CVPR 2026 论文列表

This paper does not introduce a novel method but instead establishes a straightforward, incremental, yet essential baseline for video temporal grounding (VTG), a core capability in video understanding. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at various video understanding tasks, the recipes for optimizing them for VTG remain under-explored. In this paper, we present TimeLens, a systematic investigation into building MLLMs with strong VTG ability, along two primary dimensions: data quality and algorithmic design. We first expose critical quality issues in existing VTG benchmarks and introduce TimeLens-Bench, comprising meticulously re-annotated versions of three popular benchmarks with strict quality criteria. Our analysis reveals dramatic model re-rankings compared to legacy benchmarks, confirming the unreliability of prior evaluation standards. We also address noisy training data through an automated re-annotation pipeline, yielding TimeLens-100K, a large-scale, high-quality training dataset. Building on our data foundation, we conduct in-depth explorations of algorithmic design principles, yielding a series of meaningful insights and effective yet efficient practices. These include interleaved textual encoding for time representation, a thinking-free reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) approach as the training paradigm, and carefully designed recipes for RLVR training. These efforts culminate in TimeLens models, a family of MLLMs with state-of-the-art VTG performance among open-source models and even surpass proprietary models such as GPT-5 and Gemini-2.5-Flash. All codes, data, and models will be released to facilitate future research.

Recent vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP demonstrate impressive cross-modal reasoning, extending beyond images to 3D perception. Yet, these models remain fragile under domain shifts, especially when adapting from synthetic to real-world point clouds. Conventional 3D domain adaptation approaches rely on heavy trainable encoders, yielding strong accuracy but at the cost of efficiency. We introduce CLIPoint3D, the first framework for few-shot unsupervised 3D point cloud domain adaptation built upon CLIP. Our approach projects 3D samples into multiple depth maps and exploits the frozen CLIP backbone, refined through a knowledge-driven prompt tuning scheme that integrates high-level language priors with geometric cues from a lightweight 3D encoder. To adapt task-specific features effectively, we apply parameter-efficient fine-tuning to CLIP's encoders and design an entropy-guided view sampling strategy for selecting confident projections. Furthermore, an optimal transport-based alignment loss and an uncertainty-aware prototype alignment loss collaboratively bridge source-target distribution gaps while maintaining class separability. Extensive experiments on PointDA-10 and GraspNetPC-10 benchmarks show that CLIPoint3D achieves consistent 3-16% accuracy gains over both CLIP-based and conventional encoder-based baselines. Project page: https://sarthakm320.github.io/CLIPoint3D.

Multimodal autoregressive (AR) models, based on next-token prediction and transformer architecture, have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in various multimodal tasks including text-to-image (T2I) generation. Despite their strong performance in general T2I tasks, our research reveals that these models initially struggle with subject-driven image generation compared to dominant diffusion models. To address this limitation, we introduce Proxy-Tuning, leveraging diffusion models to enhance AR models' capabilities in subject-specific image generation. Our method reveals a striking weak-to-strong phenomenon: fine-tuned AR models consistently outperform their diffusion model supervisors in both subject fidelity and prompt adherence. We analyze this performance shift and identify scenarios where AR models excel, particularly in multi-subject compositions and contextual understanding. This work not only demonstrates impressive results in subject-driven AR image generation, but also unveils the potential of weak-to-strong generalization in the image generation domain, contributing to a deeper understanding of different architectures' strengths and limitations.

Recent advancements in video models have shown tremendous progress, particularly in long video understanding. However, current benchmarks predominantly feature western-centric data and English as the dominant language, introducing significant biases in evaluation. To address this, we introduce CURVE, a challenging benchmark for multicultural and multilingual video reasoning. CURVE comprises high-quality, entirely human-generated annotations from diverse, region-specific cultural videos across 18 global locales. Unlike prior work that relies on automatic translations, CURVE provides complex questions, answers, and multi-step reasoning steps, all crafted in native languages. Making progress on CURVE requires a deeply situated understanding of visual cultural context. Furthermore, we leverage CURVE's reasoning traces to construct evidence-based graphs and propose a novel iterative strategy using these graphs to identify fine-grained errors in reasoning. Our evaluations reveal that SoTA Video-LLMs struggle significantly, performing substantially below human-level accuracy, with errors primarily stemming from the visual perception of cultural elements. We will release CURVE to foster the development of more equitable and capable multimodal foundation models.

