WACV 2026

831 papers

Illuminating Darkness: Learning to Enhance Low-light Images In-the-Wild

S. M. A. Sharif, Abdur Rehman, Zain Ul Abidin, Fayaz Ali Dharejo, Radu Timofte

Codebook Knowledge with Mamba-Transformer For Low-Light Image Enhancement

Runhua Deng, Aiwen Jiang, Long Peng, Qiuhai Yan

Decomposition Sampling for Efficient Region Annotations in Active Learning

Jingna Qiu, Frauke Wilm, Mathias Öttl, Jonas Utz, Maja Schlereth

Towards Photorealistic Style Transfer with Multimodal Guidance and Robustness to Content Images in Arbitrary Styles

Ruikai Zhou, Yating Liu, Yi Xu

Luke Moffett, Frank Willard, Maximillian Machado, Emmanuel Mokel, Jon Donnelly

BAFIS: Dataset + Framework to Assess Occupational Bias and Human Preference in Modern Text-to-image Models

Thomas Klassert, Adrian Ulges, Biying Fu

ICONIC-444: A 3.1-Million-Image Dataset for OOD Detection Research

Gerhard Krumpl, Henning Avenhaus, Horst Possegger

SCORE: Soft Label Compression-Centric Dataset Condensation via Coding Rate Optimization

Bowen Yuan, Yuxia Fu, Zijian Wang, Yadan Luo, Zi Huang

RobuMTL: Enhancing Multi-Task Learning Robustness Against Weather Conditions

Tasneem Shaffee, Sherief Reda

Unsupervised Segmentation by Diffusing, Walking and Cutting

Daniela Ivanova, Marco Aversa, Paul Henderson, John Williamson

Restora-Flow: Mask-Guided Image Restoration with Flow Matching

Arnela Hadzic, Franz Thaler, Lea Bogensperger, Simon Johannes Joham, Martin Urschler

Prompt-OT: An Optimal Transport Regularization Paradigm for Knowledge Preservation in Vision-Language Model Adaptation

Xiwen Chen, Wenhui Zhu, Peijie Qiu, Hao Wang, Huayu Li

Optimal Transport for Rectified Flow Image Editing: Unifying Inversion-Based and Direct Methods

Marian Lupaşcu, Mihai Sorin Stupariu

Splatter Layout: Geometry-embedded 3D Reconstruction via Surface Unfolding

Bryan Heryanto, Tackgeun You, Chanwoo Kim, Hwasup Lim

Universal Neural Architecture Space: Covering ConvNets, Transformers and Everything in Between

Ondrej Tybl, Lukas Neumann

DNA: Dual-branch Network with Adaptation for Open-Set Online Handwriting Generation

Tsai-Ling Huang, Nhat-Tuong Do-Tran, Ngoc-Hoang-Lam Le, Hong-Han Shuai, Ching-Chun Huang

One Model, Many Behaviors: Training-Induced Effects on Out-of-Distribution Detection

Gerhard Krumpl, Henning Avenhaus, Horst Possegger

UniGaze: Towards Universal Gaze Estimation via Large-scale Pre-Training

Jiawei Qin, Xucong Zhang, Yusuke Sugano

PoseGaussian: Pose-Driven Novel View Synthesis for Robust 3D Human Reconstruction

Ju Shen, Chen Chen, Tam V. Nguyen, Vijayan K. Asari

Personalized Image Privacy Advisors via Federated Daisy-Chaining

Sourasekhar Banerjee, Vengateswaran Subramaniam, Debaditya Roy, Vigneshwaran Subbaraju, Monowar Bhuyan

S2O: Static to Openable Enhancement for Articulated 3D Objects

Denys Iliash, Hanxiao Jiang, Yiming Zhang, Manolis Savva, Angel X. Chang

3D Superquadric Splatting

Daniel MacSwayne, Ales Leonardis, Jianbo Jiao

Occlusion Boundary and Depth: Mutual Enhancement via Multi-Task Learning

Lintao Xu, Yinghao Wang, Chaohui Wang

QuadraNet V2: Efficient and Sustainable Training of High-Order Neural Networks with Quadratic Adaptation

Chenhui Xu, Fuxun Yu, Jinjun Xiong, Xiang Chen

Learning Mask-Aware Offsets: Two-branch Deformable Attention Networks for Inpainting with Masked Region Avoidance

Hyeongseok Oh, Joonki Paik

Large Sign Language Models: Toward 3D American Sign Language Translation

Sen Zhang, Xiaoxiao He, Di Liu, Zhaoyang Xia, Mingyu Zhao

Pyramidal Spectrum: Frequency-based Hierarchically Vector Quantized VAE for Videos

