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arXiv

muSync-GS: Physics-Synchronized Driving Video Synthesis for Weather and Geometric Road Hazards

Yang Chen, Yicheng Zhu, Tao Li, Zilin Bian

High-quality driving data are essential for autonomous-driving systems and generative world models. However, rare and safety-critical scenarios involving adverse weather, braking under low tire--road friction, and uneven road geometry are costly and risky to collect at scale. Existing video-generation and 3D Gaussian editing methods can modify weather appearance or road geometry, but typically do not couple these edits with tire--road interaction and vehicle dynamics. As a result, an edited video may retain its original trajectory even when the modified road condition should alter braking, wheel slip, load transfer, and ego-camera motion. We present muSync-GS, a physics-synchronized framework for driving video synthesis under adverse-weather and road-elevation hazards. A precipitation-derived road-surface condition jointly controls road appearance and tire friction, while a shared road-elevation profile drives both visible road-geometry editing and axle excitation. A calibrated vehicle model predicts speed, slip ratio, normal loads, and pitch for constructing the ego-camera trajectory and synchronized physical annotations. On 12 held-out CarSim cases spanning precipitation levels, brake inputs, and road-profile parameters, the model achieves mean case-wise RMSEs of 0.0273 m/s for speed, 0.0590 degrees for pitch, 0.0101 for slip ratio, and 26.61 N for per-wheel normal load. Together with the reconstructed-scene experiments, these results show that muSync-GS accurately reproduces vehicle responses under held-out controls while synchronizing them with controllable scene edits and ego-camera motion.

arXiv

Perceptual Anchoring: Prototype-Guided Text Calibration for Training-free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation

Wanli Ma, Jiangwen Lu, Qinmu Peng, Xinge You

Training-free open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) partitions an image into semantically distinct regions based on arbitrary text descriptions, without learning any additional parameters. However, existing methods typically focus on improving visual representations while treating text embeddings that encode only generic category concepts as fixed classification references. The resulting semantic gap between these generic concepts and the visual representations that capture the specific appearances of target instances often causes incomplete masks and erroneous predictions in non-target regions. Inspired by the symbol-percept correspondence underlying perceptual anchoring, we propose Prototype-Guided Text Calibration (PTC) for training-free OVSS. In the Perceiving stage, PTC selects reliable visual evidence based on initial matching scores to construct category-specific visual prototypes. In the Anchoring stage, PTC uses these prototypes to calibrate their corresponding text embeddings, with the calibration strength adaptively adjusted based on the amount of visual evidence. Consequently, the calibrated text embeddings align more accurately with instance-specific visual representations while preserving generic category semantics and open-vocabulary generalization. Moreover, PTC requires neither additional training nor external models and can serve as a plug-and-play module for existing methods. Extensive experiments across eight benchmarks show that PTC significantly enhances the performance of six representative methods and yields more complete and accurate segmentation results. These results validate PTC as a simple and effective approach to improving visual-text alignment.

arXiv

CROSS: Cascaded Distillation and Dual-Constraint Grounding for Remote Sensing Referring Segmentation

Tingzhang Luo, Ruizhong Liu, Yichao Liu, Cheng Fan, Yu Liu, Jianyuan Guo

Referring Remote Sensing Image Segmentation (RRSIS) has achieved significant progress through the integration of VLMs and the Segment Anything Model (SAM). However, this progress largely relies on strong pre-trained capabilities, while leaving two fundamental limitations insufficiently addressed: (1) Architectural Weak-Coupling, where the unidirectional flow forces reliance on coarse VLM prompts and wastes SAM's pixel-level structural guidance, causing localization drift; and (2) Object-Centric Semantic Bias, where models overemphasize dominant object semantics while remaining insensitive to spatial reasoning crucial for RRSIS. Motivated by these observations, we propose CROSS, a tightly integrated paradigm for RRSIS. First, we introduce Linguistic-Guided Cascaded Distillation (LGCD) to bridge the architectural gap, which distills SAM's geometric affinities as soft regularizers into VLM intermediate layers, injecting dense structural priors to refine localization. Second, Perspective-Spatial Contrastive Learning (PSCL) imposes cross-anchored constraints by mining mask-filtered deceptive distractors and spatial-linguistic counterfactuals as hard negatives, explicitly shattering semantic shortcuts to enforce genuine logical consistency. Extensive experiments on RRSIS benchmarks demonstrate that CROSS achieves state-of-the-art performance and maintains precise localization even under severe spatial description perturbations, standing as a robust new paradigm for RRSIS.