Recent advancements in Vision Language Models (VLMs) have expanded their capabilities to interactive agent tasks, yet existing benchmarks remain limited to single-agent or text-only environments. In contrast, real-world scenarios often involve multiple agents interacting within rich visual and textual contexts, posing challenges with both multimodal observations and strategic interactions. To bridge this gap, we introduce Visual Strategic Bench (VS-Bench), a multimodal benchmark that evaluates VLMs for strategic abilities in multi-agent environments. VS-Bench comprises ten vision-grounded environments that cover cooperative, competitive, and mixed-motive interactions. The performance of VLM agents is evaluated across three dimensions: perception measured by element recognition accuracy; strategic reasoning measured by next-action prediction accuracy; and decision-making measured by normalized episode return. Extensive experiments on fifteen leading VLMs show that, although current models exhibit strong perception abilities, there remains a significant gap to optimal performance in reasoning and decision-making, with the best-performing model attaining 46.6% prediction accuracy and 31.4% normalized return. We further analyze the key factors influencing performance, conduct human studies, and examine failure modes to provide a deeper understanding of VLMs' strategic abilities. By standardizing the evaluation and highlighting the limitations of existing models, we envision VS-Bench as a foundation for future research on strategic multimodal agents.

Deepfake detection models often generate natural-language explanations, yet their reasoning is frequently ungrounded in visual evidence, limiting reliability. Existing evaluations measure classification accuracy but overlook reasoning fidelity. We propose DeepfakeJudge, a framework for scalable reasoning supervision and evaluation, that integrates an out-of-distribution benchmark containing recent generative and editing forgeries, a human-annotated subset with visual reasoning labels, and a suite of evaluation models, that specialize in evaluating reasoning rationales without the need for explicit ground truth reasoning rationales. The Judge is optimized through a bootstrapped generator-evaluator process that scales human feedback into structured reasoning supervision and supports both pointwise and pairwise evaluation. On the proposed meta-evaluation benchmark, our reasoning-bootstrapped model achieves an accuracy of 96.2%, outperforming \texttt 30x larger baselines. The reasoning judge attains very high correlation with human ratings and 98.9% percent pairwise agreement on the human annotated meta-evaluation subset. These results establish reasoning fidelity as a quantifiable dimension of deepfake detection and demonstrate scalable supervision for interpretable deepfake reasoning. Our user study indicates that humans prefer reasonings generated by our framework 70% of the time, in faithfullness, groundedness and usefulness compared to other models and datasets. All of our datasets, models, and codebase will be open-sourced.

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection seeks to identify samples from unknown classes, a critical capability for deploying machine learning models in open-world scenarios. Recent research has demonstrated that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can effectively leverage their multi-modal representations for OOD detection. However, current methods often incorporate intra-modal distance during OOD detection, such as comparing negative texts with ID labels or comparing test images with image proxies. This design paradigm creates an inherent inconsistency against the inter-modal distance that CLIP-like VLMs are optimized for, potentially leading to suboptimal performance. To address this limitation, we propose InterNeg, a simple yet effective framework that systematically utilizes consistent inter-modal distance enhancement from textual and visual perspectives. From the textual perspective, we devise an inter-modal criterion for selecting negative texts. From the visual perspective, we dynamically identify high-confidence OOD images and invert them into the textual space, generating extra negative text embeddings guided by inter-modal distance. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of our approach. Notably, our InterNeg achieves state-of-the-art performance compared to existing works, with a 3.47% reduction in FPR95 on the large-scale ImageNet benchmark and a 5.50% improvement in AUROC on the challenging Near-OOD benchmark.

