GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
ProcessMaker: A Generalized Process Visualization Framework with Adaptive Sequence Steps on Diffusion Transformers
Authors: Mengling Xu; Sisi You; Yaning Li; Bing-Kun Bao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Procedural sequence generation aims to create intermediate images through multi-step processes, which is applied in industrial design, educational tutorial, and book illustration. However, existing methods often focus on a specific domain or initialize several expert networks for different domains, which face three challenges. First, the poor generalization to unseen domains. Second, the parameter redundancy due to multiple expert networks.Third, the difficulty in adaptively determining the number of generation steps for different processes.To address these challenges, we propose ProcessMaker, a novel framework that harnesses the inherent generalization capabilities in Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for procedural sequence generation. Concretely, we introduce three key innovations: (1) Self-supervised Representation Alignment to explore the generalized ability for unseen processes. (2) Sparse Masks for different domains without additional expert networks. (3) A sliding window strategy, which dynamically accommodates the generation steps based on the process complexity. Extensive experiments validate that our ProcessMaker achieves procedural sequence generation with generalization ability and adaptive steps, while using only 7.3% trainable parameters compared with the state-of-the-art method.
Align Images Before You Generate
Authors: Shihua Zhang; Qiuhong Shen; Xinchao Wang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multi-image diffusion models can generate images like multi-views or videos to describe static or dynamic scenes, yet texture and structure drift persist, severely undermining the spatiotemporal consistency. Addressing this issue remains challenging, especially without any external geometric or semantic priors during the pure generative inference. In this paper, we introduce CorrAdapter, a plug-and-play adapter that discovers and exploits an innate property of the multi-image diffusion itself, aligning all output images before they are in fact generated. Specifically, CorrAdapter designs a bypass branch for transformer blocks in the multi-image diffusion model, encompassing a native correspondence constructor that builds reliable correspondences from the diffusion model's intermediate features, and an aligned area aggregator that integrates messages from only matching regions to avoid ambiguous information interactions. Given the native correspondences as guidance, CorrAdapter can enhance spatiotemporal consistency without any auxiliary inputs, and remains training-free and baseline-agnostic, which enables it to generalize seamlessly to various generation tasks. Additionally, we provide an optional training scheme to explore further-improved possibilities. Experiments on both static multi-view generation and dynamic video generation show that CorrAdapter consistently improves spatiotemporal consistency and perceptual quality over strong baselines, offering a simple yet versatile drop-in approach to geometrically faithful multi-image diffusion. Code is available at https://github.com/SuhZhang/CorrAdapter.
Recover to Predict: Progressive Retrospective Learning for Variable-Length Trajectory Prediction
Authors: Hao Zhou; Lu Qi; Xiangtai Li; Jie Zhang; Yi Liu; Xu Yang; Mingyu Fan; Fei Luo
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Trajectory prediction is critical for autonomous driving, enabling safe and efficient planning in dense, dynamic traffic. Most existing methods optimize prediction accuracy under fixed-length observations. However, real-world driving often yields variable-length, incomplete observations, posing a challenge to these methods. A common strategy is to directly map features from incomplete observations to those from complete ones. This one-shot mapping, however, struggles to learn accurate representations for short trajectories due to significant information gaps. To address this issue, we propose a Progressive Retrospective Framework (PRF), which gradually aligns features from incomplete observations with those from complete ones via a cascade of retrospective units. Each unit consists of a Retrospective Distillation Module (RDM) and a Retrospective Prediction Module (RPM), where RDM distills features and RPM recovers previous timesteps using the distilled features. Moreover, we propose a Rolling-Start Training Strategy (RSTS) that enhances data efficiency during PRF training. PRF is plug-and-play with existing methods. Extensive experiments on datasets Argoverse 2 and Argoverse 1 demonstrate the effectiveness of PRF. Code is available at https://github.com/zhouhao94/PRF.
