CVPR 2026 论文列表

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to mitigate performance degradation under distribution shifts by updating model parameters during inference. Existing approaches have primarily framed adaptation around affine modulation, focusing on recalibrating normalization layers. This perspective, while effective, overlooks another influential component in representation dynamics: the activation function. We revisit this overlooked space and propose AcTTA, an activation-aware framework that reinterprets conventional activation functions from a learnable perspective and updates them adaptively at test time. AcTTA reformulates conventional activation functions (e.g., ReLU, GELU) into parameterized forms that shift their response threshold and modulate gradient sensitivity, enabling the network to adjust activation behavior under domain shifts. This functional reparameterization enables continuous adjustment of activation behavior without modifying network weights or requiring source data. Despite its simplicity, AcTTA achieves robust and stable adaptation across diverse corruptions. Across CIFAR10-C, CIFAR100-C, and ImageNet-C, AcTTA consistently surpasses normalization-based TTA methods. Our findings highlight activation adaptation as a compact and effective route toward domain-shift-robust test-time learning, broadening the prevailing affine-centric view of adaptation.

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across a wide range of visual reasoning tasks, yet their vulnerability to safety risks remains a pressing concern. While prior research primarily focuses on jailbreak defenses that detect and refuse explicitly unsafe inputs, such approaches often overlook contextual safety, which requires models to distinguish subtle contextual differences between scenarios that may appear similar but diverge significantly in safety intent. In this work, we present MM-SafetyBench++, a carefully curated benchmark designed for contextual safety evaluation. Specifically, for each unsafe image-text pair, we construct a corresponding safe counterpart through minimal modifications that flip the user intent while preserving the underlying contextual meaning, enabling controlled evaluation of whether models can adapt their safety behaviors based on contextual understanding. Further, we introduce EchoSafe, a training-free framework that maintains a self-reflective memory bank to accumulate and retrieve safety insights from prior interactions. By integrating relevant past experiences into current prompts, EchoSafe enables context-aware reasoning and continual evolution of safety behavior during inference. Extensive experiments on various multi-modal safety benchmarks demonstrate that EchoSafe consistently achieves superior performance, establishing a strong baseline for advancing contextual safety in MLLMs. All benchmark data and code will be made publicly accessible upon acceptance.

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in visual-textual understanding, yet their reliability is critically undermined by hallucinations, i.e., the generation of factually incorrect or inconsistent responses.While recent studies using steering vectors demonstrated promise in reducing hallucinations, a notable challenge remains: they inadvertently amplify the severity of residual hallucinations. We attribute this to their exclusive focus on the decoding stage, where errors accumulate autoregressively and progressively worsen subsequent hallucinatory outputs.To address this, we propose Prefill-Time Intervention (PTI), a novel steering paradigm that intervenes only once during the prefill stage, enhancing the initial Key-Value (KV) cache before error accumulation occurs.Specifically, PTI is modality-aware, deriving distinct directions for visual and textual representations. This intervention is decoupled to steer keys toward visually-grounded objects and values to filter background noise, correcting hallucination-prone representations at their source.Extensive experiments demonstrate PTI's significant performance in mitigating hallucinations and its generalizability across diverse decoding strategies, LVLMs, and benchmarks. Moreover, PTI is orthogonal to existing decoding-stage methods, enabling plug-and-play integration and further boosting performance.

Long-wave infrared radiation captured by a thermal camera includes (a) emission from an object governed by its temperature and emissivity, and (b) reflected radiation from the surrounding environment. Separating these components is a long-standing challenge in thermography. Even when using multiple bands, the problem is under-determined without priors on emissivity. This difficulty is amplified in near ambient conditions, where emitted and reflected signals are of comparable magnitude. We present a dual-band video thermography framework that reduces this ambiguity by combining two complementary ideas at a per-pixel level: (i) spectral cues (ratio of emissivity between bands is unknown but fixed), and (ii) temporal cues (object radiation changes smoothly while background radiation changes rapidly). We derive an image formation model and an algorithm to jointly estimate the object's emissivity at each band, and the time-varying object and background temperatures. Experiments with calibrated and uncalibrated emissivities in everyday scenes (e.g., coffee pot heating up, palm print on mirrors, reflections of moving people), demonstrate robust separation and recovery of temperature fields.

