CVPR 2026 Papers

Online 3D scene perception in real time is essential for robotics, AR/VR, and autonomous systems, particularly in edge computing scenarios where computational resources are limited and privacy is crucial. Recent state-of-the-art methods like EmbodiedSAM (ESAM) demonstrate the promise of online 3D perception by leveraging the Segment Anything Model (SAM) for real-time, fine-grained, and generalized 3D instance segmentation. However, ESAM still relies on a computationally expensive 3D sparse UNet for point cloud feature extraction, which accounts for the majority of the 3D inference time, hindering its practicality on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we propose ESAM++, a lightweight and scalable alternative for online 3D scene perception tailored to edge devices without GPU acceleration. Our method introduces a 3D Sparse Feature Pyramid Network (SFPN) that efficiently captures multi-scale geometric features from streaming 3D point clouds while significantly reducing computational overhead and model size. We evaluate our approach on four challenging segmentation benchmarks, namely ScanNet, ScanNet200, SceneNN, and 3RScan, demonstrating that our model achieves competitive accuracy with up to 3x faster inference with a 2x smaller model size compared to ESAM, enabling practical deployment on edge devices.

Part-level point cloud segmentation has recently attracted significant attention in 3D computer vision.Nevertheless, existing research is constrained by two major challenges: native 3D models lack generalization due to data scarcity, while introducing 2D pre-trained knowledge often leads to inconsistent segmentation results across different views.To address these challenges, we propose S^2AM3D, which incorporates 2D segmentation priors with 3D consistent supervision. We design a point-consistent part encoder that aggregates multi-view 2D features through native 3D contrastive learning, producing globally consistent point features. A scale-aware prompt decoder is then proposed to enable real-time adjustment of segmentation granularity via continuous scale signals. Simultaneously, we introduce a large-scale, high-quality part-level point cloud dataset with more than 100k samples, providing ample supervision signals for model training.Extensive experiments demonstrate that S^2AM3D achieves leading performance across multiple evaluation settings, exhibiting exceptional robustness and controllability when handling complex structures and parts with significant size variations.

We introduce BuildAnyPoint, a novel generative framework for structured 3D building reconstruction from point clouds with diverse distributions, such as those captured by airborne LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion.To recover artist-created building abstraction in this highly underconstrained setting, we capitalize on the role of explicit 3D generative priors in autoregressive mesh generation.Specifically, we design a Loosely Cascaded Diffusion Transformer (Loca-DiT) that initially recovers the underlying distribution from noisy or sparse points, followed by autoregressively encapsulating them into compact meshes.We first formulate distribution recovery as a conditional generation task by training latent diffusion models conditioned on input point clouds, and then tailor a decoder-only transformer for conditional autoregressive mesh generation based on the recovered point clouds.Our method delivers substantial qualitative and quantitative improvements over prior building abstraction methods. Furthermore, the effectiveness of our approach is evidenced by the strong performance of its recovered point clouds on building point cloud completion benchmarks, which exhibit improved surface accuracy and distribution uniformity.

Modern LiDARs are rapidly transitioning from bulky, mechanically scanned systems to ultra-compact, low-cost, solid-state arrays. This miniaturization--while enabling scalability, affordability, and camera-like data structures--introduces a new and severe failure mode: internal-multipath glare. When light from a bright or retroreflective surface reflects and scatters within the LiDAR, light that should reach a single pixel spreads across the pixel array. The resulting artifacts create phantom objects, obscure real ones, and produce safety-critical "ghosts in the point clouds." This paper introduces a physically grounded sensing model and algorithmic techniques for addressing this effect. We show that internal glare can be represented as a linear, scene-independent operator--the Transient Glare Spread Function (TGSF)--acting on the transient measurements. Building on this model, we develop a training-free approach that operates on low-level LiDAR detections (or echoes) prior to point-cloud formation, leveraging knowledge of the glare spread function to reason about the likelihood of each detection arising from glare. The resulting approach is compatible with existing LiDAR signal-processing pipelines, and deployable on unmodified commercial sensors. Using experiments with real single-photon LiDAR hardware, we demonstrate substantial suppression of severe glare artifacts while preserving true scene structure.