SpikeTrack: High-performance and Energy-efficient Event-Based Object Tracking with Spiking Neural Network
Authors: Yang Wang; Jiqing Zhang; Chuanyu Sun; Qianhui Liu; Huilin Ge; Ziqi Wei; Xin Yang
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Event cameras have attracted considerable attention for object tracking due to their microsecond-level temporal resolution and wide dynamic range, yet effectively harnessing spiking neural networks (SNNs) in this domain remains challenging. In this paper, we introduce SpikeTrack, a purely spike-driven framework for single-object tracking that addresses the shortcomings of RGB-based approaches in fast-motion or target appearance change. Central to SpikeTrack is the Multi-Search-sequence-and-Single-Template (MSST) training paradigm, which captures rich temporal dependencies, alongside a Dynamic Integer Leaky Integrate-and-Fire (DI-LIF) neuron that adaptively predicts integer-valued activations based on the input features during training and converts them into spikes during inference. Our design preserves the intrinsic sparsity and fine-grained spatiotemporal acuity of event data, resulting in efficient energy consumption without sacrificing performance. Extensive evaluations on FE108, FELT, and VisEvent demonstrate that SpikeTrack exceeds the performance of state-of-the-art trackers in both accuracy and efficiency. Furthermore, ablation studies validate each module's contribution, highlighting the practical potential of spike-driven architectures for future vision applications.
CoSMo3D: Open-World Promptable 3D Semantic Segmentation through LLM-Guided Canonical Spatial Modeling
Authors: Li Jin; Weikai Chen; Yujie Wang; Yingda Yin; Zeyu Hu; Runze Zhang; Keyang Luo; Shengju Qian; Xin Wang; Xueying Qin
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Open-world promptable 3D semantic segmentation remains brittle as semantics are inferred in the input sensor coordinates. Yet, humans, in contrast, interpret parts via functional roles in a canonical space -- wings extend laterally, handles protrude to the side, and legs support from below. Psychophysical evidence shows that we mentally rotate objects into canonical frames to reveal these roles. To fill this gap, we propose CoSMo3D, which attains canonical space perception by inducing a latent canonical reference frame learned directly from data. By construction, we create a unified canonical dataset through LLM-guided intra- and cross-category alignment, exposing canonical spatial regularities across 200 categories. By induction, we realize canonicality inside the model through a dual-branch architecture with canonical map anchoring and canonical box calibration, collapsing pose variation and symmetry into a stable canonical embedding. This shift from input pose space to canonical representation yields far more stable and transferable part semantics. Experimental results show that CoSMo3D establishes new state of the art in open-world promptable 3D segmentation.
Stabilizing Streaming Video Geometry via Dynamic Feature Normalization
Authors: Xiaoyang Lyu; Muxin Liu; Xiaoshan Wu; Ruicheng Wang; Yi-Hua Huang; Yang-Tian Sun; Shaoshuai Shi; Xiaojuan Qi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Consistent 3D geometry estimation from streaming RGB input is crucial for real-world applications such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and large-scale reconstruction. While modern monocular geometry foundation models achieve strong single-image accuracy, they exhibit severe temporal inconsistency on continuous input, notably dominated by scale-shift drifting. Through targeted empirical analysis, we trace this instability to its root cause: fluctuations in latent feature statistics, whose mean and variance directly determine the predicted depth's scale and shift. Building on this insight, we introduce Dynamic Feature Normalization (DyFN), a lightweight, causal recurrent module that dynamically and robustly modulates feature statistics to maintain stable geometry over time. We adapt powerful pretrained monocular geometry models for streaming by finetuning only DyFN, a mere 2% additional parameters, while keeping the backbone frozen, thereby achieving temporal consistency without compromising single-image accuracy. Extensive experiments across four benchmarks show that DyFN effectively eliminates temporal artifacts such as disjointed layering and positional jitter, and achieves state-of-the-art temporal stability, improving over prior streaming methods by up to 14% and even outperforming heavier non-causal video baselines. Project page: https://shawlyu.github.io/DyFN
Learning to Solve PDEs on Neural Shape Representations
Authors: Lilian Welschinger; Yilin Liu; Zican Wang; Niloy J. Mitra
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural representations. This mismatch leaves no suitable method to solve surface PDEs directly within the neural domain, forcing explicit mesh extraction or per-instance residual training, preventing end-to-end workflows. We present a novel, mesh-free formulation that learns a local update operator conditioned on neural (local) shape attributes, enabling surface PDEs to be solved directly where the (neural) data lives. The operator integrates naturally with prevalent neural surface representations, is trained once on a single representative shape, and generalizes across shape and topology variations, enabling accurate, fast inference without explicit meshing or per-instance optimization while preserving differentiability. Across analytic benchmarks (heat diffusion and Poisson equations on the sphere) and on diverse shapes and neural surface representations, our method achieves accuracy comparable to classical solvers while enabling a unified, end-to-end pipeline across neural and traditional surface representations. Our source code and project page: https://welschinger.github.io/Learning-to-Solve-PDEs-on-Neural-Shape-Representations/.
