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IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Β· 1047 papers

The Missing Point in Vision Transformers for Universal Image Segmentation

Sajjad Shahabodini (Concordia University), Arash Mohammadi (Concordia University)

CodeSegmentationTransformerAuto EncoderContrastive LearningImage

🎯 What it does: Propose a two-stage segmentation framework ViT-P: first generate masks using a class-agnostic mask generator, then use a Vision Transformer-based point classifier to precisely classify the masks, thereby significantly improving segmentation accuracy.

THE MORE, THE MERRIER: CONTRASTIVE FUSION FOR HIGHER-ORDER MULTIMODAL ALIGNMENT

Stefanos Koutoupis (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas), Grigorios Tsagkatakis (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas)

CodeClassificationRetrievalRepresentation LearningContrastive LearningImageTextMultimodalityAudio

🎯 What it does: Propose Contrastive Fusion (ConFu), a contrastive learning framework that jointly aligns single-modal representations with their fused representations.

The Power of Decaying Steps: Enhancing Attack Stability and Transferability for Sign-based Optimizers

Wei Tao (National University of Defense and Technology), Qing Tao (Hefei Institute of Technology)

CodeClassificationRetrievalAdversarial AttackConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerImageMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper improves upon adversarial attack algorithms based on sign gradients by proposing the MDCS (Monotonically Decreasing Coordinate Step Size) strategy, which is embedded into classical methods such as I-FGSM and MI-FGSM, significantly enhancing the stability and transferability of attacks.

The Power of Prior: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation with LLaVA

Bingfeng Zhang (China University Of Petroleum East China), Jimin Xiao (Xjtlu)

CodeSegmentationLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a fully training-free open-source lexical semantic segmentation method called FSeg-LLaVA, which leverages the internal prior knowledge of the multimodal large language model LLaVA. It identifies foreground classes through a question-answering pipeline, extracts visual-textual responses, refines them through prototyping, and generates point/box prompts for SAM to produce the final mask.

TherA: Thermal-Aware Visual-Language Prompting for Controllable RGB-to-Thermal Infrared Translation

Dong-Guw Lee (Seoul National University), Ayoung Kim (Seoul National University)

CodeImage TranslationTransformerPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelDiffusion modelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a controllable RGB-to-thermal infrared (TIR) image translation framework called TherA, capable of generating TIR images that comply with thermal physics laws, and supporting control via text and reference images

ThinkGen: Generalized Thinking for Visual Generation

Siyu Jiao (Beijing Jiaotong University), Yunchao Wei (Beijing Jiaotong University)

CodeGenerationTransformerReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelDiffusion modelImageTextMultimodalityChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Proposes ThinkGen, a visual generation framework that guides diffusion models to generate high-quality images through chain-of-thought (CoT) mechanisms of multimodal large language models.

Thinking with Programming Vision: Towards a Unified View for Thinking with Images

Zirun Guo (Zhejiang University), Tao Jin (Zhejiang University)

CodeAI Code AssistantReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the CodeVision framework, enabling multimodal large language models to call arbitrary image tools through code generation, achieving more flexible and scalable image thinking capabilities.

Thinking with Video: Video Generation as a Promising Multimodal Reasoning Paradigm

Jingqi Tong (Shanghai Innovation Institution), Xipeng Qiu (Fudan University)

CodeGenerationPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelDiffusion modelVideoTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose the 'Thinking with Video' paradigm, using video generation models for multimodal reasoning and constructing the VideoThinkBench benchmark.

TIM: Temporal Decoupling with Iterative Mutual-Refinement Model for Longitudinal Radiology Report Generation

Yiheng Dong (Huazhong University of Science and Technology), Xin Yang (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageTextMultimodalityElectronic Health Records

🎯 What it does: Proposed the TIM model, utilizing a two-stage framework with temporal decoupling and mutual iterative refinement to generate longitudinal X-ray imaging reports.

Time-Specialized Event-Image Alignment for Blur-to-Video Decomposition

Zhijing Sun (University of Science and Technology of China), Zheng-Jun Zha (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeRestorationGenerationTransformerOptical FlowImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Achieving high-frame-rate video decomposition from single-frame motion-blurred images using event cameras and deep learning.

TINA: Text-Free Inversion Attack for Unlearned Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Qianlong Xiang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Liqiang Nie (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeGenerationOptimizationAdversarial AttackDiffusion modelImageText

🎯 What it does: Propose a text-agnostic reverse attack method called TINA, which utilizes DDIM inversion and self-consistent optimization to recover erased concepts in text-to-image diffusion models where text has been erased;

Too Vivid to Be Real? Benchmarking and Calibrating Generative Color Fidelity

Zhengyao Fang (Harbin Institute of Technology), Wenjie Pei (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeGenerationVision Language ModelDiffusion modelImageMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper addresses the issue of color authenticity in text-to-image generation by proposing a large-scale color authenticity dataset (CFD), a multi-modal color authenticity metric (CFM), and an untrained dynamic regulator (CFR) to enhance the color authenticity of generated images.

