GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
Beyond the Static-World: Lifelong Learning for All-in-One Medical Image Restoration
Authors: Shihao Shan; Hongying Liu; Fanhua Shang; Liang Wan; Jingjing Deng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: All-in-one Medical Image Restoration (MedIR) models offer a promising path towards generalized medical imaging intelligence but face two critical spatiotemporal challenges: 1) Spatial modality interference, where conflicting gradients from diverse modalities (e.g., MRI, CT, PET) degrade performance; and 2) a temporal static-world assumption that ignores the continual data streams in real-world clinical settings, leading to catastrophic forgetting. To address this dual challenge, we propose a novel lifelong learning framework (called Resilient On-the-fly Medical Enhancement, ROME) governed by a "disentangle-optimize-consolidate" paradigm. ROME first resolves the foundational modality conflict via the Modality-Invariant Disentanglement via Adversarial Balancing (MIDAB) module. It establishes a strategic "adversarial balance" between a "content preservation force" and a "modality erasure force" to optimize a disentangled, unified feature manifold. Building on this stable foundation, the Adaptive Feature Consolidation (AFC) module combats forgetting. AFC dynamically locates an optimal feature consolidation point via a prediction network, enforced by a novel diversity loss to ensure robust continuous learning. Experiments demonstrate that ROME not only achieves SOTA performance in static settings but also exhibits superior resilience in rigorous domain-incremental benchmarks, reducing the average catastrophic performance degradation by over 10%.
When Numbers Speak: Aligning Textual Numerals and Visual Instances in Text-to-Video Diffusion Models
Authors: Zhengyang Sun; Yu Chen; Xin Zhou; Xiaofan Li; Xiwu Chen; Dingkang Liang; Xiang Bai
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Text-to-video diffusion models have enabled open-ended video synthesis, but often struggle with generating the correct number of objects specified in a prompt. We introduce NUMINA, a training-free identify-then-guide framework for improved numerical alignment. NUMINA identifies prompt-layout inconsistencies by selecting discriminative self- and cross-attention heads to derive a countable latent layout. It then refines this layout conservatively and modulates cross-attention to guide regeneration. On the introduced CountBench, NUMINA improves counting accuracy by up to 7.4% on Wan2.1-1.3B, and by 4.9% and 5.5% on 5B and 14B models, respectively. Furthermore, CLIP alignment is improved while maintaining temporal consistency. These results demonstrate that structural guidance complements seed search and prompt enhancement, offering a practical path toward count-accurate text-to-video diffusion. The code is available at https://github.com/H-EmbodVis/NUMINA.
Text-Image Conditioned 3D Generation
Authors: Jiazhong Cen; Jiemin Fang; Sikuang Li; Guanjun Wu; Chen Yang; Taoran Yi; Zanwei Zhou; Zhikuan Bao; Lingxi Xie; Wei Shen; Qi Tian
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: High-quality 3D assets are critical for VR/AR, industrial design, and entertainment, driving growing interest in generative models that can create 3D content from user-provided prompts. Most existing 3D generators, however, rely on a single conditioning modality: image-conditioned models deliver high visual fidelity by exploiting pixel-aligned cues but suffer from viewpoint bias when the input view is limited or ambiguous, whereas text-conditioned models benefit from broad semantic guidance yet lack low-level visual detail. This restricts how users can express their intent and raises a natural question: can the two modalities be combined to yield more flexible and faithful 3D generation? Our diagnostic study shows that even a simple late fusion of text- and image-conditioned predictions improves over single-modality models, evidencing strong cross-modal complementarity. Building on this finding, we formalize the task of Text-Image Conditioned 3D Generation, which requires joint reasoning over a visual exemplar and a textual specification during generation. To address this task, we introduce TIGON, a minimalist dual-branch baseline that maintains separate image- and text-conditioned backbones with lightweight cross-modal fusion. Extensive experiments demonstrate that text-image conditioning yields consistent gains over single-modality methods, suggesting complementary vision-language guidance as a promising direction for future 3D generation research.
