Vision

Fri, Oct 3012 papers

arXiv

RFW-A: Agentic Procedural Generation of 400K Articulated Assets over 500 Categories

Yuanbo Lyu, Changjian Pan, Saining Zhang et al.

High-quality articulated assets are essential for embodied perception, simulation, and manipulation, yet constructing them at scale remains difficult.High-quality articulated assets are essential for embodied perception, simulation, and manipulation, yet constructing them at scale remains difficult. Manual annotation and procedural modeling require substantial human effort.

Preprint: method
arXiv

Where Do Vision Language Models Fail at 3D Reasoning?

Khai Le-Duc, Nguyen Kim Hai Bui, An Ngo et al.

Vision-language models can get individual judgments right while struggling to recover and consistently use the exact properties of a 3D object.Vision-language models can get individual judgments right while struggling to recover and consistently use the exact properties of a 3D object.

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

Telling Is Not Seeing: Textual Personas Rarely Make Vision-Language Models Answer Like the People They Describe

Jiawei Chen

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly prompted with personas, such as "You have low vision", to stand in for people in user studies.Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly prompted with personas, such as "You have low vision", to stand in for people in user studies. We ask whether a persona makes a model see like the person it describes.

Telling a model about blur does not make it see blur.
Preprint: empirical study
arXiv

Unlocking Any-Order Generation in Pretrained Autoregressive Image Models

Rishav Pramanik, Marco Pedersoli, Zhaozheng Yin

Autoregressive (AR) image generators are powerful in principle but inflexible in practice: training with a fixed raster-scan order hardcodes a single factorization of the…Autoregressive (AR) image generators are powerful in principle but inflexible in practice: training with a fixed raster-scan order hardcodes a single factorization of the image distribution into the model, leaving it unable to…

Preprint: method
arXiv

Similar Scores, Opposite Failures: Human Correction as an Instrument for Video Caption Evaluation

Ankit Khedia, Astitva Jaiswal, Chaitanya Prasad et al.

Video captioning models are increasingly evaluated with metrics designed for single-sentence image captions.Video captioning models are increasingly evaluated with metrics designed for single-sentence image captions. We test whether those metrics recover human judgement on dense, multi-window video description, and find that they do…

Preprint: empirical study
arXiv

Aligning Misaligned Benchmarks for Single-View Novel View Synthesis

Yang-Che Tseng, Erqun Dong, Jeong-gi Kwak et al.

While single-view novel view synthesis methods have been dramatically enhanced recently, how to quantify their performance has yet to be standardized.While single-view novel view synthesis methods have been dramatically enhanced recently, how to quantify their performance has yet to be standardized.

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

Neighbourhood shortcuts in building damage assessment from very-high-resolution satellite imagery: diagnosis and a building-evidence plug-in

JianChong Guo, YuTing Wan, Kefan Li et al.

Building damage assessment (BDA) from very-high-resolution imagery supports disaster response, and deep models now achieve high overall accuracy on public benchmarks.Building damage assessment (BDA) from very-high-resolution imagery supports disaster response, and deep models now achieve high overall accuracy on public benchmarks.

Neighbourhood reliance of BDA models on the xBD test set.
Preprint: method
arXiv

Low-light photo benchmark has darker reference images

In LOLv2-Real, a test of low-light photo enhancement, reference images were 14% darker in the test set than in the training set.In LOLv2-Real, a test of low-light photo enhancement, reference images were 14% darker in the test set than in the training set. An audit of LOL-v1 and LOLv2-Real, two standard tests of methods that brighten dark photos, found…

Overlapping photos show the same chair and window in a bright room, a darker room under a black crescent, and small matching dim views.
Preprint: empirical study
arXiv

GameVerse: A Minute-Scale Gameplay Dataset for Long-Horizon Interactive World Modeling

Kang He, Wenshuo Peng, Chuanhao Li et al.

Recent advances in interactive world models have made it possible to generate controllable, dynamic environments from action inputs.Recent advances in interactive world models have made it possible to generate controllable, dynamic environments from action inputs. Yet current models struggle to maintain coherence beyond roughly one minute of rollout, a…

Overview of the proposed GameVerse dataset and construction pipeline.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

PRISM-BENCH: Diagnosing Grounded and Faithful Multimodal Reasoning Beyond Final-Answer Accuracy

Vansh Bhatia, Mehdi Rezagholizadeh, Parsa Ashrafi Fashi et al.

Final-answer accuracy reports whether a vision-language model was right, but not whether its answer was grounded in the image, whether its stated reasoning reflects that…Final-answer accuracy reports whether a vision-language model was right, but not whether its answer was grounded in the image, whether its stated reasoning reflects that evidence, or what the answer cost to produce.

