CVPR 2026 Papers

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Decision breakdown

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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EXOTIC: External Vision-driven Incomplete Multi-view Classification

Shilin Xu, Dezhong Peng, Zhenwen Ren, Yuan Sun

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Due to sensor failures and occlusions during data acquisition, multi-view data often suffer from partial missing samples, thereby producing incomplete multi-view data. Recently, Incomplete Multi-View Classification (IMVC) has become one of the research hot topics, where numerous IMVC methods have been proposed. Although these methods have achieved promising performance by exploiting internal semantic information from partially observed data, they primarily rely on limited internal supervision for view completion. Clearly, this largely constrains their performance ceiling. To overcome this limitation, we propose an EXternal visiOn-driven incomplete mulTi-vIew Classification (EXOTIC) paradigm that incorporates external vision knowledge as semantic guidance, thereby assisting in imputing incomplete views. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first work that leverages external vision knowledge as supervision signals, thereby guiding missing-view completion. Specifically, we first introduce an external vision knowledge library based on a pre-trained vision-language model. Then, we design a Knowledge Filtering module to adaptively select task-relevant knowledge. Afterwards, we present a Knowledge Purification module to align external knowledge with internal representations. Finally, we propose External Completion that leverages the refined knowledge to impute missing views, thereby enhancing the classification decision ability. Extensive experiments on multiple incomplete multi-view datasets demonstrate that the proposed EXOTIC consistently outperforms existing methods, especially under high missing rates.

Poster
A Semantically Disentangled Unified Model for Multi-category 3D Anomaly Detection

SuYeon Kim, Wongyu Lee, MyeongAh Cho

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3D anomaly detection targets the detection and localization of defects in 3D point clouds trained solely on normal data. While a unified model improves scalability by learning across multiple categories, it often suffers from Inter-Category Entanglement (ICE)--where latent features from different categories overlap, causing the model to adopt incorrect semantic priors during reconstruction and ultimately yielding unreliable anomaly scores. To address this issue, we propose the Semantically Disentangled Unified Model for 3D Anomaly Detection, which reconstructs features conditioned on disentangled semantic representations. Our framework consists of three key components: (i) Coarse-to-Fine Global Tokenization for forming instance-level semantic identity, (ii) Category-Conditioned Contrastive Learning for disentangling category semantics, and (iii) a Geometry-Guided Decoder for semantically consistent reconstruction. Extensive experiments on Real3D-AD and Anomaly-ShapeNet demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art for both unified and category-specific models, improving object-level AUROC by 2.8% and 9.1%, respectively, while enhancing the reliability of unified 3D anomaly detection.

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QuCNet: Quantum Deep Learning Driven Multi-Circuit Network for Remote Sensing Image Classification

Komal Komal, Mukul Gupta, Saumya Singh, Santosh Kumar Vipparthi, C.C. Reddy, Subrahmanyam Murala

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We present QuCNet, a hybrid quantum classical network for efficient remote sensing image classification. QuCNet integrates a lightweight convolutional encoder with sixteen parallel four-qubit trainable quantum circuits (TQCs) trained under a Hybrid Cyclic Weight-Sharing (HCWS) strategy. This design enhances expressibility while keeping the parameter count extremely low 87K, 85x smaller than prior hybrid models). Guided by expressibility analysis, the proposed quantum configuration maintains stable gradients and mitigates barren plateaus on near term quantum devices. Extensive experiments across seven remote sensing benchmarks (AID, AIDER, UC Merced, NWPU-45, EuroSAT, IIITDMJ Smoke, and USTC SmokeRS) demonstrate that QuCNet consistently improves accuracy and generalization over classical CNN baselines. Furthermore, hardware only inference on IBM Quantum processors (ibm_torino, ibm_fez) confirms robustness under realistic noise and connectivity constraints. These results suggest a practical path toward scalable, hardware feasible quantum deep learning for geospatial applications.