Soft Modality-Guided Expert Specialization in MoE-VLMs
Authors: Zi-Hao Bo; Yaqian Li; Anzhou Hou; Rinyoichi Takezoe; Ertao Zhao; Tianxiang Pan; Jiale Yan; Mo Guang; Kaiwen Long
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) has become a prevalent backbone for large vision-language models (VLMs), yet how modality-specific signals should guide expert routing remains under-explored. Existing routing strategies are either hand-crafted or modality-agnostic, relying on idealized priors that ignore the layer-dependent modality fusion patterns in MoE-VLMs and provide little guidance for expert specialization. We propose Soft Modality-guided Expert Specialization (SMoES), which consists of dynamic soft modality scores that capture layer-dependent fusion patterns, an expert binning mechanism aligned with expert-parallel deployment, and an inter-bin mutual information regularization that encourages coherent modality specialization. Our method leverages attention-based or Gaussian-statistics modality scores to optimize mutual information regularization. Experiments across four MoE-based VLMs and 16 benchmarks demonstrate improvement on both effectiveness and efficiency: 0.9% and 4.2% average gain on multimodal and language-only tasks, 56.1% reduction in EP communication overhead, and 12.3% throughput improvement under realistic deployment. These results validate that aligning routing with modality-aware expert specialization unlocks MoE-VLM capacity and efficiency.
Critical Patch-Aware Sparse Prompting with Decoupled Training for Continual Learning on the Edge
Authors: Wonseon Lim; Jaesung Lee; Dae-Won Kim
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Continual learning (CL) on edge devices requires not only high accuracy but also training-time efficiency to support on-device adaptation under strict memory and computational constraints. While prompt-based continual learning (PCL) is parameter-efficient and achieves competitive accuracy, prior work has focused mainly on accuracy or inference-time performance, often overlooking the memory and computational costs of on-device training. In this paper, we propose CPS-Prompt, a critical patch-aware sparse prompting framework that explicitly targets training-time memory usage and computational cost by integrating critical patch sampling (CPS) for task-aware token reduction and decoupled prompt and classifier training (DPCT) to reduce backpropagation overhead. Experiments on three public benchmarks and real edge hardware show that CPS-Prompt improves peak memory, training time, and energy efficiency by about 1.6x over the balanced CODA-Prompt baseline, while maintaining accuracy within 2% of the state-of-the-art C-Prompt on average and remaining competitive with CODA-Prompt in accuracy. The code is available at https://github.com/laymond1/cpsprompt.
CubeComposer: Spatio-Temporal Autoregressive 4K 360deg Video Generation from Perspective Video
Authors: Lingen Li; Guangzhi Wang; Xiaoyu Li; Zhaoyang Zhang; Qi Dou; Jinwei Gu; Tianfan Xue; Ying Shan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Generating high-quality 360deg panoramic videos from perspective input is one of the crucial applications for virtual reality (VR), whereby high-resolution videos are especially important for immersive experience. Existing methods are constrained by computational limitations of vanilla diffusion models, only supporting <= 1K resolution native generation and relying on suboptimal post-hoc super-resolution. We introduce CubeComposer, a novel spatio-temporal autoregressive diffusion model that natively generates 4K-resolution 360deg videos. By decomposing videos into cubemap representations with six faces, CubeComposer autoregressively synthesizes content in a well-planned spatio-temporal order, reducing peak memory demands while enabling high-resolution output. Specifically, to address challenges in multi-dimensional autoregression, we propose: (1) a spatio-temporal autoregressive strategy that orchestrates 360deg video generation across cube faces and time windows for coherent synthesis; (2) a cube face context management mechanism, equipped with a sparse context attention design to improve efficiency; and (3) continuity-aware techniques, including cube-aware positional encoding, padding, and blending to eliminate boundary seams. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets demonstrate that CubeComposer outperforms state-of-the-art methods in native resolution and visual quality, supporting practical VR application scenarios.
