arXiv:2610.39701v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Iterative refinement models have significantly improved stereo matching accuracy, but their rigid, fixed update schedules incur heavy computational costs and a strict trade-off between speed and accuracy. This challenge is magnified in video streams, where traditional online methods resort to reducing feature channels or relying on expensive temporal warping. To address this, we propose DEQ-Stereo, a novel video stereo matching framework based on the Deep Equilibrium (DEQ) paradigm. Instead of unrolling a fixed number of iterations, DEQ-Stereo reformulates the refinement as an implicit fixed-point problem, adaptively terminating once convergence is met. To ensure fast and stable intra-frame convergence, we introduce the Convolutional Simplified Gated Unit (ConvSGU), which eliminates unnecessary non-linearities by modeling the latent state as a gated, element-wise sum of inputs. Furthermore, to exploit cross-frame temporal coherence, we propose Temporal State Transfer (TST), a warm-start strategy that propagates the converged hidden state to the next frame without requiring explicit pose or warping priors. Extensive evaluations demonstrate that DEQ-Stereo delivers state-of-the-art performance with a superior accuracy-to-latency trade-off.

arXiv:2611.00482v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The absolute trajectory error (ATE) is the standard measure of camera-motion accuracy, from SLAM to feed-forward 3D reconstruction. On the common Sintel protocol, an image-free constant-velocity line has a lower mean ATE than 10 of 11 recent models re-run with official code and than 85 of 110 published methods. On Lightspeed it beats 5 of 9 models and 10 of 11 published methods, while on TUM, ScanNet, DyCheck and ADT every model beats it. Two properties of ATE's alignment explain this. First, it maps any moving constant-velocity prediction onto the line that best fits the true path, so the line scores the path's regression residual. A residual signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) criterion tells when moving a prediction towards its constant-velocity fit lowers ATE. With the alignment's first-order refit, it accounts for the outcome of all but one of 4010 model-clip evaluations, including all 504 on three benchmarks registered before any model ran. The true path's straightness flags Sintel and Lightspeed. Second, the alignment ignores where cameras look: rotating a trajectory by 30 degrees against its orientations leaves ATE unchanged yet worsens the static-point reprojection of every model on Sintel, TUM and ScanNet, and the line reprojects worst on Sintel by geometric mean. Fitting the alignment's rotation to the predicted orientations gives pose-anchored ATE (PA-ATE), a one-function change at about ATE's cost (37 vs. 34 $\mu$s per clip, and 61 vs. 66 $\mu$s with the rotation error). It is never below ATE and, as we prove, equals the translational relative pose error over all frame pairs divided by $\sqrt{2}$ when the orientations agree. It ranks every image-free reference below every model on Sintel, follows the reprojection error where ATE does not, and largely preserves the models' order. Its rotation error also exposes Lightspeed ground-truth orientations that the images contradict.

arXiv:2611.09089v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Hand-object interactions (HOIs) can be captured by smartglasses to learn how people manipulate objects in daily life. Automatic logging of these interactions from an egocentric perspective provides time-stamped evidence of daily actions for applications like memory assistance. However, continuous RGB capture and wireless transmission exceed the energy and bandwidth budgets of smartglasses. We present EventHOI, an event-driven sensing and compression system that couples selective RGB capture with HOI-aware encoding to enable egocentric logging over Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) while preserving downstream HOI logging performance. Our key insight is to use low-power event sensing both to determine when RGB capture is needed and to identify where visual detail must be preserved. A lightweight IMU-based egomotion cancellation pipeline suppresses egomotion-induced events so that residual HOI motion can guide RGB triggering and spatial compression. We build a smartglasses prototype and conduct an end-to-end evaluation of EventHOI on a 50-hour egocentric benchmark with 97 subjects and a 20-hour real-world dataset we collect from 10 participants, together covering a broad range of daily-life scenarios and environments. Compared to RGB-only baselines, EventHOI reduces always-on backend power consumption by 5.8-10.4x and uplink bandwidth by 2.9x, with minimal HOI recognition accuracy loss. The resulting RGB uplink of less than 130 kbps fits within commodity BLE bandwidth budgets, making stable BLE video streaming feasible for egocentric HOI logging. Demo video and project website: https://eventhoi.github.io