FantasyVLN: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Reasoning for Vision-and-Language Navigation
Authors: Jing Zuo; Lingzhou Mu; Fan Jiang; Chengcheng Ma; Mu Xu; Yonggang Qi
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Achieving human-level performance in Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires an embodied agent to understand textual instructions, perceive visual observations, and reason over long action sequences. Recent works, such as NavCoT and NavGPT-2, demonstrate the potential of Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning for improving interpretability and long-horizon planning. Moreover, multimodal extensions like OctoNav-R1 and CoT-VLA further validate CoT as a promising pathway toward human-like navigation reasoning. However, existing approaches face critical drawbacks: purely textual CoTs lack visual perception and easily overfit to sparse annotated reasoning steps, while multimodal CoTs incur severe token inflation by generating imagined visual observations, making real-time navigation impractical. In this work, we propose FantasyVLN, a unified implicit reasoning framework that preserves the benefits of CoT reasoning without explicit token overhead. Specifically, imagined visual tokens are encoded into a compact latent space using a pretrained Visual AutoRegressor (VAR) during CoT reasoning training, and the model jointly learns from textual, visual, and multimodal CoT modes under a unified multi-CoT strategy. At inference, our model performs direct instruction-to-action mapping while still enjoying reasoning-aware representations. Extensive experiments on LH-VLN show that our approach achieves reasoning-aware yet real-time navigation, improving success rates and efficiency while reducing inference latency by an order of magnitude compared to explicit CoT methods. Code is available at https://github.com/Fantasy-AMAP/fantasy-vln.
Omni-Fake: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Social Media Deepfake Detection
Authors: Tianxiao Li; Zhenglin Huang; Haiquan Wen; Yiwei He; Xinze Li; Bingyu Zhu; Wuhui Duan; Congang Chen; Zeyu Fu; Yi Dong; Baoyuan Wu; Xiangtai Li; Guangliang Cheng
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Multimodal Deepfakes proliferating on social media threaten authenticity, information integrity, and digital forensics. Existing benchmarks are constrained by their single-modality scope, simplified manipulations, or unrealistic distributions, which limit their ability to assess real-world robustness. We present Omni-Fake, a unified omni-dataset for comprehensive multimodal deepfake detection in social-media settings. It comprises Omni-Fake-Set, a large-scale, high-quality dataset with 1M+ samples, and Omni-Fake-OOD, an out-of-distribution benchmark with 100k+ samples intentionally excluded from training to evaluate generalization. Omni-Fake spans four modalities--image, audio, video, and audio-video talking head and supports a joint detection-localization-explanation protocol. For images, audio, and videos, we define a ternary task (real / partially manipulated / fully synthetic) with spatial or temporal localization masks for fine-grained reasoning. Talking heads are formulated as an audio-video fusion binary task targeting speaking digital humans and lip-synced avatar forgeries. On top of Omni-Fake, we further propose Omni-Fake-R1, a reinforcement-learning-driven multimodal detector that adaptively integrates visual and auditory cues and outputs structured decisions, localization, and natural-language explanations. Extensive experiments show significant gains in detection accuracy, cross-modal generalization, and explainability over state-of-the-art baselines. Code will be released.