Although deep learning-based image super-resolution (SR) models have achieved remarkable progress in reconstruction quality, their high computational and memory demands make them unsuitable for lightweight platforms. To address this issue, various quantization techniques have been introduced. Among them, mixed-precision quantization (MPQ) introduces a layer-wise bit-width allocation to balance computational efficiency with reconstruction quality. However, existing MPQ methods based on post-training quantization (PTQ) for SR models face two critical limitations. First, quantization sensitivity estimation using static statistics fails to capture the accurate quantization error induced by each layer, resulting in suboptimal bit allocation. Second, removing batch normalization (BN) to preserve high-frequency details leads to scale inconsistencies across activations, making fixed quantization ranges insufficient to accurately represent their distribution. Therefore, we propose a novel PTQ-based MPQ framework tailored for SR models. Our method estimates the quantization sensitivity of weights and activations by leveraging gradients of the objective function with respect to bit-widths, enabling adaptive layer-wise bit allocation and fast convergence. Additionally, we introduce a dynamic activation range normalization that alleviates the distributional imbalance caused by the absence of BN, ensuring stable quantization under fixed range constraints. Our method outperforms existing PTQ-based methods by 1.26 dB in peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) on the Urban100 dataset and reduces quantization time by x1.9 for 3-bit quantization of EDSR x4.

Low-Light Image Enhancement (LLIE) is a challenging task, as severe information loss means a single input can correspond to multiple plausible restorations. This inherent ambiguity causes conventional regression-based models to produce overly-smooth results that lack detail. While recent generative models can create richer details, their common unidirectional design often compromises content fidelity by distorting original structures. We introduce Bi-Bridge, a unified framework that models both enhancement and its inverse degradation within a single symmetric diffusion bridge. By compelling the network to preserve essential content structures across both transformations, this bidirectional learning acts as a powerful constraint, leading to significantly more faithful and realistic restorations. Extensive experiments show that Bi-Bridge outperforms state-of-the-art (SOTA) methods across multiple benchmarks, establishing a new standard for fidelity and perceptual quality.

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel at captioning, visual question answering, and robotics by combining vision and language, yet they often miss obvious objects or hallucinate nonexistent ones in atypical scenes. We examine these failures through the lens of uncertainty, focusing on contextual incongruity, where objects appear unexpectedly or fail to appear in expected contexts, and show that such cases increase recognition difficulty for state-of-the- art LVLMs. To study this regime, we introduce the Object Recognition in Incongruous Context (ORIC) framework, which constructs incongruous object-context pairs through two complementary strategies: (1) LLM-guided sampling to identify hard-to-recognize objects present in the image and (2) CLIP-guided sampling to mine plausible but absent ones. Applied to MSCOCO, ORIC creates ORIC-Bench and ORIC-style training data. Evaluating 18 LVLMs and 2 open-vocabulary detectors reveals significant degradation and bias under incongruous contexts. Visual Reinforcement Fine-Tuning of Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct on 600 ORIC sam- ples improves performance on ORIC-Bench, AMBER, and HallusionBench. Overall, we show that contextual incongruity is a key source of uncertainty and provide tools for more reliable LVLMs. The dataset and code are publicly available at https://github.com/ZhaoyangLi-1/ORIC.

Estimating accurate, view-consistent geometry and camera poses from uncalibrated multi-view/video inputs remains challenging--especially at high spatial resolutions and over long sequences. We present DAGE, a dual-stream transformer whose main novelty is to disentangle global coherence from fine detail. A low-resolution stream operates on aggressively downsampled frames with alternating frame/global attention to build a view-consistent representation and estimate cameras efficiently, while a high-resolution stream processes the original images per-frame to preserve sharp boundaries and small structures. A lightweight adapter fuses these streams via cross-attention, injecting global context without disturbing the pretrained single-frame pathway. This design scales resolution and clip length independently, supports inputs up to 2K, and maintains practical inference cost. DAGE delivers sharp depth/pointmaps, strong cross-view consistency, and accurate poses, establishing new state-of-the-art results for video geometry estimation and multi-view reconstruction.

Audio-visual large language models (AVLLMs) have made significant strides in understanding visual and auditory content. However, their ability to capture fine-grained temporal relationships between audio and visual streams remains insufficiently evaluated. To address this, we introduce FAVE (Fine-grained Audio-Visual Temporal Evaluation), a comprehensive benchmark targeting three core dimensions of temporal perception: cross-modal temporal alignment (FAVE-align), event temporal relationship (FAVE-low), and detailed moment captioning (FAVE-high). To construct FAVE, we propose a scalable annotation pipeline that integrates shot boundary detection, automated captioning, and GPT-assisted refinement to produce temporally grounded, high-quality data. Extensive experiments on twelve state-of-the-art multimodal LLMs, both open-source and closed-source, reveal key limitations in multimodal integration, temporal relationship and timestamp localization, especially for joint audio-visual tasks. These findings highlight the need for better temporal modeling to improve AVLLMs' understanding of real-world video content. FAVE serves as a rigorous testbed for advancing temporally aware multimodal systems, and will be publicly released upon acceptance.

