CVPR 2026 Papers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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4,042papers

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    1383.4%
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    3,90496.6%

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Topic: Image Generation · 689 papers · Reset filters

Hint2Gen: Bridging Understanding and Generation via Code-structured Hints

Yuanpeng Tu, Yunpeng Chen, Xi Chen, Liang Li, Hengshuang Zhao

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Recent unified models have made remarkable strides in generating high-quality images, yet they consistently fail on reasoning-intensive tasks, i.e., solving mazes, assembling tangrams. Intriguingly, we find that vision-language models (VLMs) and large language models (LLMs) can accurately solve these tasks, but cannot generate the corresponding images because they lack a structured visual output interface. This reveals that the core bottleneck is not reasoning capacity, but the lack of a structured interface to translate high-level reasoning into precise visual output. To bridge this gap, we propose using code-structured visual hints (i.e., SVG/HTML) overlays that explicitly encode reasoning steps directly on the image plane. Accordingly, we develop an automatic data construction pipeline that can generate high-quality code-structured hints for existing datasets and train a unified model called Hint2Gen based on FLUX.1 Kontext to condition its generation on such hints. Furthermore, to comprehensively evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we introduce Reason2Gen, a benchmark comprising 4,000 samples spanning 20 categories across 7 core dimensions, including path connectivity, spatial assembly, etc. Extensive experiments demonstrate that even simply providing such hints as extra inputs--without any retraining--boosts their performance. And our model significantly outperforms all leading open-source/closed-source methods on reasoning-aware generation and editing across all the dimensions.

Poster
DiT360: High-Fidelity Panoramic Image Generation via Hybrid Training

Haoran Feng, Dizhe Zhang, Xiangtai Li, Bo Du, Lu Qi

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In this work, we propose DiT360, a DiT-based framework that performs hybrid training on perspective and panoramic data for panoramic image generation. We attribute the main challenges in preserving geometric fidelity and photorealism to the scarcity of large-scale, high-quality real-world panoramic data, in contrast to prior methods that emphasize model design. Basically, DiT360 has several key modules for inter-domain transformation and intra-domain augmentation, applied at both the pre-VAE image level and the post-VAE token level. At the image level, we incorporate cross-domain knowledge through perspective image guidance and panoramic refinement, which enhance perceptual quality while regularizing diversity and photorealism. At the token level, hybrid supervision is applied across multiple modules, which include circular padding for boundary continuity, yaw loss for rotational robustness, and cube loss for distortion awareness. Extensive experiments on text-to-panorama, inpainting, and outpainting tasks demonstrate that our method achieves better boundary consistency and image fidelity across eleven quantitative metrics. Our code is available at https://github.com/Insta360-Research-Team/DiT360.

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OrienPose: Orientation-Guided Novel View Synthesis for Single-Image Unseen Object Pose Estimation

Yating Liu, Zhaoshuai Qi, Yang Zou, Yongnan Yang, Shizhou Zhang, Yanning Zhang

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Estimating the 3D pose of unseen objects from a single image remains a fundamental yet challenging problem in computer vision, especially under a CAD model-free setting.Pioneering attempts address this issue by matching templates generated through Novel View Synthesis (NVS), which essentially aims to learn the geometric transformation from a reference to a target view. While promising, these methods can only approximate this transformation under pixel-level supervision, as the starting orientation remains undefined. In the absence of explicit geometric constraints to verify the correctness of the predicted transformation, existing methods often synthesize novel views with geometry-distorted structures or severely blurred local textures, leading to unreliable template matching and suboptimal pose estimation results. To this end, we propose OrienPose, a novel object pose estimation framework via orientation-aware NVS from a single image. Specifically, we introduce the Orientation-Aware Guidance, which explicitly injects object orientation cues into the reference latent embedding to enhance orientation awareness during viewpoint transformation. We also introduce an orientation consistency loss that supervises viewpoint transformation at the geometric level, establishing sufficient supervision for explicit and geometry-consistent transformation guidance beyond pixel-level similarity. This loss justifies estimating the reference orientation rather than using its ground-truth pose, thereby ensuring the alignment of coordinate domains between the injected and supervised priors. Extensive experiments demonstrate that OrienPose achieves state-of-the-art performance in single-view unseen object pose estimation and impressive robustness to image degradations. Our code is available at https://github.com/pubyLu/OrienPose.

