GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Learning Personalized Photographic Style from Pairwise User Preferences
Authors: Jinwoo Kim; Jihye Yoo; Seon Joo Kim
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Photographic style preferences are deeply personal, varying across individuals in color and tonal aesthetics. We introduce Personalized Photographic Style (PPS) learning, where the goal is to capture a user's implicit preferences from comparative judgments and apply them consistently across diverse images. To establish a foundation for this problem, we present three contributions. First, we introduce PPSD, a dataset containing pairwise preference judgments from 767 users, each providing an average of 70 comparisons. To capture diverse style signals, images are sourced from professional edits, device pipelines, and generative models. Second, we explore several baseline models demonstrating the feasibility of adapting style transfer and enhancement approaches for preference learning. Third, we develop a comparative evaluation framework suited to the implicit nature of personal preferences. We will make our dataset publicly available, and hope this work serves as a foundation for advancing research in personalized photographic style learning.
Reparameterized Tensor Ring Functional Decomposition for Multi-Dimensional Data Recovery
Authors: Yangyang Xu; Junbo Ke; You-Wei Wen; Chao Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Tensor Ring (TR) decomposition is a powerful tool for high-order data modeling, but is inherently restricted to discrete forms defined on fixed meshgrids. In this work, we propose a TR functional decomposition for both meshgrid and non-meshgrid data, where factors are parameterized by Implicit Neural Representations (INRs). However, optimizing this continuous framework to capture fine-scale details is intrinsically difficult. Through a frequency-domain analysis, we demonstrate that the spectral structure of TR factors determines the frequency composition of the reconstructed tensor and limits the high-frequency modeling capacity. To mitigate this, we propose a reparameterized TR functional decomposition, in which each TR factor is a structured combination of a learnable latent tensor and a fixed basis. This reparameterization is theoretically shown to improve the training dynamics of TR factor learning. We further derive a principled initialization scheme for the fixed basis and prove the Lipschitz continuity of our proposed model. Extensive experiments on image inpainting, denoising, super-resolution, and point cloud recovery demonstrate that our method achieves consistently superior performance over existing approaches. Code is available at https://github.com/YangyangXu2002/RepTRFD.
Semi-Supervised Conformal Prediction With Unlabeled Nonconformity Score
Authors: Xuanning Zhou; Zihao Shi; Hao Zeng; Xiaobo Xia; Bingyi Jing; Hongxin Wei
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Conformal prediction (CP) is a powerful framework for uncertainty quantification, generating prediction sets with coverage guarantees. Split conformal prediction relies on labeled data in the calibration procedure. However, the labeled data is often limited in real-world scenarios, leading to unstable coverage performance in different runs. To address this issue, we extend CP to the semi-supervised setting and propose SemiCP, a new paradigm that leverages both labeled and unlabeled data for calibration. To achieve this, we introduce an unlabeled nonconformity score, Nearest Neighbor Matching (NNM) score. Specifically, NNM estimates the nonconformity scores of unlabeled samples using their most similar pseudo-labeled counterparts during calibration, while maintaining the original scores for labeled data. Theoretically, we demonstrate that the average coverage gap (i.e., the absolute difference between the empirical marginal coverage and the target coverage) of SemiCP can decrease significantly at a rate O(N-1t2) and converge to an error term, where N is the number of unlabeled data. Extensive experiments validate the effectiveness of SemiCP under limited labeled data, reducing the average coverage gap by up to 77% on common benchmarks with 4000 unlabeled examples, when there are only 20 labeled examples. Code is available at https://github.com/Shinning-Zhou/SemiCP.
