GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
KDA: Knowledge Diffusion Alignment with Enhanced Context for Video Temporal Grounding
Authors: Ran Ran; Jiwei Wei; Shiyuan He; Zeyu Ma; Chaoning Zhang; Ning Xie; Yang Yang
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) confronts the challenge of bridging the semantic gap between concise textual queries and the rich complexity of video content, further compounded by the difficulty of capturing discriminative features without explicit target cues. To address these challenges, we propose Knowledge Diffusion Alignment (KDA), a framework that leverages the generative prowess of diffusion models. KDA introduces a multi-layer video knowledge extraction module alongside a background residual diffusion model that progressively prunes irrelevant background information from global video features, thereby distilling query-relevant moment knowledge enriched with visual context. By a three-stage training approach that harnesses annotated moment guidance, KDA guarantees that the extracted moment knowledge incorporates the discriminative features necessary for accurate localization. A knowledge prompt reasoning module facilitates the comprehensive interaction and utilization of moment knowledge and multimodal features. Moreover, we introduce a spans-enhanced decoder that selectively integrates spans from multi-modal features, capitalizing on intrinsic alignment cues. Comprehensive experiments on three datasets demonstrate performance that surpasses state-of-the-art methods, attesting to the effectiveness of the proposed framework.
NormalCrafter: Learning Temporally Consistent Normals from Video Diffusion Priors
Authors: Yanrui Bin; Wenbo Hu; Haoyuan Wang; Xinya Chen; Bing Wang
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Surface normal estimation serves as a cornerstone for a spectrum of computer vision applications. While numerous efforts have been devoted to static image scenarios, ensuring temporal coherence in video-based normal estimation remains a formidable challenge. Instead of merely augmenting existing methods with temporal components, we present NormalCrafter to leverage the inherent temporal priors of Video Diffusion Models (VDMs). We identify the reason for blurry predictions when directly applying VDMs and introduce Semantic Feature Regularization (SFR) to encourage the model to concentrate on geometric details by aligning diffusion features with fine-grained semantic cues. Moreover, we introduce a two-stage training protocol that leverages both latent and pixel space learning to preserve spatial accuracy while maintaining long temporal context. Extensive evaluations demonstrate the efficacy of our method, showcasing a superior performance in generating temporally consistent normal sequences with intricate details from diverse videos. Code and models are publicly available at https://normalcrafter.github.io/.
TrackAny3D: Transferring Pretrained 3D Models for Category-unified 3D Point Cloud Tracking
Authors: Mengmeng Wang; Haonan Wang; Yulong Li; Xiangjie Kong; Jiaxin Du; Guojiang Shen; Feng Xia
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: 3D LiDAR-based single object tracking (SOT) relies on sparse and irregular point clouds, posing challenges from geometric variations in scale, motion patterns, and structural complexity across object categories. Current category-specific approaches achieve good accuracy but are impractical for real-world use, requiring separate models for each category and showing limited generalization. To tackle these issues, we propose TrackAny3D, the first framework to transfer large-scale pretrained 3D models for category-agnostic 3D SOT. We first integrate parameter-efficient adapters to bridge the gap between pretraining and tracking tasks while preserving geometric priors. Then, we introduce a Mixture-of-Geometry-Experts (MoGE) architecture that adaptively activates specialized subnetworks based on distinct geometric characteristics. Additionally, we design a temporal context optimization strategy that incorporates learnable temporal tokens and a dynamic mask weighting module to propagate historical information and mitigate temporal drift. Experiments on three commonly-used benchmarks show that TrackAny3D establishes new state-of-the-art performance on category-agnostic 3D SOT, demonstrating strong generalization and competitiveness. We hope this work will enlighten the community on the importance of unified models and further expand the use of large-scale pretrained models in this field.
Color Matching Using Hypernetwork-Based Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Authors: Artem Nikonorov; Georgy Perevozchikov; Andrei Korepanov; Nancy Mehta; Mahmoud Afifi; Egor Ershov; Radu Timofte
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: We present cmKAN, a versatile framework for color matching. Given an input image with colors from a source color distribution, our method effectively and accurately maps these colors to match a target color distribution in both supervised and unsupervised settings. Our framework leverages the spline capabilities of Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) to model the color matching between source and target distributions. Specifically, we developed a hypernetwork that generates spatially varying weight maps to control the nonlinear splines of a KAN, enabling accurate color matching. As part of this work, we introduce a first large-scale dataset of paired images captured by two distinct cameras and evaluate the efficacy of our and existing methods in matching colors. We evaluated our approach across various color-matching tasks, including: (1) raw-to-raw mapping, where the source color distribution is in one camera's raw color space and the target in another camera's raw space; (2) raw-to-sRGB mapping, where the source color distribution is in a camera's raw space and the target is in the display sRGB space, emulating the color rendering of a camera ISP; and (3) sRGB-to-sRGB mapping, where the goal is to transfer colors from a source sRGB space (e.g., produced by a source camera ISP) to a target sRGB space (e.g., from a different camera ISP). The results show that our method outperforms existing approaches by 37.3% on average for supervised and unsupervised cases while remaining lightweight compared to other methods.
