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Zhoujie Fu, Xianfang Zeng, Jinghong Lan, Xinyao Liao, Cheng Chen, Junyi Chen, Jiacheng Wei, Wei Cheng, Shiyu Liu, Yunuo Chen 等

Pre-trained video models learn powerful priors for generating high-quality, temporally coherent content. While these models excel at temporal coherence, their dynamics are often constrained by the continuous nature of their training data. We hypothesize that by injecting the rich and unconstrained content diversity from image data into this coherent temporal framework, we can generate image sets that feature both natural transitions and a far more expansive dynamic range. To this end, we introduce iMontage, a unified framework designed to repurpose a powerful video model into an all-in-one image generator. The framework consumes and produces variable-length image sets, unifying a wide array of image generation and editing tasks. To achieve this, we propose an elegant and minimally invasive adaptation strategy, complemented by a tailored data curation process and training paradigm. This approach allows the model to acquire broad image manipulation capabilities without corrupting its invaluable original motion priors. iMontage excels across several mainstream many-in-many-out tasks, not only maintaining strong cross-image contextual consistency but also generating scenes with extraordinary dynamics that surpass conventional scopes. Our code and model weights will be made publicly available.

Haoming Yang, Ke Ma, Ligong Zhang, Xiaojun Jia, Yingfei Sun, Qianqian Xu, Qingming Huang

Text-to-Image (T2I) models have achieved significant progress in generating high-quality images, with compositional visual generation emerging as an important capability that enables them to synthesize coherent, natural scenes from multiple discrete concepts. However, this powerful compositionality, while enhancing creativity, also introduces new safety risks: combinations of different concepts can produce high-risk images without explicitly expressing harmful content. Motivated by this, we propose CoRA (Composable Reassembly Attack): an attack method that preserves the original semantics while bypassing safety filters. Unlike traditional compositional generation approaches that rely on modifying the sampling process, CoRA operates solely in the text space under a black-box setting, iteratively rewriting and guiding prompts through interactive steps. Specifically, CoRA decomposes a potentially harmful intent into a set of fine-grained, superficially benign but semantically complete visual elements, and then uses iterative selection and reassembly to guide the target T2I model to recombine these elements without triggering safety checks, thereby recovering the original malicious semantics. Experimental results show that CoRA significantly improves attack success rates, producing higher-risk outputs while maintaining semantic consistency. Warning: This paper contains offensive or disturbing content.

Mingrui Wu, Hang Liu, Jiayi Ji, Xiaoshuai Sun, Rongrong Ji

Recent advancements in Unified Multimodal Models (UMMs) have enabled remarkable image understanding and generation capabilities. However, while models like Gemini-2.5-Flash-Image show emerging abilities to reason over multiple related images, existing benchmarks rarely address the challenges of multi-image context generation, focusing mainly on text-to-image or single-image editing tasks. In this work, we introduce MICON-Bench, a comprehensive benchmark covering six tasks that evaluate cross-image composition, contextual reasoning, and identity preservation. We further propose an MLLM-driven Evaluation-by-Checkpoint framework for automatic verification of semantic and visual consistency, where multimodal large language model (MLLM) serves as a verifier. Additionally, we present Dynamic Attention Rebalancing (DAR), a training-free, plug-and-play mechanism that dynamically adjusts attention during inference to enhance coherence and reduce hallucinations. Extensive experiments on various state-of-the-art open-source models demonstrate both the rigor of MICON-Bench in exposing multi-image reasoning challenges and the efficacy of DAR in improving generation quality and cross-image coherence.