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Anti-Degradation Lifelong Multi-View Clustering

Xingfeng Li, Hao Pan, Honglin Yuan, Yuan Sun, Xujian Zhao, Jiaqi Lin, Zhenwen Ren

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In real-world scenarios, new views are continuously collected over time, forming a dynamic view stream. To handle such evolving data, a lifelong multi-view clustering framework is needed instead of a static model. However, large discrepancies across views make it challenging to learn new knowledge while preserving previously acquired information. There are few methods use consistency alignment or knowledge distillation to align new knowledge with old ones. However, these strategies cannot fundamentally prevent knowledge degradation, since new knowledge inevitably interferes with the learned representation space. To overcome this limitation, we propose a new Anti-degradation Lifelong Multi-view Clustering (ALMC) framework. Specifically, we innovatively propose a null-space-projection knowledge base anti-degradation technique, which ensures that new knowledge updates to the model only occur in directions orthogonal to the retained knowledge, thus preventing catastrophic forgetting of knowledge and degradation of clustering performance, and provides theoretical proof for this. Extensive experiments on multiple multi-view benchmark datasets demonstrate superior performance in multi-view clustering.

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Tri-Subspaces Disentanglement for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis

Chunlei Meng, Jiabin Luo, Zhenglin Yan, Zhenyu Yu, Rong Fu, Zhongxue Gan, Chun Ouyang

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Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) integrates language, visual, and acoustic modalities to infer human sentiment. Most existing methods either focus on globally shared representations or modality-specific features, while overlooking signals that are shared only by certain modality pairs. This limits the expressiveness and discriminative power of multimodal representations. To address this limitation, we propose a Tri-Subspace Disentanglement (TSD) framework that explicitly factorizes features into three complementary subspaces: a common subspace capturing global consistency, submodally-shared subspaces modeling pairwise cross-modal synergies, and private subspaces preserving modality-specific cues. To keep these subspaces pure and independent, we introduce a decoupling supervisor together with structured regularization losses. We further design a Subspace-Aware Cross-Attention (SACA) fusion module that adaptively models and integrates information from the three subspaces to obtain richer and more robust representations. Experiments on CMU-MOSI and CMU-MOSEI demonstrate that TSD achieves state-of-the-art performance across all key metrics, reaching 0.691 MAE on CMU-MOSI and 54.6% Acc-7 on CMU-MOSEI under the unaligned setting, and also transfers well to multimodal intent recognition tasks. Ablation studies confirm that tri-subspaces disentanglement and SACA jointly enhance the modeling of multi-granular cross-modal sentiment cues.

Poster
GDFA: Geometry-Driven Federated Unlearning with Directional Task Vector Alignment

Xiuting Weng, Ruizhi Pu, Yuanhang Yao, Kun Yue, Zhiwen Tang, Lixing Yu

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Federated Learning (FL) is a decentralized framework that not only enables collaborative training with different clients but also ensures their local data privacy. However, when deletion requests arise under privacy regulations, efficiently removing specific client data contributions from target clients can be challenging. Existing unlearning methods face significant limitations under Non-IID (Non-Independent and Identically Distributed) data distributions when attempting to unlearn specific target clients in FL. Models in sharp optimization regions can suffer catastrophic knowledge loss from minor parameter changes, exacerbating this forgetting due to conflicting parameter updates across clients caused by Non-IID data distributions in FL. Empirically, we observe that conflicting updates under Non-IID settings generate misaligned task vectors that fail to isolate target knowledge. Therefore, we exploit the loss landscape geometry in unlearning specific target clients. We demonstrate that migrating models to flat regions can enhance unlearning robustness in Non-IID FL. Correspondingly, we introduce GDFA, a framework that initially transitions the global model to a flat loss domain. Subsequently, relevant clients generate unlearning task vectors, which GDFA filters to retain only directionally consistent components. This process isolates shared knowledge attributes before precise removal through reverse vector aggregation, maximizing knowledge retention. Extensive experiments demonstrate that GDFA outperforms state-of-the-art methods in unlearning efficacy and efficiency across diverse datasets and architectures, with minimal accuracy loss on retained tasks.

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Toward Generalizable Whole Brain Representations with High-Resolution Light-Sheet Data

Minyoung E. Kim, Dae Hee Yun, Aditi V. Patel, Madeline Hon, Webster Guan, Taegeon Lee, Brian Nguyen

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Unprecedented visual details of biological structures are being revealed by subcellular-resolution whole-brain 3D microscopy data, enabled by recent advances in intact tissue processing and light-sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM). These volumetric data offer rich morphological and spatial cellular information, however, the lack of scalable data processing and analysis methods tailored to these petabyte-scale data poses a substantial challenge for accurate interpretation. Further, existing models for visual tasks such as object detection and classification struggle to generalize to this type of data. To accelerate the development of suitable methods and foundational models, we present CANVAS, a comprehensive set of high-resolution whole mouse brain LSFM benchmark data, encompassing six neuronal and immune cell-type markers, along with cell annotations and a leaderboard. We also demonstrate challenges in generalization of baseline models built on existing architectures, especially due to the heterogeneity in cellular morphology across phenotypes and anatomical locations in the brain. To the best of our knowledge, CANVAS is the first and largest LSFM benchmark that captures intact mouse brain tissue at subcellular level, and includes extensive annotations of cells throughout the brain.

