Reliable navigation and decision-making of autonomous vehicles require both accurate localization and object detection. Traditionally, these two tasks are handled separately, leading to redundant computation and limited cross-task knowledge transfer. This paper proposes TACO, the first Task-Aware COntrastive learning framework, which performs joint LiDAR localization and 3D object detection within a single, unified network. TACO leverages contrastive learning to explicitly decouple and align static geographic features for localization and object-centric features for detection. This bidirectional mutual supervision not only enhances localization robustness in dynamic environments by filtering dynamic noise but also boosts detection accuracy via effective spatial context. Additionally, we propose OxfoLD, the first dataset that provides multi-traversal LiDAR localization ground truth with rich 3D object annotations, thereby supporting task validation across various times and weather conditions. Experimental results demonstrate that TACO achieves state-of-the-art localization accuracy while maintaining competitive detection performance. The code and dataset will be released.
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Recent advancements in instruction-based image editing and subject-driven generation have garnered significant attention, yet both tasks still face limitations in meeting practical user needs. Instruction-based editing relies solely on language instructions, which often fail to capture specific editing details, making reference images necessary. Meanwhile, subject-driven generation is limited to combining concrete objects or people, overlooking broader, abstract concepts. To address these challenges, we propose two novel tasks: multimodal instruction-based editing and generation. These tasks support both text and image instructions and extend the scope to include both concrete and abstract concepts, greatly enhancing their practical applications. We introduce DreamOmni2, tackling two primary challenges: data creation and model framework design. Our data synthesis pipeline consists of three steps: (1) using a feature mixing method to create extraction data for both abstract and concrete concepts, (2) generating multimodal instruction-based editing training data using the editing and extraction models, and (3) further applying the extraction model to create training data for multimodal instruction-based editing. For the framework, to handle multi-image input, we propose an index encoding and position encoding shift scheme, which helps the model distinguish images and avoid pixel confusion. Additionally, we introduce joint training with the VLM and our generation/editing model to better process complex instructions. In addition, we have proposed comprehensive benchmarks for these two new tasks to drive their development. Experiments show that DreamOmni2 achieved impressive results.
Color transfer aims to match the color distribution of a content image (source) to that of a style image (target) while preserving structure and perceptual realism. Yet modulation-based flow models such as ModFlows often produce trajectory misalignment and artifacts because they rely on strictly linear transport paths. We propose NCT, a nonlinear color transfer framework that replaces linear paths with Bezier trajectories, enabling smooth, nonlinear, and perceptually coherent color transfer. This parameterization lets the transport bend toward plausible intermediate color regimes, improving content-style alignment and reducing chromatic distortion. We further incorporate a Mixture of Experts (MoE) module in the encoder to select trajectory experts for different chromatic regimes, improving generalization to heterogeneous data with complex illumination and materials. Experiments show that NCT reduces artifacts and achieves more stable color transfer than prior flow-based methods, especially on 3D-rendered or highly textured images. The code is provided in supplementary materials.
Current foundation models for 3D shapes excel at global tasks (retrieval, classification) but transfer poorly to local part-level reasoning. Recent approaches leverage vision and language foundation models to directly solve dense tasks through multi-view renderings and text queries. While promising, these pipelines require expensive inference over multiple renderings, depend heavily on large language-model (LLM) prompt engineering for captions, and fail to exploit the inherent 3D geometry of shapes. We address this gap by introducing an encoder-only 3D model that produces language-aligned patch-level features directly from point clouds. Our pre-training approach builds on existing data engines that generate part-annotated 3D shapes by pairing multi-view SAM regions with VLM captioning. Using this data, we train a point cloud transformer encoder in two stages: (1) distillation of dense 2D features from visual encoders such as DINOv2 into 3D patches, and (2) alignment of these patch embeddings with part-level text embeddings through a multi-positive contrastive objective. Our 3D encoder achieves zero-shot 3D part segmentation with fast single-pass inference without any test-time multi-view rendering, while significantly outperforming previous rendering-based and feed-forward approaches across several 3D part segmentation benchmarks.