Jongmin Lim, Soobin Cha, Jaehun Park, Inho Oh, Minho Park, Kwangsu Kim

Few-shot learning aims to enable rapid adaptation to unseen tasks using limited data. Optimization-based meta-learning addresses this challenge by acquiring shared prior knowledge across diverse tasks. However, its effectiveness degrades in cross-domain scenarios where unseen tasks differ significantly from training tasks. We identify this degradation as a failure to acquire generalizable prior knowledge, which is fundamentally caused by gradient discrepancies--conflicting update directions arising in the meta-training environment with diverse task distributions. To achieve robust few-shot generalization, we propose Data-Centric Meta-Learning (DCML), a novel framework that mitigates gradient discrepancies by aligning task-specific input distributions with shared prior knowledge. DCML accomplishes this alignment through a meta-learnable visual prompt that is integrated into the entire meta-learning process--unlike previous prompt-based methods restricted solely to test-time adaptation. During meta-training, the prompt transforms each task's inputs to induce more consistent gradients, thereby facilitating the learning of generalizable prior knowledge. Leveraging this robust knowledge, DCML enables rapid and parameter-efficient test-time adaptation by updating only the lightweight prompt and classifier while keeping the backbone frozen.Extensive experiments demonstrate that DCML consistently outperforms baselines, particularly in challenging few-shot cross-domain scenarios, establishing a data-centric perspective for robust meta-learning.

Jiahao Li, Wenxuan Xie, Zhaoyang Jia, Bin Li, Zongyu Guo, Xiaoyi Zhang, Yan Lu

While neural video codecs (NVCs) have demonstrated superior compression ratio, their prohibitive computational complexity remains a critical barrier to real-world deployment. This paper introduces a chunk-based coding framework designed to significantly improve the rate-distortion-complexity trade-off. Instead of processing frames sequentially, our approach encodes a chunk of multiple frames into a single compact latent representation and decodes them simultaneously. This is enabled by cross-frame interaction modules for joint spatial-temporal modeling and frame-specific decoders for parallel reconstruction. This paradigm not only dramatically enhances coding throughput but also facilitates more effective modeling of long-term temporal correlations. To further boost speed, we propose a streamlined entropy coding mechanism that consolidates bit-stream interactions into a single step, substantially reducing decoding overhead. Building on these innovations, we present DCVC-UF (Ultra-Fast), a new NVC that sets a new SOTA in performance. Our experiments show that DCVC-UF can achieve ultra-fast encoding and decoding speeds, significantly outperforming previous leading codecs. DCVC-UF serves as a notable landmark in the journey of NVC evolution. The code is at https://github.com/microsoft/DCVC.

Jiaxing Li, Jiepeng Wang, Junyao Gao, Yang Liu, Eric Li, Bo An, Hao-Xiang Guo

Despite significant progress in text-to-video generation, current models still suffer from unrealistic dynamics, temporal inconsistency, and unstable semantic alignment. Existing preference alignment approaches rely on costly and often ambiguous human or VLM-based video preference annotation, which has become a major bottleneck for scaling data. To address this challenge, we propose an annotation-free preference alignment method that constructs accurate preference pairs through video continuation.We extend a pretrained video generation model into a continuation model and apply continuation with different amounts of reference frames while keeping the total video length fixed. As generated segments are inferior to ground-truth frames and and fixed-length continuations conditioned on more reference frames contain less generated content, they exhibit higher fidelity than those with fewer references, naturally inducing a preference order.We further introduce Asymmetrical DPO, which computes preference loss on all continuation regions except the shared prefix conditioning frames and normalizes it by their length, preventing spurious preference signals from leaking into the conditioned portion.Experiments across multiple benchmarks show that our method delivers significant improvements in dynamics realism, temporal coherence, and semantic alignment over existing DPO-based approaches, while fully eliminating the need for human preference labeling or auxiliary reward models.

Meiqi Cao, Jiachao Zhang, Xin Jiang, Rui Yan, Yazhou Yao, Zechao Li, Xiangbo Shu

Event-based Action Recognition (EAR) provides a promising pathway for understanding dynamic behaviors under challenging conditions. Recent progress in vision-language models has introduced a cross-modal learning paradigm into EAR, enabling models to associate event streams with textual semantics for enhancing conceptual understanding. However, existing methods typically overlook the intrinsic polarity-driven motion cues that are fundamental to event data, leading to suboptimal spatiotemporal representations. To address this limitation, we propose a POlarity Knowledge Enhanced framework (POKER), which explicitly incorporates event polarity-aware motion knowledge across visual and textual modalities.POKER consists of two synergistic components: Polarity Motion Capturer (PMC) and Polarity Motion Reasoner (PMR). Specifically, PMC decouples positive and negative polarities to capture polarity-sensitive motion cues, while PMR semantically analyzes polarity-induced motion dynamics via large language models. Through the polarity alignment, POKER couples semantic reasoning with visual dynamics, achieving more discriminative representations. Extensive experiments on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that POKER enhances performance across diverse event representations.

