Estimating the 3D motion of scene points from 2D observations, typically parameterized by optical flow and motion in depth, is a fundamental problem in computer vision. Existing learning-based methods usually rely on supervised regression from densely labeled data, but their dependence on annotations and limited use of geometric constraints restricts generalization, motivating unsupervised solutions. Unsupervised 3D motion estimation is challenging because motion along the viewing direction is unobservable, and optical flow and motion in depth are geometrically coupled, making their separation ambiguous. Event cameras capture per-pixel brightness changes asynchronously with microsecond latency, providing high temporal resolution and motion continuity. Projecting event streams along different axes reveals spatiotemporal expansion and contraction patterns that encode depth variation and geometric structure, offering rich cues for unsupervised estimation. Leveraging these properties, we propose an unsupervised event-based 3D motion estimation framework that jointly models optical flow and motion in depth. We first derive an analytical relationship to infer initial motion in depth from estimated flow and further refine it using a directional expansion modulation module that captures horizontal and vertical expansion-contraction patterns in event projections. Finally, motion in depth is incorporated into optical flow warping under a contrast maximization objective. Experiments on the CarlaEvent3D dataset show that our method achieves competitive accuracy and strong generalization, advancing unsupervised 3D motion estimation in the event domain.
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Video Question Answering (VideoQA) has made significant strides by leveraging multimodal learning to align visual and textual modalities. However, current benchmarks overwhelmingly focus on questions answerable through explicit visual content - actions, objects, and events - directly observable within individual frames or short clips. To truly understand videos as humans do, models must go beyond what is directly shown, inferring hidden relationships and contextual cues that are only implied across frames. Current benchmarks fail to capture this essential aspect of video understanding. To address this gap, we introduce VRR-QA, a benchmark for Visual Relational Reasoning Beyond Explicit Cues. We curate our benchmark from creative and cinematic videos such as movies, that deliberately employ storytelling techniques which omit direct depictions of certain events or relations, requiring viewers to infer them. VRR-QA comprises 1K meticulously expert-annotated QA pairs drawn from 1K creative video clips covering 15 genres across 7 decades of content, from both live-action and animated titles. Our extensive evaluations on 14 leading VideoQA models reveals consistent and significant performance degradation, underscoring their reliance on surface-level visual cues and highlighting the difficulty of implicit reasoning. Even the best model substantially underperforms human baselines with only 64% accuracy. Performance variations across models further illustrate the complexity and diversity of the challenges presented by VRR-QA. By releasing both dataset and data collection framework, VRR-QA establishes a rigorous, diverse, and reproducible testbed for advancing VideoQA.
ConsisVLA-4D: Advancing Spatiotemporal Consistency in Efficient 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning for Robotic Manipulation
PDF ↗Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models primarily focus on mapping 2D observations to actions but exhibit notable limitations in spatiotemporal perception and reasoning: 1) spatial representations often rely on additional sensors, introducing substantial computational overhead; 2) visual reasoning is typically limited to future-frame prediction, lacking alignment with the instruction-grounded scene and thus compromising spatiotemporal consistency. To address these challenges, we propose **ConsisVLA-4D**, a unified and efficient framework that enhances spatiotemporal consistency in 3D-Perception and 4D-Reasoning. Specifically, we design: **1) CV-Aligner**, which ensures **C**ross-**V**iew object semantic consistency via filtering instruction-relevant regions and aligning object identities across multiple viewpoints; **2) CO-Fuser**, which guarantees **C**ross-**O**bject spatial geometric consistency by eliminating spatial relation ambiguities between objects across views using compact latent representations. Building upon these, we introduce **3) CS-Thinker** to achieve **C**ross-**S**cene spatiotemporal consistency as actions unfold. It learns implicit knowledge of local dynamics from object-semantic tokens of CV-Aligner and global depth from geometric tokens of CO-Fuser, thereby enhancing efficient visual reasoning under scene variations. Extensive experiments demonstrate that, benefiting from its efficient spatiotemporal consistency design, ConsisVLA-4D achieves **21.6%** and **41.5%** performance improvements, along with **2.3x** and **2.4x** inference speedups compared to OpenVLA on the LIBERO benchmark and real-world platforms, respectively.