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Human Geometry Distribution for 3D Animation Generation

Xiangjun Tang, Biao Zhang, Peter Wonka

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Generating realistic human geometry animations remains a challenging task, as it requires modeling natural clothing dynamics with fine-grained geometric details under limited data. To address these challenges, we propose two novel designs. First, we propose a compact distribution-based latent representation that enables efficient and high-quality geometry generation. We improve upon previous work by establishing a more uniform mapping between SMPL and avatar geometries. Second, we introduce a generative animation model that fully exploits the diversity of limited motion data. We focus on short-term transitions while maintaining long-term consistency through an identity-conditioned design. These two designs formulate our method as a two-stage framework: the first stage learns a latent space, while the second learns to generate animations within this latent space. We conducted experiments on both our latent space and animation model. We demonstrate that our latent space produces high-fidelity human geometry surpassing previous methods (90% lower Chamfer Dist.). The animation model synthesizes diverse animations with detailed and natural dynamics (2.2 x higher user study score), achieving the best results across all evaluation metrics.

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TextPecker: Rewarding Structural Anomaly Quantification for Enhancing Visual Text Rendering

Hanshen Zhu, Yuliang Liu, Xuecheng Wu, An-Lan Wang, Hao Feng, Dingkang Yang, Chao Feng, Can Huang, Jingqun Tang, Xiang Bai

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Visual Text Rendering (VTR) remains a critical challenge in text-to-image generation, where even advanced models frequently produce text with structural anomalies such as distortion, blurriness, and misalignment. However, we find that leading MLLMs and specialist OCR models largely fail to perceive these structural anomalies, creating a critical bottleneck for both VTR evaluation and RL-based optimization. As a result, even state-of-the-art generators (e.g., SeedDream4.0, Qwen-Image) still struggle to render structurally faithful text. To address this, we propose TextPecker, a plug-and-play structural anomaly perceptive RL strategy that mitigates noisy reward signals and works with any text-to-image generator. To enable this capability, we construct a recognition dataset with character-level structural-anomaly annotations and develop a stroke-editing synthesis engine to expand structural-error coverage. Experiments show that TextPecker consistently improves diverse text-to-image models; even on the well-optimized Qwen-Image, it significantly yields average gains of 4% in structural fidelity and 8.7% in semantic alignment for Chinese text rendering, establishing a new state-of-the-art in high-fidelity VTR. Our work fills a gap in VTR optimization, providing a foundational step towards reliable and structural faithful visual text generation.

Poster
Does YOLO Really Need to See Every Training Image in Every Epoch?

Xingxing Xie, Jiahua Dong, Junwei Han, Gong Cheng

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YOLO detectors are known for their fast inference speed, yet training them remains unexpectedly time-consuming due to their exhaustive pipeline that processes every training image in every epoch, even when many images have already been sufficiently learned. This stands in clear contrast to the efficiency suggested by the "You Only Look Once" philosophy. This naturally raises an important question: Does YOLO really need to see every training image in every epoch? To explore this, we propose an Anti-Forgetting Sampling Strategy (AFSS) that dynamically determines which images should be used and which can be skipped during each epoch, allowing the detector to learn more effectively and efficiently. Specifically, AFSS measures the learning sufficiency of each training image as the minimum of its detection recall and precision, and dynamically categorizes training images into easy, medium, or hard levels accordingly. Easy training images are sparsely resampled during training in a continuous review manner, with priority given to those that have not been used for a long time to reduce redundancy and prevent forgetting. Moderate training images are partially selected, prioritizing recently unused ones and randomly choosing the rest from unselected images to ensure coverage and prevent forgetting. Hard training images are fully sampled in every epoch to ensure sufficient learning. The learning sufficiency of each training image is periodically updated, enabling detectors to adaptively shift its focus toward the informative training images over time while progressively discarding redundant ones. On widely used natural image detection benchmarks (MS COCO 2017 and PASCAL VOC 2007) and remote sensing detection datasets (DOTA-v1.0 and DIOR-R), AFSS achieves more than 1.43x training speedup for YOLO-series detectors while also improving accuracy.