arXiv:2510.02789v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Medical object detection suffers when a single detector is trained on mixed medical modalities (e.g., CXR, CT, MRI) due to heterogeneous statistics and disjoint representation spaces. To address this challenge, we turn to representation alignment, an approach that has proven effective for bringing features from different sources into a shared space. Specifically, we target the representations of DETR-style object queries and propose a simple, detector-agnostic framework to align them with modality context. First, we define modality tokens: compact, text-derived embeddings encoding imaging modality that are lightweight and require no extra annotations. We integrate the modality tokens into the detection process via Multimodality Context Attention (MoCA), mixing object-query representations via self-attention to propagate modality context within the query set. This preserves DETR-style architectures and adds negligible latency while injecting modality cues into object queries. We further introduce QueryREPA, a short pretraining stage that aligns query representations to their modality tokens using a task-specific contrastive objective with modality-balanced batches. Together, MoCA and QueryREPA produce modality-aware, class-faithful queries that transfer effectively to downstream training. Across diverse modalities trained altogether, the proposed approach consistently improves AP with minimal overhead and no architectural modifications, offering a practical path toward robust multimodality medical object detection.

arXiv:2607.05319v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Across training runs of a diffusion autoencoder, we observe similar image reconstruction quality, but substantially different levels of disentanglement in the learned representations. In this work, we study how training dynamics contribute to this behaviour. By analysing training trajectories in a controlled setting - curves of reconstruction quality against disentanglement during training - we identify two recurring trajectory patterns, which we call learning regimes. These regimes differ in how reconstruction and disentanglement evolve, despite similar reconstruction at the end of training. In the reconstruction regime, models improve image fidelity before disentanglement, while in the disentanglement regime, models improve both reconstruction and disentanglement more gradually. We hypothesise that modulating shortcut pathways in the diffusion U-Net and controlling early noise-level exposure can shape trajectories. To that end, we introduce SteeringDRL, combining gated residual U-Nets with a noise curriculum to steer models towards better disentanglement. Across attribute disentanglement benchmarks, SteeringDRL has competitive disentanglement, with reduced seed sensitivity in many settings. Our method extends to spatial disentanglement with object-centric learning, improving unsupervised segmentation on synthetic and real-world datasets.

arXiv:2611.09055v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: 3D part decomposition is a central capability for editable asset creation, yet existing workflows typically segment a completed mesh as a post-processing step, making the result sensitive to geometric artifacts, texture ambiguity, and limited part-level annotations. We present OmniLatent, a unified latent modeling framework for 3D part decomposition. Instead of predicting part labels in isolation, OmniLatent learns a shared latent space that jointly encodes geometry, deformation, appearance, and binary part IDs, allowing data-rich geometric and visual priors to support data-scarce part learning. Given a single input image, the base model generates geometry, deformation, texture, and surface part IDs in one pass, producing a part-aware 3D asset without a separate segmentation stage. We further tune the pretrained model for two extensions: a point-prompt adapter that maps arbitrary 3D point prompts with binary part IDs into latent tokens for full segmentation, refinement, and part subdivision, and an amodal part completion model that completes partial surface masks into a coherent full-object decomposition through dynamic per-part token allocation, cross-attention to the given geometry latent, and alternating part-local and global attention. Extensive experiments show that OmniLatent produces semantically meaningful part segmentations with precise boundaries, supports interactive part editing, and completes partial part observations while preserving global object consistency.

arXiv:2410.05557v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Strong data augmentation is a fundamental component of state-of-the-art mean teacher-based Source-Free domain adaptive Object Detection (SFOD) methods, enabling consistency-based self-supervised optimization along weak augmentation. However, our theoretical analysis and empirical observations reveal a critical limitation: strong augmentation can inadvertently erase class-relevant components, leading to artificial inter-category confusion. To address this issue, we introduce Weak-to-strong Semantics Compensation (WSCo), a novel remedy that leverages weakly augmented images, which preserve full semantics, as anchors to enrich the feature space of their strongly augmented counterparts. Essentially, this compensates for the class-relevant semantics that may be lost during strong augmentation on the fly. Notably, WSCo can be implemented as a generic plug-in, easily integrable with any existing SFOD pipelines. Extensive experiments validate the negative impact of strong augmentation on detection performance, and the effectiveness of WSCo in enhancing the performance of previous detection models on standard benchmarks.

