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  1. PhysScene: A Scene Graph Dataset for Scientific Visual Reasoning in Physics Experiments

    Jun 8, 2026Minghao Zou, Qingtian Zeng, Shangkun Liu +5Spatio-Temporal Scene GraphsScene Understanding

    Cardiff University Cardiff, UK · Shandong University of Science and Technology Qingdao, China · University of Exeter Exeter, UK +3

  2. EditSSC: Toward Editable Semantic Occupancy Scenes with Unconditional Diffusion Models

    Jun 8, 2026Fatima Balde, Raoul de Charette, Alexandre Boulch3D Scene Generation3D Scene Understanding

    Inria

  3. From USD Scenes to Knowledge Graphs: Zero-Shot Ontology Grounding with LLMs

    Jun 8, 2026Jiangtao Shuai, Zongxiong Chen, Manfred Hauswirth +1Contextual GroundingZero-Shot

    Technical University of Berlin, Germany · Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany

  4. MB-Loc: Multi-planar Bird's-eye-view Localization in outdoor LiDAR scenes

    Jun 7, 2026Ayaan Choudhury, Preet Savalia, Anirudh Pydah +1LidarTwo-Dimensional Light Detection And Ranging

    Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur, India

  5. PhysGraph: A Physics-aware 3D Scene Graph for Perception and Reasoning

    Jun 7, 2026Haoyu Li, Aaron Thomas, Shuyan Zhou +13D Scene Graphs3D Representation

    Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA. · Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA.

  6. SCOUT: Semantic scene COverage via Uncertainty-guided Traversal

    Jun 4, 2026Junyu Mao, Sara Ayoubi, Vishnu D. Sharma +23D Scene Graphs3D Semantic Occupancy Prediction

    Nokia Bell Labs, France. · Nokia Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA.

  7. PAR3D: A Unified 3D-MLLM with Part-Aware Representation for Scene Understanding

    Jun 4, 2026Shaohui Dai, Yansong Qu, You Shen +23D Scene Understanding3D Generation

    Key Laboratory of Multimedia Trusted Perception and Efficient Computing, Ministry of Education of China, Xiamen University

  8. Unveiling the Unknown: Open Vocabulary Object Detection with Scene Graphs

    Jun 4, 2026Yi Chen, Yinghao Lu, Zhehao Li +4Open-Vocabulary Object DetectionGeneralized Category Discovery

    Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ningbo University, Ningbo, Zhejiang 315211, China · Faculty of Computing, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany · School of Software Technology, Zhejiang University, Ningbo 315000, China +1

  9. TextWand: A Unified Framework for Scene Text Editing

    Jun 4, 2026Shuyu Wang, Zhile Guan, Hongxiu Chen +5Scene Text RecognitionPhotorealistic Style Transfer

    School of Electronic and Computer Engineering, Peking University, Shenzhen, China.

  10. GeM-NR: Geometry-Aware Multi-View Editing for Nonrigid Scene Changes

    Jun 3, 2026Josef Bengtson, Yaroslava Lochman, Fredrik Kahl3D EditingImage Editing

    Chalmers University of Technology

  11. PatchScene: Patch-based Voxel Diffusion for Large-Scale Scene Completion

    Jun 2, 2026Qingdong Xu, Jiajun Zhu, Shilin Zhu +4LidarScene Reconstruction

    1MEGVII Technology · 2Qianli Technology · 4Northeastern University, China +2

  12. SparseStreet: Sparse Gaussian Splatting for Real-Time Street Scene Simulation

    Jun 2, 2026Qingpo Wuwu, Xiaobao Wei, Peng Chen +6Scene ReconstructionGaussian Splatting

    Peking University China · Chinese Academy of Sciences China · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign United States +1

  13. TASE: Truncation-Aware Semantic Embeddings for 3D Scene Understanding and Editing

    Jun 2, 2026Tim-Felix Faasch, Jochen Kall, Lucas Nunes +23D Editing3D Scene Understanding

    Bosch Research, Hildesheim, Germany · Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen, Aachen, Germany · University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany

  14. Dive into the Scene: Breaking the Perceptual Bottleneck in Vision-Language Decision Making via Focus Plan Generation

    Jun 2, 2026Boyuan Xiao, Bohong Chen, Yumeng Li +3Vision-Language Foundation ModelsEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University, China · Baiont Quant, China · Zhejiang Key Laboratory of Intelligent Medical Decision Support, China

  15. Not All Points Are Equal: Uncertainty-Aware 4D LiDAR Scene Synthesis

    Jun 1, 2026Xiang Xu, Alan Liang, Youquan Liu +5Scene UnderstandingEmbodied Artificial Intelligence