Seongyu Kim, Seungwoo Lee, Hyeonggon Ryu, Joon Son Chung, Arda Senocak

We address the problem of tactile localization, where the goal is to identify image regions that share the same material properties as a tactile input. Existing visuo-tactile methods rely on global alignment and thus fail to capture the fine-grained local correspondences required for this task. The challenge is amplified by existing datasets, which predominantly contain close-up, low-diversity images. We propose a model that learns local visuo-tactile alignment via dense cross-modal feature interactions, producing tactile saliency maps for touch-conditioned material segmentation. To overcome dataset constraints, we introduce: (i) in-the-wild multi-material scene images that expand visual diversity, and (ii) a material-diversity pairing strategy that aligns each tactile sample with visually varied yet tactilely consistent images, improving contextual localization and robustness to weak signals. We also construct two new tactile-grounded material segmentation datasets for quantitative evaluation. Experiments on both new and existing benchmarks show that our approach substantially outperforms prior visuo-tactile methods in tactile localization.

Ruize Gao, Kaiwen Zhou, Yongqiang Chen, Feng Liu

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) aim to determine whether a specific data point was part of a model's training set, serving as effective tools for evaluating privacy leakage of vision models. However, existing MIAs implicitly assume honest query inputs, and their adversarial robustness remains unexplored. We show that MIAs for vision models expose a previously overlooked adversarial surface: adversarial membership manipulation, where imperceptible perturbations can reliably push non-member images into the member region of state-of-the-art MIAs. In this paper, we provide the first unified perspective on this phenomenon by analyzing its mechanism and implications. We begin by demonstrating that adversarial membership fabrication is consistently effective across diverse architectures and datasets. We then reveal a distinctive geometric signature--a characteristic gradient-norm collapse trajectory--that reliably separates fabricated from true members despite their nearly identical semantic representations. Building on this insight, we introduce a principled detection strategy grounded in gradient-geometry signals and develop a robust inference framework that substantially mitigates adversarial manipulation. Extensive experiments show that fabrication is broadly effective, while our detection and robust inference strategies significantly enhance resilience. This work establishes the first comprehensive framework for adversarial membership manipulation in vision models.

Subin Varghese, Joshua Gao, Asad Ur Rahman, Vedhus Hoskere

Deploying embodied agents that can answer questions about their surroundings in realistic real-world settings remains difficult, partly due to the scarcity of benchmarks for episodic memory Embodied Question Answering (EQA). Inspired by the challenges of infrastructure inspections, we propose Inspection EQA as a compelling problem class for advancing episodic memory EQA, as it demands multi-scale reasoning and long-range spatial understanding, while offering standardized evaluation, professional inspection reports as grounding, and egocentric imagery. We introduce BridgeEQA, a benchmark of 2,200 open-vocabulary question-answer pairs (in the style of OpenEQA) grounded in professional inspection reports across 200 real-world bridge scenes with 47.93 images on average per scene. We further propose a new EQA metric Image Citation Relevance to evaluate the ability of a model to cite relevant images. Evaluations of state-of-the-art vision-language models reveal substantial performance gaps. To address this, we propose Embodied Memory Visual Reasoning (EMVR), which formulates the inspection EQA task as a Markov decision process. EMVR shows strong performance over the baselines. Code and dataset available at: https://drags99.github.io/bridge-eqa/

Xun Jiang, Yufan Gu, Disen Hu, Yuqing Hou, Yazhou Yao, Fumin Shen, Heng Tao Shen, Xing Xu

