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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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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MoRel: Long-Range Flicker-Free 4D Motion Modeling via Anchor Relay-based Bidirectioanl Blending with Hierarchical Densification

Sangwoon Kwak, Weeyoung Kwon, Jun Young Jeong, Geonho Kim, Won-Sik Cheong, Jihyong Oh

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Recent advances in 4D Gaussian Splatting (4DGS) have extended the high-speed rendering capability of 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) into the temporal domain, enabling real-time rendering of dynamic scenes.However, one of the major remaining challenges lies in modeling long-range motion-contained dynamic videos, where a naive extension of existing methods leads to severe memory explosion, temporal flickering, and failure to handle appearing or disappearing occlusions over time. To address these challenges, we propose a novel 4DGS framework characterized by an Anchor Relay-based Bidirectional Blending (ARBB) mechanism, named MoRel, which enables temporally consistent and memory-efficient modeling of long-range dynamic scenes.Our method progressively constructs locally canonical anchor spaces at key-frame time index and models inter-frame deformations at the anchor level, enhancing temporal coherence. By learning bidirectional deformations between KfA and adaptively blending them through learnable opacity control, our approach mitigates temporal discontinuities and flickering artifacts.We further introduce a Feature-variance-guided Hierarchical Densification (FHD) scheme that effectively densifies KfA's while keeping rendering quality, based on an assigned level of feature-variance.To effectively evaluate our model's capability to handle real-world long-range 4D motion, we newly compose long-range 4D motion-contained dataset, called SelfCap_ \text LR . It has larger average dynamic motion magnitude, captured at spatially wider spaces, compared to previous dynamic video datasets.Overall, our MoRel achieves temporally coherent and flicker-free long-range 4D reconstruction while maintaining bounded memory usage, demonstrating both scalability and efficiency in dynamic Gaussian-based representations. The code and project page will be publicly released.

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Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context

Tianze Yang, Tyson Jordan, Ruitong Sun, Ninghao Liu, Jin Sun

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We present Common Inpainted Objects In-N-Out of Context (COinCO), a novel dataset addressing the scarcity of out-of-context examples in existing vision datasets. By systematically replacing objects in COCO images through diffusion-based inpainting, we create 97,722 unique images featuring both contextually coherent and inconsistent scenes, enabling effective context learning. Each inpainted object is meticulously verified and categorized as in- or out-of-context through Large Vision Language Model assessments. We demonstrate three key tasks enabled by COinCO: (1) a fine-grained context reasoning approach that classifies objects as in- or out-of-context based on three criteria; (2) a novel Objects-from-Context prediction task that determines which new objects naturally belong in given scenes at both instance and clique level semantics, and (3) context-enhanced fake detection on state-of-the-art methods without fine-tuning. COinCO provides a controlled testbed with contextual variations, establishing a foundation for advancing context-aware visual understanding in computer vision, including image forensics. Code and dataset are available at https://co-in-co.github.io/.

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Semantic Context Matters: Improving Conditioning for Autoregressive Models

Dongyang Jin, Ryan Xu, Jianhao Zeng, Rui Lan, Yancheng Bai, Lei Sun, Xiangxiang Chu

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Recently, autoregressive (AR) models have shown strong potential in image generation, offering better scalability and easier integration with unified multi-modal models compared to diffusion methods.However, extending AR models to controllable image editing remains challenging due to weak and inefficient conditioning strategies, which often lead to suboptimal semantic alignment and visual quality.To address this limitation, we present SCAR, a Semantic-Context-driven method for AutoregRessive models.SCAR introduces Compressed Semantic Prefilling and Semantic Alignment Guidance that jointly enhance contextual understanding and generation coherence. Unlike prior methods that rely on sparse visual tokens or decoding stage injection, SCAR enables strong semantic guidance from the input stage, while remaining model-agnostic and applicable to both next-token and next-scale AR paradigms.Extensive experiments on instruction editing and controllable generation demonstrate that our method significantly improves visual fidelity and semantic alignment, outperforming existing AR-based methods while maintaining controllability. Code will be released at https://github.com/AMAP-ML/SCAR.

