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Free-Viewpoint Video (FVV) enables immersive 3D experiences, but efficient compression of dynamic 3D representation remains a major challenge. Existing dynamic 3D Gaussian Splatting methods couple reconstruction with optimization-dependent compression and customized motion formats, limiting generalization and standardization. To address this, we propose D-FCGS, a novel Feedforward Compression framework for Dynamic Gaussian Splatting. Key innovations include: (1) a standardized Group-of-Frames (GoF) structure with I-P coding, leveraging sparse control points to extract inter-frame motion tensors; (2) a dual prior-aware entropy model that fuses hyperprior and spatial-temporal priors for accurate rate estimation; (3) a control-point-guided motion compensation mechanism and refinement network to enhance view-consistent fidelity. Trained on Gaussian frames derived from multi-view videos, D-FCGS generalizes across diverse scenes in a zero-shot fashion. Experiments show that it matches the rate-distortion performance of optimization-based methods, achieving over 40 times compression compared to the baseline while preserving visual quality across viewpoints. This work advances feedforward compression of dynamic 3DGS, facilitating scalable FVV transmission and storage for immersive applications.

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D-FCGS: Feedforward Compression of Dynamic Gaussian Splatting for Free-Viewpoint Videos

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Multimodal pretraining has revolutionized visual understanding, but its impact on video-based person re-identification (ReID) remains underexplored. Existing approaches often rely on video-text pairs, yet suffer from two fundamental limitations: (1) lack of genuine multimodal pretraining, and (2) text poorly captures fine-grained temporal motion—an essential cue for distinguishing identities in video.
In this work, we take a bold departure from text-based paradigms by introducing the first skeleton-driven pretraining framework for ReID.
To achieve this, we propose Contrastive Skeleton-Image Pretraining for ReID (CSIP-ReID), a novel two-stage method that leverages skeleton sequences as a spatiotemporally informative modality aligned with video frames. In the first stage, we employ contrastive learning to align skeleton and visual features at sequence level. In the second stage, we introduce a dynamic Prototype Fusion Updater (PFU) to refine multimodal identity prototypes, fusing motion and appearance cues. Moreover, we propose a Skeleton Guided Temporal Modeling (SGTM) module that distills temporal cues from skeleton data and integrates them into visual features. Extensive experiments demonstrate that CSIP-ReID achieves new state-of-the-art results on standard video ReID benchmarks (MARS, LS-VID, iLIDS-VID). 
Moreover, it exhibits strong generalization to skeleton-only ReID tasks (BIWI, IAS), significantly outperforming previous methods.
CSIP-ReID pioneers an annotation-free and motion-aware pretraining paradigm for ReID, opening a new frontier in multimodal representation learning.

Skeletons Speak Louder than Text: A Motion-Aware Pretraining Paradigm for Video-Based Person Re-Identification

Despite being trained on balanced datasets, existing deepfake detectors often exhibit systematic bias at test time, frequently misclassifying fake images as real. We hypothesize that this behavior stems from distributional shifts in fake samples and implicit priors learned during training. Specifically, models tend to overfit to superficial artifacts that do not generalize well across different generation methods, leading to a misaligned decision threshold when faced with test-time distribution shifts. To address this, we propose a theoretically grounded post-hoc calibration framework based on Bayesian decision theory. Specifically, we introduce a learnable scalar correction to the model’s logits, optimized on a small validation set from the target distribution while keeping the backbone frozen. This parametric adjustment compensates for distributional shifts in model output, realigning the decision boundary without requiring ground-truth labels. Experiments on challenging benchmarks show that our approach significantly improves robustness without retraining, offering a lightweight and principled solution to threshold miscalibration in deepfake detection. Our code will be released.

Your AI-Generated Image Detector Can Secretly Achieve SOTA Accuracy, If Calibrated

