GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
EarthCrafter: Scalable 3D Earth Generation via Dual-Sparse Latent Diffusion
Authors: Shang Liu; Chenjie Cao; Chaohui Yu; Wen Qian; Jing Wang; Fan Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Despite the remarkable developments achieved by recent 3D generation works, scaling these methods to geographic extents, such as modeling thousands of square kilometers of Earth’s surface, remains an open challenge.
We address this through a dual innovation in data infrastructure and model architecture.
First, we introduce Aerial-Earth3D, the largest 3D aerial dataset to date, consisting of 50k curated scenes (each measuring 600m) captured across the U.S. mainland, comprising 45M multi-view Google Earth frames.
Each scene provides pose-annotated multi-view images, depth maps, normals, semantic segmentation, and camera poses, with explicit quality control to ensure terrain diversity.
Building on this foundation, we propose EarthCrafter, a tailored framework for large-scale 3D Earth generation via sparse-decoupled latent diffusion. Our architecture separates structural and textural generation:
1) Dual sparse 3D-VAEs compress high-resolution geometric voxels and textural 2D Gaussian Splats (2DGS) into compact latent spaces, largely alleviating the costly computation suffering from vast geographic scales while preserving critical information. 
2) We propose condition-aware flow matching models trained on mixed inputs (semantics, images, or neither) to flexibly model latent geometry and texture features independently.
Extensive experiments demonstrate that EarthCrafter performs substantially better in extremely large-scale generation.
The framework further supports versatile applications, from semantic-guided urban layout generation to unconditional terrain synthesis, while maintaining geographic plausibility through our rich data priors from Aerial-Earth3D.
Improving Sustainability of Adversarial Examples in Class-Incremental Learning
Authors: Taifeng Liu; Xinjing Liu; Liangqiu Dong; Yang Liu; Yilong Yang; Zhuo Ma
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current adversarial examples (AEs) are typically designed for static models. However, with the wide application of Class-Incremental Learning (CIL), models are no longer static and need to be updated with new data distributed and labeled differently from the old ones. As a result, existing AEs often fail after CIL updates due to significant domain drift. In this paper, we propose SAE to enhance the sustainability of AEs against CIL. The core idea of SAE is to enhance the robustness of AE semantics against domain drift by making them more similar to the target class while distinguishing them from all other classes. Achieving this is challenging, as relying solely on the initial CIL model to optimize AE semantics often leads to overfitting. To resolve the problem, we propose a Semantic Correction Module. This module encourages the AE semantics to be generalized, based on a generative model capable of producing universal semantics. Additionally, it incorporates the CIL model to correct the optimization direction of the AE semantics, guiding them closer to the target class. To further reduce fluctuations in AE semantics, we propose a Filtering-and-Augmentation Module, which first identifies non-target examples with target-class semantics in the latent space and then augments them to foster more stable semantics. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that SAE outperforms baselines by an average of 31.28% when updated with a 9-fold increase in the number of classes.
DGKAN: Dual-branch Graph Kolmogorov-Arnold Network for Unsupervised Multimodal Change Detection
Authors: Tongfei Liu; Jianjian Xu; Tao Lei; Yingbo Wang; Xiaogang Du; Zhiyong Lv
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal change detection (MCD) has important applications in disaster assessment, but the nonlinear distortion of features and spatial misalignment caused by sensor imaging differences make it difficult to obtain changes through direct comparison. To overcome the above problems, this study aims to realize MCD by capturing the modality-independent structural commonality features between Multimodal Remote Sensing Images (MRSIs). To achieve this, we devise a basic Graph Kolmogorov-Arnold Network (GKAN) to excavate spatial structural relationships and cross-modal nonlinear mappings simultaneously. Based on this, we propose a Dual-branch GKAN (DGKAN) for unsupervised MCD, which can capture spatial-spectral structural commonality features and compare them directly to detect changes. Concretely, the GKAN is used within the DGKAN to build two autoencoders consisting of a Siamese encoder and two independent decoders to learn spatial-spectral structural commonality features through feature reconstruction. Besides, we introduce a Covariance Structural Commonality Loss (CSCL), which guides the network in extracting spatial-spectral structural commonality features between MRSIs by unsupervised constraints on the distributional consistency of cross-modal features. Experiments on several MCD datasets show that the proposed DGKAN can achieve convincing results, and ablation studies verify the effectiveness of the GKAN and CSCL.
