arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 21

In PRAISE of Attributes: Grounding Retrieval Geometry with Query-Conditioned Subspaces for Person Re-Identification

The paper introduces PRAISE, a test‑time adaptation framework for vision‑language model based person re‑identification. PRAISE constructs an Attribute‑Conditioned Subspace (ACS) from a bank of attribute prompts, reshaping query‑gallery affinities without requiring identity or attribute labels. Experiments on image‑to‑image and text‑to‑image ReID benchmarks show that PRAISE consistently improves retrieval performance over existing backbones and TTA baselines.

By Rajarshi Bhattacharya, Aryan Shukla, Shakeeb Murtaza, Christian Desrosiers, Jose Dolz, Maguelonne Heritier, Eric Granger
arXiv AI
Sep 25

WildHSR: Metric Feed-Forward 4D People-Scene Reconstruction from a 3D Foundation Model

WildHSR introduces a lightweight adaptation of 3D foundation models to jointly recover metric cameras, scene geometry, and persistent person identities from monocular video. By generating pseudo‑scale labels from curated web footage and fine‑tuning a Scale Readout, the method predicts metric scale directly from foundation‑model tokens. It also exploits intermediate query‑key features to associate per‑frame bodies, enabling feed‑forward reconstruction that outperforms state‑of‑the‑art optimization‑based methods on several benchmarks while running at 10.1 fps.

By Jerrin Bright, John Zelek
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 26

Synthetic-to-Real Text-Based Person Anomaly Search via Multi-Model Retrieval Fusion and Cross-Encoder Reranking

The paper introduces a multi‑model retrieval and reranking system for text‑based person anomaly search that bridges the synthetic‑to‑real domain gap. It adapts the Qwen3‑VL‑Embedding‑8B model to synthetic descriptions via contrastive learning and domain randomization, fuses scores from six Qwen3‑VL checkpoints and a frozen SigLIP2 model, and then reranks candidates with a Qwen3‑VL‑Reranker‑8B cross‑encoder. A synthetic distractor‑matched validation protocol is used to tune hyper‑parameters, yielding a 94.78% mAP and 90.85% R@1 on the AI City Challenge 2026 Track 4 test set, placing eighth on the public leaderboard.

By Eugene Denteh, Blessing Agyei Kyem, Andrews Danyo, Joshua Kofi Asamoah, Richard Dzinyela, Solomon Owusu-Ansah, Dickson G. Asiedu, Armstrong Aboah