Most of the models used to generate embeddings for retrieval are not trained for the purpose which leads them to focus on coarse semantic alignment rather than particular object attributes or arrangements. This limits their performance, particularly on challenging problems such as cross-modal fine-grained retrieval. Furthermore, their training objectives lack the discriminative ability required to distinguish between descriptions that are semantically similar but factually different. To address these challenges, we propose POGA (Paraphrased and Oppositional Graph Alignment), a novel framework for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. POGA comprises two core innovations: (1) Multi-source Graph Augmentation (MSGA), which not only generates paraphrased positives and oppositional negatives, but also parses the image and all text variants into structured graphs to provide difference-rich supervisory signals; (2) Hybrid Multi-granularity Alignment (HMA), which defines a composite training objective that jointly optimizes the model at four distinct granularities: including robust dual global alignment, and precise matching at three fine-grained levels: node, relation, and focal disproving. Experiments on benchmarks such as DCI and DOCCI demonstrate that POGA performs favorably against several state-of-the-art methods in long-text understanding and complex relation discrimination.
Forecasting dynamic scenes remains a fundamental challenge in computer vision, as limited observations make it difficult to capture coherent object-level motion and long-term temporal evolution.We present Motion Group-aware Gaussian Forecasting (MoGaF), a framework for long-term scene extrapolation built upon the 4D Gaussian Splatting representation.MoGaF introduces motion-aware Gaussian grouping and group-wise optimization to enforce physically consistent motion across both rigid and non-rigid regions, yielding spatially coherent dynamic representations.Leveraging this structured space-time representation, a lightweight forecasting module predicts future motion, enabling realistic and temporally stable scene evolution.Experiments on synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that MoGaF consistently outperforms existing baselines in rendering quality, motion plausibility, and long-term forecasting stability.
Retrieving rare and safety-critical driving scenarios from large-scale datasets is essential for building robust autonomous driving (AD) systems. As dataset sizes continue to grow, the key challenge shifts from collecting more data to efficiently identifying the most relevant samples. We introduce SearchAD, a large-scale rare image retrieval dataset for AD containing over 423k frames drawn from 11 established datasets. SearchAD provides high-quality manual annotations of more than 513k bounding boxes covering 90 rare categories. It specifically targets the "needle-in-a-haystack" problem of locating extremely rare classes, with some appearing fewer than 50 times across the entire dataset. Unlike existing benchmarks, which focused on instance-level retrieval, SearchAD emphasizes semantic image retrieval with a well-defined data split, enabling text-to-image and image-to-image retrieval, few-shot learning, and fine-tuning of multi-modal retrieval models. Comprehensive evaluations show that text-based methods outperform image-based ones due to stronger inherent semantic grounding. While models directly aligning spatial visual features with language achieve the best zero-shot results, and our fine-tuning baseline significantly improves performance, absolute retrieval capabilities remain unsatisfactory. With a held-out test set on a public benchmark server, SearchAD establishes the first large-scale dataset for retrieval-driven data curation and long-tail perception research in AD: https://iis-esslingen.github.io/searchad/
Directly editing ultra-high-resolution (UHR) images is valuable but underexplored, primarily due to the lack of high-quality data and the challenge in modeling high-frequency texture details. We introduce VINS-120K, the first large-scale dataset for instruction-based UHR image editing, comprising 120K carefully curated triplets of instruction, input image, and edited image. Each image exceeds 4K resolution (\geq4096x4096) and is filtered through a rigorous multi-stage pipeline to ensure visual quality, instruction alignment, and aesthetic fidelity. Built on VINS-120K, we further develop a high-frequency-aware post-adaptation strategy to extend pretrained non-high-resolution models to the UHR regime. We also present VINS-4KEval, a benchmark covering diverse editing types, to facilitate consistent evaluation in UHR settings. Experiments confirm that our work improves fine-grained detail synthesis and texture realism in UHR image editing.
Despite the remarkable progress in open-vocabulary object detection (OVD), a significant gap remains between the training and testing phases. During training, the RPN and RoI heads often misclassify unlabeled novel-category objects as background, causing some proposals to be prematurely filtered out by the RPN while others are further misclassified by the RoI head. During testing, these proposals again receive low scores and are removed in post-processing, leading to a significant drop in recall and ultimately weakening novel-category detection performance.To address these issues, we propose a novel training framework--NoOVD--which innovatively integrates a self-distillation mechanism grounded in the knowledge of frozen vision-language models (VLMs).Specifically, we design K-FPN, which leverages the pretrained knowledge of VLMs to guide the model in discovering novel-category objects and facilitates knowledge distillation--without requiring additional data--thus preventing forced alignment of novel objects with background.Additionally, we introduce R-RPN, which adjusts the confidence scores of proposals during inference to improve the recall of novel-category objects.Cross-dataset evaluations on OV-LVIS, OV-COCO, and Objects365 demonstrate that our approach consistently achieves superior performance across multiple metrics.