S2M2: Scalable Stereo Matching Model for Reliable Depth Estimation
Authors: Junhong Min; Youngpil Jeon; Jimin Kim; Minyong Choi
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: The pursuit of a generalizable stereo matching model, capable of performing well across varying resolutions and disparity ranges without dataset-specific fine-tuning, has revealed a fundamental trade-off. Iterative local search methods achieve high scores on constrained benchmarks, but their core mechanism inherently limits the global consistency required for true generalization. However, global matching architectures, while theoretically more robust, have historically been rendered infeasible by prohibitive computational and memory costs. We resolve this dilemma with S2M2: a global matching architecture that achieves state-of-the-art accuracy and high efficiency without relying on cost volume filtering or deep refinement stacks. Our design integrates a multi-resolution transformer for robust long-range correspondence, trained with a novel loss function that concentrates probability on feasible matches. This approach enables a more robust joint estimation of disparity, occlusion, and confidence. S2M2 establishes a new state of the art on Middlebury v3 and ETH3D benchmarks, significantly outperforming prior methods in most metrics while reconstructing high-quality details with competitive efficiency.
NETracer: A Topology-Aware Iterative Tracing Approach for Tubular Structure Extraction
Authors: Chao Liu; Yangbo Jiang; Nenggan Zheng
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Extracting tubular structures from images is a widespread and challenging task in computer vision. To explore these continuous structures, iterative tracing methods offer a promising direction. However, in scenes with dense and blurred branches, existing tracing methods tend to jump to adjacent branches during tracing process, leading a significant topological mistake. The reason of this shortcoming is that the tracing model only focuses on the estimation of discrete nodes and ignores their connection attribution. To solve this problem, we introduce NETracer, a topology-aware iterative tracing method to improve the continuity and topological accuracy. In our approach, a node-edge estimation network with local connectivity loss is trained to produce the future nodes and their connective edges. Then, a geodesic distance-based search strategy is employed with the help of predicted edge cues to trace the future branches more accurately. Additionally, to comprehensively assess the effect of the tracing model, an new tracing metric is proposed to evaluate the local accuracy, continuity, and topological correctness of the traced branches. We demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms existing segmentation and tracing methods on five 2D road, vessel and 3D neuron datasets.
MGSfM: Multi-Camera Geometry Driven Global Structure-from-Motion
Authors: Peilin Tao; Hainan Cui; Diantao Tu; Shuhan Shen
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Multi-camera systems are increasingly vital in the environmental perception of autonomous vehicles and robotics. Their physical configuration offers inherent fixed relative pose constraints that benefit Structure-from-Motion (SfM). However, traditional global SfM systems struggle with robustness due to their optimization framework.We propose a novel global motion averaging framework for multi-camera systems, featuring two core components: a decoupled rotation averaging module and a hybrid translation averaging module.Our rotation averaging employs a hierarchical strategy by first estimating relative rotations within rigid camera units and then computing global rigid unit rotations.To enhance the robustness of translation averaging, we incorporate both camera-to-camera and camera-to-point constraints to initialize camera positions and 3D points with a convex distance-based objective function and refine them with an unbiased non-bilinear angle-based objective function.Experiments on large-scale datasets show that our system matches or exceeds incremental SfM accuracy while significantly improving efficiency.Our framework outperforms existing global SfM methods, establishing itself as a robust solution for real-world multi-camera SfM applications. We will share our system as an open-source implementation.
FaceLift: Learning Generalizable Single Image 3D Face Reconstruction from Synthetic Heads
Authors: Weijie Lyu; Yi Zhou; Ming-Hsuan Yang; Zhixin Shu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: We present FaceLift, a novel feed-forward approach for generalizable high-quality 360-degree 3D head reconstruction from a single image. Our pipeline first employs a multi-view latent diffusion model to generate consistent side and back views from a single facial input, which then feed into a transformer-based reconstructor that produces a comprehensive 3D Gaussian splats representation. Previous methods for monocular 3D face reconstruction often lack full view coverage or view consistency due to insufficient multi-view supervision. We address this by creating a high-quality synthetic head dataset that enables consistent supervision across viewpoints. To bridge the domain gap between synthetic training data and real-world images, we propose a simple yet effective technique that ensures the view generation process maintains fidelity to the input by learning to reconstruct the input image alongside the view generation. Despite being trained exclusively on synthetic data, our method demonstrates remarkable generalization to real-world images. Through extensive qualitative and quantitative evaluations, we show that FaceLift outperforms state-of-the-art 3D face reconstruction methods on identity preservation, detail recovery and rendering quality.