TopoSlide: Topologically-Informed Histopathology Whole Slide Image Representation Learning

Shahira Abousamra (Stanford University), Sylvia Plevritis (Stanford University)

CodeRetrievalRepresentation LearningTransformerContrastive LearningBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose TopoSlide, a self-supervised framework for whole-slide image representation learning that leverages persistent homology (topological data analysis) to simultaneously capture local pathological features and global spatial organization;

Toward Low-Cost yet Effective Temporal Learning for UAV Tracking

Chaocan Xue (Guangxi Normal University), Shuxiang Song (Guangxi Normal University)

CodeObject TrackingComputational EfficiencyTransformerVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed a low-cost and efficient time learning method (LETL), integrated into the single-stream visual tracker LETrack based on DeiT-Tiny, to achieve real-time robustness for UAV visual tracking.

Toward Real-world Infrared Image Super-Resolution: A Unified Autoregressive Framework and Benchmark Dataset

Yang Zou (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Jinyuan Liu (Dalian University of Technology)

CodeSuper ResolutionAuto EncoderImageBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a unified autoregressive framework, Real-IISR, for real-world infrared image super-resolution, and constructs the FLIR-IISR dataset.

Towards an Incremental Unified Multimodal Anomaly Detection: Augmenting Multimodal Denoising From an Information Bottleneck Perspective

Kaifang Long (Northeastern University), Guoyang Xie (CATL)

CodeAnomaly DetectionConvolutional Neural NetworkAuto EncoderMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose an incremental unified multimodal anomaly detection framework named IB-IUMAD, addressing catastrophic forgetting caused by pseudo feature interference and redundant information in cross-modal features.

Towards Balanced Multi-Modal Learning in 3D Human Pose Estimation

Mengshi Qi (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

CodePose EstimationTransformerMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a balanced multi-modal learning framework that evaluates the contribution of each modality in 3D pose estimation using Shapley values, and balances the learning rates of different modalities early in training through adaptive weight constraints (AWC) based on the Fisher information matrix, ultimately achieving collaborative learning across four modalities: RGB, LiDAR, mmWave, and WiFi.

Towards Cross-Modal Preservation, Consistency and Alignment for Privacy-Preserving Visible-Infrared Person Re-Identification

Yudi Xie (Wuhan University), Mang Ye (Wuhan University)

CodeRecognitionPose EstimationRetrievalSafty and PrivacyKnowledge DistillationConvolutional Neural NetworkGenerative Adversarial NetworkImageMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a cross-modal anonymizable person re-identification framework named PPA, achieving re-identification of visible-infrared images while protecting privacy.

Towards Efficient Medical Reasoning with Minimal Fine-Tuning Data

Xinlin Zhuang (East China Normal University), Imran Razzak (MBZUAI)

CodeData-Centric LearningTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: For medical reasoning tasks, we propose a data selection framework called DIQ (Difficulty-Influence Quadrant), which selects a subset that significantly improves model performance under small sample sizes by jointly measuring the reasoning difficulty of samples and gradient influence, thus achieving results comparable to full training with only a small amount of fine-tuning.

Towards High-resolution and Disentangled Reference-based Sketch Colorization

Dingkun Yan (University of Tokyo), Jiaxian Guo (University of Tokyo)

CodeImage TranslationGenerationDiffusion modelImage

🎯 What it does: This work proposes a dual-branch framework and suppresses distribution shift between training and inference through Gram regularization loss, successfully achieving high-resolution, non-entangled reference-based sketch colorization;

Towards Highly Transferable Vision-Language Attack via Semantic-Augmented Dynamic Contrastive Interaction

Yuanbo Li (Jiangnan University), Josef Kittler (University of Surrey)

CodeAdversarial AttackVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes a method called SADCA for generating adversarial examples that can be highly transferable across various visual-language models and tasks.

Towards Intrinsic-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection

Zhihao Zhang (Michigan State University), Xiaoming Liu (Michigan State University)

CodeObject DetectionAutonomous DrivingTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelImageText

🎯 What it does: Propose a unified MonoIA framework that converts camera intrinsic parameters into language-oriented semantic embeddings and layer-by-layer fuses them in the detection network, achieving adaptability and robustness of monocular 3D object detection to camera intrinsic parameters.

Towards Policy-Adaptive Image Guardrail: Benchmark and Method

Caiyong Piao (Fudan University), Shuigeng Zhou (Fudan University)

CodeReinforcement LearningPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a cross-strategy visual safety gatekeeping framework, SafeGuard-VL, and constructs a benchmark of safe/unsafe image pairs based on image editing, SafeEditBench, to evaluate the adaptability of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) under different safety strategies.

Towards Real-World Document Parsing via Realistic Scene Synthesis and Document-Aware Training

Gengluo Li (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yu Zhou (Nankai University)

CodeRecognitionData SynthesisTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a data-training collaborative framework that generates large-scale full-page end-to-end document parsing data using realistic scene synthesis, and improves the model's parsing quality and robustness through structure-aware training.

Towards Reliable Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness for Spiking Neural Networks

Jihang Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Yi Zeng (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeClassificationAdversarial AttackSpiking Neural NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a reliable framework for evaluating the adversarial robustness of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs), which includes Adaptive Sharpness Substitute Gradient (ASSG) and Stable Adaptive PGD (SA-PGD) attacks.

