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  1. GateSPINE: Gated Cross-View Fusion for Lumbar Spine MRI Report Generation

    Sep 30, 2026Hoang Nguyen Van, Cuong Vuong Tuan, Trang Mai Xuan +3Magnetic Resonance Imaging DatasetMagnetic Resonance Imaging

    Applied AI Lab, Phenikaa University, Hanoi, Vietnam · Medical Imaging & Radiological Technology Department, Faculty of Medical Technology, Phenikaa School of Medicine & Pharmacy, Phenikaa University, Vietnam · Radiology & Functional Exploration Center, Phenikaa University Hospital, Vietnam +1

  2. ASENA: Self-evolving Agents for Embodied Navigation

    Sep 30, 2026An-Chieh Cheng, Isabella Liu, Edmund Bu +7Embodied AgentsVision-Language Navigation

    NVIDIA · University of California, San Diego

  3. VLM4Cluster: Benchmarking Deep Clustering In the Era of Vision-Language Pre-training

    Sep 29, 2026Yuanwei Hu, Bo Peng, Yuheng Jia +3Vision-Language Foundation ModelsVision Datasets

    University College London · The University of Queensland · Southeast University +2

  4. ScAn-Bench: Evaluating Scaling Analysis Methodology

    Sep 28, 2026Artin Sermaxhaj, Nastaran Alipour, Donat Sinani +4Large Language Model BenchmarksWireless Foundation Models

    University of Freiburg · Zuse School ELIZA · Juelich Supercomputing Center (JSC), Research Center Juelich (FZJ)

  5. THEIA: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Vision-Language Analysis of Layout

    Sep 28, 2026Giuseppe Chiari, Michele Piccoli, Federico Viola +1Analog DesignLayouts

    DEIB Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy, 20133

  6. When VLMs Trust Context: Evaluating Scene Text Recognition under Misleading Context

    Sep 28, 2026Yuxing Cheng, Yuan Wu, Yi ChangScene Text RecognitionVision-Language Foundation Models

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Jilin University · Engineering Research Center of Knowledge-Driven Human-Machine Intelligence, MOE, China · International Center of Future Science, Jilin University

  7. Revitalizing Medical Time Series with Vision-Informed Retrieval: A Vision-Language Perspective

    Sep 28, 2026Guoqi Yu, Juncheng Wang, Shujun WangTime SeriesWaveforms

    Department of Biomedical Engineering and Sports Technology The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

  8. VL-AcneSeg: A Vision-Language Framework for Region-Aware Acne Lesion Segmentation

    Sep 28, 2026Sukju Oh, Soo Ick Cho, Dae Hun Suh +1Lesion SegmentationVision-Language Foundation Models

    Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Dongguk University, Seoul 04620, Republic of Korea · InSkin Lab Inc., Seoul 06193, Republic of Korea · Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and also with the Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 03080, Republic of Korea

  9. A Visual Classification Dataset and Model Evaluation for Historical Manuscript Illustrations

    Sep 27, 2026Yoav Evron, Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Michael FireVision DatasetsHistorical Manuscripts

    Faculty of Computer and Information Science, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel · The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be’er Sheva, Israel

  10. An Empirical Study of VLM Pipelines for Long-Document QA

    Sep 24, 2026Kenan E. Ak, Jay Mohta, Gwang Gook Lee +2Visual Document RetrievalQuestion-Answering Benchmarks

  11. FFM-CP: Cross-Backbone Fusion of Vision-Language Foundation Models for Few-Shot Computational Pathology

    Sep 23, 2026Anh-Tien Nguyen, Trung DQ. Dang, Nghiem Tuong Diep +9Pathology Foundation ModelsComputational Pathology

    Institute for Predictive Deep Learning for Medicine and Healthcare, Giessen University, Germany · Department of Medical Informatics, University Medicine Gottingen, Germany · Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark +8

