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Computer Vision

Beyond Proposals: Region-Consistent Open-Set Object Detection

Open-set object detection (OSOD) suffers from a fundamental limitation under dense proposal mechanisms: highly overlapping proposals associated with the same object are often assigned contradictory known/unknown predictions. Existing methods perform open-set reasoning independently for each proposal, while ignoring…

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FlowRig: Unified Skeleton Generation for 3D and 4D Meshes via Flow Matching

Automatic rigging is a fundamental task for both static 3D and dynamic 4D mesh animation, yet existing methods do not provide a unified feedforward solution for these two settings. While static 3D riggers achieve strong quality, they often provide limited control over bone count and become temporally unstable when…

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FlowBench: Counterfactual Imagination Training for Spatial Intelligence

Humans imagine scene changes under hypothetical motions, an ability central to spatial reasoning and robotic planning. However, this capability remains underexplored in vision-language models and world models. We formalize this capability as Counterfactual Spatial Imagination (CSI) and introduce FlowBench, a resource…

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Do We Still Need Rotation-Invariant Architectures? A Statistical Robustness Benchmark for Point Cloud Classification

A substantial line of work builds rotation invariance directly into point cloud architectures. We benchmark 10 architectures (PointNet, PointNet++, DGCNN, RIConv, RIConv++, RISurConv, PointMLP, PointTransformer, and the equivariant VN-PointNet and VN-DGCNN) across 5 domains under pose, noise, and occlusion, and…

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SurgEye: Instruction Tuning-Free Perception-Reasoning Framework for Surgical Scene Understanding

Surgical scene understanding is pivotal for computer-assisted intervention, yet demands compositional reasoning across instruments, anatomy, and workflow. Existing surgical vision-language models rely on instruction tuning with large-scale question-answer pairs, entailing laborious data curation and costly retraining…

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Compression Forcing: Hierarchical History Tokenization Enables Flexible World Models

Effective world modeling requires compressing salient history information that facilitates future prediction. However, most existing approaches inherit tokenization and conditioning mechanisms from video generation, where objectives are centered around perceptual realism rather than predictive utility. This…

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Do Pretrained Backbones Transfer to Physical Sensors? A Systematic Study of Multimodal Initialization Across the Sensor Stack

Transfer learning from pretrained backbones has become standard practice in multi-sensor computer vision---yet two questions remain open: which pretrained weights transfer best to multi-sensor setups, and can in-domain pretraining outperform off-the-shelf solutions? Frameworks like MultiMAE demonstrate the utility of…