arXiv

A Human-in-the-Loop Deep Learning Framework for Color Reconstruction of Lenticular Films

Saptarshi Neil Sinha, Tiago Kleist, Giorgio Trumpy

Historical lenticular films, such as those created with the Kodacolor process, encode color information in a distinctive spatial format. This structure requires specialized techniques for accurate color reconstruction. While recent signal processing approaches like doLCE and deep learning methods like deep-doLCE have advanced automated color recovery, they often fail with cases such as curved lenticules, low-contrast, or badly captured regions. We propose a human-in-the-loop (HITL) deep learning framework which is designed for color reconstruction in lenticular films. Our approach introduces an editable, vector-based representation of lenticule boundaries, allowing experts to interactively refine boundary positions before color extraction and demosaicing. This decoupled architecture enables targeted corrections and iterative fine-tuning, embedding expert knowledge into the detection model and improving robustness across challenging frames. To preserve image details using information solely present in the original silver emulsion, we merge the reconstructed chrominance with the original film scan's luminance. We evaluate our pipeline on a challenging lenticular film sequence where previous automated approaches fail and the reconstructed colors are not suitable for exhibition. In contrast, our HITL approach successfully produces high-quality, exhibitable color reconstructions with preserved texture. This work is the first to combine expert guidance, editable intermediate representations, and texture-preserving post-processing for lenticular film color reconstruction, advancing the state of the art in this field.

arXiv

GROVE: Growing and Reasoning over Temporally Stratified Memory from Streaming Video Experience

Sitong Gong, Caixin Kang, Tianyu Yan, Guo Chen, Bo Zheng, Kaipeng Zhang, Yunzhi Zhuge, Xiang Ruan, Huchuan Lu, Yifei Huang

A wearable assistant should both answer questions about its visual history and recognize when that history is useful to the present situation. Existing video-memory systems primarily support question-conditioned recall, whereas proactive assistants typically use separate memory and control mechanisms. We introduce GROVE, a training-free framework that supports both behaviors with one memory grown causally from a continuous video stream. GROVE retains fine-grained perceptual evidence and incrementally consolidates it into time-stamped moments, coherent episodes, and recurring cross-day patterns. Each stratum is paired with a scale-native retrieval skill for locating an observation, replaying an activity, or traversing long-range regularities. Reactive QA and proactive assistance share this memory and access interface, differing in whether retrieval is initiated by a user query or the current situation. Across multiple benchmarks including the challenging MM-lifelong and EgoServe, GROVE achieves the best results among the compared methods. Controlled ablations show that the temporal strata and their access skills are complementary, with patterns providing the largest benefit when evidence spans multiple days. Code will be available at https://github.com/SitongGong/GROVE.

arXiv

PhyCheck: Fine-Grained Evidence-Grounded Dataset for Physical Law Understanding in Video-LLMs

Zhongjie Ba, Shengwang Xu, Peng Cheng, Jinyang Zou, Ting Yu, Zhibo Wang, Zhan Qin

