GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
PGR-Net: Prior-Guided ROI Reasoning Network for Brain Tumor MRI Segmentation
Authors: Jiacheng Lu; Hui Ding; Shiyu Zhang; Guoping Huo
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Brain tumor MRI segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning, enabling accurate lesion detection and radiotherapy target delineation. However, tumor lesions occupy only a small fraction of the volumetric space, resulting in severe spatial sparsity, while existing segmentation networks often overlook clinically observed spatial priors of tumor occurrence, leading to redundant feature computation over extensive background regions. To address this issue, we propose PGR-Net (Prior-Guided ROI Reasoning Network) - an explicit ROI-aware framework that incorporates a data-driven spatial prior set to capture the distribution and scale characteristics of tumor lesions, providing global guidance for more stable segmentation. Leveraging these priors, PGR-Net introduces a hierarchical Top-K ROI decision mechanism that progressively selects the most confident lesion candidate regions across encoder layers to improve localization precision. We further develop the WinGS-ROI (Windowed Gaussian-Spatial Decay ROI) module, which uses multi-window Gaussian templates with a spatial decay function to produce center-enhanced guidance maps, thus directing feature learning throughout the network. With these ROI features, a windowed RetNet backbone is adopted to enhance localization reliability. Experiments on BraTS 2019/2023 and MSD Task01 show that PGR-Net consistently outperforms existing approaches while using only 8.64M Params, achieving Dice scores of 89.02%, 91.82%, and 89.67% on the Whole Tumor region. Code is available at https://github.com/CNU-MedAI-Lab/PGR-Net.
GenMask: Adapting DiT for Segmentation via Direct Mask Generation
Authors: Yuhuan Yang; Xianwei Zhuang; Yuxuan Cai; Chaofan Ma; Shuai Bai; Jiangchao Yao; Ya Zhang; Junyang Lin; Yanfeng Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Recent approaches for segmentation have leveraged pretrained generative models as feature extractors, treating segmentation as a downstream adaptation task via indirect feature retrieval. This implicit use suffers from a fundamental misalignment in representation.It also depends heavily on indirect feature extraction pipelines, which complicate the workflow and limit adaptation.In this paper, we argue that instead of indirect adaptation, segmentation tasks should be trained directly in a generative manner.We identify a key obstacle to this unified formulation: VAE latents of binary masks are sharply distributed, noise robust, and linearly separable, distinct from natural image latents.To bridge this gap, we introduce timesteps sampling strategy for binary masks that emphasizes extreme noise levels for segmentation and moderate noise for image generation, enabling harmonious joint training.We present GenMask, a DiT trains to generate black-and-white segmentation masks as well as colorful images in RGB space under the original generative objective. GenMask preserves the original DiT architecture while removing the need of feature extraction pipelines tailored for segmentation tasks. Empirically, GenMask attains state-of-the-art performance on referring and reasoning segmentation benchmarks and ablations quantify the contribution of each component.
DPL: Decoupled Prototype Learning for Enhancing Robustness of Vision-Language Transformers to Missing Modalities
Authors: Jueqing Lu; Yuanyuan Qi; Xiaohao Yang; Shuaicheng Niu; Fucai Ke; Shujie Zhou; Wei Tan; Jionghao Lin; Wray Buntine; Hamid Rezatofighi; Lan Du
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: The performance of Vision-Language Transformers drops sharply when an input modality (e.g., image) is missing, because the model is forced to make predictions using incomplete information. Existing missing-aware prompt methods help reduce this degradation, but they still rely on conventional prediction heads (e.g., a Fully-Connected layer) that compute class scores in the same way regardless of which modality is present or absent. We introduce Decoupled Prototype Learning (DPL), a new prediction head architecture that explicitly adjusts its decision process to the observed input modalities. For each class, DPL selects a set of prototypes specific to the current missing-modality cases (image-missing, text-missing, or mixed-missing). Each prototype is then decomposed into image-specific and text-specific components, enabling the head to make decisions that depend on the information actually present. This adaptive design allows DPL to handle inputs with missing modalities more effectively while remaining fully compatible with existing prompt-based frameworks. Extensive experiments on MM-IMDb, UPMC Food-101, and Hateful Memes demonstrate that DPL outperforms state-of-the-art approaches across all widely used multimodal image-text datasets and various missing cases.
