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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ALLNet: Multi-task Dense Prediction for Degraded Images

Weiran Wang, Jialing Wu, Yaqi Chang, Gang He, Li Xu, Chang Wu, Yunsong Li

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Multi-taskdensepredictionaims tosimultaneously addressmultiplepixel-level tasksthroughaunifiednetworkforvisualsceneunderstanding.However,adverse environmental conditions limit thegeneralizationand practicality of such tasks. Toaddress this, we proposeALLNet, anovel framework that effectively explores degradationpatterns and integratesmulti-task collaborative information. Specifically, we designa MoE-basedMixtureofAdaptiveExperts(MaE)restorationcomponentnetworkthatenhancesdegradationfeaturesthroughdynamicroutingandguidestask-specific featureextraction. Furthermore,weformulateaTaskawareCollaborativeRefinement (TCR)moduletocaptureglobalsemanticcorrelationsandcross-taskdependencies,facilitatingbidirectionalcollaborationbetween restorationandtask-specific featuresondegradedimages. Tothebestofourknowledge, thisrepresentsthe firstattemptatmulti-taskdensepredictionunderimage degradation.ExperimentalresultsondegradedNYUDv2andPASCAL-Contextbenchmarksdemonstratethat ourarchitecturesignificantlyoutperformsexistingmethodsindegradedscenarios.

Poster
Mamba Learns in Context: Structure-Aware Domain Generalization for Multi-Task Point Cloud Understanding

Jincen Jiang, Qianyu Zhou, Yuhang Li, Kui Su, Meili Wang, Jian Chang, Jian Jun Zhang, Xuequan Lu

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While recent Transformer and Mamba architectures have advanced point cloud representation learning, they are typically developed for single-task or single-domain settings. Directly applying them to multi-task domain generalization (DG) leads to degraded performance. Transformers effectively model global dependencies but suffer from quadratic attention cost and lack explicit structural ordering, whereas Mamba offers linear-time recurrence yet often depends on coordinate-driven serialization, which is sensitive to viewpoint changes and missing regions, causing structural drift and unstable sequential modeling. In this paper, we propose Structure-Aware Domain Generalization (SADG), a Mamba-based In-Context Learning framework that preserves structural hierarchy across domains and tasks. We design structure-aware serialization (SAS) that generates transformation-invariant sequences using centroid-based topology and geodesic curvature continuity. We further devise hierarchical domain-aware modeling (HDM) that stabilizes cross-domain reasoning by consolidating intra-domain structure and fusing inter-domain relations. At test time, we introduce a lightweight spectral graph alignment (SGA) that shifts target features toward source prototypes in the spectral domain without updating model parameters, ensuring structure-preserving test-time feature shifting. In addition, we introduce MP3DObject, a real-scan object dataset for multi-task DG evaluation. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed approach improves structural fidelity and consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across multiple tasks including reconstruction, denoising, and registration.

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ModularAgent: A Task-Aware Modular Framework for Joint Optimization of Multimodal Large Language Models and World Models

Yu-Wei Zhan, Xin Wang, Pengzhe Mao, Tongtong Feng, Ren Wang, Wenwu Zhu

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Building generalist embodied agents requires a unified system that can interpret multimodal goals, model environment dynamics, and execute reliable actions across diverse real-world tasks. Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) offer strong semantic priors and cross-modal generalization, while world models (WMs) provide actionable latent dynamics for prediction and control. Their combination holds promise for open-ended embodied intelligence, yet introduces two key challenges: (1) establishing a tight coupling between the semantic intent from MLLMs and the dynamic state representations within the WM's latent space, and (2) achieving task-aware adaptability that supports multi-task learning and cross-environment generalization. To address these limitations, we propose ModularAgent, a task-aware dynamic joint framework that enables bidirectional coupling between MLLMs and WMs. ModularAgent establishes two complementary pathways: a forward path that injects MLLM representations into the WMs latent space for semantically guided imagination, and a backward path where WM-generated feedback refines the MLLMs semantic space via dense text-conditioned rewards. This bidirectional interaction is realized through three synergistic components: Task-Aware Dynamic Joint Learning, Task-Aware Behavior Learning, and MLLM-WM Joint Optimization, which together harmonize semantic reasoning and dynamic prediction. Extensive experiments across multi-task and cross-environment settings demonstrate superior stability and generalization over state-of-the-art baselines, marking a step toward open-ended embodied learning.