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Dehallu3D: Hallucination-Mitigated 3D Generation from a Single Image via Cyclic View Consistency Refinement

Xiwen Wang, Shichao Zhang, Ruowei Wang, Mao Li, Chenyu Zhou, Ji-Zhe Zhou, Qijun Zhao, Hailun Zhang

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Large 3D reconstruction models have revolutionized the 3D content generation field, enabling broad applications in virtual reality and gaming. Just like other large models, large 3D reconstruction models suffer from hallucinations as well, introducing structural outliers (e.g., odd holes or protrusions) that deviate from the input data. However, unlike other large models, hallucinations in large 3D reconstruction models remain severely underexplored, leading to malformed 3D-printed objects or insufficient immersion in virtual scenes. Such hallucinations majorly originate from that existing methods reconstruct 3D content from sparsely generated multi-view images which suffer from large viewpoint gaps and discontinuities. To mitigate hallucinations by eliminating the outliers, we propose Dehallu3D for 3D mesh generation. Our key idea is to design a balanced multi-view continuity constraint to enforce smooth transitions across dense intermediate viewpoints, while avoiding over-smoothing that could erase sharp geometric features. Therefore, Dehallu3D employs a plug-and-play optimization module with two key constraints: (i) adjacent consistency to ensure geometric continuity across views, and (ii) adaptive smoothness to retain fine details. We further propose the Outlier Risk Measure (ORM) metric to quantify geometric fidelity in 3D generation from the perspective of outliers. Extensive experiments show that Dehallu3D achieves high-fidelity 3D generation by effectively preserving structural details while removing hallucinated outliers.

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Act Like a Pathologist: Tissue-Aware Whole Slide Image Reasoning

Wentao Huang, Weimin Lyu, Peiliang Lou, Qingqiao Hu, Xiaoling Hu, Shahira Abousamra, Wenchao Han, Ruifeng Guo, Jiawei Zhou, Chao Chen, Chen Wang

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Computational pathology has advanced rapidly in recent years, driven by domain-specific image encoders and growing interest in using vision-language models to answer natural-language questions about diseases. Yet, the core problem behind pathology question-answering remains unsolved, considering that a gigapixel slide contains far more information than necessary for a given question. Pathologists naturally navigate tissue and morphology complexity by scanning broadly, and zooming in selectively according to the clinical questions. Current models, in contrast, rely on uniform patch sampling or broad attention maps, often attending equally to irrelevant regions while overlooking key visual evidence. In this work, we try to bring models closer to how humans actually examine slides. We propose a question-guided, tissue-aware, and coarse-to-fine retrieval framework, HistoSelect, that consists of two key components: a group sampler that identifies question-relevant tissue regions, followed by a patch selector that retrieves the most informative patches within those regions. By selecting only the most informative patches, our method becomes significantly more efficient: reducing visual token usage by 70% on average, while improving accuracy across three pathology QA tasks. Evaluated on 356,000 question-answer pairs, our approach outperforms existing methods and produces answers grounded in interpretable, pathologist-consistent regions. Our results suggest that bringing human-like search and attention patterns into WSI reasoning is a promising direction for building practical and reliable pathology VLMs. Code is available at https://github.com/winston52/HistoSelect.