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NexusFlow: Unifying Disparate Tasks under Partial Supervision via Invertible Flow Networks

Fangzhou Lin, Yuping Wang, Yuliang Guo, Zixun Huang, Xinyu Huang, Haichong Zhang, Kazunori Yamada, Zhengzhong Tu, Liu Ren, Ziming Zhang

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Partially Supervised Multi-Task Learning (PS-MTL) aims to leverage knowledge across tasks when annotations are incomplete. Existing approaches, however, have largely focused on the simpler setting of homogeneous, dense prediction tasks, leaving the more realistic challenge of learning from structurally diverse tasks unexplored. To this end, we introduce NexusFlow, a novel, lightweight, and plug-and-play framework effective in both settings. NexusFlow introduces a set of surrogate networks with invertible coupling layers to align the latent feature distributions of tasks, creating a unified representation that enables effective knowledge transfer. The coupling layers are bijective, preserving information while mapping features into a shared canonical space. This invertibility avoids representational collapse and enables alignment across structurally different tasks without reducing expressive capacity.We first evaluate NexusFlow on the core challenge of domain-partitioned autonomous driving, where dense map reconstruction and sparse multi-object tracking are supervised in different geographic regions, creating both structural disparity and a strong domain gap. NexusFlow sets a new state-of-the-art result on nuScenes, outperforming strong partially supervised baselines. To demonstrate generality, we further test NexusFlow on NYUv2 using three homogeneous dense prediction tasks, segmentation, depth, and surface normals, as a representative N-task PS-MTL scenario. NexusFlow yields consistent gains across all tasks, confirming its broad applicability.

Poster
Test-time Ego-Exo-centric Adaptation for Action Anticipation via Multi-Label Prototype Growing and Dual-Clue Consistency

Zhaofeng Shi, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang, Qingbo Wu, Fanman Meng, Lili Pan, Hongliang Li

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Efficient adaptation between Egocentric (Ego) and Exocentric (Exo) views is crucial for applications such as human-robot cooperation. However, the success of most existing Ego-Exo adaptation methods relies heavily on target-view data for training, thereby increasing computational and data collection costs. In this paper, we make the first exploration of a Test-time Ego-Exo Adaptation for Action Anticipation (TE^ 2 A^ 3 ) task, which aims to adjust the source-view-trained model online during test time to anticipate target-view actions. It is challenging for existing Test-Time Adaptation (TTA) methods to address this task due to the multi-action candidates and significant temporal-spatial inter-view gap. Hence, we propose a novel Dual-Clue enhanced Prototype Growing Network (DCPGN), which accumulates multi-label knowledge and integrates cross-modality clues for effective test-time Ego-Exo adaptation and action anticipation. Specifically, we propose a Multi-Label Prototype Growing Module (ML-PGM) to balance multiple positive classes via multi-label assignment and confidence-based reweighting for class-wise memory banks, which are updated by an entropy priority queue strategy. Then, the Dual-Clue Consistency Module (DCCM) introduces a lightweight narrator to generate textual clues indicating action progressions, which complement the visual clues containing various objects. Moreover, we constrain the inferred textual and visual logits to construct dual-clue consistency for temporally and spatially bridging Ego and Exo views. Extensive experiments on the newly proposed EgoMe-anti and the existing EgoExoLearn benchmarks show the effectiveness of our method, which outperforms related state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Code is available at \href https://github.com/ZhaofengSHI/DCPGN https://github.com/ZhaofengSHI/DCPGN .

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Frequency Switching Mechanism for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Task Learning

Shih-Wen Liu, Yen-Chang Chen, Wei-Ta Chu, Fu-En Yang, Yu-Chiang Frank Wang

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Multi-task learning (MTL) aims to enable a single model to solve multiple tasks efficiently; however, current parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods remain largely limited to single-task adaptation. We introduce Free Sinewich, a parameter-efficient multi-task learning framework that enables near-zero-cost weight modulation via frequency switching (Free). Specifically, a Sine-AWB (Sinewich) layer combines low-rank factors and convolutional priors into a single kernel, which is then modulated elementwise by a sinusoidal transformation to produce task-specialized weights. A lightweight Clock Net is introduced to produce bounded frequencies that stabilize this modulation during training. Theoretically, sine modulation enhances the rank of low-rank adapters, while frequency separation decorrelates the weights of different tasks. On dense prediction benchmarks, Free Sinewich achieves state-of-the-art performance-efficiency trade-offs (e.g., up to +5.39% improvement over single-task fine-tuning with only 6.53M trainable parameters), offering a compact and scalable paradigm based on frequency-based parameter sharing.

