GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
RARE: Learn to RAnk and REtrieve for Monocular 3D Object Detection
Authors: Hyeonjeong Park; Peixi Xiong; Xiaoqian Ruan; Dian Jia; Pei Yu; Wei Tang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Monocular 3D object detection from a single RGB image remains challenging due to two fundamental challenges: the ill-posed nature of 3D localization, where multiple plausible configurations can correspond to the same 2D observation, and unreliable confidence estimation that fails to reflect true localization accuracy. Existing methods predict deterministic 3D boxes that often collapse to implausible mean estimates and rely on absolute confidence scores that are highly sensitive to localization errors. This paper introduces RARE, a unified framework that addresses both challenges through learning to rank and retrieve. RARE formulates confidence estimation as a ranking problem, learning to order detections by their relative quality rather than regressing absolute values. It provides more robust and stable confidence estimates that are less sensitive to localization uncertainty. Building on this improved confidence estimator, RARE learns to construct a query set for each object that predicts multiple diverse and plausible 3D configurations, and retrieves the top-ranked prediction. It explicitly models the multimodal nature of monocular 3D perception and produces more plausible localizations. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of RARE. The code is available at https://github.com/HyeonjeongPark37/RARE.
Do You See What I Am Pointing At? Gesture-Based Egocentric Video Question Answering
Authors: Yura Choi; Roy Miles; Rolandos Alexandros Potamias; Ismail Elezi; Jiankang Deng; Stefanos Zafeiriou
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Understanding and answering questions based on a user's pointing gesture is essential for next-generation egocentric AI assistants. However, current Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with such tasks due to the lack of gesture-rich data and their limited ability to infer fine-grained pointing intent from egocentric video.To address this, we introduce EgoPointVQA, a dataset and benchmark for gesture-grounded egocentric question answering, comprising 4000 synthetic and 400 real-world videos across multiple deictic reasoning tasks.Built upon it, we further propose Hand Intent Tokens (HINT), which encode tokens derived from 3D hand keypoints using an off-the-shelf reconstruction model and interleaves them with the model input to provide explicit spatial and temporal context for interpreting pointing intent.We show that our model outperforms others in different backbones and model sizes.In particular, HINT-14Bachieves 68.1% accuracy, on average over 6 tasks, surpassing the state-of-the-art, InternVL3-14B, by 6.6%.To further facilitate the open research, we will release the code, model, and dataset.
3D Gaussian Splatting with Self-Constrained Priors for High Fidelity Surface Reconstruction
Authors: Takeshi Noda; Yu-Shen Liu; Zhizhong Han
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Rendering 3D surfaces has been revolutionized within the modeling of radiance fields through either 3DGS or NeRF. Although 3DGS has shown advantages over NeRF in terms of rendering quality or speed, there is still room for improvement in recovering high fidelity surfaces through 3DGS. To resolve this issue, we propose a self-constrained prior to constraining the movement of 3D Gaussians, aiming for more accurate depth rendering. Our self-constrained prior is a TSDF grid fused by the rendered depth during the learning of 3D Gaussians. The prior measures a band on both sides of the estimated surface for imposing more specific constraints on the right 3D Gaussians, such as removing 3D Gaussians outside the band, encouraging larger opacity for Gaussians near the center of the band or smaller opacity for Gaussians near the boundary of the band. We regularly update the prior by fusing more recent depth images which are usually more accurate, and progressively narrow the band to tighten the constraint on Gaussian movements. We justify our idea and report our superiority over the state-of-the-art methods in evaluations on widely used benchmarks.
