#01Sep 9, 2026
cs.CV
ScopeMamba-YOLO: Widening the Perceptual Scope Inward and Outward for Small Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery
Junjie Fan, Yijun Mai, Linduo Wei and 5 more
Small object detection in unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and remote sensing imagery requires preserving high-resolution detail while modeling long-range context. Adding a stride-4 detection level and removing the stride-32 stage benefits tiny targets but weakens peripheral spatial support, whereas directly inserting selective scanning into the main feature path can interfere with weak local cues. We propose ScopeMamba-YOLO, built around an off-path, zero-gated selective-scanning principle that decouples contextual modeling from the convolutional stream. The principle is instantiated by a Cascaded Global-Context Module (CGCM) in the backbone and a Selective-Scan PAN (SS-PAN) in the neck. An Adaptive Multi-scale Strip (AMS) Block reduces the cost of high-resolution feature extraction, while a Scale-Adaptive DFL (SA-DFL) head reallocates distributional support and regression capacity across scales with only 0.008M additional parameters. Controlled experiments show that matched main-path selective scanning reduces mAP50 by 0.98 pp, whereas off-path CGCM improves the final configuration by 0.67 pp over the three-seed no-CGCM mean; operator controls indicate that this gain is not explained by auxiliary branch capacity alone. ERF analysis further shows that the complete context pathway increases the peripheral energy ratio from 0.008 to 0.090 at stride 8. On VisDrone-2019, ScopeMamba-S achieves 50.8% mAP50 with 3.57M parameters, exceeding YOLOv8s by 10.8 pp while using 32% of its parameters; ScopeMamba-M reaches 52.6% mAP50 with 6.48M parameters. Consistent improvements are also observed on AI-TOD, especially for very-tiny and tiny objects.
#02Sep 9, 2026
cs.CV
3rd Place Solution to Human Motion Challenges in Real-World and Clinical Settings (MoCha) @ECCV2026: Language-Aligned Motion Representations for Domain-Generalizable UPDRS-Gait Severity Estimation
Soojie Kim, Muhammad Munsif, Minkyung Kim and 1 more
In this work, we introduce language-aligned motion representations for domain-generalizable UPDRS-Gait severity estimation, aiming to learn semantically structured motion features that generalize across heterogeneous clinical domains. We first learn motion representations using a Bi-GRU backbone that captures the temporal dynamics of SMPL sequences. Prior to model training, motion captions are generated offline using Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct. The backbone is then trained with both classification and text-alignment objectives to learn discriminative and semantically structured motion representations while accounting for the class imbalance present in the training data. We subsequently adapt the learned backbone independently to each source domain so that the model can capture domain-specific motion characteristics. The resulting source-specific models are then merged at the parameter level to consolidate complementary knowledge across source domains into a single domain-generalized model. To further mitigate class imbalance, we perform GPT-5.5-based pseudo labeling, and our final merged models for each site do not use any class-prior correction during inference. The resulting model is evaluated under the unseen-site setting of the MoCha Challenge, using Macro F1 as the primary evaluation metric. Our method achieves a macro-F1 of 0.57 on the hidden test set with only 637K active parameters at inference, ranking 3rd among 58 leaderboard entries in the MoCha 2026 Challenge. The challenge attracted 1,669 submissions from 112 participants and offered monetary prizes sponsored by Machine Medicine Technologies.
#03Sep 9, 2026
cs.CV
Beyond Weak Labels: Prompt-Guided Local Refinement for Weakly Supervised Water Segmentation in High-Resolution Multispectral Imagery
Muhammad Farhan Humayun, Mohammad Imangholiloo, Afifah Shah and 2 more
High-resolution water mapping supports environmental monitoring and related applications, but accurate pixel-level labels are difficult and costly to produce. Official hydrographic vectors provide scalable weak supervision, but they contain artifacts like boundary noise, temporal mismatch, and omissions of small water structures. We propose a two-stage framework for weakly supervised water segmentation in high resolution multispectral imagery. Stage 1 learns initial masks from rasterized vector pseudo-labels, and Stage 2 converts these masks into structured component-wise prompts for localized refinement. On a manually corrected validation set, refinement improves SegFormer-B0 from 0.9509 to 0.9535 IoU and U-Net from 0.9408 to 0.9486 IoU, with corresponding F1 gains from 0.9749 to 0.9762 and 0.9695 to 0.9736. It leads to sharper shorelines, reduced boundary spillover, and better thin-structure delineation. The results indicate that prompt-guided refinement can improve pseudo-label-based water segmentation by targeting local errors that are poorly captured by global training supervision.
#04Sep 9, 2026
cs.CV
Dimensionality Reduction for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Mohamed Cherifi, Ammar Mesloub, Mohammed Nabil El Korso and 2 more
This paper addresses the issue of supervised classification in the context of hyperspectral satellite images. It deals with two fundamental aspects: dimensionality reduction of data and the selection of appropriate supervised classification techniques. Firstly, we delve into dimensionality reduction, a critical step in simplifying the management of hyperspectral data. The reduction aims to decrease complexity in terms of memory and computing time. We examine two commonly used methods: Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA). Subsequently, we explore the selection of the most suitable supervised classification algorithms for hyperspectral images. We compare the performance of three methods: K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN), Support Vector Machines (SVM), and Random Forest (RF) using real hyperspectral data. The results highlight that the combination of PCA and RF yields the highest overall accuracy and Kappa coefficient.
#05Sep 9, 2026
cs.CV
Decoupled Self-Forcing Distillation for Streaming Talking Head Generation
Yanru An, Ruiyan Wang, Wenwu Wei and 7 more
Streaming talking-head generation produces each frame as its driving audio arrives, yet fidelity and efficiency have so far pulled in opposite directions: end-to-end methods condition a video diffusion model on audio directly and achieve high quality but only at large scale, while cheaper two-stage methods generate an intermediate motion representation and trail in fidelity. We argue the cost of the former lies in the target of fusion: the video latent is dominated by identity, appearance and background, none of which audio bears on, so coupling audio to every pixel blurs detail and wastes capacity. We instead fuse conditions in a low-dimensional identity-disentangled motion space, routing audio and motion captions by their temporal granularity, and generate motion latents with a small causal autoregressive transformer that a pretrained diffusion renderer turns into video. Conditions thus control video transitively, and high fidelity no longer requires a large backbone. Streaming this decomposition needs both models to be causal, and the exposure-bias problem could be solved by self-forcing given a bidirectional teacher. But there is no such teacher in motion space. Our decoupled self-forcing distillation resolves both models under one frozen teacher: conditioned on motion, it distills the renderer into a block-causal student; unconditionally, it scores rendered rollouts against real videos, supervising motion by the video it produces. This lifts the fidelity ceiling from the motion generator onto the stronger renderer. The two models run as parallel causal streams, reaching 15.4 FPS at 1.3 s latency with no quality degradation.