Robo-SGG: Exploiting Layout-Oriented Normalization and Restitution Can Improve Robust Scene Graph Generation
PDF ↗We propose Robo-SGG, a plug-and-play module for robust scene graph generation (SGG). Unlike standard SGG, robust SGG aims to perform inference on a diverse range of corrupted images, with the core challenge being the domain shift between clean and corrupted images. Existing SGG methods suffer from degraded performance due to shifted visual features (e.g., corruption interference or occlusions). To obtain robust visual features, we leverage layout information, which represents the global structure of an image and is robust to domain shift, to enhance the robustness of SGG methods under corruption. Specifically, we employ Instance Normalization (IN) to alleviate the domain-specific variations and recover the robust structural features (i.e., the positional and semantic relationships among objects) by the proposed Layout-Oriented Restitution. Furthermore, for corrupted images, we introduce a Layout-Embedded Encoder (LEE) that adaptively fuses layout and visual features via a gating mechanism, enhancing the robustness of positional and semantic representations for objects and predicates. Note that our proposed Robo-SGG can be easily integrated into any baseline SGG model. Extensive experiments demonstrate that by integrating our proposed Robo-SGG into the state-of-the-art method, we achieve relative improvements of 6.3%, 11.1%, and 8.0% in mR@50 for PredCls, SGCls, and SGDet tasks on the VG-C benchmark, respectively, and achieve new state-of-the-art performance in the corrupted scene graph generation benchmarks (VG-C and GQA-C). Our source code is available at https://github.com/MICLAB-BUPT/Robo-SGG.
VesMamba: 3D Pulmonary Vessel Segmentation from CT images via Mamba with Structural Perception and Scale-aware Filtering
PDF ↗Automated 3D pulmonary vessel segmentation from CT images is crucial for improving early screening and assessment of pulmonary vessel related diseases. However, it remains an extremely challenging task due to the complex and tree-like structures of vessels, large scale-variations, and the existence of highly similar tissues in the background. Existing segmentation models either cannot sufficiently capture long-range structural dependencies, which are of great importance in vessel segmentation, or are constrained by insufficient computational resources in clinical settings. In this paper, we propose VesMamba, a novel model for 3D pulmonary vessel segmentation that comprehensively addresses these challenges. Specifically, we first devise a spatial-gated structural perception (SSP) module, which employs Mamba to efficiently capture long-range dependencies. In SSP, we design dynamic spatial attention convolutions (DSAC) for dynamically learning the tree-like 3D vessel structures, providing Mamba with the spatial perception capability to better track the complicated topologies of vessels. Second, we propose an innovative bidirectional scale-aware filter (BSF) module to strengthen the representation capability of the encoder, facilitating our model to focus on vessels of different scales under noise. Moreover, we apply a mask-constrained decoder to further improve segmentation consistency and accuracy, which constrains the inference of adjacent low-layer decoders directly by high-layer masks. Extensive experiments on the public Parse22 and internal Lung79 datasets demonstrate that our method can achieve better performance than SOTAs. Code is available at https://github.com/Lzpbright/VesMamba.
TSTM: Temporal Segmentation for Task-relevant Mask in Visual Reinforcement Learning Generalization
PDF ↗Achieving strong policy generalization to unseen environments remains a core challenge in visual reinforcement learning, and segmenting task-relevant regions to mitigate the influence of irrelevant visual cues has emerged as a promising direction. However, existing methods rely solely on the current observation, lack temporal information, and fail to exploit preceding observations, leaving learned policies susceptible to task-irrelevant background variations and ultimately degrading policy performance. In this paper, we propose temporal segmentation for task-relevant mask in visual reinforcement learning, named TSTM, which extracts task-relevant regions from sequential observations by exploiting temporal information, thereby producing more reliable masks and improving policy generalization. TSTM introduces a temporal segmentation network with an encoder-temporal-decoder architecture, where a convolutional LSTM module captures temporal dependencies across observations. To reduce inference overhead, we further develop a lightweight student network as an efficient substitute for the teacher network. The resulting task-relevant masks are encoded by a CNN-based encoder, and invariant representation learning is employed to improve robustness by enforcing consistency between representations of the original and augmented observation sequences. With these task-relevant representations, we train an actor-critic agent to learn a policy with strong generalization capability. Experimental results demonstrate that TSTM achieves superior generalization performance over existing state-of-the-art methods on most visual RL tasks.