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MANSION: Multi-floor lANguage-to-3D Scene generatIOn for loNg-horizon tasks

Lirong Che, Shuo Wen, Shan Huang, Chuang Wang, Yuzhe Yang, Gregory Dudek, Xueqian Wang, Jian Su

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Real-world robotic tasks are long-horizon and often span multiple floors, demanding rich spatial reasoning. However, existing embodied benchmarks are largely confined to single-floor in-house environments, failing to reflect the complexity of real-world tasks. We introduce MANSION, the first language-driven framework for generating building-scale, multi-floor 3D environments. Being aware of vertical structural constraints, MANSION generates realistic, navigable whole-building structures with diverse, human-friendly scenes, enabling the development and evaluation of cross-floor long-horizon tasks. Building on this framework, we release MansionWorld, a dataset of over 1,000 diverse buildings ranging from hospitals to offices, alongside a Task-Semantic Scene Editing Agent that customizes these environments using open-vocabulary commands to meet specific user needs. Benchmarking reveals that state-of-the-art agents degrade sharply in our settings, establishing MANSION as a critical testbed for the next generation of spatial reasoning and planning.

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MER-Tracker: Towards High-Speed 3D Point Tracking via Multi-View Event-RGB Hybrid Cameras

Yiqian Chang, Qinghong Ye, Haoran Xu, Jianing Li, Dongyang Ma, Xuan Wang, Wei Zhang, Yonghong Tian, Peixi Peng

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This paper proposes the first task for high-speed 3D point tracking using multi-view Event-RGB hybrid cameras. We design a cuboid observation device comprising 4 RGB cameras (30fps) and 2 Event cameras to synchronously capture high-speed motions, and propose MER-Tracker, a high-frame-rate 3D point-tracking network that fuses the complementary strengths of dual modalities. We first respectively extract 2D motion-change features from the RGB and Event modalities, then apply linear interpolation and anchor sampling to fuse the discrete RGB 3D features and continuous Event 3D features after 3D lifting, and finally employ a LoRA-tuned Transformer based on temporal correlationship to predict the high-frame-rate 3D point trajectories over fast motions, accomplishing high-speed 3D point tracking. To verify the effectiveness of our method, we construct both real-world and simulated high-speed motion datasets. Experiments on these datasets show that our method achieves accurate high-speed 3D point tracking at high-frame-rate (150fps), outperforming state-of-the-art methods.

Poster
SkySense-VITA: Towards Universal In-context Segmentation of Multi-modal Remote Sensing Imagery

Kang Wu, Lei Yu, Junwei Luo, Bo Dang, Junjian Zhang, Xiangyuan Cai, Hongwei Hu, JingDong Chen, Yansheng Li

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While recent foundation models for remote sensing segmentation have shown notable progress, they still fall short in processing diverse multi-modal inputs, synergizing complementary prompt types, and leveraging semantic hierarchies. To address these limitations, we introduce SkySense-VITA, a unified in-context segmentation model, which synergistically processes both optical and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery using VIsual, TextuAl, or fused prompts. Based on a novel prompt-and-prediction decoupling strategy, we propose the VITA-Former and VITA-Decoder to decouple multi-modal prompt fusion and prediction process, allowing the model to flexibly support visual-only, textual-only, and fused prompt modes. We train SkySense-VITA with a progressive two-stage strategy: a first stage of Image-Level Alignment Pretraining featuring optical-SAR alignment, and a second stage of Pixel-Level In-context Pretraining using Semantic Granularity Annealing (SGA), a coarse-to-fine curriculum that enables robust hierarchical learning. To support this training, we introduce our new large-scale, multi-modal Sky-VT-300k dataset. Extensive experiments show SkySense-VITA establishes a new state-of-the-art (SOTA) on 18 datasets, with an average performance lead of over 10% mean Intersection over Union (mIoU).

