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An Open-Source Benchmark and Baseline for Multi-temporal Referring Segmentation

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.

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Jun 30

CCRC: A Change-Aware Captioning and Reasoning Chain for Image Change Captioning and Segmentation

arXiv:2606. 28724v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Understanding and localizing subtle changes between paired images is critical for tasks such as surveillance and image editing.

By Jinhong Hu, Xiaoping Wang, Shuyin Huang, Guojin Zhong, Kaitai Liu, Kai Lu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 4

Stateful Visual Encoders for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 04433v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in multi-image, multi-turn agentic settings where decisions depend on visual changes.

By Zirui Wang, Junwei Yu, Adam Yala, David M. Chan, Joseph E. Gonzalez, Trevor Darrell

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arXiv AI

Jul 31

TraceCLIP: Recovering Local Semantics from Patch-to-CLS Contributions

arXiv:2607. 26107v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense vision-language understanding, including object localization, region recognition, and open-vocabulary semantic segmentation, requires associating language concepts with spatially grounded visual regions.

By Xinran Liu, Shouqian Shi, Yutong Chen, Ge Wang, Xin-Wei Yao, Sheng Zhong

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arXiv AI

Jun 24

UniDrive: A Unified Vision-Language and Grounding Framework for Interpretable Risk Understanding in Autonomous Driving

arXiv:2606. 24759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown strong potential for autonomous driving scene understanding, yet existing methods still face a fundamental trade-off between temporal reasoning and spatial precision.

By Xiaowei Gao, Pengxiang Li, Yitai Cheng, Ruihan Xu, James Haworth, Stephen Law, Yun Ye

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

CaptionFormer: Unified Segmentation, Tracking, and Captioning for Spatio-Temporal Objects

arXiv:2510. 14904v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Dense Video Object Captioning (DVOC) is the task of jointly detecting, tracking, and captioning object trajectories in a video, requiring the ability to understand spatio-temporal details and describe them in natural language.

By Gabriel Fiastre, Antoine Yang, Cordelia Schmid

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arXiv AI

Jun 17

ThinkJEPA: Empowering Latent World Models with Large Vision-Language Reasoning Model

arXiv:2603. 22281v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in latent world models (e.

By Haichao Zhang, Yijiang Li, Shwai He, Tushar Nagarajan, Mingfei Chen, Jianglin Lu, Ang Li, Yun Fu

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arXiv AI

Jul 16

ScanFocus: A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding

arXiv:2607. 13421v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to retrieve the visual trajectory of a specific object from a video stream as described by a natural language expression.

By Kai Chen, Ming Dai, Wenxuan Cheng, Wankou Yang

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arXiv AI

Jul 14

Evidence-Backed Video Question Answering

arXiv:2607. 11862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) excel in question answering (QA) but largely operate as black boxes, providing textual answers without verifiable visual grounding.

By Shijie Wang, Honglu Zhou, Ziyang Wang, Ran Xu, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Chen Sun, Juan Carlos Niebles

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Dynamic Parsing and Updating Natural Language Specification using VLMs for Robust Vision-Language Tracking

arXiv:2606. 29357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language tracking guided by natural language specifications leverages high-level semantic cues of target objects to substantially boost tracking accuracy and robustness.

By Xiao Wang, Liye Jin, Dan Xu, Yuehang Li, Lan Chen, Yaowei Wang, Yonghong Tian, Jin Tang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 5

DRIFT: A Residual Flow Adapter for Decoding Continuous Outputs in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 05758v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Many modern vision-language models (VLMs) build on autoregressive decoding of discrete tokens.

By Zhuoming Liu, Jinhong Lin, Kwan Man Cheng, Lin Zhang, Shayok Bagchi, Yin Li

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Jun 2

LookWise: Knowing When and Where to Look for Fine-Grained Visual Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2603. 00171v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are shifting towards "Thinking with Images" by actively exploring image details.

By Yuxiang Shen, Hailong Huang, Zhenkun Gao, Xueheng Li, Man Zhou, Chengjun Xie, Haoxuan Che, Xuanhua He, Jie Zhang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 3

NarrativeTrack: Evaluating Entity-Centric Reasoning for Narrative Understanding

arXiv:2601. 01095v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive progress in vision-language reasoning, yet their ability to understand temporally unfolding narratives in videos remains underexplored.

By Hyeonjeong Ha, Jinjin Ge, Bo Feng, Kaixin Ma, Gargi Chakraborty

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