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DPNeXt: A Lightweight Multi-Scale Feature Fusion Framework for Efficient ViT-Based Multi-Task Dense Prediction

arXiv:2607. 16012v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-Task Learning (MTL) in robotics perception systems supports comprehensive 3D spatial scene understanding by integrating semantic segmentation and depth estimation.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

LiteViLNet: Lightweight Vision-LiDAR Fusion Network for Efficient Road Segmentation

LiteViLNet is a lightweight RGB‑geometry fusion network for road segmentation that uses a MobileNetV3 RGB encoder and a tiny depth‑wise‑separable geometry encoder. Its multi‑scale fusion module enhances modality‑specific features, performs cross‑modal interaction, and applies adaptive gating, while a depth‑wise large‑kernel bridge expands contextual support with minimal overhead. The U‑Net‑style decoder is trained with deep supervision, achieving state‑of‑the‑art performance on KITTI and ORFD benchmarks and running at up to 68.73 FPS on a Jetson Orin NX with TensorRT FP16.

By Daojie Peng, Bingtao Wang, Fulong Ma, Liang Zhang, Jun Ma
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 23

SAM-V: Geometry-Aware Segment Anything for Multi-View Instance Segmentation

SAM‑V is a geometry‑aware extension of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) that integrates 3D priors from a feed‑forward geometry model (VGGT) into 2D segmentation. It uses a prompt‑fusion mechanism to combine sparse SAM prompts with view‑specific camera tokens and local VGGT features, enabling a mask decoder that attends to both dense 2D and 3D cues. The resulting end‑to‑end system produces consistent multi‑view instance segmentation in a single forward pass, achieving significant gains on the IGGT 3D tracking benchmark without offline mask matching or explicit 3D reconstruction.

By Jiangshan Gong, Yuqun Wu, Qiqian Fu, Yao Xiao, Chuhang Zou, Shenlong Wang, Derek Hoiem
arXiv AI
Jun 19

Finetuning Vision-Language-Action Models Requires Fewer Layers Than You Think

arXiv:2606. 20246v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models pre-trained on massive video-robot datasets have revolutionized robotic manipulation, yet their multi-billion parameter architectures impose prohibitive computational burdens during downstream fine-tuning and real-time inference.

By Gia-Binh Nguyen, Trong-Bao Ho, Thien-Loc Ha, Khoa Vo, Philip Lund M{\o}ller, Quang T. Nguyen, Long Dinh, Tuan Dam, Vu Duong, Tung M. Luu, Trung Le, Tran Nguyen Le, Minh Vu, An Thai Le, Ngan Le, Daniel Sonntag, James Zou, Jan Peters, Duy M. H. Nguyen, Ngo Anh Vien
arXiv AI
Sep 17

Visual Perception Engine: Fast and Flexible Multi-Head Inference for Robotic Vision Tasks

Visual Perception Engine (VPEngine) is a modular framework that enables efficient GPU usage for robotic vision tasks by sharing a foundation model backbone across multiple specialized task heads. It eliminates redundant feature extraction, supports dynamic task prioritization, and achieves up to 3× speedup over sequential execution. The open‑source Python implementation, with ROS2 C++ bindings, delivers real‑time performance (≥50 Hz) on NVIDIA Jetson Orin AGX using TensorRT‑optimized models.

By Jakub {\L}ucki, Jonathan Becktor, Georgios Georgakis, Rob Royce, Shehryar Khattak
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

Task-State Adaptation with Prototype Memory for Multi-Task Dense Prediction

The paper introduces MemMTL, a multi‑task dense prediction framework that uses a compact task state derived from global visual context and refines it via a learnable prototype memory. This refined state informs task‑conditioned expert logits, which are combined with token‑level logits and routed through a sparse top‑k selection over a shared local expert bank. A task‑agnostic residual bank offers a common adaptation path, and both paths are added to the backbone feature before task‑specific prediction. The authors outline an evaluation protocol on NYUD‑v2 and PASCAL‑Context using SAM 3 and ViT‑L backbones to assess predictive quality, computational cost, and the contributions of task‑state conditioning, prototype retrieval, and sparse routing.

By Yangyang Xu, Haobo Yuan, Yuzhu Wang, Duo Su, Xi Ye, Yibo Yang, Jun Zhu