Failure Modes for Deep Learning-Based Online Mapping: How to Measure and Address Them
Authors: Michael Hubbertz; Qi Han; Tobias Meisen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Deep learning-based online mapping has emerged as a cornerstone of autonomous driving, yet these models frequently fail to generalize beyond familiar environments. We propose a framework to identify and measure the underlying failure modes by disentangling two effects: Memorization of input features and overfitting to known map topologies. We propose metrics based on evaluation subsets that control for geographical proximity and topological similarity between training and validation scenes. We introduce Frechet distance-based reconstruction statistics that capture per-element shape fidelity without threshold tuning, and define complementary failure-mode scores: an input-feature overfitting score quantifying the performance drop when geographic cues disappear, and a topology overfitting score measuring degradation as scenes become topologically novel. Beyond models, we analyze dataset biases and contribute topology-aware diagnostics: A minimum-spanning-tree (MST) diversity metric for training sets and a symmetric coverage metric to quantify topological similarity between splits. Leveraging these, we formulate an MST-based sparsification strategy that reduces redundancy and improves balancing and performance while shrinking training size. Experiments on nuScenes and Argoverse 2 across multiple state-of-the-art models yield more trustworthy assessment of generalization and show that topology-diverse and balanced training sets lead to improved performance. Our results motivate failure-mode-aware protocols and topology-centric dataset design for deployable online mapping.
SV-GS: Sparse View 4D Reconstruction with Skeleton-Driven Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Jun-Jee Chao; Volkan Isler
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reconstructing a dynamic target moving over a large area is challenging. Standard approaches for dynamic object reconstruction require dense coverage in both the viewing space and the temporal dimension, typically relying on multi-view videos captured at each time step.However, such setups are only possible in constrained environments. In real-world scenarios, observations are often sparse over time and captured sparsely from diverse viewpoints (e.g., from security cameras), making dynamic reconstruction highly ill-posed. We present SV-GS, a framework that simultaneously estimates a deformation model and the object's motion over time under sparse observations. To initialize SV-GS, we leverage a rough skeleton graph and an initial static reconstruction as inputs to guide motion estimation. (Later, we show that this input requirement can be relaxed.) Our method optimizes a skeleton-driven deformation field composed of a coarse skeleton joint pose estimator and a module for fine-grained deformations. By making only the joint pose estimator time-dependent, our model enables smooth motion interpolation while preserving learned geometric details. Experiments on synthetic datasets show that our method outperforms existing approaches under sparse observations by up to 34% in PSNR, and achieves comparable performance to dense monocular video methods on real-world datasets despite using significantly fewer frames. Moreover, we demonstrate that the input initial static reconstruction can be replaced by a diffusion-based generative prior, making our method more practical for real-world scenarios.
Streamlined Open-Vocabulary Human-Object Interaction Detection
Authors: Chang Sun; Dongliang Liao; Changxing Ding
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Open-vocabulary human-object interaction (HOI) detection aims to localize and recognize all human-object interactions in an image, including those unseen during training. Existing approaches usually rely on the collaboration between a conventional HOI detector and a Vision-Language Model (VLM) to recognize unseen HOI categories. However, feature fusion in this paradigm is challenging due to significant gaps in cross-model representations. To address this issue, we introduce SL-HOI, a StreamLined open vocabulary HOI detection framework based solely on the powerful DINOv3 model. Our design leverages the complementary strengths of DINOv3's components: its backbone for fine-grained localization and its text-aligned vision head for open-vocabulary interaction classification. Moreover, to facilitate smooth cross-attention between the interaction queries and the vision head's output, we propose first feeding both the interaction queries and the backbone image tokens into the vision head, effectively bridging their representation gaps. All DINOv3 parameters in our approach are frozen, with only a small number of learnable parameters added, allowing a fast adaptation to the HOI detection task. Extensive experiments show that SL-HOI achieves state-of-the-art performance on both the SWiG-HOI and HICO-DET benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness of our streamlined model architecture. Code is available at https://github.com/MPI-Lab/SL-HOI.