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ReCoFuse: Ultra-Robust Image Fusion via Restorative Multi-Modal Diffusion Reciprocal Coupling

Hao Zhang, Shuhan Yang, Linfeng Tang, Xunpeng Yi, Jiayi Ma

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Existing methods following the integrated hard-regression or decoupling optimization paradigms exhibit limited fusion performance under complex degradations. To address these paradigm-level shortcomings, we propose ReCoFuse, an ultra-robust image fusion framework based on restorative multi-modal diffusion reciprocal coupling. ReCoFuse redefines the relationship between information restoration and integration, deriving a novel reciprocal coupling optimization paradigm through their mutual reinforcement. It first constructs two restoration branches using diffusion modules (DiM) to capture modality-specific restoration priors. Then, time-aware cross-modal integration modules (TIM) are introduced as a bridge to couple restoration and integration, embedded at each DiM sampling timestep to aggregate multi-modal information. The aggregated variable not only feeds back to each restoration branch to enhance degradation removal via cross-modal complementarity, but also generates high-quality fused images that comprehensively represent the scene. Moreover, an alternating regularization mechanism is designed to iteratively optimize DiM and TIM along the gradient path, ensuring effective collaboration between restoration and integration. Extensive experiments show that ReCoFuse achieves state-of-the-art performance under challenging degradations such as low light, haze, noise, low contrast, and stripes. The code is publicly available at https://github.com/HaoZhang1018/ReCoFuse.

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Beyond the Ground Truth: Enhanced Supervision for Image Restoration

Donghun Ryou, Inju Ha, Sanghyeok Chu, Bohyung Han

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Deep learning-based image restoration has achieved significant success. However, when addressing real-world degradations, model performance is limited by the quality of ground-truth images in datasets due to practical constraints in data acquisition. To address this limitation, we propose a novel framework that enhances existing ground truth images to provide higher-quality supervision for real-world restoration. Our framework generates perceptually enhanced ground truth images using super-resolution by incorporating adaptive frequency masks, which are learned by a conditional frequency mask generator. These masks guide the optimal fusion of frequency components from the original ground truth and its super-resolved variants, yielding enhanced ground truth images. This frequency-domain mixup preserves the semantic consistency of the original content while selectively enriching perceptual details, preventing hallucinated artifacts that could compromise fidelity. The enhanced ground truth images are used to train a lightweight output refinement network that can be seamlessly integrated with existing restoration models. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our approach improves the quality of restored images. We further validate the effectiveness of both supervision enhancement and output refinement through user studies.

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A Training-Free Style-Personalization via SVD-Based Feature Decomposition

Kyoungmin Lee, Jihun Park, Jongmin Gim, Wonhyeok Choi, Kyumin Hwang, Jaeyeul Kim, Sunghoon Im

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We present a training-free framework for style-personalized image generation that operates during inference using a scale-wise autoregressive model. Our method generates a stylized image guided by a single reference style while preserving semantic consistency and mitigating content leakage. Through a detailed step-wise analysis of the generation process, we identify a pivotal step where the dominant singular values of the internal feature encode style-related components. Building upon this insight, we introduce two lightweight control modules: Principal Feature Blending, which enables precise modulation of style through SVD-based feature reconstruction, and Structural Attention Correction, which stabilizes structural consistency by leveraging content-guided attention correction across fine stages. Without any additional training, extensive experiments demonstrate that our method achieves competitive style fidelity and prompt fidelity compared to fine-tuned baselines, while offering faster inference and greater deployment flexibility.

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VecGlypher: Unified Vector Glyph Generation with Language Models

Xiaoke Huang, Bhavul Gauri, Kam Woh Ng, Tony Ng, Mengmeng Xu, Zhiheng Liu, Weiming Ren, Zhaochong An, Zijian Zhou, Haonan Qiu, Yuyin Zhou, Sen He, Ziheng Wang, Tao Xiang, Xiao Han

