ProtoDCS introduces a robust open‑set test‑time adaptation framework for vision‑language models, addressing the challenge of simultaneously handling covariate‑shifted in‑distribution (csID) and out‑of‑distribution (csOOD) data. It replaces brittle thresholding with a double‑check separation using a probabilistic Gaussian Mixture Model and employs an evidence‑driven adaptation strategy that updates prototypes efficiently, reducing overconfidence and computational cost. Experiments on CIFAR‑10/100‑C and Tiny‑ImageNet‑C show state‑of‑the‑art performance, improving both known‑class accuracy and OOD detection metrics.
By Wei Luo, Yangfan Ou, Jin Deng, Zeshuai Deng, Xiquan Yan, Zhiquan Wen, Mingkui Tan
arXiv:2605. 07821v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection is crucial for ensuring the reliability of deep learning models.
By Boyang Dai, Chaoqi Chen, Yizhou Yu
arXiv:2606. 00987v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong visual understanding and language-guided grounding abilities, yet their capacity for multi-temporal visual reasoning remains underexplored.
By Bingyu Li, Da Zhang, Tao Huo, Zhiyuan Zhao, Junyu Gao, Xuelong Li
The paper introduces TimeCatch, a benchmark that evaluates temporal consistency in vision‑language models (VLMs) by treating temporal grounding as an anomaly detection problem. Temporal anomalies are created by swapping consecutive frames, while frame‑level anomalies involve replacing a frame with Gaussian noise. Across synthetic and real‑world datasets, VLMs reliably detect and localize frame‑level anomalies but perform near chance on temporal anomaly detection, whereas humans excel at both tasks.
By Marek Hradil, Danae S\'anchez Villegas
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on video and image-sequence benchmarks, yet it remains unclear whether they capture temporal structure. To study this question, we formulate te...
arXiv:2608. 18339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable zero-shot capabilities yet remain sensitive to real-world distribution shifts during inference.
By Qi Yu, Zhichen Zeng, Katherine Tieu, Xiyuan Yang, Ruizhong Qiu, Yuchen Yan, Lihui Liu, Yanjun Zhao, Lingjie Chen, Jingrui He, Hanghang Tong
arXiv:2606. 05702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to interpret complex visual semantics, yet their capacity for chronological reasoning remains under-explored.
By Haoyu Zhou, Qing Qing, Caichong Li, Qixin Zhang, Yongcheng Jing, Ziqi Xu, Juncheng Hu, Xikun Zhang, Renqiang Luo
arXiv:2602. 18094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved significant progress by being trained on massive-scale datasets, typically under the assumption that data are independent and identically distributed (IID).
By Ling Lin, Yang Bai, Heng Su, Congcong Zhu, Yaoxing Wang, Yang Zhou, Huazhu Fu, Jingrun Chen
arXiv:2608.29923v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Open-vocabulary semantic segmentation (OVSS) relies on vision-language alignment to recognize arbitrary text-defined categories, yet this alignment i...
By Chandler Timm C. Doloriel, Yunbei Zhang, Sarthak Kumar Maharana, Muhammad Salman Siddiqui, Tor Kristian Stevik, Fadi Al Machot, Kristian Hovde Liland, Habib Ullah
arXiv:2609.24539v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multi-modal object Re-Identification (ReID) benefits from complementary information across heterogeneous imaging modalities. To further enrich semantic...
By Weixiang Zhou, Yuhao Wang, Xingguo Xu, Weizhen Zhou, Zhixun Su, Jinshan Pan, Cong Wang
arXiv:2607. 02269v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated immense promise in Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG).
By Rintaro Otsubo, Ryo Fujii, Reina Ishikawa, Taiki Kanaya, Kanta Sawafuji, Hiroki Kajita, Shigeki Sakai, Hideo Saito, Ryo Hachiuma
arXiv:2609.37602v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Robust and reliable perception is essential for autonomous robots operating in real-world environments, particularly in long-term missions where envi...
By Michele Antonazzi, Alejandra C. Hernandez, Jos\'e Araujo, Olov Andersson, Patric Jensfelt