arXiv:2609.23431v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human-object interaction (HOI) detection requires grounding an interacting human-object pair and recognizing the verb that links them, often under seve...
VIVAS is a new Vision‑Language Model pre‑training framework that addresses the lack of fine‑grained visual perception in existing VLMs. It introduces a unified token space and a dense‑structural‑semantic vision tokenizer that expands the textual vocabulary with visual tokens, enabling vision‑language unified autoregressive supervision over both visual details and linguistic content. Trained on 12.4 T tokens, VIVAS achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on 7 tasks and 39 multimodal benchmarks.
arXiv:2609.27076v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Open-vocabulary visual grounding enables robots to localise task-relevant entities from natural-language queries without dependence on predefined perce...
ProCAP introduces a probabilistic cross-attentive prompt learning framework for vision-language models like CLIP, enabling improved cross-modal interaction without updating the backbone. It jointly learns visual and textual prompt tokens, linking them via stacked bidirectional multi-head cross-attention to refine each branch across prompt depth. The method incorporates Gaussian parameterization of prompt tokens, lightweight KL and L2 regularization, and a compact symmetric InfoNCE head to align image features with class-level text representations, achieving strong few-shot base-to-novel performance and competitive transfer results across multiple datasets and benchmarks.
arXiv:2608.28707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), yet they continue to struggle with quest...
Efficient Unified Multimodal Understanding (EUMU) is the winning solution for the MUMU Track of the 8th LSVOS Challenge, addressing multi‑concept image tagging, open‑vocabulary object detection, and image captioning with a single efficient model. It leverages a shared pretrained multimodal backbone and lightweight heads, while applying task‑aware inference refinement that uses detection cues to improve captioning, caption cues to recover missed detections, and image statistics to refine tagging. With 239.169 M parameters, 23.947 GFLOPs, and 4.5 GB peak memory, EUMU achieves a challenge score of 17.3409 and is publicly available on GitHub.
arXiv:2608.14835v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Dynamic scene graphs (DSGs) capture spatio-temporal interactions across videos as $\langle$subject, predicate, object$\rangle$ triplets, and underp...
arXiv:2607. 00684v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The classification accuracy of pretrained Vision-Language Models (VLMs) relies on the quality of the text prompts.
PANORAMA introduces a new panoptic grounded captioning framework that jointly generates detailed image captions and associates each phrase with precise pixel-level masks. The authors create PanoCaps, a human‑annotated benchmark with dense captions and near‑complete pixel coverage, and propose a phrase‑mask matching protocol with a generalized Panoptic Quality metric. PANORAMA conditions a pretrained segmenter on contextualized phrase representations, learns to select appropriate masks, and achieves state‑of‑the‑art grounding performance on PanoCaps and other pixel‑level tasks.
TempoGround is a vision‑language model–native framework for streaming visual grounding that detects cross‑frame object correspondence and explicitly models object presence states. It uses a curriculum prediction mechanism to resolve 2D instance association, predict object entry, continuation, or exit, decode 2D boxes, and lift them to 3D camera‑frame boxes. The approach is further refined with Streaming Grounding Reinforcement, which optimizes grounding, identity, and consistency rewards, and achieves significant improvements on multiple streaming visual grounding benchmarks.
arXiv:2501.04001v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: This work presents Sa2VA, the first comprehensive, unified model for dense grounded understanding of both images and videos. Unlike existing multi-...
arXiv:2608.22429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capable of thinking with images often rely on external tools for fine-grained perception. However, this relian...