Towards Robust Multimodal Large Language Models Against Jailbreak Attacks

Ziyi Yin (Pennsylvania State University), Fenglong Ma (Pennsylvania State University)

CodeSafty and PrivacyAdversarial AttackLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose SAFEMLLM, an adversarial training framework for multi-modal large language models (MLLMs), which alternately iterates adversarial attacks and defenses by injecting adversarial noise into the embedding layer and combining it with contrastive loss;

Towards Stable Federated Continual Test-Time Adaptation in Wild World

Liwen Wang (Anhui University), Zhe Jin (University of Nottingham)

CodeClassificationSegmentationDomain AdaptationFederated LearningImageBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Under the federated learning framework, for scenarios with continuous, unlabeled client arrivals, BPFedCTTA is proposed, which employs Bayesian Prior-guided Adaptation (BPA) for locally stable test-time adaptation and Uncertainty-Gated Single-client Aggregation (UGSA) to achieve secure global model updates.

Towards Streaming Referring Video Segmentation via Large Language Model

Wenkang Zhang (Imperial College London), Jiankang Deng (Alibaba Group)

CodeSegmentationLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelVideoMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a StreamingRVOS framework that utilizes large language models to achieve online reference video segmentation, avoiding the traditional multi-step process of offline sampling, image segmentation, and subsequent mask propagation.

Towards Training-free Scene Text Editing

Yubo Li (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Kexin Zhang (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)

CodeImage TranslationImage HarmonizationGenerationTransformerDiffusion modelFlow-based ModelImageText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a training-free scene text editing framework called TextFlow, which can achieve high-quality modification of text content while preserving the original image structure and font style.

Towards Universal Computational Aberration Correction in Photographic Cameras: A Comprehensive Benchmark Analysis

Xiaolong Qian (Zhejiang University), Kaiwei Wang (Zhejiang University)

CodeRestorationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerDiffusion modelGenerative Adversarial NetworkImageBenchmarkPhysics RelatedOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Investigated the benchmark for general computational aberration correction (CAC), constructed a large-scale lens library and unified evaluation metrics, and evaluated 24 image restoration and CAC algorithms.

Towards Visual Query Localization in the 3D World

Liang Peng, Libo Zhang (Wuhan University)

CodeObject TrackingPose EstimationTransformerImageMultimodalityPoint CloudBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the 3D Visual Query Localization (3DVQL) task and benchmark dataset

TR2M: Transferring Monocular Relative Depth to Metric Depth with Language Descriptions and Dual-Level Scale-Oriented Contrast

Beilei Cui (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Hongliang Ren (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeDepth EstimationTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a unified framework TR2M, which predicts pixel-level scaling (scale) and offset maps using images and corresponding textual descriptions, subsequently converting pre-trained relative depth images into metric depth via pixel-level linear transformation.

TrackMAE: Video Representation Learning via Track Mask and Predict

Renaud Vandeghen (University of Li' ege), Bernard Ghanem (KAUST)

CodeObject TrackingRepresentation LearningTransformerAuto EncoderVideo

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes TrackMAE, a self-supervised video pre-training framework based on trajectory masking and prediction, which uses motion trajectories obtained from sparse point tracking as additional supervisory signals and further enhances temporal dynamic modeling through motion-aware masking;

TrafficAlign: Aligning Large Language Models for Traffic Scenario Generation

Zhi Tu (Purdue University), Tianyi Zhang (Purdue University)

CodeAutonomous DrivingLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed and implemented the TRAFFICALIGN framework, which automatically generates, validates, and aligns LLMs using real driving videos to create safe testing scenarios that conform to actual traffic distributions.

Training High-Level Schedulers with Execution-Feedback Reinforcement Learning for Long-Horizon GUI Automation

Zehao Deng (Soochow University), Gongshen Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose a staged execution feedback reinforcement learning framework (CES), which improves long-sequence GUI automation performance by decomposing task scheduling and state tracking into two high-level modules (Coordinator and State Tracker) and decoupling them from the low-level Executor.

Training-free Motion Factorization for Compositional Video Generation

Zixuan Wang (Sichuan University), Yinjie Lei (Sichuan University)

CodeGenerationLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelDiffusion modelOptical FlowVideoBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a training-agnostic motion factorization framework that decomposes motion into three categoriesβ€”static, rigid, and non-rigidβ€”in multi-instance video generation, utilizing structured motion graphs for planning and disentangled motion guidance.

Training-Only Heterogeneous Image-Patch-Text Graph Supervision for Advancing Few-Shot Learning Adapters

Mohammed Rahman Sherif Khan Mohammad (Edge Hill University), Amr Ahmed (Edge Hill University)

CodeClassificationKnowledge DistillationMeta LearningGraph Neural NetworkTransformerPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose a heterogeneous graph teacher model used during training, which constructs a graph by leveraging multi-scale image patches and text labels, and enhances the representational power of Tip-Adapter's cache keys through deep cross-modal reasoning with Modality-aware Graph Transformer, without increasing inference overhead.

Transition Models: Rethinking the Generative Learning Objective

Zidong Wang (Chinese University of Hong Kong), Lei Bai (Shanghai AI Lab)

CodeGenerationTransformerDiffusion modelScore-based ModelFlow-based ModelImageTextMultimodalityOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Designed a Transition Models (TiM) that learns state transitions over arbitrary time intervals, replacing the fixed-interval training of traditional PF-ODE or consistency models, enabling a single model to generate images under any sampling step count from single-step to multi-step.

