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Coverage Optimization for Camera View Selection
Authors: Timothy Chen; Adam Dai; Maximilian Adang; Grace Gao; Mac Schwager
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: What makes a good viewpoint? The quality of the data used to learn 3D reconstructions is crucial for enabling efficient and accurate scene modeling. We study the active view selection problem and develop a principled analysis that yields a simple and interpretable criterion for selecting informative camera poses. Our key insight is that informative views can be obtained by minimizing a tractable approximation of the Fisher Information Gain, which reduces to favoring viewpoints that cover geometry that has been insufficiently observed by past cameras. This leads to a lightweight coverage-based view selection metric that avoids expensive transmittance estimation and is robust to noise and training dynamics. We call this metric CONVERGE (Coverage Optimized Novel Viewset Estimation for Reconstructing Geometry Efficiently). We integrate our method into the Nerfstudio framework and evaluate it on real datasets within fixed and embodied data acquisition scenarios. Across multiple datasets and radiance-field baselines, our method consistently improves reconstruction quality compared to state-of-the-art active view selection methods.
Customized Fusion: A Closed-Loop Dynamic Network for Adaptive Multi-Task-Aware Infrared-Visible Image Fusion
Authors: Zengyi Yang; Yu Liu; Juan Cheng; Zhiqin Zhu; Yafei Zhang; Huafeng Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Infrared-visible image fusion aims to integrate complementary information for robust visual understanding, but existing fusion methods struggle with simultaneously adapting to multiple downstream tasks. To address this issue, we propose a Closed-Loop Dynamic Network (CLDyN) that can adaptively respond to the semantic requirements of diverse downstream tasks for task-customized image fusion. Specifically, CLDyN introduces a closed-loop optimization mechanism that establishes a semantic transmission chain to achieve explicit feedback from downstream tasks to the fusion network through a Requirement-driven Semantic Compensation (RSC) module. The RSC module leverages a Basis Vector Bank (BVB) and an Architecture-Adaptive Semantic Injection (A2SI) block to customize the network architecture according to task requirements, thereby enabling task-specific semantic compensation and allowing the fusion network to actively adapt to diverse tasks without retraining. To promote semantic compensation, a reward-penalty strategy is introduced to reward or penalize the RSC module based on task performance variations. Experiments on the M3FD, FMB, and VT5000 datasets demonstrate that CLDyN not only maintains high fusion quality but also exhibits strong multi-task adaptability. The code is available at https://github.com/YR0211/CLDyN.
StableMaterials: Enhancing Diversity in Material Generation via Semi-Supervised Learning
Authors: Giuseppe Vecchio
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We introduce StableMaterials, a novel approach for generating photorealistic physically-based rendering (PBR) materials that integrate semi-supervised learning with Latent Diffusion Models (LDMs). Our method employs adversarial training to distill knowledge from existing large-scale image generation models, minimizing the reliance on annotated data and enhancing the diversity in generation. This distillation approach aligns the distribution of the generated materials with that of image textures from an SDXL model, enabling the generation of novel materials that are not present in the initial training dataset. Furthermore, we employ a diffusion-based refiner model to improve the visual quality of the samples and achieve high-resolution generation. Finally, we distill a latent consistency model for fast generation in just four steps and propose a new tileability technique that removes visual artifacts typically associated with fewer diffusion steps. We detail the architecture and training process of StableMaterials, the integration of semi-supervised training within existing LDM frameworks. Comparative evaluations with state-of-the-art methods show the effectiveness of StableMaterials, highlighting its potential applications in computer graphics and beyond. StableMaterials is publicly available at https://gvecchio.com/stablematerials.