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Recurrent Reasoning with Vision-Language Models for Estimating Long-Horizon Embodied Task Progress

Yuelin Zhang, Sijie Cheng, Chen Li, Zongzhao Li, Yuxin Huang, Yang Liu, Wenbing Huang

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Accurately estimating task progress is critical for embodied agents to plan and execute long-horizon, multi-step tasks. Despite promising advances, existing Vision-Language Models (VLMs) based methods primarily leverage their video understanding capabilities, while neglecting their complex reasoning potential. Furthermore, processing long video trajectories with VLMs is computationally prohibitive for real-world deployment. To address these challenges, we propose the Recurrent Reasoning Vision-Language Model (\text R ^2VLM). Our model features a recurrent reasoning framework that processes local video snippets iteratively, maintaining a global context through an evolving Chain of Thought (CoT). This CoT explicitly records task decomposition, key steps, and their completion status, enabling the model to reason about complex temporal dependencies. This design avoids the high cost of processing long videos while preserving essential reasoning capabilities. We train \text R ^2VLM on large-scale, automatically generated datasets from ALFRED and Ego4D. Extensive experiments on progress estimation and downstream applications, including progress-enhanced policy learning, reward modeling for reinforcement learning, and proactive assistance, demonstrate that \text R ^2VLM achieves strong performance and generalization, achieving a new state-of-the-art in long-horizon task progress estimation. The models and benchmarks are publicly available at https://huggingface.co/collections/zhangyuelin/r2vlm.

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Wavelet-based Frame Selection by Detecting Semantic Boundary for Long Video Understanding

WANG CHEN, Yuhui Zeng, Yongdong Luo, Tianyu Xie, Luojun Lin, Jiayi Ji, Yan Zhang, Xiawu Zheng

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Frame selectoin is crucial due to high frame redundancy and limited context windows when applying Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) to long videos. Current methods typically select frames with high relevance to a given query, resulting a disjointed set of frames that disregard the narrative structure of video. In this paper, we introduce Wavelet-based Frame Selection by Detecting Semantic Boundary (WFS-SB), a training-free framework that presents a new perspective: effective video understanding hinges not only on high relevance but, more importantly, on capturing semantic shifts--pivotal moments of narrative change that are essential to comprehending the holistic storyline of video. However, a direct detection of abrupt changes in the query-frame similarity signal is often unreliable due to high-frequency noise arising from model uncertainty and transient visual variations.To address this, we leverage the wavelet transform, which provides an ideal solution through its multi-resolution analysis in both time and frequency domains. By applying this transform, we decompose the noisy signal into multiple scales and extract a clean semantic change signal from the coarsest scale. We identify the local extrema of this signal as semantic boundaries, which segment the video into coherent clips. Building on this, WFS-SB comprises a two-stage strategy: first, adaptively allocating a frame budget to each clip based on a composite importance score; and second, within each clip, employing the Maximal Marginal Relevance approach to select a diverse yet relevant set of frames. Extensive experiments show that WFS-SB significantly boosts LVLM performance, e.g., improving accuracy by 5.5% on VideoMME, 9.5% on MLVU, and 6.2% on LongVideoBench, consistently outperforming state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/MAC-AutoML/WFS-SB.

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CDICS: Delving Into Fine-Grained Attribute for In-Context Segmentation via Compositional Prompts and Phased Decoupling

Zhiyu li, Dianmo Sheng, Qi Chu, Shilong Chen, Tao Gong, Zhou Wei, Nenghai Yu

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In-Context Learning (ICL) has shown great effectiveness in developing generalist image segmentation models. Its significant advantage over text-based descriptions is the ability to convey intricate visual appearance details through simple reference images. However, finding a perfectly matching single example for real-world rare and complex concepts is difficult. Moreover, existing methods are largely confined to semantic or instance-level understanding of the reference image, struggling to express more precise segmentation needs through the input. To address this, we propose CDICS, a novel framework that leverages Compositional prompts and phased task Decoupling to achieve compositional prompt-controlled In-Context Segmentation. Our method introduces compositional prompts derived from reference prompts, combining semantic, part and color images to dynamically define segmentation targets. To effectively fuse this control information, ensure synergy while suppressing interference, and mitigate feature coupling risks, our decoupled two-stage architecture firstly performs coarse-grained semantic localization, then refines the result using compositional appearance prompts to precisely match the specified attributes. This design extends traditional in-context segmentation, enabling it to support compositional prompts. Additionally, we reconstructed two datasets and their benchmarks to acquire data with part-color-specific attributes. Our method demonstrates superior performance on the compositional prompt-controlled in-context segmentation task. It also extends the capabilities of existing in-context segmentation, and makes an attempt toward real-world fine-grained segmentation.