Generalization remains a critical challenge in deep learning-based point cloud geometry compression. While existing methods perform well on standard benchmarks, their performance collapses in real-world scenarios due to two fundamental limitations: the lack of context models that are robust across diverse data densities, and the inability to efficiently adapt to out-of-distribution (OOD) data. To overcome both challenges, we introduce AnyPcc, a universal point cloud compression framework. AnyPcc first employs a Universal Context Model that leverages coarse-grained spatial priors with fine-grained channel priors to ensure robust context modeling across the entire density spectrum. Second, our novel Instance-Adaptive Fine-Tuning (IAFT) strategy tackles OOD data by synergizing explicit and implicit compression paradigms. For each instance, it fine-tunes a small subset of network weights and transmits them within the bitstream. The minimal bitrate overhead from these weights is significantly outweighed by the resulting gains in geometry compression. Extensive experiments on a benchmark of 15 diverse datasets confirm that AnyPcc sets a new state-of-the-art in point cloud compression while maintaining low complexity. Our code and datasets have been released to encourage reproducible research.

Modern neural architectures for 3D point cloud processing contain both convolutional layers and attention blocks, but the best way to assemble them remains unclear. We analyse the role of different computational blocks in 3D point cloud networks and find an intuitive behaviour: convolution is adequate to extract low-level geometry at high-resolution in early layers, where attention is expensive without bringing any benefits; attention captures high-level semantics and context in low-resolution, deep layers more efficiently. Guided by this design principle, we propose a new, improved 3D point cloud backbone that employs convolutions in early stages and switches to attention for deeper layers. To avoid the loss of spatial layout information when discarding redundant convolution layers, we introduce a novel, parameter-free 3D positional encoding, PointROPE. The resulting LitePT model has 3.6x fewer parameters, runs 2x faster, and uses 2x less memory than the state-of-the-art Point Transformer V3, but nonetheless matches or outperforms it on a range of tasks and datasets.

While existing point-cloud-registration methods can well handle high-overlap scenarios of two point clouds, they often struggle with low-overlap scenarios, due to inevitable geometric/semantic ambiguities in the non-overlapping regions. In this paper, we introduce SuP, a novel framework that reformulates low-overlap registration as a high-overlap sub-cloud pairs (anchor pairs) mining problem. Central to SuP is our Dual-phase Sub-cloud Anchor Mining (DSAM) module, which first subdivides the source and target point clouds into multiple sub-clouds, followed by introducing a dual-phase weighting pipeline: 1) an efficient overlap-guided prior-weighting scheme (OPS) that leverages feature salience to identify candidate anchor pairs, and 2) a multi-scale post-weighting network (MPN) that exploits neighborhood feature consensus to further identify anchor pairs. Subsequently, final correspondences are generated through a merge-to-match module using the anchor pairs. To train DSAM, we design an alignment-aware weighting loss that uses on-the-fly alignment errors as supervision. Comprehensive experiments on the color-enhanced 3DMatch and 3DLoMatch demonstrate that SuP significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods, achieving higher registration recall and more accurate alignment, especially under challenging low-overlap conditions.

Advances in generative modeling have made it increasingly easy to fabricate realistic portrayals of individuals, creating serious risks for security, communication, and public trust. Detecting such person-driven manipulations requires systems that not only distinguish altered content from authentic media but also provide clear and reliable reasoning. In this paper, we introduce TriDF, a comprehensive benchmark for interpretable DeepFake detection. TriDF contains high-quality forgeries from advanced synthesis models, covering 16 DeepFake types across image, video, and audio modalities. The benchmark evaluates three key aspects: Perception, which measures the ability of a model to identify fine-grained manipulation artifacts using human-annotated evidence; Detection, which assesses classification performance across diverse forgery families and generators; and Hallucination, which quantifies the reliability of model-generated explanations. Experiments on state-of-the-art multimodal large language models show that accurate perception is essential for reliable detection, but hallucination can severely disrupt decision-making, revealing the interdependence of these three aspects. TriDF provides a unified framework for understanding the interaction between detection accuracy, evidence identification, and explanation reliability, offering a foundation for building trustworthy systems that address real-world synthetic media threats.