Embodied intelligence and world models require video understanding systems to go beyond recognizing objects and actions and develop an understanding of physical regularities. However, despite their strong performance on general video understanding tasks, current video-language models still struggle to reliably determine whether an observed event conforms to specific physical laws. Existing benchmarks primarily assess the physical quality of generated videos, providing limited support for systematically evaluating and improving the physical-law understanding of Video Large Language Models (VideoLLMs). To address this gap, we introduce PhyCheck, a video question answering dataset organized at two complementary levels of granularity. The coarse-grained subset asks models to determine whether the phenomenon shown in a video conforms to or violates physical laws, while the fine-grained subset further examines whether models can capture physical details responsible for the violation or compliance. We use these subsets as structured supervision to improve physical understanding. In addition, the dataset contains a diagnostic subset with external causal context that reveal hidden factors affecting physical plausibility, assessing whether models can recalibrate their judgments accordingly. Experiments with Fine-tune Qwen2.5-VL show that training with the proposed data substantially improves the understanding of physical-consistency, while evaluations in the diagnostic subset reveal that current models still have difficulty incorporating additional causal conditions into their decisions. These findings highlight the gap between recognizing surface-level inconsistencies and understanding underlying physical mechanisms, and provide a foundation for evaluating and improving physical understanding in Video-LLMs.

arXiv

HiResNets: Native Full-HD Video Recognition with Foveal Residual Streams

Shivani Mall, Swarnim Jain, Joao F. Henriques

Much of the recent progress in image and video recognition has come at the cost of memory: larger models, increased resolution, and longer temporal contexts. An inevitable component is the quadratic (or larger) growth of memory and compute based on image resolution, which is a property of the grid sampling used in convolutional networks and vision transformers. In this work we study residual networks whose convolutional blocks have logarithmic-square growth instead, enabling them to process very high-resolution video quickly. The key insight is to use a residual architecture's residual stream as a high-resolution buffer, to which convolutional blocks only read and write via log-polar image warp operations. Layers adaptively focus on different parts of each frame, with very high resolution only near the focus point. A complete high-resolution representation is built up in the residual stream, analogous to eye saccades creating a complete picture in biological vision, and a theoretical construction is presented that eliminates the quadratic dependency of the residual stream resolution. Experiments demonstrate that our proposed HiResNets learn to foveate around scenes similarly to human vision, and have superior performance in difficult egocentric video recognition tasks, especially egocentric video with small objects and fine-grained recognition.

arXiv

STEAM: A Spatio-TEmporal Alignment Mixture-of-Experts Model with Hierarchical Pre-training for EEG Decoding

Zhu Chen, Dingkun Liu, Yuheng Chen, Dongrui Wu

Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) have been widely used in motor rehabilitation, disease diagnosis, and other neural engineering scenarios. However, conventional neural signal decoding algorithms often suffer from limited generalizability and high adaptation costs, motivating recent interest in BCI foundation models. Existing approaches still struggle to jointly achieve general transferability, accurate decoding, and efficient downstream adaptation. We present STEAM, a hierarchical transfer framework that reconciles general-purpose representation learning with paradigm-specific specialization in EEG foundation models. The framework is instantiated as a dual-branch spatio-temporal encoder in which a shared soft mixture-of-experts (SSMoE) module aligns the spatial and temporal branches, allowing complementary representations to exchange information through a compact set of soft slots. Across seven downstream datasets and fourteen evaluation settings, STEAM attains the best average rank among the compared methods at a competitive inference cost measured in FLOPs. Building upon the Stage-I general initialization, the hierarchical pre-training strategy further specializes the model to a target paradigm without retraining from scratch, yielding consistent gains in paradigm-specific decoding accuracy.

arXiv

GenTrack: Physical Alignment for Robot-Native Motion Generation and Zero-Shot Humanoid Tracking

Zeyu Ling, Xinyao Yu, Renye Yan, Jikang Cheng, Zhanke Wang, Qing Shuai, Changqing Zou

General-purpose humanoid trackers can execute diverse references, but their zero-shot coverage depends on large embodied corpora that are costly to extend. Text-to-motion generators offer scalable supervision, yet models trained on human motion or retargeted data inherit a gap between kinematic plausibility and robot executability. Existing one-way pipelines fix either the generated corpus or the reward tracker. We introduce GenTrack, an online generator--tracker framework that alternates execution-grounded, group-relative generator alignment with tracker training on newly generated references; anchoring and rehearsal constrain drift. On Unitree G1, we evaluate GenTrack with ProtoMotions and SONIC backbones across three zero-shot tracking splits including public AMASS and LAFAN benchmarks, and a private out-of-distribution test set of 1,024 prompt-motion pairs in the wild. The online co-training strategy consistently produces generators that output more robot-executable motions with strong semantic alignment, and trackers with markedly broader zero-shot coverage and improved tracking accuracy, especially on out-of-distribution references. These results demonstrate that joint online post-training effectively narrows the executability gap between retargeted references and robot-native motion, advancing zero-shot humanoid control without additional data collection and beyond the limitations of a static reference pool.