Cell-Type Prototype-Informed Neural Network for Gene Expression Estimation from Pathology Images
PDF ↗Estimating slide- and patch-level gene expression profiles from pathology images enables rapid and low-cost molecular analysis with broad clinical impact. Despite strong results, existing approaches treat gene expression as a mere slide- or spot-level signal and do not incorporate the fact that the measured expression arises from the aggregation of underlying cell-level expression. To explicitly introduce this missing cell-resolved guidance, we propose a Cell-type Prototype-informed Neural Network (CPNN) that leverages publicly available single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets. Since single-cell measurements are noisy and not paired with histology images, we first estimate cell-type prototypes--mean expression profiles that capture stable gene-gene co-variation patterns. CPNN then learns cell-type compositional weights directly from images and models the relationship between prototypes and observed bulk or spatial expression, providing a biologically grounded and structurally regularized prediction framework. We evaluate CPNN on three slide-level datasets and three patch-level spatial transcriptomics datasets. Across all settings, CPNN achieves the highest performance in terms of Spearman correlation. Moreover, by visualizing the inferred compositional weights, our framework provides interpretable insights into which cell types drive the predicted expression.Code is publicly available at https://github.com/naivete5656/CPNN.
SGSoft: Learning Fused Semantic-Geometric Features for 3D Shape Correspondence via Template-Guided Soft Signals
PDF ↗Learning dense correspondences across deformable 3D shapes remains a long-standing challenge due to structural variability, non-isometric deformation, and inconsistent topology. Existing methods typically trade off generalization, geometric fidelity, and efficiency. We address this by proposing SGSoft, a unified intrinsic pipeline that (i) constructs a geodesic correspondence field on a canonical template, (ii) learns multimodal dense descriptors guided by pretrained semantic priors with this geodesic correspondence field supervision, (iii) retrieves dense correspondences in a single feed-forward pass via nearest-neighbor search in descriptor space. This formulation enables stable and topology-invariant supervision under large pose variation, structural differences, and remeshing. SGSoft achieves state-of-the-art inter-category generalization while offering the best accuracy-efficiency trade-off among prior methods. It also achieves near real-time inference without pre-alignment, pairwise optimization, or post-refinement. Learned descriptors can be transferred effectively to downstream tasks such as semantic segmentation and deformation transfer, establishing a scalable and deployment-ready paradigm for dense 3D correspondence.
UniMMAD: Unified Multi-Modal and Multi-Class Anomaly Detection via MoE-Driven Feature Decompression
PDF ↗Existing anomaly detection methods often treat the modality and class as independent factors. Although this paradigm has enriched the development of AD research branches and produced many specialized models, it has also led to fragmented solutions and excessive memory overhead. Moreover, reconstruction-based multi-class approaches typically rely on shared decoding paths, which struggle to handle large variations across domains, resulting in distorted normality boundaries, domain interference, and high false alarm rates.To address these limitations, we propose UniMMAD, a unified framework for multi-modal and multi-class anomaly detection. At the core of UniMMAD is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE)-driven feature decompression mechanism, which enables adaptive and disentangled reconstruction tailored to specific domains.This process is guided by a "general - specific" paradigm. In the encoding stage, multi-modal inputs of varying combinations are compressed into compact, general-purpose features. The encoder incorporates a feature compression module to suppress latent anomalies, encourage cross-modal interaction, and avoid shortcut learning.In the decoding stage, the general features are decompressed into modality-specific and class-specific forms via a sparsely-gated cross MoE, which dynamically selects expert pathways based on input modality and class. To further improve efficiency, we design a grouped dynamic filtering mechanism and an MoE-in-MoE structure, reducing MoE parameter usage by approximately 75% while maintaining sparse activation and fast inference. UniMMAD achieves state-of-the-art performance on 9 anomaly detection datasets, spanning 3 fields, 12 modalities, and 66 classes. Code is publicly available at https://github.com/yuanzhao-CVLAB/UniMMAD.
