GenAI4ELab/papercli-papers huggingface dataset:
VideoAds for Fast-Paced Video Understanding
Authors: Zheyuan Zhang; Wanying Dou; Linkai Peng; Hongyi Pan; Ulas Bagci; Boqing Gong
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Advertisement videos serve as a rich and valuable source of purpose-driven information, encompassing high-quality visual, textual, and contextual cues designed to engage viewers. They are often more complex than general videos of similar duration due to their structured narratives and rapid scene transitions, posing significant challenges to multi-modal large language models (MLLMs). In this work, we introduce VideoAds, the first dataset tailored for benchmarking the performance of MLLMs on advertisement videos. VideoAds comprises well-curated advertisement videos with complex temporal structures, accompanied by manually annotated diverse questions across three core tasks: visual finding, video summary, and visual reasoning. We propose a quantitative measure to compare VideoAds against existing benchmarks in terms of video complexity. Through extensive experiments, we find that Qwen2.5-VL-72B, an open-source MLLM, achieves 73.35% accuracy on VideoAds, outperforms GPT-4o (66.82%) and Gemini-1.5 Pro (69.66%); the two proprietary models especially fall behind the open-source model in video summarization and reasoning, but perform the best in visual finding. Gemini-2.5 Pro leads with an accuracy of 80.04%. Notably, human experts easily achieve a remarkable accuracy of 94.27%. These results underscore the necessity of advancing MLLMs' temporal modeling capabilities and highlight VideoAds as a potentially pivotal benchmark for future research in understanding video that requires high FPS sampling. The dataset and evaluation code will be publicly available at https://videoadsbenchmark.netlify.app.
MGSR: 2D/3D Mutual-boosted Gaussian Splatting for High-fidelity Surface Reconstruction under Various Light Conditions
Authors: Qingyuan Zhou; Yuehu Gong; Weidong Yang; Jiaze Li; Yeqi Luo; Baixin Xu; Shuhao Li; Ben Fei; Ying He
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Novel view synthesis (NVS) and surface reconstruction (SR) are essential tasks in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Despite recent progress, these tasks are often addressed independently, with GS-based rendering methods struggling under diverse light conditions and failing to produce accurate surfaces, while GS-based reconstruction methods frequently compromise rendering quality. This raises a central question: must rendering and reconstruction always involve a trade-off? To address this, we propose MGSR, a 2D/3D Mutual-boosted Gaussian Splatting for Surface Reconstruction that enhances both rendering quality and 3D reconstruction accuracy. MGSR introduces two branches--one based on 2DGS and the other on 3DGS. The 2DGS branch excels in surface reconstruction, providing precise geometry information to the 3DGS branch. Leveraging this geometry, the 3DGS branch employs a geometry-guided illumination decomposition module that captures reflected and transmitted components, enabling realistic rendering under varied light conditions. Using the transmitted component as supervision, the 2DGS branch also achieves high-fidelity surface reconstruction. Throughout the optimization process, the 2DGS and 3DGS branches undergo alternating optimization, providing mutual supervision. Prior to this, each branch completes an independent warm-up phase, with an early stopping strategy implemented to reduce computational costs. We evaluate MGSR on a diverse set of synthetic and real-world datasets, at both object and scene levels, demonstrating strong performance in rendering and surface reconstruction. Code is available at https://github.com/TsingyuanChou/MGSR.
