos with high temporal precision, a key task for applications in sports analytics, robotics, and autonomous systems. Existing methods typically process all frames uniformly, overlooking the inherent spatio-temporal redundancy in video data. This leads to redundant computation on non-informative regions while limiting overall efficiency. To remain tractable, they often spatially downsample inputs, losing fine-grained details crucial for precise localization. To address these limitations, we propose AdaSpot, a simple yet effective framework that processes low-resolution videos to extract global task-relevant features while adaptively selecting the most informative region-of-interest in each frame for high-resolution processing. The selection is performed via an unsupervised, task-aware strategy that maintains spatio-temporal consistency across frames and avoids the training instability of learnable alternatives. This design preserves essential fine-grained visual cues with a marginal computational overhead compared to low-resolution-only baselines, while remaining far more efficient than uniform high-resolution processing. Experiments on standard PES benchmarks demonstrate that AdaSpot achieves state-of-the-art performance under strict evaluation metrics (e.g., +3.96 and +2.26 mAP@0 frames on Tennis and FineDiving), while also maintaining strong results under looser metrics. Code is available at: https://github.com/arturxe2/AdaSpot
Prompt-Anchored Vision-Text Distillation for Lifelong Person Re-identification
Authors: Wen Wen; Hao Chen; Shiliang Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Lifelong person re-identification (LReID) aims to train a generalizable model with sequentially collected data. However, such models often suffer from semantic drift, limited adaptability, and catastrophic forgetting as new domains emerge. Existing exemplar-free approaches largely rely on visual-only distillation or parameter regularization, while overlooking the potential of auxiliary modalities, such as text, to preserve semantic stability and enable incremental plasticity. We observe that the frozen text encoder in pretrained vision-language models can serve as a stable semantic anchor across domains. To decouple the roles of vision and text, we propose Prompt-Anchored vision-text Distillation (PAD), an asymmetric vision-text framework for semantic alignment and cross-domain generalization. On the textual side, we distill prompts to preserve vision-text alignment under a fixed semantic space, acting as a global semantic reference rather than a dominant learning signal. On the visual side, an EMA-based teacher with an adaptive prompt pool enables domain-wise adaptation by allocating new slots while freezing past ones. Extensive experiments show that PAD substantially outperforms state-of-the-art methods across seen and unseen domains, achieving a strong balance between stability and plasticity. Project page: https://github.com/zu-zi/PAD.
What Is the Optimal Ranking Score Between Precision and Recall? We Can Always Find It and It Is Rarely F1
Authors: Sébastien Piérard; Adrien Deliège; Marc Van Droogenbroeck
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Ranking methods or models based on their performance is of prime importance but is tricky because performance is fundamentally multidimensional. In the case of classification, precision and recall are scores with probabilistic interpretations that are both important to consider and complementary. The rankings induced by these two scores are often in partial contradiction. In practice, therefore, it is extremely useful to establish a compromise between the two views to obtain a single, global ranking. Over the last fifty years or so, it has been proposed to take a weighted harmonic mean, known as the F-score, F-measure, or F-beta. Generally speaking, by averaging basic scores, we obtain a score that is intermediate in terms of values. However, there is no guarantee that these scores lead to meaningful rankings and no guarantee that the rankings are good tradeoffs between these base scores. Given the ubiquity of F-beta scores in the literature, some clarification is in order. Concretely: (1) We establish that F-beta-induced rankings are meaningful and define a shortest path between precisionand recall-induced rankings. (2) We frame the problem of finding a tradeoff between two scores as an optimization problem expressed with Kendall rank correlations. We show that F1 and its skew-insensitive version are far from being optimal in that regard. (3) We provide theoretical tools and a closed-form expression to find the optimal value for beta for any distribution or set of performances, and we illustrate their use on six case studies. Code is available at https://github.com/pierard/cvpr-2026-optimal-tradeoff-precision-recall.