arXiv:2310.07801v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Where should reconstructions and new samples lie when a few observations reveal only fragments of a trajectory? We propose hierarchical Bayesian trajectory principal-manifold sampling (HB-TPM), which learns a family of smooth curves from ordered source tasks and adapts it to sparse targets. For unordered vectors, alternating progression assignments and coefficient updates estimate trajectory structure between and beyond the observed shots under the learned source family. Observation-aware extensions connect the trajectory prior to photon arrivals and image-encoded cardiac cycles. Our analysis characterizes the coefficient directions supplied by the prior and bounds sampling error conditional on curve recovery. Across 30 held-out vector tasks, HB-TPM reduces mean sliced-Wasserstein distance by 21.0-41.8% relative to a source-adapted VAE. Prior-strength and sampling ablations identify coefficient shrinkage as the main supported mechanism. On 100 simulated photon records, adaptation lowers mean relative trajectory RMSE by 50.2% versus target-only fitting and 23.6% versus source-mean prediction. Across three training seeds and five folds on 98 cardiac sequences, HB-TPM with latent-MSE training achieves the best mean reconstruction among the tested configurations. Together, the results demonstrate trajectory-family transfer for sparse-target reconstruction and trajectory-centered sampling when source and target tasks share comparable progression structure.

arXiv:2605.16396v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Plug-and-Play (PnP) methods for imaging inverse problems replace the proximal operator of the prior, a maximum a posteriori (MAP) denoiser, with a pretrained minimum mean squared error (MMSE) denoiser. MMSE estimates are oversmoothed, motivating recent work to target the MAP with diffusion-model scores. We show that MAP-targeting iterations converge to cartoon-like images with learned scores, but to realistic ones with the exact scores of a Gaussian mixture. The failure thus seems to come from score errors, and it only appears near convergence. We therefore propose ProxiMAP, an iterative MAP approximation that queries the denoiser at the residual noise level of the current iterate. This keeps the denoiser in-distribution and slows the iterations down before they reach the cartoon regime. On deblurring, super-resolution, inpainting, HDR and phase retrieval, replacing the MMSE denoiser with ProxiMAP in DPIR, DiffPIR and DAPS improves perceptual quality in most experiments, sometimes at the expense of PSNR. To make ProxiMAP cheaper, we also propose a one-step distillation and a hybrid schedule that applies it only at the last PnP iteration. In most cases, one or the other retains much of the improvement at a fraction of the cost.

arXiv:2611.08897v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recognizing geometric texture patterns on 3D models is critical for applications such as heritage protection, model editing, and 3D printing. Existing 3D model segmentation methods predominantly focus on identifying high-level semantic parts, thereby failing to capture middle-level textures. While recent Vision-Language Models can perform image segmentation with appropriate text prompts, they still struggle to recognize 3D geometric textures. In this work, we present a method that segments 3D mesh models based on middle-level geometric textures. We further introduce a new geometric texture segmentation benchmark and fine-tune SAM3 accordingly. The segmented texture regions are then clustered based on DINO feature similarity and lifted from 2D to 3D. Additionally, we develop an interactive tool to enable both 3D model editing based on our segmentation results and model retrieval from the dataset based on geometric and texture similarity. Experiments demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing methods in segmenting geometric textures and can facilitate various applications.