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

TopX: Text-to-Motion for Unseen Skeletons from the Skeleton File Alone

Tengjiao Sun, Pengcheng Fang, Xiaoyu Zhan et al.

Text-to-motion models generate motion only for the skeletons they were trained on, while a new character arrives as a skeleton file and nothing else.Text-to-motion models generate motion only for the skeletons they were trained on, while a new character arrives as a skeleton file and nothing else.

Preprint: new model
arXiv

Fast and Useful: Adapting Distilled Generators for Visual Learning

Patryk Bartkowiak, Dominik Michels, Sören Pirk et al.

Distilled text-to-image models generate images quickly, but classifiers trained on those images can perform substantially worse than classifiers trained on images from…Distilled text-to-image models generate images quickly, but classifiers trained on those images can perform substantially worse than classifiers trained on images from their slower base models.

Preprint: method

Wed, Oct 288 papers

arXiv

Can Discrete Tokens Serve as Semantically Lossless Representations of Visual Signals?

Jialv Zou, Xiaotong Li, Zhengrong Yue et al.

Discrete visual tokens represent vision in a discrete form analogous to language, offering a native interface for multimodal modeling under a shared next-token prediction…Discrete visual tokens represent vision in a discrete form analogous to language, offering a native interface for multimodal modeling under a shared next-token prediction objective.

Scaling the bit budget of discrete visual representations.
Preprint: new model
arXiv

ScIntBench: Physical Interaction Plausibility in 3D Scene Generation

Wendi Ying, Daochang Liu, Leonid Sigal et al.

Existing evaluations of text-conditioned 3D indoor scene generation largely emphasize semantic fidelity and physical validity at rest, leaving interaction-time physical…Existing evaluations of text-conditioned 3D indoor scene generation largely emphasize semantic fidelity and physical validity at rest, leaving interaction-time physical reliability insufficiently assessed.

Qualitative comparison of generated scenes on ScIntBench.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

Right Click, Wrong Box: Grading GUI Grounding by What a Click Does

Xiaokang Yuan, Binhui Yao, Luwei Yang et al.

Leading GUI grounders score 93 to 96% on ScreenSpot-v2, and reported gaps between new and prior models are about a point.Leading GUI grounders score 93 to 96% on ScreenSpot-v2, and reported gaps between new and prior models are about a point. At this level the useful question is what the remaining errors are.

Outcome-correct clicks that ScreenSpot-v2 rejects.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

Haste Makes Waste? Towards Safe Few-Step Text-to-Image Models

Lior Ziv, Mahmood Sharif

While few-step distilled text-to-image models have gained traction due to their fast generation times, the speed-up implications on their unsafe generation rates remain…While few-step distilled text-to-image models have gained traction due to their fast generation times, the speed-up implications on their unsafe generation rates remain unknown.

Examples of DICE outputs using the prompt “A nude girl with beautiful hair.” Black rectangles are added by the authors for censorship.
Preprint: method
arXiv

SO-101 Bench: Accessible Spatial Manipulation

Truman Hickok

Low-cost arms such as the SO-101 have become the most common entry point to robot learning, yet no released policy performs spatially constrained, language-conditioned…Low-cost arms such as the SO-101 have become the most common entry point to robot learning, yet no released policy performs spatially constrained, language-conditioned tasks on them out of the box, and existing SO-101 benchmarks…

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

SpeeDiff: Scalable Pixel-Anchored End-to-End Latent Diffusion Model

Bingliang Zhang, Wenda Chu, Yizhuo Li et al.

We present Scalable Pixel-anchored End-to-end Diffusion (SpeeDiff), a latent diffusion method that jointly trains the VAE and the diffusion model from scratch.We present Scalable Pixel-anchored End-to-end Diffusion (SpeeDiff), a latent diffusion method that jointly trains the VAE and the diffusion model from scratch.

Preprint: new model
arXiv

VibeVideoBench: Evaluating Multimodal Agents on Code-Driven Video Generation

Muxi Diao, Wenbin Xu, Lele Yang et al.

Diffusion video models produce striking clips, but they cannot reliably render an exact formula, a correct chart, a rule-consistent game or narration synchronized to…Diffusion video models produce striking clips, but they cannot reliably render an exact formula, a correct chart, a rule-consistent game or narration synchronized to on-screen events.

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

EgoHand: Monocular 3D Hand Reconstruction from Egocentric Video

Chao-Yeh Chen, Tiffany Chen, Lin Duan et al.

We introduce EgoHand, a monocular 3D hand reconstruction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on egocentric video.We introduce EgoHand, a monocular 3D hand reconstruction model that achieves state-of-the-art performance on egocentric video.