MEMO: Human-like Crisp Edge Detection Using Masked Edge Prediction
Authors: Jiaxin Cheng; Yue Wu; Yicong Zhou
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Learning-based edge detection models trained with cross-entropy loss often suffer from thick edge predictions, which deviate from the crisp, single-pixel annotations typically provided by humans. While previous approaches to achieving crisp edges have focused on designing specialized loss functions or modifying network architectures, we show that a carefully designed training and inference strategy alone is sufficient to achieve human-like edge quality. In this work, we introduce the Masked Edge Prediction MOdel (MEMO), which produces both accurate and crisp edges using only cross-entropy loss. We first construct a large-scale synthetic edge dataset to pre-train MEMO, enhancing its generalization ability. Subsequent fine-tuning on downstream datasets requires only a lightweight module comprising 1.2% additional parameters. During training, MEMO learns to predict edges under varying ratios of input masking. A key insight guiding our inference is that thick edge predictions typically exhibit a confidence gradient: high in the center and lower toward the boundaries. Leveraging this, we propose a novel progressive prediction strategy that sequentially finalizes edge predictions in order of prediction confidence, resulting in thinner and more precise contours. Our method achieves visually appealing, post-processing-free, human-like edge maps and outperforms prior methods on crispness-aware evaluations. \href https://github.com/cplusx/MEMO_Edge_Detection  https://github.com/cplusx/MEMO_Edge_Detection
TTRV: Test-Time Reinforcement Learning for Vision Language Models
Authors: Akshit Singh; Shyam Marjit; Wei Lin; Paul Gavrikov; Serena Yeung-Levy; Hilde Kuehne; Rogerio Feris; Sivan Doveh; James Glass; M. Jehanzeb Mirza
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing methods for extracting reward signals in Reinforcement Learning typically rely on labeled data and dedicated training splits, a setup that contrasts with how humans learn directly from their environment.In this work, we propose TTRV to enhance vision-language understanding by adapting the model on-the-fly at inference time, without the need for any labeled data.Concretely, we enhance the Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) framework by designing rewards based on the frequency of the base model's output, while inferring on each test sample multiple times.Further, we also propose to control the diversity of the model's output by simultaneously rewarding the model for obtaining low entropy of the output empirical distribution.Our approach delivers consistent gains across both object recognition and visual question answering (VQA), with improvements of up to 52.4% and 29.8%, respectively, and average boosts of 24.6% and 10.0% across 16 datasets. Remarkably, on image recognition, TTRV applied to Intern-VL-8B surpasses GPT-4o by an average of 2.3% over 8 benchmarks, while remaining highly competitive on VQA, demonstrating that test-time reinforcement learning can match or exceed the strongest proprietary models. Finally, we find many interesting properties of test-time RL for VLMs: for example, even in extremely data-constrained scenarios, where adaptation is performed on a single randomly chosen unlabeled test example, \method still yields non-trivial improvements of up to 5.5% in recognition tasks.
CaT-GS: Efficient 3DGS Rendering for Large-Scale Scenes with Inter-frame Caching and Tile Scheduling
Authors: Tingjia Zhang; Bo Chen; Shengzhong Liu; Fan Wu; Guihai Chen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent breakthroughs in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) have advanced neural rendering with high fidelity and speed. However, its performance degrades significantly in large-scale scenes due to the computational burden of tile-based rasterization. Existing optimization efforts either require costly scene re-training or focus on narrow aspects of the pipeline, overlooking critical inefficiencies in real-world deployments. Through a comprehensive analysis, we identify three primary sources of redundancy and low GPU utilization: redundant inter-frame pre-processing, viewpoint-based occlusion redundancy, and severe tile-level load imbalance. To address these issues, we propose CaT-GS, a novel and efficient 3DGS rendering pipeline. CaT-GS introduces a speculative multi-frame preprocessing method to eliminate redundant computations across consecutive frames, and an inter-frame caching mechanism to eliminate viewpoint redundant rendering stages. Furthermore, it refactors rasterization tasks with a dedicated kernel to mitigate tile load imbalance, significantly boosting GPU utilization. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CaT-GS achieves a speedup of up to 10 times over the original 3DGS and up to 70% over previous state-of-the-art methods, establishing a new benchmark for high-fidelity, real-time rendering of large-scale scenes.