Dexterous manipulation is essential for real-world robot autonomy, mirroring the central role of human hand coordination in daily activity. Humans rely on rich multimodal perception--vision, sound, and language-guided intent--to perform dexterous actions, motivating vision-based, language-conditioned manipulation systems for robots. However, training reliable vision-language-action (VLA) models for dexterous manipulation requires large-scale demonstrations across many robotic hands. In addition, as new dexterous embodiments appear rapidly, collecting data for each becomes costly and impractical, creating a need for scalable cross-embodiment learning. We introduce \ourmethod, a vision-language-action framework integrated with a unified latent action space shared across diverse dexterous hands. This embodiment-invariant latent space is directly pluggable into standard VLA architectures, enabling seamless cross-embodiment training and efficient reuse of both existing and newly collected data. Experimental results demonstrate that \ourmethod consistently outperforms baseline VLA models operating in raw joint spaces, establishing it as an effective solution for scalable cross-embodiment dexterous manipulation.
Post-training of large-scale Vision-Language Models (VLMs) reveals a pronounced generalization gap: models fine-tuned with Reinforcement Learning (RL) consistently achieve superior out-of-distribution (OOD) performance compared to those trained with Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT). This paper posits a data-centric explanation for this phenomenon, contending that RL's generalization advantage arises from an implicit data filtering mechanism that inherently prioritizes medium-difficulty training samples. To test this hypothesis, we systematically evaluate the OOD generalization of SFT models across training datasets of varying difficulty levels. Our results confirm that data difficulty is a critical factor, revealing that training on hard samples significantly degrades OOD performance. Motivated by this finding, we introduce Difficulty-Curated SFT (DC-SFT), a straightforward method that explicitly filters the training set based on sample difficulty. Experiments show that DC-SFT not only substantially enhances OOD generalization over standard SFT, but also surpasses the performance of RL-based training, all while providing greater stability and computational efficiency. This work offers a data-centric account of the OOD generalization gap in VLMs and establishes a more efficient pathway to achieving robust generalization. Code is available at https://github.com/byyx666/DC-SFT.
BarbieGait: An Identity-Consistent Synthetic Human Dataset with Versatile Cloth-Changing for Gait Recognition
PDF ↗Gait recognition, as a reliable biometric technology, has seen rapid development in recent years while it faces significant challenges caused by diverse clothing styles in the real world. This paper introduces BarbieGait, a synthetic gait dataset where real-world subjects are uniquely mapped into a virtual engine to simulate extensive clothing changes while preserving their gait identity information. As a pioneering work, BarbieGait provides a controllable gait data generation method, enabling the production of large datasets to validate cross-clothing issues that are difficult to verify with real-world data. However, the diversity of clothing increases intra-class variance and makes one of the biggest challenges to learning cloth-invariant features under varying clothing conditions. Therefore, we propose GaitCLIF (Gait-oriented CLoth-Invariant Feature) as a robust baseline model for cross-clothing gait recognition. Through extensive experiments, we validate that our method significantly improves cross-clothing performance on BarbieGait and the existing popular gait benchmarks. We believe that BarbieGait, with its extensive cross-clothing gait data, will further advance the capabilities of gait recognition in cross-clothing scenarios and promote progress in related research. The source code and dataset are available at https://github.com/BarbieGait/BarbieGait.