Modeling Human Gaze Behavior with Diffusion Models for Unified Scanpath Prediction
Authors: Giuseppe Cartella; Vittorio Cuculo; Alessandro D'Amelio; Marcella Cornia; Giuseppe Boccignone; Rita Cucchiara
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Predicting human gaze scanpaths is crucial for understanding visual attention, with applications in human-computer interaction, autonomous systems, and cognitive robotics. While deep learning models have advanced scanpath prediction, most existing approaches generate averaged behaviors, failing to capture the variability of human visual exploration. In this work, we present ScanDiff, a novel architecture that combines diffusion models with Vision Transformers to generate diverse and realistic scanpaths. Our method explicitly models scanpath variability by leveraging the stochastic nature of diffusion models, producing a wide range of plausible gaze trajectories. Additionally, we introduce textual conditioning to enable task-driven scanpath generation, allowing the model to adapt to different visual search objectives. Experiments on benchmark datasets show that ScanDiff surpasses state-of-the-art methods in both free-viewing and task-driven scenarios, producing more diverse and accurate scanpaths. These results highlight its ability to better capture the complexity of human visual behavior, pushing forward gaze prediction research. Source code and models are publicly available at https://aimagelab.github.io/ScanDiff.
Efficient Multi-Person Motion Prediction by Lightweight Spatial and Temporal Interactions
Authors: Yuanhong Zheng; Ruixuan Yu; Jian Sun
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: 3D multi-person motion prediction is a highly complex task, primarily due to the dependencies on both individual past movements and the interactions between agents. Moreover, effectively modeling these interactions often incurs substantial computational costs. In this work, we propose a computationally efficient model for multi-person motion prediction by simplifying spatial and temporal interactions. Our approach begins with the design of lightweight dual branches that learn local and global representations for individual and multiple persons separately. Additionally, we introduce a novel cross-level interaction block to integrate the spatial and temporal representations from both branches. To further enhance interaction modeling, we explicitly incorporate the spatial inter-person distance embedding. With above efficient temporal and spatial design, we achieve state-of-the-art performance for multiple metrics on standard datasets of CMU-Mocap, MuPoTS-3D, and 3DPW, while significantly reducing the computational cost.
I2V3D: Controllable Image-to-video Generation with 3D Guidance
Authors: Zhiyuan Zhang; Dongdong Chen; Jing Liao
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: We present I2V3D, a novel framework for animating static images into dynamic videos with precise 3D control, leveraging the strengths of both 3D geometry guidance and advanced generative models. Our approach combines the precision of a computer graphics pipeline, enabling accurate control over elements such as camera movement, object rotation, and character animation, with the visual fidelity of generative AI to produce high-quality videos from coarsely rendered inputs. To support animations with any initial start point and extended sequences, we adopt a two-stage generation process guided by 3D geometry: 1) 3D-Guided Keyframe Generation, where a customized image diffusion model refines rendered keyframes to ensure consistency and quality, and 2) 3D-Guided Video Interpolation, a training-free approach that generates smooth, high-quality video frames between keyframes using bidirectional guidance. Experimental results highlight the effectiveness of our framework in producing controllable, high-quality animations from single input images by harmonizing 3D geometry with generative models.
TAG-WM: Tamper-Aware Generative Image Watermarking via Diffusion Inversion Sensitivity
Authors: Yuzhuo Chen; Zehua Ma; Han Fang; Weiming Zhang; Nenghai Yu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: AI-generated content (AIGC) enables efficient visual creation but raises copyright and authenticity risks. As a common technique for integrity verification and source tracing, digital image watermarking is regarded as a potential solution to above issues. However, the widespread adoption and advancing capabilities of generative image editing tools have amplified malicious tampering risks, while simultaneously posing new challenges to passive tampering detection and watermark robustness. To address these challenges, this paper proposes a Tamper-Aware Generative image WaterMarking method named TAG-WM. The proposed method comprises four key modules: a dual-mark joint sampling (DMJS) algorithm for embedding copyright and localization watermarks into the latent space while preserving generative quality, the watermark latent reconstruction (WLR) utilizing reversed DMJS, a dense variation region detector (DVRD) leveraging diffusion inversion sensitivity to identify tampered areas via statistical deviation analysis, and the tamper-aware decoding (TAD) guided by localization results. The experimental results demonstrate that TAG-WM achieves state-of-the-art performance in both tampering robustness and localization capability even under distortion, while preserving lossless generation quality and maintaining a watermark capacity of 256 bits.