Endoscopic video analysis is essential for early gastrointestinal screening but remains hindered by limited high-quality annotations. While self-supervised video pre-training shows promise, existing methods developed for natural videos prioritize dense spatio-temporal modeling and exhibit motion bias, overlooking the static, structured semantics critical to clinical decision-making. To address this challenge, we propose Focus-to-Perceive Representation Learning (FPRL), a cognition-inspired hierarchical framework that emulates clinical examination. FPRL first focuses on intra-frame lesion-centric regions to learn static semantics, and then perceives their evolution across frames to model contextual semantics. To achieve this, FPRL employs a hierarchical semantic modeling mechanism that explicitly distinguishes and collaboratively learns both types of semantics. Specifically, it begins by capturing static semantics via teacher-prior adaptive masking (TPAM) combined with multi-view sparse sampling. This approach mitigates redundant temporal dependencies and enables the model to concentrate on lesion-related local semantics. Following this, contextual semantics are derived through cross-view masked feature completion (CVMFC) and attention-guided temporal prediction (AGTP). These processes establish cross-view correspondences and effectively model structured inter-frame evolution, thereby reinforcing temporal semantic continuity while preserving global contextual integrity. Extensive experiments on 11 endoscopic video datasets show that FPRL achieves superior performance across diverse downstream tasks, demonstrating its effectiveness in endoscopic video representation learning. The code is available at https://github.com/MLMIP/FPRL.

Understanding complex surgical scenes requires recognizing multiple interdependent entities--such as instruments, actions, and targets--and maintaining their relational consistency across time. Existing surgical triplet recognition methods struggle to jointly model intra-frame label dependencies and inter-frame temporal semantics in a unified manner. To address these limitations, we propose a unified framework that integrates spatial, relational, and temporal cues for robust surgical triplet recognition. Specifically, class-specific spatial priors are first extracted through a multi-scale encoder. Then, these priors are refined by a Label Correlation Modeling module with multi-scale class activation map-guided relational extraction (MS-CAMRE), enabling the model to capture both static co-occurrence and dynamic contextual dependencies among triplet components. Furthermore, a Bidirectional Temporal-Relational Fusion Attention (BTRFA) module harmonizes temporal and relational representations to achieve coherent temporal reasoning. We also introduce a new evaluation metric, the Triplet Consistency Error Rate (TCER), which quantitatively measures the model's capability to preserve causal and semantic consistency across triplets. Extensive experiments on the CholecT45 and ProStaTD datasets show that our method achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance, improving AP_ IVT by 5.1% and 7.8%, respectively. Moreover, on the TCER metric, our approach yields over 36% and 25% relative reductions on the two datasets, respectively, underscoring the effectiveness of our framework in temporal-relational co-reasoning.

Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization (ZS-TAL) aims to classify and localize actions in untrimmed videos that are unseen during training. Existing training-based ZS-TAL methods typically rely on fine-tuning models on large-scale annotated training data. This can be impractical in real-world applications and damage its generalization. As a result, Training-Free ZS-TAL has gained attention, which directly leveraging Vision-Language Models (VLM) enables action localization without any additional training. However, current techniques perform test-time adaptation independently on each video, neglecting the potential benefit of accumulating knowledge from historical test videos. To address this, we propose a learnable lookup table (LLT) framework. During testing, we continuously update lookup table by incorporating high-confidence, diverse lookup candidates to construct action-positive lookup item. Additionally, we introduce a learnable residual module to adapt the corresponding lookup item to the current video context features. Finally, we employ refined activation scores to select accurate video frames and further adjust the text prototypes. This simple yet effective text-visual collaboration enables training-free ZS-TAL to harness historical videos. Extensive experiments show our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art zero-shot VLM baselines, validating the effectiveness of our framework.

