CVPR 2026 Papers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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4,042papers

Counted from the official paper list; may differ slightly from the number the conference announced.

  • Oral
    1383.4%
  • Poster
    3,90496.6%

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Rethinking Model Selection in VLM Through the Lens of Gromov-Wasserstein Distance

Muyang Li, Yucheng Liu, Jianbo Ma, Elliot Osborne, Bo Han, Tongliang Liu

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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enhanced traditional LLMs with visual capabilities through the integration of vision encoders. While recent works have explored various combinations of vision encoders and LLMs, there still lacks a principled understanding of what makes a vision encoder suitable for VLM alignment. In this paper, we systematically investigate this question via comprehensive experiments on a curated collection of 19 pre-trained vision encoders from diverse sources. We first demonstrate that common practices, such as choosing encoders with the largest size or highest zero-shot accuracy, consistently fail to identify optimal models. In fact, these metrics show only weak to moderate correlation with VLM performance. This intriguing finding begs a fundamental question: What factors of vision-encoders matter in VLM? Through comprehensive analysis, we identify that the structural similarity across modalities plays a crucial but previously overlooked role in vision-encoder selection, which we measure using the Gromov-Wasserstein distance as a proxy. From a theoretical perspective, we show that the learnability of cross-modality mapping can be provably associated with the Gromov-Wasserstein distance. Empirical verification on 60+ full VLM training runs shows that our proposed inference-only metric performs significantly better than alternative model selection strategies and exhibits a much stronger correlation with final VLM performance, thereby enabling efficient and effective prediction of VLM performance before full training.

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Text-guided Feature Disentanglement for Cross-modal Gait Recognition

Zhiyang Lu, Ming Cheng

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Gait recognition is a biometric technique that identifies individuals based on their walking patterns, offering advantages in long-range, non-intrusive scenarios. However, real-world scenarios often involve heterogeneous sensing modalities such as LiDAR and RGB cameras, making LiDAR-Camera Cross-modal Gait recognition (LCCGR) a critical yet challenging task due to the substantial modality gap between 2D videos and 3D point cloud sequences. To address this challenge, we propose TCFDNet, a Text-guided Cross-modal Feature Disentanglement Network, which leverages modality-aware textual priors as semantic anchors to guide the learning of disentangled modality-shared representations. Specifically, we construct a Gait Modality Text Dictionary (GMTD) using large language models to generate rich semantic descriptions of gait across modalities and viewpoints. A CLIP-based Multi-grained Feature Encoder then aligns visual and textual features within a unified vision-language space. Furthermore, the Text-guided Feature Disentanglement (TFD) module selects the top\text - k matched textual descriptions to reconstruct modality-specific representations and derive modality-shared features via residual decomposition and orthogonality constraints. To mitigate the fragility of the disentangled shared features, we propose a Feature Stability Enhancement (FSE) module, which models spatial and channel-wise correlations to improve feature robustness. In addition, a cross-modal patch exchange strategy is introduced to further improve generalization. Extensive experiments on SUSTech1K and FreeGait datasets demonstrate that TCFDNet achieves new state-of-the-art results and validate the effectiveness of the proposed modules.

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Training One Model to Master Cross-Level Agentic Actions via Reinforcement Learning

Kaichen He, Zihao Wang, Muyao Li, Anji Liu, Yitao Liang

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The paradigm of agentic AI is shifting from engineered complex workflows to post-training native models. However, existing agents are typically confined to static, predefined action spaces--such as exclusively using APIs, GUI events, or robotic commands. This rigidity limits their adaptability in dynamic environments where the optimal granularity of interaction varies contextually. To bridge this gap, we propose CrossHA, a unified agentic model that masters heterogeneous action spaces and autonomously selects the most effective interface for each step of a trajectory. We introduce a comprehensive training pipeline that integrates cold-start supervised fine-tuning with a Multi-Turn Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) algorithm. This approach enables the agent to learn adaptive action switching--balancing high-level efficiency with low-level precision--without human-specified rules. Extensive experiments on over 800 tasks in the open-world Minecraft environment demonstrate that CrossHA achieves state-of-the-art performance. By dynamically leveraging the strengths of diverse action spaces, our model significantly outperforms fixed-action baselines, exhibiting superior generalization and efficiency in long-horizon reasoning. All code and models are available at https://github.com/CraftJarvis/OpenHA.