  12. Beyond Balanced Accuracy: A Resolution and Parity-Controlled Benchmark for Vision-Language and Vision-Only Defect Assessment in UAV Power-Line Inspection

    Sep 23, 2026Linghao Zhang, Siyu Xiang, Junwei Kuang +1Vision-Language Foundation ModelsSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    State Grid Sichuan Electric Power Research Institute, Chengdu 610041, China · Power System Security and Operation Key Laboratory of Sichuan Province

  13. What do VLM-Based Vision-Language Navigation Models Rely on: Interpreting and Steering Policy Behavior

    Sep 21, 2026Débora Oliveira Makowski, Samiran Gode, Abhijeet Nayak +4Vision-Language NavigationVision-Language Foundation Models

    University of Technology Nuremberg. · ETH Zürich. · Inria, Ecole Normale Sup´erieure, CNRS, PSL Research University.

  14. BindCLIP: One Balanced Coupling For Compositional Vision Language Scoring

    Sep 20, 2026Liuyang Song, Yi Zhang, Zhongyi Deng +2Vision-Language Foundation ModelsFrozen Encoder

    Peking University · Dongguan University of Technology · Sichuan Agricultural University

  15. HOIBlender: Blending Lightweight Detection with Vision-Language Priors for Efficient Human-Object Interaction Detection

    Sep 20, 2026Junwen Chen, Keiji YanaiArticulated ObjectsVision-Language Model Grounding

    Department of Informatics, The University of Electro-Communications, Tokyo, Japan

  16. Vroom-Vroom at SHROOM-Visions: A Multi-Judge Committee for Detecting Hallucinated Spans in Vision-Language Outputs

    Sep 15, 2026Toqeer Ehsan, Nico Penttilä, Richard Schmidt +2Vision-Language Foundation ModelsHallucination Detection

    Reliable Intelligence Team, Physical AI, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

  17. A Vision-Language Foundation Model for Precise and Comprehensive Brain Tumor Diagnosis from Preoperative Multimodal Data

    Sep 15, 2026Yinong Wang, Jianwen Chen, Zhou Chen +28Brain Tumor ClassificationVlm-To-Vla Capability Transfer

    Joyce · School of Computing and Data Science, The University of Hong Kong, China · Department of Neurosurgery, Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, China +23

  18. SceneBench: A Hierarchical Benchmark for Vision-Language Understanding of 3D Scenes

    Sep 14, 2026Anubhav Khanal, Prabigya Acharya, Roshni Poudel +53D Spatial Reasoning3D Generation

    Nepal Applied Mathematics and Informatics Institute for research (NAAMII), Nepal · INSAIT, Sofia University, Bulgaria · State University of New York at Stony Brook, Korea

  19. Foundation Models for Generalizable Semantic and Goal-Oriented Communication

    Sep 7, 2026Boliang Liu, Wint Yi Poe, Riccardo Trivisonno +1Vision-Language Foundation ModelsFoundation Model

    Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany · Huawei Technologies Düsseldorf GmbH, Munich Research Center, Munich, Germany

  20. DroneGround: Open-Vocabulary Drone Payload Characterization Using Synthetic Data and Grounded Vision-Language Models

    Sep 7, 2026Ami Pandat, Rajasekhar Punna, Gopika Vinod +1Drone DetectionAutonomous Drones

    Homi Bhabha National Institute, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India · Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

  21. AlphaRAD: Grounded Zero-Shot Classification in Chest Radiology via αα-Corrected Binary Cross Entropy and Factorized Latent Supervision

    Sep 1, 2026Jianzhong You, Yuan Gao, Chris McIntoshChest X-RayMedical Vision-Language Models

    Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, University Health Network (UHN), Toronto, Canada · Ted Rogers Centre for Heart Research, Toronto, Canada · Vector Institute, Toronto, Canada +5

  22. Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Automated Pathology Diagnosis and Report Generation

    Sep 1, 2026Yumi Lee, Harim Oh, Hyoryung Kim +52Medical Vision-Language ModelsWhole-Slide Images