arXiv

It's the Decoding Format, Not the Perturbation: Auditing Consistency-Based Selection for Vision-Language Test-Time Scaling

Puzhuo Zheng, Hasan Kurban

Test-time scaling lifts large language model reasoning by sampling many candidate solutions and selecting among them, yet the same recipe transfers poorly to vision-language models (VLMs): recent work shows that simple majority voting beats selection methods built on the model's own self-verification, apparently because at the selection layer an image-grounded answer and a confident guess from the language prior look the same. A natural fix is to make the selection signal one that cannot be computed without the image. We study Perturbation Grounded Selection (Pgs), a label-free, training-free rule that scores each candidate by whether the model re-derives it under label-preserving perturbations of the input (cropping, background masking, mild photometric or geometric jitter); Pgs recovers majority voting when the perturbation set is empty. The decisive question is not whether Pgs beats chain-of-thought only majority voting, but whether the perturbation term adds anything once decoding format and budget are controlled. We therefore introduce a format-matched control (MatchedCtrl): the same short, no-CoT draws spent on the original image. Across TextVQA, MATH-Vision, MMMU, and ViLP, with a Qwen headline (three-seed means) and LLaVA-OneVision coverage in matched-budget selector tables, Pgs appears to beat plain majority voting by up to +31.8 points on TextVQA (Qwen), but MatchedCtrl tracks or exceeds Pgs within noise on every benchmark, including the vision-required ViLP; no Qwen category shows a significant gain over this control. The stability gap is real and image-dependent (up to +0.48), yet does not predict per-instance wins. The result is negative and diagnostic: perturbation consistency is at best a partial diagnostic of visual dependence and, on its own, not a usable selection signal once format is controlled; gains reported against CoT-only majority voting overstate such methods.

arXiv

Evaluation-Verification Reward for Consistent Multi-Reference Image Editing

Yingmao Miao, Pengfei ZHANG, Xiaochen Lv, Meng Yu, Lei Sun, Xiangxiang Chu, Chao Shen, Chenhao Lin

While recent image editing models have made rapid progress, multi-reference editing remains challenging, particularly in maintaining visual consistency across references and ensuring overall visual harmony. Reinforcement learning has proven highly effective for text-to-image generation and single-image editing, but its extension to multi-reference editing is hindered by the absence of suitable reward models that capture multi-image relational constraints. Moreover, naively using multimodal large language models(MLLMs) as zero-shot evaluators faces a key tension between hallucination-prone long-form reasoning and the limited deductive power of short-form judgments. We address these issues with a Multi-dimensional Evaluation-Verification Reward(EVR). EVR decomposes evaluation into distinct visual criteria; for each criterion, an MLLM Evaluator generates multiple candidate hypotheses, and a Verifier grounds each claim in concrete visual evidence to accept or reject it, producing reliable and fine-grained reward signals. Together with a scalable data pipeline, our method enables RL fine-tuning of off-the-shelf editors without architectural changes. Extensive experiments show substantial gains over the base Qwen-Image-Edit, improving consistency and harmony to match or surpass NanoBanana.

arXiv

CORF-GS: Real-Time Wireless Radiance Field Reconstruction via Coupled Optical-RF Gaussian Splatting