Teachers might or might not be aware of the “Zoom In’ instructional strategy. It typically means showing students a small part of an image, and then gradually showing them the rest of it. Sometimes I’ve had students draw on the whiteboard what they think the rest of a projected image looks like, along with making observations and asking questions. In the last part of this post, I’ll paste what I think is a decent explanation of the strategy from ChatGPT. But what prompted this post was my learning about a website called Castle Light. It offers an interesting “take” on the Zoom In strategy. The site shares six images. With each one, you move around a circle that illuminates tiny portions of the image, and then you have to answer a question about it. It could be a fun game to play at the end of a period to promote language acquisition. I’m adding this info to The Best Ways To Use Photos In Lessons. Here’s ChatGPT’s description of Zoom-In: Zoom-In Strategy Students see a small portion of an image, then the teacher gradually reveals more of it. At each step students: Observe carefully Make predictions Revise their thinking as more information appears It’s widely used in ELL instruction, inquiry lessons, and social studies. Other names you might hear Reveal the Picture Mystery Picture Partial Picture Strategy Slow Reveal But “Zoom-In” is the term most often used in teaching resources and PD. Why teachers use it It encourages: careful observation academic language (“I think… because…”) inference and evidence student engagement Example sequence Show tiny corner of the image Students guess what it might be Reveal more Students revise predictions Continue until full image is shown Many teachers use it before introducing a new unit or concept. Here are three powerful variations of the Zoom-In strategy that work especially well with English learners and that many teachers use to deepen thinking. 1️⃣ Zoom-In + Evidence Frames Students must justify each prediction with evidence. How it works Show a small section of the picture. Students predict what it might be. They must use a sentence frame. Sentence frames I think this might be ___ because I see ___. This detail suggests ___. My prediction changed because now I see ___. Why it works ELL students practice: academic language evidence-based reasoning revising ideas 2️⃣ Zoom-In + Vocabulary Hunt Students look for objects or clues connected to key vocabulary. Example If the unit is about industrialization, students might look for: machines smoke factories workers Procedure Reveal a small part of the picture. Students identify possible vocabulary connections. Keep revising as more of the picture appears. Language frame This could relate to the word ___ because ___. Great for content-based ELL instruction. 3️⃣ Zoom-In + Prediction Timeline Students track how their thinking evolves. Steps Students keep a chart: Reveal My Prediction Evidence 1 Maybe a farm I see grass 2 Maybe a factory I see smoke 3 Industrial city I see buildings Why this is powerful Students learn: predictions change new evidence reshapes thinking reasoning improves over time This models historical thinking and scientific thinking. Teacher tip The most effective Zoom-In images have: multiple clues ambiguity at first clear reveal payoff Examples teachers often use: Dust Bowl photos Ellis Island scenes Civil Rights protests factory interiors

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arXiv:2611.08946v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier language models are increasingly deployed as agents, and how well an agent performs depends not only on its model but also on its harness: the prompts, tools, memory, and control loop through which the model acts. When an agent is applied to a new problem, a natural question is whether it can use the feedback of the task to improve the way it works, and not merely its answer. Most existing benchmarks keep the agent's harness fixed and score the solution it produces, or target large-scale model training. We introduce Flex-RSI, a benchmark for the recursive self-improvement of agents on vision and robotics tasks under a fixed budget. In each round, an executor improves the task solution, which is kept only if it scores higher on held-out validation data, and an improver then revises the harness, including the executor and itself. Every run starts from the same general-purpose harness, and the final solution is scored on hidden test data. Evaluating closed-source and open-weight models on tasks spanning perception, reasoning, robot action, 3D reconstruction, visual creation, and infrastructure, we find that self-improvement helps most when the agent builds its own solution, that feedback recording only success or failure holds back open-weight models, and that open-weight models fall furthest behind where outputs must pass strict checks of physical stability or exact correctness. Paired runs further show that editing the harness itself contributes to the gains.

arXiv:2605.24371v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: CT report generation (CTRG) requires models to summarize three-dimensional anatomical context and pathological findings from hundreds of axial slices. Existing methods typically learn a direct image-to-text mapping, providing limited mechanisms for modeling how CT evidence evolves across slices or how reports respond to controlled changes in latent lesion-related factors. We propose SliceWorld, a CT-specific world-state framework that treats an axial CT scan as an ordered sequence along the z-axis. SliceWorld encodes prefix CT evidence into factor-aware latent states containing anatomy, lesion, and uncertainty components, and projects these states into world tokens used for multi-step future-slice feature prediction, lesion-factor intervention, and LLM-based report generation. The model is first pretrained on CT slice sequences with predictive, factor-aware, and counterfactual objectives, and is then fine-tuned on paired CT-report data. Experiments on M3D-Cap and CT-RATE show that SliceWorld improves natural language generation metrics and clinically oriented automatic evaluation. Further analyses demonstrate multi-horizon future-slice prediction, measurable factor alignment, reduced-slice robustness, and selective lesion-sensitive report modulation. Code is available at https://github.com/synlp/SliceWorld.