MIEB: Massive Image Embedding Benchmark
Authors: Chenghao Xiao; Isaac Chung; Imene Kerboua; Jamie Stirling; Xin Zhang; Márton Kardos; Roman Solomatin; Noura Al Moubayed; Kenneth Enevoldsen; Niklas Muennighoff
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Image representations are often evaluated through disjointed, task-specific protocols, leading to a fragmented understanding of model capabilities. For instance, it is unclear whether an image embedding model adept at clustering images is equally good at retrieving relevant images given a piece of text. We introduce the Massive Image Embedding Benchmark (MIEB) to evaluate the performance of image and image-text embedding models across the broadest spectrum to date. MIEB spans 38 languages across 130 individual tasks, which we group into 8 high-level categories. We benchmark 50 models across our benchmark, finding that no single method dominates across all task categories. We reveal hidden capabilities in advanced vision models such as their accurate visual representation of texts, and their yet limited capabilities in interleaved encodings and matching images and texts in the presence of confounders. We also show that the performance of vision encoders on MIEB correlates highly with their performance when used in multimodal large language models. Our code, dataset, and leaderboard are publicly available at https://github.com/embeddings-benchmark/mteb.
IMoRe: Implicit Program-Guided Reasoning for Human Motion Q&A
Authors: Chen Li; Chinthani Sugandhika; Yeo Keat Ee; Eric Peh; Hao Zhang; Hong Yang; Deepu Rajan; Basura Fernando
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Existing human motion Q&A methods rely on explicit program execution, where the requirement for manually defined functional modules may limit the scalability and adaptability. To overcome this, we propose an implicit program-guided motion reasoning (IMoRe) framework that unifies reasoning across multiple query types without manually designed modules. Unlike existing implicit reasoning approaches that infer reasoning operations from question words, our model directly conditions on structured program functions, ensuring a more precise execution of reasoning steps. Additionally, we introduce a program-guided reading mechanism, which dynamically selects multi-level motion representations from a pretrained motion Vision Transformer (ViT), capturing both high-level semantics and fine-grained motion cues. The reasoning module iteratively refines memory representations, leveraging structured program functions to extract relevant information for different query types. Our model achieves state-of-the-art performance on Babel-QA and generalizes to a newly constructed motion Q&A dataset based on HuMMan, demonstrating its adaptability across different motion reasoning datasets. Code and dataset are available at https://github.com/LUNAProject22/IMoRe.
SViM3D: Stable Video Material Diffusion for Single Image 3D Generation
Authors: Andreas Engelhardt; Mark Boss; Vikram Voleti; Chun-Han Yao; Hendrik P. A. Lensch; Varun Jampani
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: We present Stable Video Materials 3D (SViM3D), a framework to predict multi-view consistent physically based rendering (PBR) materials, given a single image. Recently, video diffusion models have been successfully used to reconstruct 3D objects from a single image efficiently. However, reflectance is still represented by simple material models or needs to be estimated in additional pipeline steps to enable relighting and controlled appearance edits. We extend a latent video diffusion model to output spatially-varying PBR parameters and surface normals jointly with each generated RGB view based on explicit camera control. This unique setup allows for direct relighting in a 2.5D setting, and for generating a 3D asset using our model as neural prior. We introduce various mechanisms to this pipeline that improve quality in this ill-posed setting. We show state-of-the-art relighting and novel view synthesis performance on multiple object-centric datasets. Our method generalizes to diverse image inputs, enabling the generation of relightable 3D assets useful in AR/VR, movies, games and other visual media.