Jinya Zhang, Jiajia Guo, Chao-Kai Wen, Shi Jin

Recent advances in 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS)-based wireless radiance field (WRF) reconstruction provide an efficient solution for wireless channel modeling. However, existing WRF reconstruction methods rely on pre-collected observations and offline optimization, and thus struggle to provide real-time channel knowledge. To bridge this gap, we propose CORF-GS, a real-time WRF reconstruction framework that processes sequential optical and radio frequency (RF) keyframes. Specifically, CORF-GS constructs a unified Gaussian representation for optical and RF with shared geometry and modality-specific appearance, allowing high-resolution optical images to provide structural priors for WRF reconstruction. When a new keyframe arrives, CORF-GS first employs optical-guided Gaussian sampling to densify the WRF in under-represented regions. Since light and radio waves may respond differently to the same object surfaces due to wavelength mismatch, relying solely on optical guidance may neglect RF-informative areas. Therefore, CORF-GS performs coupled optical-RF optimization to jointly refine the shared Gaussians. Compared with the existing two-stage training pipelines, this prevents WRF from passively adapting to a frozen optical geometry and encourages the shared Gaussians to adapt to both optical structures and RF power distributions. Simulations show that CORF-GS achieves state-of-the-art RF spectrum synthesis quality and reduces the reconstruction time by $6.4\times$ compared with existing WRF methods.

arXiv

ArtChart: Faithful Artistic Chart Generation with Integrated Text Rendering

Meijia Huang, Yingjie Yin, Shihao Wang, Chenguang Ma

Artistic charts combine data visualization with expressive marks, textures, and typography, but they are difficult for image generators: an output is useful only when its stylization preserves chart geometry, exact in-image text, and the semantic binding between labels and marks. We introduce ArtChart, a framework for faithful artistic chart generation with integrated text rendering. Given a structured chart specification and an artistic prompt, ArtChart first renders a text-free grayscale layout that encodes the target chart geometry, then trains a chart-specific control module to preserve mathematical structure. To address the remaining text and layout errors, we further refine the generation policy through GRPO-based reinforcement learning with OCR-based text rewards, VLM-based layout rewards, and aesthetic rewards. A multi-expert distillation stage reconciles these objectives by distilling single-reward experts into one balanced generation policy. We also construct ArtChart-Bench, a bilingual 2K-prompt benchmark covering four chart types, controlled value distributions, diverse label/value formats, and 15 artistic styles, together with ArtChart-Eval, a six-axis evaluation protocol measuring mathematical logic, text accuracy, text layout, aesthetics, instruction following, and readability. Experiments on ArtChart-Bench show that ArtChart consistently outperforms prompt-only, image-editing, and generic ControlNet baselines, with the largest gains on mathematical fidelity and label-layout binding while maintaining competitive visual quality. These results suggest that artistic chart generation should be evaluated as reliable visual communication rather than as generic stylized image synthesis.

arXiv

Exo2EgoPose: Leveraging Exocentric Demonstrations for Vision-Language guided Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Forecasting

Zhaofeng Shi, Heqian Qiu, Lanxiao Wang, Xiang Li, Hongliang Li

Perceiving multimodal cues and forecasting fine-grained actions from an egocentric (Ego) perspective is vital for applications like robot manipulation. However, previous studies either rely mainly on under-informed visual inputs to predict coarse human motions or follow the VRM/VLA paradigm, which suffers from insufficient robot data and the gap between human and robot embodiments. We observe that 3D hand pose naturally serves as a unified representation to bridge human-robot actions. Hence, we investigate an under-explored Vision-Language guided Egocentric 3D Hand Pose Forecasting (VL-EHPF) task, which aims to predict future Ego 3D hand poses from visual observations, a language instruction, and pose states. To overcome the limited field-of-view and highly dynamic motions in the Ego view, we propose a framework dubbed Exo2EgoPose, which innovatively leverages holistic and stable exocentric (Exo) demonstrations as guidance to compensate for partial and dynamic Ego-view cues. Specifically, we introduce a Dual-level Exocentric Reconstruction Module (DERM), which incorporates the paired Exo videos as supervision to reconstruct their video-level and chunked frame-level representations, thereby modeling spatial contexts and temporal dynamics. Then, the Global-to-Local Modulation Module (GLMM) utilizes the reconstructed hierarchical Exo representations for progressive feature refinement via attention mechanisms and adaptive modulation, enabling comprehensive Exo guidance for accurate Ego hand pose forecasting. Extensive experiments on \textit{AssemblyHands}, \textit{Ego-Exo4D}, and our newly constructed \textit{EgoMe-pose} benchmarks show the superiority of our method, which outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin. Moreover, it demonstrates an effective human-to-robot transfer capability and yields improvements on the \textit{CALVIN} dataset.