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MS-Temba: Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba for Understanding Long Untrimmed Videos

Arkaprava Sinha, Monish Soundar Raj, Pu Wang, Ahmed Helmy, Hieu Le, Srijan Das

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Temporal Action Detection (TAD) in untrimmed videos poses significant challenges, particularly for Activities of Daily Living (ADL) requiring models to (1) process long-duration videos, (2) capture temporal variations in actions, and (3) simultaneously detect dense overlapping actions. Existing CNN and Transformer-based approaches, struggle to jointly capture fine-grained detail and long-range structure at scale. State-space Model (SSM) based Mamba offers powerful long-range modeling, but naive application to TAD collapses fine-grained temporal structure and fails to account for the challenges inherent to TAD. To this end, we propose Multi-Scale Temporal Mamba (MS-Temba), which extends Mamba to TAD with newly introduced dilated SSMs. Each Temba block, comprising dilated SSMs coupled with our proposed additional losses, enables the learning of discriminative representations across temporal scales. A lightweight Multi-scale Mamba Fuser then unifies these multi-scale features via SSM-based aggregation, yielding precise action-boundary localization. With only 17M parameters, MS-Temba achieves state-of-the-art performance on densely labeled ADL benchmarks TSU & Charades, and further generalizes to long-form video summarization, setting new state-of-the-art results on TVSum & SumMe.

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LUMINA: A Multi-Vendor Mammography Benchmark with Energy Harmonization Protocol

Hongyi Pan, Gorkem Durak, Halil Ertugrul Aktas, Andrea M. Bejar, Baver Tutun, Emre Uysal, Ezgi Bulbul, Mehmet Fatih Dogan, Berrin Erok, Berna Akkus Yildirim, Sukru Mehmet Erturk, Ulas Bagci

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Publicly available full-field digital mammography (FFDM) datasets remain limited in size, clinical annotations, and vendor diversity, hindering the development of robust models. We introduce LUMINA, a curated, multi-vendor FFDM dataset that explicitly encodes acquisition energy and vendor metadata to capture clinically relevant appearance variations often overlooked in existing benchmarks. This dataset contains 1824 images from 468 patients (960 benign, 864 malignant), with pathology-confirmed labels, BI-RADS assessments, and breast-density annotations. LUMINA spans six acquisition systems and includes both high- and low-energy imaging styles, enabling systematic analysis of vendor- and energy-induced domain shifts. To address these variations, we propose a foreground-only pixel-space alignment method ("energy harmonization") that maps images to a low-energy reference while preserving lesion morphology. We benchmark CNN and transformer models on three clinically relevant tasks: diagnosis (benign vs. malignant), BI-RADS classification, and density estimation. Two-view models consistently outperform single-view models. EfficientNet-B0 achieves an AUC of 93.54% for diagnosis, while Swin-T achieves the best macro-AUC of 89.43% for density prediction. Harmonization improves performance across architectures and produces more localized Grad-CAM responses. Overall, LUMINA provides (1) a vendor-diverse benchmark and (2) a model-agnostic harmonization framework for reliable and deployable mammography AI.

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AURA: Multi-modal Shared Autonomy for Urban Navigation

Yukai Ma, Honglin He, Selina Song, Wayne Wu, Bolei Zhou

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Long-horizon navigation in complex urban environments relies heavily on continuous human operation, which leads to fatigue, reduced efficiency, and safety concerns. Shared autonomy, where a Vision-Language AI agent and a human operator collaborate on maneuvering the mobile machine, presents a promising solution to address these issues. However, existing shared autonomy methods often require humans and AI to operate within the same action space, leading to high cognitive overhead. We present Assistive Urban Robot Autonomy (AURA), a new multi-modal framework that decomposes urban navigation into high-level human instruction and low-level AI control. AURA incorporates a Spatial-Aware Instruction Encoder to align various human instructions with visual and spatial context. To facilitate training, we construct MM-CoS, a large-scale dataset comprising teleoperation and vision-language descriptions. Experiments in simulation and the real world demonstrate that AURA effectively follows human instructions, reduces manual operation effort, and improves navigation stability, while enabling online adaptation. Moreover, under similar takeover conditions, our shared autonomy framework reduces the frequency of takeovers by more than 44%. Demo video and more detail are provided in the project page.