Orthogonal Spatial-temporal Distributional Transfer for 4D Generation
Authors: Wei Liu; Shengqiong Wu; Bobo Li; Haoyu Zhao; Hao Fei; Mong-Li Lee; Wynne Hsu
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: In the AIGC era, generating high-quality 4D content has garnered increasing research attention. Unfortunately, current 4D synthesis research is severely constrained by the lack of large-scale 4D datasets, preventing models from adequately learning the critical spatial-temporal features necessary for high-quality 4D generation, thus hindering progress in this domain. To combat this, we propose a novel framework that transfers rich spatial priors from existing 3D diffusion models and temporal priors from video diffusion models to enhance 4D synthesis. We develop a spatial-temporal-disentangled 4D (STD-4D) Diffusion model, which synthesizes 4D-aware videos through disentangled spatial and temporal latents. To facilitate the best feature transfer, we design a novel Orthogonal Spatial-temporal Distributional Transfer (Orster) mechanism, where the spatiotemporal feature distributions are carefully modeled and injected into the STD-4D Diffusion. Further, during the 4D construction, we devise a spatial-temporal-aware HexPlane (ST-HexPlane) to integrate the transferred spatiotemporal features for better 4D deformation and 4D Gaussian feature modeling. Experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing approaches, achieving superior spatial-temporal consistency and higher-quality 4D synthesis.
GT2-GS: Geometry-aware Texture Transfer for Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Wenjie Liu; Zhongliang Liu; Junwei Shu; Changbo Wang; Yang Li
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Transferring 2D textures onto complex 3D scenes plays a vital role in enhancing the efficiency and controllability of 3D multimedia content creation. However, existing 3D style transfer methods primarily focus on transferring abstract artistic styles to 3D scenes. These methods often overlook the geometric information of the scene, which makes it challenging to achieve high-quality 3D texture transfer results. In this paper, we present GT2-GS, a geometry-aware texture transfer framework for gaussian splatting. First, we propose a geometry-aware texture transfer loss that enables view-consistent texture transfer by leveraging prior view-dependent feature information and texture features augmented with additional geometric parameters. Moreover, an adaptive fine-grained control module is proposed to address the degradation of scene information caused by low-granularity texture features. Finally, a geometry preservation branch is introduced. This branch refines the geometric parameters using additionally bound Gaussian color priors, thereby decoupling the optimization objectives of appearance and geometry. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and controllability of our method. Through geometric awareness, our approach achieves texture transfer results that better align with human visual perception.
Beyond the Horizon: Decoupling Multi-View UAV Action Recognition via Partial Order Transfer
Authors: Wenxuan Liu; Zhuo Zhou; Xuemei Jia; Siyuan Yang; Wenxin Huang; Xian Zhong; Chia-Wen Lin
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Action recognition using uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) faces unique challenges due to substantial view variations along the vertical spatial axis. Unlike ground-based scenarios, UAVs capture actions from diverse altitudes, resulting in pronounced appearance discrepancies and reduced recognition robustness. To address this, we introduce a multi-view formulation tailored for UAV altitudes and empirically uncover a distinctive partial order among views, where recognition accuracy consistently declines as altitude increases. This key observation motivates the proposed Aero Partial Order Guided Network (Aerorder), which explicitly models and exploits the hierarchical structure of UAV views to enhance cross-altitude action recognition. Aerorder comprises three main components: (1) a View Partition (VP) module that groups views by altitude using the head-to-body ratio; (2) an Order-aware Feature Decoupling (OFD) module that disentangles action-relevant and view-specific representations under partial order guidance; and (3) an Action Partial Order Guide (APOG) that progressively transfers knowledge from easier (low-altitude) to harder (high-altitude) views. Extensive experiments on Drone-Action, MOD20, and UAV validate the superiority of Aerorder, achieving consistent improvements over state-of-the-art methods, up to 4.7% and 1.3% gains on Drone-Action and MOD20, respectively.
Collaborative Feature Matching with Progressive Correspondence Learning
Authors: Xin Liu; Yanbing Han; Rong Qin; Bing Wang; Jufeng Yang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Accurate feature matching between image pairs is fundamental for various computer vision applications. In detector-base process, the feature matcher aims to find the optimal feature correspondences, and the match filter is used for further removing mismatches. However, their connection is rarely exploited since they are usually treated as two separate issues in previous method, which may lead to suboptimal results. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end collaborative feature matching (CFM) method, which contains a keypoint learning (KL) module and a correspondence learning (CL) module, to bridge the gap between two types of works. The former improves the discrimination of keypoints, and provides high-quality dynamic matches for CL module. The latter further captures the rich context of matches, and gives effective feedback to KL module. These two modules can reinforce each other in a progressive manner. Besides, we develop an efficient version of CFM, named ECFM, using an adaptive sampling strategy to avoid the negative influence of uninformative keypoints. Experimental results indicate that both methods outperform the state-of-the-art competitors in the tasks of relative pose estimation and visual localization.