Tushar Prakash, Onkar Susladkar, Sparsh Mittal, Inderjit S Dhillon

SphereEdit: Spherical Semantic Editing in Diffusion Models

Salamata Konate, Hassan Hamidi, Elham Dolatabadi, Frank Rudzicz, Laleh Seyyed-Kalantari

Matching Semantically Similar Non-Identical Objects

Yusuke Marumo, Kazuhiko Kawamoto, Satomi Tanaka, Shigenobu Hirano, Hiroshi Kera

RegionAligner: Bridging Ego-Exo Views for Object Correspondence via Unified Text-Visual Learning

Yuhao Su, Ehsan Elhamifar

Stabilizing Direct Training of Spiking Neural Networks: Membrane Potential Initialization and Threshold-robust Surrogate Gradient

Hyunho Kook, Byeongho Yu, Jeong Min Oh, Eunhyeok Park

Grounding Degradations in Natural Language for All-In-One Video Restoration

Muhammad Kamran Janjua, Amirhosein Ghasemabadi, Kunlin Zhang, Mohammad Salameh, Chao Gao

3DSceneEditor: Controllable 3D Scene Editing with Gaussian Splatting

Ziyang Yan, Yihua Shao, Minwen Liao, Siyu Chen, Nan Wang

INRetouch: Context Aware Implicit Neural Representation for Photography Retouching

Omar Elezabi, Marcos V. Conde, Zongwei Wu, Radu Timofte

Test-Time Adaptation for Video Highlight Detection Using Meta-Auxiliary Learning and Cross-Modality Hallucinations

Zahidul Islam, Sujoy Paul, Mrigank Rochan

Transformer-Based Inpainting for Real-Time 3D Streaming in Sparse Multi-Camera Setups

Leif Van Holland, Domenic Zingsheim, Mana Takhsha, Hannah Dröge, Patrick Stotko

Bi-ICE: An Inner Interpretable Framework for Image Classification via Bi-directional Interactions between Concept and Input Embeddings

Jinyung Hong, Yearim Kim, Keun Hee Park, Sangyu Han, Nojun Kwak

Advancing Multimodal LLMs by Large-Scale 3D Visual Instruction Dataset Generation

Liu He, Xiao Zeng, Yizhi Song, Albert Y. C. Chen, Lu Xia

Learning Action Hierarchies via Hybrid Geometric Diffusion

Arjun Ramesh Kaushik, Nalini K. Ratha, Venu Govindaraju

CAPE: A CLIP-Aware Pointing Ensemble of Complementary Heatmap Cues for Embodied Reference Understanding

Fevziye Irem Eyiokur, Dogucan Yaman, Hazım Kemal Ekenel, Alexander Waibel

CONCORD: Concept-Informed Diffusion for Dataset Distillation

Jianyang Gu, Haonan Wang, Ruoxi Jia, Saeed Vahidian, Vyacheslav Kungurtsev

Safe Vision-Language Models via Unsafe Weights Manipulation

Moreno D'Incà, Elia Peruzzo, Xingqian Xu, Humphrey Shi, Nicu Sebe

SymNet: A Multi-Task Network for Joint Radio Map Reconstruction and Transmitter Localization

Lyuzhou Ye, Thanh Dat Le, Yan Huang

V2XScene: Multi-View Consistent 3D Scene Simulation for Collaborative Perception

Yanfei Li, Yi Gong, Yuan Zeng

NRGMark: Localized Watermarking for Energy Transparency in Images

Shruti Agarwal, Élie Michel, Vishal Asnani, Tania Mathern, John Collomosse

FairVLM: Enhancing Fairness and Prompt Sensitivity in Vision Language Models for Medical Image Segmentation

Md Motiur Rahman, Saeka Rahman, Smriti Bhatt, Miad Faezipour

Mitigating the Modality Gap: Few-Shot Out-of-Distribution Detection with Multi-modal Prototypes and Image Bias Estimation

Yimu Wang, Evelien Riddell, Adrian Chow, Sean Sedwards, Krzysztof Czarnecki

FLARES: Fast and Accurate LiDAR Multi-Range Semantic Segmentation

Bin Yang, Alexandru Paul Condurache

MoRe: Monocular Geometry Refinement via Graph Optimization for Cross-View Consistency

Dongki Jung, Jaehoon Choi, Yonghan Lee, Sungmin Eum, Heesung Kwon

Are All Marine Species Created Equal? Performance Disparities in Underwater Object Detection

Melanie Wille, Tobias Fischer, Scarlett Raine

Scalable Video Action Anticipation with Cross Linear Attentive Memory

Zeyun Zhong, Manuel Martin, David Schneider, David J. Lerch, Chengzhi Wu

Locally Explaining Prediction Behavior via Gradual Interventions and Measuring Property Gradients