From Spots to Pixels: Dense Spatial Gene Expression Prediction from Histology Images
Authors: Ruikun Zhang; Yan Yang; Liyuan Pan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Spatial transcriptomics (ST) measures gene expression at fine-grained spatial resolution, offering insights into tissue molecular landscapes. Previous methods for spatial gene expression prediction typically crop spots of interest from histopathology slide images, and train models to map each spot to a corresponding gene expression profile. However, these methods inherently lose the spatial resolution in gene expression:1) each spot often contains multiple cells with distinct gene expression profiles;2) spots are typically defined at fixed spatial resolutions, limiting the ability to predict gene expression at varying scales. To address these limitations, this paper presents PixNet, a dense prediction network capable of predicting spatially resolved gene expression across spots of varying sizes and scales directly from histopathology slide images. Different from previous methods that map individual spots to gene expression values, we generate a spatially dense continuous gene expression map from the histopathology slide image, and aggregate values within spots of interest to predict the gene expression. Our PixNet outperforms state-of-the-art methods on four common ST datasets in multiple spatial scales. The source code is available at: https://github.com/wangzrk/From-Spots-to-Pixels.
Rethinking Pose Refinement in 3D Gaussian Splatting under Pose Prior and Geometric Uncertainty
Authors: Mangyu Kong; Jaewon Lee; Seongwon Lee; Euntai Kim
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has recently emerged as a powerful scene representation and is increasingly used for visual localization and pose refinement. However, despite its high-quality differentiable rendering, the robustness of 3DGS-based pose refinement remains highly sensitive to both the initial camera pose and the reconstructed geometry. In this work, we take a closer look at these limitations and identify two major sources of uncertainty: (i) pose prior uncertainty, which often arises from regression or retrieval models that output a single deterministic estimate, and (ii) geometric uncertainty, caused by imperfections in the 3DGS reconstruction that propagate errors into PnP solvers. Such uncertainties can distort reprojection geometry and destabilize optimization, even when the rendered appearance still looks plausible.To address these uncertainties, we introduce a relocalization framework that combines Monte Carlo pose sampling with Fisher Information-based PnP optimization. Our method explicitly accounts for both pose and geometric uncertainty and requires no retraining or additional supervision. Across diverse indoor and outdoor benchmarks, our approach consistently improves localization accuracy and significantly increases stability under pose and depth noise.
RetouchIQ: MLLM Agents for Instruction-Based Image Retouching with Generalist Reward
Authors: Qiucheng Wu; Jing Shi; Simon Jenni; Kushal Kafle; Tianyu Wang; Shiyu Chang; Handong Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown great potential for extending vision-language reasoning to professional tool-based image editing, enabling intuitive and creative editing. A promising direction is to use reinforcement learning (RL) to enable MLLMs to reason about and execute optimal tool-use plans within professional image-editing software. However, training remains challenging due to the lack of reliable, verifiable reward signals that can reflect the inherently subjective nature of creative editing. In this work, we introduce RetouchIQ, a framework that performs instruction-based executable image editing through MLLM agents guided by a generalist reward model. RetouchIQ interprets user-specified editing intentions and generates corresponding, executable Lightroom adjustments, bridging high-level aesthetic goals with precise parameter control. To move beyond conventional, rule-based rewards that compute similarity against a fixed reference image using handcrafted metrics, we propose a generalist reward model, an RL fine-tuned MLLM that evaluates edited results through a set of generated metrics on a case-by-case basis. Then, the reward model provides scalar feedback through multimodal reasoning, enabling reinforcement learning with high-quality, instruction-consistent gradients. We curate an extended dataset with 190k instruction-reasoning pairs and establish a new benchmark for instruction-based image editing. Experiments show that RetouchIQ substantially improves both semantic consistency and perceptual quality over previous MLLM-based and diffusion-based editing systems. Our findings demonstrate the potential of generalist reward-driven MLLM agents as flexible, explainable, and executable assistants for professional image editing.
Anomaly-Related Residual Fields for Cross-domain Anomaly Detection
Authors: Kewei Gao; Jiayi Xie; Zhengda Shen; Weijun Qin; Lingxiang Jia; Kejia Chen; Zunlei Feng; Yijun Bei
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Label-free image anomaly detection is difficult because anomalies must be separated from intra-normal variability. Diffusion models learn a manifold for normal data, and, under the common assumption that off-manifold anomalies are harder to generate and yield larger prediction errors, many methods build detectors from prediction residuals; yet reverse-process stochasticity and complex but normal structure also produce large residuals, so magnitude alone is non-diagnostic. To clarify what is recoverable from such noisy residuals, the theory examines how residual signals propagate through later reverse steps, showing that variability consistent with normal statistics is gradually absorbed toward stationarity, whereas anomalous regions retain an additional non-stationary signal that persists. Building on this insight, the Residual-Evolution Field (REF) isolates this persistent signal, with labeled source data calibrating the extractor and Cross-domain Field Alignment (CFA) transferring it to unlabeled targets. A theoretical framework with formal analysis is established, and experiments across multiple benchmarks under substantial domain shifts demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, improving over strong baselines by 2.01-14 percentage points (pp).
