CVPR 2026 Papers

Open-Vocabulary Camouflaged Object Segmentation (OVCOS) aims to segment camouflaged objects from unseen categories under textual guidance precisely. However, existing methods often employ a unidirectional interaction strategy, where textual prompts guide the matching of visual features. Such a design neglects the bidirectional interaction between visual and language modalities, making the model vulnerable to the semantic gap between image-level textual semantics and pixel-level segmentation cues, which in turn leads to severe semantic confusion in complex camouflaged scenarios. To address this challenge, we propose BaCLIP, a novel bidirectional semantic alignment framework for OVCOS. At its core lies the Mutual Refinement and Enhancement Module (MREM), which establishes bidirectional cross-attention between visual and textual features, enabling mutual semantic calibration to resolve ambiguity and strengthen cross-modal alignment. Moreover, we introduce an Adaptive Prompt that transforms refined textual embeddings into semantic-aware prompts for Segment Anything Model (SAM), enabling direct textual guidance and improving mask precision. Experimental results on the OVCamo benchmark demonstrate that BaCLIP consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance with a compact architecture, effectively mitigating semantic confusion and advancing the understanding of cross-modal camouflage perception. Our code is released at https://github.com/okmaybach/BaCLIP-CVPR2026.

Classifying fine-grained visual concepts under open-world settings, i.e., without a predefined label set, demands models to be both accurate and specific. Recent reasoning Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit strong visual understanding capability but tend to produce overly generic predictions when performing fine-grained image classification. Our preliminary analysis reveals that models do possess the intrinsic fine-grained domain knowledge. However, promoting more specific predictions (specificity) without compromising correct ones (correctness) remains a non-trivial and understudied challenge. In this work, we investigate how to steer reasoning LMMs toward predictions that are both correct and specific. We propose a novel specificity-aware reinforcement learning framework, SpeciaRL, to fine-tune reasoning LMMs on fine-grained image classification under the open-world setting. SpeciaRL introduces a dynamic, verifier-based reward signal anchored to the best predictions within online rollouts, promoting specificity while respecting the model's capabilities to prevent incorrect predictions. Our out-of-domain experiments show that SpeciaRL delivers the best trade-off between correctness and specificity across extensive fine-grained benchmarks, surpassing existing methods and advancing open-world fine-grained image classification. Code and model are publicly available at https://github.com/s-angheben/SpeciaRL.

Videos are unique in their ability to capture actions which transcend multiple frames. Accordingly, action recognition has long been a quintessential task for video models. Unfortunately, due to a lack of sufficiently diverse and challenging data, modern vision-language models (VLMs) are no longer evaluated on their action recognition capabilities. To revitalize action recognition in the era of VLMs, we advocate for a returned focus on domain-specific actions. To this end, we introduce VideoNet, a domain-specific action recognition benchmark covering 1,087 distinct actions from 38 domains. VLMs struggle immensely on VideoNet, with Gemini 2.5 Pro performing only 15.8 percentage points better than random chance. To improve model performance we provide in-context demonstrations, but only see a 3% boost in VLM performance compared to a 13% increase in non-expert human accuracy, suggesting that VLMs are poor few-shot learners. At last, we collect a large-scale training dataset containing nearly 500k video question-answer pairs. Fine-tuning an open-weight 4B model on our data, we surpass all Gemini models on the VideoNet benchmark. We release all of our data, inviting the community to explore new techniques to improve domain-specific action recognition capabilities and few-shot learning in video models.

Text-to-motion generation is a fundamental task in computer vision, aiming to synthesize 3D human motion sequences from natural language descriptions. However, due to the limited scale and diversity of existing datasets, models trained to directly map raw text to motion often struggle to generalize to out-of-domain textual inputs. We observe that although high-level motion semantics vary widely, many motions share a common set of underlying atomic motions--that is, simple, reusable body-part movements. Building on this insight, we introduce an **Atomic Motion Decomposition and Recomposition** framework for open-vocabulary text-to-motion generation. Our approach consists of two key components: a **Textual Decomposition** module that parses out-of-domain descriptions into atomic motion units, and an **Atomic Recomposition** module that integrates these units to produce the final motion sequence. Our model achieves a competitive performance on the in-domain HumanML3D dataset, and extensive experiments on two out-of-domain datasets (IDEA400 and Mixamo) demonstrate that our method substantially outperforms state-of-the-art approaches in open-vocabulary motion generation.

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) provide rich and transferable representations through large-scale pretraining, yet their high-capacity representations remain underutilized when adapted to downstream tasks. In Domain Generalization Semantic Segmentation (DGSS), parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) often overfits adapters to source domain statistics and seen class boundaries, leading to representation degradation manifested as domain bias and semantic rigidity. Existing regularization strategies alleviate this through random perturbations, but such operations disrupt the pretrained geometric structure, causing semantic drift and unstable generalization. We propose Geometry-Consistent Regularization (GeCo), which extrapolates the pretrained representation space toward the target task under structure-respected constraints, thereby preserving the inherent generalization of VFMs while enhancing their task-specific adaptation. GeCo introduces curvature-guided perturbation to modulate feature variation according to local manifold complexity of the pretrained embedding space, enabling structure-aligned representation expansion. Complementarily, a geodesic-based regularization constrains prediction shifts along smooth, manifold-aligned trajectories, ensuring semantic continuity and stable decision behavior. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GeCo achieves superior generalization across both closed-set and open-set DGSS benchmarks. The code is available at https://github.com/DZhaoXd/GeCo.