EgoHand model architecture.
Preprint: new model

Tue, Oct 276 papers

arXiv

Back to Basics: A Skill-Centric Approach to Generalist Web Agents

Minh Pham-Dinh, Md Farhan Ishmam, Hernan Yupanqui et al.

Browser agents do not just need more practice. They need to practice the right things. We introduce MiniWeb, a realistic miniature of the web comprising 65 interconnected…Browser agents do not just need more practice. They need to practice the right things. We introduce MiniWeb, a realistic miniature of the web comprising 65 interconnected websites across 15 domains, where agents navigate, search…

Preprint: new model
arXiv

Printed and Scanned: Exposing the Fragility of Single-Image Morphing Attack Detectors under Print-Scan Degradation

Diogo J. Paulo, Hugo Proença, João C. Neves

Face morphing attacks, in which the biometric traits of two or more identities are blended into a single face image, pose a severe threat to identity document issuance…Face morphing attacks, in which the biometric traits of two or more identities are blended into a single face image, pose a severe threat to identity document issuance and automated border control.

Print-scan acquisition and evaluation pipeline.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

When Pointing Becomes Profiling: Social Bias and Refusal in Text-Steerable Visual Encoders

Seyedarmin Azizi, Parsa Razmara, Sajjad Ghiasvand et al.

Text-steerable visual encoders condition a frozen Vision Transformer on a natural-language prompt and point at the matching image region, producing prompt-conditioned…Text-steerable visual encoders condition a frozen Vision Transformer on a natural-language prompt and point at the matching image region, producing prompt-conditioned heatmaps and features.

Steering injects stereotypes and cannot refuse; SafeSteer spreads the mass and refuses.
Preprint: new model
arXiv

Tested anomaly detectors read prompt scale, not text meaning

Across seven medical datasets, detectors with random numerical replacements for text tracked those using correct descriptions when the distance between reference points…Across seven medical datasets, detectors with random numerical replacements for text tracked those using correct descriptions when the distance between reference points matched.

A light blue layered model and dark blue-green plate have similarly spaced holes, beside a rib cage tile with a black square and scattered gray shapes.
Preprint: empirical study
arXiv

AV-FABLE: Audio-Visual Manipulation Forensics in Long-Form Videos

Yuesheng Huang, Hoi Fan Au, Jiaqi Hou et al.

Localized AI manipulations in long-form videos often affect brief events within otherwise authentic content, making video-level classification insufficient for forensic…Localized AI manipulations in long-form videos often affect brief events within otherwise authentic content, making video-level classification insufficient for forensic analysis.

Overview of SEE-Forge, the event-driven pipeline for constructing AV-FABLE.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

StreamEval: Evaluating Interactive Streaming Video Generation Models

StreamEval Team

We introduce StreamEval with four key features: (1) First interactive streaming video generation benchmark. (2) Fully open source.We introduce StreamEval with four key features: (1) First interactive streaming video generation benchmark. (2) Fully open source. Benchmark data, evaluation code, protocols, and scoring rules are publicly available.

StreamEval overview. Five tasks span avatar interaction, world generation, and real-time video editing.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset

Mon, Oct 268 papers

arXiv

LoCA: Enabling Multi-Modality in Geospatial Location Encoders

Panagiotis Koromilas, Eleanna Vali, Diogenis Antonopoulos et al.

Location encoders map geographic coordinates to high-dimensional descriptors through contrastive alignment with paired Earth Observation imagery.Location encoders map geographic coordinates to high-dimensional descriptors through contrastive alignment with paired Earth Observation imagery.

LoCA pipeline. Stage 1: jointly train Sentinel-1 SAR and Sentinel-2 optical encoders with DHEL to produce a co-aligned, high-rank multimodal target.
Preprint: new model
arXiv

DriveOSS: Dataset and Benchmark for 3D Anomaly Segmentation and Open-set Semantic Segmentation in Autonomous Driving

Zhiran Yan, Savankumar Bhanderi, Sourabh Lolge et al.

Recent advances in 3D semantic segmentation have significantly improved scene understanding in autonomous driving.Recent advances in 3D semantic segmentation have significantly improved scene understanding in autonomous driving. However, existing methods are typically developed under a closed-set assumption and evaluated under standard…

Overview of the proposed DriveOSS dataset and benchmark.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

4DMemory: Benchmarking Long-Horizon Spatiotemporal Memory with Harness-Augmented Agents

Yanhao Jia, Yi Zhu, Yiran Zhong et al.

Humans efficiently process multimodal streams spanning hours to years, building persistent, fine-grained spatiotemporal memories that support reasoning about and…Humans efficiently process multimodal streams spanning hours to years, building persistent, fine-grained spatiotemporal memories that support reasoning about and predicting long-horizon events.

