arXiv:2609.09417v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) show promise for agricultural classification, but zero-shot performance on disease, pest, damage, quality, and species id...
By Earl Ranario, Jared Smith, Lars Lundqvist, Urmil Jatin Chandarana
The paper introduces a free, label‑free visual evidence signal that improves fine‑grained vision‑language reasoning. By selecting image crops that maximize the model’s answer distribution peak, the method locates answer‑bearing regions without training or annotations, boosting accuracy from 70 % to 85 %. The evidence gap also complements model confidence, enabling better correctness prediction and error flagging.
By Santi Ram Tiwari, Nihal Naik, Devbrat Pandey, Nishant Sinha
RefineRank introduces a lightweight module, RefineNet, that jointly refines bounding boxes and ranks them for surgical spatio‑temporal grounding. By combining frozen medical vision‑language features with proposals from a frozen open‑set detector, it predicts coordinate corrections and quality scores for each candidate box, selecting the best refined or original box. On MedVidBench, RefineRank achieves the highest reported STG mIoU of 0.421 and improves oracle bounds and overall mIoU in controlled evaluations.
By Linzhe Jiang, Jiayuan Huang, Changhao Zhang, Chunyang Jiang, Zhehua Mao, Mobarak I. Hoque
The paper introduces MedREAL, a unified framework that aligns linguistic reasoning with spatial grounding for medical visual question answering and segmentation. MedREAL employs Seg Anchored Reasoning Pooling (SARP) to extract semantic evidence from segmentation tokens and a Reasoning-to-Visual (R2V) fusion mechanism to integrate these features into a segmentation pipeline. Using the newly created MedRAVS-13K dataset, MedREAL achieves superior performance, reporting 68.49% gIoU and 70.47% cIoU, and generates evidence masks that consistently match textual diagnoses.
By Haowen Gu, Gensheng Pei, Junzhu Mao, Qiong Wang, Mingwu Ren, Yazhou Yao
arXiv:2609.13308v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: A companion evaluation found that naming the target part in a manipulation prompt increased action accuracy by 0.32-0.63 across eight vision-language...
By Sarthak Sattigeri
arXiv:2609.32352v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown increasing potential for medical image understanding, yet their capabilities in ophthalmic imaging r...
By Gujie Shao, Zixun Xie, Xuechun Xing, Ruixiang Wang, Ziyun Lan, Yanlin Qi, Gangyi Zhang, Yuxin Yang, Dawei Li, Haiming Tang