FUSER: Feed-Forward Multiview 3D Registration Transformer and SE(3)$^N$ Diffusion Refinement
Authors: Haobo Jiang; Jin Xie; Jian Yang; Liang Yu; Jianmin Zheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Registration of multiview point clouds typically depends on extensive pairwise matching to build a pose graph for global synchronization, which is computationally expensive and ill-posed without holistic geometric constraints. In this paper, we propose FUSER, the first feed-forward multi-view registration transformer that processes all scans jointly in a unified, compact latent space to directly predict global poses without any pairwise estimation. To maintain tractability, FUSER employs a sparse 3D CNN to encode each scan into low-resolution superpoint features preserving absolute translation cues, followed by a Geometric Alternating Attention module for efficient intra- and inter-scan reasoning. Particularly, we transfer 2D attention priors from off-the-shelf foundation models (i.e., \pi^3) to enhance 3D feature attention. Building upon FUSER and its estimates, we further introduce FUSER-DF, an SE(3) diffusion refinement framework to correct FUSER's estimates through a denoising process over the joint SE(3)^N space. Here, FUSER serves as a surrogate multiview register to model the denoiser, and a prior-conditioned SE(3)^N variational lower bound is derived for denoising supervision. Extensive experiments on 3DMatch and ScanNet confirm the superior registration accuracy and efficiency of our method.
SpatialScore: Towards Comprehensive Evaluation for Spatial Intelligence
Authors: Haoning Wu; Xiao Huang; Yaohui Chen; Ya Zhang; Yanfeng Wang; Weidi Xie
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Existing evaluations of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on spatial intelligence are typically fragmented and limited in scope. In this work, we conduct a holistic assessment of the spatial understanding abilities of modern MLLMs and propose complementary data-driven and agent-based solutions. Concretely, we make the following contributions: (i) we propose SpatialScore, the most comprehensive and diverse multimodal spatial intelligence benchmark to date, encompassing various visual data types, input modalities, and question-answering formats with approximately 5K manually verified samples across 30 distinct tasks; (ii) we construct SpatialCorpus, a large-scale training resource with 331K multimodal QA samples for supervised fine-tuning Qwen3-VL on spatial understanding; (iii) we develop SpaitalAgent, a multi-agent system incorporating 12 specialized spatial perception tools, supporting both Plan-Execute and ReAct reasoning paradigms, enabling to improve spatial reasoning in a training-free manner; and (iv) we conduct extensive evaluations on 40 representative MLLMs, revealing persistent challenges in spatial intelligence while demonstrating the effectiveness of our data-driven and agent-based solutions. All data, code, and models will be publicly available.
PointCSP: Cross-Sample Semantic Propagation and Stability Preservation in Self-Supervised Point Cloud Learning
Authors: Xinxing Yu; Ajian Liu; Sunyuan Qiang; Hui Ma; Liying Yang; Yuzhong Wang; Zhi Rao; Yanyan Liang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Scene-level point cloud self-supervised learning (PC-SSL) has demonstrated potential in enhancing the generalization capability of 3D vision models. Despite the advances in the field through existing methods, the sample-independent modeling paradigm still poses significant limitations in terms of maintaining consistent semantic representations across scenes. This challenge hinders the construction of a unified and transferable semantic space. To address this issue, we propose a PC-SSL framework based on cross-sample semantic propagation (CSP), in which samples within a batch are serialized into continuous input and processed by a state-space model to enable semantic state propagation. This mechanism explicitly models the dynamic dependencies across samples in the state space, allowing the network to establish cross-sample semantic consistency in the latent space and  achieve global semantic alignment. Since serialization-based pretraining requires batch-level input organization, we further introduce an asymmetric semantic preservation distillation (SPD) during finetuning to achieve structural alignment of semantic transfer and eliminate inconsistencies caused by batch dependency. The proposed SPD ensures stable transfer of pretrained semantics through a heterogeneous input mechanism and a semantic feature alignment constraint. This enables the model to maintain structured semantic consistency and robustness under single-scene testing conditions. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both performance and semantic consistency.