TransPrune: Token Transition Pruning for Efficient Large Vision-Language Model

Ao Li (Shandong University), Hu Wang (Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a training-free prefix pruning method called TransPrune, based on dynamic transfer of visual tokens, for efficiently accelerating inference in large vision-language models

TRivia: Self-supervised Fine-tuning of Vision-Language Models for Table Recognition

Junyuan Zhang (University of Hong Kong), Conghui He (Shanghai AI Laboratory)

CodeRecognitionReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes TRivia, which performs self-supervised fine-tuning on pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) using unlabeled table images to achieve high-quality table recognition.

TSTM: Temporal Segmentation for Task-relevant Mask in Visual Reinforcement Learning Generalization

Weicheng Du (Shandong University), Xiankai Lu (Shandong University)

CodeSegmentationKnowledge DistillationRepresentation LearningRecurrent Neural NetworkReinforcement LearningVideo

🎯 What it does: Construct a segmentation network (TSTM) that utilizes temporal observations to extract task-related regions, and combine invariant representation learning with lightweight teacher-student distillation to enhance the generalization ability of visual reinforcement learning.

TTL: Test-time Textual Learning for OOD Detection with Pretrained Vision-Language Models

Jinlun Ye (Sun Yat-sen University), Ruixuan Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeAnomaly DetectionRepresentation LearningTransformerPrompt EngineeringContrastive LearningImageTextRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: Propose the TTL framework, which dynamically captures OOD semantics during testing by learning adjustable text prompts without requiring pre-defined OOD labels, applicable to unlabelled test streams;

TTP: Test-Time Padding for Adversarial Detection and Robust Adaptation on Vision-Language Models

Zhiwei Li (NLPR & MAIS Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences), Qi Li (NLPR & MAIS Institute of Automation Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeDomain AdaptationAdversarial AttackVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a lightweight test-time padding (Test-Time Padding, TTP) defense framework to enhance the adversarial robustness of vision-language models such as CLIP against adversarial attacks without retraining.

TUDSR: Twice Upsampling-Diffusion for Higher Super-Resolution

Zhiqiang Wu (East China Normal University), Xian Wei (East China Normal University)

CodeSuper ResolutionTransformerDiffusion modelGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: Proposed the TUDSR (Twice Upsampling-Diffusion) framework, utilizing two-stage LoRA adaptation and cyclic block training to achieve super-resolution from low-resolution to high-resolution (e.g., 256Γ—256β†’2048Γ—2048) based on Stable Diffusion 2.1-base.

Turning Pre-Trained Vision Transformers into End-to-End Histopathology Whole Slide Image Models for Survival Prediction

Jiawen Li (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), Tsinghua University), Yonghong He (Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School (SIGS), Tsinghua University)

CodeClassificationTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningImageBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Proposed an E2E-ViT conversion strategy that directly transforms pre-trained low-resolution ViT models into end-to-end models capable of processing full-resolution pathological whole slide images (WSI), achieving survival prediction through fine-tuning.

Tutor-Student Reinforcement Learning: A Dynamic Curriculum for Robust Deepfake Detection

Zhanhe Lei (School Of Computer Science Wuhan University), Dengpan Ye (School Of Computer Science Wuhan University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionReinforcement LearningImageVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposed and implemented the Tutor-Student Reinforcement Learning (TSRL) framework, which dynamically assigns continuous weights to each training sample, forming an adaptive curriculum in the training of deepfake detection models.

Twin-T & TwintVQA: A Reliable Structure-Detail Separating VLM and a Comprehensive Benchmark for Chart and Table Tasks

Jiahua Bao (Harbin Institute of Technology), Jie Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology)

CodeVision Language ModelContrastive LearningImageTextBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose Twin-T, a two-stage expert visual language model designed for chart and table tasks;

U-Mind: A Unified Framework for Real-Time Multimodal Interaction with Audiovisual Generation

Xiang Deng (Tsinghua University), Yebin Liu (Tsinghua University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisPose EstimationComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelVision-Language-Action ModelDiffusion modelAuto EncoderGaussian SplattingVideoTextMultimodalityChain-of-ThoughtAudio

🎯 What it does: Propose U-Mind, a real-time full-stack multimodal interaction framework capable of generating text, speech, pose, and synthetic video within a single loop;

U^2Flow: Uncertainty-Aware Unsupervised Optical Flow Estimation

Xunpei Sun (Sun Yat-sen University), Gang Chen (Sun Yat-sen University)

CodeRecurrent Neural NetworkOptical FlowVideo

🎯 What it does: Propose a self-supervised recursive optical flow network called U Flow, which can simultaneously predict pixel-level optical flow and corresponding uncertainty, and adaptively refine the optical flow using the predicted uncertainty.

UAV-CB: A Complex-Background RGB-T Dataset and Local Frequency Bridge Network for UAV Detection

Shenghui Huang (Pengcheng Laboratory), Ke Chen (Pengcheng Laboratory)

CodeObject DetectionDomain AdaptationConvolutional Neural NetworkImageMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed a new RGB-T UAV detection dataset named UAV-CB and designed the Local Frequency Bridge Network (LFBNet) model.