Towards Open-World Generation of Stereo Images and Unsupervised Matching
Authors: Feng Qiao; Zhexiao Xiong; Eric Xing; Nathan Jacobs
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Stereo images are fundamental to numerous applications, including extended reality (XR) devices, autonomous driving, and robotics. Unfortunately, acquiring high-quality stereo images remains challenging due to the precise calibration requirements of dual-camera setups and the complexity of obtaining accurate, dense disparity maps. Existing stereo image generation methods typically focus on either visual quality for viewing or geometric accuracy for matching, but not both. We introduce GenStereo, a diffusion-based approach, to bridge this gap. The method includes two primary innovations (1) conditioning the diffusion process on a disparity-aware coordinate embedding and a warped input image, allowing for more precise stereo alignment than previous methods, and (2) an adaptive fusion mechanism that intelligently combines the diffusion-generated image with a warped image, improving both realism and disparity consistency. Through extensive training on 11 diverse stereo datasets, GenStereo demonstrates strong generalization ability. GenStereo achieves state-of-the-art performance in both stereo image generation and unsupervised stereo matching tasks. Project page is available at https://qjizhi.github.io/genstereo.
PolarAnything: Diffusion-based Polarimetric Image Synthesis
Authors: Kailong Zhang; Youwei Lyu; Heng Guo; Si Li; Zhanyu Ma; Boxin Shi
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Polarization images facilitate image enhancement and 3D reconstruction tasks, but the limited accessibility of polarization cameras hinders their broader application. This gap drives the need for synthesizing photorealistic polarization images. The existing polarization simulator Mitsuba relies on a parametric polarization image formation model and requires extensive 3D assets covering shape and PBR materials, preventing it from generating large-scale photorealistic images. To address this problem, we propose PolarAnything, capable of synthesizing polarization images from a single RGB input with both photorealism and physical accuracy, eliminating the dependency on 3D asset collections. Drawing inspiration from the zero-shot performance of pretrained diffusion models, we introduce a diffusion-based generative framework with an effective representation strategy that preserves the fidelity of polarization properties. Experiments show that our model generates high-quality polarization images and supports downstream tasks like shape from polarization.
What's Making That Sound Right Now? Video-centric Audio-Visual Localization
Authors: Hahyeon Choi; Junhoo Lee; Nojun Kwak
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Audio-Visual Localization (AVL) aims to identify sound-emitting sources within a visual scene. However, existing studies focus on image-level audio-visual associations, failing to capture temporal dynamics. Moreover, they assume simplified scenarios where sound sources are always visible and involve only a single object. To address these limitations, we propose AVATAR, a video-centric AVL benchmark that incorporates high-resolution temporal information. AVATAR introduces four distinct scenarios -- Single-sound, Mixed-sound, Multi-entity, and Off-screen -- enabling a more comprehensive evaluation of AVL models. Additionally, we present TAVLO, a novel video-centric AVL model that explicitly integrates temporal information. Experimental results show that conventional methods struggle to track temporal variations due to their reliance on global audio features and frame-level mappings. In contrast, TAVLO achieves robust and precise audio-visual alignment by leveraging high-resolution temporal modeling. Our work empirically demonstrates the importance of temporal dynamics in AVL and establishes a new standard for video-centric audio-visual localization.
WonderPlay: Dynamic 3D Scene Generation from a Single Image and Actions
Authors: Zizhang Li; Hong-Xing Yu; Wei Liu; Yin Yang; Charles Herrmann; Gordon Wetzstein; Jiajun Wu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: WonderPlay is a novel framework integrating physics simulation with video generation for generating action-conditioned dynamic 3D scenes from a single image. Our hybrid generative simulator first uses a physics solver to simulate coarse 3D dynamics, which subsequently conditions a video generator to produce a video with finer, more realistic motion. The generated video is then used to update the simulated dynamic 3D scene, closing the loop between the physics solver and the video generator. This approach enables intuitive user control to be combined with the accurate dynamics of physics-based simulators and the expressivity of diffusion-based video generators. Experimental results demonstrate that WonderPlay enables users to interact with various scenes of diverse content, including cloth, sand, snow, liquid, smoke, elasticity, and rigid bodies -- all using a single image input. Code will be made public.
