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  1. Two Routes to the Middle: Placement Search and Brain Readouts Converge on Where Continual Learners Should Specialize

    Oct 1, 2026Yuan Huang, Zihan Chen, Runbin Zhang +3Human Visual CortexSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Northeastern University

  2. EviRover: Reinforcing Agentic Perception Beyond a Glance

    Sep 30, 2026Kaixuan Fan, Kaituo Feng, Tianshuo Peng +4Visual PerceptionPerception

    MMLab, The Chinese University of Hong Kong · Fudan University

  3. Future Video Generation Better Aligns with the Human Visual Cortex than Observed Video

    Sep 30, 2026Chang-Bae Bang, Hyungjin Chung, Byung-Hoon KimAutoregressive Video Diffusion ModelsHuman Visual Cortex

    Department of Psychiatry, Yonsei University College of Medicine · Institute of Behavioral Sciences in Medicine, Yonsei University College of Medicine · Department of Biomedical Systems Informatics, Yonsei University College of Medicine +2

  4. SpatialCORE: Confidence-Aware Grounded Spatial Reasoning in Large Vision--Language Models

    Sep 30, 2026Rafi Ibn Sultan, Xiangyu Zhou, Md. Sajid Alam Chowdhury +4Spatial ReasoningRecent Vision-Language Models

    Department of Computer Science, Wayne State University · Department of Radiation Oncology, Henry Ford Health · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The Ohio State University +1

  5. Curating Synthetic Data for Task-Specific Visual Perception

    Sep 29, 2026Saptarshi Neil Sinha, Paul Julius Kühn, Michael WeinmannSynthetic DataIndoor Scene Generation

    Fraunhofer IGD, 64283 Darmstadt, Germany · Delft University of Technology, 2628 CD Delft, Netherlands

  6. Do Vision Model See Like the Brain? A Comparison Across EEG Encoding Model

    Sep 22, 2026Shashank Baghel, Kshitij Dwivedi, Dinesh Singh +1Vision TransformerConvolutional Neural Networks

    Centre for Human-Computer Interaction, Indian Institute of Technology, Mandi, Mandi, 175075, Himachal Pradesh, India · Freie Universität, Berlin, Germany · Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany

  7. The Visual Target Matters: Learning across the Visual Hierarchy for Brain-to-Image Retrieval

    Sep 21, 2026Ye Wang, Haokun Ren, Hong Yu +4Visual PerceptionRetrieval Layer

    School of Artificial Intelligence, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, China · College of Information Science and Technology, Beijing University of Chemical Technology, Beijing, China · Department of Land Surveying and Geo-Informatics, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China +1

  8. BinoGen: Scaling egocentric binocular data for embodied visual perception and learning

    Sep 17, 2026Chunpeng Li, Ya-tang LiEgocentric VisionVisual Perception

    College of Biological Sciences, China Agricultural University, Beijing, China · Beijing Institute for Brain Research, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China · Chinese Institute for Brain Research, Beijing (CIBR), Beijing, China

  9. Bridging Learned Visual Perception and Symbolic Belief-Space Planning

    Sep 15, 2026Guy Azran, Michael Navat, Sarah KerenPlanningVisual Perception

    Taub Faculty of Computer Science, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology · Faculty of Mathematics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology

  10. ViD: Vision-Dominant Gender Bias Mitigation for Large Vision-Language Models

    Sep 15, 2026Zhipeng Zhao, Zhaoqiang Wei, Peishun Liu +2Recent Vision-Language ModelsGender Bias

    Ocean University of China

  11. Assisted Spatial Cognition Through Vision-Language Models

    Sep 14, 2026H. Riaz, J. B. Fernandez, I. Mills +3Vision-Language Navigation3D Spatial Reasoning

    School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland · Insight Research Ireland Centre for Data Analytics, Dublin, Ireland · South East Technological University, Waterford, Ireland

  12. Func-R1: Incentivizing Mathematical Function Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Sep 13, 2026Mingze Yin, Xiaohan Wang, Dian Li +8Mathematical ReasoningMultimodal Large Language Models

    College of Computer Science and Technology, Zhejiang University · Tencent 3AI Thrust, HKUST (GZ) · Zhongguancun Academy +3

  13. From Glance to Scrutiny: Progressive Distortion Reasoning for Fine-Grained Image Quality Assessment

    Sep 8, 2026Aoting Zhang, Mingze Gao, Dongbao Yang +5Image Quality AssessmentMultimodal Large Language Models

    IIE, Chinese Academy of Sciences · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · Xiaohongshu Inc. +1

  14. Are Image Generators Zero-Shot Perceivers? A Rigorous Evaluation

    Sep 7, 2026Shangzhe Di, Zhaokai Wang, Weidi XieZero-Shot RobustnessImage Generation

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China

  15. The Visual Insensitivity Gap: Diagnosing When Vision-Language Models Fail to Use Visual Evidence

    Sep 1, 2026Genpei ZhangRecent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Perception

