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Vision-language models, speech and cross-modal systems that read, look and listen in the same forward pass.

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arXiv AI
Aug 25

GuardianBench: A Same-Scene Instruction-Contrastive Benchmark for Latent Contextual Risk in Embodied AI

arXiv:2608.21928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In embodied AI, safety risk can be latent: a benign instruction and a safe scene become hazardous only when composed. Prior work has advanced embodied...

By Zhesheng Zhang, Jiahao Lu, Wei Liu, Cong Pan, Jianhua Yang, Yixiang Chen, Hongyuan Yu, Mengqi Zhang, Kailin Lyu, Zhumin Chen, Keji He
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Evaluation of Small Vision-Language Models on Qualitative Mechanical Problems

arXiv:2608.22143v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Qualitative mechanical problem-solving (QMPS) refers to solving qualitative problems from the mechanical domain. Qualitative problems can be solved wit...

By Henry Fordjour Ansah (Louisiana State University of New Orleans), Shreya Banerjee (Louisiana State University of New Orleans), Pranish Ghimire (Louisiana State University of New Orleans)
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Region-Weighted Losses and Model Fusion for Cross-Modal PET Attenuation Correction

The paper presents a method for the BIC-MAC challenge, aiming to generate pseudo‑CT images from NAC‑PET, DIXON MRI, and a topogram, and to evaluate both the pseudo‑CT and the resulting attenuation‑corrected PET. The authors improve upon a 3D U‑Net baseline by focusing on loss design: they compute an L1 error in the Carney attenuation‑coefficient space, weighted by anatomical region, and incorporate DIXON MRI as additional input only after this loss was applied. Finally, they fuse two independently trained models via a fixed convex combination, achieving better performance than either model alone and topping the public validation leaderboard.

By Khoa Tuan Nguyen, Joris Vankerschaver, Wesley De Neve
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Object-Uni: A Unified Model for Object-Centric Spatial Understanding and Controllable Generation

Object-Uni is a unified model that integrates pose perception, spatial reasoning, pose-conditioned generation, and novel view synthesis for object-centric spatial understanding and controllable image generation. It treats object pose as an explicit geometric variable shared across tasks and introduces a viewpoint-based orientation abstraction to make pose interpretable by multimodal large language models. The authors also create a new benchmark, UniSpatial-80K, and demonstrate that Object‑Uni improves both pose understanding and pose‑controllable generation compared to existing models.

By Mining Tan, Yinuo Wang, Ziqi Zhou, Weize Quan, Sifei Li, Jingdong Chen, DanDan Zheng, Libin Wang, Weiming Dong