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UnityVideo: Unified Multi-Modal Multi-Task Learning for Enhancing World-Aware Video Generation

Jiehui Huang, Yuechen ZHANG, Xu He, Yuan Gao, Zhi Cen, Bin Xia, Yan Zhou, Xin Tao, Pengfei Wan, Jiaya Jia

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Recent video generation models demonstrate impressive synthesis capabilities but remain limited by single-modality conditioning, constraining their holistic world understanding. This stems from insufficient cross-modal interaction and limited modal diversity for comprehensive world knowledge representation.To address these limitations, we introduce UnityVideo, a unified framework for world-aware video generation that jointly learns across multiple modalities--segmentation masks, human skeletons, DensePose, optical flow, and depth maps--and training paradigms. Our approach features two core components: (1) dynamic noising to unify heterogeneous training paradigms, and (2) a modality switcher with an in-context learner that enables unified processing via modular parameters and contextual learning. We contribute a large-scale unified dataset with 1.3M samples. Through joint optimization, UnityVideo accelerates convergence and significantly enhances zero-shot generalization to unseen data. We demonstrate that UnityVideo achieves superior video quality, consistency, and improved alignment with physical world constraints.

Poster
Deciphering Genotype-Phenotype Mechanisms from High-Content Profiling via Knowledge-Guided Multi-modal Graph Learning

Hanjing Lin, Jiahua Rao, Youhan Sun, Jiancong Xie, Yuedong Yang

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Understanding genotype-phenotype relationships is pivotal for advancing biomedical research, drug discovery, and precision medicine. With the rise of high-throughput cellular imaging, it is essential to tightly integrate high-content cellular morphology with structured biological knowledge to extract cellular-scale evidence for genotype-to-phenotype mapping.However, integrating high-dimensional, heterogeneous, and noisy phenotypes with structured knowledge remains challenging. Prior approaches typically treat phenotypes as node features, overlooking that phenotypes primarily convey cellular-scale relational signals about how perturbations reshape interactions. We present KERNEL, a knowledge-guided multimodal graph learning framework that integrates cellular imaging phenotypes into a unified knowledge graph to predict genotype-phenotype interactions, including GRN inference, drug-target interaction prediction, and subtype-specific subnetwork discovery. KERNEL dynamically augments task-relevant edges from noisy phenotypic signals, explicitly learns per-edge confidence and marginal utility, and uses knowledge gating to align graph topology with mechanistic pathways. Across large-scale imaging and single-cell datasets, KERNEL consistently outperforms state-of-the-art baselines, e.g., up to 38.1% AUPR improvement for GRN inference, while delivering more accurate and interpretable DTI and subtype subnetwork discovery, demonstrating robust mechanism learning from richer, harder-to-denoise phenotypes.

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Reliev3R: Relieving Feed-forward 3D Reconstruction from Multi-View Geometric Annotations

Youyu Chen, Junjun Jiang, Yueru Luo, Kui Jiang, Xianming Liu, Xu Yan, Dave Zhenyu Chen

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With recent advances, Feed-forward Reconstruction Models (FFRMs) have demonstrated great potential in reconstruction quality and adaptiveness to multiple downstream tasks. However, the excessive reliance on multi-view geometric annotations, e.g. 3D point maps and camera poses, makes the fully-supervised training scheme of FFRMs difficult to scale up.In this paper, we propose Reliev3R, a weakly-supervised paradigm for training FFRMs from scratch without cost-prohibitive multi-view geometric annotations. Relieving the reliance on geometric sensory data and compute-exhaustive structure-from-motion preprocessing, our method draws 3D knowledge directly from monocular relative depths and image sparse correspondences given by zero-shot predictions of pretrained models.At the core of Reliev3R, we design an ambiguity-aware relative depth loss and a trigonometry-based reprojection loss to facilitate supervision for multi-view geometric consistency.Training from scratch with the less data, Reliev3R catches up with its fully-supervised sibling models, taking a step towards low-cost 3D reconstruction supervisions and scalable FFRMs.

