#01Nov 4, 2026
cs.CV
EvoWorld: Towards Out-of-Sight World Evolution in Generative Video Models
Yequan Bie, Dengyang Jiang, Zhixuan Chen and 5 more
Generative video models are increasingly used as visual world simulators, yet their primary strength lies in rendering plausible pixels rather than reasoning about how a world should evolve. Coherent world evolution requires more than visual fidelity: when an event occurs, a model must infer its consequences for the entities in the world and then render the resulting state. For example, after a wild beast appears, the model should not only depict the wild beast, but also infer whether a nearby person should flee, take cover, or fight back based on the realized scene. Existing diffusion-based video models lack an explicit mechanism for maintaining world state and reasoning over such event-conditioned consequences, often producing visually plausible but behaviorally static or causally inconsistent outputs. To make this reasoning gap concrete and measurable, we propose a new problem, Out-of-Sight Causal Evolution, which requires a model to render an event, reason about its consequences for the evolving world state, and reveal a causally plausible outcome as the world continues to evolve, even out of sight. As a baseline reference solution, we introduce EvoWorld, a brain-renderer collaboration framework in which a vision-language model serves as the world brain: it observes generated segments, maintains an evolving account of the world, and reasons about plausible state transitions, while a segment-autoregressive video renderer realizes them visually. We further introduce EvoWorld-Data and EvoWorld-Bench for training and evaluating event realization, causal reactions, and revisit consistency. Experiments show that EvoWorld substantially improves event-conditioned causal evolution over recent models while preserving visual quality and consistency, establishing a reference point for reasoning-guided, autonomous world evolution beyond the current field of view.
#02Nov 4, 2026
cs.CV
Agent-Driven Generative Priors for Pathology Image Synthesis and Segmentation
Sicheng Yang, Rui Tang, Haipeng Zhou and 6 more
Deep learning methods for pathology are constrained by the limited availability and high cost of large-scale pixel-level annotations. Synthetic data can alleviate this limitation, but existing pipelines often lack reliable quality control and remain weakly connected to downstream analysis. To address these issues, we propose a three-stage framework that integrates automated data screening, generative representation learning, and efficient adaptation to downstream tasks. First, we develop a pathology agent system to assess image quality and filter samples, resulting in TCGA-200K, a dataset containing 217,030 pathology patches selected from the public TCGA repository. Second, we train a generative model on the screened data. In addition to image synthesis, its backbone learns structural and semantic representations that can be transferred to downstream tasks. Third, we adapt the pretrained generative backbone to semantic segmentation using a lightweight task-specific head. We further introduce PathSeg-380K, a semantic segmentation dataset with expert annotations for approximately 380,000 cells across 12 cell types. Experiments on multiple pathology datasets show that the proposed framework achieves state-of-the-art segmentation performance. Our code is publicly available at https://github.com/script-Yang/Agent-GenPath.
#03Nov 4, 2026
cs.CV
PixelSpline: Continuous Space-Time Video Super-Resolution via Endpoint-Anchored Shared Pixel Trajectories
Wanqi Yuan, Nianyi Li
Existing continuous space-time video super-resolution methods often infer motion from only two endpoint frames and model the two motion directions independently, making them vulnerable to ambiguous correspondence and inconsistent trajectories. We introduce a continuous STVSR framework that combines long-context encoding, continuous HR feature lifting, and an endpoint-anchored PixelSpline. Long-range observations provide more reliable endpoint representations, while continuous upsampling constructs detailed appearance features directly on the requested HR grid. PixelSpline explicitly models each pixel's motion as a single continuous trajectory shared by both endpoints. Using this trajectory, our method warps endpoint colors into a coarse intermediate frame and aligns the HR features for residual reconstruction. Experiments across spatial and temporal upsampling settings demonstrate that the proposed framework offers a favorable quality--efficiency trade-off.
#04Nov 4, 2026
cs.CV
CardioDrift: Automatic Cardiac Motion Tracking on a 3D Atlas Mesh via Shape-aware Coherent Point Drift with Slice Shift Correction
Reza Akbari Movahed, Abuzar Rezaee, Shatha Alamri and 3 more
Automatic cardiac motion tracking from cine cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging is essential for quantifying myocardial motion abnormalities associated with cardiovascular disease. Existing methods fall into two groups: those that represent motion without anatomical correspondence across subjects and therefore limit inter-subject motion assessment; and those that represent motion with globally corresponding points, which typically require a time-consuming and error-prone semi-automatic step to fit a cardiac atlas to the subject space. To address these limitations, this study proposes CardioDrift, a fully automatic, atlas-based probabilistic framework that represents subject-specific cardiac motion on a 3D atlas mesh with globally corresponding points. The Coherent Point Drift (CPD) formulation is generalised to jointly register the atlas surfaces of multiple cardiac regions to the anatomically corresponding contours extracted from cine CMR segmentation maps throughout the cardiac cycle. Slice-shift correction is embedded in the same probabilistic model, estimating slice-wise translations that suppress the misalignment artefact limiting atlas-fitting accuracy. Evaluation on 1301 randomly selected UK Biobank subjects and the M&M dataset, CardioDrift attains Dice similarity coefficients (DSCs) of $92.23\pm8.70\%$, $82.11\pm7.56\%$, and $88.69\pm4.13\%$ for the left ventricle (LV), myocardium (Myo), and right ventricle (RV), exceeding the strongest baseline on every distance and overlap metric of both datasets.
#05Nov 4, 2026
cs.CV
Occlusion for Free: Detecting Occlusion from the Disagreement Between Two Monocular Distance Cues
Chibueze Praise Onyenweaku, Toyibat Adele, Sikirulahi Opeyemi Abdulkareem and 1 more
Knowing that a pedestrian is occluded is useful to a robot even when the detector cannot recover the hidden pixels, but occlusion estimators are normally trained on occlusion annotations that deployment settings rarely have. We show that occlusion can be read off two distance estimates a camera-only pipeline already computes. Apparent height is largely unchanged by occlusion, because the detected box still spans the whole person; monocular metric depth is pulled toward the occluder, because the nearest surface inside the box is what a depth map reports. Only their ordering matters, so no focal length, stature, or depth scale is needed, provided the depth model's error is close to a pure gain, a condition that can be checked without labels. The score detects heavy occlusion on KITTI with AUC 0.909 (0.888 over all annotated pedestrians, including those the detector misses), requires no training and no occlusion labels, and is not a proxy for range: within fixed distance bands it holds AUC 0.894-0.925 while true distance alone sits near chance. On synthetic CARLA scenes with measured visibility it reaches 0.819, against 0.644 for distance alone. We arrived here after measuring three standard architectural responses to occlusion, depth fusion, occlusion-simulating augmentation, and attention, none of which improved detection outside its training distribution in the configurations we tested, and after finding that a detector trained on German roads loses half its accuracy on self-annotated street scenes in Lagos, Nigeria. Signals that need no local annotation are worth more in settings that benchmarks do not represent.