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HAMMER: Harnessing MLLMs via Cross-Modal Integration for Intention-Driven 3D Affordance Grounding

Lei Yao, Yong Chen, YUEJIAO SU, Yi Wang, Moyun Liu, Lap-Pui Chau

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Humans commonly reason about object affordance through observed interactions in images or videos, and once formed, such knowledge can be generically generalized to novel objects. Inspired by this principle, we advocate for a novel framework that leverages emerging multimodal large language models (MLLMs) for interaction intention-driven 3D affordance grounding, namely HAMMER. Instead of generating explicit object attribute descriptions or relying on off-the-shelf 2D segmenters, we alternatively aggregate the interaction intention depicted in the reference image into a contact-aware embedding and guide the model to infer textual affordance labels, ensuring it thoroughly excavates object semantics and contextual cues. We further devise a hierarchical cross-modal integration mechanism to fully exploit the complementary information from the MLLM for 3D representation refinement and introduce a multi-granular geometry lifting module that infuses spatial characteristics into the extracted intention embedding, thus facilitating accurate 3D affordance localization. Extensive experiments on public datasets and our newly constructed corrupted benchmark reveal the superiority and robustness of our method in seen and unseen scenarios compared to existing approaches. The code and models will be made publicly available.

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Contrastive Cross-Bag Augmentation for Multiple Instance Learning-based Whole Slide Image Classification

Bo Zhang, Xinan Xu, Shuo Yan, Yu Bai, Zheng Zhang, Wufan Wang, Hui Gao, Wendong Wang

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Recent pseudo-bag augmentation methods for Multiple Instance Learning (MIL)-based Whole Slide Image (WSI) classification sample instances from a limited number of bags, resulting in constrained diversity. To address this issue, we propose Contrastive Cross-Bag Augmentation (C2Aug) to sample instances from all bags with the same class to increase the diversity of pseudo-bags. However, introducing new instances into the pseudo-bag increases the number of critical instances (e.g., tumor instances). This increase results in a reduced occurrence of pseudo-bags containing few critical instances, thereby limiting model performance, particularly on test slides with small tumor areas. To address this, we introduce a bag-level and group-level contrastive learning framework to enhance the discrimination of features with distinct semantic meanings, thereby improving model performance. C2Aug samples instances with consistent bag-level labels across the entire dataset, which simultaneously enhances the diversity of pseudo-bags and mitigates label noise. Experimental results demonstrate that C2Aug consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches across multiple evaluation metrics. Our code is publicly available at: https://github.com/weiaicunzai/mixup.

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Missing No More: Dictionary-Guided Cross-Modal Image Fusion under Missing Infrared

Yafei Zhang, Meng Ma, Huafeng Li, Yu Liu

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Infrared-visible (IR-VIS) image fusion is vital for perception and security, yet most methods rely on the availability of both modalities during training and inference. When the infrared modality is absent, pixel-space generative substitutes become hard to control and inherently lack interpretability. We address missing-IR fusion by proposing a dictionary-guided, coefficient-domain framework built upon a shared convolutional dictionary. The pipeline comprises three key components: (1) Joint Shared-dictionary Representation Learning (JSRL) learns a unified and interpretable atom space shared by both IR and VIS modalities; (2) VIS-Guided IR Inference (VGII) transfers VIS coefficients to pseudo-IR coefficients in the coefficient domain and performs a one-step closed-loop refinement guided by a frozen large language model as a weak semantic prior; and (3) Adaptive Fusion via Representation Inference (AFRI) merges VIS structures and inferred IR cues at the atom level through window attention and convolutional mixing, followed by reconstruction with the shared dictionary. This encode-transfer-fuse-reconstruct pipeline avoids uncontrolled pixel-space generation while ensuring prior preservation within interpretable dictionary-coefficient representation. Experiments under missing-IR settings demonstrate consistent improvements in perceptual quality and downstream detection performance. To our knowledge, this represents the first framework that jointly learns a shared dictionary and performs coefficient-domain inference-fusion to tackle missing-IR fusion. The source code is publicly available at https://github.com/harukiv/DCMIF.