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Vector glyphs are the atomic units of digital typography, yet most learning-based pipelines still depend on carefully curated exemplar sheets and raster-to-vector postprocessing, which limits accessibility and editability. We introduce VecGlypher, a single multimodal language model that generates high-fidelity vector glyphs directly from text descriptions or image exemplars. Given a style prompt, optional reference glyph images, and a target character, VecGlypher autoregressively emits SVG path tokens, avoiding raster intermediates and producing editable, watertight outlines in one pass. A typography-aware data and training recipe makes this possible: (i) a large-scale continuation stage on 39K noisy Envato fonts to master SVG syntax and long-horizon geometry, followed by (ii) post-training on 2.5K expert-annotated Google Fonts with descriptive tags and exemplars to align language and imagery with geometry; preprocessing normalizes coordinate frames, canonicalizes paths, de-duplicates families, and quantizes coordinates for stable long-sequence decoding. On cross-family OOD evaluation, VecGlypher substantially outperforms both general-purpose LLMs and specialized vector-font baselines for text-only generation, while image-referenced generation reaches a state-of-the-art performance, with marked gains over DeepVecFont-v2 and DualVector. Ablations show that model scale and the two-stage recipe are critical and that absolute-coordinate serialization yields the best geometry. VecGlypher lowers the barrier to font creation by letting users design with words or exemplars, and provides a scalable foundation for future multimodal design tools.

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Stand-In: A Lightweight and Plug-and-Play Identity Control for Video Generation

Bowen Xue, Zheng-Peng Duan, Qixin Yan, Wenjing Wang, Hao Liu, Chun-Le Guo, Chongyi Li, Chen Li, Jing Lyu

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Generating high-fidelity human videos that match user-specified identities is important yet challenging in the field of generative AI.Existing methods often rely on an excessive number of training parameters and lack compatibility with other AIGC tools.In this paper, we propose Stand-In, a lightweight and plug-and-play framework for identity preservation in video generation.Specifically, we introduce a conditional image branch into the pre-trained video generation model.Identity control is achieved through restricted self-attentions with conditional position mapping.Thanks to these designs, which greatly preserve the pretrained prior of the video generation model, our approach is able to outperform other full-parameter training methods in video quality and identity preservation, even with just 1% additional parameters and only 2000 training pairs.Moreover, our framework can be seamlessly integrated for other tasks, such as subject-driven video generation, pose-referenced video generation, stylization, and face swapping.Code and dataset will be available to the community.

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NaTex: Seamless Texture Generation as Latent Color Diffusion

Zeqiang Lai, Yunfei Zhao, Zibo Zhao, Xin Yang, Xin Huang, Jingwei Huang, Xiangyu Yue, Chunchao Guo

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We present NaTex, a native texture generation framework that predicts texture color directly in 3D space. In contrast to previous approaches that rely on baking 2D multi-view images synthesized by geometry-conditioned Multi-View Diffusion models (MVDs), NaTex avoids several inherent limitations of the MVD pipeline. These include difficulties in handling occluded regions that require inpainting, achieving precise mesh-texture alignment along boundaries, and maintaining cross-view consistency and coherence in both content and color intensity. NaTex features a novel paradigm that addresses the aforementioned issues by viewing texture as a dense color point cloud. Driven by this idea, we propose latent color diffusion, which comprises a geometry-awared color point cloud VAE and a multi-control diffusion transformer (DiT), entirely trained from scratch using 3D data, for texture reconstruction and generation. To enable precise alignment, we introduce native geometry control that conditions the DiT on direct 3D spatial information via positional embeddings and geometry latents. We co-design the VAE-DiT architecture, where the geometry latents are extracted via a dedicated geometry branch tightly coupled with the color VAE, providing fine-grained surface guidance that maintains strong correspondence with the texture. With these designs, NaTex demonstrates strong performance, significantly outperforming previous methods in texture coherence and alignment. Moreover, NaTex also exhibits strong generalization capabilities, either training-free or with simple tuning, for various downstream applications, e.g., material generation, texture refinement, and part segmentation and texturing.

