CVPR 2026 Papers

Spatial reasoning focuses on locating target objects based on spatial relations in 3D scenes, which plays a crucial role in developing intelligent embodied agents. Due to the limited availability of 3D scene-language paired data, it is challenging to train models with strong reasoning ability from scratch. Previous approaches have attempted to inject 3D scene representations into the input space of Large Language Models (LLMs) and leverage the pretrained comprehension and reasoning abilities for spatial reasoning. However, models encoding absolute positions struggle to extract spatial relations from prematurely fused features, while methods explicitly encoding all spatial relations (which is quadratic in the number of objects) as input tokens suffer from poor scalability. To address these limitations, we propose QuatRoPE, a novel positional embedding method with an input length that is linear to the number of objects, and explicitly calculates pairwise spatial relations through the dot product in attention layers. QuatRoPE's holistic vector encoding of 3D coordinates guarantees a high degree of spatial consistency, maintaining fidelity to the scene's geometric integrity. Additionally, we introduce the Isolated Gated RoPE Extension (IGRE), which effectively limits QuatRoPE's influence to object-related tokens, thereby minimizing interference with the LLM's existing positional embeddings and maintaining the LLM's original capabilities. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our approaches. The code and data are available at https://github.com/oceanflowlab/QuatRoPE.

Refining visual representations by eliminating their internal feature-level redundancy is crucial for simultaneously optimizing the performance and computational cost of models in visual tracking. To enhance their performance, many contemporary Transformer-based trackers leverage a larger number of historical template frames to capture richer spatio-temporal cues. However, this strategy leads to a massive number of input visual tokens. This creates two critical issues: it imposes a quadratic computational burden and can also degrade the tracker's overall performance. To bridge this gap, we propose a compress-then-interact tracking framework, ETCTrack, that learns to efficiently compress template tokens from historical template frames into a robust target representation, moving beyond handcrafted rules. Our method first employs the Adaptive Token Compressor to dynamically construct compact yet highly discriminative template tokens by filtering out redundant visual tokens. These refined template tokens are then processed by our Hierarchical Interaction Encoder to achieve a deep, adaptive interaction with the search features. Refined search features ensure subsequent precise target localization. Experiments on seven benchmarks demonstrate that our method outperforms current state-of-the-art trackers. ETCTrack-B224 reduces the number of template tokens by 60%, leading to a 21.4% reduction in MACs with only a 0.4% drop in accuracy. The source code are available at https://github.com/PJD-WJ/ETCTrack.

Label-free image anomaly detection is difficult because anomalies must be separated from intra-normal variability. Diffusion models learn a manifold for normal data, and, under the common assumption that off-manifold anomalies are harder to generate and yield larger prediction errors, many methods build detectors from prediction residuals; yet reverse-process stochasticity and complex but normal structure also produce large residuals, so magnitude alone is non-diagnostic. To clarify what is recoverable from such noisy residuals, the theory examines how residual signals propagate through later reverse steps, showing that variability consistent with normal statistics is gradually absorbed toward stationarity, whereas anomalous regions retain an additional non-stationary signal that persists. Building on this insight, the Residual-Evolution Field (REF) isolates this persistent signal, with labeled source data calibrating the extractor and Cross-domain Field Alignment (CFA) transferring it to unlabeled targets. A theoretical framework with formal analysis is established, and experiments across multiple benchmarks under substantial domain shifts demonstrate state-of-the-art performance, improving over strong baselines by 2.01-14 percentage points (pp).

Articulated objects are pervasive in daily environments, such as drawers and refrigerators. Towards their part-level surface reconstruction and joint parameter estimation, REArtGS [??] introduces a category-agnostic approach using multi-view RGB images at two different states. However, we observe that REArtGS still struggles with screw-joint or multi-part objects and lacks geometric constraints for unseen states. In this paper, we propose REArtGS++, a novel method towards generalizable articulated object reconstruction with temporal geometry constraint and planar Gaussian splatting. We first model a decoupled screw motion for each joint without type prior, and jointly optimize part-aware Gaussians with joint parameters through part motion blending. To introduce time-continuous geometric constraint for articulated modeling, we encourage Gaussians to be planar and propose a temporally consistent regularization between planar normal and depth through Taylor first-order expansion. Extensive experiments on both synthetic and real-world articulated objects demonstrate our superiority in generalizable part-level surface reconstruction and joint parameter estimation, compared to existing approaches. Project Site: https://sites.google.com/view/reartgs2/home https://sites.google.com/view/reartgs2/home.

3D single object tracking (SOT) in point clouds is essential for real-world 3D perception, yet it remains challenging due to data sparsity and large variations in scale and structure across diverse object categories. Most existing methods rely on a category-specific paradigm that trains separate models for each class, severely limiting scalability and generalization in real deployment. Extending these methods to a single model capable of tracking diverse object categories proves inadequate, as the significant variations across categories make it difficult to establish reliable geometric correspondences without category-specific priors. To overcome these limitations, we propose a Unified Structural KeyPoint Tracker (UniKPT), a novel structure-aware and generalizable framework for category-unified 3D point cloud tracking. UniKPT comprises three key modules: (1) an adaptive keypoint extractor that produces scale-aware and semantically meaningful keypoints; (2) a progressive correspondence aligner that establishes robust cross-frame geometric associations; and (3) a confidence-aware structural localization module that suppresses unreliable matches and leverages fine-grained structural relationships for precise 3D localization. Extensive experiments on the nuScenes and KITTI benchmarks show that UniKPT achieves new state-of-the-art performance in category-unified 3D SOT. On the challenging nuScenes dataset, our unified model further surpasses category-specific state-of-the-art trackers by 4.37% in Success and 5.16% in Precision.