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

Mining Beyond the Bools: Learning Data Transformations and Temporal Specifications

This paper proposes a novel approach to mining data-aware temporal specifications from execution traces by combining Syntax Guided Synthesis with a finite-prefix interpretation of Temporal Stream Logic (TSLf_f), enabling the robust and sample-efficient synthesis of reactive programs that capture both data transformations and temporal behaviors.

Sam Nicholas Kouteili, William Fishell, Christian Scaff, Mark Santolucito, Ruzica Piskac2026-03-10💻 cs

Dynamic Targeting of Satellite Observations Using Supplemental Geostationary Satellite Data and Hierarchical Planning

This paper proposes a hierarchical planning approach that integrates supplemental geostationary satellite data to extend lookahead horizons for Dynamic Targeting missions, demonstrating up to a 41% performance improvement over traditional onboard-only planners, particularly in scenarios with sparsely distributed targets.

Akseli Kangaslahti, Itai Zilberstein, Alberto Candela, Steve Chien2026-03-10💻 cs

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

Robotic Foundation Models for Industrial Control: A Comprehensive Survey and Readiness Assessment Framework

This paper surveys the landscape of robotic foundation models, identifies eleven key industrial implications to establish a 149-criteria assessment framework, and evaluates 324 models to reveal that current industrial readiness is limited and uneven, necessitating a shift from isolated benchmark successes to systematic integration of safety, real-time performance, and robust system deployment.

David Kube, Simon Hadwiger, Tobias Meisen2026-03-10💻 cs

Gradient-based Nested Co-Design of Aerodynamic Shape and Control for Winged Robots

This paper introduces a general-purpose, gradient-based nested co-design framework that jointly optimizes the aerodynamic shape and motion planner of winged robots using neural surrogate models for complex flow conditions, demonstrating superior performance and efficiency over evolutionary baselines in tasks like perching and short landing.

Daniele Affinita, Mingda Xu, Benoît Valentin Gherardi, Pascal Fua2026-03-10💻 cs

HiDE: Hierarchical Dictionary-Based Entropy Modeling for Learned Image Compression

The paper proposes HiDE, a hierarchical dictionary-based entropy modeling framework for learned image compression that enhances coding efficiency by decomposing external priors into global and local dictionaries with cascaded retrieval and employing a context-aware parameter estimator to achieve significant BD-rate savings over state-of-the-art methods.

Haoxuan Xiong, Yuanyuan Xu, Kun Zhu, Yiming Wang, Baoliu Ye2026-03-10💻 cs

Efficient Neighbourhood Search in 3D Point Clouds Through Space-Filling Curves and Linear Octrees

This paper presents a highly efficient method for 3D point cloud neighbourhood searching that combines Space-Filling Curves with a linear Octree structure and specialized algorithms, achieving up to 10×\times faster performance and significant cache miss reductions compared to existing solutions while demonstrating strong parallel scalability.

Pablo D. Viñambres, Miguel Yermo, Silvia R. Alcaraz, Oscar G. Lorenzo, Francisco F. Rivera, José C. Cabaleiro2026-03-10💻 cs