arXiv

MetaView: Monocular Novel View Synthesis with Scale-Aware Implicit Geometry Priors

Yufei Cai, Xuesong Niu, Hao Lu, Kun Gai, Kai WU, Guosheng Lin

Current visual generation models are capable of producing high-quality content, yet they lack a coherent perception of the spatial structure. Existing generative novel view synthesis methods typically introduce explicit geometry priors, which enforce spatial consistency but inherently restrict generalization in large view changes. In contrast, recent interactive generative methods favor implicit scene modeling, offering greater flexibility at the cost of precise camera control and geometry consistency. In this paper, we propose MetaView, a diffusion-based monocular novel view synthesis framework that enables rendering under large view changes from a single image. Our key insight is to combine implicit geometry modeling with minimal yet essential explicit 3D cues: we incorporate implicit geometry priors from a feed-forward geometry perception network to regularize structure without imposing restrictive reconstruction pipelines, while leveraging metric depth to anchor the generation to a metric scale. This design allows MetaView to achieve both geometry consistency and precise controllability. Extensive experiments demonstrate that, under challenging monocular large viewpoint changes, MetaView significantly outperforms existing methods and exhibits superior generalization. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/KlingAIResearch/MetaView.

arXiv

Label-Free Target-Domain Adaptation for Unconstrained Event-Image Feature Matching via Dual-Stage Distillation

Zhonghua Yi, Hao Shi, Qi Jiang, Yufan Zhang, Kailun Yang, kaiwei wang

Building pixel-level correspondence between event and image data is a fundamental task for multi-sensor systems. However, existing cross-modal matching methods are largely restricted by their reliance on either matching labels or strictly aligned hardware, which limits them to unlabeled and unconstrained real-world scenarios where neither matching ground truth nor prior sensor relationships are available. To address this, we propose a novel two-stage training paradigm. First, we leverage large-scale data to perform label-agnostic distillation pretraining, upgrading optimization objectives with distribution-based and contrastive losses to learn highly generalizable representations. Second, to tackle unlabeled and unconstrained downstream data, we introduce an epipolar-guided self-distillation framework. By utilizing consistency verification to isolate robust matches and incorporating geometric confidence derived from an external epipolar prior, our model can effectively self-evolve directly on target domains without any supervision. Furthermore, we introduce a rigorous cross-modal evaluation benchmark based on TUM-VIE, featuring physically separated cameras with distinct intrinsic parameters and resolutions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art performance on both MVSEC and TUM-VIE pose estimation tasks. The source code and benchmark will be made publicly available at https://github.com/ZhonghuaYi/nexus2-official.

arXiv

Human-in-the-Loop Atlas-Based 3D Asset Segmentation for Interactive Content Workflows

Paul Julius Kühn, Saptarshi Neil Sinha, Jakob Hansen, Robin Horst

Segmenting 3D assets into meaningful regions remains challenging, especially when segmentation criteria are application-dependent and require user control. We present a human-in-the-loop pipeline for generating a segmented 2D parameterized atlas from a 3D model for interactive media, game, and XR content workflows. Our method first selects a compact set of rendered views using a greedy set cover strategy over sampled surface points, and then supports interactive segmentation of these views with SAM~2 and Label Studio. The resulting masks are back-projected onto the model's UV parameterization to produce a unified segmented atlas that supports downstream production tasks such as segment-wise material assignment, style transfer, and semantic labeling. We assess the pipeline through a demonstration-based technical evaluation on eight cultural heritage objects. The results show that the approach can generate usable segmented atlases across diverse geometries while revealing recurring sources of manual correction, particularly fine structures, cavities, and weak appearance boundaries. The code is available at https://github.com/saptarshineil/ai_assisted_atlas_segmentation

arXiv

An Enhanced Geometric-Spectral Feature Learning Framework for Airborne Multispectral Point Cloud Classification