VAGUE: Visual Contexts Clarify Ambiguous Expressions
Authors: Heejeong Nam; Jinwoo Ahn; Keummin Ka; Jiwan Chung; Youngjae Yu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Human communication often relies on visual cues to resolve ambiguity. While humans can intuitively integrate these cues, AI systems often find it challenging to engage in sophisticated multimodal reasoning. We introduce VAGUE, a benchmark evaluating multimodal AI systems' ability to integrate visual context for intent disambiguation. VAGUE consists of 1.6K ambiguous textual expressions, each paired with an image and multiple-choice interpretations, where the correct answer is only apparent with visual context. The dataset spans both staged, complex (Visual Commonsense Reasoning) and natural, personal (Ego4D) scenes, ensuring diversity. Our experiments reveal that existing multimodal AI models struggle to infer the speaker's true intent. While performance consistently improves from the introduction of more visual cues, the overall accuracy remains far below human performance, highlighting a critical gap in multimodal reasoning. Analysis of failure cases demonstrates that current models fail to distinguish true intent from superficial correlations in the visual scene, indicating that they perceive images but do not effectively reason with them.
Enhancing Numerical Prediction of MLLMs with Soft Labeling
Authors: Pei Wang; Zhaowei Cai; Hao Yang; Davide Modolo; Ashwin Swaminathan
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: The optimality of using the de facto cross-entropy loss with one-hot target distribution (hard labeling) is questioned when training (Multimodal) Large Language Models (LLMs/MLLMs). Although it is reasonable for language token prediction, which is a typical multi-class classification problem in discrete space, it is suboptimal for task like numerical prediction, which is a typical regression problem in continuous space. However, enabling regression in LLMs/MLLMs will complicate the training and next-token prediction paradigm at inference. Instead, to address this challenge, we propose a novel loss design, called soft labeling, which smooths the target probability distribution, enabling predictions to be penalized according to their distance to the target. This is similar to regression loss, which penalizes more on the further predictions in the continuous space, but will not change the model architecture and the next-token prediction paradigm of LLMs/MLLMs. We demonstrate the efficacy of soft labeling through extensive experiments on visual grounding, object counting, and chart understanding, achieving state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks without bells and whistles. Soft labeling can be applied in any LLM/MLLM.
Fine-Grained 3D Gaussian Head Avatars Modeling from Static Captures via Joint Reconstruction and Registration
Authors: Yuan Sun; Xuan Wang; Cong Wang; WeiLi Zhang; Yanbo Fan; Yu Guo; Fei Wang
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Recently, 3D head avatar modeling based on 3D Gaussians has demonstrated significant advantages in rendering quality and efficiency, given sufficient data. Some efforts have begun to train prior models on large datasets to develop generalizable 3D Gaussian head avatar modeling methods. Unfortunately, due to the limited expressive power of identity-shared 3D representations, prior-based modeling often results in degenerate rendering quality. To overcome this limitation, we propose to formulate the 3D Gaussian head avatar modeling as a joint reconstruction and registration problem. Given static input images (e.g., a short mobile phone capture), we optimize two sets of 3D Gaussians: the prior-based one possesses complete animation rigging information inferred from the prior model and produces plausible modeling results, while the prior-free one is used to more freely capture the fine-grained geometric and texture details in the input images. Additionally, we simultaneously solve the registration problem between the two 3D Gaussian sets. On the one hand, the registration results will provide binding information for the prior-free reconstruction to make it animatable. On the other hand, during optimization, the prior-based Gaussian can regularize the prior-free reconstruction to resist overfitting and perform well in novel expressions. Finally, we merge the parts of the prior-based reconstruction that are occluded in the input images with the prior-free reconstruction set and then apply appropriate post-processing strategies (such as teeth enhancement) to produce a complete head avatar. We evaluated our method on the public Nersemble dataset and our own in-the-wild data. The experiments demonstrate that, under the same experimental settings, our method significantly improves modeling quality and provides better support for detailed modeling at higher resolutions.