  23. You Cannot Photograph the Same Street Twice: Reliability Limits in Vision-Language Measurement of Urban Change

    Sep 1, 2026Kaizhen TanUrban EnvironmentsVision-Language Foundation Models

    New York University

  24. Qwen-Drive-1.0: An Initial Step towards a Vision-Language Foundation Model for Autonomous Driving

    Aug 31, 2026Xin Zhou, Zongchuang Zhao, Zhibo Yang +13Autonomous DrivingHuman Driving

    Qwen Team, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

  25. A VLM Answer Is Not an Anomaly Score: Rank Compression Across Image and Video Anomaly Detection

    Aug 21, 2026Inpyo Song, Jangwon LeeAnomaly ScoreVision-Language Foundation Models

    SungKyunKwan University South Korea

  26. How Do VLMs Behave When Blind or Misled? Behavioral Evaluation of VLMs on Scientific Figures

    Aug 13, 2026Paul Osemudiame Oamen, Owusu-Banahene Osei, Ananya Mukherjee +4Scientific FigureVision-Language Foundation Models

    The Aberdeen NLP Research Group, University of Aberdeen, UK · International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, India · University of Technology Nuremberg, Germany +1

  27. Polish Medical Visual Question Answering: Vision-Language Models Underutilize Visual Evidence

    Aug 13, 2026Jakub Pokrywka, Łukasz Grzybowski, Antoni Lasik +3Medical Visual Question AnsweringMultiple-Choice Visual Question Answering

    Adam Mickiewicz University · ARAAI Poland · NASK National Research Institute +2

  28. Evaluating Semantic and Spatial Guidance for Foundation Model Segmentation of Small-Scale PV in Remote Sensing Imagery

    Aug 11, 2026Roni Blushtein-Livnon, Tal Svoray, Osher Rafaeli +4Remote Sensing Image SegmentationRecent Vision Foundation Models

    Department of Environmental, Geoinformatics and Urban Planning Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel · Department of Psychology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel · Department of Geography, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isreal +1

  29. SABRE: Scalable and Automated Benchmarking of VLMs under Stress

    Aug 7, 2026Zixuan Lan, Luzhe Sun, Matthew R. Walter +1Vision-Language Foundation ModelsDouble-Edged Sword

    University of Chicago · Stony Brook University · Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago

  30. Understand Before Detect: Vision--Language Learning for Omni-Domain Infrared Small Target Detection

    Aug 7, 2026Haoyang Yuan, Boyang Li, Yingqian Wang +7Infrared Small Target DetectionScene Reasoning

    National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China · Peking University, Beijing, China

  31. Vision-Language Model Confidence Is Not a Property of the Answer

    Aug 6, 2026Reza Khanmohammadi, Erfan Miahi, Ivan Brugere +4Confidence CalibrationVision-Language Foundation Models

    Michigan State University · JPMorgan AI Research · Henry Ford Health

  32. Vorch-IR: Long-Form Unified Multimodal Identity Replacement Video Generation

    Aug 6, 2026Yaole Wang, Xiaoyu Chen, Xin Ma +5Vision-Language Foundation ModelsFidelity

    Vorch Team · Fudan University

  33. Text-Guided Refinement of Multi-sequence Glioma Subregion Segmentation with a Vision-Language Foundation Model

    Aug 5, 2026Zach Eidex, Yu-nong Lin, Mojtaba Safari +4Brain Tumor SegmentationVision-Language Foundation Models

    Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA · Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA · Department of Radiation Oncology, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

  34. A Paragraph is Worth a Thousand Captions: Rethinking Text Supervision for Vision-Language Retrieval

    Aug 5, 2026Mahyar Ghazanfari, Amin Tabrizian, Arsyi Aziz +2Vision-Language Foundation ModelsCaptions