FedCART: Tackling Long-Tailed Distributions in Federated Adversarial Training via Classifier Refinement
Authors: Yuchen Qin; Yizhi Zhou; Junxiao Wang; Xin Xie; Heng Qi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Growing privacy and security demands in the real world have spurred interest in adversarially robust Federated Learning (FL). While Adversarial Training (AT) is a well-established defense in centralized learning, its extension to the federated setting, known as Federated Adversarial Training (FAT), faces significant challenges due to data heterogeneity across clients. Existing FAT methods have made significant contributions, but they typically assume a balanced global data distribution, an assumption that rarely holds true in practice due to the prevalence of long-tailed distributions. This work first identifies and diagnoses the severe performance degradation of FAT under long-tailed data, attributing it to skewed feature representations and impaired classifier discriminability. To address this, we propose FedCART, a novel FAT framework that decouples the model into a shared feature extractor and a dual-classifier structure. On the client side, a representation-alignment loss enhances adversarial robustness, while gradient-based class prototypes are extracted for classifier calibration. On the server side, models and prototype sets are aggregated to synthesize balanced virtual features, enabling the re-training of an auxiliary classifier to mitigate long-tailed bias. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedCART significantly improves both accuracy and robustness, outperforming state-of-the-art FAT methods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to systematically investigate and address FAT under long-tailed distributions, representing a significant step toward practical adversarial robustness in FL.
STAvatar: Soft Binding and Temporal Density Control for Monocular 3D Head Avatars Reconstruction
Authors: Jiankuo Zhao; Xiangyu Zhu; Zidu Wang; Zhen Lei
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Reconstructing high-fidelity and animatable 3D head avatars from monocular videos remains a challenging yet essential task. Existing methods based on 3D Gaussian Splatting typically bind Gaussians to mesh triangles and model deformations solely via Linear Blend Skinning, which results in rigid motion and limited expressiveness. Moreover, they lack specialized strategies to handle frequently occluded regions (e.g., mouth interiors, eyelids). To address these limitations, we propose STAvatar, which consists of two key components: (1) a UV-Adaptive Soft Binding framework that leverages both image-based and geometric priors to learn per-Gaussian feature offsets within the UV space. This UV representation supports dynamic resampling, ensuring full compatibility with Adaptive Density Control (ADC) and enhanced adaptability to shape and textural variations. (2) a Temporal ADC strategy, which first clusters structurally similar frames to facilitate more targeted computation of the densification criterion. It further introduces a novel fused perceptual error as clone criterion to jointly capture geometric and textural discrepancies, encouraging densification in regions requiring finer details. Extensive experiments on four benchmark datasets demonstrate that STAvatar achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction performance, especially in capturing fine-grained details and reconstructing frequently occluded regions. Our project is available at https://github.com/JiankuoZhao/STAvatar.git.
PiLoT: Neural Pixel-to-3D Registration for UAV-based Ego and Target Geo-localization
Authors: Xiaoya Cheng; Long Wang; Yan Liu; Xinyi Liu; Hanlin Tan; Yu Liu; Maojun Zhang; Shen Yan
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We present PiLoT, a unified framework that tackles UAV-based ego and target geo-localization. Conventional approaches rely on decoupled pipelines that fuse GNSS and Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) for ego-pose estimation, and active sensors like laser rangefinders for target localization. However, these methods are susceptible to failure in GNSS-denied environments and incur substantial hardware costs and complexity. PiLoT breaks this paradigm by directly registering live video stream against a geo-referenced 3D map. To achieve robust, accurate, and real-time performance, we introduce three key contributions: 1) a Dual-Thread Engine that decouples map rendering from core localization thread, ensuring both low latency while maintaining drift-free accuracy; 2) a large-scale synthetic dataset with precise geometric annotations (camera pose, depth maps). This dataset enables the training of a lightweight network that generalizes in a zero-shot manner from simulation to real data; and 3) a Joint Neural-Guided Stochastic-Gradient Optimizer (JNGO) that achieves robust convergence even under aggressive motion.Evaluations on a comprehensive set of public and newly collected benchmarks show that PiLoT outperforms state-of-the-art methods while running over 25 FPS on NVIDIA Jetson Orin platform. Our code and dataset are available at: https://github.com/Choyaa/PiLoT.