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Multi-SpatialMLLM: Multi-Frame Spatial Understanding with Multi-Modal Large Language Models

Runsen Xu, Weiyao Wang, Hao Tang, Xingyu Chen, Xiaodong Wang, FU-JEN CHU, Matt Feiszli, Kevin J Liang

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Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced in visual tasks, yet their spatial understanding remains limited to single images, leaving them ill-suited for physical-world applications that require multi-frame reasoning. In this paper, we propose a framework to equip MLLMs with multi-frame spatial understanding by integrating fundamental spatial skills, including depth perception, visual correspondence, and dynamic perception. We design a novel data pipeline and collect the MultiSPA dataset of more than 27 million samples spanning diverse 3D and 4D scenes to enable training. Alongside MultiSPA, we introduce a comprehensive benchmark that tests a wide spectrum of spatial tasks under uniform metrics. Our resulting model, Multi-SpatialMLLM, achieves significant gains over baselines and proprietary systems, demonstrating scalable and generalizable multi-frame perception. We further observe multi-task benefits and emergent spatial capabilities in challenging scenarios, and showcase how our model can serve as a multi-frame reward annotator for robotics.

Poster
Rethinking Position Embedding as a Context Controller for Multi-Reference and Multi-Shot Video Generation

Binyuan Huang, Yuning Lu, Weinan Jia, Hualiang Wang, Mu Liu, Daiqing Yang

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Recent proprietary models such as Sora2 demonstrate promising progress in generating multi-shot videos conditioned on multiple reference characters. However, academic research on this problem remains limited. We study this task and identify a core challenge: when reference images exhibit highly similar appearances, the model often suffers from reference confusion, where semantically similar tokens degrade the model's ability to retrieve the correct context. To address this, we introduce PoCo (Position Embedding as a Context Controller), which incorporates position encoding as additional context control beyond semantic retrieval. By employing side information of tokens, PoCo enables precise token-level matching while preserving implicit semantic consistency modeling. Building on PoCo, we develop a multi-reference and multi-shot video generation model capable of reliably controlling characters with extremely similar visual traits. Extensive experiments demonstrate that PoCo improves cross-shot consistency and reference fidelity compared with various baselines.

Poster
Any Resolution Any Geometry: From Multi-View To Multi-Patch

Wenqing Cui, Zhenyu Li, Mykola Lavreniuk, Jian Shi, Ramzi Idoughi, Xiangjun Tang, Peter Wonka

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Joint estimation of surface normals and depth is essential for holistic 3D scene understanding, yet high-resolution prediction remains difficult due to the trade-off between preserving fine local detail and maintaining global consistency. To address this challenge, we propose the Ultra Resolution Geometry Transformer (URGT), which adapts the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) into a unified multi-patch transformer for monocular high-resolution depth-normal estimation. A single high-resolution image is partitioned into patches that are augmented with coarse depth and normal priors from pre-trained models, and jointly processed in a single forward pass to predict refined geometric outputs. Global coherence is enforced through cross-patch attention, which enables long-range geometric reasoning and seamless propagation of information across patches within a shared backbone. To further enhance spatial robustness, we introduce a GridMix patch sampling strategy that probabilistically samples grid configurations during training, improving inter-patch consistency and generalization. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results on UnrealStereo4K, jointly improving depth and normal estimation---reducing AbsRel from 0.0582 to 0.0291, RMSE from 2.17 to 1.31, and lowering mean angular error from 23.36deg to 18.27deg--while producing sharper and more stable geometry. The proposed multi-patch framework also demonstrates strong zero-shot and cross-domain generalization and scales effectively to very high resolutions, offering an efficient and extensible solution for high-quality geometry refinement.