Multimodal learning often grapples with the challenge of low-quality data, which predominantly manifests as two facets: modality imbalance and noisy corruption. While these issues are often studied in isolation, we argue that they share a common root in the predictive uncertainty towards the reliability of individual modalities and instances during learning. In this paper, we propose a unified framework, termed Conformal Predictive Self-Calibration (CPSC), which leverages conformal prediction to equip the model with the ability to perform self-guided calibration on-the-fly. The core of our proposed CPSC lies in a novel self-calibrating training loop that seamlessly integrates two key modules: (1) Representation Self-Calibration, which decomposes unimodal features into components, selectively fuses the most robust ones identified by a conformal predictor to enhance feature resilience. (2) Gradient Self-Calibration, which recalibrates the gradient flow during backpropagation based on instance-wise reliability scores, steering the optimization towards more trustworthy directions. Furthermore, we also devise a self-update strategy for the conformal predictor to ensure the entire system co-evolves consistently throughout the training process. Extensive experiments on six benchmark datasets under both imbalanced and noisy settings demonstrate that our CPSC framework consistently outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods. Our code is available at https://github.com/XunCHN/CPSC.

Hoonhee Cho, Jae-Young Kang, Yuhwan Jeong, Yunseo Yang, Wonyoung Lee, Youngho Kim, Kuk-Jin Yoon

In this paper, we present DSERT-RoLL, a driving dataset that incorporates stereo event, RGB, and thermal cameras together with 4D radar and dual LiDAR, collected across diverse weather and illumination conditions. The dataset provides precise 2D and 3D bounding boxes with track IDs and ego vehicle odometry, enabling fair comparisons within and across sensor combinations. It is designed to alleviate data scarcity for novel sensors such as event cameras and 4D radar and to support systematic studies of their behavior. We establish unified 3D and 2D benchmarks that enable direct comparison of characteristics and strengths across sensor families and within each family. We report baselines for representative single modality and multimodal methods and provide protocols that encourage research on different fusion strategies and sensor combinations. In addition, we propose a fusion framework that integrates sensor specific cues into a unified feature space and improves 3D detection robustness under varied weather and lighting.

Junhan Chen, Zilu Zhou, Yujun Tong, Dongliang Chang, Yitao Luo, Zhanyu Ma

Fine-grained visual understanding is shifting from static classification to knowledge-augmented reasoning, where models must justify as well as recognise. Existing approaches remain limited by closed-set taxonomies and single-label prediction, leading to significant degradation under open-set or context-dependent conditions. We present the Knowledge-Augmented Fine-Grained Reasoning Agent (KFRA), a unified framework that transforms fine-grained perception into evidence-driven reasoning. KFRA operates through a three-stage closed reasoning loop that emulates expert analysis. It first performs open-vocabulary detection and web-scale retrieval to generate category hypotheses. It then conducts discriminative regions localisation by aligning textual knowledge with visual evidence through a global-to-local focusing mechanism. Finally, it integrates all multimodal evidence within a large multimodal model to perform interpretable reasoning. Unlike existing agents that treat retrieval and reasoning as independent processes, KFRA establishes a retrieval-grounding coupling that converts retrieved knowledge into spatially grounded evidence for verification. This design enables factual, interpretable, and task-agnostic reasoning across diverse fine-grained scenarios. To evaluate this capability, we construct FGExpertBench, a benchmark designed to assess reasoning depth and cross-task generalisation across six knowledge dimensions. Extensive experiments demonstrate that KFRA consistently surpasses both standalone large multimodal models and current agent frameworks, achieving up to 19 percent improvement in reasoning accuracy and delivering evidence-grounded interpretability in open-set fine-grained visual understanding.

Sixiang Chen, Jianyu Lai, Jialin Gao, Hengyu Shi, Zhongying Liu, Tian Ye, Junfeng Luo, Xiaoming Wei, Lei Zhu