arXiv:2610.22457v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in video generation have increased the demand for reliable watermarking for copyright protection, yet the robustness of video watermarks against removal attacks remains underexplored. Most watermark-removal methods originate from the image domain: signal optimization injects imperceptible pixel-domain perturbations, whereas generative resynthesis produces a visually similar instance through diffusion synthesis. When extended to videos, the former introduces temporally varying noise that causes visible flickering, while the latter regenerates fine-grained structures inconsistently across frames, leading to structural motion inconsistency. To evaluate video watermark robustness, we propose PoseRegen, a pose-consistent reconstruction framework that removes watermarks while preserving the original content and motion. PoseRegen first applies a temporally shared viewpoint transformation to disrupt watermark-bearing spatial patterns and then jointly reconstructs the transformed sequence with a pose-conditioned video model. A frozen video DiT processes the complete sequence with its reference-video latent, and full-sequence Flow Matching supervision keeps identity and background consistent across frames. To further preserve motion structure, we introduce a lightweight Pose-Conditioned Motion Consistency Adapter that adapts the frozen backbone to temporally ordered pose guidance and constrains body-part trajectories throughout reconstruction. Experiments on eleven video watermarking schemes show that PoseRegen reduces the average bit accuracy to 0.505, near random guessing, while outperforming the strongest baseline by 9.34% on motion-related VBench metrics. These results reveal a practical vulnerability of current video watermarks and highlight the need to evaluate robustness jointly with temporal and motion quality.

Today is the First Friday of the Month of November where we are honoring the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Let's place the hearts of our deceased loved ones in His heart.

arXiv:2611.09866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Purpose: Surgical operative reports support procedural documentation, surgical training, performance assessment, and workflow review. However, extracting meaningful information often requires extensive manual review and clinical expertise. Automated surgical scene descriptions could reduce this burden by leveraging recurring surgical activities and prior knowledge. Methods: We propose GRAC (Graph-Based Retrieval-Augmented Captioning), a framework that represents surgical scenes as graphs capturing relationships among instruments, actions, and anatomical structures. Given an input scene graph, GRAC learns to retrieve relevant graph-caption pairs from training data. It compares instrument-tissue interactions between retrieved examples and the input scene, using comparison features to condition retrieved-caption representations during generation. Results: On the EndoVis-18 benchmark, GRAC achieved a CIDEr-D of 5.88, compared with 4.23 for SGT and 3.36 for the strongest conventional Transformer baseline. Exact instrument-action-target triplet-set accuracy reached 52.6%, compared with 32.7% for SGT and 26.2% for the strongest conventional baseline. These results demonstrate improvements in language quality and factual agreement. On TORS, GRAC achieved a CIDEr-D of 5.06, compared with 3.80 for the strongest baseline. Conclusion: GRAC demonstrates that combining structured surgical scene representations with retrieved examples improves surgical scene captioning and produces more contextually meaningful descriptions.