Discretization Is Not Always Better: Rethinking Deep Quantization for Asymmetric Image Retrieval
Authors: Xinze Liu; Dayan Wu; Hengjie Zhu; Chenming Wu; Pengwen Dai
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Asymmetric image retrieval (AIR), which typically employs a compact model for the query side and a large model for the database server, has garnered significant attention in resource-constrained environments. While deep hashing methods have shown great potential in large-scale image retrieval, current attempts for the asymmetric image retrieval overlook the differences in quantization capabilities between query and gallery networks. In AIR, the conventional quantization scheme forces the outputs of small query models to approximate the discrete outputs of large models, imposing overly rigid and stringent constraints that severely limit the optimization of small query models. Furthermore, existing deep hashing methods for AIR necessitate labeled datasets from large models, which also limits their practical applicability. To this end, we reconsider the necessity of strict discretization in AIR and propose a novel asymmetric hashing method, named Deep Correlation Alignment Hashing (DCAH). Rather than explicitly quantizing continuous query features to match discrete gallery representations, we distill the correlation across both models and introduce a Correlation Alignment based Quantization (CAQ) scheme, thereby implicitly accomplishing quantization. To preserve the similarity consistency between the query and gallery models, we further employ a correlation alignment-based knowledge distillation strategy which is intrinsically compatible with the CAQ. Notably, the proposed quantization scheme can function as a plug-and-play module that seamlessly integrates with existing AIR methods. Comprehensive evaluations on three real-world benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed quantization scheme CAQ, and also show that DCAH achieves state-of-the-art performance in asymmetric image retrieval scenarios.
SOAR: Semi-Supervised Open-Vocabulary Aerial Object Detection via Dual-Aware Enhanced Prior Denoising
Authors: Xu Liu; Yihong Huang; Dan Zhang; Lingling Li; Long Sun; Licheng Jiao
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) shows promise in remote sensing (RS), but due to its unique value, there are challenges such as the predominance of background regions, sparse labels, limited semantic information, and difficulties in semi-supervised training. To tackle these challenges, we propose the Semi-Supervised Open-Vocabulary Aerial Object Detection with Dual-Perception Prior Denoising (SOAR), which explicitly models the background embeddings of each scene to indirectly construct foreground priors, thereby capitalizing on the abundant background information present in RS imagery. We further introduce a query enhancement module that integrates language and foreground prior information to enhance the effectiveness of query selection and feature augmentation. During the decoding stage of semi-supervised training, we perform denoising and reconstruction of the foreground priors to generate pseudo-labels that support the training process. Additionally, we address the sparsity of label information through expansion and aggregation techniques, further improving model performance. Experimental evaluations reveal that, in the open-vocabulary object detection task on the DIOR dataset, our method achieves a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 68.5% and Harmonic Mean (HM) of 55.9%, outperforming the previous state-of-the-art model’s mAP of 61.6% and HM of 53.6%. Our approach offers a novel solution to the open-vocabulary challenge in aerial object detection.
DBGroup: Dual-Branch Point Grouping for Weakly Supervised 3D Semantic Instance Segmentation
Authors: Xuexun Liu; Xiaoxu Xu; Qiudan Zhang; Lin Ma; Xu Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation is essential for 3D scene understanding, especially as the growing scale of data and high annotation costs associated with fully supervised approaches. Existing methods primarily rely on two forms of weak supervision: one-thing-one-click annotations and bounding box annotations, both of which aim to reduce labeling efforts. However, these approaches still encounter limitations, including  labor-intensive annotation processes, high complexity, and reliance on expert annotators. To address these challenges, we propose DBGroup, a two-stage weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation framework that leverages scene-level annotations as a more efficient and scalable alternative. In the first stage, we introduce a Dual-Branch Point Grouping module to generate pseudo labels guided by semantic and mask cues extracted from multi-view images. To further improve label quality, we develop two refinement strategies: Granularity-Aware Instance Merging and Semantic Selection and Propagation. The second stage involves multi-round self-training on an end-to-end instance segmentation network using the refined pseudo-labels. Additionally, we introduce an Instance Mask Filter strategy to address inconsistencies within the pseudo labels. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DBGroup achieves competitive performance compared to sparse-point-level supervised 3D instance segmentation methods, while surpassing state-of-the-art scene-level supervised 3D semantic segmentation approaches.