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ShiftLUT: Spatial Shift Enhanced Look-Up Tables for Efficient Image Restoration

Xiaolong Zeng, Yitong Yu, Shiyao Xiong, Jinhua Hao, Ming Sun, Chao Zhou, Bin Wang

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Look-Up Table based methods have emerged as a promising direction for efficient image restoration tasks. Recent LUT-based methods focus on improving their performance by expanding the receptive field. However, they inevitably introduce extra computational and storage overhead, which hinders their deployment in edge devices.To address this issue, we propose ShiftLUT, a novel framework that attains the largest receptive field among all LUT-based methods while maintaining high efficiency. Our key insight lies in three complementary components. First, Learnable Spatial Shift module (LSS) is introduced to expand the receptive field by applying learnable, channel-wise spatial offsets on feature maps. Second, we propose an asymmetric dual-branch architecture that allocates more computation to the information-dense branch, substantially reducing inference latency without compromising restoration quality.Finally, we incorporate a feature-level LUT compression strategy called Error-bounded Adaptive Sampling (EAS) to minimize the storage overhead.Compared to the previous state-of-the-art method TinyLUT, ShiftLUT achieves a 3.8xlarger receptive field and improves an average PSNR by over 0.21 dB across multiple standard benchmarks, while maintaining a small storage size and inference time.

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PyraTok: Language-Aligned Pyramidal Tokenizer for Video Understanding and Generation

Onkar Susladkar, Tushar Prakash, Adheesh Juvekar, Kiet A. Nguyen, Dong-Hwan Jang, Inderjit S Dhillon, Ismini Lourentzou

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Discrete video VAEs underpin modern text-to-video generation and video understanding systems, yet existing tokenizers typically learn visual codebooks at a single scale with limited vocabularies and shallow language supervision, leading to poor cross-modal alignment and zero-shot transfer. We introduce PyraTok, a language-aligned pyramidal tokenizer that learns semantically structured discrete latents across multiple spatial-temporal resolutions. PyraTok builds on a pretrained video VAE and a novel Language aligned Pyramidal Quantization (LaPQ) module that discretizes encoder features at several depths using a shared large binary codebook, yielding compact yet expressive video token sequences. To tightly couple visual tokens with language, PyraTok jointly optimizes multi-scale text-guided quantization and a global autoregressive objective over the token hierarchy. Across ten benchmarks, PyraTok delivers state-of-the-art (SOTA) video reconstruction, consistently improves text-to-video quality, and sets new SOTA zero-shot performance on video instance segmentation, temporal action localization, and video understanding, scaling robustly to up to 4K/8K resolutions.

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ZipMap: Linear-Time Stateful 3D Reconstruction via Test-Time Training

Haian Jin, Rundi Wu, Tianyuan Zhang, Ruiqi Gao, Jonathan T. Barron, Noah Snavely, Aleksander Hołyński

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Feed-forward transformer models have driven rapid progress in 3D vision, but state-of-the-art methods such as VGGT and \pi^3 have a computational cost that scales quadratically with the number of input images, making them inefficient when applied to large image collections. Sequential-reconstruction approaches reduce this cost but sacrifice reconstruction quality. We introduce ZipMap, a stateful feed-forward model that achieves linear-time, bidirectional 3D reconstruction while matching or surpassing the accuracy of quadratic-time methods. ZipMap employs test-time training layers to zip an entire image collection into a compact hidden scene state in a single forward pass, enabling reconstruction of over 700 frames in under 10 seconds on a single H100 GPU, more than 20x faster than state-of-the-art methods such as VGGT. Moreover, we demonstrate the benefits of having a stateful representation in real-time scene-state querying and its extension to sequential streaming reconstruction.