EfficientVPR: Toward Efficient Visual Place Recognition via Scene-Aware Prompt Tuning and Adaptive Feature Enhancement
Authors: Wenjing Tang; Chuanguang Yang; Zhulin An; Libo Huang; Boyu Diao; Yongjun Xu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Visual place recognition (VPR) faces critical challenges in handling extreme environmental variations while meeting the computational constraints of practical applications. Current methods predominantly address these challenges by either scaling up model capacity or employing computationally intensive reranking stages, creating a significant efficiency bottleneck. To overcome this limitation, we propose EfficientVPR, a lightweight one-stage framework that achieves speed-accuracy trade-offs through two key innovations: i) a scene-aware visual prompt tuning method which adapts pretrained features with less parameters while dynamically adjusting to sample-specific characteristics, and ii) an instance-dependent key local feature enhancement module that further reinforces discriminative regions. Comprehensive evaluations on Pitts250k, MSLS, Eynsham, AmsterTime and SVOX demonstrate that our method establishes a new SOTA for DINOv2-small models by outperforming all same-scale competitors, and delivers a 73x speedup with 60% lower-dimensional features while maintaining competitive (within 2.5% average R@1 gap) against the SOTA DINOv2-large-based two-stage method. Our code will be available at https://github.com/WiniTang/EfficientVPR.
DA-Mamba: Learning Domain-Aware State Space Model for Global-Local Alignment in Domain Adaptive Object Detection
Authors: Haochen Li; Rui Zhang; Hantao Yao; Xin Zhang; Yifan Hao; Shaohui Peng; Yongwei Zhao; Ling Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Domain Adaptive Object Detection (DAOD) aims to transfer detectors from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain.Existing DAOD methods employ multi-granularity feature alignment to learn domain-invariant representations.However, the local connectivity of their CNN-based backbone and detection head restricts alignment to local regions, failing to extract global domain-invariant features.Although transformer-based DAOD methods capture global dependencies via attention mechanisms, their quadratic computational cost hinders practical deployment. To solve this, we propose DA-Mamba, a hybrid CNN-State Space Models (SSMs) architecture that combines the efficiency of CNNs with the linear-time long-range modeling capability of State Space Models (SSMs) to capture both global and local domain-invariant features.Specifically, we introduce two novel modules: Image-Aware SSM (IA-SSM) and Object-Aware SSM (OA-SSM).IA-SSM is integrated into the backbone to enhance global domain awareness, enabling image-level global and local alignment.OA-SSM is inserted into the detection head to model spatial and semantic dependencies among objects, enhancing instance-level alignment.Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can efficiently improve the cross-domain performance of the object detector.
MU-GeNeRF: Multi-view Uncertainty-guided Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields for Distractor-aware Scene
Authors: Wenjie Mu; Zhan Li; Chuanzhou Su; Xuanyi Shen; Ziniu Liu; Fan Lu; Yujian Mo; Junqiao Zhao; Tiantian Feng; Chen Ye; Guang Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Generalizable Neural Radiance Fields (GeNeRF) enable high-quality scene reconstruction from a limited number of views and can generalize to unseen scenes. However, in real-world environments, transient distractors disrupt structural consistency across views, leading to deviated supervision signals and degraded reconstruction quality. Existing distractor-free NeRF methods rely on per-scene optimization and they estimate uncertainty from per-view reconstruction errors to remove distractors, but this is unreliable to GeNeRF, because it may misjudge inconsistent static structures from source views as distractors. To address this issue, we propose MUGeNeRF: a multi-view uncertainty-guided distractor-aware GeNeRF method, aim to effectively alleviate GeNeRF's robust modeling challenges in dynamic scenes with transient distractions. We explicitly decompose distractor awareness into two complementary uncertainty modeling tasks: Source-view uncertainty, serving as a transferable prior during the feed-forward process, captures structural inconsistencies across source views caused by viewpoint changes or dynamic factors; Target-view uncertainty focuses on observation anomalies caused by transient changes to infer distractor spatial distribution. These two uncertainties are integrated into a heteroscedastic reconstruction loss that guides adaptive supervision weighting, boosting the model's capability to detect and suppress distractors, and enabling more robust geometric modeling. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method not only outperforms existing GeNeRF approaches but also rivals the performance of scene-specific distractor-free NeRFs.