Multimodal unsupervised anomaly detection has garnered increasing attention for robust defect localization.Recent approaches rely on establishing cross-modal matching relationships under normal conditions without explicit guidance.However, in practice, a single modality may have multiple distinct representations corresponding to another modality, and such unconditional mappings struggle to adaptively capture these variations, resulting in mapping ambiguity and the misclassification of diverse yet normal variations as anomalies.Moreover, existing methods suffer from slow inference speed and high memory overhead, hindering their deployment in real-world production lines.To address these issues, we propose an efficient and effective Complementary Prototype Mapping (CPMAD) framework, which dynamically extracts consensus and supplementary prototypes to serve as complementary priors, thereby guiding and disambiguating cross-modal mappings.The framework comprises three key components:(1) Consensus Extraction Module (CEM) learns a dynamic anchor, transforming multimodal features into anomaly-free consensus prototypes to improve cross-modal consistency and suppress latent anomalies;(2) Supplementary Query Module (SQM) employs a Complementary Residual Attention mechanism to capture the discrepancy between the consensus and modality-specific spaces, thereby exploring the most representative and discriminative cues as supplementary prototypes; and(3) Complementary Mapping Module adaptively integrates both prototypes to perform feature mapping.Extensive experiments demonstrate that CPMAD not only achieves superior performance in both full-data and few-shot settings across diverse industrial and medical scenarios but also maintains faster inference speeds and lower memory consumption compared to existing methods. Code: https://github.com/yuanzhao-CVLAB/CPMAD.
Solving partial differential equations (PDEs) on shapes underpins many shape analysis and engineering tasks; yet, prevailing PDE solvers operate on polygonal/triangle meshes while modern 3D assets increasingly live as neural representations. This mismatch leaves no suitable method to solve surface PDEs directly within the neural domain, forcing explicit mesh extraction or per-instance residual training, preventing end-to-end workflows. We present a novel, mesh-free formulation that learns a local update operator conditioned on neural (local) shape attributes, enabling surface PDEs to be solved directly where the (neural) data lives. The operator integrates naturally with prevalent neural surface representations, is trained once on a single representative shape, and generalizes across shape and topology variations, enabling accurate, fast inference without explicit meshing or per-instance optimization while preserving differentiability. Across analytic benchmarks (heat diffusion and Poisson equations on the sphere) and on diverse shapes and neural surface representations, our method achieves accuracy comparable to classical solvers while enabling a unified, end-to-end pipeline across neural and traditional surface representations. Our source code and project page: https://welschinger.github.io/Learning-to-Solve-PDEs-on-Neural-Shape-Representations/.
CoSMo3D: Open-World Promptable 3D Semantic Segmentation through LLM-Guided Canonical Spatial Modeling
PDF ↗Open-world promptable 3D semantic segmentation remains brittle as semantics are inferred in the input sensor coordinates. Yet, humans, in contrast, interpret parts via functional roles in a canonical space -- wings extend laterally, handles protrude to the side, and legs support from below. Psychophysical evidence shows that we mentally rotate objects into canonical frames to reveal these roles. To fill this gap, we propose CoSMo3D, which attains canonical space perception by inducing a latent canonical reference frame learned directly from data. By construction, we create a unified canonical dataset through LLM-guided intra- and cross-category alignment, exposing canonical spatial regularities across 200 categories. By induction, we realize canonicality inside the model through a dual-branch architecture with canonical map anchoring and canonical box calibration, collapsing pose variation and symmetry into a stable canonical embedding. This shift from input pose space to canonical representation yields far more stable and transferable part semantics. Experimental results show that CoSMo3D establishes new state of the art in open-world promptable 3D segmentation.
Dense scenes containing numerous tiny objects pose a fundamental challenge for segmentation models, where small localization errors can significantly degrade downstream measurements. We present Structure-Aware Representation Distillation (SARD), a teacher-compatible framework that transfers structural knowledge from a large teacher to a compact student via feature-space alignment rather than mask imitation. SARD builds a structure-importance map by integrating boundary salience, geometric complexity, and local feature variation, and uses it to guide a unified representation loss that combines feature consistency with distribution alignment. This encourages the student to allocate capacity to geometrically informative regions while preserving global context. Experiments on Cityscapes, ADE20K, and a challenging rock fragmentation benchmark (RockFrag) show that SARD consistently improves both mIoU and boundary IoU over strong distillation baselines; on RockFrag, SARD improves a Swin-T student over CWD by +4.3 mIoU and +6.7 bIoU. A ResNet-50 student distilled from a Swin-L teacher achieves up to 7.7 times parameter reduction and 9 times higher throughput than the teacher, with no additional inference overhead beyond the student network, demonstrating that structure-aware representation distillation is effective and efficient for tiny-dense segmentation. Code is available at: https://github.com/liuuuuuuxuesong/SARD.