Poster
Discovering Adaptive Task Dependencies for Efficient Multi-Task Representation Compression

Zhimeng Huang, Rongao Yuan, Junlong Gao, Qi Mao, Siwei Ma, Wen Gao, Chuanmin Jia

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Traditional image compression prioritizes pixel fidelity but often preserves details irrelevant to downstream vision tasks. Compressing task-specific representations instead better aligns with task semantics, yet redundant information persists across correlated tasks. Existing multi-task compression methods typically rely on static dependency structures, leading to redundant bit allocation across correlated tasks and suboptimal rate-distortion performance. We present Adaptive Task Dependency Compression (ATDC), a framework that models per-image task relationships and encodes representations following an adaptive directed acyclic graph (DAG). ATDC infers pairwise task predictability via a learned correlation matrix, constructs a dynamic DAG to determine the optimal compression order, and encodes each task conditionally on its predecessors, achieving predictive redundancy removal and asymmetric information sharing across tasks. Experiments on the Taskonomy dataset demonstrate consistent gains in rate-distortion efficiency and task accuracy over both human-oriented codecs and state-of-the-art multi-task compression methods.The learned DAGs reveal interpretable, content-dependent task hierarchies, establishing adaptive dependency modeling as a principled paradigm for multi-task representation compression.

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FedHarmony: Harmonizing Heterogeneous Label Correlations in Federated Multi-Label Learning

Zhiqiang Kou, Junxiang Wu, Wenke Huang, Wenwen He, Ming-Kun Xie, Changwei Wang, Yuheng Jia, Di Jiang, Yang Liu, Xin Geng, Qiang Yang

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Federated Multi-Label Learning is a distributed paradigm where multiple clients possess heterogeneous multi-label data and perform collaborative learning under privacy constraints without sharing raw data. However, modeling label correlations under heterogeneous distributions remains challenging. Due to client-specific label spaces and varying co-occurrence patterns, correlations learned by individual clients inevitably deviate from the global structure, a phenomenon we term label correlation drift. To address this, we propose FedHarmony, a framework that harmonizes heterogeneous label correlations across clients. It introduces consensus correlation, capturing agreement among clients and serving as a global teacher to correct biased local estimates. During aggregation, FedHarmony evaluates each client by both data size and correlation quality, assigning weights accordingly. Moreover, we develop an accelerated optimization algorithm and theoretically establish faster convergence without sacrificing accuracy. Experiments on real-world federated multi-label datasets show that FedHarmony consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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DyaDiT: A Multi-Modal Diffusion Transformer for Socially Favorable Dyadic Gesture Generation

YICHEN PENG, Jyun-Ting Song, Siyeol Jung, Ulsan National Institute of Science & Technology blank, Ruofan Liu, Haiyang Liu, Xuangeng Chu, Ruicong Liu, Erwin Wu, Hideki Koike, Kris Kitani

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Generating realistic conversational gestures are essential for achieving natural, socially engaging interactions with digital humans. However, existing methods typically map a single audio stream to a single speaker's motion, without considering social context or modeling the mutual dynamics between two people engaging in conversation. We present DyaDiT, a multi-modal diffusion transformer that generates contextually appropriate human motion from dyadic audio signals. Trained on Seamless Interaction Dataset, DyaDiT takes dyadic audio with optional social-context tokens to produce context-appropriate motion. It fuses information from both speakers to capture interaction dynamics, uses a motion dictionary to encode motion priors, and can optionally utilize the conversational partner's gestures to produce more responsive motion. We evaluate DyaDiT on standard motion generation metrics and conduct quantitative user studies, demonstrating that it not only surpasses existing methods on objective metrics but is also strongly preferred by users, highlighting its robustness and socially favorable motion generation. Code and models will be released upon acceptance.