Material Magic Wand: Material-Aware Grouping of 3D Parts in Untextured Meshes
Authors: Umangi Jain; Vladimir Kim; Matheus Gadelha; Igor Gilitschenski; Zhiqin Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We introduce the problem of material-aware part grouping in untextured meshes.Many real-world shapes, such as scales of pinecones or windows of buildings, contain repeated structures that share the same material but exhibit geometric variations.When assigning materials to such meshes, these repeated parts often require piece-by-piece manual identification and selection, which is tedious and time-consuming.To address this, we propose Material Magic Wand, a tool that allows artists to select part groups based on their estimated material properties -- when one part is selected, our algorithm automatically retrieves all other parts likely to share the same material. The key component of our approach is a part encoder that generates a material-aware embedding for each 3D part, accounting for both local geometry and global context.We train our model with a supervised contrastive loss that brings embeddings of material-consistent parts closer while separating those of different materials;therefore, part grouping can be achieved by retrieving embeddings that are close to the embedding of the selected part.To benchmark this task, we introduce a curated dataset of 100 shapes with 241 part-level queries.We verify the effectiveness of our method through extensive experiments and demonstrate its practical value in an interactive material assignment application.
VQRAE: Representation Quantization Autoencoders for Multimodal Understanding, Generation and Reconstruction
Authors: Sinan Du; Jiahao Guo; Bo Li; Shuhao Cui; Zhengzhuo Xu; Yifu Luo; Yongxian Wei; Kun Gai; Xinggang Wang; Kai Wu; Chun Yuan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Unifying multimodal understanding, generation and reconstruction representation in a single tokenizer remains a key challenge in building unified models. Previous research predominantly attempts to address this in a dual encoder paradigm, e.g., utilizing the separate encoders for understanding and generation respectively or balancing semantic representations and low-level features with contrastive loss. In this paper, we propose VQRAE, a Vector Quantization version of Representation AutoEncoders, which pioneers the first exploration in unified representation to produce Continuous semantic features for image understanding and Discrete tokens for visual generation within a unified tokenizer. Specifically, we build upon pretrained vision foundation models with a symmetric ViT decoder and adopt a two-stage training strategy: first, it freezes the encoder and learns a high-dimensional semantic VQ codebook with pixel reconstruction objective; then jointly optimizes the encoder with self-distillation constraints. This design enables negligible semantic information for maintaining the ability of multimodal understanding, discrete tokens that are compatible for generation and fine-grained reconstruction. Besides, we identify the intriguing property in quantizing semantic encoders that rely on high-dimensional codebook in contrast to the previous common practice of low-dimensional codebook in image reconstruction. The semantic VQ codebook can achieve a 100% utilization ratio at a dimension of 1536. VQRAE presents competitive performance on several benchmarks of visual understanding, generation and reconstruction with promising scaling property in the autoregressive paradigm for its discrete merits.
Sparse-LaViDa: Sparse Multimodal Discrete Diffusion Language Models
Authors: Shufan Li; Jiuxiang Gu; Kangning Liu; Zhe Lin; Zijun Wei; Aditya Grover; Jason Kuen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Masked Discrete Diffusion Models (MDMs) have achieved strong performance across a wide range of multimodal tasks, including image understanding, generation, and editing. However, their inference speed remains suboptimal due to the need to repeatedly process redundant masked tokens at every sampling step. In this work, we propose Sparse-LaViDa, a novel modeling framework that dynamically truncates unnecessary masked tokens at each inference step to accelerate MDM sampling. To preserve generation quality, we introduce specialized register tokens that serve as sparse representations for the truncated tokens. Furthermore, to ensure consistency between training and inference, we design a specialized attention mask that faithfully matches the truncated sampling procedure during training. Built upon the state-of-the-art unified MDM LaViDa-O, Sparse-LaViDa achieves up to a 2xspeedup across diverse tasks including text-to-image generation, image editing, and mathematical reasoning, while maintaining generation quality.