Think 360deg: Beyond Depth: Evaluating the Width-centric Reasoning Capability of MLLMs
Authors: Mingrui Chen; Hexiong Yang; Haogeng Liu; Huaibo Huang; Ran He
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: In this paper, we present a holistic multimodal benchmark that evaluates the reasoning capabilities of MLLMs with an explicit focus on reasoning width, a complementary dimension to the more commonly studied reasoning depth. Specifically, reasoning depth measures the model's ability to carry out long-chain, sequential reasoning in which each step is tightly and rigorously linked to the next. Reasoning width tends to focus more on the model's capacity for broad trial-and-error search or multi-constrained optimization: it must systematically traverse many possible and parallelized reasoning paths, apply diverse constraints to prune unpromising branches, and identify valid solution routes for efficient iteration or backtracking. To achieve it, we carefully curate 1200+ high-quality multimodal cases spanning heterogeneous domains, and propose a fine-grained tree-of-thought evaluation protocol that jointly quantifies reasoning width and depth. We evaluate 12 major model families (over 30 advanced MLLMs) across difficulty tiers, question types, and required skills. Results show that while current models exhibit strong performance on general or common-sense VQA tasks, they still struggle to combine deep sequential thought chains with wide exploratory search to perform genuine insight-based reasoning. Finally, we analyze characteristic failure modes to provide possible directions for building MLLMs that reason not only deeper but also wider.
Multi-Prototype Compactness and Boundary-Aware Synthesis for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection
Authors: Kailun Liao; Jianfeng Yang; Tao Tao; Wenfei Wu; Jiaming Jiang; Jinsheng Xiao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Unsupervised Anomaly Detection (UAD) is crucial for industrial quality control. Many existing embedding-based methods adopt a single-prototype assumption and learn, for example, a compact hypersphere to enclose all normal features. However, this strategy breaks down under intra-class variance caused by changes in illumination, pose, or texture. To cover all diverse normal samples, a single prototype may induce an overly loose decision boundary, making subtle anomalies hard to detect. To overcome this limitation, we propose PGBL (Prototype-Guided Boundary Learning), a framework that synergizes structured representation learning with targeted anomaly synthesis. First, the Multi-Prototype Compact Constraint (MPCC) module models the normal feature distribution as a mixture of multiple semantic prototypes, enabling tighter local representations for each normal sub-pattern. Second, instead of blind anomaly synthesis, the Boundary-Aware Anomaly Synthesis (BAAS) module generates pseudo-anomalies at the topological boundaries between MPCC clusters. Finally, a Discriminative Boundary Refiner (DBR) learns to shape the final decision surface by separating normal clusters from the synthesized anomalies. Extensive experiments on MVTec-AD, VisA and Real-IAD show that PGBL consistently outperforms prior methods in both anomaly detection and localization.
ORBIT: Benchmarking SfM in the Wild with 360deg Video
Authors: Sara Sabour; Richard Tucker; Marcus Brubaker; Saurabh Saxena; Junhwa Hur; Andrea Tagliasacchi; Deqing Sun; David J. Fleet; Richard Szeliski; Noah Snavely
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Structure-from-Motion (SfM) is a cornerstone of 3D perception, yet current methods often fail when applied to complex videos involving challenging camera motions or dynamic scenes.Compounding the problem, the field lacks reliable ground-truth benchmarks for such difficult scenarios, making it hard to gauge real-world progress, or pinpoint where improvements are most needed.To address this gap, we introduce a new benchmark for evaluating camera pose estimation.Our key insight is to leverage online panoramic 360deg as a source of data from which to construct challenging clips, while still enabling robust ground-truth trajectory recovery.The panoramic nature of these videos provides richer visual context for tracking camera motion, even when parts of the view are affected by blur, motion, or dynamic objects.By tracking camera motion across full 360deg videos, we crop and reproject selected portions to generate perspective-view clips that serve as our benchmark---ORBIT---a diverse collection of 100 video clips.Experiments show that COLMAP and other state-of-the-art SfM methods struggle to accurately estimate camera positions on our benchmark, indicating that it remains a challenging and open problem space for future research.As a result, ORBIT provides a valuable testbed where researchers can meaningfully compete and measure progress on truly challenging, real-world SfM problems.
