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#01Jul 16, 2026

cs.CV

SUFLECA: Scaling Up Feature Learning for CAD-to-image Alignment

Saad Ejaz, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Javier Civera and 2 more

CAD-to-image alignment aims to estimate an object's 9D pose (rotation, translation, and anisotropic scale) from a single RGB image, enabling applications in robotics and augmented reality. Recent zero-shot methods use visual foundation models to match image regions to CAD models, yet typically their correspondences are appearance-driven and degrade under occlusion or sim-to-real domain shift. To address these limitations, we introduce SUFLECA (Scaling Up Feature LEarning for CAD Alignment), a weakly-supervised framework for zero-shot CAD alignment with two key contributions. First, SUFLECA scales up geometry-grounded feature learning from pretrained visual representations through Normalized Object Coordinates (NOCs) supervision on 674K images spanning 12 real and synthetic datasets, learning compact geometry-aware features that generalize across domains. Second, we propose a geometrically consistent matching algorithm that establishes reliable one-to-one CAD-to-image correspondences. Together, these contributions enable accurate, sub-second alignment per object instance without iterative pose refinement. On ScanNet25k, SUFLECA achieves 33.4%/42.3% category/instance accuracy, outperforming, with a smaller computational footprint, the strongest zero-shot baseline by 10.3/12.2 percentage points and, for the first time on this benchmark, even surpassing fully supervised methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/snt-arg/SUFLECA

#02Jul 16, 2026

cs.CV

SceneBind: Binding What and Where Across Vision, Audio and Language

Mingfei Chen, Zijun Cui, Ruoke Zhang and 2 more

We present SceneBind, an omni-modal representation of realistic scenes with joint semantic and 3D spatial understanding across vision, audio and language. Existing omni-modal encoders excel at instance-level semantics (i.e., what is present), but often lack explicit spatial structure (i.e., where it is). SceneBind addresses this gap by representing each scene as a semantic-spatial entity, combining a global semantic embedding with object-centric semantic-spatial slots. This representation explicitly captures object-level semantics, spatial attributes, and uncertainty. We further propose SceneBind Matching, a semantic-spatial matching scheme that integrates global scene similarity with object alignment, supporting cross-modal scene retrieval and object grounding. To train and evaluate SceneBind, we curate a novel real-world binaural audio-visual dataset with structured semantic and spatial annotations, and propose a training protocol for aligning semantic and spatial signals across modalities. SceneBind is compatible with large-scale pretrained semantic encoders, adds lightweight spatial modeling with only a few additional tokens. It achieves state-of-the-art scene and spatial retrieval while enabling strong zero-shot transfer to downstream tasks such as audio-visual localization.

#03Jul 16, 2026

cs.CV

Motion-Conditioned Multi-View Fusion for Myocardial Infarction Localization from Echocardiography

Guang Yang, Wentian Xu, Siyu Wang and 3 more

Myocardial infarction (MI) remains a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Echocardiography (Echo) is a widely available modality for MI assessment, where regional wall motion abnormality is a key indicator. Prior learning based methods for myocardial motion analysis often use handcrafted descriptors or densely supervised estimation, but the need for extensive annotation limits applicability. Foundation models have recently improved vision-based Echo analysis; however, most methods operate on single views and segment-level localization remains unreliable under view-dependent ambiguity, especially in apical views. To address this, we propose MCF-Net, a novel motion-guided multi-view fusion framework that fuses myocardial motion cues with foundation model representations to localize infarction. Visual features are extracted using EchoPrime, a pretrained Echo foundation model shared across dual views. Cardiac motion is modeled with extremely sparse supervision: a single annotated template frame is transferred across videos to initialize point tracking, avoiding dense labels. Motion-derived segment-aware soft masks provide coarse spatial priors that selectively enhance features for challenging myocardial segments. A motion-conditioned fusion mechanism then integrates motion and vision across views, refining predictions without overriding strong appearance cues. On segment-level MI localization, MCF-Net achieves 72.4\% F1 and 84.9\% accuracy, outperforming state-of-the-art motion-only, vision-only, and fusion baselines.

#04Jul 16, 2026

cs.CV

HoloGeo: Mitigating Landmark Bias in Geo-localization via Evidence-Driven Reasoning

Pengcheng Zhou, Xuanyu Liu, Yanchen Yin and 4 more

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly improved image geo-localization, yet existing models remain susceptible to landmark bias, causing them to overlook geographical cues or form spurious correlations, ultimately resulting in inaccurate localization. To systematically investigate this issue, we first design two quantitative metrics, Bias Intensity (BI) and Bias Harmfulness (BH), to characterize the impact of landmarks exerted on model reasoning, and establish a comprehensive benchmark, LandmarkBias-3K. To mitigate landmark bias, we further propose an evidence-driven reasoning framework, HoloGeo, to improve the reliability of geo-localization. HoloGeo is supported by a high-quality dataset, BF-30k, annotated with structured multi-evidence bias-free reasoning chains. By incorporating multi-dimensional rewards, HoloGeo explicitly encourages balanced attention over diverse visual cues and achieves evidence-driven joint reasoning. Extensive experiments demonstrate that HoloGeo not only maintains excellent performance on IM2GPS3K and YFCC4k but also significantly outperforms existing open-source VLMs on LandmarkBias-3K, validating its effectiveness for robust geospatial reasoning.

#05Jul 16, 2026

cs.CV

Video = World + Event Stream

Lianghua Huang, Zhi-Fan Wu, Yupeng Shi and 24 more

We present Wan-Streamer v0.3, which reframes our native-streaming interaction model under a single organizing view: a video is a world plus an event stream. The world is the persistent context in which a video unfolds, including the environment, scene, subjects, ambient acoustic conditions, voice characteristics, and other relatively stable conditions. The event stream is everything that changes over time within that world, including scene or environmental changes, subject behavior, speech, and other sounds. This yields a general-purpose pretraining task over large amounts of real video: given a world and incoming input, predict how the world moves, changes, and responds in real time. The resulting competence can be specialized to a broad family of real-time downstream tasks. We instantiate it on real-time full-duplex audio-visual interaction, where the event stream is the agent's speech together with free-form behavior. Functionally, the model's multimodal understanding process is vision-language-action-like: it maps multimodal user input to language-form speech and behavior actions. Wan-Streamer v0.3 preserves the v0.2 operating point: 640x368 video at 25 FPS, a 160 ms streaming unit, approximately 200 ms model-side response latency, and approximately 550 ms total interaction latency under a 350 ms bidirectional network budget.