Test-Time Training for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation under Corruption via Geometric Inlier Discrimination
Authors: Hyeonseong Kim; Hyun-Kurl Jang; Kuk-Jin Yoon
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: LiDAR semantic segmentation must remain robust under various sensor and environmental corruptions to be reliable in safety-critical applications. Existing test-time adaptation methods, including approaches based on pseudo-labels and normalization statistics, have shown promising results but can still struggle under severe distribution shifts. To complement these approaches, we propose a geometry-aware test-time training framework that leverages an auxiliary self-supervised objective. Our method is based on geometric inlier discrimination (GeoID), which injects synthetic off-manifold points into the input and trains the model to distinguish geometry-consistent inliers from synthetically displaced outliers, enabling adaptation on unlabeled test data. To further stabilize this process under real corruptions, we introduce bidirectional unreliable point filtering (BiUPF), which uses inlier scores from the source-trained model to filter out unreliable regions on both original and synthetic points, focusing updates on high-confidence samples. Experiments on two large-scale corruption benchmarks, SemanticKITTI-C and nuScenes-C, show that our method consistently outperforms strong test-time adaptation baselines and improves robustness across diverse LiDAR corruptions. Our code is available at https://github.com/hskim617/GeoID.
LEADER: Learning Reliable Local-to-Global Correspondences for LiDAR Relocalization
Authors: Jianshi Wu; Minghang Zhu; Dunqiang Liu; Wen Li; Sheng Ao; Siqi Shen; Chenglu Wen; Cheng Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: LiDAR relocalization has attracted increasing attention as it can deliver accurate 6-DoF pose estimation in complex 3D environments. Recent learning-based regression methods offer efficient solutions by directly predicting global poses without the need for explicit map storage. However, these methods often struggle in challenging scenes due to their equal treatment of all predicted points, which is vulnerable to noise and outliers. In this paper, we propose LEADER, a robust LiDAR-based relocalization framework enhanced by a simple, yet effective geometric encoder. Specifically, a Robust Projection-based Geometric Encoder architecture which captures multi-scale geometric features is first presented to enhance descriptiveness in geometric representation. A Truncated Relative Reliability loss is then formulated to model point-wise ambiguity and mitigate the influence of unreliable predictions. Extensive experiments on the Oxford RobotCar and NCLT datasets demonstrate that LEADER outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving 24.1% and 73.9% relative reductions in position error over existing techniques, respectively. The source code is released on https://github.com/JiansW/LEADER.
Thinking Beyond Labels: Vocabulary-Free Fine-Grained Recognition using Reasoning-Augmented LMMs
Authors: Dmitry Demidov; Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer; Zongyan Han; Omkar Thawakar; Rao Anwer
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vocabulary-free fine-grained image recognition aims to distinguish visually similar categories within a meta-class without a fixed, human-defined label set. Existing solutions for this problem remain limited by either the usage of a large and rigid list of vocabularies or by the dependency on complex pipelines with fragile heuristics where errors propagate across stages. Meanwhile, the ability of recent large multi-modal models (LMMs) equipped with explicit or implicit reasoning to comprehend visual-language data, decompose problems, retrieve latent knowledge, and self-correct suggests a more principled and effective alternative. Building on these capabilities, we propose FiNDR (Fine-grained Name Discovery via Reasoning), the first reasoning-augmented LMM-based framework for vocabulary-free fine-grained recognition. The system oper- ates in three automated steps: (i) a reasoning-enabled LMM generates descriptive candidate labels for each image; (ii) a vision-language model filters and ranks these candidates to form a coherent class set; and (iii) the verified names instantiate a lightweight multi-modal classifier used at inference time. Extensive experiments on popular fine-grained classification benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art per- formance under the vocabulary-free setting, with a significant relative margin of up to 18.8% over previous ap- proaches. Remarkably, the proposed method surpasses zero-shot baselines that exploit pre-defined ground-truth names, challenging the assumption that human-curated vo- cabularies define an upper bound. Ablations further confirm that advanced prompting techniques and built-in rea- soning mechanisms significantly enhance naming quality. Additionally, we show that carefully engineered prompts enable open-source LMMs to match proprietary counter- parts. These findings establish reasoning-augmented LMMs as an effective foundation for scalable, fully automated, open-world fine-grained visual recognition. The source code and relevant prompting guidelines will be released.