Stereo foundation models achieve strong zero-shotgeneralization but remain computationally prohibitive forreal-time applications. Efficient stereo architectures, on the other hand, sacrificerobustness for speed and require costly per-domain fine-tuning.To bridge this gap, we present Fast-FoundationStereo, a family of architectures that achieve, for the first time, strong zero-shot generalization at real-time frame rate. We employ a divide-and-conquer acceleration strategy with three components: (1) knowledge distillation to compress the hybrid backbone into a single efficient student; (2) blockwise neural architecture search for automatically discovering optimal cost filtering designs under latency budgets, reducing search complexity exponentially; and (3) structured pruning for eliminating redundancy in the iterative refinement module. Furthermore, we introduce an automatic pseudo-labeling pipeline used to curate 1.4M in-the-wild stereo pairs to supplement synthetic training data and facilitate knowledge distillation. The resulting model can run over 10x faster than FoundationStereo while closely matching its zero-shot accuracy, thus establishing a new state-of-the-art among real-time methods. Project page: https://nvlabs.github.io/Fast-FoundationStereo

3D Gaussian splatting (3DGS) has emerged as a promising approach for high-fidelity 3D scene representation. However, relighting and composition of Gaussian splatting remain challenging because path tracing is not directly applicable. Existing relighting methods for Gaussian splatting typically adopt either approximate rendering formulations or rely on Gaussian ray tracing, yielding low relighting performance and low rendering efficiency. To address these limitations, we propose Gaussian hybrid path tracing (GHPT), a three-stage framework to acquire relightable Gaussian splatting models. The first stage utilizes planar-based Gaussian splatting reconstruction representation (PGSR) to enable multi-view consistent depth rendering and reconstruct the surface mesh of a scene. The second stage performs physically-based differentiable rendering on the obtained mesh to reconstruct the material maps and the environment map. The third stage utilizes factorized inverse path tracing (FIPT) on the G-buffer rendered by the PGSR, and visibility and indirect illumination are evaluated by hardware-accelerated ray tracing on the mesh with the material maps and the environment map reconstructed in the second stage. Experiments demonstrate that the relighting performance of GHPT outperforms the baselines, and our method can perform real-time relighting and composition of Gaussian splatting.

Despite the rapid progress in multimodal models and Large Visual-Language Models (LVLM), they remain highly susceptible to adversarial perturbations, raising serious concerns about their reliability in real-world use. While adversarial training has become the leading paradigm for building models that are robust to adversarial attacks, Test-Time Transformations (TTT) have emerged as a promising strategy to boost robustness at inference.In light of this, we propose Energy-Guided Test-Time Transformation (ET3), a lightweight, training-free defense that enhances the robustness by minimizing the energy of the input samples.Our method is grounded in a theory that proves our transformation succeeds in classification under reasonable assumptions. We present extensive experiments demonstrating that ET3 provides a strong defense for classifiers, zero-shot classification with CLIP, and also for boosting the robustness of LVLMs in tasks such as Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering. Code is available at github.com/OmnAI-Lab/Energy-Guided-Test-Time-Defense .

Existing Real-Time Object Detection (RTOD) methods commonly adopt YOLO-like architectures for their favorable trade-off between accuracy and speed. However, these models rely on static dense computation that applies uniform processing to all inputs, misallocating representational capacity and computational resources such as over-allocating on trivial scenes while under-serving complex ones. This mismatch results in both computational redundancy and suboptimal detection performance.To overcome this limitation, we propose YOLO-Master, a novel YOLO-like framework that introduces image-level adaptive computation for RTOD. This is achieved through an Efficient Sparse Mixture-of-Experts (ES-MoE) block that dynamically allocates computational resources to each input according to its scene complexity. At its core, a lightweight dynamic routing network guides expert specialization during training through a diversity enhancing objective, encouraging complementary expertise among experts. Additionally, the routing network adaptively learns to activate only the most relevant experts, thereby improving detection performance while minimizing computational overhead during inference.Comprehensive experiments on five large-scale benchmarks demonstrate the superiority of YOLO-Master. On MS COCO, our model achieves 42.4% AP with 1.62ms latency, outperforming YOLOv13-N by +0.8% mAP and 17.8% faster inference. Notably, the gains are most pronounced on challenging dense scenes, while the model preserves efficiency on typical inputs and maintains real-time inference speed. Github: https://github.com/Tencent/YOLO-Master/