Mimic Human Cognition, Master Multi-Image Reasoning: A Meta-Action Framework for Enhanced Visual Understanding
Authors: Jianghao Yin; Qingbin Li; Kun Sun; Cheng Ding; Jie Wang; Qin Chen; Jie Zhou; Nan Wang; Changqing Li; Pei Wu; Jian Xu; Zheming Yang; Liang He
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at single-image understanding, they exhibit significantly degraded performance in multi-image reasoning scenarios. Multi-image reasoning presents fundamental challenges including complex inter-relationships between images and scattered critical information across image sets. Inspired by human cognitive processes, we propose a Cognition-Inspired Meta-Action Framework (CINEMA), which decomposes multi-image reasoning into five structured meta-actions: Global, Focus, Hint, Think, and Answer, explicitly modeling the sequential cognitive steps humans naturally employ. For cold-start training, we introduce a Retrieval-Based Tree Sampling strategy that generates high-quality meta-action trajectories to bootstrap the model with reasoning patterns.  During reinforcement learning, we adopt a two-stage paradigm: an exploration phase with Diversity-Preserving Strategy to avoid entropy collapse, followed by an annealed exploitation phase with DAPO to gradually strengthen exploitation. To train our model, we construct a dataset of 56k cold-start and 58k reinforcement learning instances spanning multi-image, multi-frame, and single-image tasks. We conduct extensive evaluations on multi-image reasoning benchmarks, video understanding benchmarks, and single-image benchmarks, achieving competitive state-of-the-art performance on several key benchmarks.  Our model surpasses GPT-4o on the MUIR and MVMath benchmarks and notably outperforms specialized video reasoning models on video understanding benchmarks, demonstrating the effectiveness and generalizability of our human cognition-inspired reasoning framework.
PoseGaussian: 6D Pose Estimation for Unseen Objects via Sparse-View Object-Level 3D Gaussian Splatting
Authors: Wubin Shi; Shaoyan Gai; Feipeng Da
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: 6D pose estimation is a key technology in computer vision and robotic manipulation. However, many methods remain heavily dependent on CAD models that are difficult to obtain. Object-level 3D reconstruction provides an alternative route, and 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) shows convincing potential owing to its training and rendering efficiency. Nevertheless, under sparse reference views, 3DGS is prone to floating artifacts and appearance overfitting, which weakens the stability of pose estimation. We present PoseGaussian, a method for sparse-view 6D pose estimation for unseen objects that builds on improved 3DGS. First, we use sparse RGB-D views to inject a depth structure prior into the 3DGS initialization for stable structure, and we adopt adaptive density control, view-warping augmentation, and joint photometric-depth supervision to reduce floaters and appearance overfitting under sparse reference views. Next, in the pose estimation stage, we apply a two-stage learning-guided ICP initializer that exploits geometric features to obtain a stable initial pose. Finally, we introduce a 3DGS-based iterative pose refiner that aligns rendered and query images in both appearance and geometry, further improving pose estimation accuracy. Experiments on LINEMOD, GenMOP, and our real-world datasets show that PoseGaussian achieves significant improvements over baseline methods under model-free and sparse-view settings, demonstrating strong generalization to unseen objects and robustness to view sparsity.
ELV-Halluc: Benchmarking Semantic Aggregation Hallucinations in Video Understanding
Authors: Hao Lu; Jiahao Wang; Yaolun Zhang; Ruohui Wang; Xuanyu Zheng; Yepeng Tang; Dahua Lin; Lewei Lu
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: We revisit video hallucination in multimodal large language models (Video-MLLMs) from a semantic aggregation perspective. While prior work attributes hallucinations to language priors, missing frames, or visual encoder biases, these explanations overlook errors arising during the aggregation of correct frame-level semantics into event-level interpretations. We term this phenomenon Semantic Aggregation Hallucination (SAH), which becomes increasingly prevalent in complex, multi-event video understanding tasks with rich temporal dependencies. To systematically study SAH, we introduce ELV-Halluc, the first benchmark designed for fine-grained evaluation of semantic aggregation errors. Our experiments reveal that SAH correlates with both semantic complexity and rapid semantic transitions. We further propose mitigation strategies: improved positional encoding preserves temporal structure, and reinforcement learning such as DPO enhances the model's ability to distinguish semantics within and across events. Using a curated 8K adversarial video-text pair dataset, our approach achieves consistent gains across benchmarks, including a 27.7% reduction in SAH rate on ELV-Halluc and Video-MME. Data and code are available at https://github.com/hlsv02/ELV-Halluc.