Enhance-then-Balance Modality Collaboration for Robust Multimodal Sentiment Analysis
Authors: Kang He; Yuzhe Ding; Xinrong Wang; Fei Li; Chong Teng; Donghong Ji
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) seeks to infer human emotions by integrating heterogeneous signals from text, audio, and visual modalities.Although recent approaches attempt to leverage cross-modal complementarity, they often struggle to fully utilize weaker modalities.In practice, the expressive power across modalities is inherently imbalanced: dominant modalities tend to overshadow non-verbal ones, which not only limits their contribution but also induces modality competition during training.This imbalance leads to degraded fusion performance and poor robustness under noisy or missing modalities.To address these challenges, we propose a novel model, Enhance-then-Balance Modality Collaboration framework (EBMC). EBMC first improves representational quality via modality semantic disentanglement (MSD) and cross-modal complementary enhancement (CCE), which strengthens weaker modalities using information from other modalities.To prevent dominant modalities from overwhelming others during joint optimization, EBMC introduces an Energy-guided Modality Coordination (EMC) mechanism that models modality contributions via energy potentials and achieves implicit gradient rebalancing through a differentiable equilibrium objective.Further, an Instance-aware Modality Trust Distillation (IMTD) module estimates sample-level modality reliability and adaptively modulates fusion weights, ensuring robustness against noise and modality incompleteness.Extensive experiments on multiple MSA benchmarks demonstrate that EBMC achieves state-of-the-art or competitive results.Moreover, EBMC maintains strong performance under missing-modality settings, highlighting its effectiveness and robustness.
SynMotion: Semantic-Visual Adaptation for Motion Customized Video Generation
Authors: Shuai Tan; Biao Gong; Yujie Wei; Shiwei Zhang; Zhuoxin Liu; Ke Ma; Yan Wang; Kecheng Zheng; Xing Zhu; Yujun Shen; Hengshuang Zhao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Diffusion-based video motion customization facilitates the acquisition of human motion representations from a few video samples, while achieving arbitrary subjects transfer through precise textual conditioning. Existing approaches often rely on semantic-level alignment, expecting the model to learn new motion concepts and combine them with other entities (e.g., cats or dogs) to produce visually appealing results. However, video data involve complex spatio-temporal patterns, and focusing solely on semantics cause the model to overlook the visual complexity of motion. Conversely, tuning only the visual representation leads to semantic confusion in representing the intended action. To address these limitations, we propose SynMotion, a new motion-customized video generation model that jointly leverages semantic guidance and visual adaptation. At the semantic level, we introduce the dual-embedding semantic comprehension mechanism which disentangles subject and motion representations, allowing the model to learn customized motion features while preserving its generative capabilities for diverse subjects. At the visual level, we integrate parameter-efficient motion adapters into a pre-trained video generation model to enhance motion fidelity and temporal coherence. Furthermore, we introduce a new embedding-specific training strategy which alternately optimizes subject and motion embeddings, supported by the manually constructed Subject Prior Video (SPV) training dataset. This strategy promotes motion specificity while preserving generalization across diverse subjects. Lastly, we introduce MotionBench, a newly curated benchmark with diverse motion patterns. Experimental results across both T2V and I2V settings demonstrate that SynMotion outperforms existing baselines.
UniSER: A Foundation Model for Unified Soft Effects Removal
Authors: Jingdong Zhang; Lingzhi Zhang; Qing Liu; Mang Tik Chiu; Connelly Barnes; Yizhou Wang; Haoran You; Xiaoyang Liu; Yuqian Zhou; Zhe Lin; Eli Shechtman; Sohrab Amirghodsi; Xin Li; Wenping Wang; Xiaohang Zhan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Digital images are often degraded by soft effects such as lens flare, haze, shadows, and reflections, which reduce aesthetics even though the underlying pixels remain partially visible. The prevailing works address these degradations in isolation, developing highly specialized, specialist models that lack scalability and fail to exploit the shared underlying essences of these restoration problems. While specialist models are limited, recent large-scale pretrained generalist models offer powerful, text-driven image editing capabilities. while recent general-purpose systems (e.g., GPT-4o, Flux Kontext, Nano Banana) require detailed prompts and often fail to achieve robust removal on these fine-grained tasks or preserve identity of the scene. Leveraging the common essence of soft effects, i.e., semi-transparent occlusions, we introduce a foundational versatile model UniSER, capable of addressing diverse degradations caused by soft effects within a single framework. Our methodology centers on curating a massive 3.8M-pair dataset to ensure robustness and generalization, which includes novel, physically-plausible data to fill critical gaps in public benchmarks, and a tailored training pipeline that fine-tunes a Diffusion Transformer to learn robust restoration priors from this diverse data, integrating fine-grained mask and strength controls. This synergistic approach allows UniSER to significantly outperform both specialist and generalist models, achieving robust, high-fidelity restoration in the wild.