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PAM: A Pose-Appearance-Motion Engine for Sim-to-Real HOI Video Generation

Mingju Gao, Kaisen Yang, Huan-ang Gao, Bohan Li, Ao Ding, Wenyi Li, Yangcheng Yu, Jinkun Liu, Shaocong Xu, Yike Niu, Haohan Chi, Hao Chen, Hao Tang, Yu Zhang, Li Yi, Hao Zhao

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Hand-object interaction (HOI) reconstruction and synthesis are becoming central to embodied AI and AR/VR. Yet, despite rapid progress, existing HOI generation research remains fragmented across three disjoint tracks: (1) pose-only synthesis that predicts MANO trajectories without producing pixels; (2) single-image HOI generation that hallucinates appearance from masks or 2D cues but lacks dynamics; and (3) video generation methods that require both the entire pose sequence and the ground-truth first frame as inputs, preventing true sim-to-real deployment. Inspired by the philosophy of previous work, we think that HOI generation requires a unified engine that brings together pose, appearance, and motion within one coherent framework. Thus we introduce PAM: a Pose-Appearance-Motion Engine for controllable HOI video generation. The performance of our engine is validated by: (1) On DexYCB, we obtain an FVD of 29.13 (vs. 38.83 for InterDyn), and MPJPE of 19.37 mm (vs. 30.05 mm for CosHand), while generating higher-resolution 480x720 videos compared to 256x256/256x384 baselines. (2) On OAKINK2, our full multi-condition model improves FVD from 68.76 - 46.31. (3) An ablation over input conditions on DexYCB shows that combining depth, segmentation, and keypoints consistently yields the best results. (4) For a downstream hand pose estimation task using SimpleHand, augmenting training with 3,400 synthetic videos (207k frames) allows a model trained on only 50% of the real data plus our synthetic data to match the 100% real baseline.

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FlowDC: Flow-Based Decoupling-Decay for Complex Image Editing

Yilei JIANG, Zhen Wang, Yanghao Wang, Jun Yu, Yueting Zhuang, Jun Xiao, Long Chen

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With the surge of pre-trained text-to-image flow matching models, text-based image editing performance has gained remarkable improvement, especially for **simple editing** that only contains a single editing target. However, to satisfy the exploding editing requirements, the **complex editing** that contains multiple editing targets is posed as a more challenging task. However, current complex editing solutions: single-round and multi-round editing are limited by long text following and cumulative inconsistency, respectively. Thus, they struggle to strike a balance between semantic alignment and source consistency.In this paper, we propose **FlowDC**, which decouples the complex editing into multiple sub-editing effects and superposes them in parallel during the editing process. Meanwhile, we observed that the velocity quantity that is orthogonal to the editing displacement harms the source structure preserving. Thus, we decompose the velocity and decay the orthogonal part for better source consistency.To evaluate the effectiveness of complex editing settings, we construct a complex editing benchmark: Complex-PIE-Bench. On two benchmarks, FlowDC shows superior results compared with existing methods. We also detail the ablations of our module designs.

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CaptionQA: Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself?

Shijia Yang, Yunong Liu, Bohan Zhai, Ximeng Sun, Zicheng Liu, Emad Barsoum, Manling Li, Chenfeng Xu

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Image captions serve as efficient surrogates for visual content in multimodal systems such as retrieval, recommendation, multi-step agentic inference pipelines. Yet current evaluation practices miss a fundamental question: Can captions stand-in for images in real downstream tasks? We propose a utility-based benchmark, CaptionQA, to evaluate model-generated captions, where caption quality is measured by how well it supports downstream tasks. CaptionQA is an extensible domain-dependent benchmark covering 4 domains, Natural, Document, E-commerce, and Embodied AI, each with fine-grained taxonomies (25 top-level and 69 subcategories) that identify useful information for domain-specific tasks. CaptionQA builds 33,027 densely annotated multiple-choice questions (50.3 per image on average) that explicitly require visual information to answer, providing a comprehensive probe of caption utility. In our evaluation protocol, an LLM answers these questions using captions alone, directly measuring whether captions preserve image-level utility and are utilizable by a downstream LLM. Evaluating state-of-the-art MLLMs reveals substantial gaps between the image and its caption utility. Notably, models nearly identical on traditional image-QA benchmarks lower by up to 32% in caption utility. We release CaptionQA along with an open-source pipeline for extension to new domains.

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