Embodied Question Answering (EQA) connects perception, reasoning, and interaction within embodied environments. However, existing datasets and benchmarks remain fragmented, each focusing on a limited subset of reasoning skills such as spatial understanding or procedural reasoning, without offering a unified large-scale framework for comprehensive evaluation. We present EQA-Decision, a large-scale embodied QA dataset that systematically covers four complementary dimensions of embodied reasoning: static scene construction, spatial understanding, task dynamics reasoning, and instant decision. The dataset contains over four million question-answer pairs with hierarchical annotations across diverse embodied scenarios. In addition, we develop RoboDecision, a strong baseline model aligned with the EQA-Decision Benchmark, providing a unified framework that jointly evaluates perception, reasoning, and action-level decision-making in embodied environments. Results demonstrate that EQA-Decision effectively benchmarks and enhances VLM capabilities in spatial and interaction reasoning, providing a solid foundation for advancing embodied intelligence research.

LiDAR-based perception is critical for autonomous driving due to its robustness to poor lighting and visibility conditions. Yet, current models operate under the closed-set assumption and often fail to recognize unexpected out-of-distribution (OOD) objects in the open world. Existing OOD scoring functions exhibit limited performance because they ignore the pronounced class imbalance inherent in LiDAR OOD detection and assume a uniform class distribution. To address this limitation, we propose the Neural Distribution Prior (NDP), a framework that models the distributional structure of network predictions and adaptively reweights OOD scores based on alignment with a learned distribution prior. NDP dynamically captures the logit distribution patterns of training data and corrects class-dependent confidence bias through an attention-based module. We further introduce a Perlin noise-based OOD synthesis strategy that generates diverse auxiliary OOD samples from input scans, enabling robust OOD training without external datasets. Extensive experiments on the SemanticKITTI and STU benchmarks demonstrate that NDP substantially improves OOD detection performance, achieving a point-level AP of 61.31% on the STU test set, which is more than 10xhigher than the previous best result. Our framework is compatible with various existing OOD scoring formulations, providing an effective solution for open-world LiDAR perception.

Recent advances in 2D-to-3D perception have enabled the recovery of 3D scene semantics from unposed images. However, prevailing methods often suffer from limited generalization, reliance on per-scene optimization, and semantic inconsistencies across viewpoints. To address these limitations, we introduce PE3R, a tuning-free framework for efficient and generalizable 3D semantic reconstruction. By integrating multi-view geometry with 2D semantic priors in a feed-forward pipeline, PE3R achieves zero-shot generalization across diverse scenes and object categories without any scene-specific fine-tuning. Extensive evaluations on open-vocabulary segmentation and multi-view depth estimation show that PE3R not only achieves up to 9xfaster inference but also sets new state-of-the-art accuracy in both semantic and geometric metrics. Our approach paves the way for scalable, language-driven 3D scene understanding. Code is available at github.com/hujiecpp/PE3R.

Collaborative perception empowers autonomous agents to share complementary information and overcome perception limitations. While early fusion offers more perceptual complementarity and is inherently robust to model heterogeneity, its high communication cost has limited its practical deployment, prompting most existing works to favor intermediate or late fusion. To address this, we propose a communication-efficient early collaborative perception framework that incorporates LiDAR completion to restore scene completeness under sparse transmission, dubbed as CoLC. Specifically, the CoLC integrates three complementary designs. First, each neighbor agent applies Foreground-Aware Point Sampling (FAPS) to selectively transmit informative points that retain essential structural and contextual cues under bandwidth constraints. The ego agent then employs Completion-Enhanced Early Fusion (CEEF) to reconstruct dense pillars from the received sparse inputs and adaptively fuse them with its own observations, thereby restoring spatial completeness. Finally, the Dense-Guided Dual Alignment (DGDA) strategy enforces semantic and geometric consistency between the enhanced and dense pillars during training, ensuring consistent and robust feature learning. Experiments on both simulated and real-world datasets demonstrate that CoLC achieves superior perception-communication trade-offs and remains robust under heterogeneous model settings.