EvObj: Learning Evolving Object-centric Representations for 3D Instance Segmentation without Scene Supervision
Authors: Jiahao Chen; Zihui Zhang; Yafei Yang; Jinxi Li; Shenxing Wei; Zhixuan Sun; Bo Yang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We introduce EvObj for unsupervised 3D instance segmentation that bridges the geometric domain gap between synthetic pretraining data and real-world point clouds. Current methods suffer from structural discrepancies when transferring object priors from synthetic datasets (e.g., ShapeNet) to real scans (e.g., ScanNet), particularly due to morphological variations and occlusion artifacts. To address this, EvObj integrates two innovative modules: (1) An object discerning module that dynamically refines object candidates, enabling continuous adaptation of object priors to target domains; and (2) An object completion module that reconstructs partial geometries after discovering objects. We conduct extensive experiments on both real-world and synthetic datasets, demonstrating superior 3D object segmentation performance over all baselines while achieving state-of-the-art results.
Joint Learning of General and Diverse Patterns with Mixture of Memory Experts for Weakly-Supervised Video Anomaly Detection
Authors: Bo Sun; Junxi Chen; Zhe Wu; Feng Gao; Fan Yang; Li Su; Yaowei Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Weakly-supervised Video Anomaly Detection (wVAD) aims to detect abnormal events using only binary labels, making it challenging to capture both the diversity of anomalies and their shared semantic cues. Existing methods either focus on a generic anomaly pattern, achieving strong generalization but weak discrimination, or rely on class-level diversity modeling, which ignores shared semantics and suffers from limited generalization. To overcome these limitations, we propose the Mixture of Memory Experts (MoME), a unified framework that jointly learns general and diverse patterns. Each expert in MoME possesses an internal memory for fine-grained specialization and shares an external memory for general knowledge aggregation. To enhance semantic diversity and improve generalization beyond coarse class-level supervision, we introduce an Anomaly Prototype Router that leverages large language models to construct generalized anomaly prototypes for semantically guided expert routing. Moreover, balanced routing, expert diversity, and enhanced pattern discriminability are ensured by the regularization loss for APR, the distinctiveness loss for experts, and reconstruction together with memory tasks, respectively. Extensive experiments on UCF-Crime and XD-Violence demonstrate that our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance, validating the effectiveness of jointly modeling generality and diversity for robust anomaly detection.
Efficient Frame Selection for Long Video Understanding via Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Yaxuan Qin; Hefei Li; Wenqi Mu; Yancheng He
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to significant progress in video understanding. Due to limited context windows and computational overhead, most MLLMs adopt uniform frame sampling. This approach is at high risk of missing critical visual information and constrains performance especially for long videos. To address this problem, we propose a lightweight frame selection method to identify keyframes and train it via a two-stage strategy. In the pre-training stage, the frame selector learns to model relevance between individual video frames and queries. In the reinforcement learning (RL) stage, we employ a hierarchical reward that evaluates selection quality at combination and frame levels. Through stochastic exploration of frame combinations, the selector learns to identify and retain frames that improve task performance rather than merely maximizing query relevance, which can be misleading. The selected frames serve as input to downstream MLLMs for video understanding and reasoning. Experimental results demonstrate the proposed selector improves performance of diverse downstream MLLMs across benchmarks spanning medium to long videos.