Poster
TempR1: Improving Temporal Understanding of MLLMs via Temporal-Aware Multi-Task Reinforcement Learning

Tao Wu, Li Yang, Gen Zhan, Yabin ZHANG, Yiting Liao, Junlin Li, Deliang Fu, Li Zhang, Limin Wang

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Enhancing temporal understanding of MLLMs is essential for long-form video analysis, supporting tasks such as temporal localization and time-sensitive question answering. While reinforcement learning (RL) has been explored for temporal reasoning, existing approaches are often limited to specific tasks or datasets, hindering generalization across diverse temporal scenarios. To address this, we present TempR1, an RL-based method that strengthens MLLMs' temporal comprehension through multi-task training. We construct a multi-task corpus covering diverse temporal structures and build upon the Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) algorithm for stable cross-task optimization. Temporal tasks are categorized into three interval-instance correspondence types, with tailored localization rewards designed for each. This design enables TempR1 to capture fine-grained temporal dependencies and adapt to different temporal patterns. Experiments show that TempR1 achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks. Joint optimization across complementary tasks further produces strong synergy, improving both generalization and single-task performance, thereby providing a scalable paradigm for temporal reasoning in MLLMs.

Poster
CineBrain: A Large-Scale Multi-Modal Audiovisual Brain Dataset for Brain-Conditioned Video Generation

Jianxiong Gao, Yichang Liu, Baofeng Yang, Jianfeng Feng, Yanwei Fu

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Most research decoding brain signals into images, often using them as priors for generative models, has focused only on visual content. This overlooks the brain's natural ability to integrate auditory and visual information, for instance, sound strongly influences how we perceive visual scenes. To investigate this, we propose a new task of reconstructing continuous video stimuli from multimodal brain signals recorded during audiovisual stimulation. To enable this, we introduce CineBrain, the first large-scale dataset that synchronizes fMRI and EEG during audiovisual viewing, featuring six hours of The Big Bang Theory episodes for cross-modal alignment. We also conduct the first systematic exploration of combining fMRI and EEG for video reconstruction and present CineSync, a framework for reconstructing dynamic video using a Multi-Modal Fusion Encoder and a Neural Latent Decoder. CineSync achieves state-of-the-art performance in dynamic reconstruction, leveraging the complementary strengths of fMRI and EEG to improve visual fidelity. Our analysis shows that auditory cortical activations enhance decoding accuracy, highlighting the role of auditory input in visual perception. Project Page: https://jianxgao.github.io/CineBrain.

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LaRP: Efficient Multi-View Inpainting with Latent Reprojection Priors

Gaoyang Zhang, Xinguo Liu

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The task of multi-view inpainting necessitates 3D consistency in the inpainted images. Most prior methods first employ single-view 2D inpainting and then enforce multi-view consistency in a post-hoc 3D optimization stage, which leads to undesirable artifacts and lengthy optimization times. The existing single-stage method, MVInpainter, uses video priors and is pose-free, making it less suitable for inputs beyond video sequences. In this paper, we propose a framework that trains an inpainting model to condition on the explicit and reliable multi-view correspondences from a 3D foundation model. Central to our framework is a cross-view conditioning architecture, LaRP, carefully designed to utilize both the generative prior of a pretrained diffusion inpainting model and the reprojected cross-view appearance latents. We additionally propose a scalable data pipeline for stable training of LaRP. Extensive experiments demonstrate that LaRP outperforms prior methods in 3D consistency and novel view synthesis quality competitive with the state-of-the-art, while being 50x faster.