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VENI: Variational Encoder for Natural Illumination

Paul Walker, James A D Gardner, Andreea Ardelean, William A P Smith, Bernhard Egger

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Inverse rendering is an ill-posed problem, but priors such as illumination priors can help simplify it. Existing work either disregards the spherical and rotation-equivariant nature of illumination environments or does not provide a well-behaved latent space. We propose a rotation-equivariant variational autoencoder that models natural illumination on the sphere without relying on 2D projections. To preserve the SO(2)-equivariance of environment maps, we use a novel Vector Neuron Vision Transformer (VN-ViT) as encoder and a rotation-equivariant conditional neural field as decoder. In the encoder, we reduce the equivariance from SO(3) to SO(2) using a novel SO(2)-equivariant fully connected layer, an extension of Vector Neurons. We show that our SO(2)-equivariant fully connected layer outperforms standard Vector Neurons when used in our SO(2)-equivariant model. Compared to previous methods, our variational autoencoder enables smoother interpolation in latent space and offers a more well-behaved latent space.

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RAMEN: Resolution-Adjustable Multimodal Encoder for Earth Observation

Nicolas Houdré, Diego Marcos, Hugo Riffaud de Turckheim, Dino Ienco, Laurent Wendling, Camille Kurtz, Sylvain Lobry

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Earth observation (EO) data spans a wide range of spatial, spectral, and temporal resolutions, from high-resolution optical imagery to low resolution multispectral products or radar time series. While recent foundation models have improved multimodal integration for learning meaningful representations, they often expect fixed input resolutions or are based on sensor-specific encoders limiting generalization across heterogeneous EO modalities. To overcome these limitations we introduce RAMEN, a resolution-adjustable multimodal encoder that learns a shared visual representation across EO data in a fully sensor-agnostic manner. RAMEN treats the modality and spatial and temporal resolutions as key input data features, enabling coherent analysis across modalities within a unified latent space. Its main methodological contribution is to define spatial resolution as a controllable output parameter, giving users direct control over the desired level of detail at inference and allowing explicit trade-offs between spatial precision and computational cost. We train a single, unified transformer encoder reconstructing masked multimodal EO data drawn from diverse sources, ensuring generalization across sensors and resolutions. Once pretrained, RAMEN transfers effectively to both known and unseen sensor configurations and outperforms larger state-of-the-art models on the community-standard PANGAEA benchmark, containing various multi-sensor and multi-resolution downstream tasks. Our code and pretrained model will be released upon acceptance.

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CLaD: Planning with Grounded Foresight via Cross-Modal Latent Dynamics

Andrew Jeong, Jaemin Kim, Sebin Lee, Sung-Eui Yoon

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Robotic manipulation involves kinematic and semantic transitions that are inherently coupled via underlying actions. However, existing approaches plan within either semantic or latent space without explicitly aligning these cross-modal transitions. To address this, we propose CLaD, a framework that models how proprioceptive and semantic states jointly evolve under actions through asymmetric cross-attention that allows kinematic transitions to query semantic ones. CLaD predicts grounded latent foresights via self-supervised objectives with EMA target encoders and auxiliary reconstruction losses, preventing representation collapse while anchoring predictions to observable states. Predicted foresights are modulated with observations to condition a diffusion policy for action generation. On LIBERO-LONG benchmark, CLaD achieves 94.7% success rate, competitive with large VLAs with significantly fewer parameters.

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GeoSemba: Reconstructing State Space Model for Cross Paradigm Representation in Medical Image Segmentation

Xutao Sun, Jiarui Li, Junwen Liu, Yonggong Ren

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Mamba-based models have emerged as a promising paradigm for medical image segmentation due to their linear-complexity state-space modeling. However, their effectiveness is still limited by the mismatch between anatomical geometry and tissue-specific semantics, as well as by spatially entangled diagnostic cues. To address these limitations, we propose GeoSemba, a Mamba-based segmentation framework that jointly models cross-level geometric-semantic interactions and cross-dimensional spatial-channel dependencies within a single scan. To this end, GeoSemba comprises two complementary components. The Semantic-guided State Refiner (SSR) derives semantically discriminative region representatives and leverages geometry-conditioned inter-region dependencies to enable coherent semantic propagation across structurally related regions. The Cross-dimensional Affinity Refiner (CAR) adopts a coarse-to-fine strategy of macro-perception and micro-focus to selectively enhance informative spatial-channel interactions while suppressing weak and noisy correlations. Extensive experiments on benchmark datasets spanning six medical imaging modalities show that GeoSemba consistently delivers superior segmentation accuracy while maintaining high computational efficiency.