UCAN: Unified Convolutional Attention Network for Expansive Receptive Fields in Lightweight Super-Resolution

Cao Thien Tan (Ho Chi Minh City Open University), Nguyen Duc Dung (AI Tech Lab, Ho Chi Minh City University Of Technology)

CodeSuper ResolutionKnowledge DistillationConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: Design and implement a lightweight unified convolutional attention network (UCAN), which expands the receptive field while maintaining efficiency by fusing convolution and attention mechanisms for single-image super-resolution.

UETrack: A Unified and Efficient Framework for Single Object Tracking

Ben Kang (Dalian University of Technology), Huchuan Lu (City University of Hong Kong)

CodeObject TrackingKnowledge DistillationTransformerMixture of ExpertsVision Language ModelMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose a unified and efficient single-object tracking framework called UETrack, which supports multi-modal inputs such as RGB, Depth, Thermal, Event, and Language;

Ultra-Fast Neural Video Compression

Jiahao Li (Microsoft Research Asia), Yan Lu (Microsoft Research Asia)

CodeCompressionConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerVideo

🎯 What it does: Propose a block-based video coding framework DCVC-UF, which utilizes a cross-frame interaction module to compress multiple frames into a single latent representation, and achieves parallel decoding through frame-specific decoders, significantly improving encoding and decoding throughput.

Ultra-Low Bitrate Perceptual Image Compression with Shallow Encoder

Tianyu Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China), Chang Wen Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

CodeCompressionConvolutional Neural NetworkDiffusion modelAuto EncoderImage

🎯 What it does: Propose the AEIC framework, utilizing a shallow encoder and first-order diffusion decoder to achieve ultra-low bitrate (<0.05 bpp) image compression, balancing encoding efficiency and perceptual quality;

Ultrasound-CLIP: Semantic-Aware Contrastive Pre-training for Ultrasound Image-Text Understanding

Jiayun Jin (Hangzhou City University), Binbin Zhou (Hangzhou City University)

CodeClassificationRetrievalTransformerVision Language ModelContrastive LearningMultimodalityBiomedical DataUltrasound

🎯 What it does: Constructed the first large-scale ultrasound image-text dataset US-365K, and proposed the Ultrasound-CLIP semantic-aware contrastive learning framework, which uses the UDT semantic ontology to guide image-text alignment.

Unblur-SLAM: Dense Neural SLAM for Blurry Inputs

Qi Zhang (University of Amsterdam), Martin R. Oswald (University of Amsterdam)

CodeConvolutional Neural NetworkGaussian SplattingSimultaneous Localization and MappingImage

🎯 What it does: Propose an online SLAM system, Unblur-SLAM, which simultaneously handles motion blur and defocus blur, and achieves clear 3D reconstruction from blurred inputs through a single-frame deblurring network, 3D Gaussian splatting, and adaptive optimization.

Uncertainty-Aware Exploratory Direct Preference Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models

Huatian Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China), Yongdong Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)

CodeOptimizationExplainability and InterpretabilityReinforcement Learning from Human FeedbackTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelDiffusion modelMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Improve direct preference optimization (DPO) by introducing an exploration mechanism based on knowledge uncertainty to reduce visual hallucinations in multimodal large language models (MLLMs).

Uncertainty-Aware Knowledge Distillation for Multimodal Large Language Models

Jingchen Sun (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.), Changyou Chen (NEC Laboratories America, Inc.)

CodeKnowledge DistillationTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Propose a uncertainty-aware knowledge distillation framework named Beta-KD, which distills large multimodal large language models (e.g., MobileVLM, Qwen-VL) into smaller student models.

Understanding and Enforcing Weight Disentanglement in Task Arithmetic

Shangge Liu (Nanjing University), Dacheng Tao (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeClassificationRepresentation LearningTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: Investigate the theoretical foundations of task arithmetic, propose Task-Feature Specialization (TFS), and demonstrate its relationship with weight decoupling and weight vector orthogonality, followed by designing an orthogonal regularization method called OrthoReg to improve task arithmetic performance.

Understanding and Mitigating Hallucinations in Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Models

Ji Ma (Northwestern Polytechnical University), Yanning Zhang (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilityMultimodalityChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Analyze and mitigate hallucination phenomena in multimodal chain-of-thought (MCoT) models

Understanding, Accelerating, and Improving MeanFlow Training

Jin-Young Kim, Dominik Narnhofer (ETH Zurich)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyTransformerDiffusion modelFlow-based ModelImage

🎯 What it does: This paper systematically analyzes the interaction between instantaneous velocity (v) and average velocity (u) in MeanFlow training, proposing to improve one-shot generation performance by first accelerating the learning of v and gradually weighting the time intervals of u.

Uni-DAD: Unified Distillation and Adaptation of Diffusion Models for Few-step Few-shot Image Generation

Yara Bahram (ETS Montreal), Eric Granger (ETS Montreal)

CodeGenerationDomain AdaptationKnowledge DistillationDiffusion modelGenerative Adversarial NetworkImage

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a single-stage unified distillation and adaptation framework, Uni-DAD, for rapidly generating high-quality images in few-step and few-sample scenarios.

