RADAR: A Multimodal Benchmark for 3D Image-Based Radiology Report Review

The paper introduces RADAR, a multimodal benchmark comprising expert-annotated 3D abdominal CT scans and radiology report edits that enables the systematic evaluation of AI models on fine-grained clinical reasoning tasks, specifically image-text alignment and discrepancy assessment during the radiology report review process.

Zhaoyi Sun, Minal Jagtiani, Wen-wai Yim, Fei Xia, Martin Gunn, Meliha Yetisgen, Asma Ben Abacha2026-03-10💻 cs

ECHO: Event-Centric Hypergraph Operations via Multi-Agent Collaboration for Multimedia Event Extraction

The paper proposes ECHO, a multi-agent framework that utilizes iterative hypergraph operations and a "Link-then-Bind" strategy to mitigate cascading errors in Multimedia Event Extraction, achieving significant performance improvements over state-of-the-art methods on the M2E2 benchmark.

Hailong Chu, Shuo Zhang, Yunlong Chu, Shutai Huang, Xingyue Zhang, Tinghe Yan, Jinsong Zhang, Lei Li2026-03-10💻 cs

TimeSpot: Benchmarking Geo-Temporal Understanding in Vision-Language Models in Real-World Settings

This paper introduces TimeSpot, a comprehensive benchmark comprising 1,455 real-world images from 80 countries designed to evaluate the limited geo-temporal reasoning capabilities of current vision-language models in predicting location, time, and environmental context from visual evidence alone.

Azmine Toushik Wasi, Shahriyar Zaman Ridoy, Koushik Ahamed Tonmoy, Kinga Tshering, S. M. Muhtasimul Hasan, Wahid Faisal, Tasnim Mohiuddin, Md Rizwan Parvez2026-03-10💬 cs.CL

High-Resolution Image Reconstruction with Unsupervised Learning and Noisy Data Applied to Ion-Beam Dynamics for Particle Accelerators

This paper presents an unsupervised learning framework utilizing convolutional filtering and neural networks with optimized early-stopping to achieve robust, high-fidelity reconstruction of ion-beam emittance images from noisy data, enabling unprecedented halo resolution beyond seven standard deviations for particle accelerator diagnostics.

Francis Osswald (IPHC), Mohammed Chahbaoui (UNISTRA), Xinyi Liang (SU)2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Spectral Gaps and Spatial Priors: Studying Hyperspectral Downstream Adaptation Using TerraMind

This study evaluates the adaptability of the TerraMind geospatial foundation model to hyperspectral imaging tasks without native pretraining, finding that while band selection strategies allow for moderate performance, deep learning models with native spectral support remain superior, thereby highlighting the critical need for future architectures to incorporate native spectral tokenization.

Julia Anna Leonardi, Johannes Jakubik, Paolo Fraccaro, Maria Antonia Brovelli2026-03-10💻 cs

Soft Equivariance Regularization for Invariant Self-Supervised Learning

This paper proposes Soft Equivariance Regularization (SER), a lightweight, plug-in method that decouples invariance and equivariance objectives by enforcing equivariance on intermediate spatial features while preserving invariance on the final embedding, thereby improving both linear evaluation accuracy and robustness to geometric perturbations without requiring auxiliary heads or transformation labels.

Joohyung Lee, Changhun Kim, Hyunsu Kim, Kwanhyung Lee, Juho Lee2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

HARP: HARmonizing in-vivo diffusion MRI using Phantom-only training

This paper introduces HARP, a deep learning framework that harmonizes multi-site in-vivo diffusion MRI data by training exclusively on easily transportable phantom scans, thereby eliminating the need for impractical multi-site human cohorts while significantly reducing inter-scanner variability.

Hwihun Jeong, Qiang Liu, Kathryn E. Keenan, Elisabeth A. Wilde, Walter Schneider, Sudhir Pathak, Anthony Zuccolotto, Lauren J. O'Donnell, Lipeng Ning, Yogesh Rathi2026-03-10💻 cs

Thinking with Gaze: Sequential Eye-Tracking as Visual Reasoning Supervision for Medical VLMs

This paper introduces a method that enhances medical Vision-Language Models by using sequential eye-tracking data as supervision to train dedicated gaze tokens, enabling the models to mimic radiologists' visual search patterns and achieve state-of-the-art performance in both in-domain and out-of-domain medical reasoning tasks.

Yiwei Li, Zihao Wu, Yanjun Lv, Hanqi Jiang, Weihang You, Zhengliang Liu, Dajiang Zhu, Xiang Li, Quanzheng Li, Tianming Liu, Lin Zhao2026-03-10💻 cs

Asymmetric Distillation and Information Retention in Capacity-Constrained Cross-Modal Transfer

This paper investigates the severe dimensional collapse and resulting robustness fragility that occur when distilling a large Vision Transformer into capacity-constrained CNNs, revealing that while larger student models pack information densely but lose noise immunity, extremely small models act as robust low-pass filters due to fundamental geometric limitations in asymmetric cross-modal transfer.

Kabir Thayani2026-03-10💻 cs

SIQA: Toward Reliable Scientific Image Quality Assessment

This paper introduces the SIQA framework, which redefines scientific image quality assessment by distinguishing between perceptual alignment and scientific correctness, and demonstrates through a new benchmark that current multimodal models often achieve high scoring consistency with experts while lacking genuine scientific understanding.

Wenzhe Li, Liang Chen, Junying Wang, Yijing Guo, Ye Shen, Farong Wen, Chunyi Li, Zicheng Zhang, Guangtao Zhai2026-03-10💻 cs

On the Generalization Capacities of MLLMs for Spatial Intelligence

This paper argues that RGB-only Multimodal Large Language Models fail to generalize across different cameras due to entangled perspective and object properties, and proposes a Camera-Aware MLLM framework that integrates camera intrinsics, augmented data, and 3D geometric priors to achieve robust, generalizable spatial intelligence.

Gongjie Zhang, Wenhao Li, Quanhao Qian, Jiuniu Wang, Deli Zhao, Shijian Lu, Ran Xu2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

UWPD: A General Paradigm for Invisible Watermark Detection Agnostic to Embedding Algorithms

This paper introduces Universal Watermark Presence Detection (UWPD), a novel task for identifying invisible watermarks without prior algorithm knowledge, supported by the UniFreq-100K dataset and the Frequency Shield Network (FSNet) model that achieves superior zero-shot detection by dynamically amplifying high-frequency watermark signals while suppressing semantic content.

Xiang Ao, Yiling Du, Zidan Wang, Mengru Chen2026-03-10💻 cs

HERO: Hierarchical Embedding-Refinement for Open-Vocabulary Temporal Sentence Grounding in Videos

This paper introduces the Open-Vocabulary Temporal Sentence Grounding (OV-TSGV) task with new benchmarks (Charades-OV and ActivityNet-OV) and proposes HERO, a hierarchical embedding-refinement framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance by effectively generalizing to novel linguistic expressions through multi-level semantic modeling and cross-modal refinement.

Tingting Han, Xinsong Tao, Yufei Yin, Min Tan, Sicheng Zhao, Zhou Yu2026-03-10💻 cs

Vessel-Aware Deep Learning for OCTA-Based Detection of AMD

This paper proposes a vessel-aware deep learning framework for detecting age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in OCTA images by integrating external multiplicative attention with clinically meaningful vascular biomarkers, specifically tortuosity and dropout maps, to guide the model toward physiologically relevant regions and improve interpretability.

Margalit G. Mitzner, Moinak Bhattacharya, Zhilin Zou, Chao Chen, Prateek Prasanna2026-03-10💻 cs