Motivation for 4DMemory Agent.
Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

TileShare: Training-Free Acceleration of Overlapping Tiled ViT Decoding

Xiangzhong Ye, Zhongshen Li, Shen You et al.

Fixed-window Vision Transformer (ViT) decoders run at deployment resolution as overlapping tiles: every token in an overlap band is processed by several full decoder…Fixed-window Vision Transformer (ViT) decoders run at deployment resolution as overlapping tiles: every token in an overlap band is processed by several full decoder instances.

Preprint: method
arXiv

A standard document benchmark has flawed labels and duplicates

An audit found approximately 10.5% of 400,000 documents had erroneous labels, and 35.2% of the test set had duplicates or near-duplicates in the training set.An audit found approximately 10.5% of 400,000 documents had erroneous labels, and 35.2% of the test set had duplicates or near-duplicates in the training set.

The defects of RVL-CDIP examined in this paper, each with an example page and the corresponding result.
Preprint: empirical study
arXiv

PnP*: A certifiable solver for Perspective-n-Point

Bang-Shien Chen, Caitrin E. Eaton, David M. Rosen

Estimating a camera pose from 3D-2D correspondences - Perspective-n-Point - is one of the most fundamental problems in computer vision.Estimating a camera pose from 3D-2D correspondences - Perspective-n-Point - is one of the most fundamental problems in computer vision. Existing methods either solve a minimal problem or replace the objective with an easier one.

Preprint: method
arXiv

Token-Set Choice Confounds POPE: A Systematic Audit of Yes/No Extraction in VLM Hallucination Evaluation

Kesav Kumar Jayakumar, Karthigeyan Thilak

We set out to reproduce a recent hallucination-mitigation result on the POPE benchmark. The LLaVA-1.5-7B baseline we measured, 82.21 F1 on the adversarial split, sat 1.21…We set out to reproduce a recent hallucination-mitigation result on the POPE benchmark. The LLaVA-1.5-7B baseline we measured, 82.21 F1 on the adversarial split, sat 1.21 to 8.67 points above the adversarial baselines we planned…

Confusion matrices for POPE adversarial (3,000 questions) under each protocol.
Preprint: empirical study

Fri, Oct 23

arXiv

AgentVQA: A Unified Benchmark for Agentic Visual Understanding

Advait Gupta, Sachin Konan, Tom Yin et al.

Vision-language models (VLMs) can perform a broad range of tasks across diverse settings, yet their performance in agentic contexts remains poorly understood.Vision-language models (VLMs) can perform a broad range of tasks across diverse settings, yet their performance in agentic contexts remains poorly understood.

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

Ask About the Right Moment: Training-Free Object Identity Reasoning for Video-Language Models

Di Yang, Xiaochang Li, Muyang Liu et al.

Many questions about a video concern one physical object. Where does the ball end up after the cups are shuffled? Which card is the queen? How often was the mug covered?Many questions about a video concern one physical object. Where does the ball end up after the cups are shuffled? Which card is the queen? How often was the mug covered?

Preprint: method
arXiv

Watch and Learn: Teaching Visual In-Context Learning by Removing Textual Shortcuts

Nimrod Shabtay, Asaf Yehudai, Avihu Dekel et al.

Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with in context learning compared to their textual counterparts.Vision-language models (VLMs) struggle with in context learning compared to their textual counterparts. Our preliminary study shows that VLMs rely on textual shortcuts and underutilize the visual demonstrations.

Preprint: benchmark or dataset
arXiv

LoRA Superposition across Pretrained Models

Keigo Watanabe, Hiroshi Kera, Kazuhiko Kawamoto

Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is usually tied to the pretrained backbone on which it is learned. We ask whether LoRAs trained independently for the same task on different…Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) is usually tied to the pretrained backbone on which it is learned. We ask whether LoRAs trained independently for the same task on different pretrained backbones can be summed and applied unchanged to…

Preprint: method
arXiv

SplatLab: Autonomous Scientific Discovery for 3DGS Research

Seemandhar Jain, Manmohan Chandraker

Reproducing a published 3DGS paper takes weeks of expert engineering before any extension can be proposed.Reproducing a published 3DGS paper takes weeks of expert engineering before any extension can be proposed.

Preprint: system
arXiv

Foundation4D: Towards a unified perception and reconstruction model for autonomous vehicles

Nvidia, :, Sérgio Agostinho et al.

We introduce Foundation4D, a unified feed-forward model for geometry estimation, 3D detection, semantic occupancy, and Gaussian reconstruction from multi-camera driving…We introduce Foundation4D, a unified feed-forward model for geometry estimation, 3D detection, semantic occupancy, and Gaussian reconstruction from multi-camera driving video.

Preprint: new model