Niklas Penzel, Joachim Denzler

Semi-supervised Key-Point Estimation for Echocardiography Video

Seok-Hwan Oh, Hyeon-Jik Lee, Guil Jung, Myeong-Gee Kim, Young-Min Kim

SPAR-Det: Segmentation-guided and Prior-Aided Routing for Small Object Detection

Seungchan Kwon, Gyuil Lim, Youngjoon Han

Salience-SGG: Enhancing Unbiased Scene Graph Generation with Iterative Salience Estimation

Runfeng Qu, Ole Hall, Pia K Bideau, Julie Ouerfelli-Ethier, Martin Rolfs

Visual Detector Compression via Location-Aware Discriminant Analysis

Qizhen Lan, Jung Im Choi, Qing Tian

Online Episodic Memory Visual Query Localization with Egocentric Streaming Object Memory

Zaira Manigrasso, Matteo Dunnhofer, Antonino Furnari, Moritz Nottebaum, Antonio Finocchiaro

Cycle-Consistent Multi-Graph Matching for Self-Supervised Annotation of C. Elegans

Sebastian Stricker, Christoph Karg, Lisa Hutschenreiter, Bogdan Savchynskyy, Dagmar Kainmueller

Fully Unsupervised Self-debiasing of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Korada Sri Vardhana, Shrikrishna Lolla, Soma Biswas

PoseAdapt: Sustainable Human Pose Estimation via Continual Learning Benchmarks and Toolkit

Muhammad Saif Ullah Khan, Didier Stricker

Detection-Driven Object Count Optimization for Text-to-Image Diffusion Models

Oz Zafar, Yuval Cohen, Lior Wolf, Idan Schwartz

From Cognitive Priors to Instance Semantics: A Unified Framework for Multi-task Affective Computing

Guanyu Hu, Dimitrios Kollias, Xinyu Yang

GateFusion: Hierarchical Gated Cross-Modal Fusion for Active Speaker Detection

Yu Wang, Juhyung Ha, Frangil M. Ramirez, Yuchen Wang, David J. Crandall

mEOL: Training-Free Instruction-Guided Multimodal Embedder for Vector Graphics and Image Retrieval

Kyeong Seon Kim, Baek Seong-Eun, Lee Jung-Mok, Tae-Hyun Oh

AEON: Adaptive Embedding Optimized Noise for Robust Watermarking in Diffusion Models

Muhammad Shahid Muneer, Simon S. Woo

Optimization-Free Style Transfer for 3D Gaussian Splats

Raphael Du Sablon, David Hart

Evaluating Text-to-Image and Text-to-Video Synthesis with a Conditional Frechet Distance

Jaywon Koo, Jefferson Hernandez, Moayed Haji-Ali, Ziyan Yang, Vicente Ordonez

RoadBench: A Vision-Language Foundation Model and Benchmark for Road Damage Understanding

Xi Xiao, Yunbei Zhang, Janet Wang, Lin Zhao, Yuxiang Wei

Frequency Is What You Need: Considering Word Frequency When Text Masking Benefits Vision-Language Model Pre-training

Mingliang Liang, Martha Larson

Diversity Preserving Coresets for Image Quality Assessment

Arpita Nema, Hanwei Zhu, Xi Zhang, Weisi Lin

You May Speak Freely: Improving the Fine-Grained Visual Recognition Capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models with Answer Extraction

Logan Lawrence, Oindrila Saha, Megan Wei, Chen Sun, Subhransu Maji

FNOPT: Resolution-Agnostic, Self-Supervised Cloth Simulation using Meta-Optimization with Fourier Neural Operators

Ruochen Chen, Thuy Tran, Shaifali Parashar

GAEA: A Geolocation Aware Conversational Assistant

Ron Campos, Ashmal Vayani, Parth Parag Kulkarni, Rohit Gupta, Aizan Zafar

Sketch2Stitch: GANs for Abstract Sketch-Based Dress Synthesis

Faizan Farooq Khan, Eslam Abdelrahman Bakr, Davide Morelli, Marcella Cornia, Rita Cucchiara

LogicCBMs: Logic-Enhanced Concept-Based Learning

Deepika SN Vemuri, Gautham Bellamkonda, Aditya Pola, Vineeth N Balasubramanian

ZonUI-3B: Competitive GUI Grounding with a 3B VLM Trained on a Single Consumer GPU

ZongHan Hsieh, ShengJing Yang, Tzer-Jen Wei

A Multi-Agent Diffusion Approach for MRI Anomaly Segmentation via Modality-Specific LoRA Specialization

Wafa Al Ghallabi, Muhammad Zaigham Zaheer, Ritesh Thawkar, Omkar Thawakar, Salman Khan

AnyBald: Toward Realistic Diffusion-Based Hair Removal In-The-Wild

Yongjun Choi, Seungoh Han, Soomin Kim, Sumin Son, Mohsen Rohani

Do Generative Video Models Understand Physical Principles?