Modern industrial quality control heavily relies on automated anomaly detection. While few-shot anomaly detection addresses the challenge of limited labeled data, real-world inspection faces a vast diversity of anomaly types, sizes, and shapes. We identify the primary cause for the anomaly detection difficulty as the progressive loss of detect cues as they pass through deep feature extraction pipelines. To counteract the defect cue fading, we propose a Defect Cue-Preserved Structural Feature Refinement model, referred to as DCP-SFR. Recognizing that early-stage cues are paramount, we design a conditional anomaly cue amplification module to produce an initial anomaly score map, which is then enhanced to increase the contrast between anomalous and normal regions. The amplified cues is subsequently used for reconstruction-based anomaly localization, by anchoring attention on true anomaly regions to preserve spatial integrity and prevent drift. Further, we incorporate a structure-aware segmentation refinement stage to improve anomaly segmentation in terms of edge alignment, thereby significantly improve boundary accuracy. On the MVTec AD and VisA benchmarks, DCP-SFR achieves state-of-the-art performance, with an image-level AUROC of 97.3% and a pixel-level AUROC of 98.2%, demonstrating strong cross-domain generalization performance.

Understanding and reconstructing the complex geometry and motion of dynamic 4D scenes from video remains a formidable challenge in computer vision. This paper introduces D4RT, a simple yet powerful feedforward network designed to efficiently solve this task. D4RT utilizes a unified transformer architecture to jointly infer depth, spatio-temporal correspondence, and full camera parameters from a single video. Its core innovation is a novel mechanism that sidesteps the heavy computation of dense, per-frame decoding and the complexity of managing multiple, task-specific decoders. Our unified decoding interface allows the model to independently and efficiently probe the 3D position of any point in space and time. The result is a lightweight and highly scalable method that enables remarkably efficient training and inference. We demonstrate that our approach sets a new state-of-the-art, outperforming previous methods across a wide spectrum of 4D reconstruction tasks.

Continual Test-Time Adaptation (CTTA) aims to enable models to adapt online to unlabeled data streams under distribution shift without accessing source data. Existing CTTA methods face an efficiency-generalization trade-off: updating more parameters improves adaptation but severely reduces online inference efficiency. An ideal solution is to achieve comparable adaptation with minimal feature updates; we call this minimal subspace the golden subspace. We prove its existence in a single-step adaptation setting and show that it coincides with the row space of the pretrained classifier. To enable online maintenance of this subspace, we introduce the sample-wise Average Gradient Outer Product (AGOP) as an efficient proxy for estimating the classifier weights without retraining. Building on these insights, we propose Guided Online Low-rank Directional adaptation (GOLD), which uses a lightweight adapter to project features onto the golden subspace and learns a compact scaling vector while the subspace is dynamically updated via AGOP. Extensive experiments on classification and segmentation benchmarks, including autonomous-driving scenarios, demonstrate that GOLD attains superior efficiency, stability, and overall performance. Our code is available at https://github.com/AIGNLAI/GOLD.

Existing facial reenactment methods struggle with a trade-off between expressiveness and fine-grained controllability. Holistic facial reenactment models often sacrifice granular control for expressiveness, while methods designed for control may struggle with fidelity and robust disentanglement. Instead of treating facial motion as a monolithic signal, we explore an alternative compositional perspective. In this paper, we introduce PortraitDirector, a novel framework that formulates face reenactment as a hierarchical composition task, achieving high-fidelity and controllable results. We employ a Hierarchical Motion Disentanglement and Composition strategy, deconstructing facial motion into a Spatial Layer for physical movements and a Semantic Layer for emotional content. The Spatial Layer comprises: (i) global head pose, managed via a dedicated representation and injection pathway; (ii) spatially separated local facial expressions, distilled from cropped facial regions and purged of emotional cues via Emotion-Filtering Module leveraging an information bottleneck. The Semantic Layer contains a derived global emotion. The disentangled components are then recomposed into an expressive motion latent. Furthermore, we engineer the framework for real-time performance through a suite of optimizations, including diffusion distillation, causal attention and VAE acceleration. PortraitDirector achieves streaming, high-fidelity, controllable 512 x 512 face reenactment at 20 FPS with a end-to-end 800 ms latency on a single 5090 GPU.

