Explainable Deepfake Detection with Feature-robust Augmentation and Evidence-grounded Explanation Optimization proposes a new framework that improves deepfake detection and interpretability. The approach introduces Feature-robust Augmentation—diversified degradation-aware strategies combined with supervised contrastive learning and a mean-teacher architecture—to maintain accuracy on low-quality images. For explanations, it employs evidence-grounded preference optimization, guiding the model to focus on genuine manipulation traces by learning from chosen-rejected explanation pairs that omit evidence or inject irrelevant details. The method achieved first place in the ACM Multimedia 2026 Explainable Deepfake Detection Challenge and is publicly available on GitHub.
By Zhu Xu, Jiaqi Tang, Pokai Chen, Yuxin Peng, Yang Liu
arXiv:2608.21247v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Token compression has become a key technique for reducing the inference cost of large foundation models, with approaches such as token pruning and KV-c...
By Zhuoyuan Li, Rui Zhao, Jin Wang, Hanwei Zhu, Cong Zhang, Giuseppe Valenzise, Weisi Lin, Kin-Man Lam
arXiv:2607.15218v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) increasingly serve as high-level planners for embodied agents, where linguistically benign instructions can become uns...
By Weimeng Wang, Ziqiang Wang, Zihang Zhan, Chuanpu Fu, Qi Li, Ke Xu
arXiv:2505.18930v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Early weed identification is crucial for effective management and control, and researchers, agronomists, and technology developers are increa...
By Yanben Shen, Timilehin T. Ayanlade, Venkata Naresh Boddepalli, Mojdeh Saadati, Ashlyn Rairdin, Zi K. Deng, Muhammad Arbab Arshad, Aditya Balu, Daren Mueller, Asheesh K Singh, Wesley Everman, Nirav Merchant, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Meaghan Anderson, Soumik Sarkar, Arti Singh
The paper presents the first real‑world 6D pose ground‑truth dataset for red‑stage strawberries, collected from 12,040 images at an actual farm using indirect camera pose recovery and 3D bounding‑box annotation. It also introduces a synthetic dataset rendered in NVIDIA Isaac Sim with scene‑level realism and domain randomization. Experiments show that models trained solely on synthetic data do not transfer well to in‑field images, but adding a small amount of real data significantly improves both translation and rotation accuracy across various backbone encoders.
By Woojung Son (Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida), Won Suk Lee (Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida), Zijing Huang (Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida), Daeun Choi (Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Florida), Catia Silva (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida), Yu She (Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering, Purdue University), Yan Gu (School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University)
The paper introduces Driving with DINO (DwD), a framework that uses Vision Foundation Module (VFM) features to bridge simulation and real-world domains for autonomous driving video generation. It addresses the consistency‑realism dilemma by projecting VFM features onto a principal subspace, dropping high‑frequency texture elements, and applying a Random Channel Tail Drop to preserve structural detail. Additional components— a learnable Spatial Alignment Module and a Causal Temporal Aggregator— enhance control precision, spatial alignment, and temporal stability, reducing motion blur and ensuring realistic, consistent outputs.
By Xuyang Chen, Conglang Zhang, Chuanheng Fu, Zihao Yang, Kaixuan Zhou, Yizhi Zhang, Yanfeng Zhang, Mingwei Sun, Zhen Dong, Xiaoxiao Long, Zengmao Wang, Liqiu Meng
arXiv:2608.21099v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Multi-modal object detection is essential for robust scene understanding in challenging conditions, including low-light and adverse environments. Rec...
By Jiekang Feng, Zhihe Fan, Yunqi Zhu, Xinjie Yao, Yueying Zhang, Yike Gao, Ranxin Li, Guanzuo Chen
The paper introduces a multi‑modal traffic sign detection framework that fuses camera and LiDAR data using an Intensity‑Aware Deformable Fusion module to align retro‑reflective LiDAR cues with visual features. It also presents a dual motion‑model tracker to handle non‑linear perspective changes and a semantic attribute classification pipeline that estimates occlusion, readability, sign embeddedness, and road relevance. Evaluated on a dataset covering more than 60 countries and 2,500 hours of driving, the system achieves an Object Miss Ratio of 0.49% across 221,068 sequences, indicating strong global generalization for autonomous driving.
By Meda Lazar, Sourab Sridhar, Shashwata Gupta, Alexandra Tripcea, Varun Ravi, Senthil Yogamani
Nonverbal behavior generation systems for virtual agents often take an utterance as input and generate nonverbal behaviors that emphasize or illustrate the content of the verbal channel. However, huma...
Recent vision-language models (VLMs) show strong capabilities in robotic perception and spatial reasoning, yet their ability to reason about complex mechanical assemblies remains underexplored. We int...
World models enable agents to reason about future outcomes and learn policies from their knowledge of state transition, but existing approaches primarily focus on reconstructing future observations or...
arXiv:2608. 19964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous driving systems must operate under partial observability, where safety-critical objects may be occluded or visible only to neighboring connected vehicles.
By Bhavya Gupta, Onat Gungor, Tajana Rosing
arXiv:2510. 25960v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this paper, we present a framework that uses acoustic side-channel analysis (ASCA) to monitor and verify whether a robot correctly executes its intended commands.
By Zeynep Yasemin Erdogan, Shishir Nagaraja, Chuadhry Mujeeb Ahmed, Ryan Shah
arXiv:2606. 29786v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: 3D scene graphs (3DSGs) provide a compact and structured abstraction of 3D environments.
By Yirum Kim, Ue-Hwan Kim
arXiv:2608. 20208v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Offline reinforcement learning improves robotic policies using previously collected data without further environment interaction.
By Shaoxuan Wang, Guangting Zheng, Rui Huang, Zhipeng Tang, Sha Zhang, Jiajun Deng, Yanyong Zhang
arXiv:2608. 19866v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper presents a novel data-driven approach to camera-based autonomy for micro-drones in GPS-denied, radio-challenging indoor environments.
By Niklas Voigt, Hartmut Surmann
arXiv:2608. 18900v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As AI systems are increasingly deployed in safety-critical application domains (e.
By Arooj Arif, Tobias Hartung, Elena Botoeva, Alexandros Koliousis
arXiv:2608. 19776v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current dexterous grasp planners primarily optimize for physical stability, focusing on whether an object can be grasped rather than how it should be grasped to support downstream functional tasks.
By Julien Merand, Boris Meden, Liming Chen, Mathieu Grossard
arXiv:2608. 20231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The standard objection to full automation is demand-side: if humans earn nothing, who buys the output?
By Sahil Sharma
arXiv:2608. 20087v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Humanoid robots have recently demonstrated promising capabilities in real-world ball sports.
By Tao Huang, Ruofei Liu, Xuchen Tang, Xinyin Zhang, Junli Ren, Huayi Wang, Feiyu Jia, Yukai Qi, Kangning Yin, Weishuai Zeng, Lipeng Chen, Xi Li, Ting Wu, Kailin Li, Ruoli Dai, Jingbo Wang, Lei Han, Jiangmiao Pang