#01Nov 10, 2026
cs.CV
Continuous 3D Spatial Transcriptomics Reconstruction via Histology-Informed Implicit Neural Representations
Kaito Shiku, Ryoma Bise, Ahtisham Fazeel Abbasi and 4 more
Three-dimensional spatial transcriptomics (3D ST) enables the analysis of gene-expression patterns across tissue depths. However, 3D ST measurements are acquired from discrete 2D tissue sections, which are often sparsely sampled due to high acquisition costs. To address this limitation, we propose a histology-informed multi-task implicit neural representation (HIM-INR) for continuous 3D gene-expression reconstruction from sparse ST observations. HIM-INR jointly reconstructs gene-expression profiles and histological representations using an INR with a shared backbone, leveraging densely sampled histological images as auxiliary spatial supervision. Once trained, HIM-INR predicts gene expression at arbitrary 3D coordinates without requiring histological images. Experiments on two 3D ST datasets demonstrate improved reconstruction over existing methods, particularly as the number of missing ST sections increases.
#02Nov 10, 2026
cs.CV
CroCoMAE: Cross-modal self-supervised collaborative representation learning for SAR-optical remote sensing data
Vito Recchia, Giuseppe Guarino, Cássio Fraga Dantas and 3 more
Remote sensing increasingly captures the Earth's surface through complementary sensors such as SAR and optical, yet ground-truth annotations remain scarce, limiting supervised approaches. Self-supervised learning (SSL) addresses the label scarcity, and cross-modal SSL further exploits the complementarity between co-located sensors, but existing cross-modal frameworks align modalities mostly through global image-level representations or treat them as largely redundant, leaving their fine-grained complementary structure underexploited. We propose CroCoMAE, a cross-modal SSL framework for SAR-optical remote sensing that unifies contrastive learning and masked image modeling within a ViT-based architecture, operating at two complementary levels. At the image level, an intra-modality contrastive loss on the class token yields globally discriminative, augmentation-invariant representations. At the patch level, masked image modeling drives fine-grained per-modality representations, while a cross-modal contrastive objective aligns a shared subspace across SAR and optical patch tokens, leaving the complementary subspace unconstrained to retain modality-specific information. On two SAR-optical benchmarks covering scene classification and semantic segmentation, CroCoMAE improves over uni-modal SSL baselines and outperforms state-of-the-art cross-modal frameworks in most configurations, with gains in both single-modality and multi-modal evaluation across varying label regimes and the largest improvements on semantic segmentation.
#03Nov 10, 2026
cs.CV
ViGA-FLAME: Aligning Latent Visual and Geometric Representations for Robust 3D Head Expression Estimation
Wen Hao He, Jiacheng Wu, Jie Chen
Estimating 3D head expression from a single image requires mapping visual appearance to underlying facial geometry. We propose ViGA-FLAME, a two-stage framework that aligns semantic visual features with a structured geometric latent space. First, a Parametric-Geometric Variational Autoencoder (PG-VAE) learns a unified representation of canonical head surfaces and FLAME parameters, supporting both detailed surface reconstruction and interpretable parameter recovery. Supervision on geometry and parameters, together with consistency between the two decoding branches, connects surface detail with parametric structure. Second, a trainable Visual-Geometric Adapter (ViGA) maps features from a pretrained semantic visual encoder into this latent space. Asymmetric attention enables ViGA to align semantic image features from the visual encoder with the structured geometric information represented in the PG-VAE latent space, without altering the original visual stream. By grounding image evidence in this latent prior, ViGA-FLAME enables robust 3D head expression estimation across severe facial deformations and large viewing angles, efficiently improving robustness over competing feed-forward methods.
#04Nov 10, 2026
cs.CV
Medical Image Segmentation: Foundation Model Adaptation versus Task-Specific Training
Emre Kutlusan, Yongmin Li
Foundation models pretrained on large natural-image collections are increasingly adapted for medical image segmentation, in the expectation that they will replace models trained for each task. Most comparisons, however, use data from the training distribution and a single task-specific baseline whose configuration is rarely justified, and therefore provide limited evidence of performance at new clinical sites. It also remains unclear how much of a foundation model must be adapted, and what determines this. We adapted a foundation model, DINOv2, with strategies ranging from tuning only its bias terms to full fine-tuning, and compared it with U-Nets and ResU-Nets trained from scratch. Experiments covered colonoscopy, breast ultrasound and dermoscopy, with testing on held-out data from the training source and on independent datasets from other institutions. The adapted foundation model generalised better on every external dataset. Within the training distribution, the task-specific models remained competitive when training data were abundant, and delineated boundaries more precisely, while the foundation model more often missed small lesions. Only a small fraction of the foundation model required adaptation, and the capacity needed was determined by the imaging domain rather than by the adaptation method. A widely used polyp test set was also found to duplicate images from another benchmark. Foundation-model adaptation is therefore warranted where models must work across sites, with capacity selected on the target domain.
#05Nov 10, 2026
cs.CV
TaoMate-R1: Temporal Role Specialization for Streaming Multi-Reference Video Generation
Qijun Gan, Chenwei Zhang, Xinyang Li and 2 more
Streaming multi-reference video generation establishes a scene from specified people and objects, then continues it under changing instructions. We introduce TaoMate-R1, a streaming multi-reference generator that organizes adaptation parameters through temporal role specialization. It assigns separate low-rank adapters to scene establishment and continuation on a frozen backbone. Each adapter performs both denoising and context writing for its role; Self Gradient Forcing jointly trains the roles through the history they construct. This allocation contrasts with operation-based specialization, which separates denoising from context writing across all chunks. A fixed-replay gradient analysis characterizes the update directions admitted by the two sharing schemes. On 32 multi-reference cases, we compare the schemes at the same two-adapter budget. Across ten approximately two-minute streams with changing instructions and shared teacher-audio conditioning, TaoMate-R1 reduces the mean boundary luminance jump from 1.96 to 0.613, with higher boundary feature similarity. It also achieves higher mean CLIP and DINO temporal similarity across short interactions, long streams, and public reference compositions. These results support grouping adaptation parameters by scene establishment and continuation for streaming multi-reference generation. Our code and model are released at https://github.com/TaoLiveAIGC/TaoMate-H3.