Saman Motamed, Laura Culp, Kevin Swersky, Priyank Jaini, Robert Geirhos

Analysis of Text Accuracy and Visual Alignment in Vision-Language Models for Artistic Text Generation

Fatima Alderazi, Motaz Alfarraj

PiSA: A Self-Augmented Data Engine and Training Strategy for 3D Understanding with Large Models

Zilu Guo, Hongbin Lin, Zhihao Yuan, Chaoda Zheng, Pengshuo Qiu

Eye-for-an-eye: Appearance Transfer with Dense Semantic Correspondence in Diffusion Models

Sooyeon Go, Kyungmook Choi, Minjung Shin, Youngjung Uh

DF-Mamba: Deformable State Space Modeling for 3D Hand Pose Estimation in Interactions

Yifan Zhou, Takehiko Ohkawa, Guwenxiao Zhou, Kanoko Goto, Takumi Hirose

Beyond the Highlights: Video Retrieval with Salient and Surrounding Contexts

Jaehun Bang, Moon Ye-Bin, Tae-Hyun Oh, Kyungdon Joo

StreetView-Waste: A Multi-Task Dataset for Urban Waste Management

Diogo J. Paulo, Joao Martins, Hugo Proenca, Joao C. Neves

UniCalib: Targetless LiDAR-camera Calibration via Probabilistic Flow on Unified Depth Representations

Shu Han, Xubo Zhu, Ji Wu, Ximeng Cai, Wen Yang

Learning to Animate Images from A Few Videos to Portray Delicate Human Actions

Haoxin Li, Yingchen Yu, Qilong Wu, Hanwang Zhang, Song Bai

More Than Memory Savings: Zeroth-Order Optimization Mitigates Forgetting in Continual Learning

Wanhao Yu, Zheng Wang, Shuteng Niu, Sen Lin, Li Yang

FedEFC: Federated Learning Using Enhanced Forward Correction Against Noisy Labels

Seunghun Yu, Jin-Hyun Ahn, Joonhyuk Kang

Autoregressive Styled Text Image Generation, but Make it Reliable

Carmine Zaccagnino, Fabio Quattrini, Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Alessio Tonioni

View-aware Cross-modal Distillation for Multi-view Action Recognition

Trung Thanh Nguyen, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Vijay John, Takahiro Komamizu, Ichiro Ide

ASC: Learning Augmentation Severity-Consistent Representations Improves Generalization via Augmentation Search

Amirhossein Alamdar, Hossein Jafarinia, Mahdi Noori, Mohammad Hossein Rohban

MAESTRO: Masked AutoEncoders for Multimodal, Multitemporal, and Multispectral Earth Observation Data

Antoine Labatie, Michael Vaccaro, Nina Lardiere, Anatol Garioud, Nicolas Gonthier

Seeing is Believing (and Predicting): Context-Aware Multi-Human Behavior Prediction with Vision Language Models

Utsav Panchal, Yuchen Liu, Luigi Palmieri, Ilche Georgievski, Marco Aiello

The Perceptual Observatory Characterizing Robustness and Grounding in MLLMs

Tejas Anvekar, Fenil Bardoliya, Pavan K. Turaga, Chitta Baral, Vivek Gupta

TED-4DGS: Temporally Activated and Embedding-based Deformation for 4DGS Compression

Cheng-Yuan Ho, He-Bi Yang, Jui-Chiu Chiang, Yu-Lun Liu, Wen-Hsiao Peng

Single-step Diffusion for Image Compression at Ultra-Low Bitrates

Chanung Park, Joo Chan Lee, Jong Hwan Ko

DirectDrag: High-Fidelity, Mask-Free, Prompt-Free Drag-based Image Editing via Readout-Guided Feature Alignment

Sheng-Hao Liao, Shang-Fu Chen, Tai-Ming Huang, Wen-Huang Cheng, Kai-Lung Hua

SCORP: Scene-Consistent Object Refinement via Proxy Generation and Tuning

Ziwei Chen, Ziling Liu, Zitong Huang, Mingqi Gao, Feng Zheng

Joint Optimization of Camera Model and Deep Neural Network for Image Recognition

Youta Noboru, Yuko Ozasa, Masayuki Tanaka