The effective integration and utilization of multimodal data acquired from image cameras and LiDAR is of paramount importance for perception systems. This paper proposes **I**mage-to-**P**oint Cloud **F**eature Back-**P**rojection (**IPFP**), a novel method for training multimodal fusion networks that back-projects aggregated image-feature centers (from non-projection-aligned image pixels) into the point-cloud feature set via the estimated depth map. Consequently, image features and point cloud features reside within the same three-dimensional space, enabling the natural enrichment of image information into the point cloud during the network forward pass. This process can be selectively enabled when desired -- for instance, at training time -- and turned off in the absence of multimodal data -- for example, at testing time if only LiDAR sensors are available. Experimental results demonstrate that **IPFP** can consistently improve state-of-the-art 3D semantic segmentation models, while retaining the ability to process LiDAR-only data at inference.

Most existing 3D referring expression segmentation (3DRES) methods rely on dense, high-quality point clouds, while real-world agents such as robots and mobile phones operate with only a few sparse RGB views and strict latency constraints. We introduce Multi-view 3D Referring Expression Segmentation (MV-3DRES), where the model must recover scene structure and segment the referred object directly from sparse multi-view images. Traditional two-stage pipelines, which first reconstruct a point cloud and then perform segmentation, often yield low-quality geometry, produce coarse or degraded target regions, and run slowly. We propose the Multimodal Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (MVGGT), an efficient end-to-end framework that integrates language information into sparse-view geometric reasoning through a dual-branch design. Training in this setting exposes a critical optimization barrier, termed Foreground Gradient Dilution (FGD), where sparse 3D signals lead to weak supervision. To resolve this, we introduce Per-view No-target Suppression Optimization (PVSO), which provides stronger and more balanced gradients across views, enabling stable and efficient learning. To support consistent evaluation, we build MVRefer, a benchmark that defines standardized settings and metrics for MV-3DRES. Experiments show that MVGGT establishes the first strong baseline and achieves both high accuracy and fast inference, outperforming existing alternatives. The code is available at https://mvggt.github.io/.

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have made impressive strides in understanding spatio-temporal relationships in videos. However, when spatial information is obscured, these models struggle to capture purely temporal patterns. We introduce SpookyBench, a benchmark where information is encoded solely in temporal sequences of noise-like frames, mirroring natural phenomena from biological signaling to covert communication. Interestingly, while humans can recognize shapes, text, and patterns in these sequences with over 98% accuracy, state-of-the-art VLMs achieve 0% accuracy. This highlights a critical limitation: an over-reliance on frame-level spatial features and an inability to extract meaning from temporal cues. Overcoming this limitation will require novel architectures or training paradigms that decouple spatial dependencies from temporal processing. Our systematic analysis shows that this issue persists across model scales and architectures. We release SpookyBench to catalyze research in temporal pattern recognition and bridge the gap between human and machine video understanding. Dataset and code are available on the project website.

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are rapidly becoming the intelligence brain of end-to-end autonomous driving systems. A key challenge is to assess whether MLLMs can truly understand and follow complex real-world traffic rules. However, existing benchmarks mainly focus on single-rule scenarios like traffic sign recognition, neglecting the complexity of multi-rule concurrency and conflicts in real driving. Consequently, models perform well on simple tasks but often fail or violate rules in real world complex situations. To bridge this gap, we propose DriveCombo, a text and vision-based benchmark for compositional traffic rule reasoning. Inspired by human drivers' cognitive development, we propose a systematic Five-Level Cognitive Ladder that evaluates reasoning from single-rule understanding to multi-rule integration and conflict resolution, enabling quantitative assessment across cognitive stages. We further propose a Rule2Scene Agent that maps language-based traffic rules to dynamic driving scenes through rule crafting and scene generation, enabling scene-level traffic rule visual reasoning. Evaluations of 14 mainstream MLLMs reveal a pronounced decline in performance as task difficulty increases, especially in the rule conflict resolution task. After splitting the dataset and fine-tuning on the training set, we further observe substantial improvements in both traffic rule reasoning and downstream planning capabilities. These results highlight the effectiveness of DriveCombo in advancing compliant and intelligent autonomous driving systems.