SinGeo: Unlock Single Model's Potential for Robust Cross-View Geo-Localization
Authors: Yang Chen; Xieyuanli Chen; Junxiang Li; Jie Tang; Tao Wu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Robust cross-view geo-localization (CVGL) remains challenging despite the surge in recent progress. Existing methods still rely on field-of-view (FoV)-specific training paradigms, where models are optimized under a fixed FoV but collapse when tested on unseen FoVs and unknown orientations. This limitation necessitates deploying multiple models to cover diverse variations. Although studies have explored dynamic FoV training by simply randomizing FoVs, they failed to achieve robustness across diverse conditions---implicitly assuming all FoVs are equally difficult. To address this gap, we present SinGeo, a simple yet powerful framework that enables a single model to realize robust cross-view geo-localization without additional modules or explicit transformations. SinGeo employs a dual discriminative learning architecture that enhances intra-view discriminability within both ground and satellite branches, and is the first to introduce a curriculum learning strategy to achieve robust CVGL. Extensive evaluations on four benchmark datasets reveal that SinGeo sets state-of-the-art (SOTA) results under diverse conditions, and notably outperforms methods specifically trained for extreme FoVs. Beyond superior performance, SinGeo also exhibits cross-architecture transferability. Furthermore, we propose a consistency evaluation method to objectively assess model stability under varying views, providing an objective perspective for understanding and advancing robustness in future CVGL research. Codes are available at: https://github.com/Yangchen-nudt/SinGeo.
JarvisEvo: Towards a Self-Evolving Photo Editing Agent with Synergistic Editor-Evaluator Optimization
Authors: Yunlong Lin; Linqing Wang; Kunjie Lin; Zixu Lin; Kaixiong Gong; Wenbo Li; Bin Lin; Zhenxi Li; Shiyi Zhang; Yuyang Peng; Wenxun Dai; Xinghao Ding; Chunyu Wang; Qinglin Lu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Agent-based editing models have substantially advanced interactive experiences, processing quality, and creative flexibility. However, two critical challenges persist: (1) instruction hallucination--text-only chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning cannot fully prevent factual errors due to inherent information bottlenecks; (2) reward hacking--dynamic policy optimization against static reward models allows agents to exploit flaws in reward functions. To address these issues, we propose JarvisEvo, a unified image editing agent that emulates an expert human designer by iteratively editing, selecting appropriate tools, evaluating results, and reflecting on its own decisions to refine outcomes. JarvisEvo offers three key advantages: (1) an interleaved multimodal chain-of-thought (iMCoT) reasoning mechanism that enhances instruction following and editing quality; (2) a synergistic editor-evaluator policy optimization (SEPO) framework that enables self-improvement without external rewards, effectively mitigating reward hacking; and (3) support for both preservative and generative editing through seamless integration of Adobe Lightroom and Qwen-Image-Edit tools. On ArtEdit-Bench, JarvisEvo outperforms Nano-Banana by an average of 18.95% on preservative editing metrics, including a substantial 44.96% improvement in pixel-level content fidelity, while maintaining competitive performance in generative editing tasks.
SyncDreamer: Controllable and Expressive Avatar Generation Beyond the Talking Head
Authors: Fatemeh Nazarieh; Zhenhua Feng; Diptesh Kanojia; Josef Kittler; Muhammad Awais
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Generating realistic and expressive audio-driven talking avatars remains a central challenge in digital human synthesis. Existing methods often depend on intermediate representations such as pose estimations for natural body motion, which restricts flexibility and adds visual distortions. Moreover, most audio-driven approaches rely on discrete emotion classifiers or text labels to regulate facial expression, reducing complex affective dynamics to coarse categories such as happy, sad, or angry. Such categorical supervision fails to capture the continuous and fine-grained speech dynamics (rhythm, energy, intensity) resulting in limited synchronization and emotionally shallow motion. To overcome these limitations, we present SyncDreamer, a unified Diffusion Transformer framework that generates identity-preserving and emotionally expressive talking avatars from only a single image, speech audio, and text prompt.We propose a visual adapter with Attention Localization Loss to maintain identity fidelity, further incorporating an audio dynamics encoder for rhythm- and emotion-aware motion, and an RL-based Cross-Modal Prompt Enhancer grounding textual cues in visual context for fine-grained motion control. Extensive experiments on portrait and full-body benchmarks demonstrate state-of-the-art performance in realism, synchronization accuracy, and semantic controllability, establishing a scalable foundation for expressive digital avatars in interactive and creative applications.