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No Calibration, No Depth, No Problem: Cross-Sensor View Synthesis with 3D Consistency

Cho-Ying Wu, Zixun Huang, Xinyu Huang, Liu Ren

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We present the first study of cross-sensor view synthesis across different modalities. We examine a practical, fundamental, yet widely overlooked problem: getting aligned RGB-X data, where most RGB-X prior work assumes such pairs exist and focuses on modality fusion, but it empirically requires huge engineering effort in calibration. We propose a match-densify-consolidate method. First, we perform RGB-X image matching followed by guided point densification. Using the proposed confidence-aware densification and self-matching filtering, we attain better view synthesis and later consolidate them in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Our method uses no 3D priors for X-sensor and only assumes nearly no-cost COLMAP for RGB. We aim to remove the cumbersome calibration for various RGB-X sensors and advance the popularity of cross-sensor learning by a scalable solution that breaks through the bottleneck in large-scale real-world RGB-X data collection.

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Bidirectional Cross-Modal Prompting for Event-Frame Asymmetric Stereo

Ninghui Xu, Fabio Tosi, Lihui Wang, Jiawei Han, Luca Bartolomei, Zhiting Yao, Matteo Poggi, Stefano Mattoccia

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Conventional frame-based cameras capture rich contextual information but suffer from limited temporal resolution and motion blur in dynamic scenes. Event cameras offer an alternative visual representation with higher dynamic range free from such limitations. The complementary characteristics of the two modalities make event-frame asymmetric stereo promising for reliable 3D perception under fast motion and challenging illumination. However, the modality gap often leads to marginalization of domain-specific cues essential for cross-modal stereo matching. In this paper, we introduce Bi-CMPStereo, a novel bidirectional cross-modal prompting framework that fully exploits semantic and structural features from both domains for robust matching. Our approach learns finely aligned stereo representations within a target canonical space and integrates complementary representations by projecting each modality into both event and frame domains. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods in accuracy and generalization.

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Efficient Encoder-Free Fourier-based 3D Large Multimodal Model

Guofeng Mei, Wei Lin, Luigi Riz, Yujiao Wu, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi

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Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) that process 3D data typically rely on heavy, pretrained visual encoders to extract geometric features. While recent 2D LMMs have begun to eliminate such encoders for efficiency and scalability, extending this paradigm to 3D remains challenging due to the unordered and large-scale nature of point clouds. This leaves a critical unanswered question: How can we design an LMM that tokenizes unordered 3D data effectively and efficiently without a cumbersome encoder? We propose Fase3D, the first efficient encoder-free Fourier-based 3D scene LMM. Fase3D tackles the challenges of scalability and permutation invariance with a novel tokenizer that combines point cloud serialization and the Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to approximate self-attention. This design enables an effective and computationally minimal architecture, built upon three key innovations: First, we represent large scenes compactly via structured superpoints. Second, our space-filling curve serialization followed by an FFT enables efficient global context modeling and graph-based token merging. Lastly, our Fourier-augmented LoRA adapters inject global frequency-aware interactions into LLM backbones at a negligible cost. Fase3D achieves performance comparable to encoder-based 3D LMMs while being significantly more efficient in computation and parameters.

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OS-Oracle: A Comprehensive Framework for Cross-Platform GUI Critic Models

Zhenyu Wu, JingJing Xie, Zehao Li, Bowen Yang, Qiushi Sun, Zhaoyang Liu, Zhoumianze Liu, Yu Qiao, Xiangyu Yue, Zun Wang, Zichen Ding

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The deployment of autonomous agents in Graphical User Interface (GUI) environments confronts significant challenges, notably error accumulation in long-horizon tasks and the severe consequences of irreversible operations. While critic models that provide real-time action assessment offer a promising solution, their effectiveness is hindered by the lack of diverse, high-quality GUI feedback data and public critic benchmarks for computer use.To bridge these gaps,we introduce OS-Oracle that makes three core contributions:(1) a scalable data pipeline for synthesizing cross-platform GUI critic data;(2) a two-stage training paradigm combining supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and consistency-preserving group relative policy optimization (CP-GRPO); (3) OS-Critic Bench, a holistic benchmark for evaluating critic model performance across Mobile, Web, and Desktop platforms.Leveraging this framework, we curate a high-quality dataset containing 310k critic samples. The resulting critic model, OS-Oracle-7B, achieves impressive performance,and further reduces error rates, which improves the capability of GUI agents in dynamic environments. All codes, data and checkpoints will be made public.