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various tasks, but often struggle to apply newly introduced visual concepts during inference. A common failure pattern is what we call Mixing Things Up: VLMs frequently confuse concept names, resulting in vague descriptions and failure to ground the concept correctly. Existing approaches mainly address person-related concepts through text prompts or tokenizer modifications. However, VLMs still miss or misinterpret untrained visual concepts, underscoring the need to learn new concepts directly from visual input, without relying on prior textual injection. To overcome these limitations, we propose BISCUIT (Basis-aligned Inference through Structured Concept Unification and Identification-aware Tuning), a two-step training method. Step I proposes a dual-stream structure-aware vision encoder that fuses RGB and edge-based embeddings within a shared basis space to enhance concept recognition. Step II enhances generation quality through identification-aware tuning, which encourages alignment between the generated text and the newly introduced visual concepts. Existing methods mainly focus on person concepts and lack comprehensive evaluation across diverse visual categories. We further propose a benchmark BiscuitVQA to evaluate VLMs performance on recognizing and applying novel image-introduced concepts across diverse concept types and task types, including real people, cartoons, animals, and symbolic content. We apply BISCUIT to LLaVA-1.5 and Qwen2.5-VL, achieving competitive results among open-source models and narrowing the gap to Gemini-2.5 and GPT-4o. 
Interestingly, our BISCUIT maintains strong generalization, showing minimal degradation on other downstream tasks.

Stop Mixing Things Up! BISCUIT Teaches Vision-Language Models to Learn New Concepts from Images on the Spot

The Schatten-p norm, as a class of structure-inducing norms based on singular values, has been widely used to enhance model low-rankness and representation capability due to its flexibility in structural modeling and favorable mathematical properties. However, its potential in cluster distribution modeling has long been overlooked. Therefore, we explore the potential of maximizing the Schatten-p norm as a regularization strategy specifically designed to achieve balanced clustering. This work is the first to investigate its effectiveness in promoting cluster balance. To be specific, maximizing Schatten-p norm effectively guides the assignment of data points, ensuring a more balanced distribution of samples across clusters. We have conducted an in-depth theoretical analysis and validated its effectiveness through extensive clustering experiments. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared to existing methods, this regularization term significantly improves clustering quality and obtain reasonable clustering.

Maximizing Schatten-p Norm Regularization Toward Balance

Transferring 2D textures onto complex 3D scenes plays a vital role in enhancing the efficiency and controllability of 3D multimedia content creation. However, existing 3D style transfer methods primarily focus on transferring abstract artistic styles to 3D scenes. These methods often overlook the geometric information of the scene, which makes it challenging to achieve high-quality 3D texture transfer results. 
In this paper, we present GT$^2$-GS, a geometry-aware texture transfer framework for gaussian splitting. 
First, we propose a geometry-aware texture transfer loss that enables view-consistent texture transfer by leveraging prior view-dependent feature information and texture features augmented with additional geometric parameters. Moreover, an adaptive fine-grained control module is proposed to address the degradation of scene information caused by low-granularity texture features. Finally, a geometry preservation branch is introduced. This branch refines the geometric parameters using additionally bound Gaussian color priors, thereby decoupling the optimization objectives of appearance and geometry.
Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness and controllability of our method. Through geometric awareness, our approach achieves texture transfer results that better align with human visual perception.

GT2-GS: Geometry-aware Texture Transfer for Gaussian Splatting

Sketch-based solutions are widely used to estimate item frequencies in infinite data streams. Traditional hand-crafted sketches face the bottleneck of further eliminating errors because they cannot fully utilize the data stream distribution. Although recent neural sketches represented by MetaSketch and LegoSketch have improved generalization capabilities, they face bottlenecks such as high computational overhead and parameter sensitivity. Meanwhile, they ignore load information, fail to fully utilize the local information in hand-crafted sketches, and do not focus on the frequent items that are usually more important in data streams. In this paper, we propose RatioSketch, a novel lightweight neural network correction framework that synergizes the advantages of hand-crafted sketches and neural sketches in a "micro-correction'' paradigm. The key idea is to retain the efficient underlying data structure of the hand-crafted sketch and to build a neural correction layer in its output space. We select multiple representative hand-crafted sketches as use cases to study the correction performance of RatioSketch on them. Extensive experimental evaluations on several datasets show that RatioSketch-corrected sketches achieve significantly better accuracy than their uncorrected versions, as well as those of MetaSketch and LegoSketch.

RatioSketch: Towards More Accurate Frequency Estimation in Data Streams via a Lightweight Neural Network

Expressive generative models have recently shown promise in offline reinforcement learning (RL) by capturing the complex, multimodal nature of dataset behaviors. Yet, directly integrating these models into policy optimization introduces substantial computational and stability challenges due to the intricacies of their sampling processes. We introduce Flow Latent Policy (FLP), a novel offline RL framework that decouples expressivity from optimization by operating entirely in the latent space of a pre-trained, frozen flow-based behavior model. FLP learns a simple latent Gaussian policy whose samples are transformed through the flow to produce complex, behavior-aligned actions. This design enables closed-form behavior regularization via latent-space KL divergence and allows policy optimization without expensive backpropagation through the generative model. Experiments on the OGBench benchmark demonstrate that FLP achieves competitive or superior performance across diverse tasks, combining the benefits of expressive modeling and tractable optimization in a unified approach.