Pose-agnostic anomaly detection (PAD) achieves strong performance in localizing anomalies from arbitrary viewpoints when trained on densely sampled normal data. However, under sparse-view conditions, existing methods face two key challenges: (1) sparse observations lead to overfitting and geometric detail loss in 3D reconstruction; (2) limited visual cues lead to inaccurate pose estimation, compromising the reliability of subsequent anomaly localization. To address these challenges, we propose Wave-Pose3D, a wavelet-driven 3D anomaly detection framework tailored for PAD under sparse-view conditions. First, we design a structure-aware and wavelet-optimized Gaussian modeling strategy that dynamically filters unreliable regions via structural priors to mitigate overfitting and leverages high-frequency supervision to restore fine-grained geometric details. Second, to improve pose estimation under sparse views, we develop a wavelet-based pose estimator that integrates low-frequency structural cues and high-frequency details to enhance both initialization and refinement accuracy. Finally, we introduce a wavelet difference-aware anomaly detector that computes frequency-domain anomaly scores, improving localization robustness against pose and geometric variations. By integrating these strategies, Wave-Pose3D achieves robust and accurate anomaly localization under sparse views. Extensive experiments validate that the proposed approach achieves state-of-the-art performance under 10% and 20% sparse-view configurations.

Accurate long horizon forecasting of particulate matter (PM) concentration fields is essential for operational public health decisions. However, achieving reliable forecasts remains challenging in regions with complex terrain and strong atmospheric dynamics such as East Asia. While foundation models such as Aurora offer global generality, they often miss region-specific dynamics and rely on non-real-time inputs, limiting their practical utility for localized warning systems. To address this gap, we construct and release the real-world observations and high-resolution CMAQ--OBS dataset for East Asia, reducing regional error by 59.5% and enabling real-time 48-120 hour forecasts critical for public health alerts. However, standard point-wise objectives cannot reflect asymmetric operational costs, where false alarms deteriorate public trust while missed severe events endanger populations. This cost mismatch causes SFT models to over-predict and yield high False Alarm Rates. We introduce Group-Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) with class-wise rewards and curriculum rollout to align predictions with operational priorities. Experimental results demonstrate that our framework significantly improves the reliability of the forecast. Compared to the SFT-only baseline, our model reduces the False Alarm Rate by 47.3% while achieving a competitive F1-score, proving its effectiveness for practical, real-world air quality forecasting systems on long lead time scenarios. Code and dataset are publicly available at https://github.com/kaist-cvml/FAKER-Air.

Online 3D instance segmentation is a critical capability for embodied agents navigating in dynamic environments. However, a fundamental challenge remains in adapting powerful 2D foundation models, like SAM, to 3D online segmentation. Naively lifting SAM's 2D masks to 3D results in severe spatial fragmentation, where a single object is shattered into multiple disconnected parts, especially under occlusion. Subsequent attempts to link these fragments over time via conventional 3D IoU-based tracking prove highly fragile: they struggle to handle occlusions or topological changes, ultimately causing catastrophic identity drift. Departing from such post-processing approaches, we reframe online segmentation as a learnable composition problem. We introduce SAMosaic3D, a differentiable framework that treats SAM-derived masks as "mosaic tiles" and learns to assemble them into temporally consistent 3D instances. SAMosaic3D comprises two key components: Fragment-to-Instance Adaptive Assembly that aggregates fragments through soft-gated attention, and Instance-to-Scene Online Merging that employs cascaded semantic-geometric matching to preserve object identities through learned short-term association and geometric verification for long-term re-identification. Evaluations on ScanNet, ScanNet200, SceneNN and 3RScan datasets demonstrate state-of-the-art performance and zero-shot cross-dataset generalization. Extensive ablation studies validate the effectiveness of the designed modules.

