The paper introduces Vocabulary‑Guided Gait Recognition (Gait‑World), a new paradigm that leverages human vocabularies and Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) to better understand and recognize gait. It proposes the α‑Gait model, which uses a Vocabulary Relation Mapper and a Gait Fine‑grained Detector to align vocabulary prompts with gait features, addressing the challenge of heterogeneous embedding spaces. Experiments on multiple gait datasets demonstrate the potential of incorporating VLM‑derived vocabulary information into gait recognition.
arXiv:2609.18490v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: "What I cannot create, I do not understand."Human wisdom reveals that creation is one of the highest forms of learning. For example, Diffusion Models h...
The paper introduces GaitMoE, an action‑detection based mixture‑of‑experts framework for occluded gait recognition, leveraging temporal and action experts to infer missing body parts from adjacent frames and gait cycles. It also presents a new Occluded Gait database (OccGait) with diverse occlusion scenarios and annotations, and demonstrates superior performance on OccGait, OccCASIA‑B, Gait3D, and GREW datasets.
arXiv:2512. 00691v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Gait patterns play a critical role in human identification and healthcare analytics, yet current progress remains constrained by small, narrowly designed models that fail to scale or generalize.
The paper introduces Composed Gait Retrieval (CoGR), a task that retrieves a target gait sequence using a reference sequence and a natural language modification query. To support this, the authors create the first gait-language datasets—Language‑Augmented CCPG and Language‑Augmented CASIA‑B—via an automated annotation pipeline powered by large vision‑language models. They propose ComposeGait, an identity‑anchored composition framework with a Part‑aware Identity Adapter that injects identity tokens into a shared Q‑Former, achieving state‑of‑the‑art retrieval performance on both benchmarks.
arXiv:2609.10187v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In this work, we introduce language-aligned motion representations for domain-generalizable UPDRS-Gait severity estimation, aiming to learn semanticall...
DrGait is a training‑free framework that transforms Vision‑Language Models into clinical planners for gait analysis. It separates semantic reasoning from geometric perception using a Triage‑Verification‑Synthesis workflow, where hypotheses are generated, verified with deterministic biomechanical tools, and refined in a closed‑loop. This approach reduces hallucinations and produces transparent, audit‑ready clinical reports with competitive diagnostic accuracy.
MMGait is a large‑scale multi‑sensor benchmark that aligns visible, infrared, depth, LiDAR, and radar observations at the sequence level, enabling evaluation of single‑modal, cross‑modal, and multi‑modal gait recognition. The study shows that modality rankings shift with probe conditions, cross‑modal alignment remains challenging, and fusion can yield complementary gains. To address the scalability issue of training separate experts, the authors propose Omni‑Modal Gait Recognition and its implementation, OmniGait++, which unifies all recognition settings within a shared identity space using modality‑specific front ends, a shared encoder, and an anchor‑guided fusion module. whyItMatters":"MMGait provides a common testbed for heterogeneous gait sensing and demonstrates that unified recognition across varying modality availability is feasible, offering a scalable alternative to task‑specific experts."
arXiv:2508.13073v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robotic manipulation, a key frontier in robotics and embodied AI, requires precise motor control and multimodal understanding, yet traditiona...
Goal2Pixel introduces a pixel‑based approach for vision‑language navigation in continuous environments, replacing low‑level action prediction with navigable pixel grounding. The model predicts a visible pixel on the image plane, which is back‑projected into a 3D waypoint for forward motion, while auxiliary regions handle turning and stopping. Coupled with a visibility‑aware keyframe memory (ViKeyMem) and semantic embeddings, Goal2Pixel achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance on R2R‑CE and RxR‑CE with significantly fewer VLM calls.
arXiv:2604.19734v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling humanoid foundation models is bottlenecked by the scarcity of robotic data. While massive egocentric human data offers a scalable alt...
EmbodiedMidtrain bridges the gap between Vision‑Language Models (VLMs) and Vision‑Language‑Action Models (VLAs) by first analyzing the distribution mismatch between their data. It introduces a lightweight proximity estimator that selects VLA‑aligned samples from a large VLM pool, creating the EmbodiedMidtrain‑1M dataset used to mid‑train VLMs before VLA fine‑tuning. Experiments on simulated and real‑world robot tasks show consistent performance gains across different VLM backbones and VLA action heads, with early training steps already benefiting from the improved initialization.
VKnowU is a benchmark that tests multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on their grasp of visual knowledge—intuitive, human-like understanding of physical and social principles in videos. The benchmark contains 1,680 questions across 1,249 videos, covering eight core types of visual knowledge, and shows that current state‑of‑the‑art MLLMs still lag behind human performance, especially on world‑centric tasks. To address this gap, the authors release VKnowQA and VideoKnow+, a baseline model that incorporates visual knowledge via a See‑Think‑Answer framework and reinforcement learning, improving performance on VKnowU and related datasets.