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FedCART: Tackling Long-Tailed Distributions in Federated Adversarial Training via Classifier Refinement

Yuchen Qin, Yizhi Zhou, Junxiao Wang, Xin Xie, Heng Qi

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Growing privacy and security demands in the real world have spurred interest in adversarially robust Federated Learning (FL). While Adversarial Training (AT) is a well-established defense in centralized learning, its extension to the federated setting, known as Federated Adversarial Training (FAT), faces significant challenges due to data heterogeneity across clients. Existing FAT methods have made significant contributions, but they typically assume a balanced global data distribution, an assumption that rarely holds true in practice due to the prevalence of long-tailed distributions. This work first identifies and diagnoses the severe performance degradation of FAT under long-tailed data, attributing it to skewed feature representations and impaired classifier discriminability. To address this, we propose FedCART, a novel FAT framework that decouples the model into a shared feature extractor and a dual-classifier structure. On the client side, a representation-alignment loss enhances adversarial robustness, while gradient-based class prototypes are extracted for classifier calibration. On the server side, models and prototype sets are aggregated to synthesize balanced virtual features, enabling the re-training of an auxiliary classifier to mitigate long-tailed bias. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FedCART significantly improves both accuracy and robustness, outperforming state-of-the-art FAT methods. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work to systematically investigate and address FAT under long-tailed distributions, representing a significant step toward practical adversarial robustness in FL.

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Long-Tail Internet Photo Reconstruction

Yuan Li, Yuanbo Xiangli, Hadar Averbuch-Elor, Noah Snavely, Ruojin Cai

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Internet photo collections exhibit an extremely long-tailed distribution: a few famous landmarks are densely photographed and easily reconstructed in 3D, while most real-world sites are represented with sparse, noisy, uneven imagery beyond the capabilities of both classical and learned 3D methods. We believe that tackling this long-tail regime represents one of the next frontiers for 3D foundation models. Although reliable ground-truth 3D supervision from sparse scenes is challenging to acquire, we observe that it can be effectively simulated by sampling sparse subsets from well-reconstructed Internet landmarks. To this end, we introduce MegaDepth-X, a large dataset of 3D reconstructions with clean, dense depth, together with a strategy for sampling sets of training images that mimic camera distributions in long-tail scenes. Finetuning 3D foundation models with these components yields robust reconstructions under extreme sparsity, and also enables more reliable reconstruction in symmetric and repetitive scenes, while preserving generalization to standard, dense 3D benchmark datasets.

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AstraNav-Memory: Contexts Compression for Long Memory

Junjun Hu, Xinda Xue, Botao Ren, Minghua Luo, Jintao Chen, Haochen Bai, Liangliang You, Mu Xu

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Lifelong embodied navigation requires agents to accumulate, retain, and exploit spatial-semantic experience across tasks, enabling efficient exploration in novel environments and rapid goal reaching in familiar ones. While object-centric memory is interpretable, it depends on detection and reconstruction pipelines that limit robustness and scalability. We propose an image-centric memory framework that achieves long-term implicit memory via an efficient visual context compression module end-to-end coupled with a Qwen2.5-VL-based navigation policy. Built atop a ViT backbone with frozen DINOv3 features and lightweight PixelUnshuffle+Conv blocks, our visual tokenizer reduces native vision tokens by roughly 10-20x, representing each image with about 30 tokens and allowing the agent to maintain hundreds of historical frames within a single context. Experimental results on GOAT-Bench and HM3D-OVON show that our method achieves state-of-the-art navigation performance, improving exploration in unfamiliar environments and shortening paths in familiar ones. Ablation studies further reveal that moderate compression provides the best balance between efficiency and accuracy. These findings position compressed image-centric memory as a practical and scalable interface for lifelong embodied agents, enabling them to reason over long visual histories and navigate with human-inspired efficiency.

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PersonaVLM: Long-Term Personalized Multimodal LLMs

Chang Nie, Chaoyou Fu, Yifan Zhang, Haihua Yang, Caifeng Shan

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) serve as daily assistants for millions. However, their ability to generate responses aligned with individual preferences remains limited. Prior approaches enable only static, single-turn personalization through input augmentation or output alignment, and thus fail to capture users' evolving preferences and personality over time (see Fig.img1). In this paper, we introduce PersonaVLM, an innovative personalized multimodal agent framework designed for long-term personalization. It transforms a general-purpose MLLM into a personalized assistant by integrating three key capabilities: (a) Remembering: It proactively extracts and summarizes chronological multimodal memories from interactions, consolidating them into a personalized database. (b) Reasoning: It conducts multi-turn reasoning by retrieving and integrating relevant memories from the database. (c) Response Alignment: It infers the user's evolving personality throughout long-term interactions to ensure outputs remain aligned with their unique characteristics. For evaluation, we establish Persona-MME, a comprehensive benchmark comprising over 2,000 curated interaction cases, designed to assess long-term MLLM personalization across seven key aspects and 14 fine-grained tasks. Extensive experiments validate our method's effectiveness, improving the baseline by 22.4% (Persona-MME) and 9.8% (PERSONAMEM) under a 128k context, while outperforming GPT-4o by 5.2% and 2.0%, respectively. Project page: https://PersonaVLM.github.io.

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