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arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Localization-Infused Vision-Language Semantic Fusion for Text-Guided Medical Image Segmentation

The paper introduces LoG, a localization‑infused vision‑language fusion framework for text‑guided medical image segmentation. LoG jointly performs multi‑scale target localization to explicitly capture target‑oriented semantics and employs three levels of localization‑infused fusion—feature, attention, and loss—to integrate spatial information into segmentation. Experiments on three benchmark datasets across three imaging modalities show that LoG consistently outperforms state‑of‑the‑art methods.

By Songyue Han, Mingye Zou, Shuchang Ye, Lei Bi, Mingyuan Meng
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

CHIMERA Challenge: Biochemical Recurrence Prediction in Prostate Cancer Patients using multimodal datasets

arXiv:2608.21497v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biochemical recurrence (BCR), defined as any detectable prostate-specific antigen level after prostatectomy with confirmatory elevation, is widely us...

By Robert N. Spaans, Catherine Chia, Tongjie Wang, Adam Kowalewski, Parandzem Khachatryan, Domingos Oliveira, Khrystyna Faryna, Jean-Paul A. van Basten, Geert Litjens, Nadieh Khalili
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

Predicting Multiple Clinical Outcomes Related to Functional Recovery and Social Isolation Among Older Adults After Lower-Limb Fracture or Hip Replacement

arXiv:2608.23531v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Older adults recovering after lower-limb fracture or hip replacement may experience complex recovery trajectories. Most of the time, these clinical asp...

By Santosh Ray, Pratik K. Mishra, Ali Abedi, Charlene H. Chu, Amir Ahmad, Shehroz S. Khan
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

DRAgent: Discriminative Reasoning Agent for Referring Expression Segmentation

DRAgent introduces a discriminative reasoning framework for Referring Expression Segmentation that replaces direct coordinate prediction with a two‑stage selection process. First, a detector generates candidate boxes; then a multimodal large language model (MLLM) discriminates the correct target through high‑recall screening and instance‑wise verification. The chosen box serves as a spatial prompt for a foundation segmentation model, and a self‑consistency‑filtered data pipeline is used for LoRA‑based fine‑tuning, yielding competitive results on RefCOCO, RefCOCO+, and RefCOCOg.

By Yujie Qi, Luyan Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 25

VERDICT: Agreement Beats Pixel-Space Verification in Real-Document OCSR

The paper introduces VERDICT, a method for validating optical chemical structure recognition (OCSR) outputs by leveraging agreement among multiple recognizers rather than pixel‑space re‑rendering. On 263 ACS journal images, agreement achieved an AUROC of 0.916, far surpassing the 0.547 AUROC of re‑rendering similarity. VERDICT was applied to PMC Open Access, yielding over 6,000 high‑precision structure labels, and is integrated into SES AI’s Molecular Universe platform for image‑based molecular search.

By Yani Guan, Dengpan Dong, Shuang Luo, Zi Wei, Joah Han, Dan Hannah, Yumin Zhang, Qichao Hu, Kang Xu
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Beyond RGB: Benchmarking and Enhancing MLLMs for Hyperspectral Image Understanding via Training-Free Reasoning Framework

arXiv:2604.08884v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance on RGB image understanding, yet their ability to use spectral evide...

By Xinyu Zhang, Zurong Mai, Qingmei Li, Xiaoya Fan, Zjin Liao, Haoyuan Liang, Yibin Wen, Yuhang Chen, Chan Tsz Ho, Bi Tianyuan, Ruifeng Su, Zihao Qiang, Juepeng Zheng, Jianxi Huang, Yutong Lu, Haohuan Fu
arXiv AI
Aug 25

RACO: Reliability-Aware Coarse-Goal Optimization for Inspection-Oriented UAV Vision-Language Navigation

The paper introduces RACO, a reliability‑aware adaptive coarse‑to‑fine navigation framework for inspection‑oriented UAV vision‑language navigation. It treats the coarse goal as a runtime hypothesis, using object‑level anchors to correct localization before and at the transition to the fine stage, and applies scale‑adaptive terminal refinement for near‑miss cases. RACO is evaluated on the new LG‑UVI inspection setting and outperforms the HETT baseline by 9.53 and 7.98 percentage points on validation‑unseen and test‑unseen, respectively, while improving inspection‑region arrival and reducing false verification risk.

By Sen Wang, Yiming Sun, Jiaxuan He, Pengfei Zhu
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Training-Free VLM Personalization via Calibrated Residual Decoding

The paper introduces a training‑free method for personalizing vision‑language models by using calibrated residual decoding. It constructs three evidence conditions—positive, counterfactual, and empty profiles—to isolate the true contribution of personalization. Normalized‑entropy calibration adjusts the influence of this residual signal based on its uncertainty, improving identity‑sensitive visual personalization without fine‑tuning.

By Jiaao Yu, Yujian Ma, Xianming Hu, Pengran Wang, Ang Li
arXiv AI
Aug 25

Towards Safer Social Media Platforms: Scalable and Performant Few-Shot Harmful Content Moderation Using Large Language Models

The paper presents a scalable approach to harmful content moderation on social media by leveraging large language models (LLMs) for few-shot, in-context learning. Experiments across multiple LLMs show that this method outperforms proprietary baselines such as Perspective and OpenAI Moderation, as well as prior few-shot learning techniques, in detecting harmful content. The study also explores the addition of visual cues like video thumbnails to assess multimodal improvements, highlighting the advantages of LLM-based moderation for dynamic and large-scale content filtering.

By Akash Bonagiri, Lucen Li, Rajvardhan Oak, Zeerak Babar, Magdalena Wojcieszak, Anshuman Chhabra
arXiv AI
Aug 25

MetaCaster: Meta-Harness-Optimized Agent for End-to-End Few-Shot Learning of Lightweight Time Series Forecasters

MetaCaster is a meta-harness-optimized multi-agent framework that enables few-shot learning for lightweight time series forecasters. It uses agentic data generation to automatically train specialized forecasters from only a few examples and textual contexts, positioning agents as intermediary engineers rather than direct forecasters. Experiments on 18 datasets and 23 lightweight forecasters show that MetaCaster achieves data and computational efficiency while maintaining high forecasting quality.

By ChengAo Shen, Wenchao Yu, Fangyu Wu, Dongjin Song, Hanghang Tong, Dongsheng Luo, Wei Cheng, Haifeng Chen, Jingchao Ni
arXiv AI
Aug 25

From Recognition to Reasoning: Advancing Multimodal Harmful Meme Detection via Chain-of-Thought Alignment

The paper introduces MemeMind, a large-scale dataset for detecting harmful memes that includes a detailed taxonomy and Chain-of-Thought reasoning annotations. It also proposes MemeGuard, a multimodal framework that uses a three-stage training strategy to improve visual understanding, reasoning, and discrimination of harmful content. Experiments show MemeGuard surpasses current state-of-the-art methods on MemeMind, advancing detection accuracy and interpretability.

By Hexiang Gu, Qifan Yu, Yuan Liu, Zikang Li, Saihui Hou, Jian Zhao, Zhaofeng He