TR2M: Transferring Monocular Relative Depth to Metric Depth with Language Descriptions and Dual-Level Scale-Oriented Contrast
Authors: Beilei Cui; Yiming Huang; Long Bai; Hongliang Ren
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: This work presents a generalizable framework to transfer relative depth to metric depth. Current monocular depth estimation methods are mainly divided into metric depth estimation (MMDE) and relative depth estimation (MRDE). MMDEs estimate depth in metric scale but are often limited to a specific domain. MRDEs generalize well across different domains, but with uncertain scales that hinder downstream applications. To this end, we aim to build up a framework to solve scale uncertainty and transfer relative depth to metric depth. Previous methods used language as input and estimated two factors for conducting rescaling. Our approach, TR2M, utilizes both text descriptions and images as inputs and estimates two rescale maps to transfer relative depth to metric depth at the pixel level. Features from two modalities are fused with a cross-modality attention module to better capture scale information. A strategy is designed to construct and filter confident pseudo metric depth for more comprehensive supervision. We also develop dual-level scale-oriented contrastive learning to utilize depth distribution as guidance to enforce the model learning about intrinsic cues consistent with the scale distribution. TR2M only exploits a small number of trainable parameters to train on datasets in various domains and experiments not only demonstrate TR2M's great performance in seen datasets but also reveal superior zero-shot capabilities on five unseen datasets. We show the huge potential in pixel-wise transferring relative depth to metric depth with language assistance instead of large-size metric depth models with large amounts of training data. Code is available at:  https://github.com/BeileiCui/TR2M.
VideoNet: A Large-Scale Dataset for Domain-Specific Action Recognition
Authors: Tanush Yadav; Mohammadreza Salehi; Jae Sung Park; Vivek Ramanujan; Hannaneh Hajishirzi; Yejin Choi; Ali Farhadi; Rohun Tripathi; Ranjay Krishna
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Videos are unique in their ability to capture actions which transcend multiple frames. Accordingly, action recognition has long been a quintessential task for video models. Unfortunately, due to a lack of sufficiently diverse and challenging data, modern vision-language models (VLMs) are no longer evaluated on their action recognition capabilities. To revitalize action recognition in the era of VLMs, we advocate for a returned focus on domain-specific actions. To this end, we introduce VideoNet, a domain-specific action recognition benchmark covering 1,087 distinct actions from 38 domains. VLMs struggle immensely on VideoNet, with Gemini 2.5 Pro performing only 15.8 percentage points better than random chance. To improve model performance we provide in-context demonstrations, but only see a 3% boost in VLM performance compared to a 13% increase in non-expert human accuracy, suggesting that VLMs are poor few-shot learners. At last, we collect a large-scale training dataset containing nearly 500k video question-answer pairs. Fine-tuning an open-weight 4B model on our data, we surpass all Gemini models on the VideoNet benchmark. We release all of our data, inviting the community to explore new techniques to improve domain-specific action recognition capabilities and few-shot learning in video models.
DynBridge: Bridging Imagination and Control through Interaction Dynamics for Robot Manipulation
Authors: Alex Wang; Zhiwei Dong; Qicheng Bai; Chenshi Zhang; Yujie Yi; Guang Dai; Yong Liu; Mengmeng Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent generative models allow robots to generate future visual outcomes for action guidance, yet most still address imagination and control independently, resulting in visually coherent rollouts but physically inconsistent behaviors. While structural priors enhance spatial grounding, these methods remain visually correlation-driven rather than causally informed, overlooking the bidirectional coupling between robot actions and the evolving environment. We formalize the coupling as interaction dynamics, which specify where environmental changes occur and how actions cause them. Based on this formulation, we introduce DynBridge, an end-to-end framework that unifies imagination and control through the shared dynamics representation. Specifically, DynBridge realizes this via three components: (1) an Interaction Dynamics Generator that forecasts interaction dynamics via joint trajectory generation and action prediction; (2) an Action-Conditioned Dynamics Aggregator that integrates dynamics under control signals; and (3) a Dynamics-Guided Action Predictor that leverages the aggregated dynamics to produce executable, context-aware actions. Results demonstrate that DynBridge consistently outperforms prior methods on simulated and real-world benchmarks without external pretraining.