    1NUAA · 2NUS · 3FDU +4

  16. Unsupervised Collaborative Domain Adaptation for Driving Scene Parsing

    Jun 1, 2026Jiahe Fan, Shaolong Shu, Mingjian Sun +4Autonomous Driving PerceptionNaturalistic Driving Data

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 201804, China · Department of Control Science and Engineering, the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, Heilongjiang, 150001, China · School of Computer Science and Technology, Tongji University, Shanghai, 201804, China +2

  17. ActMVS: Active Scene Reconstruction with Monocular Multi-View Stereo

    May 31, 2026Guo Pu, Yixuan Han, Zhouhui LianScene ReconstructionOccupancy

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University

  18. PropLLM: Propagation-Aware Scene Reconstruction for Network Fault Diagnosis

    May 30, 2026Zongzong Wu, Ming Zhao, Fengxiao Tang +1Root Cause AnalysisDiagnosis

    School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China · Graduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan

  19. Detect in Any Scene: An Agentic Framework for Object Detection with Experience-Aware Reasoning

    May 29, 2026Wenlun Zhang, Jun Yin, Kentaro YoshiokaObject DetectionArtificial Intelligence Detection

    Keio University · Tsinghua University

  20. Seeing Fast and Slow: Bimodal 3D Scene Graphs for Open-set Tasks

    May 29, 2026Marcel Bartholomeus Prasetyo, Shrutika Vishal Thengane, A Manicka Praveen +23D Scene GraphsScene Understanding

    Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD), Singapore.

  21. Benchmarking Single-Step Inpainting Methods for Multi-Object 3D Gaussian Splatting Scenes

    May 29, 2026Finn Dröge, Cecilia Curreli, Abhishek Saroha +1InpaintingDiverse Occlusion-And-Revelation Scenarios

    1Technical University of Munich · 2Munich Center for Machine Learning

  22. Before the Shutter: Aesthetic and Actionable Portrait Photography Planning in 3D Scenes

    May 28, 2026Ruixiang Jiang, Chang Wen ChenPortraits3D Generation

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China

  23. V2XCrafter: Learning to Generate Driving Scene Across Agents

    May 28, 2026Yihang Tao, Yu Guo, Senkang Hu +4Dynamic Driving ScenesIndoor Scene Generation

    Hong Kong JC STEM Lab of Smart City · City University of Hong Kong · Lingnan University

  24. VisualNeedle: Benchmarking Active Visual Search in Information-Dense Scenes

    May 25, 2026Jingru Chen, Yiming Liu, Mingtao Chen +5Multiple Vision TasksFine-Grained Perception

    Hunyuan, Tencent · Peking University · Zhejiang University

  25. TriSplat: Simulation-Ready Feed-Forward 3D Scene Reconstruction

    May 25, 2026Weijie Wang, Zimu Li, Jinchuan Shi +5Feed-Forward 3D ReconstructionSurface Representation

    Zhejiang University · ETH Zurich · ETH AI Center +2

  26. AnyScene: Towards Highly Controllable Driving Scene Generation at Anywhere and Beyond

    May 25, 2026Haiming Zhang, Junfei Zhou, Feng Jiang +6Indoor Scene GenerationAutonomous Driving

    Li Auto · Southwest Jiaotong University · Tsinghua University

  27. VEOcc: Voxel-Centric Online Semantic Occupancy Prediction For Embodied Scene Understanding

    May 24, 2026Ruoyu Wang, Yong Liu, Sheng Tao +23D Semantic Occupancy PredictionVoxel

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China.

  28. SRUG: Shadow-Guided Relightable Urban Scene with Generation Model

    May 23, 2026Yonghao Zhao, Zexin Yin, Jian Yang +2Image RelightingScene Reconstruction

    College of Computer Science, Nankai University, China · Nankai University and Nanjing University, China · School of Intelligence Science and Technology, Nanjing University, China

  29. SparseWorld: Enhancing End-to-End Autonomous Driving via World Models with Sparse Scene Representation

    May 23, 2026Ruoyu Wang, Jingke Wang, Yukai Ma +5Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingWorld Models

    Institute of Cyber-Systems and Control, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China · Labs, Huawei

  30. GenRecon: Bridging Generative Priors for Multi-View 3D Scene Reconstruction

    May 22, 2026Katharina Schmid, Nicolas von Lützow, Jozef Hladký +23D ReconstructionHigh-Fidelity 3D Generation