LiDAR-based place recognition is highly sensitive to rain, snow, and fog, where scattering and attenuation distort geometric structure and intensity. We tackle this problem with Conditional Latent Velocity Field (C-LaV) denoising, which restores weather-robust representations before retrieval. Single-sweep point clouds are projected into three-channel bird's-eye-view (BEV) images and encoded with a frozen DINOv2-based BEV transformer to obtain a semantically anchored latent space shared across weather conditions. On this manifold, a conditional Flow Matching model learns a velocity field whose probability-flow ordinary differential equation (ODE) deterministically transports noisy latents toward their clear-weather counterparts. From the denoised manifold, a Sinkhorn Aggregation of Local Descriptors (SALAD) head produces compact global descriptors optimized with a truncated Smooth-AP loss. We also establish a unified adverse-weather benchmark with 3 m frame spacing and shared evaluation thresholds across KITTI, NCLT, and Boreas datasets. Under this protocol, C-LaV improves Recall@1 by 17.5% on NCLT snow and 21.5% on Boreas, achieving state-of-the-art weather robustness. Our dataset and code will be publicly available.

The effective integration and utilization of multimodal data acquired from image cameras and LiDAR is of paramount importance for perception systems. This paper proposes **I**mage-to-**P**oint Cloud **F**eature Back-**P**rojection (**IPFP**), a novel method for training multimodal fusion networks that back-projects aggregated image-feature centers (from non-projection-aligned image pixels) into the point-cloud feature set via the estimated depth map. Consequently, image features and point cloud features reside within the same three-dimensional space, enabling the natural enrichment of image information into the point cloud during the network forward pass. This process can be selectively enabled when desired -- for instance, at training time -- and turned off in the absence of multimodal data -- for example, at testing time if only LiDAR sensors are available. Experimental results demonstrate that **IPFP** can consistently improve state-of-the-art 3D semantic segmentation models, while retaining the ability to process LiDAR-only data at inference.

Understanding how the brain constructs coherent 3D visual percepts from multifaceted experiences remains a pivotal yet underexplored challenge. To investigate this, we introduce BrainSSD, a novel framework for decoding 3D representations from electroencephalography (EEG) signals. The core of BrainSSD is a neuro-inspired fusion architecture, Hierarchical Phase-Amplitude Coupling guided Fusion (HPACF), which synergistically integrates EEG from two distinct viewing paradigms: brief presentations of a static 3D object view, and sustained observation of the object undergoing full rotation. HPACF embodies two key principles of neural computation, namely hierarchical processing realized through multi-level cross-attention, and neural synchrony actualized by using a differentiable estimator of Phase-Amplitude Coupling (PAC) to dynamically guide the integration. The resulting fused representations are subsequently mapped to the visual domain via a multi-level alignment loss. Our framework establishes a new state-of-the-art across a range of EEG decoding tasks, achieving superior discriminative power and exceptional generative fidelity. Furthermore, our static-dynamic dominance analysis provides the first direct visual evidence for a functional specialization in the brain's 3D perception, revealing that neural responses to static object views primarily underpin the object's holistic structure and form, while responses to rotational observation are indispensable for resolving its fine-grained geometric details. Our work presents an advanced framework for probing EEG-based visual decoding and offers computational insights into the brain's synergistic strategies for 3D perception.