    University of Wisconsin–Madison

  16. Towards Generalizable Visually Grounded Exploration of Household Devices

    Sep 1, 2026Linhao Zheng, Zeming Liu, Wangke Chen +4Embodied AgentsWeak Visual Grounding

    School of Computer Science and Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University · Research Center for Social Computing and Interactive Robotics, Harbin Institute of Technology

  17. Evaluation Resolution Confounds Learning-Rule Comparisons in Model-Brain RSA of Early Visual Cortex

    Aug 11, 2026Nils LeuteneggerHuman Visual CortexVisual Perception

    Independent Researcher, Switzerland

  18. Chartography: A Benchmark for Professional Chart Understanding

    Aug 11, 2026Suhaas Garre, Chris Mutty, Sushant Mehta +1ChartDiagnostic Benchmark

    Surge AI*

  19. Walkable to Whom? Capturing Subjective Variability in Walkability Perception Using Multimodal Deep Learning

    Aug 7, 2026Moloud Damandeh, Meead SaberiMultimodal EvaluationUrban Environments

    School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, NSW, Australia, and the Research Centre for Integrated Transport Innovation (rCITI)

  20. CogVis: Must Open-Vocabulary Change Detection Perceive the Scene Anew for Every Query?

    Aug 6, 2026Zijie Wang, Chen Zhong, Wei HeChange DetectionOpen-Vocabulary Object Detection

    Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University Wuhan, China

  21. IRIS: A Visual Cortex-Inspired Framework for Analyzing Orientation Selectivity in Vision Transformers

    Aug 5, 2026Vaishnavi B Mohan, Vijayakrishna Naganoor, Yashas Annadani +1Vision TransformerVisual Perception

    University of Washington, USA · Microsoft, USA · TU Munich, Germany +1

  22. From Transparent Labware Segmentation to Collision Avoidance: A Real-Time Edge-Aware Perception Pipeline

    Aug 5, 2026Shijun Ding, Chen Qian, Weiwei Shang +1Amodal SegmentationCollision Avoidance

  23. ComplexityWorld: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Verifiable Visual Decision Making

    Aug 5, 2026Ningxin Pan, Hanyu Li, Yehui TangVisual Perception

    Peking University, Beijing, China.

  24. DAC-Pose: Dual-Agent Collaborative Framework for Pose-Guided Human Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Haotian Yang, Zhile Yang, Huiyu Zhou +1Indoor Scene GenerationHuman Motion Generation

    Faculty of Data Science, City University of Macau, Macao, China · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China · Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China +1

  25. HAFI-VLM: A Frequency Perspective for Diagnosing and Enhancing Visual Perception in Vision-Language Models

    Aug 3, 2026Jin Cui, Chuanchang Su, Jiayi Lu +3Ava-VlmVision Encoders

    1State Key Laboratory of Human-Machine Hybrid Augmented Intelligence, and Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Xi’an Jiaotong University · School of Computer Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University · School of Software Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University

  26. Enhancing Visual Perception in Foggy Conditions via Multiclass Fog Density Modeling

    Aug 3, 2026Mohamad Mofeed Chaar, Galia WeidlFogAutonomous Driving Perception

    Connected urban mobility, Faculty of Engineering, University of Applied Sciences, Aschaffenburg, Germany

  27. Decoupled Visual Processing: Efficient Multimodal Adaptation via Modality-Specific Transformer Substitution

    Jul 29, 2026Mingkuan Feng, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua TaoLong Visual-Token SequencesMultimodal Large Language Models

    Tsinghua University · Beijing National Research Center for Information Science and Technology

  28. PerceptionBench: Evaluating Atomic Visual Perception in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 27, 2026Zichao Lin, Yifeng Xie, Bowen Qu +30PerceptuallyMultimodal Large Language Models

    Moonshot AI

  29. MAViE: A Multi-scale Adaptive Vision Encoder for Fine-grained Visual Perception and Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

    Jul 27, 2026Shaofei LeiVision EncodersVisual Perception

  30. Real-time Reconstruction of Human Visual Perception from fMRI

    Jul 23, 2026Rishab S. Iyer, Jiaxin Cindy Tu, Cesar Kadir Torrico Villanueva +10Functional Magnetic Resonance ImagingNeuroscience

    Princeton University · Medical AI Research Center (MedARC) · Dartmouth College +4

  31. TransBiolab: A Real-World Multi-View Dataset of Cluttered Transparent Biomedical Objects

    Jul 23, 2026Ke Ma, Yifei Wang, Meng Wang +1Large-Scale Robot Demonstration DatasetsMicroscopy

    School of Artificial Intelligence and Automation, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China · College of Design and Innovation, Tongji University, Shanghai, China · Shanghai Institute for Intelligent Autonomous Systems, Tongji University, Shanghai, China +1

  32. Associative Emotional Learning in Convolutional Neural Networks

    Jul 21, 2026Seowung Leem, Andreas Keil, Mingzhou Ding +1Dense Associative MemoryNeural Network

