MIMONet is a saliency detection model that uses multi‑scale inputs and outputs to better handle objects of varying sizes. It processes three differently sized images through separate encoder branches that exchange information, allowing each branch to learn size‑variation knowledge from the others. A Multi‑scale Perception module further refines features, and a Joint Saliency Loss ensures consistent, well‑preserved boundaries across the multiple saliency maps produced.
By Zhaojian Yao, Wei Gao, Tiesong Zhao, Hui Yuan, Sam Kwong
arXiv:2609.00667v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large vision-language models used as listwise rerankers must jointly process visual tokens from tens of candidates per query, making token pruning es...
By Siyi Liu, Hanjun Yang, Chenchen Zhang, Xiaorong Zhu, Xinyu Zuo, Lisheng Duan, Haijin Liang, Jin Ma, Junfu Pu, Yongqi Zhang
The paper introduces Salience-LLaVA, a vision‑language model that prioritizes scene elements based on their importance for low‑vision users. It presents three new salience‑aware datasets—Salience COCO, Salience Flickr, and Salience VizWiz—annotated with object‑level salience verified by low‑vision participants. The authors also propose the SCMI metric to evaluate caption ordering accuracy and demonstrate the system’s practicality by deploying it on assistive glasses.
By Jiazhao Liang, Hao Huang, Shuaihang Yuan, Congcong Wen, Geeta Chandra Raju Bethala, Giles Hamilton-Fletcher, Yu Hao, John-Ross Rizzo, Mengyu Wang, Anthony Tzes, Yi Fang
Improving video captioning quality typically demands retraining large vision-language models, an expensive and often impractical requirement. Existing training-free alternatives instead ground captions in detected objects to curb hallucination, but apply only a single, fixed correction pass without prioritizing which objects matter most, leaving semantically significant content omitted.
Background-Free Objectness Learning (B-FOR) is a dense, class‑agnostic detection framework that learns objectness without treating unlabeled regions as background. It predicts multi‑scale object‑center and scale fields, using spatially structured soft targets to supervise only reliable annotated areas and introduces displacement‑aware scale fields to model object extent. Experiments on PASCAL VOC, MS‑COCO, and Open Images show B‑FOR improves recall by over +10 AR points compared to prior class‑agnostic baselines, with ablation studies confirming the importance of localized supervision and displacement‑aware scaling.
By Dania Batool, Liliana Lo Presti, Marco La Cascia, Filippo Vella
Crane is a CLIP‑based framework for zero‑shot anomaly detection that enhances dense localization by adapting the vision encoder with a correlation‑based attention module and conditioning learnable prompts on global image context. It further fuses anomaly‑relevant patch features into the global representation for more sensitive image‑level detection, and a variant called Crane+ leverages DINOv2 spatial correlations for stronger pixel‑level performance. Across seven industrial benchmarks, Crane raises mean image‑level AP by 4.5% and Crane+ boosts mean pixel‑level AUPRO by 9.0%.
By Alireza Salehi, Mohammadreza Salehi, Reshad Hosseini, Cees G. M. Snoek, Makoto Yamada, Mohammad Sabokrou
arXiv:2607. 05978v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models can emit localized predictions, bounding boxes for objects and temporal windows for video and audio events, but they hallucinate these regions prolifically.
By Daniel Shalam, Emanuel Ben Baruch, Avi Ben Cohen, Tal Remez
arXiv:2606. 00511v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Model merging aims to consolidate multiple task-specific models fine-tuned on different datasets into a unified architecture that performs cross-domain proficiency.
By Jungin Park, Jiyoung Lee, Kwanghoon Sohn
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:2607. 03595v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Affordance grounding aims to localize image regions that support a specific action, serving as a core capability for physical intelligence and embodied perception.
By Seung Il Lee, Qinqian Lei, Daguang Xu, Dong Yang, Robby T. Tan, Yixin Chen, Bo Wang
arXiv:2603.26737v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Current multimodal LLMs encode images as static visual prefixes and rely on text-based reasoning, lacking goal-driven and adaptive visual acc...
By Guangfu Guo, Xiaoqian Lu, Yue Feng, Mingming Sun
arXiv:2604. 00757v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Large Vision Language Models show impressive performance across image and video understanding tasks, yet their computational cost grows rapidly with the number of visual tokens.
By Dong-Jae Lee, Sunghyun Baek, Junmo Kim