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) aims to detect known and unknown objects in the open world by leveraging text prompts. Benefiting from the emergence of large-scale vision--language pre-trained models, OVOD has demonstrated strong zero-shot generalization capabilities. However, when dealing with camouflaged objects, the detector often fails to distinguish and localize objects because the visual features of the objects and the background are highly similar. To bridge this gap, we construct a benchmark named OVCOD-D by augmenting carefully selected camouflaged object images with fine-grained textual descriptions. Due to the limited scale of available camouflaged object datasets, we adopt detectors pre-trained on large-scale object detection datasets as our baseline methods, as they possess stronger zero-shot generalization ability. In the specificity-aware sub-descriptions generated by multimodal large models, there still exist confusing and overly decorative modifiers. To mitigate such interference, we design a sub-description principal component contrastive fusion strategy that reduces noisy textual components. Furthermore, to address the challenge that the visual features of camouflaged objects are highly similar to those of their surrounding environment, we propose a specificity-guided regional weak alignment and dynamic focusing method, which aims to strengthen the detector's ability to discriminate camouflaged objects from background. Under the open-set evaluation setting, the proposed method achieves an AP of 56.4 on the OVCOD-D benchmark. Project code and benchmark will be released at https://github.com/Zh1fen/SDDF.

Visual grounding aims to associate free-form textual queries with specific regions in an image. While recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated promising capabilities in this domain, they primarily excel at object-level grounding and often struggle with part-level grounding--an essential requirement for fine-grained tasks such as robotic manipulation. In this work, we introduce a general approach that equips any open-source MLLMs with accurate 2D part-level point grounding, offering a more direct alternative to conventional grounding representations. Our method leverages the attention mechanisms inherently present in MLLMs. By synthesizing text-conditioned, grounding-aware queries within intermediate layers via the proposed Q-Synth Module, we capture target-relevant attention patterns and refine them with a lightweight Attention-to-Point Decoder, which converts these patterns into a point-centric heatmap for final prediction. Notably, all original MLLM parameters are frozen, ensuring full preservation of their pre-trained capabilities. Experiments show that our design consistently improves part-level grounding accuracy across datasets and can be seamlessly integrated into any open-source MLLMs.

Open-domain visual entity recognition (VER) seeks to associate images with entities in encyclopedic knowledge bases such as Wikipedia. Recent generative methods tailored for VER demonstrate strong performance but incur high computational costs, limiting their scalability and practical deployment. In this work, we revisit the contrastive paradigm for VER and introduce WikiCLIP, a simple yet effective framework that establishes a strong and efficient baseline for open-domain VER. WikiCLIP leverages large language model embeddings as knowledge-rich entity representations and enhances them with a Vision-Guided Knowledge Adaptor (VGKA) that aligns textual semantics with visual cues at the patch level. To further encourage fine-grained discrimination, a Hard Negative Synthesis Mechanism generates visually similar but semantically distinct negatives during training. Experimental results on popular open-domain VER benchmarks, such as OVEN, demonstrate that WikiCLIP significantly outperforms strong baselines. Specifically, WikiCLIP achieves a 16% improvement on the challenging OVEN unseen set, while reducing inference latency by nearly 100 times compared with the leading generative model, AutoVER. The project page is available at https://artanic30.github.io/project_pages/WikiCLIP/.

Open-vocabulary 3D object affordance grounding aims to identify functional regions of objects given arbitrary semantic descriptions. However, existing methods often rely on fixed training categories and geometric priors, lacking geometric invariance and analogical reasoning capabilities. Since there exists a significant domain gap when transferring affordance knowledge learned from 2D images to 3D point clouds, existing methods struggle to generalize well to objects with diverse shapes or unseen categories, and fail to perform effective category reasoning.To address these challenges, we propose **QueryMe**, a **Query**-driven framework that learns from **M**ultimodal **e**vidence spaces to achieve open-vocabulary 3D affordance grounding.The proposed approach is to project human-object interaction images into 3D space, employ an Adaptive Spatial Attention module to focus on key interaction regions, and introduce a multimodal query structure to retrieve available geometrically consistent functional parts within the point cloud, effectively fusing visual, linguistic, and geometric cues.Leveraging attention-based query mechanisms, our method adaptively localizes affordance regions and performs analogy reasoning through geometric similarity, thereby exhibiting strong generalization to unseen scenes and objects. Experimental results demonstrate that QueryMe consistently outperforms state-of-the-art approaches, with the AUC improving by 4.19% compared to previous work for unseen affordance grounding tasks.

Open-vocabulary object detection (OVOD) enables models to detect any object category, including unseen ones. Benefiting from large-scale pre-training, existing OVOD methods achieve strong detection performance on general scenarios (e.g., OV-COCO) but suffer severe performance drops when transferred to downstream tasks with substantial domain shifts. This degradation stems from the scarcity and weak semantics of category labels in domain-specific task, as well as the inability of existing models to capture auxiliary semantics beyond coarse-grained category label. To address these issues, we propose HSA-DINO, a parameter-efficient semantic augmentation framework for enhancing open-vocabulary object detection. Specifically, we propose a multi-scale prompt bank that leverages image feature pyramids to capture hierarchical semantics and select domain-specific local semantic prompts, progressively enriching textual representations from coarse to fine-grained levels. Furthermore, we introduce a semantic-aware router that dynamically selects the appropriate semantic augmentation strategy during inference, thereby preventing parameter updates from degrading the generalization ability of the pre-trained OVOD model. We evaluate HSA-DINO on OV-COCO, several vertical domain datasets, and modified benchmark settings. The results show that HSA-DINO performs favorably against previous state-of-the-art methods, achieving a superior trade-off between domain adaptability and open-vocabulary generalization.