MoDES: Accelerating Mixture-of-Experts Multimodal Large Language Models via Dynamic Expert Skipping
PDF ↗Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at vision-language tasks, but they suffer from high computational inefficiency. To reduce inference overhead, expert skipping methods have been proposed to deactivate redundant experts based on the current input tokens. However, we find that applying these methods--originally designed for unimodal large language models (LLMs)--to MLLMs results in considerable performance degradation. This is primarily because such methods fail to account for the heterogeneous contributions of experts across MoE layers and modality-specific behaviors of tokens within these layers. Motivated by these findings, we propose MoDES, the first training-free framework that adaptively skips experts to enable efficient and accurate MoE MLLM inference. It incorporates a globally-modulated local gating (GMLG) mechanism that integrates global layer-wise importance into local routing probabilities to accurately estimate per-token expert importance. A dual-modality thresholding (DMT) method is then applied, which processes tokens from each modality separately, to derive the skipping schedule. To set the optimal thresholds, we introduce a frontier search algorithm that exploits monotonicity properties, cutting convergence time from several days to a few hours. Extensive experiments for 3 model series across 13 benchmarks demonstrate that MoDES far outperforms previous approaches. For instance, when skipping 88% experts for Qwen3-VL-MoE-30B-A3B-Instruct, the performance boost is up to **10.67%** (97.33% vs. 86.66%). Furthermore, MoDES significantly enhances inference speed, improving the prefilling time by **2.16x** and the decoding time by **1.26x**.
XPaintNet: An eXtreme Lightweight Framework for Stereoscopic Conversion without Inpainting Network
PDF ↗With the rapid growth of stereoscopic 3D devices, real-time stereoscopic conversion has become increasingly essential. However, most existing approach rely on depth estimation, forward warping, and heavy inpainting network, resulting in high computational cost and artifacts near occlusion boundaries. Diffusion-based models have also been explored, but they suffer from iterative sampling and geometric inconsistency, making them unsuitable for real-time deployment. To address these issues, we propose Bi-Warp, a simple yet effective approach that synthesizes the right view without inpainting network by leveraging warping operations. Our approach estimates backward flow, approximates the corresponding forward flow, and generates two candidate right views via bidirectional warping. A learnable mask adaptively fuses the candidates, preserving left-right geometric consistency. Building on Bi-Warp, we introduce XPaintNet, a lightweight network that achieves comparable visual quality to state-of-the-art methods while maintaining real-time performance over 100 FPS at 2K resolution.
We introduce BuildAnyPoint, a novel generative framework for structured 3D building reconstruction from point clouds with diverse distributions, such as those captured by airborne LiDAR and Structure-from-Motion.To recover artist-created building abstraction in this highly underconstrained setting, we capitalize on the role of explicit 3D generative priors in autoregressive mesh generation.Specifically, we design a Loosely Cascaded Diffusion Transformer (Loca-DiT) that initially recovers the underlying distribution from noisy or sparse points, followed by autoregressively encapsulating them into compact meshes.We first formulate distribution recovery as a conditional generation task by training latent diffusion models conditioned on input point clouds, and then tailor a decoder-only transformer for conditional autoregressive mesh generation based on the recovered point clouds.Our method delivers substantial qualitative and quantitative improvements over prior building abstraction methods. Furthermore, the effectiveness of our approach is evidenced by the strong performance of its recovered point clouds on building point cloud completion benchmarks, which exhibit improved surface accuracy and distribution uniformity.
Reconstructing 3D scenes from sparse, unposed images remains challenging under real-world conditions with varying illumination and transient occlusions. Existing methods rely on scene-specific optimization with appearance embeddings or dynamic masks, requiring extensive per-scene training and failing under sparse views. Moreover, evaluations on limited scenes raise questions about generalization. We present GenWildSplat, a feed-forward framework for sparse-view outdoor reconstruction that requires no per-scene optimization. Given unposed internet images, GenWildSplat predicts depth, camera parameters, and 3D Gaussians in a canonical space using learned geometric priors. An appearance adapter modulates appearance for target lighting conditions, while semantic segmentation handles transient objects. Through curriculum learning on synthetic and real data, GenWildSplat generalizes across diverse illumination and occlusion patterns. Evaluations on PhotoTourism and a new 20-scene MegaScenes benchmark demonstrate state-of-the-art feed-forward reconstruction quality, achieving real-time inference without test-time optimization.
UAV-CB: A Complex-Background RGB-T Dataset and Local Frequency Bridge Network for UAV Detection
PDF ↗Detecting Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in low-altitude environments is essential for perception and defense systems but remains highly challenging due to complex backgrounds, camouflage, and multimodal interference. In real-world scenarios, UAVs are frequently visually blended with surrounding structures such as buildings, vegetation, and power lines, resulting in low contrast, weak boundaries, and strong confusion with cluttered background textures. Existing UAV detection datasets, though diverse, are not specifically designed to capture these camouflage and complex-background challenges, which limits progress toward robust real-world perception. To fill this gap, we construct UAV-CB, a new RGB-T UAV detection dataset deliberately curated to emphasize complex low-altitude backgrounds and camouflage characteristics. Furthermore, we propose the Local Frequency Bridge Network (LFBNet), which models features in localized frequency space to bridge both the frequency-spatial fusion gap and the cross-modality discrepancy gap in RGB-T fusion. Extensive experiments on UAV-CB and public benchmarks demonstrate that LFBNet achieves state-of-the-art detection performance and strong robustness under camouflaged and cluttered conditions, offering a frequency-aware perspective on multimodal UAV perception in real-world applications. The UAV-CB dataset will be publicly available at: https://github.com/hye999/UAV-CB.