arXiv:2611.09047v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Face Anti-Spoofing (FAS) must distinguish genuine faces from presentation attacks. A unified Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) is an attractive solution: it detects physical attacks (print, replay, mask) in one model and produces interpretable forensic evidence via Chain-of-Thought (CoT). A central obstacle to post-training such a model with reinforcement learning is that FAS reasoning has no rule-verifiable ground truth: only the binary verdict is checkable, while the reasoning chain cannot be verified by any hand-crafted rule. Optimizing the verdict alone is therefore a sparse, hackable signal. The model can reach the correct answer through a shortcut such as a false-rejection bias, which does not generalize. We address this with a grounding-aware judge reward. A 32B vision-language judge scores each reasoning chain against the image on evidence anchoring, logical coherence, and domain knowledge, turning the image itself into the verification signal. The reward is applied in a Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) stage after CoT supervised fine-tuning. It is the judge, rather than the RL objective, that supplies the process supervision a verdict-only reward cannot. Our study starts from a model that already performs well In-Domain (ID) after CoT-based supervised fine-tuning and asks how to improve its Out-of-Domain (OOD) generalization. We find that grounding-aware rewards are an effective means to that end. We validate the method on OOD generalization, where the reward reduces ACER on two physical benchmarks (LCC-FASD 0.288 to 0.273, MSU-MFSD 0.431 to 0.409) while preserving ID accuracy (CelebA-Spoof 0.033 to 0.035). Against ResNet-50/101 and CLIP-ViT-B/16 baselines, the MLLM dominates ID and matches or surpasses the strongest baseline OOD. To our knowledge this is the first use of LLM-as-judge process supervision for FAS.

NOTE: I’m republishing this post from 2017 since both of these lessons are extremely popular this week, and thought new readers might want to hear about them. (Editor’s Note: I originally published this post in 2015) I’ve previously posted about A Simple & Effective Classroom Lesson On Gratitude, one that I’ve done with my mainstream and Advanced ELL classes. I’m modifying it this year for my Low Intermediate English Language Learner students. I’ll first explain the Thanksgiving holiday, and the word “gratitude.” Then, as in the “original,” I’ll be showing the Soul Pancake video that’s embedded below. The subtitles appear to be ones the video’s creators made and not the automatic ones YouTube generates, so that means they actually reflect what people are saying and not gibberish. Next, I’ll go over this student hand-out. Here’s what it says: Gratitude Thanksgiving is a holiday in the United States. Many use this time to think about what gratitude. Gratitude is feeling thankful about something or someone. Close your eyes and think about someone who is important to you. You can think about more than one person, too. Why is this person important to you? I am grateful to have _______________________________________________________ in my life because ___________________________________________________________________. He/she makes me feel ______________________________________________________________. I would feel ________________________________________________________________ if he/she was not in my life. I am grateful to have _______________________________________________________ in my life because ___________________________________________________________________. He/she makes me feel ______________________________________________________________. I would feel ________________________________________________________________ if he/she was not in my life. I’ll model completing the form. Next, I’ll call my wife, put her on speakerphone, and say what I wrote about her. I’ll invite students to do the same. As in previous years, I suspect a fair amount of tears will be shed. We’ll end the lesson with students turning what they’ve written into cards to give the people they’ve written about, or posters we can use with an Adobe Express video they can send to those in other countries. Here’s the video I’ll be using: Feel free to offer suggestions on how I can make this a better lesson. ADDENDUM: Here’s how I modified it today for my ELL Newcomers class: I made it very simple. I read the handout and had peer tutors help students complete it. Then, students did speed-dating to share reading in English what they wrote. Lastly, I had everyone call one of the people they wrote about and tell them what they wrote – in English and in their home language. It went great! I’m adding this post to The Best Resources On “Gratitude.”

arXiv:2611.08923v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pre-trained diffusion models have become a widely adopted zero-shot prior for image inverse problems, among which annealed decoupling methods achieve leading reconstruction performance on nonlinear tasks. We find, however, that annealed methods that directly optimize the denoiser input $x_t$ exhibit radial drift in later layers: within-layer optimization drives the noise-component norm of $x_t$ away from its typical value, pushing the denoiser out of its high-performance regime and degrading reconstruction quality. To address this, we propose FANO (Anchored Forward-Noise Optimization). At each annealing layer, FANO fixes the previous denoiser estimate as an anchor and optimizes only the forward noise $e$, whose distribution is known, instead of $x_t$, thereby preserving the forward-diffusion structure of the denoiser input. The standard Gaussian prior on $e$ concentrates its norm near the typical value, and deviations degrade denoiser performance. We accordingly decompose $e$ in polar coordinates into a direction and a radial magnitude, and apply a soft potential to regulate the radius, keeping $x_t$ in the high-density region of the forward distribution. On multiple linear and nonlinear inverse problems, FANO matches the strongest current baselines on linear tasks and achieves consistent improvements on nonlinear tasks.