The paper introduces Prototype Purification and Regulation (PPR), a multi‑label few‑shot learning framework for medical image classification that addresses two key limitations of existing metric‑based meta‑learning methods. PPR first purifies prototypes by using sample‑level comorbidity scores to highlight disease‑specific features, then regulates inter‑class prototype distances with disease‑level comorbidity statistics to create a comorbidity‑aware embedding space. Experiments on four chest X‑ray datasets, including cross‑domain tests, show that PPR outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods, improving disease detection and demonstrating robust generalization and clinical applicability.
By Ying-Chih Lin, Po-Chih Kuo, Yong-Sheng Chen
Catena is an open‑source, developer‑centric software suite designed to streamline large‑scale connectomics from electron microscopy data. It integrates modules for 3D neuron and organelle segmentation, synapse detection, microtubule tracking, and neurotransmitter inference into composable, chunk‑wise pipelines that are fully documented and extensible. The suite includes pretrained machine learning models, containerized runtimes, and shareable components to reduce compute and ground‑truth data needs while ensuring reproducible, scalable processing across workstations and clusters.
By Samia Mohinta, Pedro G\'omez-G\'alvez, Shi Yan Lee, Daniel Franco-Barranco, Michael Clayton, Stephan Preibisch, Jan Funke, Albert Cardona
PointLAM introduces a new point-based 3D object detection architecture that addresses efficiency and fidelity trade-offs inherent in LiDAR point cloud processing. It employs a Laplacian Point Sampler (LPS) to accelerate downsampling while preserving foreground structure, and a Local Hadamard Aggregator (LHA) that replaces costly continuous interactions with a topology‑aware gating mechanism. Combined with Bi‑Directional Mamba layers, the resulting Local Attentive Mamba (LAM) block delivers competitive performance on nuScenes and Waymo datasets, outperforming voxel‑based competitors in detecting small objects and handling extreme sparsity with a smaller computational footprint.
By Xuanming Shang, Weijia Zhang, Chao Ma
SFVO is a stereo visual‑odometry framework that leverages pretrained stereo‑matching and optical‑flow models to obtain dense stereo and temporal correspondences. Rather than learning pose directly from images, it maps these correspondences into geometric constraints and predicts trustworthy points using decoupled confidence maps for rotation and translation. Experiments on both outdoor and indoor datasets show that SFVO delivers robust, accurate pose estimation with strong generalization, and the authors plan to release the code.
By Kai Zhang, Guoyang Zhao, Jun Ma
The paper introduces a geometry‑aware post‑detection framework that resolves overlapping plant instances in RGB UAV imagery by combining object detection with geometric clustering of plant components. It uses component centroids and radial intersection points (RIPs) to determine whether a detected region contains one or two plants, applying K‑means or Gaussian mixture models and density filtering to improve clustering accuracy. Evaluated on eggplant and tomato crops, the method achieved high F1‑scores (0.89 for eggplant, 0.75 for tomato) and demonstrated that geometric reasoning can enhance plant‑level interpretation without requiring additional sensors or retraining.
By Ik Jae Lee, Hieu D. Nguyen, Mahbubur Meenar, Carlos Morrison Martinez, Cameron Connelly
The paper presents MegaEvent, an event‑based visual place recognition system that remains robust to viewpoint changes. By converting five large‑scale geo‑tagged datasets into synthetic event streams and fine‑tuning a vision transformer with a multi‑loss function, MegaEvent achieves an average Recall@1 of 82% on three event‑based localization datasets, outperforming existing methods by 20 recall points. The authors also introduce the Springfield‑Event‑VPR dataset, a 3.7 km walking route recorded in three camera orientations, where MegaEvent surpasses the strongest baseline by 9 recall points.
By Adam D. Hines, Michael Milford, Tobias Fischer
XCalib is an unsupervised dense registration framework that aligns thermal and visible video streams by optimizing virtual pinhole camera parameters and predicted monocular depth, thereby restricting spatial displacements to physically valid projection geometries. It introduces a novel registration paradigm using camera parameterization as an implicit regularizer, a robust Normalized Edges Correlation (NEC) metric for cross‑spectral alignment, and demonstrates superior temporal stability and alignment accuracy on public ADAS datasets compared to unconstrained dense flow baselines.
By Aurelien Godet, Gabriel Jobert, Mauro Dalla Mura
The paper investigates how general vision‑language models (VLMs) develop specialized optical character recognition (OCR) capabilities. By applying a causal intervention protocol, the authors identify sparse, stable OCR‑head sets in several VLMs and show that these heads largely overlap with textual retrieval/copy heads found in general VLMs. The study concludes that full‑sequence OCR functions as a dense multimodal copy‑and‑paste mechanism, and that when a VLM is fine‑tuned for OCR, it largely preserves the same head identities while redistributing their functional and causal strengths.
By Yuanxiang Huangfu, Hanmeng Zhong, Linqing Chen, Jeffrey Tiong Jee Hui
The paper introduces Adaptive World Memory 3D Foundation Model (AWM-3DFM), a memory‑centric 3D foundation model that scales to large‑scale robotic localization, reconstruction, and Gaussian rendering. It employs transformer‑based gated updates, test‑time temporal‑spatial regulation, and local submap organization to maintain persistent memory, accuracy, and consistency across long image sequences. A Gaussian reconstruction head unifies pose estimation, dense point‑cloud reconstruction, and photorealistic rendering, achieving superior trajectory accuracy, reconstruction completeness, and rendering quality on public benchmarks and diverse robotic datasets.
