A Novel Evolutionary Method for Automated Skull-Face Overlay in Computer-Aided Craniofacial Superimposition

This paper presents Lilium, an automated evolutionary method that enhances the accuracy and robustness of craniofacial superimposition by modeling soft-tissue variability with a 3D cone-based representation optimized via Differential Evolution while enforcing multiple anatomical and photographic constraints.

Práxedes Martínez-Moreno, Andrea Valsecchi, Pablo Mesejo + 3 more2026-03-04🤖 cs.AI

GLIDE-Reg: Global-to-Local Deformable Registration Using Co-Optimized Foundation and Handcrafted Features

GLIDE-Reg is a robust deformable registration method that jointly optimizes a registration field with a learnable dimensionality reduction module to fuse global semantic cues from foundation models with local handcrafted descriptors, achieving state-of-the-art performance in anatomical alignment and nodule tracking across diverse medical imaging cohorts.

Yunzheng Zhu, Aichi Chien, Kimaya kulkarni + 5 more2026-03-04⚡ eess

BornoViT: A Novel Efficient Vision Transformer for Bengali Handwritten Basic Characters Classification

The paper introduces BornoViT, a novel and highly efficient lightweight Vision Transformer model with only 0.65 million parameters that achieves 95.77% accuracy on the BanglaLekha dataset for classifying Bengali handwritten characters and digits, offering a resource-friendly alternative to computationally expensive state-of-the-art models.

Rafi Hassan Chowdhury, Naimul Haque, Kaniz Fatiha2026-03-04🤖 cs.LG

ShiftLUT: Spatial Shift Enhanced Look-Up Tables for Efficient Image Restoration

ShiftLUT is an efficient image restoration framework that achieves a significantly larger receptive field and improved performance over state-of-the-art methods by integrating a Learnable Spatial Shift module, an asymmetric dual-branch architecture, and an Error-bounded Adaptive Sampling compression strategy, all while maintaining low storage and inference costs suitable for edge devices.

Xiaolong Zeng, Yitong Yu, Shiyao Xiong + 4 more2026-03-04💻 cs

Learning to Weigh Waste: A Physics-Informed Multimodal Fusion Framework and Large-Scale Dataset for Commercial and Industrial Applications

This paper introduces the Multimodal Weight Predictor (MWP) framework and the Waste-Weight-10K dataset to accurately estimate commercial and industrial waste weight by fusing RGB images with physics-informed metadata through a Vision Transformer and Stacked Mutual Attention, achieving high precision across a wide weight range while providing human-readable explanations via SHAP and large language models.

Md. Adnanul Islam, Wasimul Karim, Md Mahbub Alam + 7 more2026-03-04💻 cs