AviaSafe: A Physics-Informed Data-Driven Model for Aviation Safety-Critical Cloud Forecasts
Authors: Zijian Zhu; Qiusheng Huang; Anboyu Guo; Xiaohui Zhong; Hao Li
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Current AI weather forecasting models predict conventional atmospheric variables but cannot distinguish between cloud microphysical species critical for aviation safety. We introduce AviaSafe, a hierarchical, physics-informed neural forecaster that produces global, six-hourly predictions of these four hydrometeor species for lead times up to 7 days. Our approach addresses the unique challenges of cloud prediction: extreme sparsity, discontinuous distributions, and complex microphysical interactions between species. We integrate the Icing Condition (IC) index from aviation meteorology as a physics-based constraint that identifies regions where supercooled water fuels explosive ice crystal growth. The model employs a hierarchical architecture that first predicts cloud spatial distribution through masked attention, then quantifies species concentrations within identified regions. Training on ERA5 reanalysis data, our model achieves lower RMSE for cloud species compared to baseline and outperforms operational numerical models on certain key variables at 7-day lead times.The ability to forecast individual cloud species enables new applications in aviation route optimization where distinguishing between ice and liquid water determines engine icing risk.
Select, Hypothesize and Verify: Towards Verified Neuron Concept Interpretation
Authors: ZeBin Ji; Yang Hu; Xiuli Bi; Bo Liu; Bin Xiao
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: It is essential for understanding neural network decisions to interpret the functionality (also known as concepts) of neurons. Existing approaches describe neuron concepts by generating natural language descriptions, thereby advancing the understanding of the neural network's decision-making mechanism. However, these approaches assume that each neuron has well-defined functions and provides discriminative features for neural network decision-making. In fact, some neurons may be redundant or may offer misleading concepts. Thus, the descriptions for such neurons may cause misinterpretations of the factors driving the neural network's decisions. To address the issue, we introduce a verification of neuron functions, which checks whether the generated concept highly activates the corresponding neuron. Furthermore, we propose a Select-Hypothesize-Verify framework for interpreting neuron functionality. This framework consists of: 1) selecting activation samples that best capture a neuron's well-defined functional behavior through activation-distribution analysis; 2) forming hypotheses about concepts for the selected neurons; and 3) verifying whether the generated concepts accurately reflect the functionality of the neuron. Extensive experiments show that our method produces more accurate neuron concepts. Our generated concepts activate the corresponding neurons with a probability approximately 1.5 times that of the current state-of-the-art method.
M4-RAG: A Massive-Scale Multilingual Multi-Cultural Multimodal RAG
Authors: David Anugraha; Patrick Amadeus Irawan; Anshul Singh; En-Shiun Annie Lee; Genta Indra Winata
Venue: CVPR 2026 (main)

Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance in visual question answering (VQA), yet they remain constrained by static training data. Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) mitigates this limitation by enabling access to up-to-date, culturally grounded, and multilingual information; however, multilingual multimodal RAG remains largely underexplored. We introduce M4-RAG, a massive-scale benchmark spanning 42 languages, 56 regional dialects and registers, and 189 countries, comprising over 80,000 culturally diverse image-question pairs for evaluating retrieval-augmented VQA across languages and modalities. To balance realism with reproducibility, we build a controlled retrieval environment containing millions of carefully curated multilingual documents relevant to the query domains, approximating real-world retrieval conditions while ensuring consistent experimentation. Our systematic evaluation reveals that although RAG consistently benefits smaller VLMs, it fails to scale to larger models and often even degrades their performance, exposing a critical mismatch between model size and current retrieval effectiveness. Our cross-lingual evaluations also reveal significant performance degradation when prompts or retrieved context are provided in non-English languages. The code, datasets, and evaluation protocols for M4-RAG are available as open-source at https://github.com/davidanugraha/M4-RAG.