DreamSR: Towards Ultra-High-Resolution Image Super-Resolution via a Receptive-Field Enhanced Diffusion Transformer
Authors: Qingji Dong; Hang Dong; Mingqin Chen; Rui Zhang; Yitong Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large-scale pre-trained diffusion models have been extensively adopted for real-world image Super-Resolution because of their powerful generative priors through textual guidance. However, when super-resolving high-resolution images with patch-wise inference strategy, most existing diffusion-based SR methods tend to suffer from over-generation, due to the misalignment between the global prompt from LR image and the incomplete semantic information of local patches during each inference step. On the other hand, most existing methods also failed to generate detailed texture in local patches due to the overemphasis on global generation capabilities in network designs and training strategies.To address this issue, we present DreamSR, a novel SR model that suppresses local over-generation and improves fine-detail synthesis, thereby achieving visually faithful results with ultra-high-quality details. Specifically, we propose a dual-branch MM-ControlNet, where the ControlNet generates local textual feature with patch-level prompts while the pre-trained DiT provides global textual feature with global prompts, thereby mitigating over-generation and ensuring semantic consistency across patches.We also design a comprehensive training strategy with stage-specific data processing pipelines and a Receptive-Field Enhancement strategy, enhancing the model's capability to capture patch information and effectively restore local textures.Extensive experiments demonstrate that DreamSR outperforms state-of-the-art methods, providing high-quality SR results.
LongStream: Long-Sequence Streaming Autoregressive Visual Geometry
Authors: Chong Cheng; Xianda Chen; Tao Xie; Wei Yin; Weiqiang Ren; Qian Zhang; Xiaoyang Guo; Hao Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Long-sequence streaming 3D reconstruction remains a significant open challenge. Existing autoregressive models often fail when processing long sequences because they anchor poses to the first frame, leading to attention decay, scale drift, and extrapolation errors. We introduce LongStream, a novel gauge-decoupled streaming visual geometry model for metric-scale scene reconstruction across thousands of frames under a strictly online, future-invisible setting. Our approach is threefold. First, we discard the first-frame anchor and predict keyframe-relative poses. This reformulates long-range extrapolation into a constant-difficulty local task. Second, we introduce orthogonal scale learning. This method fully disentangles geometry from scale estimation to suppress drift. Finally, we identify attention bias issues in Transformers, including attention-sink reliance and long-term KV-cache saturation. We propose cache-consistent training combined with periodic cache refresh. This approach suppresses attention biases and contamination over ultra-long sequences and reduces the gap between training and inference. Experiments show that LongStream achieves state-of-the-art performance, enabling stable, metric-scale reconstruction over kilometer-scale sequences at 18 FPS.
VisRef: Visual Refocusing while Thinking Improves Test-Time Scaling in Multi-Modal Large Reasoning Models
Authors: Soumya Suvra Ghosal; Youngeun Kim; Zhuowei Li; Ritwick Chaudhry; Linghan Xu; Hongjing Zhang; Jakub Zablocki; Yifan Xing; Qin Zhang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Advances in large reasoning models have shown strong performance on complex reasoning tasks by scaling test-time compute through extended inference-time thinking. However, recent studies observe that in vision-dependent tasks, extended textual reasoning at inference time can often degrade performance as models progressively lose attention to visual tokens, increasingly relying on textual priors alone. To address this, prior works used reinforcement learning (RL)-based fine-tuning to route visual tokens or employ refocusing mechanisms during reasoning. While effective, these methods are computationally expensive, requiring large-scale data generation and policy optimization. To leverage the benefits of inference-time compute without additional RL fine-tuning, we propose VisRef, a visually grounded test-time scaling framework. Our key idea is to actively guide the reasoning process through re-injecting a coreset of visual tokens that are semantically relevant to the reasoning context yet diverse and globally representative of the image for more grounded multi-modal reasoning. Experiments on three visual reasoning benchmarks with state-of-the-art multi-modal large reasoning models demonstrate that under fixed inference-time compute budgets, VisRef consistently outperforms existing test-time scaling approaches by up to 6.4%.