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Meta-Learning In-Context Enables Training-Free Cross Subject Brain Decoding

Mu Nan, Muquan Yu, Weijian Mai, Jacob S. Prince, Hossein Adeli, Rui Zhang, Jiahang Cao, Benjamin Becker, John A. Pyles, Margaret M. Henderson, Chunfeng Song, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Michael J. Tarr, Xiaoqing Hu, Andrew F. Luo

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Visual decoding from brain signals is a key challenge at the intersection of computer vision and neuroscience, requiring methods that bridge neural representations and computational models of vision. A field-wide goal is to achieve generalizable, cross-subject models. A major obstacle towards this goal is the substantial variability in neural representations across individuals, which has so far required training bespoke models or fine-tuning separately for each subject. To address this challenge, we introduce a meta-optimized approach for semantic visual decoding from fMRI that **generalizes to novel subjects without any fine-tuning**. By simply conditioning on a small set of image-brain activation examples from the new individual, our model rapidly infers their unique neural encoding patterns to facilitate robust and efficient visual decoding. Our approach is explicitly optimized for in-context learning of the new subject's encoding model and performs decoding by hierarchical inference, inverting the encoder. First, for multiple brain regions, we estimate the per-voxel visual response encoder parameters by constructing a context over multiple stimuli and responses. Second, we construct a context consisting of encoder parameters and response values over multiple voxels to perform aggregated functional inversion. We demonstrate strong cross-subject and cross-scanner generalization across diverse visual backbones without retraining or fine-tuning. Moreover, our approach requires neither anatomical alignment nor stimulus overlap. This work is a critical step towards a generalizable foundation model for non-invasive brain decoding.

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DyFCLT: Dynamic Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Modal Learning Transformer for Multimodal Tiny Object Detection

Chaolang Li, Pengwen Dai, Jingyu Li, Siyuan Yao, Yuchen Jiang, Zhuoran Zheng

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Multimodal tiny object detection plays a critical role in real-world applications, yet remains highly challenging due to weak target representations and complex cross-modal interference. Existing frequency-domain methods for tiny object detection are still largely limited to the visible modality and overlook complementary cross-modal frequency cues in multimodal scenes. In this paper, we investigate cross-modal frequency learning for RGBT tiny object detection. Through frequency characteristic analysis, we find that tiny objects in both RGB and infrared modalities contain richer mid- and high-frequency components as object size decreases. Motivated by this observation, we propose a Dynamic Frequency-Decoupled Cross-Modal Learning Transformer (DyFCLT). Specifically, DyFCLT introduces a Dynamic Frequency-Band Decoupled Cross-Modal Attention (DFCA) mechanism to perform fine-grained cross-modal interaction across dynamic frequency sub-bands, and a Selective Smoothing Enhancement (SSE) module to suppress background noise and enhance foreground responses during multi-scale fusion. Extensive experiments on two RGBT tiny object detection benchmarks and one general-scale benchmark demonstrate that DyFCLT achieves state-of-the-art performance with strong generalization across different scales and scenes.

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SATTC: Structure-Aware Label-Free Test-Time Calibration for Cross-Subject EEG-to-Image Retrieval

Qunjie Huang, Weina Zhu

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Cross-subject EEG-to-image retrieval for visual decoding is challenged by subject shift and hubness in the embedding space, which distort similarity geometry and destabilize top-k rankings, making small-k shortlists unreliable. We introduce SATTC (Structure-Aware Test-Time Calibration), a label-free calibration head that operates directly on the similarity matrix of frozen EEG and image encoders. SATTC combines a geometric expert-subject-adaptive whitening of EEG embeddings with an adaptive variant of Cross-domain Similarity Local Scaling (CSLS)--and a structural expert built from mutual nearest neighbors, bidirectional top-k ranks, and class popularity, fused via a simple Product-of-Experts rule. On THINGS-EEG under a strict leave-one-subject-out protocol, standardized inference with cosine similarities, l2-normalized embeddings, and candidate whitening already yields a strong cross-subject baseline over the original ATM retrieval setup. Building on this baseline, SATTC further improves Top-1 and Top-5 accuracy, reduces hubness and per-class imbalance, and produces more reliable small-k shortlists. These gains transfer across multiple EEG encoders, supporting SATTC as an encoder-agnostic, label-free test-time calibration layer for cross-subject neural decoding. Code is available at https://github.com/QunjieHuang/SATTC-CVPR2026