VideoSSR: Video Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Zefeng He; Xiaoye Qu; Yafu Li; Siyuan Huang; Daizong Liu; Yu Cheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) has substantially advanced the video understanding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, the rapid progress of MLLMs is outpacing the complexity of existing video datasets, while the manual annotation of new, high-quality data remains prohibitively expensive.This work investigates a pivotal question: Can the rich, intrinsic information within videos be harnessed to self-generate high-quality, verifiable training data?To investigate this problem, we first introduce three self-supervised pretext tasks for video understanding: Anomaly Grounding, Object Counting, and Temporal Jigsaw. To validate the difficulty of these tasks, we construct the Video Intrinsic Understanding Benchmark (VIUBench), revealing that current state-of-the-art MLLMs struggle significantly on these tasks. Building upon these pretext tasks, we develop the VideoSSR-30K dataset and propose VideoSSR, a novel video self-supervised reinforcement learning framework for RLVR. Extensive experiments across 17 benchmarks, spanning four major video domains (General Video QA, Long Video QA, Temporal Grounding, and Complex Reasoning), demonstrate that our VideoSSR consistently enhances model performance, yielding an average improvement of over 5%. These results establish VideoSSR as a potent foundational framework for developing more advanced video understanding in MLLMs.
Reasoning Diffusion for Unpaired Test Time Out-of-distribution Text-Image to Video Generation
Authors: Zirui Pan; Xin Wang; Yipeng Zhang; Hong Chen; Kecheng Zheng; Wenwu Zhu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Text-image to video generation aims to synthesize a video conditioned on the given text-image inputs. Nevertheless, existing methods generally assume that the semantic information carried in the input text and image tends to be perfectly paired and temporally aligned, occurring simultaneously in the generated video. As such, existing literature struggles with out-of-distribution (OOD) "unpaired" text-image inputs in the more universal and realistic scenario where i) the semantic information carried by the text and image may occur at different timestamps and ii) the condition image can appear at an arbitrary position rather than the first frame of the synthesized video. Video generation under this OOD setting poses an urgent need to conduct reasoning over the intrinsic connections between the given textual description and referred image, which is challenging and remains unexplored. To address the challenge, in this paper we study the problem of unpaired text-image to video generation for the first time, proposing ReasonDiff, a novel model for accurate video generation from unpaired text-image inputs. Specifically, ReasonDiff designs a VisionNarrator module to harness the powerful reasoning abilities of a multi-modal LLM to analyze the unpaired text-image inputs, producing coherent per-frame narratives that temporally align them. Building upon this VisionNarrator module, ReasonDiff further introduces a novel AlignFormer module, which employs a Multi-stage Temporal Anchor Attention mechanism to predict frame-wise latent representations. These reasoning-enhanced latents are subsequently fused with the condition frame, providing structured guidance throughout the video generation process. Extensive experiments and ablation studies demonstrate that ReasonDiff beats state-of-the-art baselines in terms of video generation quality with unpaired text-image inputs.
Disentangling to Re-couple: Resolving the Similarity-Controllability Paradox in Subject-Driven Text-to-Image Generation
Authors: Shuang Li; Chao Deng; Hang Chen; Liqun Liu; Zhenyu Hu; Te Cao; Mengge Xue; Yuan Chen; Peng Shu; Huan Yu; Jie Jiang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Subject-Driven Text-to-Image (T2I) Generation aims to preserve a subject's identity while editing its context based on a text prompt. A core challenge in this task is the "similarity-controllability paradox", where enhancing textual control often degrades the subject's fidelity, and vice-versa. We argue this paradox stems from the ambiguous role of text prompts, which are often tasked with describing both the subject and the desired modifications, leading to conflicting signals for the model. To resolve this, we propose DisCo, a novel framework that first Disentangles and then re-Couples visual and textual information. First, our textual-visual decoupling module isolates the sources of information: subject identity is extracted exclusively from the reference image with the entity word of the subject, while the text prompt is simplified to contain only the modification command, where the subject refers to general pronouns, eliminating descriptive ambiguity. However, this strict separation can lead to unnatural compositions between the subject and its contexts. We address this by designing a dedicated reward signal and using reinforcement learning to seamlessly recouple the visually-defined subject and the textually-generated context. Our approach effectively resolves the paradox, enabling simultaneous high-fidelity subject preservation and precise textual control. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance, producing highly realistic and coherent images.
