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#01Jul 31, 2026

cs.CV

The K-Space Signature: Frequency-Domain Representation Learning for Medical Deepfake Detection

Riccardo Raciti, Francesco Guarnera, Francesco Rundo and 2 more

In medical imaging, generative models are increasingly deployed to synthesize realistic data and augment limited datasets. Unfortunately, while beneficial for privacy-preserving data sharing, these synthesized images can be repurposed for malicious intents, threatening public health through the creation of Medical Deepfakes. To address this threat, we introduce the K-Space Signature (KSS), a novel forensic framework that isolates hardware and generative traces within the spectral domain. By shifting analysis to the frequency domain, the KSS suppresses macroscopic anatomical variance by subtracting an empirical global anatomical prior computed in the Logarithmic Power Spectral Density (Log-PSD) space. To effectively process these globally distributed spectral artifacts without the local spatial bias inherent to Convolutional Neural Networks, we pair the KSS representation with a novel 3D MLP-Mixer architecture equipped with an ArcFace metric-learning head. Extensive experiments on multi-center 3D MRI datasets demonstrate that this combined approach achieves exceptional detection performance, exceeding 0.99 Accuracy and ROC-AUC on multi-generator synthetic datasets. Furthermore, the framework exhibits robust zero-shot generalization, maintaining strong discriminative power (up to 0.93 Accuracy) on independent datasets acquired from entirely unseen scanners. To ensure full reproducibility, the complete source code and pre-trained models will be made publicly available upon acceptance.

#02Jul 31, 2026

cs.CV

Scaling Properties of Text Conditioning in Visual Generation

Zilong Chen, Chaorui Deng, Kunchang Li and 2 more

We study empirical scaling properties for text conditioning in visual generation. Such properties have rarely been measured because diffusion loss does not scale with the number of tokens in natural-language prompts. Surprisingly, we find that the converged diffusion loss scales with the amount of structured language in the prompt. To quantify structured language, we adapt two complementary measures: a white-box likelihood metric (GPG) and a black-box attribute metric (ED). Across controlled training runs, the converged diffusion loss decreases approximately linearly with GPG and follows a power law with ED. Guided by these scaling properties, we improve \emph{diffusability} by constructing structured prompts with semantic and geometric annotations derived from images, and improve \emph{promptability} by training a prompter through supervised fine-tuning, cold-start, and verifier-gated on-policy distillation. The resulting system outperforms all evaluated open-weight models on nearly every compositional, reasoning, and world-knowledge benchmark, while matching or surpassing the strongest closed-weight models on most evaluations.

#03Jul 31, 2026

cs.CV

DynoDINO: Harnessing Dynamic Latent Information from DINO Features for Multi-Phase Medical Image Segmentation

Yu-Pu Hsu, Jen-Jee Chen, Yu-Chee Tseng

Multi-phase Contrast-Enhanced Computed Tomography (CECT) plays a central role in the diagnosis and characterization of focal lesions by capturing temporal enhancement patterns across multiple acquisition phases. Accurate lesion segmentation from such data remains challenging because clinically relevant contrast kinetics are distributed across phases, while anatomical inconsistencies, respiratory motion, and incomplete acquisitions often lead to inter-phase misalignment and interrupted temporal information. Conventional segmentation frameworks typically process each phase independently or rely on simple fusion strategies, limiting their temporal reasoning capability. To address these challenges, we propose DynoDINO, a unified framework tailored to address the core challenges of multi-phase medical image segmentation. DynoDINO first performs slice-level alignment to establish inter-phase anatomical correspondence and then employs a Multi-phase Fusion Model to jointly enhance temporal correlations across phases. Our fusion model incorporates a Mix-attention (MA) mechanism for efficient multi-phase feature calibration and an Adaptive Gating Mechanism with difference-based residual learning to selectively preserve diagnostically relevant contrast variations while suppressing artifacts caused by residual misalignment. In addition, the adaptive gating mechanism improves training stability by preventing feature degradation caused by unguided subtraction operations. Experiments on three large-scale datasets, including LiTS, PLC-CECT, and WAW-TACE, demonstrate that DynoDINO consistently improves boundary delineation and structural fidelity under standard, shifted, and missing-phase conditions.

#04Jul 31, 2026

cs.CV

CodeShrink: Adaptive Visual Compression for Efficient Multimodal Code Understanding

Wenxin Tang, Jingyu Xiao, Zhenyu Liu and 6 more

Rendering source code as images offers a promising way to reduce the input costs of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). Adjusting image resolution can trade visual token cost against content fidelity. However, resolution scaling alone overlooks two sources of inefficiency: blank regions created by line breaks and indentation, and code regions irrelevant to the current instruction. Moreover, the best compression setting varies across inputs, tasks, and models, limiting fixed-ratio strategies. We propose CodeShrink, an adaptive visual compression framework with three components. Blank-Free Rendering replaces whitespace-dependent layouts with compact layouts and explicit structural markers, removing layout-induced tokens. Adaptive Compression Configuration uses a lightweight agent trained with reinforcement learning to predict a per-input setting that balances token efficiency and readability. Dominant Token Selection jointly analyzes the instruction and code image to prune task-irrelevant visual tokens during inference. We evaluate CodeShrink on code question answering, clone detection, and code completion. CodeShrink reduces visual token use by up to 71.2\% while matching or exceeding uncompressed text-only inputs, and consistently outperforms text-based and visual compression baselines across all three tasks. These results show that combining layout compaction, adaptive configuration, and instruction-aware pruning can make multimodal code understanding more efficient. Our code is available at https://github.com/vinsontang1/CodeShrink.

#05Jul 31, 2026

cs.CV

OASIS: Occlusion-aware Single-image Hand Avatar Reconstruction via 3D Gaussian Splatting

Zhisheng Han, Shiyao Wu, Jiayan Qiu and 6 more

Single-image 3D hand avatar reconstruction is fundamentally ill-posed and particularly challenging due to limited visual evidence under severe self-occlusion and the complex pose-dependent deformation of highly articulated hands. Existing methods predominantly rely on implicit NeRF-style representations, whose volumetric fitting is computationally expensive and often struggles to preserve fine-grained hand details. In this work, we present OASIS, a tailored 3D Gaussian Splatting framework for single-image hand avatar reconstruction. To faithfully encode sparse image-specific appearance cues in single-view reconstruction, we construct geometry-aligned visual evidence tokens by explicitly aligning input image observations with 3D hand geometry and context-adaptively tokenizing the resulting visual evidence. Since severe self-occlusion makes the reliability of image evidence inherently visibility-dependent, we introduce a visibility-conditioned point-image attention to reliably transfer visual evidence to geometric tokens, yielding occlusion-aware Gaussian features for faithful and robust reconstruction. To further capture non-rigid deformation of articulated hands, we introduce a Feature-on-Mesh representation to enable Gaussian deformation to be guided by local surface stretching. Under this framework, we adopt a one-shot adaptation scheme that learns a shared hand prior from multi-identity training data and then fits it to a target image for target-specific reconstruction. Extensive experiments show that OASIS outperforms existing baselines in both visual fidelity and efficiency across challenging poses and in-the-wild scenarios, and further demonstrates strong versatility in downstream applications such as text-to-avatar generation and texture editing.