Federated Prompt Learning (FPL) has recently attracted increasing attention for its ability to leverage large-scale vision-language models such as CLIP within federated learning frameworks. While existing studies have advanced FPL through personalization strategies to enhance client-specific performance, personalized models often suffer severe degradation when deployed across unseen domains due to distribution shifts.In this paper, we take the first step toward exploring Test-Time FPL (TTFPL), aiming to bridge the cross-domain performance gap with minimal effort, requiring only unlabeled target-domain data. We propose COTE, a tri-prompt controllable TTFPL framework that dynamically balances three complementary prompts: the global prompt from standard FPL, the local prompt from personalized FPL, and the frozen CLIP prompt.Specifically, we introduce a novel confidence-guided Model-Data Alignment (MoDA) metric in COTE that quantifies alignment at both macro and micro levels, capturing the consistency between model predictions and data distributions. By integrating MoDA with model confidence, COTE adaptively adjusts the contribution of each prompt at test time, enabling robust generalization across heterogeneous clients and unseen domains without requiring labeled data.Extensive experiments on multiple benchmark datasets demonstrate that our method consistently improves target-domain performance, setting a new direction for adaptive FPL.

Online Scene Change Detection (SCD) is an extremely challenging problem that requires an agent to detect relevant changes on the fly while observing the scene from unconstrained viewpoints. Existing online SCD methods are significantly less accurate than offline approaches. We present the first online SCD approach that is pose-agnostic, label-free, and ensures multi-view consistency, while operating at over 10 FPS and achieving new state-of-the-art performance, surpassing even the best offline approaches. Our method introduces a new self-supervised fusion loss to infer scene changes from multiple cues and observations, PnP-based fast pose estimation against the reference scene, and a fast change-guided update strategy for the 3D Gaussian Splatting scene representation. Extensive experiments on complex real-world datasets demonstrate that our approach outperforms both online and offline baselines.

Event keypoint detection has garnered significant attention due to its ability to establish spatial associations through matching, which is fundamental for various computer vision tasks. However, achieving robust event keypoint detection remains challenging due to the difficulty in balancing the exploitation of event data and compatibility with established algorithms. Moreover, the limited use of co-visible information often results in excessive keypoint detection in non-matching regions, leading to incorrect matches. To address these challenges, we propose a novel Co-visible Focused 3D-guided 2D Event Keypoint Detection Network (EV-CGNet), which mainly consists of a 3D-guided 2D feature prototype learning (G2PL) module and a co-visible region-focused detector and descriptor learning (CDDL) module. The proposed method enjoys several merits. First, the proposed G2PL module can leverage fine-grained spatio-temporal cues from event points to guide the learning of event frame feature prototypes. Second, the proposed CDDL module can focus keypoint detection on co-visible regions, ensuring accurate matches. Comprehensive experimental evaluations on six challenging benchmarks show that our method significantly outperforms state-of-the-art event keypoint detection methods.

Multi-view 3D geometry networks offer a powerful prior but are prohibitively slow for real-time applications. We propose a novel way to adapt them for online use, enabling real-time 6-DoF pose tracking and online reconstruction of objects and scenes from monocular RGB videos. Our method rapidly selects and manages a set of images as keyframes to map a scene or object via \pi^3 [??] with full bidirectional attention. We then cache the global self-attention block's key-value (KV) pairs and use them as the sole scene representation for online tracking. This allows for up to 15xspeedup during inference without the fear of drift or catastrophic forgetting. Our caching strategy is model-agnostic and can be applied to other off-the-shelf multi-view networks without retraining. We demonstrate KV-Tracker on both scene-level tracking and the more challenging task of on-the-fly object tracking and reconstruction without depth measurements or object priors. Experiments on the TUM RGB-D, 7-Scenes, Arctic and OnePose datasets show the strong performance of our system while maintaining high frame-rates up to ~ 30 FPS.