    Technical University of Munich · Computing Systems Lab, Huawei Technologies, Switzerland

  31. Composing People Together: Iterative Pose-Image Generation for Multi-Person Interaction Scenes

    May 22, 2026Wenxuan Peng, Bharath Hariharan, Hadar Averbuch-ElorMulti-Reference Image GenerationIndoor Scene Generation

    Cornell University, Ithaca, USA · Cornell University, New York, New York, USA

  32. H-Flow: Self-supervised Human Scene Flow via Physics-inspired Joint Multi-modal Learning

    May 21, 2026Zhanbo Huang, Xiaoming Liu, Yu KongOptical FlowBody

    Michigan State University · University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

  33. Diffusion-guided Generalizable Enhancer for Urban Scene Reconstruction

    May 21, 2026Henry Che, Jingkang Wang, Yun Chen +3Scene ReconstructionAutonomous Driving

    1Waabi · University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · University of Toronto

  34. ScenePilot: Controllable Boundary-Driven Critical Scenario Generation for Autonomous Driving

    May 20, 2026Qiyu Ruan, Yuxuan Wang, He Li +2Scenario GenerationAutonomous Driving

    State Key Laboratory of Internet of Things for Smart City (SKL-IOTSC), University of Macau, Macau, China · Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Macau, Macau, China

  35. RelWitness: Open-Vocabulary 3D Scene Graph Generation with Visual-Geometric Relation Witnesses

    May 20, 2026Minh Anh Nguyen, Quang Huy Tran, Bao Ngoc Le +23D Scene GraphsGeometric Cues

    Phenikaa University

  36. VSCD: Video-based Scene Change Detection in Unaligned Scenes

    May 20, 2026Jiae Yoon, Ue-Hwan KimChange DetectionVideo Surveillance

    Department of AI Convergence, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, Republic of Korea · GIST InnoCORE AI-Nano Convergence Institute for Early Detection of Neurodegenerative Diseases, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, 61005 Gwangju, Republic of Korea.

  37. SceneCode: Executable World Programs for Editable Indoor Scenes with Articulated Objects

    May 19, 2026Puyi Wang, Yuhao Wang, Linjie Li +4Indoor Scene GenerationPlayable Video World Generation

    1The Chinese University of Hong Kong · 2Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 3Shanghai AI Laboratory +2

  38. Can These Views Be One Scene? Evaluating Multiview 3D Consistency when 3D Foundation Models Hallucinate

    May 18, 2026Soumava Paul, Prakhar Kaushik, Alan Yuille3D Foundation ModelsNovel View Synthesis

    CCVL, Johns Hopkins University

  39. VoxScene: Anchor-Conditioned Voxel Diffusion for Indoor Scene Arrangement

    May 16, 2026Haotian Mao, Yuhan Huang, Jiatao Lin +8VoxelScene Understanding

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, China · Tsinghua University, China +2

  40. DecoRec: Decomposed 3D Scene Reconstruction from Single-View Images via Object-Level Diffusion

    May 16, 2026Yuhan Ping, Yuan Liu, Xiaoxiao Long +63D Reconstruction3D Scene Generation

    Department of Computer Science, the University of Hong Kong · Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong · Faculty of Humanities and Arts, Macau University of Science and Technology +2

  41. 3DPhysVideo: Consistency-Guided Flow SDE for Video Generation via 3D Scene Reconstruction and Physical Simulation

    May 16, 2026Hwidong Kim, Yunho Kim, Tae-Kyun KimGenerative Video Models3D Generative Models

    KAIST

  42. Echo-Forcing: A Scene Memory Framework for Interactive Long Video Generation

    May 15, 2026Mingqiang Wu, Weilun Feng, Zhefeng Zhang +8Long Video GenerationScene Understanding

    State Key Laboratory of AI Safety, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China · China University of Mining & Technology, Beijing +3

  43. WorldAct: Activating Monolithic 3D Worlds into Interactive-Ready Object-Centric Scenes

    May 15, 2026Jichen Hu, Jiawei Guo, Jiazhong Cen +33D WorldScene Understanding

    1Shanghai Jiao Tong University · 2Huawei Inc.