    The George Washington University

  35. Evaluating the Diagnostic Robustness of Vision-Language Models Under Visual and Textual Perturbations

    Aug 5, 2026Ali Khoramfar, Mohammad Javad Dousti, Alireza Mohamadian +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Foundation Models

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran · Advanced Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Research Center (ADIR), Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

  36. VLAff: Vision-Language-Affordance Model for Unified Actionable Affordances

    Aug 5, 2026Jihoon Oh, Kento Kawaharazuka, Kei OkadaScalable Robot LearningEgocentric Video

    University of Tokyo, Japan

  37. Multi-Branch Policy Optimization for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 5, 2026Shuai Lyu, Yuning Gong, Ruiling Gao +7Multimodal ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Beijing, China · Sichuan University Chengdu, China · Shanghai University Shanghai, China +1

  38. In-Context Collapse in Vision-Language Models and How to Mitigate it?

    Aug 3, 2026Mohammad RostamiVision-Language Foundation ModelsIn-Context Learning

    Amazon Generative AI Innovation Center∗, USA.

  39. Two Sides of the Same Coin: Co-Evolving Search for Cross-Task Attacks on Vision-Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Xuanhui Lin, Junhao Dong, Mingrong Gong +3Vision-Language Foundation ModelsAdversarial Training

    College of Computing and Data Science, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

  40. FairForensics: Seeing Expressions and Parsing Demographics via Vision-Language Modeling for Generalizable Fair Deepfake Detection

    Aug 3, 2026Yaning Zhang, Jiao Wu, Zan Gao +1Deepfake DetectionFace Forgery Detection

    Computer Vision Institute, School of Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, 518060, China · Shandong Artificial Intelligence Institute, Qilu University of Technology (Shandong Academy of Sciences), Jinan, 250014, China · Key Laboratory of Computer Vision and System, Ministry of Education, Tianjin University of Technology, Tianjin, 300384, China +2

  41. From Patches to Evidence Balls: Class-Conditioned Evidence Retrieval for Few-Shot Whole Slide Image Classification

    Aug 2, 2026Di Zhang, Li Zhang, Jiashuai Liu +9Whole-Slide ImagesFew-Shot Learning

    XJTU · JUFE · University of Cambridge +1

  42. MonitorVLM-v2: A Deployed Vision-Language Framework for Real-Time Safety Violation Detection

    Aug 2, 2026Jiang Wu, Sichao Wu, Yinsong Ma +2Vision-Language Foundation ModelsSafety-Critical Scenarios

    School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing · The Laboratory for Computational Sensing and Robotics, Johns Hopkins University

  43. Where did the ambiguity go? Examining how multimodal models interpret polysemous words

    Aug 1, 2026Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Raja Marjieh +1Multimodal ModelVision-Language Foundation Models

    Princeton University

  44. SAGP: Semantic Affordance-Guided Grasp Planning via Coarse-Zone VLM Reasoning

    Jul 31, 2026Muhayy Ud Din, Irfan HussainRobotic GraspingVision-Language Foundation Models

    KU Center for Autonomous Robotic Systems (KUCARS), Khalifa University, United Arab Emirates

  45. A Systems Engineering Framework for Vision-Language-Enabled UAV Triage and Disaster Response

    Jul 30, 2026Swapnil Saha, Bhuvan Rajanasiriyur Jagadeesha, Karishma Patnaik +1Multi-UavDisaster Response

    University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, 72701, USA · University of Michigan-Dearborn, Dearborn, Michigan, 48128, USA

  46. SCALPEL: Semantic Cross-modal Alignment via LLM-Powered Encoder Learning for Medical Vision-Language Representation

    Jul 29, 2026Yunzhan Fu, Enyu Bao, Xiangyu Shen +4Medical Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Alignment

    School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China

  47. Architectural Backdoors in Vision-Language Model Supply Chains via Representation Steering

    Jul 28, 2026Maria Rosaria Briglia, Igor Maljkovic, Antonio Emanuele Cinà +3Vision-Language Foundation ModelsLarge Language Model Backbones