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CoIn3D: Revisiting Configuration-Invariant Multi-Camera 3D Object Detection

Zhaonian Kuang, Rui Ding, Haotian Wang, Xinhu Zheng, Meng Yang, Gang Hua

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Multi-camera 3D object detection (MC3D) has attracted increasing attention with the growing deployment of multi-sensor physical agents, such as robots and autonomous vehicles. However, MC3D models still struggle to generalize to unseen platforms with new multi-camera configurations. Current solutions simply employ a meta-camera for unified representation but lack comprehensive consideration. In this paper, we revisit this issue and identify that the devil lies in spatial prior discrepancies across source and target configurations, including different intrinsics, extrinsics, and array layouts. To address this, we propose CoIn3D, a generalizable MC3D framework that enables strong transferability from source configurations to unseen target ones. CoIn3D explicitly incorporates all identified spatial priors into both feature embedding and image observation through spatial-aware feature modulation (SFM) and camera-aware data augmentation (CDA), respectively. SFM enriches feature space by integrating four spatial representations, such as focal length, ground depth, ground gradient, and Plucker coordinate. CDA improves observation diversity under various configurations via a training-free dynamic novel-view image synthesis scheme. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CoIn3D achieves strong cross-configuration performance on landmark datasets such as NuScenes, Waymo, and Lyft, under three dominant MC3D paradigms represented by BEVDepth, BEVFormer, and PETR.

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3D-Aware Multi-Task Learning with Cross-View Correlations for Dense Scene Understanding

Xiaoye Wang, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Wei-Hong Li

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This paper addresses the challenge of training a single network to jointly perform multiple dense prediction tasks, such as segmentation and depth estimation, i.e., multi-task learning (MTL). Current approaches mainly capture cross-task relations in the 2D image space, often leading to unstructured features lacking 3D-awareness. We argue that 3D-awareness is vital for modeling cross-task correlations essential for comprehensive scene understanding. We propose to address this problem by integrating correlations across views, i.e., cost volume, as geometric consistency in the MTL network. Specifically, we introduce a lightweight Cross-view Module (CvM), shared across tasks, to exchange information across views and capture cross-view correlations, which are integrated with MTL encoder features for multi-task prediction. This module is architecture-agnostic and can be applied to both single- and multi-view data. Extensive results on NYUv2 and PASCAL-Context demonstrate that our method effectively injects geometric consistency into existing MTL methods to improve performance.

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Chorus: Multi-Teacher Pretraining for Holistic 3D Gaussian Scene Encoding

Yue Li, Qi Ma, Runyi Yang, Mengjiao Ma, Bin Ren, Nikola Popovic, Nicu Sebe, Theo Gevers, Luc Van Gool, Danda Pani Paudel, Martin R. Oswald

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While 3DGS has emerged as a high-fidelity scene representation, encoding rich, general-purpose features directly from its primitives remains under-explored. We address this gap by introducing Chorus, a multi-teacher pretraining framework that learns a holistic feed-forward 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scene encoder by distilling complementary signals from 2D foundation models. Chorus employs a shared 3D encoder and teacher-specific projectors to learn from language-aligned, generalist, and object-aware teachers, encouraging a shared embedding space that captures signals from high-level semantics to fine-grained structure. We evaluate Chorus on a wide range of tasks: open-vocabulary semantic and instance segmentation, linear and decoder probing, data-efficient supervision, as well as LLM-based Q&A. Besides 3DGS, we also test Chorus on several benchmarks that only support point clouds by pretraining a variant using only Gaussians' centers, colors, estimated normals. Interestingly, this encoder shows strong transfer and outperforms the point clouds baseline while using 39.9xfewer training scenes. Finally, we propose a render-and-distill adaptation that facilitates out-of-domain finetuning. Our code and model is released at this codebase.

Oral
Task-Driven Implicit Representations for Automated Design of LiDAR Systems

Nikhil Behari, Aaron Young, Tzofi Klinghoffer, Akshat Dave, Ramesh Raskar

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Imaging system design is a complex, time-consuming, and largely manual process; LiDAR design, ubiquitous in mobile devices, autonomous vehicles, and aerial imaging platforms, adds further complexity through unique spatial and temporal sampling requirements. In this work, we propose a framework for automated, task-driven LiDAR system design under arbitrary constraints. To achieve this, we represent LiDAR configurations in a continuous six-dimensional design space and learn task-specific implicit densities in this space via flow-based generative modeling. We then synthesize new LiDAR systems by modeling sensors as parametric distributions in 6D space and fitting these distributions to our learned implicit density using expectation-maximization, enabling efficient, constraint-aware LiDAR system design. We validate our method on diverse tasks in 3D vision, enabling automated LiDAR system design across real-world-inspired applications in face scanning, robotic tracking, and object detection.

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