Uni-Encoder Meets Multi-Encoders: Representation Before Fusion for Brain Tumor Segmentation with Missing Modalities

Peibo Song (Shandong University), Si Yong Yeo (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeSegmentationRepresentation LearningTransformerMultimodalityBiomedical DataMagnetic Resonance Imaging

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a two-stage heterogeneous method called UniME for precise segmentation of brain tumors under missing modality conditions.

UniChange: Unifying Change Detection with Multimodal Large Language Model

Xu Zhang (Nankai University), Xiang Li (Nankai University)

CodeSegmentationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Designed a unified change detection framework called UniChange based on a multimodal large language model, which can simultaneously perform binary change detection and semantic change detection, and supports joint training with multi-source data.

UniComp: Rethinking Video Compression Through Informational Uniqueness

Chao Yuan (Meituan Inc.), Lin Ma (Meituan Inc.)

CodeCompressionTransformerVideo

🎯 What it does: Proposes a video compression framework called UniComp based on information uniqueness, aiming to maximize the fidelity of video representations under limited computational budgets.

Unified Camera Positional Encoding for Controlled Video Generation

Cheng Zhang (Monash University), Jianfei Cai (Monash University)

CodeGenerationTransformerDiffusion modelVideoText

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a Unified Camera Position Encoding (UCPE), which enables video diffusion Transformers to precisely control camera parameters such as pose, focal length, and distortion by combining relative ray encoding and absolute orientation encoding, thereby achieving high-quality, controllable text-to-video generation.

Unified Customized Generation by Disentangled Reward Modeling

Shaojin Wu (ByteDance), Qian He (ByteDance)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningReinforcement LearningDiffusion modelFlow-based ModelAuto EncoderImageMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the USO unified model, achieving unified generation for subject customization, style customization, and joint customization of both, while enhancing generation quality through cross-task co-decomposition and auxiliary style rewards.

UniFusion: A Unified Image Fusion Framework with Robust Representation and Source-Aware Preservation

Xingyuan Li (Zhejiang University), Jinyuan Liu (Dalian Maritime University)

CodeTransformerAuto EncoderContrastive LearningImageMultimodalityBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Propose a unified image fusion framework named UniFusion, leveraging DINOv3 as a general-purpose semantic feature extractor, combined with adaptive Adapter, reconstruction alignment mechanism, and dual-layer optimization to achieve high-quality cross-task fusion.

Unifying Language-Action Understanding and Generation for Autonomous Driving

Xinyang Wang (Zhejiang University), Wei Chen (Li Auto)

CodeAutonomous DrivingTransformerLarge Language ModelVision-Language-Action ModelImageVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Designed and implemented the LinkVLA model, unifying language instructions and trajectory actions into a single discrete codebook, and achieving efficient, aligned closed-loop driving through bidirectional learning and coarse-to-fine generation.

UniGenDet: A Unified Generative-Discriminative Framework for Co-Evolutionary Image Generation and Generated Image Detection

Yanran Zhang (Tsinghua University), Jie Zhou (Tsinghua University)

CodeGenerationAnomaly DetectionTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelFlow-based ModelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed a unified generative-discriminative framework called UniGenDet, achieving synergistic evolution between image generation and generated image detection.

UniGeoSeg: Towards Unified Open-World Segmentation for Geospatial Scenes

Shuo Ni (Beijing Institute of Technology), Jing Zhang (Wuhan University)

CodeSegmentationTransformerLarge Language ModelPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelImageMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed the GeoSeg-1M million-scale remote sensing instruction-driven segmentation dataset and the GeoSeg-Bench benchmark, along with the unified framework UniGeoSeg;

UniMMAD: Unified Multi-Modal and Multi-Class Anomaly Detection via MoE-Driven Feature Decompression

Yuan Zhao (Dalian University of Technology), Xiaoqi Zhao (Nanyang Technological University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionMixture of ExpertsMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Propose UniMMAD, a unified multi-modal multi-class unsupervised anomaly detection framework that can handle different sensor combinations and classes within a single model, supporting continual learning.

UniRain: Unified Image Deraining with RAG-based Dataset Distillation and Multi-objective Reweighted Optimization

Qianfeng Yang (Dalian Polytechnic University), Jiangxin Dong (Nanjing University of Science and Technology)

CodeRestorationMixture of ExpertsVision Language ModelImageRetrieval-Augmented Generation

🎯 What it does: The paper proposes UniRain, a unified image de-raining framework capable of handling both raindrops and rain streaks during the day and night.

UniTEX: Universal High Fidelity Generative Texturing for 3D Shapes

Yixun Liang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), Ping Tan (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

CodeGenerationTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningDiffusion modelImageMesh

🎯 What it does: Propose a two-stage 3D texture generation framework called UniTEX, which first generates multi-view images using a large-scale Diffusion Transformer, and then directly regresses complete textures in 3D space through a Large Texturing Model.

Universal-to-Specific: Dynamic Knowledge-Guided Multiple Instance Learning for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification

Junjian Li (Central South University), Jianxin Wang (Central South University)

CodeClassificationTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a dynamic knowledge-guided multi-instance learning framework called DyKo for whole slide image (WSI) classification under few-shot scenarios.

