#01Oct 22, 2026
cs.CV
GigaBench: Benchmarking Learnable Representations for Gigapixel Image Compression and Super-Resolution
Matteo Fusconi, Alex Costanzino, Pierluigi Zama Ramirez and 1 more
Learnable Representations (LRs) can fit parametric families of functions to diverse kinds of signals. These emergent neural-native data formats are gathering interest in the scientific community due to their compactness, resolution-agnosticism and amenability to direct neural processing. On the other hand, gigapixel images are becoming increasingly widespread across a variety of scientific, cultural, and industrial domains. In this paper, we present GigaBench, the first benchmark and experimental evaluation focused on deploying LRs with gigapixel imagery. GigaBench includes images collected, acquired, and synthetically rendered across diverse domains, and addresses image compression and super-resolution. We adapt a representative set of LRs, spanning Implicit, Hybrid, and Explicit methods, so as to operate reliably at the gigapixel scale on consumer hardware. Through systematic evaluation across reconstruction quality, model size, compression and inference times, we identify consistent trends across methods and suggest actionable guidance for future investigation.
#02Oct 22, 2026
cs.CV
Gate3DGen: A Pre-processing Model that Selectively Purifies Real-World Images for 3D Generation
Xiaolin Li, Zihao Huang, Fanpeng Meng and 5 more
Single-image 3D generation has achieved high fidelity on curated benchmarks, yet degrades sharply on real-world images with uneven illumination, blur, and occlusions. Purifying such inputs requires deciding when to intervene and preserving the visual cues needed for 3D generation, while leaving clean inputs unchanged. We introduce Gate3DGen, a selective pre-processing model that gates image inputs to existing 3D generators without retraining them. A degradation-aware router bypasses inputs classified as clean and extracts features to guide purification of the remaining inputs. Conditioned on these features, a 3D-oriented one-step purifier purifies degraded inputs with spatial losses that encourage preservation of object identity, contours, and textural cues. To provide paired supervision, we construct a synthetic data engine that renders clean views of 3D assets and synthesises composite degradations. On the synthetic benchmark, the purifier improves image fidelity and downstream 3D geometry in only 2.3s on average, reducing TRELLIS.2 mesh distance by 61.5% relative to degraded inputs. VLM evaluation and human preferences on real photographs further support identity preservation and degradation correction. More demos and code are available at https://supra-3d.github.io/gate3dgen.
#03Oct 22, 2026
cs.CV
A Task-Centric Survey of Long-Document Visual Question Answering: Taxonomy, Evolution, and Future Directions
Yufei Tong, Guanjie Cheng, Tianle Wu and 5 more
Visual document understanding is essential for acquiring knowledge from visually rich documents and is attracting growing research interest. Existing surveys emphasize architectures or technical approaches, with limited attention to how task bottlenecks shape technical choices and research priorities. We present a task-centric survey that decomposes long-document visual question answering (VQA) into four components: document parsing, evidence organization and retrieval, generator organization and learning, and evaluation. For each, we develop a fine-grained taxonomy and trace motivations, technical responses, and cross-component connections. We focus on explicit retrieval while covering direct reading. Our temporal analysis traces expanding priorities from multimodal content understanding to sufficient, high-fidelity evidence acquisition and sustained evidence management. We outline future directions in evidence sufficiency, verifiable and correctable understanding, and budget-aware coordination, with an outlook on continual document understanding.
#04Oct 22, 2026
cs.CV
Diffusion-Based Synthesis of Complete 3D Biparametric Prostate MRI
Claudia Giardina, Montse Pardàs, Verónica Vilaplana
Synthetic biparametric MRI (bpMRI) may help alleviate the limited availability of large and representative prostate MRI datasets for deep learning applications. In this work, we present a conditional 3D diffusion framework for anatomy-conditioned synthesis of complete prostate bpMRI from anatomical masks. The framework supports sequential synthesis, in which T2w and diffusion modalities are generated by separately trained models, and joint synthesis, in which all bpMRI modalities are generated simultaneously within a single model. Five configurations were trained using PI-CAI, FastMRI Prostate, and PROSTATEx datasets to investigate different conditioning schemes, target modalities, and synthesis strategies. Evaluation using distribution-based metrics, paired-image similarity, and qualitative assessment demonstrated the feasibility of both synthesis pathways. Joint synthesis achieved competitive distributional fidelity while generating complete bpMRI, whereas direct synthesis of ADC and computed high-b-value DWI outperformed their derivation from synthetic diffusion-weighted images.
#05Oct 22, 2026
cs.CV
Beyond Best-of-$k$: Prior-Consistent DAPS for Ambiguous Nonlinear Inverse Problems
Merve Kocabas, Benjamin A. Burns, Andreas Geiger and 2 more
Diffusion models have become strong priors for solving inverse problems. However, nonlinear inverse problems such as phase retrieval remain challenging when multiple measurement-consistent solutions are distinguishable only by the prior; we call such measurements ambiguous. Existing diffusion-based samplers rely on local approximations during reconstruction. For an ambiguous measurement, these approximations can allow measurement guidance to favor a measurement-consistent mode that is close to a prior-supported mode but is itself not supported by the prior. Evaluation often masks this type of failure by reporting the best-of-$k$ runs, where the best is selected by comparison to the ground truth. We introduce Prior-Consistent DAPS (PC-DAPS), a variant of Decoupled Annealing Posterior Sampling (DAPS) designed to address this failure case by maintaining multiple candidate solutions within a single sampling run. As annealing noise decreases, PC-DAPS prunes and replaces weaker candidates according to their prior consistency, without any ground-truth access. PC-DAPS reduces the incidence of prior-inconsistent samples and improves sample quality on nonlinear inverse problems while preserving sample quality and diversity on linear inverse problems.