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy · University of Genoa, Italy · University of Trieste, Italy +1

  48. Room-Mediated Co-occurrence for Zero-Shot Object-Centric Semantic Navigation via Frontier Scoring

    Jul 28, 2026Adam Scicluna, Gavin Paul, Alen AlempijevicVision-Language NavigationObject Goal Navigation

    Robotics Institute, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Sydney, Australia

  49. scMIR: a vision-language foundation model for single-cell light microscopy image representation

    Jul 21, 2026Yifan Shang, Jiahui Tan, Xiangxiang Zeng +1Vision-Language Foundation ModelsUnified Representation

    Laser Metrology and Biomedicine Lab, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · State Key Laboratory of Chemo and Biosensing, College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China

  50. Vision-Language Assistant for Emotional Reactions to Risky Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Harine Choi, Eun Hak Lee, Zhengzhong TuHuman DrivingAutonomous Driving

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Texas A&M University, 77840, College Station, Texas, United States · School of Railway Operation Systems, Kyungil University, Gyeongsan-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do, Republic of Korea

  51. GeoDetect: Geometric Adversarial Detection for VLPs

    Jul 16, 2026Afsaneh Hasanebrahimi, Hanxun Huang, Christopher Leckie +2Adversarial ExamplesWhite-Box Spectral-Subspace-Guided Attack

    The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia · Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

  52. From Language to Navigation Goals: A Vision-Language Approach for Semantic Navigation of Mobile Robots Using RGB-D Perception

    Jul 15, 2026Jose Martínez-Fajardo, Pablo Pueyo, Fernando Caballero +1Robot NavigationMobile Robots

    Univ. Pablo de Olavide

  53. What Keeps Vision-Language Models Looking at the Image?

    Jul 14, 2026Hiroto Osaka, Shohei Taniguchi, Gouki Minegishi +3Vision-Language Foundation ModelsChain-of-Thought Reasoning

    The University of Tokyo

  54. Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

    Jul 13, 2026Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides +3Robot NavigationSafe Navigation

    Institut des Syst`emes Intelligents et de Robotique (ISIR) Sorbonne Universit´e France

  55. Evolution of Accuracy and Visual-Cognitive Errors in a Decade of Vision-Language AI Models

    Jul 10, 2026Shravan Murlidaran, Miguel P. EcksteinVision-Language Foundation ModelsComplex Societies

    aPsychological & Brain Sciences, University of California, Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA · bDepartment of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA · cDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, , Santa Barbara, 93106, California, USA

  56. APIVOT: Adaptive Planning with Interleaved Vision-Language Thoughts

    Jul 9, 2026Emily Jin, Joy Hsu, Yiqing Xu +3Long-Horizon PlanningPlanning

    Stanford University

  57. Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Models

    Jul 8, 2026Sergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen +4Replay-Based Continual LearningSelf-Supervised Learning

    PSI, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium · NASK - National Research Institute, Warsaw, Poland · Computer Vision Center, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain +1

  58. BUS: Brain-Inspired Unsupervised Self-Reflection via Backward Prediction for Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 8, 2026Jiacheng Yang, Tongying Xiao, Yunkai Dang +7Recent Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language Foundation Models

    State Key Laboratory of Novel Software Technology, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Institute of Brain-inspired Intelligence, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China · Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA +1

  59. Pelican-VLA 0.5: Attending Before Acting Benefits Generalization

    Jul 7, 2026Zeyuan Ding, Wenhai Liu, Yang Xu +6Action PredictionPhotometric Supervision

    Beijing Innovation Center of Humanoid Robotics (X-Humanoid)

  60. PVCap: Towards Accurate 3D Dense Captioning via PseudoCap and VoxelCapNet

    Jul 7, 2026Xiaopei Wu, Chenshu Hou, Liang Peng +93D Scene UnderstandingVoxel

    1SH AI Lab · 2ZJU · 1SH AI Lab 2ZJU +2