Image-to-poster generation is a high-demand task requiring not only local adjustments but also high-level design understanding. Models must generate text, layout, style, and visual elements while preserving semantic fidelity and aesthetic coherence. The process spans two regimes: local editing, where ID-driven generation, rescaling, filling, and extending must preserve concrete visual entities; and global creation, where layout- and style-driven tasks rely on understanding abstract design concepts. These intertwined demands make image-to-poster a multi-dimensional process coupling entity-preserving editing with concept-driven creation under image-prompt control. To address these challenges, we propose PosterOmni, a generalized artistic poster creation framework that unlocks the potential of a base edit model for multi-task image-to-poster generation. PosterOmni integrates the two regimes, namely local editing and global creation, within a single system through an efficient data-distillation-reward pipeline: (i) constructing multi-scenario image-to-poster datasets covering six task types across entity-based and concept-based creation; (ii) distilling knowledge between local and global experts for supervised fine-tuning; and (iii) applying unified PosterOmni Reward Feedback to jointly align visual entity-preserving and aesthetic preference across all tasks. Additionally, we establish PosterOmni-Bench, a unified benchmark for evaluating both local editing and global creation. Extensive experiments show that PosterOmni significantly enhances reference adherence, global composition quality, and aesthetic harmony, outperforming all open-source baselines and even surpassing several proprietary systems.

Jinhyung Park, Navyata Sanghvi, Erica Weng, Shawn Hunt, Shinya Tanaka, Hironobu Fujiyoshi, Kris Kitani

Although recent work has explored generative modeling of 3D or 4D driving scenes, most approaches operate on dense voxel-based representations, which are computationally expensive and struggle to maintain temporal or structural consistency. These methods often produce blurred or merged entities (i.e., cars, trucks, pedestrians) and lack fine-grained control over individual scene elements. We propose LatentWorld, a framework for generative modeling in a compact, entity-centric latent space, where each grounded 3D latent represents a semantically meaningful local region of the scene. This formulation enables precise, consistent control of both foreground and background elements while preserving geometric detail. We further extend this representation to 4D by learning a motion diffusion model for both ego and dynamic actors, conditioned on the generated 3D scene, and by propagating the grounded latents through time. Our framework produces physically consistent and temporally coherent 4D scenes, supporting controllable and realistic generation.

Junxuan Li, Rawal Khirodkar, Egor Zakharov, Jihyun Lee, Zhaoen Su, Yuan Dong, Julieta Martinez, Kai Li, Qingyang Tan, Takaaki Shiratori 等

High-quality 3D avatar modeling faces a critical trade-off between fidelity and generalization. On the one hand, multi-view studio data enables high-fidelity modeling of humans with precise control over expressions and poses, but it struggles to generalize to real-world data due to limited scale and the domain gap between the studio environment and the real world. On the other hand, recent large-scale avatar models trained on millions of in-the-wild samples show promise for generalization across a wide range of identities, yet the resulting avatars are often of low-quality due to inherent 3D ambiguities. To address this, we present Large-Scale Codec Avatars (LCA), a high-fidelity, full-body 3D avatar model that generalizes to world-scale populations in a feedforward manner, enabling efficient inference. Inspired by the success of large language models and vision foundation models, we present, for the first time, a pre/post-training paradigm for 3D avatar modeling at scale: we pretrain on 1M in-the-wild videos to learn broad priors over appearance and geometry, then post-train on high-quality curated data to enhance expressivity and fidelity. LCA generalizes across hair styles, clothing, and demographics while providing precise, fine-grained facial expressions and finger-level articulation control, with strong identity preservation. Notably, we observe emergent generalization to relightability and loose garment support to unconstrained inputs, and zero-shot robustness to stylized imagery, despite the absence of direct supervision.

David G. Shatwell, Sirnam Swetha, Mubarak Shah

Many real-world applications in digital forensics, urban monitoring, and environmental analysis require jointly reasoning about visual appearance, location, and time. Beyond standard geo-localization and time-of-capture prediction, these applications increasingly demand more complex capabilities, such as retrieving an image captured at the same location as a query image but at a specified target time. We formalize this problem as Geo-Time Aware Image Retrieval and propose TIGeR, a unified framework for Time, Images and Geo-location Retrieval. TIGeR supports flexible input configurations (single-modality and multi-modality queries) and uses the same representation to perform (i) geo-localization, (ii) time-of-capture prediction, and (iii) geo-time-aware retrieval. By preserving the underlying location identity despite large appearance changes, TIGeR enables retrieval based on where and when a scene was captured, rather than purely on visual similarity. To support this task, we design a multistage data curation pipeline and propose a new diverse dataset of 4.5M paired image-location-time triplets for training and 86k high-quality triplets for evaluation. Extensive experiments show that TIGeR consistently outperforms strong baselines and state-of-the-art methods by up to 16% on time-of-year, 8% time-of-day prediction, and 14% in geo-time aware retrieval recall, highlighting the benefits of unified geo-temporal modeling.