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Learning Cross-View Object Correspondence via Cycle-Consistent Mask Prediction

Shannan Yan, Leqi Zheng, Keyu Lv, Jingchen Ni, Hongyang Wei, Jiajun Zhang, Guangting Wang, Jing Lyu, Chun Yuan, Fengyun Rao

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We study the task of establishing object-level visual correspondence across different viewpoints in videos, focusing on the challenging egocentric-to-exocentric and exocentric-to-egocentric scenarios. We propose a simple yet effective framework based on conditional binary segmentation, where an object query mask is encoded into a latent representation to guide the localization of the corresponding object in a target video. To encourage robust, view-invariant representations, we introduce a cycle-consistency training objective: the predicted mask in the target view is projected back to the source view to reconstruct the original query mask. This bidirectional constraint provides a strong self-supervisory signal without requiring ground-truth annotations and enables test-time training (TTT) at inference. Experiments on the Ego-Exo4D and HANDAL-X benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of our optimization objective and TTT strategy, achieving state-of-the-art performance. The code is available at https://github.com/shannany0606/CCMP.

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Ultra-Low Bitrate Perceptual Image Compression with Shallow Encoder

Tianyu Zhang, Dong Liu, Chang Wen Chen

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Ultra-low bitrate image compression (below 0.05 bits per pixel) is increasingly critical for bandwidth-constrained and computation-limited encoding scenarios such as edge devices. Existing frameworks typically rely on large pretrained encoders (e.g., VAEs or tokenizer-based models) and perform transform coding within their generative latent space. While these approaches achieve impressive perceptual fidelity, their reliance on heavy encoder networks makes them unsuitable for deployment on weak sender devices. In this work, we explore the feasibility of applying shallow encoders for ultra-low bitrate compression and propose a novel Asymmetric Extreme Image Compression (AEIC) framework that pursues simultaneously encoding simplicity and decoding quality. Specifically, AEIC employs moderate or even shallow encoder networks, while leveraging an one-step diffusion decoder to maintain high-fidelity and high-realism reconstructions under extreme bitrates. To further enhance the efficiency of shallow encoders, we design a dual-side feature distillation scheme that transfers knowledge from AEIC with moderate encoders to its shallow encoder variants. Experiments show that AEIC not only outperforms existing methods on rate-distortion-perception performance at ultra-low bitrates, but also delivers exceptional encoding efficiency for 35.8 FPS on 1080P images, while maintaining competitive decoding speed compared to existing methods. Code is available at https://github.com/LuizScarlet/AEIC.

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Cross-modal Representation Learning for Diffusion-generated Image Detection

Tao Gong, Dayong Wang, Qi Chu, Bin Liu, Nenghai Yu

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The astonishing proficiency and unprecedented level of realism of diffusion models in creating and manipulating images have undoubtedly drawn concerns.Many methods have been proposed to detect generated images. Typically, they usually take RGB images as input, and use backbones like ResNet, CLIP visual encoder to extract features. Even though these backbones are capable to detect fake images, they are mainly designed to extract the high-level semantic information, rather than inherently designed for fake image detection. To this end, in this paper, we want to optimize the embedding space tailored for detecting fake images via representation learning. We notice that Neighboring Pixel Relationships (NPR) is capable to capture the intrinsic forgery clues, which means that NPR may be a good input to perform representation learning that aims at learning the embedding space tailored for detecting fake images.Therefore, we leverage features from both RGB modality and NPR modality to perform two proposed representation learning methods, Cross-Modal Contrastive Learning (CMCL) and Cross-Modal Mutual Distillation (CMMD), in order to learn the forgery-aware embedding space. The CMCL boosts the discrimination of features between real and fake images, while the CMMD simultaneously transfers the learned knowledge between two modalities, being able to learn compact features within the intra-class. CMCL and CMMD work collaboratively so that each modality learns a more comprehensive forgery-aware representation to distinguish real and fake images.Extensive experiments on GenImage, DRCT-2M, and Co-Spy-Bench datasets show that our method achieves state-of-the-art results.

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