Poster
OMGTex: One-stage Multi-style Facial Texture Reconstruction without Geometry Guidance

Zitong Xiao, Yuda Qiu, Zisheng Ye, Xiaoguang Han

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We propose OMGTex, an end-to-end diffusion-based framework for reconstructing high-quality and editable facial UV textures from multi-style facial images. Existing texture reconstruction methods face two major limitations: (1) Fragility due to reliance on 3D geometry priors, which are difficult to estimate accurately, especially under facial occlusions or in stylized domains; and (2) A lack of semantic disentanglement, inhibiting region-specific texture editing and style transfer. Our work addresses both challenges simultaneously.Our core innovation is a geometry-free pipeline that directly maps a 2D face image to its corresponding editable UV texture. We introduce two key techniques: First, to address the challenge of UV misalignment common in diffusion generation, we introduce a gradient-guided refinement strategy at inference time, which explicitly corrects structural consistency. Second, we leverage the inherent semantic distribution capability of diffusion models and design a novel training paradigm to enhance this tendency, enabling semantic-aware editing of facial texture. Furthermore, to address the data scarcity in multi-style texture reconstruction, we construct CANVAS, the first comprehensive paired texture reconstruction dataset covering realistic and diverse stylized domains.To the best of our knowledge, OMGTex is the first geometry-free inference framework that achieves robust, style-consistent, and editable facial texture reconstruction across diverse domains. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on facial texture benchmarks. Codes and the pretrained model weights will be publicly released.

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WHU-MARS: A Multispectral Aerial-Ground Benchmark Towards Any-Scenario Person Re-Identification

Yuxuan Zhao, Zhongao Zhou, Bin Yang, He Li, Jian Liang, Jun Chen, Bo Du, Mang Ye

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Recent person re-identification (ReID) leverages heterogeneous sensing with multiple modalities and viewpoints to improve robustness across diverse conditions. However, most approaches target predefined scenario pairs (e.g., visible-infrared or aerial-ground) and train separate task-specific models. In contrast, real-world systems often query against galleries that cover all scenarios, making such designs inefficient and complex to deploy. To bridge this gap, we introduce Any-Scenario ReID (AS-ReID): given a query from any (modality, viewpoint) scenario, a single model retrieves the same identity from a heterogeneous gallery spanning all scenarios. Progress toward AS-ReID is limited by two factors: (i) the lack of a real-world-aligned benchmark with broad scenario coverage, and (ii) the challenge of learning representations with strong intra-identity cohesion and inter-identity discrimination under diverse scenarios. To this end, we construct WHU-MARS, a multispectral aerial-ground benchmark with 2,337 identities and 434,620 images captured by RGB, near-infrared, and thermal infrared cameras on both ground and UAV platforms. WHU-MARS spans day-night, multiple seasons, and diverse weather, enabling AS-ReID as well as conventional ReID tasks. We further propose the Unified Alignment and Discrimination (UAD) framework. Progressive Center Alignment (ProCA) aggregates multi-view features into modality centers and then aligns them toward identity centers to reduce scenario bias. Global Prototype Discrimination (GPD) contrasts samples against global identity prototypes to enforce large-margin discrimination. Extensive experiments highlight the challenges of WHU-MARS and demonstrate the effectiveness of UAD on AS-ReID.