Reading Your Actions: Learning Generalizable Action Representations via Pre-training AEMG
Authors: Zhenghao Huang; Huilin Yao; Kaikai Wang; Lin Shu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: A fundamental role in decoding human motor intent and enabling intuitive human-computer interaction is played by electromyography (EMG). However, its generalization capability across subjects, devices, and tasks remains substantially limited by data heterogeneity, label scarcity, and the lack of a unified representational framework. To bridge this gap, we propose Any Electromyography (AEMG), the first large-scale, self-supervised representation learning framework for EMG. AEMG reconceptualizes neuromuscular dynamics linguistically, utilizing a novel Neuromuscular Contraction Tokenizer (NCT) to translate discrete muscle contractions into structural words and temporal activation patterns into coherent sentences. Furthermore, we compile the largest cross-device EMG signal vocabulary to date, enabling seamless transfer across arbitrary channel topologies and sampling rates. Experiments demonstrate that AEMG improves the zero-shot leave-one-subject-out (LOSO) accuracy by 5.79--9.25% compared to six state-of-the-art baselines, and achieves more than 90% few-shot adaptation performance with only 5% of target user data. Our work has proposed the concept of EMG signals as a cross-device physiological language, learned their grammar from massive amounts of data, and laid the groundwork for a single-training, universally applicable EMG foundation model. Our code, demos, and more resources are available at https://github.com/AEMG-series/AEMG.
Pano3DComposer: Feed-Forward Compositional 3D Scene Generation from Single Panoramic Image
Authors: Zidian Qiu; Ancong Wu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current compositional image-to-3D scene generation approaches construct 3D scenes by time-consuming iterative layout optimization or inflexible joint object-layout generation. Moreover, most methods rely on limited field-of-view perspective images, hindering the creation of complete 360^\circ environments. To address these limitations, we design Pano3DComposer, an efficient feed-forward framework for panoramic images. To decouple object generation from layout estimation, we propose a plug-and-play Object-World Transformation Predictor. This module converts the 3D objects generated by off-the-shelf image-to-3D models from local to world coordinates. To achieve this, we adapt the VGGT architecture to Alignment-VGGT by using target object crop, multi-view object renderings and camera parameters to predict the transformation. The predictor is trained using pseudo-geometric supervision to address the shape discrepancy between generated and ground-truth objects. For input images from unseen domains, we further introduce a Coarse-to-Fine (C2F) alignment mechanism for Pano3DComposer that iteratively refines geometric consistency with feedback of scene rendering. Our method achieves superior geometric accuracy for image/text-to-3D tasks on synthetic and real-world datasets. It can generate a high-fidelity 3D scene in approximately 20 seconds on an RTX 4090 GPU. The code will be released if accepted.