Meng Chu, Senqiao Yang, Haoxuan Che, Suiyun Zhang, Xichen Zhang, Shaozuo Yu, Haokun Gui, Zhefan Rao, Dandan Tu, Rui Liu 等

Generative models can now produce photorealistic imagery, yet they still struggle with the long, multi-goal prompts that professional designers issue. To expose this gap and better evaluate models' performance in real-world, we introduce Long Goal Bench(LGBench), a 2000-task suite (1000 T2I, 1000 I2I) whose average instruction contains 18---22 tightly coupled goals spanning global layout, local object placement, typography, and logo fidelity. We find even state-of-the-art commercial APIs satisfy fewer than 72% of the goals and routinely miss localized edits, confirming the brittleness of current pipelines. To address this, we present VisionDirector, a training-free, vision-language supervisor that (i) extracts structured goals from long instructions, (ii) dynamically decides between one-shot generation and staged edits, (iii) runs micro-grid sampling plus semantic verification/rollback after every edit, and (iv) logs goal-level rewards. We further fine-tune the planner with Group Relative Policy Optimization, yielding shorter edit trajectories (3.1 vs. 4.2 steps) and stronger alignment. VisionDirector achieves new state of the art on GenEval (+7% overall), and ImgEdit (+0.07 absolute) while producing consistent qualitative improvements on typography, multi-object scenes, and pose editing. The code, benchmark, and evaluation scripts will be released.

Mingxing Rao, Bowen Qu, Daniel Moyer

The recovery of training data from generative models ("model inversion") has been extensively studied for diffusion models in the data domain as a memorization/overfitting phenomenon. Latent diffusion models (LDMs), which operate on the latent codes from encoder/decoder pairs, have been robust to prior inversion methods. In this work we describe two key findings: (1) the diffusion model exhibits non-uniform memorization across latent codes, tending to overfit samples located in high-distortion regions of the decoder pullback metric; (2) even within a single latent code, memorization contributions are unequal across representation dimensions. Our proposed method to ranks latent dimensions by their contribution to the decoder pullback metric, which in turn identifies dimensions that contribute to memorization. For score-based membership inference, a sub-task of model inversion, we find that removing less-memorizing dimensions improves performance on all tested methods and datasets, with average AUROC gains of 1-4% and substantial increases in TPR@1%FPR (1-32%) across diverse datasets including CIFAR-10, CelebA, ImageNet-1K, Pokemon, MS-COCO, and Flickr. Our results highlight the overlooked influence of the auto-encoder geometry on LDM memorization and provide a new perspective for analyzing privacy risks in diffusion-based generative models.

Quyen Tran, Hai Nguyen, Quan Dao, Hoang Phan, Linh Van, Khoat Than, Dinh Phung, Dimitris Metaxas, Trung Le

In online incremental learning, data continuously arrives with substantial shifts in distribution, creating a significant challenge since previous samples cannot be revisited. Prior research has typically relied on either a single adaptive centroid or fixed multiple centroids to represent each class in the latent space. However, such methods struggle when class data streams are inherently multimodal and require continual centroid updates. To overcome this, we introduce an online Mixture Model learning framework grounded in Optimal Transport theory (MMOT), where centroids evolve incrementally with new data. This approach offers two main advantages: (i) it provides a more precise characterization of complex data streams, and (ii) it enables improved class similarity estimation for unseen samples during inference through MMOT-derived centroids. Furthermore, to strengthen representation learning and mitigate catastrophic forgetting, we design a Dynamic Preservation strategy that regulates the latent space and maintains class separability over time. Experimental evaluations on benchmark datasets confirm the superior effectiveness of our proposed method.