SRefiner: Soft-Braid Attention for Multi-Agent Trajectory Refinement
Authors: Liwen Xiao; Zhiyu Pan; Zhicheng Wang; Zhiguo Cao; Wei Li
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Accurate prediction of multi-agent future trajectories is crucial for autonomous driving systems to make safe and efficient decisions. Trajectory refinement has emerged as a key strategy to enhance prediction accuracy. However, existing refinement methods often overlook the topological relationships between trajectories, which are vital for improving prediction precision. Inspired by braid theory, we propose a novel trajectory refinement approach, Soft-Braid Refiner (SRefiner), guided by the soft-braid topological structure of trajectories using Soft-Braid Attention. Soft-Braid Attention captures spatio-temporal topological relationships between trajectories by considering both spatial proximity and vehicle motion states at "soft intersection points". Additionally, we extend this approach to model interactions between trajectories and lanes, further improving the prediction accuracy. SRefiner is a multi-iteration, multi-agent framework that iteratively refines trajectories, incorporating topological information to enhance interactions within traffic scenarios. SRefiner achieves significant performance improvements over four baseline methods across two datasets, establishing a new state-of-the-art in trajectory refinement.
Scheduling Weight Transitions for Quantization-Aware Training
Authors: Junghyup Lee; Jeimin Jeon; Dohyung Kim; Bumsub Ham
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Quantization-aware training (QAT) simulates a quantization process during training to lower bit-precision of weights/activations. It learns quantized weights indirectly by updating latent weights, i.e., full-precision inputs to a quantizer, using gradient-based optimizers. We claim that coupling a user-defined learning rate (LR) with these optimizers is sub-optimal for QAT. Quantized weights transit discrete levels of a quantizer, only if corresponding latent weights pass transition points, where the quantizer changes discrete states. This suggests that the changes of quantized weights are affected by both the LR for latent weights and their distributions. It is thus difficult to control the degree of changes for quantized weights by scheduling the LR manually. We conjecture that the degree of parameter changes in QAT is related to the number of quantized weights transiting discrete levels. Based on this, we introduce a transition rate (TR) scheduling technique that controls the number of transitions of quantized weights explicitly. Instead of scheduling a LR for latent weights, we schedule a target TR of quantized weights, and update the latent weights with a novel transition-adaptive LR (TALR), enabling considering the degree of changes for the quantized weights during QAT. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach on standard benchmarks.
Cross-Granularity Online Optimization with Masked Compensated Information for Learned Image Compression
Authors: Haowei Kuang; Wenhan Yang; Zongming Guo; Jiaying Liu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Learned image compression aims to reduce redundancy by accurately modeling the complex signal distribution inherent in images with network parameters. However, existing practices that train models on entire dataset offline face a limitation, as the estimated distribution only approximates the general image signal distribution and fails to capture image-specific characteristics. To address this issue, we propose a cross-granularity online optimization strategy to mitigate information loss from two key aspects: statistical distribution gaps and local structural gaps. This strategy introduces additional fitted bitstream to push the estimated signal distribution closer to the real one at both coarse-grained and fine-grained levels. For coarse-grained optimization, we relax the common bitrate constraints during gradient descent and reduce bitrate cost via adaptive QP (Quantization Parameter) selection, preventing information collapse and narrowing the statistical distribution gaps. For fine-grained optimization, a Mask-based Selective Compensation Module is designed to sparsely encode structural characteristics at low bitrates, enhancing local distribution alignment. By jointly optimizing global and local distributions, our method achieves closer alignment to real image statistics and significantly enhances the performance. Extensive experiments validate the superiority of our method as well as the design of our module. Our project is publicly available at: https://ellisonkuang.github.io/CGOO.github.io/.
Efficient Spiking Point Mamba for Point Cloud Analysis
Authors: Peixi Wu; Bosong Chai; Menghua Zheng; Wei Li; Zhangchi Hu; Jie Chen; Zheyu Zhang; Hebei Li; Xiaoyan Sun
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Bio-inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) provide an energy-efficient way to extract 3D spatio-temporal features. However, existing 3D SNNs have struggled with long-range dependencies until the recent emergence of Mamba, which offers superior computational efficiency and sequence modeling capability. In this work, we propose Spiking Point Mamba (SPM), the first Mamba-based SNN in the 3D domain. Naively adapting Mamba to 3D SNNs, though, is hindered by temporal dynamics mismatch and spike-induced information loss. Thus, we first introduce Hierarchical Dynamic Encoding (HDE), an improved direct encoding method that effectively introduces dynamic temporal mechanism. Then, we propose Spiking Mamba Block (SMB), which builds upon Mamba while learning inter-time-step features and minimizing information loss caused by spikes. Finally, to further boost performance, we adopt an asymmetric SNN-ANN architecture for spike-based pre-training and finetune. Compared with the previous state-of-the-art SNN models, SPM improves overall accuracy by +6.2%, +6.1%, and +7.4% on three variants of ScanObjectNN, and boosts instance mIOU by +1.9% on ShapeNetPart. Meanwhile, its energy consumption is at most 12.6x lower than that of its ANN counterpart. Code: https://github.com/PeppaWu/SPM.