Toward Generalizable Whole Brain Representations with High-Resolution Light-Sheet Data
Authors: Minyoung E. Kim; Dae Hee Yun; Aditi V. Patel; Madeline Hon; Webster Guan; Taegeon Lee; Brian Nguyen
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Unprecedented visual details of biological structures are being revealed by subcellular-resolution whole-brain 3D microscopy data, enabled by recent advances in intact tissue processing and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). These volumetric data offer rich morphological and spatial cellular information, however, the lack of scalable data processing and analysis methods tailored to these petabyte-scale data poses a substantial challenge for accurate interpretation. Further, existing models for visual tasks such as object detection and classification struggle to generalize to this type of data. To accelerate the development of suitable methods and foundational models, we present CANVAS, a comprehensive set of high-resolution whole mouse brain LSFM benchmark data, encompassing six neuronal and immune cell-type markers, along with cell annotations and a leaderboard. We also demonstrate challenges in generalization of baseline models built on existing architectures, especially due to the heterogeneity in cellular morphology across phenotypes and anatomical locations in the brain. To the best of our knowledge, CANVAS is the first and largest LSFM benchmark that captures intact mouse brain tissue at subcellular level, and includes extensive annotations of cells throughout the brain.
Frequency-Aware Affinity for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Ziqian Yang; Xianglin Qiu; Xinqiao Zhao; Xiaolei Wang; Quan Zhang; Jimin Xiao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation (WSSS) typically utilizes Class Activation Maps (CAMs) to provide the pixel-wise localization. However, CAMs tend to activate only the most discriminative regions, leading to suboptimal WSSS performance. Although existing CAM refinement methods leverage pair-wise relations in affinity to expand the activation regions, these affinities derived from Vision Transformer (ViTs) exhibit a smoothing property, neglecting crucial high-frequency relations and failing to accurately refine object boundaries. In this work, we propose the Dual Frequency-Aware framework (DFA) to address this limitation. Specifically, the Low-Frequency-Aware Alignment (LFAA) generates low-frequency-aware affinity that captures salient semantic relations to enhance object interior semantic consistency on CAMs, while the High-Frequency-Aware Rectification (HFAR) module produces high-frequency-aware affinity that models precise relations to preserve object boundary structure on CAMs. By effectively integrating these two complementary affinities, we design a novel Frequency-Guided (FG) CAM Generation based on Optimal Transport theory, which significantly omits the complex refinement process. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our DFA framework achieves state-of-the-art performance on both PASCAL VOC and MS COCO benchmarks. Code will be released.
Unified Personalized Understanding, Generating and Editing
Authors: Yu Zhong; Tianwei Lin; Ruike Zhu; Yuqian Yuan; Haoyu Zheng; Liang Liang; Wenqiao Zhang; Feifei Shao; Haoyuan Li; Wanggui He; Hao Jiang; Yueting Zhuang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Unified large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved remarkable progress in general-purpose multimodal understanding and generation. However, they still operate under a "one-size-fits-all" paradigm and struggle to model user-specific concepts (e.g., generate a photo of \texttt \<maeve> ) in a consistent and controllable manner. Existing personalization methods typically rely on external retrieval, which is inefficient and poorly integrated into unified multimodal pipelines. Recent personalized unified models introduce learnable soft prompts to encode concept information, yet they either couple understanding and generation or depend on complex multi-stage training, leading to cross-task interference and ultimately to fuzzy or misaligned personalized knowledge.We present OmniPersona, an end-to-end personalization framework for unified LMMs that, for the first time, integrates personalized understanding, generation, and image editing within a single architecture. OmniPersona introduces structurally decoupled concept tokens, allocating dedicated subspaces for different tasks to minimize interference, and incorporates an explicit knowledge replay mechanism that propagates personalized attribute knowledge across tasks, enabling consistent personalized behavior.To systematically evaluate unified personalization, we propose \texttt OmniPBench , extending the public UnifyBench concept set with personalized editing tasks and cross-task evaluation protocols integrating understanding, generation, and editing. Experimental results demonstrate that OmniPersona delivers competitive and robust performance across diverse personalization tasks. We hope OmniPersona will serve as a strong baseline and spur further research on controllable, unified personalization.