Xian Li, Yanfeng, Gu Linghua Xu, Aleksandra Pižurica

Multispectral point cloud (MPC) is composed of 3D spatial-spectral information, which holds tremendous potential for accurate land-cover classification. However, the representation power of classification models is limited by inherent high-dimensional and heterogeneous spatial-spectral information, unbalanced sample distribution, and inter-class spectral similarity of airborne MPCs. We build two MPC datasets and propose an enhanced geometric-spectral feature learning framework based on attentions for airborne MPC classification. A key component in our model is a two-stream feature fusion method with attention mechanisms, which enhances the representation capability of spatial-spectral features from high-dimensional heterogeneous MPCs. The first stream aims to extract position-encoded global spectral features with fusion self-attention, and the second stream comprises a multikernel point convolution and feature aggregation attention to extract spectral-guided geometric features. We then develop a residual attention fusion block to integrate the most informative geometric-spectral features from the two parallel streams. Another important contribution of this work is a joint loss function to improve the learning ability on unbalanced and interclass similar samples. Experimental results on two airborne MPC datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method compared with the state-of-the-art methods. Furthermore, the codes and datasets used in this paper will be made available freely at https://github.com/HITlixian/TGRS_GSFF.

arXiv

MI-CXR: A Benchmark for Longitudinal Reasoning over Multi-Interval Chest X-rays

Sunghwan Steve Cho, Yunseok Han, Jaeyoung Do

Longitudinal chest X-ray (CXR) interpretation requires reasoning over disease evolution across multiple patient visits, yet most existing medical VQA benchmarks focus on single images or short-horizon image pairs. We introduce MI-CXR, a benchmark for standardized evaluation of Multi-Interval longitudinal reasoning over multi-visit CXR sequences, without requiring free-form report generation or additional clinical context. MI-CXR comprises five-way multiple-choice questions over five-visit patient timelines and instantiates three complementary task families: Temporal Event Localization, Interval-wise Change Reasoning, and Global Trajectory Summarization, which assess clinically grounded visual reasoning over time. Evaluating 14 state-of-the-art vision-language models (VLMs) shows low overall performance, with an average accuracy of 29.3%, only modestly above random guessing. Using stage-wise diagnostic probing, we find that models often produce locally plausible interval descriptions but fail to enforce temporal constraints or compose evidence into globally consistent decisions over the full timeline. These findings reveal key limitations of current VLMs and establish MI-CXR as a principled benchmark for longitudinal medical reasoning. The benchmark is available at https://github.com/AIDASLab/MI-CXR

arXiv

Learning Direct Control Policies with Flow Matching for Autonomous Driving

Marcello Ceresini, Federico Pirazzoli, Andrea Bertogalli, Lorenzo Cipelli, Filippo D'Addeo, Anthony Dell'Eva, Alessandro Paolo Capasso, Alberto Broggi

We present a flow-matching planner for autonomous driving that directly outputs actionable control trajectories defined by acceleration and curvature profiles. The model is conditioned on a bird's-eye-view (BEV) raster of the surrounding scene and generates control sequences in a small number of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) integration steps, enabling low-latency inference suitable for real-time closed-loop re-planning. We train exclusively on urban scenarios (real urban city streets, intersections and roundabouts of the city of Parma, Italy) collected from a 2D traffic simulator with reactive agents, and evaluate in closed-loop on both in-distribution and markedly out-of-distribution environments, including multi-lane highways and unseen urban scenarios. Our results show that the model generalizes reliably to these unseen conditions, maintaining stable closed-loop control and successfully completing scenarios that differ substantially from the training distribution. We attribute this to the BEV representation, which provides a geometry-centric view of the scene that is inherently less sensitive to distributional shifts, and to the flow-matching formulation, which learns a smooth vector field that degrades gracefully under distribution shift. We provide video demonstrations of closed-loop behavior at https://marcelloceresini.github.io/DirectControlFlowMatching.

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