Generalizing Visual Geometry Priors to Sparse Gaussian Occupancy Prediction
Authors: Changqing Zhou; Yueru Luo; Changhao Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Accurate 3D scene understanding is essential for embodied intelligence, with occupancy prediction emerging as a key task for reasoning about both objects and free space. Existing approaches largely rely on depth priors (e.g., DepthAnything) but make only limited use of 3D cues, restricting performance and generalization. Recently, visual geometry models such as VGGT have shown strong capability in providing rich 3D priors, but similar to monocular depth foundation models, they still operate at the level of visible surfaces rather than volumetric interiors, motivating us to explore how to more effectively leverage these increasingly powerful geometry priors for 3D occupancy prediction. We present GPOcc, a framework that leverages generalizable visual geometry priors (GPs) for monocular occupancy prediction. Our method extends surface points inward along camera rays to generate volumetric samples, which are represented as Gaussian primitives for probabilistic occupancy inference. To handle streaming input, we further design a training-free incremental update strategy that fuses per-frame Gaussians into a unified global representation. Experiments on Occ-ScanNet and EmbodiedOcc-ScanNet demonstrate significant gains: GPOcc improves mIoU by +9.99 in the monocular setting and +11.79 in the streaming setting over prior state of the art. Under the same depth prior, it achieves +6.73 mIoU while running 2.65 times faster. These results highlight that GPOcc leverages geometry priors more effectively and efficiently. Code will be released at https://github.com/JuIvyy/GPOcc.
ReWeaver: Towards Simulation-Ready and Topology-Accurate Garment Reconstruction
Authors: Ming Li; Hui Shan; Kai Zheng; Chentao Shen; Siyu Liu; Yanwei Fu; Zhen Chen; Xiangru Huang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: High-quality 3D garment reconstruction plays a crucial role in mitigating the sim-to-real gap in applications such as digital avatars, virtual try-on and robotic manipulation. However, existing garment reconstruction methods typically rely on unstructured representations, such as 3D Gaussian Splats, struggling to provide accurate reconstructions of garment topology and sewing structures. As a result, the reconstructed outputs are often unsuitable for high-fidelity physical simulation. We propose ReWeaver, a novel framework for topology-accurate 3D garment and sewing pattern reconstruction from sparse multi-view RGB images. Given as few as four input views, ReWeaver predicts seams and panels as well as their connectivities in both the 2D UV space and the 3D space. The predicted seams and panels align precisely with the multi-view images, yielding structured 2D-3D garment representations suitable for 3D perception, high-fidelity physical simulation, and robotic manipulation.To enable effective training, we construct a large-scale dataset GCD-TS, comprising multi-view RGB images, 3D garment geometries, textured human body meshes and annotated sewing patterns. The dataset contains over 100,000 synthetic samples covering a wide range of complex geometries and topologies. Extensive experiments show that ReWeaver consistently outperforms existing methods in terms of topology accuracy, geometry alignment and seam-panel consistency. Code and data will be available at the project sii-liming.github.io/ReWeaver.
Scan Clusters, Not Pixels: A Cluster-Centric Paradigm for Efficient Ultra-high-definition Image Restoration
Authors: Chen Wu; Ling Wang; Zhuoran Zheng; Yuning Cui; Zhixiong Yang; Xiangyu Chen; Yue Zhang; Weidong Jiang; Jingyuan Xia
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Ultra-High-Definition (UHD) image restoration is trapped in a scalability crisis: existing models, bound to pixel-wise operations, demand unsustainable computation. While state space models (SSMs) like Mamba promise linear complexity, their pixel-serial scanning remains a fundamental bottleneck for the millions of pixels in UHD content. We ask: must we process every pixel to understand the image? This paper introduces C^2SSM, a visual state space model that breaks this taboo by shifting from pixel-serial to cluster-serial scanning. Our core discovery is that the rich feature distribution of a UHD image can be distilled into a sparse set of semantic centroids via a neural-parameterized mixture model. C^2SSM leverages this to reformulate global modeling into a novel dual-path process: it scans and reasons over a handful of cluster centers, then diffuses the global context back to all pixels through a principled similarity distribution, all while a lightweight modulator preserves fine details. This cluster-centric paradigm achieves a decisive leap in efficiency, slashing computational costs while establishing new state-of-the-art results across five UHD restoration tasks. More than a solution, C^2SSM charts a new course for efficient large-scale vision: scan clusters, not pixels. The code is available at https://github.com/5chen/C2SSM.