Compositional zero-shot learning (CZSL) aims to recognize unseen attribute-object compositions by recombining primitives learned from seen pairs. Recent CZSL methods built on vision-language models (VLMs) typically adopt parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT).They apply visual disentanglers for decomposition and manipulate token-level prompts or prefixes to encode compositions.However, such PEFT-based designs suffer from two fundamental limitations: (1) Implicit Composition Construction, where composition is realized only via token concatenation or branch-wise prompt tuning rather than an explicit operation in the embedding space; (2) Remained Feature Entanglement, where imperfect disentanglement leaves attribute, object, and composition features mutually contaminated. Together, these issues limit the generalization ability of current CZSL models.In this paper, we are the first to systematically study flow matching for CZSL and introduce FlowComposer, a model-agnostic framework that learns two primitive flows to transport visual features toward attribute and object text embeddings, and a learnable Composer that explicitly fuses their velocity fields into a composition flow. To exploit the inevitable residual entanglement, we further devise a leakage-guided augmentation scheme that reuses leaked features as auxiliary signals.We thoroughly evaluate FlowComposer on three public CZSL benchmarks by integrating it as a plug-and-play component into various baselines, consistently achieving significant improvements.
Instance-level object segmentation across disparate egocentric and exocentric views is a fundamental challenge in visual understanding, critical for applications in embodied AI and remote collaboration. This task is exceptionally difficult due to severe changes in scale, perspective, and occlusion, which destabilize direct pixel-level matching. While recent geometry-aware models like VGGT provide a strong foundation for feature alignment, we find they often fail at dense prediction tasks due to significant pixel-level projection drift, even when their internal object-level attention remains consistent. To bridge this gap, we introduce VGGT-Segmentor (VGGT-S), a framework that unifies robust geometric modeling with pixel-accurate semantic segmentation. VGGT-S leverages VGGT's powerful cross-view feature representation and introduces a novel Union Segmentation Head. This head operates in three stages: mask prompt fusion, point-guided prediction, and iterative mask refinement, effectively translating high-level feature alignment into a precise segmentation mask. Furthermore, we propose a single-image self-supervised training strategy that eliminates the need for paired annotations and enables strong generalization. On the Ego-Exo4D benchmark, VGGT-S sets a new state-of-the-art, achieving 67.7% and 68.0% average IoU for Ego-Exo and Exo-Ego tasks, respectively, significantly outperforming prior methods. Notably, our correspondence-free pretrained model surpasses most fully-supervised baselines, demonstrating the effectiveness and scalability of our approach.
Classifier-Free Guidance (CFG) has emerged as a central approach for enhancing semantic alignment in flow-based diffusion models. In this paper, we explore a unified framework called **CFG-Ctrl**, which reinterprets CFG as a control applied to the first-order continuous-time generative flow, using the conditional-unconditional discrepancy as an error signal to adjust the velocity field. From this perspective, we summarize vanilla CFG as a proportional controller (P-control) with fixed gain, and typical follow-up variants develop extended control-law designs derived from it. However, existing methods mainly rely on linear control, inherently leading to instability, overshooting, and degraded semantic fidelity especially on large guidance scales. To address this, we introduce Sliding Mode Control CFG (**SMC-CFG**), which enforces the generative flow toward a rapidly convergent sliding manifold. Specifically, we define an exponential sliding mode surface over the semantic prediction error and introduce a switching control term to establish nonlinear feedback-guided correction. Moreover, we provide a Lyapunov stability analysis to theoretically support finite-time convergence. Experiments across text-to-image generation models including Stable Diffusion 3.5, Flux, and Qwen-Image demonstrate that SMC-CFG outperforms standard CFG in semantic alignment and enhances robustness across a wide range of guidance scales.