Behavior Regularization with Flow Latent Policy for Offline Reinforcement Learning

Text-guided image inpainting aims to inpaint masked image regions based on a textual prompt while preserving the background. Although diffusion-based methods have become dominant, their property of modeling the entire image in latent space makes it challenging for the results to align well with prompt details and maintain a consistent background.
To address these issues, we explore Mask AutoRegressive (MAR) models for this task. MAR naturally supports image inpainting by generating latent tokens corresponding to mask regions, enabling better local controllability without altering the background. However, directly applying MAR to this task makes the inpainting content either ignore the prompts or be disharmonious with the background context. Through analysis of the attention maps from the inpainting images, we identify the impact of background tokens on text tokens during the MAR generation, and leverage this to designToken Painter, a training-free text-guided image inpainting method based on MAR.
Our approach introduces two key components: (1) Dual-Stream Encoder Information Fusion (DEIF), which fuses the semantic and context information from text and background in frequency domain to produce novel guidance tokens, allowing MAR to generate text-faithful inpainting content while keeping harmonious with background context. (2) Adaptive Decoder Attention Score Enhancing (ADAE), which adaptively enhances attention scores on guidance tokens and inpainting tokens to further enhance the alignment of prompt details and the content visual quality. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our training-free method outperforms prior state-of-the-art methods across almost all metrics. Codes: https://github.com/longtaojiang/Token-Painter.

Token Painter: Training-Free Text-Guided Image Inpainting via Mask Autoregressive Models

Unlike discriminative approaches in autonomous driving that predict a fixed set of candidate trajectories of the ego vehicle, generative methods, such as diffusion models, learn the underlying distribution of future motion, enabling more flexible trajectory prediction. However, since these methods typically rely on denoising human-craft trajectory anchors or random noise, there remains significant room for improvement. In this paper, we propose DiffRefiner, a novel two-stage trajectory prediction framework. The first stage employs a transformer-based $\textit{Proposal Decoder}$ to generate coarse trajectory predictions by regressing from sensor inputs using predefined trajectory anchors. The second stage applies a $\textit{Diffusion Refiner}$ that iteratively denoises and refines these initial predictions. In this way, we enhance the performance of diffusion-based planning by incorporating a discriminative trajectory proposal module, which provides strong guidance for the generative refinement process. Furthermore, we design a fine-grained denoising decoder to enhance scene compliance, enabling more accurate trajectory prediction through enhanced alignment with the surrounding environment. Experimental results demonstrate that DiffRefiner achieves state-of-the-art performance, attaining 87.4 $\textit{EPDMS}$ on NAVSIM v2, and 87.1 $\textit{DS}$ along with 71.4 $\textit{SR}$ on Bench2Drive, thereby setting new records on both public benchmarks. The effectiveness of each component is validated via ablation studies as well.

DiffRefiner: Coarse to Fine Trajectory Planning via Diffusion Refinement with Semantic Interaction for End to End Autonomous Driving

Video object detection is a fundamental yet challenging task in computer vision. Recently, DETR-based methods have gained prominence in this domain owing to their powerful global modeling capabilities. However, these methods are still confronted with two key limitations: frame-agnostic initialization of object queries and scale-agnostic attention mechanisms, which hinder their capability to capture the appearance variations of dynamic objects and model the temporal consistency across frames. To alleviate these limitations, we propose a multiscale-aware transformer diffusion network (MSTDiff), a novel framework designed for the video object detection task, including two technical improvements over existing methods. First, we design a diffusion-driven adaptive query module, which models the object query distribution through a diffusion process conditioned on input frames, enabling an adaptive and content-aware initialization of object queries. Second, we develop a multiscale-aware transformer encoder module, which combines multi-head convolutional units with attention mechanisms to enhance multi-scale feature representations while preserving global dependence modeling. We conduct extensive experiments on the public ImageNet VID dataset, and the results demonstrate that our MSTDiff achieves 87.7% mAP with ResNet-101, outperforming previous state-of-the-art video object detection methods. The code will be made available.

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