OpenVision 2: A Family of Generative Pretrained Visual Encoders for Multimodal Learning
Authors: Yanqing Liu; Xianhang Li; Letian Zhang; Zirui Wang; Zeyu Zheng; Yuyin Zhou; Cihang Xie
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: This paper provides a simplification on OpenVision's architecture and loss design for enhancing its training efficiency. Following the prior vision-language pretraining works CapPa and AIMv2, as well as modern multimodal designs like LLaVA, our changes are straightforward: we remove the text encoder (and therefore the contrastive loss), retaining only the captioning loss as a purely generative training signal. We name this new version OpenVision 2. The initial results are promising: despite this simplification, OpenVision 2 competitively matches the original model's performance on a broad set of multimodal benchmarks while substantially cutting both training time and memory consumption. For example, with ViT-L/14, it reduces training time by about 1.5x (from 83h to 57h), and memory usage by about 1.8x (from 24.5GB to 13.8GB, equivalently allowing the maximum batch size to grow from 2k to 8k). This superior training efficiency also allows us to scale far beyond the largest vision encoder used in OpenVision, reaching more than 1 billion parameters. We hold a strong belief that this lightweight, generative-only paradigm is compelling for future vision encoder development in multimodal foundation models.
OmniVTG: A Large-Scale Dataset and Training Paradigm for Open-World Video Temporal Grounding
Authors: Minghang Zheng; Zihao Yin; Yi Yang; Yuxin Peng; Yang Liu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG), the task of localizing video segments from text queries, struggles in open-world settings due to limited dataset scale and semantic diversity, causing performance gaps between common and rare concepts. To overcome these limitations, we introduce OmniVTG, a new large-scale dataset for open-world VTG, coupled with a Self-Correction Chain-of-Thought (CoT) training paradigm designed to enhance the grounding capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Our OmniVTG is constructed via a novel Semantic Coverage Iterative Expansion pipeline, which first identifies gaps in the vocabulary of existing datasets and collects videos that are highly likely to contain these target concepts. For high-quality annotation, we leverage the insight that modern MLLMs excel at dense captioning more than direct grounding and design a caption-centric data engine to prompt MLLMs to generate dense, timestamped descriptions. Beyond the dataset, we observe that simple supervised finetuning (SFT) is insufficient, as a performance gap between rare and common concepts still persists. We find that MLLMs' video understanding ability significantly surpasses their direct grounding ability. Based on this, we propose a Self-Correction Chain-of-Thought (CoT) training paradigm. We train the MLLM to first predict, then use its understanding capabilities to reflect on and refine its own predictions. This capability is instilled via a three-stage pipeline of SFT, CoT finetuning, and reinforcement learning. Extensive experiments show our approach not only excels at open-world grounding in our OmniVTG dataset but also achieves state-of-the-art zero-shot performance on four existing VTG benchmarks. Code is available at https://github.com/oceanflowlab/OmniVTG.
Cut to the Chase: Training-free Multimodal Summarization via Chain-of-Events
Authors: Xiaoxing You; Qiang Huang; Lingyu Li; Xiaojun Chang; Jun Yu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Summarization (MMS) aims to generate concise textual summaries by understanding and integrating information across videos, transcripts, and images. However, existing approaches still suffer from three main challenges: (1) reliance on domain-specific supervision, (2) implicit fusion with weak cross-modal grounding, and (3) flat temporal modeling without event transitions. To address these issues, we introduce **CoE**, a training-free MMS framework that performs structured reasoning through a **Chain-of-Events** guided by a Hierarchical Event Graph (HEG). The HEG encodes textual semantics into an explicit event hierarchy that scaffolds cross-modal grounding and temporal reasoning. Guided by this structure, **CoE** localizes key visual cues, models event evolution and causal transitions, and refines outputs via lightweight style adaptation for domain alignment. Extensive experiments on eight diverse datasets demonstrate that **CoE** consistently outperforms state-of-the-art video CoT baselines, achieving average gains of **+3.04 ROUGE**, **+9.51 CIDEr**, and **+1.88 BERTScore**, highlighting its robustness, interpretability, and cross-domain generalization. Our code is available at https://github.com/youxiaoxing/CoE.