MotionBits: Video Segmentation through Motion-Level Analysis of Rigid Bodies

This paper introduces MotionBits, a novel concept and learning-free segmentation method that identifies the smallest manipulable rigid bodies through kinematic spatial twist equivalence, outperforming state-of-the-art embodied perception models on the new MoRiBo benchmark and enabling more effective downstream robotic manipulation and reasoning tasks.

Howard H. Qian, Kejia Ren, Yu Xiang, Vicente Ordonez, Kaiyu Hang2026-03-10💻 cs

Active View Selection with Perturbed Gaussian Ensemble for Tomographic Reconstruction

This paper introduces Perturbed Gaussian Ensemble, an active view selection framework for sparse-view CT that leverages stochastic density scaling of uncertain Gaussian primitives to identify high-variance projections, thereby significantly improving reconstruction fidelity and reducing geometric artifacts compared to existing methods.

Yulun Wu, Ruyi Zha, Wei Cao, Yingying Li, Yuanhao Cai, Yaoyao Liu2026-03-10💻 cs

IGLU: The Integrated Gaussian Linear Unit Activation Function

This paper introduces IGLU, a novel parametric activation function derived from a scale mixture of GELU gates that utilizes a Cauchy CDF to provide heavy-tailed gradient properties and robustness against vanishing gradients, alongside a computationally efficient rational approximation (IGLU-Approx) that achieves competitive or superior performance across vision and language tasks compared to standard baselines like ReLU and GELU.

Mingi Kang, Zai Yang, Jeova Farias Sales Rocha Neto2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Small Target Detection Based on Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion of Visible and Infrared Remote Sensing Images

This paper introduces ESM-YOLO+, a lightweight visible-infrared fusion network that employs a Mask-Enhanced Attention Fusion module and training-time Structural Representation enhancement to achieve high-precision small-target detection in complex remote sensing scenes while significantly reducing model complexity compared to baselines.

Qianqian Zhang, Xiaolong Jia, Ahmed M. Abdelmoniem, Li Zhou, Junshe An2026-03-10💻 cs

HIERAMP: Coarse-to-Fine Autoregressive Amplification for Generative Dataset Distillation

This paper proposes HIERAMP, a method that leverages the coarse-to-fine generation capability of Vision Autoregressive (VAR) models to amplify hierarchical semantics through dynamic class token injection, thereby improving dataset distillation performance by better capturing object structures and details without explicitly optimizing global proximity.

Lin Zhao, Xinru Jiang, Xi Xiao, Qihui Fan, Lei Lu, Yanzhi Wang, Xue Lin, Octavia Camps, Pu Zhao, Jianyang Gu2026-03-10💻 cs

Extracting and analyzing 3D histomorphometric features related to perineural and lymphovascular invasion in prostate cancer

This study presents a 3D histomorphometric analysis pipeline using nnU-Net segmentation on optically cleared prostatectomy specimens to extract features related to perineural and lymphovascular invasion, demonstrating that 3D perineural invasion features significantly outperform their 2D counterparts in predicting 5-year biochemical recurrence in prostate cancer.

Sarah S. L. Chow, Rui Wang, Robert B. Serafin, Yujie Zhao, Elena Baraznenok, Xavier Farré, Jennifer Salguero-Lopez, Gan Gao, Huai-Ching Hsieh, Lawrence D. True, Priti Lal, Anant Madabhushi, Jonathan T. C. Liu2026-03-10💻 cs

Virtual Intraoperative CT (viCT): Sequential Anatomic Updates for Modeling Tissue Resection Throughout Endoscopic Sinus Surgery

This paper introduces Virtual Intraoperative CT (viCT), a method that sequentially updates preoperative CT scans during endoscopic sinus surgery by integrating monocular endoscopic video-derived 3D reconstructions to visualize evolving tissue resection boundaries with submillimeter accuracy, thereby addressing the limitations of static image guidance.

Nicole M. Gunderson, Graham J. Harris, Jeremy S. Ruthberg, Pengcheng Chen, Di Mao, Randall A. Bly, Waleed M. Abuzeid, Eric J. Seibel2026-03-10💻 cs

Conditional Unbalanced Optimal Transport Maps: An Outlier-Robust Framework for Conditional Generative Modeling

This paper introduces Conditional Unbalanced Optimal Transport Maps (CUOTM), a robust conditional generative framework that mitigates the outlier sensitivity of classical Conditional Optimal Transport by relaxing distribution-matching constraints via Csiszár divergence penalties while preserving conditioning marginals through a theoretically justified triangular cc-transform parameterization.

Jiwoo Yoon, Kyumin Choi, Jaewoong Choi2026-03-10🤖 cs.LG

Optimizing Multi-Modal Models for Image-Based Shape Retrieval: The Role of Pre-Alignment and Hard Contrastive Learning

This paper proposes a novel approach to image-based shape retrieval that leverages pre-aligned multi-modal encoders and a hard contrastive learning loss to achieve state-of-the-art performance in both zero-shot and supervised settings, eliminating the need for explicit view-based supervision or view synthesis.

Paul Julius Kühn, Cedric Spengler, Michael Weinmann, Arjan Kuijper, Saptarshi Neil Sinha2026-03-10💻 cs

Perception-Aware Multimodal Spatial Reasoning from Monocular Images

This paper proposes a perception-aware multimodal reasoning framework that enhances Vision-Language Models' spatial understanding in monocular driving scenarios by representing objects with Visual Reference Tokens and utilizing a Multimodal Chain-of-Thought dataset, achieving significant performance gains on the SURDS benchmark through standard supervised fine-tuning.

Yanchun Cheng, Rundong Wang, Xulei Yang, Alok Prakash, Daniela Rus, Marcelo H Ang Jr, ShiJie Li2026-03-10💻 cs