Attack for Defense: Adversarial Agents for Point Prompt Optimization Empowering Segment Anything Model
PDF ↗Prompt quality plays a critical role in the performance of the Segment Anything Model (SAM), yet existing approaches often rely on heuristic or manually crafted prompts, limiting scalability and generalization. In this paper, we propose Point Prompt Defender, an adversarial reinforcement learning framework that adopts an attack-for-defense paradigm to automatically optimize point prompts. We construct a task-agnostic point prompt environment by representing image patches as nodes in a dual-space graph, where edges encode both physical and semantic distances. Within this environment, an attacker agent learns to activate a subset of prompts that maximally degrade SAM's segmentation performance, while a defender agent learns to suppress these disruptive prompts and restore accuracy. Both agents are trained using Deep Q-Networks with a reward signal based on segmentation quality variation. During inference, only the defender is deployed to refine arbitrary coarse prompt sets, enabling enhanced SAM segmentation performance across diverse tasks without retraining. Extensive experiments show that Point Prompt Defender effectively improves SAM's robustness and generalization, establishing a flexible, interpretable, and plug-and-play framework for prompt-based segmentation.
RecEdit-Drive: 3D Reconstruction-Guided Spatiotemporal Video Editing for Autonomous Driving Scenes
PDF ↗High-quality video editing and processing are crucial in domains such as filmmaking and autonomous driving, where accurate visual refinement and data preparation are essential. However, it is challenging to achieve precise control over dynamic objects while maintaining spatiotemporal consistency. Current approaches typically utilize text prompts or 2D structural priors for video editing to ensure consistency, yet they struggle to effectively constrain the spatial variations of dynamic 3D objects. In this paper, we introduce RecEdit-Drive, a framework that integrates Spatial Feature Warping and Spatiotemporal Collaborative Modeling to effectively control 3D object variations and enhance video consistency. The spatial feature warping enhances precise control over the edited foreground 3D objects, enhancing spatial consistency in the generated videos; and the spatiotemporal collaborative modeling seamlessly integrates edited foreground objects into the background, yielding realistic and consistent edited videos. Besides, we design an inference strategy to reconstruct an accurate background structure through noise manipulation, providing a reliable reference for foreground instance editing at early denoising stages. We perform extensive qualitative and quantitative comparisons regarding general video editing and downstream tasks on the public datasets, demonstrating the state-of-the-art performance of our proposed method.
We present a general optimization-based framework for depth-preserving normal integration. Unlike existing methods that operate on surface orientations defined over regular grids, our approach introduces a unified graph-based formulation capable of integrating semi-differentiable surfaces on unstructured domains. Given a set of points uniformly sampled from a surface, we construct a directed, weighted graph that jointly parameterizes the surface geometry and pairwise point correlations. Surface depth is recovered by minimizing projected point-to-plane distances across the graph, and we attain this objective through variational inference. In our formulation, estimated surface normals serve as latent variables that encode local geometry via the posterior probabilities of a two-component Gaussian mixture, allowing depth discontinuities to be explicitly inferred from sampled triplet configurations. The unknowns are estimated in an alternating fashion, and we provide a geometric interpretation of this inference process by relating it to shape deformation. Experimental results show that the proposed method not only delivers superior performance on regularly gridded data, but also generalizes effectively to scattered points, which existing approaches do not directly support.