UniVerse: A Unified Modulation Framework for Segmentation-Free, Disentangled Multi-Concept Personalization

Quynh Phung (University of Maryland, College Park), Jia-Bin Huang (University of Maryland, College Park)

CodeGenerationTransformerVision Language ModelDiffusion modelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes UniVerse, a unified modulation framework that can extract visual and textual conditions from reference images and text without requiring segmentation masks, enabling the decomposition and combination of multiple concepts;

Unleashing Stealthy Backdoor Pandemic by Infecting a Single Diffusion Model

Mohaiminul Al Nahian (Binghamton University), Adnan Siraj Rakin (Florida International University)

CodeAdversarial AttackConvolutional Neural NetworkTransformerDiffusion modelAuto EncoderImage

🎯 What it does: Implant a hidden backdoor into a single diffusion model, enabling the synthetic data it generates to automatically propagate the backdoor during subsequent classifier training;

Unleashing the Power of Chain-of-Prediction for Monocular 3D Object Detection

Zhihao Zhang (Michigan State University), Xiaoming Liu (Michigan State University)

CodeObject DetectionAutonomous DrivingTransformerImageChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose MonoCoP, a monocular 3D object detection framework that adaptively leverages geometric correlations among 3D attributes (size, orientation, depth).

Unleashing Vision-Language Semantics for Deepfake Video Detection

Jiawen Zhu (Singapore Management University), Guansong Pang (Singapore Management University)

CodeAnomaly DetectionTransformerPrompt EngineeringVision Language ModelContrastive LearningVideoText

🎯 What it does: Proposed a CLIP-based deepfake video detection framework named VLAForge.

Unlocking Pre-trained Weights: Parameter Inheritance for Zero-Shot Initialization

Jiaze Xu (Southeast University), Xin Geng (Southeast University)

CodeKnowledge DistillationRepresentation LearningTransformerSupervised Fine-TuningImage

🎯 What it does: Propose Parameter Inheritance HyperNetwork (PITH), which uses a learnable projection matrix to directly map weights from publicly pre-trained models to the target model, achieving zero-shot initialization;

UPLiFT: Efficient Pixel-Dense Feature Upsampling with Local Attenders

Matthew Walmer (University of Maryland), Abhinav Shrivastava (University of Maryland)

CodeSegmentationGenerationDepth EstimationSuper ResolutionConvolutional Neural NetworkAuto EncoderImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposed an efficient pixel-level feature upsampling method called UPLiFT, which maps low-resolution visual backbones to high-resolution features using iterative convolutions and a local attender.

UTPTrack: Towards Simple and Unified Token Pruning for Visual Tracking

Hao Wu (Eastern Institute of Technology), Xiaoyu Shen (Eastern Institute of Technology)

CodeObject TrackingComputational EfficiencyTransformerVision Language ModelImageVideoTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes UTPTrack, a unified token pruning framework that simultaneously compresses the search region, dynamic template, and static template in state-of-the-art Transformer visual tracking, achieving efficient real-time tracking.

V-Attack: Targeting Disentangled Value Features for Controllable Adversarial Attacks on LVLMs

Sen Nie (State Key Laboratory of AI Safety Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences), Xilin Chen (State Key Laboratory of AI Safety Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Sciences)

CodeAdversarial AttackTransformerVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes a controllable adversarial attack method called V-Attack based on the internal value features of Transformer.

V2U4Real: A Real-world Large-scale Dataset for Vehicle-to-UAV Cooperative Perception

Weijia Li (Xiamen University), Chenglu Wen (Xiamen University)

CodeObject DetectionObject TrackingAutonomous DrivingConvolutional Neural NetworkImageMultimodalityPoint CloudBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes the V2U4Real dataset and benchmark, which records real-world large-scale multimodal data from vehicle and drone collaborative perception, supporting single-machine and collaborative 3D detection and tracking tasks.

VA-p: Variational Policy Alignment for Pixel-Aware Autoregressive Generation

Xinyao Liao (Huazhong University Of Science And Technology), Angela Yao (National University Of Singapore)

CodeGenerationTransformerReinforcement LearningImageTextMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Lightweight post-training of existing autoregressive image generation models, aligning the generator directly in pixel space using variational inference and reinforcement learning to enhance image quality and diversity.

VAR RL Done Right: Tackling Asynchronous Policy Conflicts in Visual Autoregressive Generation

Shikun Sun (Tsinghua University), Xinglong Wu (ByteDance)

CodeGenerationTransformerReinforcement LearningDiffusion modelImageText

🎯 What it does: Diagnose the asynchronous policy conflict problem in visual autoregressive (VAR) models within reinforcement learning and propose an improved RL framework, significantly enhancing the quality of text rendering and human preference scores.

Variation-aware Vision Token Dropping for Faster Large Vision-Language Models

Junjie Chen (Sichuan University), Honggang Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

CodeCompressionComputational EfficiencyTransformerLarge Language ModelVision Language ModelImageVideoBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposes a dynamic pruning method (Variation-aware Vision Token Dropping, V Drop 2) based on the variation degree of visual tokens within LLMs, discarding layer-by-layer the tokens with the least variation during inference to significantly reduce the number of visual tokens and improve inference speed.