SPARROW: Learning Spatial Precision and Temporal Referential Consistency in Pixel-Grounded Video MLLMs
Authors: Mohamad Alansari; Naufal Suryanto; Divya Velayudhan; Sajid Javed; Naoufel Werghi; Muzammal Naseer
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced from image-level reasoning to pixel-level grounding, but extending these capabilities to videos remains challenging as models must achieve spatial precision and temporally consistent reference tracking. Existing video MLLMs often rely on a static segmentation token ([SEG]) for frame-wise grounding, which provides semantics but lacks temporal context, causing spatial drift, identity switches, and unstable initialization when objects move or reappear. We introduce SPARROW, a pixel-grounded video MLLM that unifies spatial accuracy and temporal stability through two key components: (i) Target-Specific Tracked Features (TSF), which inject temporally aligned referent cues during training, and (ii) a dual-prompt design that decodes box ([BOX]) and segmentation ([SEG]) tokens to fuse geometric priors with semantic grounding. SPARROW is supported by a curated referential video dataset of 30,646 videos and 45,231 Q&A pairs and operates end-to-end without external detectors via a class-agnostic SAM2-based proposer. Integrated into three recent open-source video MLLMs (UniPixel, GLUS, and VideoGLaMM), SPARROW delivers consistent gains across six benchmarks, improving up to +8.9 J&F on RVOS, +5 mIoU on visual grounding, and +5.4 CLAIR on GCG. These results demonstrate that SPARROW substantially improves referential stability, spatial precision, and temporal coherence in pixel-grounded video understanding. Project page: https://risys-lab.github.io/SPARROW/
PETAR: Localized Findings Generation with Mask-Aware Vision-Language Modeling for PET Automated Reporting
Authors: Danyal Maqbool; Changhee Lee; Zachary Huemann; Samuel D. Church; Matthew E. Larson; Scott B. Perlman; Tomas A. Romero; Joshua D. Warner; Meghan Lubner; Xin Tie; Jameson Merkow; Junjie Hu; Steve Y. Cho; Tyler J. Bradshaw
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Generating automated reports for 3D positron emission tomography (PET) is an important and challenging task in medical imaging. PET plays a vital role in oncology, but automating report generation is difficult due to the complexity of whole-body 3D volumes, the wide range of potential clinical findings, and the limited availability of annotated datasets. To address these challenges, we introduce PETARSeg-11K, the first large-scale, publicly available dataset that provides lesion-level correspondence between 3D PET/CT volumes and free-text radiological findings. It comprises 11,356 lesion descriptions paired with 3D segmentations. Second, we propose PETAR-4B, a 3D vision-language model designed for mask-aware, spatially grounded PET/CT reporting. PETAR-4B jointly encodes PET, CT, and 3D lesion segmentation masks, using a 3D focal prompt to capture fine-grained details of lesions that normally comprise less than 0.1% of the volume. Evaluations using automated metrics show PETAR-4B substantially outperforming all 2D and 3D baselines. A human study involving five physicians---the first of its kind for automated PET reporting---confirms the model's clinical utility and establishes correlations between automated metrics and expert judgment. This work provides a foundational dataset and a novel architecture, advancing 3D medical vision-language understanding in PET. Project link: https://github.com/DanyalMaq/petar-release/
PROMPTMINER: Black-Box Prompt Stealing against Text-to-Image Generative Models via Reinforcement Learning and VLM-Guided Optimization
Authors: Mingzhe Li; Renhao Zhang; Zhiyang Wen; Siqi Pan; Bruno Castro da Silva; Juan Zhai; Shiqing Ma
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Text-to-image (T2I) generative models such as Stable Diffusion and FLUX can synthesize realistic, high-quality images directly from textual prompts. The resulting image quality depends critically on well-crafted prompts that specify both subjects and stylistic modifiers, which have become valuable digital assets. However, the rising value and ubiquity of high-quality prompts expose them to security and intellectual-property risks. One key threat is the prompt stealing attack, i.e., the task of recovering the textual prompt that generated a given image. Prompt stealing enables unauthorized extraction and reuse of carefully engineered prompts, yet it can