GlyphPrinter: Region-Grouped Direct Preference Optimization for Glyph-Accurate Visual Text Rendering
PDF ↗Generating accurate glyphs for visual text rendering is essential yet challenging. Existing methods typically enhance text rendering by training on a large amount of high-quality scene text images, but the limited coverage of glyph variations and excessive stylization often compromise glyph accuracy, especially for complex or out-of-domain characters. Some methods leverage reinforcement learning to alleviate this issue, yet their reward models usually depend on text recognition systems that are insensitive to fine-grained glyph errors, so images with incorrect glyphs may still receive high rewards. Inspired by Direct Preference Optimization (DPO), we propose ***GlyphPrinter***, a preference-based text rendering method that eliminates reliance on explicit reward models. However, the standard DPO objective only models overall preference between two samples, which is insufficient for visual text rendering where glyph errors typically occur in localized regions. To address this issue, we construct the ***GlyphCorrector*** dataset with region-level glyph preference annotations and propose ***Region-Grouped DPO*** (***R-GDPO***), a region-based objective that optimizes inter- and intra-sample preferences over annotated regions, substantially enhancing glyph accuracy. Furthermore, we introduce ***Regional Reward Guidance***, an inference strategy that samples from an optimal distribution with controllable glyph accuracy. Extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed GlyphPrinter outperforms existing methods in glyph accuracy while maintaining a favorable balance between stylization and precision.
We present MeshFlow, a new method for compressing and generating artist-like 3D meshes. Current mesh generators often adopt Auto-Regressive (AR) next-token prediction, a natural choice given the discrete nature of mesh connectivity, which, however, scales poorly due to the inference cost being quadratic in mesh size. AR methods also require discretizing the vertex coordinates, which introduces quantization errors and can cause vertex collapse. To address these challenges, we introduce a Variational Autoencoder (VAE) that, supervised with a contrastive loss, represents both continuous vertex positions and discrete connectivity in a continuous latent space.This latent space is significantly more compact than prior token-based mesh representations. We then build a 3D generator based on a Rectified-Flow transformer, which generates all mesh vertices and edges in parallel. This model samples meshes 26xfaster than the fastest AR generator while also achieving state-of-the-art accuracy across standard mesh-generation metrics.
Despite the impressive performance of diffusion models such as Stable Diffusion (SD) in image generation, their slow inference limits practical deployment. Recent works accelerate inference by distilling multi-step diffusion into one-step generators. To better understand the distillation mechanism, we analyze U-Net/DiT weight changes between one-step students and their multi-step teacher counterparts. Our analysis reveals that changes in weight direction significantly exceed those in weight norm, highlighting it as the key factor during distillation. Motivated by this insight, we propose the Low-rank Rotation of weight Direction (LoRaD), a parameter-efficient adapter tailored to one-step diffusion distillation. LoRaD is designed to model these structured directional changes using learnable low-rank rotation matrices. We further integrate LoRaD into Variational Score Distillation (VSD), resulting in Weight Direction-aware Distillation (WaDi)--a novel one-step distillation framework. WaDi achieves state-of-the-art FID scores on COCO 2014 and COCO 2017 while using only approximately 10% of the trainable parameters of the U-Net/DiT. Furthermore, the distilled one-step model demonstrates strong versatility and scalability, generalizing well to various downstream tasks such as controllable generation, relation inversion, and high-resolution synthesis.
MeanFlow (MF) is a diffusion-motivated generative model that enables efficient few-step generation by learning long jumps directly from noise to data. In practice, it is often used as a latent MF by leveraging the pre-trained Stable Diffusion variational autoencoder (SD-VAE) for high-dimensional data modeling. However, MF training remains computationally demanding and is often unstable. During inference, the SD-VAE decoder dominates the generation cost, and MF depends on complex guidance hyperparameters for class-conditional generation. In this work, we develop an efficient training and sampling scheme for MF in the latent space of a Representation Autoencoder (RAE), where a pre-trained vision encoder (e.g., DINO) provides semantically rich latents paired with a lightweight decoder. We observe that naive MF training in the RAE latent space suffers from severe gradient explosion. To stabilize and accelerate training, we adopt Consistency Mid-Training for trajectory-aware initialization and use a two-stage scheme: distillation from a pre-trained flow matching teacher to speed convergence and reduce variance, followed by an optional bootstrapping stage with a one-point velocity estimator to further reduce deviation from the oracle mean flow. This design removes the need for guidance, simplifies training configurations, and reduces computation in both training and sampling. Empirically, our method achieves a 1-step FID of 2.03, outperforming vanilla MF's 3.43, while reducing sampling GFLOPS by 38% and total training cost by 83% on ImageNet 256. We further scale our approach to ImageNet 512, achieving a competitive one-step FID of 3.23 with the lowest GFLOPS among all baselines.