Global Compression Commander: Plug-and-Play Inference Acceleration for High-Resolution Large Vision-Language Models
Authors: Xuyang Liu; Ziming Wang; Junjie Chen; Yuhang Han; Yingyao Wang; Jiale Yuan; Jun Song; Siteng Huang; Honggang Chen
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) excel at visual understanding but face efficiency challenges due to quadratic complexity when processing long multimodal contexts. While token compression can reduce computational costs, existing approaches are designed for single-view LVLMs and fail to account for the unique multi-view characteristics of high-resolution LVLMs that use dynamic cropping. Current methods treat all tokens uniformly, yet our analysis shows that global thumbnails can naturally guide the compression of local crops by providing holistic context for evaluating informativeness. In this paper, we first analyze the dynamic cropping strategy, revealing both the complementary relationship between thumbnails and crops and the distinct characteristics across different crops. Based on these insights, we propose ''Global Compression Commander'' (GlobalCom2), a novel plug-and-play token compression framework for high-resolution LVLMs. GlobalCom2 uses the thumbnail as a ''commander'' to adaptively guide the compression of local crops, preserving informative details while removing redundancy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GlobalCom2 maintains over 90% of model performance while compressing 90% of visual tokens, reducing FLOPs to 9.1% and peak memory usage to 60% of the original.
Signal: Selective Interaction and Global-local Alignment for Multi-Modal Object Re-Identification
Authors: Yangyang Liu; Yuhao Wang; Pingping Zhang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multi-modal object Re-IDentification (ReID) is devoted to retrieving specific objects through the exploitation of complementary multi-modal image information. Existing methods mainly concentrate on the fusion of multi-modal features, yet neglecting the background interference. Besides, current multi-modal fusion methods often focus on aligning modality pairs but suffer from multi-modal consistency alignment. To address these issues, we propose a novel selective interaction and global-local alignment framework called Signal for multi-modal object ReID. Specifically, we first propose a Selective Interaction Module (SIM) to select important patch tokens with intra-modal and inter-modal information. These important patch tokens engage in the interaction with class tokens, thereby yielding more discriminative features. Then, we propose a Global Alignment Module (GAM) to simultaneously align multi-modal features by minimizing the volume of 3D polyhedra in the gramian space. Meanwhile, we propose a Local Alignment Module (LAM) to align local features in a shift-aware manner. With these modules, our proposed framework could extract more discriminative features for object ReID. Extensive experiments on three multi-modal object ReID benchmarks (i.e., RGBNT201, RGBNT100, MSVR310) validate the effectiveness of our method.
FracSegmentator: Fracture Instance Segmentation with Trauma-Prior-Guided Contrastive Learning
Authors: Yanzhen Liu; Sutuke Yibulayimu; Yang Zhou; Yudi Sang; Yu Wang
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Fracture injuries often lead to complex bone fragmentations, posing significant challenges for accurate segmentation in surgical planning and trauma assessment. Manual annotation of each fragment is time-consuming and inconsistent, while existing automated methods often fail to separate individual fragments due to the wide variation in fracture types, irregular fracture surface, and close inter-fragment contact. 
To address these challenges, we introduce FracSegmentator, a deep learning approach for bone fragment instance segmentation. The model takes extracted bone regions in CT as input and isolates individual fragments by identifying fracture surfaces and separating closely contacting structures. Central to our approach is a Trauma-Prior-Guided Contrastive Learning module, which incorporates clinical knowledge through memory-based attention to better distinguish fractured surfaces from healthy regions. 
We evaluate FracSegmentator on four datasets that cover a range of anatomical sites and fracture patterns. The method achieves state-of-the-art results across all datasets and demonstrates strong generalization capabilities. By delivering accurate and efficient fragment-level segmentation, FracSegmentator supports critical downstream tasks such as automated fracture diagnosis, surgical planning, and preoperative reduction simulation.
La La LiDAR: Large-Scale Layout Generation from LiDAR Data
Authors: Youquan Liu; Lingdong Kong; Weidong Yang; Xin Li; Alan Liang; Runnan Chen; Ben Fei; Tongliang Liu
Venue: AAAI 2026 (main)

Abstract: Controllable generation of realistic LiDAR scenes is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. While recent diffusion-based models achieve high-fidelity LiDAR generation, they lack explicit control over foreground objects and spatial relationships, limiting their usefulness for scenario simulation and safety validation. To address these limitations, we propose Large-scale Layout-guided LiDAR generation model ("La La LiDAR"),  a novel layout-guided generative framework that introduces semantic-enhanced scene graph diffusion with relation-aware contextual conditioning for structured LiDAR layout generation, followed by foreground-aware control injection for complete scene generation. This enables customizable control over object placement while ensuring spatial and semantic consistency. To support our structured LiDAR generation, we introduce Waymo-SG and nuScenes-SG, two large-scale LiDAR scene graph datasets, along with new evaluation metrics for layout synthesis. Extensive experiments demonstrate that La La LiDAR achieves state-of-the-art performance in both LiDAR generation and downstream perception tasks, establishing a new benchmark for controllable 3D scene generation.