VDE: Training-Free Accelerating Rectified Flow Model via Velocity Decomposition and Estimation

Junwen Tan (South China University of Technology), Shuangping Huang (South China University of Technology)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyFlow-based ModelRectified FlowImageVideo

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a training-agnostic acceleration method called VDE (Velocity Decomposition and Estimation) to speed up the sampling process of Rectified Flow models;

VecAttention: Vector-wise Sparse Attention for Accelerating Long Context Inference

Anmin Liu (Peking University), Tao Xie (Peking University)

CodeComputational EfficiencyTransformerVideo

🎯 What it does: Propose VecAttention, a vector-level sparse attention framework designed for long video reasoning

VEMamba: Efficient Isotropic Reconstruction of Volume Electron Microscopy with Axial-Lateral Consistent Mamba

Longmi Gao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Pan Gao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

CodeRestorationConvolutional Neural NetworkContrastive LearningBiomedical Data

🎯 What it does: Proposes the VEMamba framework for efficiently restoring isotropic resolution from anisotropic volumetric electron microscopy data.

Venus: Benchmarking and Empowering Multimodal Large Language Models for Aesthetic Guidance and Cropping

Tianxiang Du (Peking University), Yuxin Peng (Peking University)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelSupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelImageTextMultimodalityBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Propose a two-phase framework Venus, which first trains an MLLM to achieve aesthetic guidance using the AesGuide dataset, then activates its cropping capability through Chain-of-Thought aesthetic reasoning, enabling interpretable interactive aesthetic cropping.

VesMamba: 3D Pulmonary Vessel Segmentation from CT images via Mamba with Structural Perception and Scale-aware Filtering

Zhipeng Liu (Shenzhen University), Jing Qin (Hong Kong Polytechnic University)

CodeSegmentationBiomedical DataComputed Tomography

🎯 What it does: This paper proposes a 3D lung vessel segmentation model named VesMamba, which can automatically extract vascular structures from CT images;

VGGT-360: Geometry-Consistent Zero-Shot Panoramic Depth Estimation

Jiayi Yuan (Singapore University of Technology and Design), Na Zhao (Singapore University of Technology and Design)

CodeDepth EstimationTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: Proposes VGGT-360, a training-free, geometrically consistent omnidirectional depth estimation framework.

ViBES: A Conversational Agent with Behaviorally-Intelligent 3D Virtual Body

Juze Zhang (Stanford University), Ehsan Adeli (Stanford University)

CodeGenerationData SynthesisRobotic IntelligenceTransformerLarge Language ModelMixture of ExpertsVision-Language-Action ModelVideoTextMeshAudio

🎯 What it does: Built ViBES, a 3D conversational agent capable of simultaneously understanding speech and text while generating corresponding facial expressions and full-body movements.

VibeToken: Scaling 1D Image Tokenizers and Autoregressive Models for Dynamic Resolution Generations

Maitreya Patel (Arizona State University), Lingjuan Lv (SonyAI)

CodeGenerationComputational EfficiencyTransformerImage

🎯 What it does: Propose a 1D Transformer image tokenizer VibeToken and its corresponding autoregressive generative model VibeToken-Gen, which can adapt to arbitrary resolutions and aspect ratios, achieving efficient multi-resolution image generation.

Video-as-Answer: Predict and Generate Next Video Event with Joint-GRPO

Junhao Cheng (City University of Hong Kong), Jing Liao (City University of Hong Kong)

CodeGenerationReinforcement LearningVision Language ModelDiffusion modelVideoMultimodality

🎯 What it does: Proposes the Video Next Event Prediction (VNEP) task, answering questions using video as answers rather than text;

VideoCoF: Unified Video Editing with Temporal Reasoner

Xiangpeng Yang (University of Technology Sydney), Qiang Wu (University of Technology Sydney)

CodeGenerationTransformerLarge Language ModelDiffusion modelAuto EncoderVideoMultimodalityBenchmarkChain-of-ThoughtOrdinary Differential Equation

🎯 What it does: Propose the VideoCoF framework, leveraging Chain-of-Frames (insight β†’ reasoning β†’ editing) to achieve unified and precise video editing;

VideoRealBench: A Chain-of-Thought Realism Evaluation Benchmark for Generated Human-Centric Videos

Min Yang (Nanjing University), Limin Wang (Nanjing University)

CodeExplainability and InterpretabilitySupervised Fine-TuningVision Language ModelVideoTextBenchmarkChain-of-Thought

🎯 What it does: Constructed a high-quality human-centered video authenticity evaluation benchmark, VideoRealBench, which includes the VideoRealDataset dataset and an automatic evaluator, VideoRealEval.

VideoSSR: Video Self-Supervised Reinforcement Learning

Zefeng He (Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), Yu Cheng (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

CodeTransformerLarge Language ModelReinforcement LearningVideoMultimodalityBenchmark

🎯 What it does: Proposed a self-supervised reinforcement learning framework called VideoSSR that leverages video's own information, addressing the data scarcity issue in training large multimodal language models for video understanding.

VidPrism: Heterogeneous Mixture of Experts for Image-to-Video Transfer

Rui Lin (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications), Huadong Ma (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications)

CodeRecognitionTransformerMixture of ExpertsVision Language ModelVideo

🎯 What it does: Propose VidPrism, a heterogeneous Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) framework, to migrate pre-trained vision-language models to video understanding tasks, addressing the homogenization problem of traditional MoE experts.