We propose StreamVLO, a streaming visual-LiDAR odometry framework that performs unified spatio-temporal correlation with Mamba models and tackles the long-standing cumulative drift problem via an online Cumulative Drift Compensation scheme for localization in 4D dynamic environments. Specifically, StreamVLO introduces a unified spatio-temporal correlation module built on Mamba to fuse heterogeneous visual and LiDAR cues across multi-frame clips, overcoming the limited temporal exploration of prior pairwise methods. Furthermore, a Cumulative Drift Compensation module minimizes cumulative drift by iteratively learning residual corrections from multiple historical frames in a causal manner. To strengthen spatial feature representation on salient regions, we adopt a Keypoint-Aware Auxiliary Loss with a winner-takes-all strategy. StreamVLO achieves state-of-the-art performance on two commonly used autonomous driving datasets, reducing errors by 19% t_rel and 22% r_rel on KITTI, and by 18% ATE and 16% RPE on Argoverse, while remaining suitable for real-time deployment.

Point clouds are a fundamental 3D representation in computer vision, enabling a wide range of perception tasks. However, real-world point clouds often suffer from degradations such as incompleteness, noise, outliers, and irregular density, caused by sensor limitations or occlusions. Recovering clean and detailed shapes from such degraded data is crucial for downstream applications. While existing learning-based methods achieve progress on individual tasks like completion or denoising, they typically rely on global bottleneck features, which lose fine-grained geometry and remain sensitive to varying input quality. We propose a unified 3D restoration network that directly takes point clouds as input and adaptively reconstructs high-quality geometry under diverse degradation scenarios. At the core of our approach is a Pseudo-Query module, implemented within a Transformer backbone, which reformulates geometric translation into two cooperative stages to enhance structural clarity, robustness, and local detail preservation. Extensive experiments on curated benchmarks demonstrate that our approach surpasses state-of-the-art performance in general 3D restoration. It effectively handles complex combinations of completion, deformation, and denoising degradations. With this work, we provide a novel unified, point-only backbone for robust 3D restoration, enabling more versatile 3D perception.

Recent feed-forward networks have achieved remarkable progress in sparse-view 3D reconstruction by predicting dense point maps directly from RGB images. However, they often suffer from geometric inconsistencies and limited fine-grained accuracy due to the absence of explicit multi-view constraints. We introduce the Geometry-Grounded Point Transformer (GGPT), a framework that augments feed-forward reconstruction with reliable sparse geometric guidance. We first propose an improved Structure-from-Motion pipeline based on dense feature matching and lightweight geometric optimisation to efficiently estimate accurate camera poses and partial 3D point clouds from sparse input views. We propose a geometry-guided 3D point transformer that refines dense point maps under explicit partial-geometry supervision using an optimised guidance encoding. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our method provides a principled mechanism for integrating geometric priors with dense feed-forward predictions, producing reconstructions that are both geometrically consistent and spatially complete, recovering fine structures and filling gaps in textureless areas.Trained solely on ScanNet++ with VGGT predictions, GGPT generalises across architectures and datasets, substantially outperforming state-of-the-art feed-forward 3D reconstruction models in both in-domain and out-of-domain settings.

Current collaborative perception systems have significantly improved 3D object detection performance. However, widely used LiDAR and camera systems often suffer performance degradation under adverse weather conditions. The weather-robust 4D radar provides a promising solution to address this challenge. Nevertheless, the effective fusion of sparse 4D radar measurements with degraded LiDAR data remains a significant challenge due to cross-modal corruption and information loss. In this work, we propose a novel hybrid robust collaborative perception framework (HRCP), designed to improve the collaborative perception performance under adverse weather conditions through LiDAR-4D radar fusion. Specifically, we introduce a hybrid collaboration strategy that considers their distinct physical properties and differently processes them during information transmission. Additionally, we propose a bidirectional cross-modal gating (BCMG) module that enables LiDAR and 4D radar to mutually validate feature reliability, ensuring consistent cross-modal representation, and an adaptive feature enhancement (AFE) module that enables comprehensive refinement of degraded and suppressed regions to mitigate information loss. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that our method outperforms previous state-of-the-art approaches under adverse weather conditions.