Poster
BriMA: Bridged Modality Adaptation for Multi-Modal Continual Action Quality Assessment

Kanglei Zhou, Chang Li, Qingyi Pan, Liyuan Wang

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Action Quality Assessment (AQA) aims to score how well an action is performed and is widely used in sports analysis, rehabilitation assessment, and human skill evaluation. Multi-modal AQA has recently achieved strong progress by leveraging complementary visual and kinematic cues, yet real-world deployments often suffer from non-stationary modality imbalance, where certain modalities become missing or intermittently available due to sensor failures or annotation gaps. Existing continual AQA methods overlook this issue and assume that all modalities remain complete and stable throughout training, which restricts their practicality. To address this challenge, we introduce Bridged Modality Adaptation (BriMA), an innovative approach to multi-modal continual AQA under modality-missing conditions. BriMA consists of a memory-guided bridging imputation module that reconstructs missing modalities using both task-agnostic and task-specific representations, and a modality-aware replay mechanism that prioritizes informative samples based on modality distortion and distribution drift. Experiments on three representative multi-modal AQA datasets (RG, Fis-V, and FS1000) show that BriMA consistently improves performance under different modality-missing conditions, achieving 6--8% higher correlation and 12--15% lower error on average. These results demonstrate a step toward robust multi-modal AQA systems under real-world deployment constraints. Our code is available at https://github.com/ZhouKanglei/BriMA.

Poster
Hier-COS: Making Deep Features Hierarchy-aware via Composition of Orthogonal Subspaces

Depanshu Sani, Saket Anand

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Traditional classifiers treat all class labels as mutually independent, thereby considering all negative classes to be equally incorrect. This approach fails severely in many real-world scenarios, where a known semantic hierarchy defines a partial order of preferences over negative classes. While hierarchy-aware feature representations have shown promise in mitigating this problem, their performance is typically assessed using metrics like Mistake Severity (MS) and Average Hierarchical Distance (AHD). In this paper, we highlight important shortcomings in existing hierarchical evaluation metrics, demonstrating that they are often incapable of measuring true hierarchical performance. Our analysis reveals that existing methods learn sub-optimal hierarchical representations, despite competitive MS and AHD scores. To counter these issues, we introduce Hierarchical Composition of Orthogonal Subspaces (Hier-COS), a novel framework for unified 'hierarchy-aware fine-grained' and 'hierarchical multi-label' classification. We show that Hier-COS is theoretically guaranteed to be consistent with the given hierarchy tree. Furthermore, our framework implicitly adapts the learning capacity for different classes based on their position within the hierarchy tree -- a vital property absent in existing methods. Finally, to address the limitations of evaluation metrics, we propose Hierarchically Ordered Preference Score (HOPS), a ranking-based metric that demonstrably overcomes the deficiencies of current evaluation standards. We benchmark Hier-COS on four challenging datasets, including the deep and imbalanced tieredImageNet-H (12-level) and iNaturalist-19 (7-level). Through extensive experiments, we demonstrate that Hier-COS achieves state-of-the-art performance across all hierarchical metrics for every dataset, while simultaneously beating the top-1 accuracy in all but one case. Lastly, we show that Hier-COS can effectively learn to transform the frozen features extracted from a pretrained backbone (ViT) to be hierarchy-aware, yielding substantial benefits for hierarchical classification performance.

Poster
Cluster-aware Anchor Learning for Multi-View Clustering

Zhe Chen, Fanhui Meng, Tianyang Xu, Xiao-Jun Wu

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Anchor-based multi-view clustering is attractive for its efficiency, yet most methods fix the number of anchors a priori, implicitly assuming uniform needs across clusters. In practice, clusters differ in information richness, scale, and intrinsic structure, motivating adaptive per-cluster anchor allocation. We propose Cluster-aware Anchor Learning (CAL), which learns a consensus anchor matrix and organizes its columns into cluster-specific anchor groups. CAL imposes an l2,1-norm column-sparsity penalty on each group to suppress redundancy and preserve cluster-discriminative features, thereby automatically determining how many anchors each cluster retains. To further enhance separability, CAL introduces an inter-cluster regularization that constrains relationships among groups, promoting mutual dissimilarity. This data-driven design learns higher-quality, cluster-aware anchors and yields a more discriminative representation matrix across multiple views. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks show that CAL outperforms state-of-the-art multi-view clustering methods, demonstrating superior effectiveness, robustness, and adaptability to heterogeneous cluster structures.

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