DynamicFace: High-Quality and Consistent Face Swapping for Image and Video using Composable 3D Facial Priors
Authors: Runqi Wang; Yang Chen; Sijie Xu; Tianyao He; Wei Zhu; Dejia Song; Nemo Chen; Xu Tang; Yao Hu
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Face swapping transfers the identity of a source face to a target face while retaining the attributes like expression, pose, hair, and background of the target face. Advanced face swapping methods have achieved attractive results. However, these methods often inadvertently transfer identity information from the target face, compromising expression-related details and accurate identity. We propose a novel method DynamicFace that leverages the power of diffusion models and plug-and-play adaptive attention layers for image and video face swapping. First, we introduce four fine-grained facial conditions using 3D facial priors. All conditions are designed to be disentangled from each other for precise and unique control. Then, we adopt Face Former and ReferenceNet for high-level and detailed identity injection. Through experiments on the FF++ dataset, we demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art results in face swapping, showcasing superior image quality, identity preservation, and expression accuracy. Our framework seamlessly adapts to both image and video domains. Please visit our project webpage at: https://dynamic-face.github.io/.
CoMoGaussian: Continuous Motion-Aware Gaussian Splatting from Motion-Blurred Images
Authors: Jungho Lee; Donghyeong Kim; Dogyoon Lee; Suhwan Cho; Minhyeok Lee; Wonjoon Lee; Taeoh Kim; Dongyoon Wee; Sangyoun Lee
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) has gained significant attention for their high-quality novel view rendering, motivating research to address real-world challenges. A critical issue is the camera motion blur caused by movement during exposure, which hinders accurate 3D scene reconstruction. In this study, we propose CoMoGaussian, a Continuous Motion-Aware Gaussian Splatting that reconstructs precise 3D scenes from motion-blurred images while maintaining real-time rendering speed. Considering the complex motion patterns inherent in real-world camera movements, we predict continuous camera trajectories using neural ordinary differential equations (ODEs). To ensure accurate modeling, we employ rigid body transformations, preserving the shape and size of the object but rely on the discrete integration of sampled frames. To better approximate the continuous nature of motion blur, we introduce a continuous motion refinement (CMR) transformation that refines rigid transformations by incorporating additional learnable parameters. By revisiting fundamental camera theory and leveraging advanced neural ODE techniques, we achieve precise modeling of continuous camera trajectories, leading to improved reconstruction accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate state-of-the-art performance both quantitatively and qualitatively on benchmark datasets, which include a wide range of motion blur scenarios, from moderate to extreme blur.
Open-Unfairness Adversarial Mitigation for Generalized Deepfake Detection
Authors: Zhaoyang Li; Zhu Teng; Baopeng Zhang; Jianping Fan
Venue: ICCV 2025 (main)

Abstract: Deepfake detection methods are becoming increasingly crucial for identity security and have recently been employed to support legal proceedings. However, these methods often exhibit unfairness due to flawed logical reasoning, undermining the reliability of their predictions and raising concerns about their applicability in legal contexts. To mitigate this bias, existing approaches typically rely on predefined demographic attributes, such as race and gender. However, these assumptions are inherently limited, as different deepfake detectors exhibit substantial variations in fairness performance, often uncovering intricate and unforeseen bias patterns. To this end, we propose the Adversarial Open-Unfairness Discovery and Mitigation Network (AdvOU), a novel framework designed to mitigate unpredictable unfairness in deepfake detection. Our approach strengthens general deepfake detectors by equipping them with a lightweight Unfairness Regulator (UR), which dynamically identifies and mitigates bias. Furthermore, we propose an adversarial learning paradigm that alternates between the training of the Open-Unfairness Discovery (OUD) module and the Unfairness Adversarial Mitigation (UAM) module. The former intensifies unfairness within UR to reveal underlying bias patterns, while the latter leverages fairness in the detector by enforcing adversarial robustness against unfairness. Extensive experiments on widely used deepfake datasets validate the effectiveness of our approach, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in both fairness and generalization evaluations for cross-domain deepfake detection. The code is available at https://github.com/liacaaa/AdvOU.