By Tianchen Deng, Guole Shen, Yilin Shen, Wenhua Wu, Yilin Fang, Ziqi Ma, Tianjun Zhang, Shenghai Yuan, Wolfram Burgard, Hesheng Wang
The paper introduces an extension of the Decoupled Vision Transformer (DC‑ViT) to handle multi‑channel imaging (MCI) data, where each channel carries a distinct semantic signal. By tokenizing each channel separately and then decoupling intra‑channel from inter‑channel updates, the model preserves channel‑specific features. The authors further enable independent per‑channel masking by solving a linear assignment between retained patches, allowing masked training without restricting visible tokens. Experiments on fluorescence microscopy, imaging mass cytometry, and satellite imaging datasets demonstrate that this approach outperforms the strongest Multi‑Channel Vision Transformer baselines on both classification and dense‑prediction tasks.
By Umar Marikkar, Sameed Husain, Muhammad Awais, Sara Atito
The paper presents a traffic sign recognition system that extends YOLOv2 with a branched architecture and geometric feature integration. By adding intermediate prediction layers, the model can terminate inference early for easy cases, reducing computation time, while unsupervised Bayesian segmentation supplies geometric templates to improve classification of visually similar signs. Experiments on a combined GTSDB/GTSRB dataset show that the branched model achieves 0.680 mAP in 0.647 s, and adding geometric verification during inference raises mAP to 0.713.
By Arefeh Rezaei
arXiv:2609.21351v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Table extraction suffers from frequent structural errors and semantic hallucinations. We propose PrismAlign, a multi-VLM framework aligning diverse vis...
By Guangyi Liu, Qianjun Huang, Boyu Hou
arXiv:2609.21402v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Surgical instrument segmentation (SIS) plays a critical role in robotic assistance and surgical workflow analysis. However, most existing SIS methods f...
By Zhibo Zhang, Qijie Wang, Zengqiang Yan
arXiv:2609.21424v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Few-shot semantic segmentation (FSS) of strip steel surface defects (S$^3$D) has posed significant challenges distinct from natural scenes. Unlike natu...
By Qian Xu, Hang Xiong, Anpeng Wang, Sam Kwong, Cong Zhang, Runmin Cong
arXiv:2609.21412v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Medical image segmenters often get worse when sites, scanner vendors, or protocols change. Continual test-time adaptation (CTTA) addresses this problem...
By Ruijie Huang
arXiv:2510.24233v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Deep generative models are often trained on sensitive data, such as genetic sequences, health data, or more broadly, any copyrighted, licensed or p...
By Antoine Szatkownik (TAU, BioInfo), Aur\'elien Decelle (TAU), Beatriz Seoane (TAU), Nicolas B\'ereux (TAU), L\'eo Planche (BioInfo), Guillaume Charpiat (TAU), Burak Yelmen (BioInfo, TAU), Flora Jay (BioInfo, TAU), Cyril Furtlehner (TAU)
arXiv:2609.21597v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monocular 6-DoF pose estimation of non-cooperative targets is important for on-orbit servicing and debris removal. A single-image estimator can confuse...
By Andr\'e Lopo, Atabak Dehban, Rodrigo Ventura
The paper proposes a new approach to processing sonar data for remote sensing by using CSV-format data instead of traditional image-based representations. Experiments demonstrate a 91.18% reduction in processing time, improved accuracy of machine‑learning object detection, and higher signal‑to‑noise and peak‑signal‑to‑noise ratios.
By Logan Luna, Sirio Jansen-S\'anchez, Ilteris Demirkiran, Leo Ghelarducci
The paper introduces a Chinese competitive debating dataset and benchmark, comprising 148 fully adjudicated matches with 2,698 stages and 20,542 exchange units, all annotated by 120 professional judges using a shared rubric. It offers manually verified transcripts, segmentation, and preserved scores, votes, and rationales, enabling evaluation of large language models on winner-tendency prediction, stage-score prediction, and best-debater prediction. Zero‑shot experiments show the best models achieve 66.2% winner‑prediction accuracy, a 0.250 Pearson correlation for stage scores, and 56.8% best‑debater accuracy.
By Zongrui Yang, Haoyuan Li, Zhongsheng Wang, Zhirui Zeng, Pengqian Han, Yi Zhou, Yuting Wang, Jiamou Liu
The study evaluates automatic tooth segmentation on panoramic radiographs using a large annotated corpus of 1,422 images and 42,142 tooth polygons. It finds that increasing input resolution improves boundary precision (mask mAP50‑95 rises from 0.656 to 0.717) while detection performance remains unchanged, and that architectural changes have minimal impact on in‑domain accuracy. Targeted interventions such as LoRA adaptation, promptable foundation models, and anatomical label assignment provide negligible gains, indicating that resolution and acquisition diversity should be prioritized over model novelty.
By Muhammad Rehan, Moaz Amjad, Syed Danial Ahmed, Mariam Adnan, Haider Ali