  44. VGGT-Edit: Feed-forward Native 3D Scene Editing with Residual Field Prediction

    May 14, 2026Kaixin Zhu, Yiwen Tang, Yifan Yang +93D Editing3D Scene Understanding

    1Peking University · 2Tencent · 3The Chinese University of Hong Kong +4

  45. From Scenes to Elements: Multi-Granularity Evidence Retrieval for Verifiable Multimodal RAG

    May 14, 2026Guanhua Chen, Chuyue Huang, Yutong Yao +4Multimodal Retrieval Augmented GenerationMultimodal Benchmarks

    NLP2CT Lab, Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Macau

  46. SceneParser: Hierarchical Scene Parsing for Visual Semantics Understanding

    May 14, 2026Pengxin Xu, Xincheng Lin, Luping Xiao +5Scene ReasoningAffordances

    Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen · Zhongguancun Academy · Huazhong University of Science and Technology +4

  47. IG-Diff: Complex Night Scene Restoration with Illumination-Guided Diffusion Model

    May 14, 2026Yifan Chen, Fei Yin, Chunle Guo +2Low-Light ImagesImage Restoration

    Tsinghua Univerisity · NanKai University

  48. LEXI-SG: Monocular 3D Scene Graph Mapping with Room-Guided Feed-Forward Reconstruction

    May 13, 2026Christina Kassab, Hyeonjae Gil, Matías Mattamala +23D Scene GraphsSimultaneous Localization And Mapping

    Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, UK · Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, South Korea · School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK

  49. Causality-Aware End-to-End Autonomous Driving via Ego-Centric Joint Scene Modeling

    May 13, 2026Seokha Moon, Minseung Lee, Joon Seo +2Causality-Aware End-To-End Autonomous DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Korea University · Kakao Mobility

  50. HetScene: Heterogeneity-Aware Diffusion for Dense Indoor Scene Generation

    May 13, 2026Zini Chen, Junming Huang, Rong Zhang +4Indoor Scene GenerationLayouts

  51. Revealing the Gap in Human and VLM Scene Perception through Counterfactual Semantic Saliency

    May 13, 2026Ziqi Wen, Parsa Madinei, Miguel P. EcksteinScene UnderstandingPsychology

    Department of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara · Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara

  52. From Image Hashing to Scene Change Detection

    May 12, 2026Anh-Kiet Duong, Marie-Claire Iatrides, Petra Gomez-Krämer +1Change DetectionObject Localization

    L3i Laboratory, La Rochelle University, 17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1 - France · LIENSs Laboratory, La Rochelle University, 17042 La Rochelle Cedex 1 - France · Association Ferrocampus, 17100 Saintes - France

  53. Grounding by Remembering: Cross-Scene and In-Scene Memory for 3D Functional Affordances

    May 12, 2026Qirui Wang, Jingyi He, Yining Pan +2Scene Understanding3D Generation

    TUM · A*STAR

  54. PD-4DGS:Progressive Decomposition of 4D Gaussian Splatting for Bandwidth-Adaptive Dynamic Scene Streaming

    May 12, 2026Jiachen Li, Guangzhi Han, Jin Wan +5Gaussian SplattingNovel View Synthesis

    Qilu University of Technology

  55. MPerS: Dynamic MLLM MixExperts Perception-Guided Remote Sensing Scene Segmentation

    May 11, 2026Ziyi Wang, Xianping Ma, Ziyao Wang +2Remote Sensing Image SegmentationScene Reasoning

    The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Shenzhen) · Southwest Jiaotong University

  56. TransmissiveGS: Residual-Guided Disentangled Gaussian Splatting for Transmissive Scene Reconstruction and Rendering

    May 11, 2026Zhenyu Liang, Xiao Zhang, Tianchao Li +2Surface ReconstructionGaussian Splatting

    HKUST

  57. PaMoSplat: Part-Aware Motion-Guided Gaussian Splatting for Dynamic Scene Reconstruction

    May 11, 2026Yinan Deng, Jianyu Dou, Jiahui Wang +3Scene ReconstructionGaussian Splatting

    School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China

  58. Kinematics-Driven Gaussian Shape Deformation for Blurry Monocular Dynamic Scenes

    May 9, 2026Yeon-Ji Song, Kiyoung Kwon, Junoh Lee +2Scene ReconstructionMotion Blur

    AI Institute, Seoul National University · Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, Seoul National University · Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology +1

  59. SCENE: Recognizing Social Norms and Sanctioning in Group Chats

    May 8, 2026Mateusz Jacniacki, Maksymilian BilskiSocial NormsComplex Societies

    Humalike

  60. AsyncEvGS: Asynchronous Event-Assisted Gaussian Splatting for Handheld Motion-Blurred Scenes

    May 8, 2026Jun Dai, Renbiao Jin, Bo Xu +5Motion BlurGaussian Splatting

    Shanghai AI Laboratory · Shanghai Jiao Tong University · CUHK MMLab +1