also support beneficial applications such as data attribution, model provenance analysis, and watermarking validation. Existing approaches often assume white-box gradient access, require large-scale labeled datasets for supervised training, or rely solely on captioning without explicit optimization, limiting their practicality and adaptability. To address these challenges, we propose PROMPTMINER, a black-box prompt stealing framework that decouples the task into two phases: (1) a reinforcement learning-based optimization phase to reconstruct the primary subject, and (2) a VLM-guided search phase to recover stylistic modifiers. Experiments across multiple datasets and diffusion backbones demonstrate that PROMPTMINER achieves superior results, with CLIP similarity up to 0.958 and textual alignment with SBERT up to 0.751, surpassing all baselines. Even when applied to in-the-wild images with unknown generators, it outperforms the strongest baseline by 7.5% in CLIP similarity, demonstrating better generalization. Finally, PROMPTMINER maintains strong performance under defensive perturbations, highlighting remarkable robustness.
Iterative Closed-Loop Motion Synthesis for Scaling the Capabilities of Humanoid Control
Authors: Weisheng Xu; Qiwei Wu; Jiaxi Zhang; Jing Tan; Yangfan Li; Yuetong Fang; Jiaqi Xiong; Kai Wu; Rong Ou; Renjing Xu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Physics-based humanoid control relies on training with motion datasets that have diverse data distributions. However, the fixed difficulty distribution of datasets limits the performance ceiling of the trained control policies. Additionally, the method of acquiring high-quality data through professional motion capture systems is constrained by costs, making it difficult to achieve large-scale scalability. To address these issues, we propose a closed-loop automated motion data generation and iterative framework. It can generate high-quality motion data with rich action semantics, including martial arts, dance, combat, sports, gymnastics, and more. Furthermore, our framework enables difficulty iteration of policies and data through physical metrics and objective evaluations, allowing the trained tracker to break through its original difficulty limits. On the PHC single-primitive tracker, using only approximately 1/10 of the AMASS dataset size, the average failure rate on the test set (2201 clips) is reduced by 45% compared to the baseline. Finally, we conduct comprehensive ablation and comparative experiments to highlight the rationality and advantages of our framework.
Editprint: General Digital Image Forensics via Editing Fingerprint with Self-Augmentation Training
Authors: Haiwei Wu; Kemou Li; Yuanman Li; Jiantao Zhou
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Digital image forensics can ensure information credibility in tasks like camera source identification (CSI), synthetic image detection (SID), and social network provenance (SNP). These tasks typically rely on image processing history clues left by in-camera operations, post-capture editing, or synthetic generation. However, most existing forensic methods have obvious limitations: 1) they often only focus on camera-specific traces (e.g., the well-known PRNU), and 2) they demand a substantial amount of annotated training data. To address these constraints, we propose Editprint, a novel general forensic feature that captures highly diverse in- and out-camera processing history clues with minimal unlabeled training data. Ideally, we expect that any images undergoing the same imaging, editing, and transmission processes would yield identical Editprints, and vice versa. To model the in- and out-camera operations, we devise an online editing pool based on self-augmentation strategies. Requiring only minimal (e.g., 10) training data, the editing pool can simulate massive (e.g., 10^\text 7 ) editing chains and traces arising from the in-camera processing and the subsequent out-camera operations. To ensure that Editprint exhibits high discriminative capabilities across various editing chains, we propose using textual descriptions of these chains as labels and supervising their Editprints through language-guided contrastive learning. Extensive experiments show Editprint outperforms existing self-supervised forensics, particularly in non-camera applications such as SNP and SID. We hope that Editprint would inspire the forensic community and serve as a novel benchmark for self-supervised forensics.