13 accepted papers
While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at holistic understanding, they struggle with the dense world, i.e., complex scenes requiring fine-grained analysis of intricate details and object inter-relationships. Region-level MLLMs have been a promising step. However, previous attempts are…
Most video reasoning models only generate textual reasoning traces without indicating when and where key evidence appears. Recent models such as OpenAI-o3 have sparked wide interest in evidence-centered reasoning for images, yet extending this ability to videos is more challenging due to the need fo…
While thinking-aware generation aims to improve performance on complex tasks, we identify a critical failure mode where existing sequential, autoregressive approaches can paradoxically degrade performance due to error propagation. To systematically analyze this issue, we propose ParaBench, a new be…
Pixel-wise capabilities are essential for building interactive intelligent systems. However, pixel-wise multi-modal LLMs (MLLMs) remain difficult to scale due to complex region-level encoders, specialized segmentation decoders, and incompatible training objectives. To address these challenges, we pr
Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) require rigorous and complex testing under diverse conditions to fulfill various demands and purposes of testing tasks, such as occlusion-triggered events, necessitating semantic-level control in scenario generation. Existing methods, reliant on low-level state contr…
Temporal Grounding (TG) aims to localize video segments corresponding to a textual query. Prior research predominantly focuses on single-segment retrieval. Real-world scenarios, however, often require localizing multiple disjoint segments for a single query—a setting we term **One-to-Many Temporal G…
Models like OpenAI-o3 pioneer visual grounded reasoning by dynamically ref- erencing visual regions, just like human “thinking with images”. However, no benchmark exists to evaluate these capabilities holistically. To bridge this gap, we propose TreeBench (Traceable Evidence Evaluation Benchmark), a…
"The goal of fine-grained action recognition is to successfully discriminate between action categories with subtle differences. To tackle this, we derive inspiration from the human visual system which contains specialized regions in the brain that are dedicated towards handling specific tasks. We de…
On-device directional hearing requires audio source separation from a given direction while achieving stringent human-imperceptible latency requirements. While neural nets can achieve significantly better performance than traditional beamformers, all existing models fall short of supporting low-late…
In this paper, we present token labeling---a new training objective for training high-performance vision transformers (ViTs). Different from the standard training objective of ViTs that computes the classification loss on an additional trainable class token, our proposed one takes advantage of all t…
In this paper, we propose a novel unsupervised hashing method called Anchor-based Probability Hashing (APHash) to preserve the similarities by exploiting the distribution of data points. In particular, distances are transformed into probabilities in both original and hash code spaces. Our method aim…
While convolutional neural networks (CNN) have been excellent for object recognition, the greater spatial variability in scene images typically meant that the standard full-image CNN features are suboptimal for scene classification. In this paper, we investigate a framework allowing greater spatial…
Most of the feature-learning methods for RGB-D object recognition either learn features from color and depth modalities separately, or simply treat RGB-D as undifferentiated four-channel data, which cannot adequately exploit the relationship between different modalities. Motivated by the intuition t…