    J. Crayton Pruitt Family Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA · Center for the Study of Emotion and Attention, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA · Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA +3

  33. MissingBench-Verified: Probing Vision-Language Models' Inability to Detect Missing Object Parts

    Jul 21, 2026Wenqi Marshall Guo, Qingyun Qian, Shiyu Zhou +2Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Perception

    Department of CMPS, University of British Columbia, Canada · Weathon Software, Canada · Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Canada

  34. Can Multimodal Large Language Models Understand OCT?

    Jul 18, 2026Baochen Fu, Wenzhi Deng, Baihao Jin +5Optical Coherence TomographyMultimodal Benchmarks

    1Shandong University · 4Shandong Provincial Qianfoshan Hospital · University of Science and Technology of China +2

  35. Do Vision Encoders Exhibit Human-like Color Thresholds?

    Jul 17, 2026Engy Ehab, Pablo Hernández-Cámara, Nahla Belal +3Vision EncodersVisual Perception

    Computer Vision Center, Spain · Universitat Aut`onoma de Barcelona, Spain · Image Processing Lab, Universitat de Val`encia, Spain +1

  36. Toward a mechanistic understanding of inference in visual cortex and diffusion models

    Jul 17, 2026Zeyu Yun, Alexander Belsten, Dasheng Bi +3Human Visual CortexDiffusion Models

    Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC Berkeley · Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, UC Berkeley · Herbert Wertheim School of Optometry and Vision Science, UC Berkeley +3

  37. Seeing is Free, Speaking is Not: Uncovering the True Energy Bottleneck in Edge VLM Inference

    Jul 10, 2026Junfei Zhan, Haoxun Shen, Mingang Guo +2Visual PerceptionBottlenecks

    Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA, USA · Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Shenzhen, China · College of Information Science and Technology Jinan University Guangzhou, China

  38. Foveation-Guided Dynamic Token Selection for Robust and Efficient Vision Transformers

    Jul 10, 2026Ibrahim Batuhan Akkaya, Kishaan Jeeveswaran, Bahram Zonooz +1Self-Supervised Vision TransformersVisual Perception

    Advanced Research Lab, NavInfo Europe, Eindhoven, 5657 DB, Netherlands · Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, 5612 AZ, Netherlands

  39. TDSal: Task-Based Top-Down Saliency Prediction Model

    Jul 10, 2026Can Mizrakli, Tolga K. CapinSaliencyMultiple Vision Tasks

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany · TED University, Türkiye

  40. REMIND: RE-Identification with Memory for INDoor Navigation

    Jul 10, 2026Pablo Diaz-Pereda, Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, David Perez-Saura +1Multi-Object TrackingRe-Identification

    Computer Vision and Aerial Robotics Group at Centre for Automation and Robotics C.A.R. (UPM-CSIC), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (CVAR-UPM), Calle Jose Gutierrez Abascal 2, 28006 Madrid, Spain.

  41. On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning

    Jul 10, 2026Pulkit Madan, Sanjay Haresh, Reza Ebrahimi +3Visual PerceptionVision Foundation Models

    Qualcomm AI Research*

  42. Vision Transformers Learn Gestalt-Like Figure-Ground Cues from Natural Images

    Jul 9, 2026Matthias Tangemann, Benjamin Lo, Zygmunt Pizlo +3Geometric CuesVisual Perception

    University of Toronto · 2Vector Institute · 3McGill University +2

  43. Texture Representations in Deep Vision Models: Comparing CNNs, Vision Transformers, and Human Perception

    Jul 9, 2026Ludovica de Paolis, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Laio +1Visual PerceptionConvolutional Neural Networks

    Department of Neuroscience, International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy · Department of Language and Translation Sciences, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain · ICREA, Barcelona, Spain +1

  44. A Comprehensive Survey and Systematic Real-World Evaluation of Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation

    Jul 9, 2026Liuyi Wang, Kai Sheng, Zongtao He +8Vision-Language NavigationVisual Perception

    College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai, China

  45. Modeling the Impact of Visual Brand Language on Attention, Object Recognition, and Memory Retrieval

    Jul 3, 2026Rachel F. Heaton, John E. HummelVisual PerceptionImpact Analysis

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  46. Disentangling Pictorial Cue Understanding from Language Bias in VLMs via Depth Ordering Task

    Jul 1, 2026Yiqian Liu, Iuliia Kotseruba, John K. TsotsosVisual PerceptionLinguistics

    York University, Toronto, Canada · University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada

  47. Rethinking Generic Object Tracking Toward Human-Level Perceptual Intelligence

    Jul 1, 2026Shih-Fang ChenMulti-Object TrackingVisual Perception

    National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University Institute of Computer Science and Engineering

  48. Towards High-Resolution Visual Perception via Hierarchical Entity Exploration

    Jul 1, 2026Ziyu Ma, Shidong Yang, Yuxiang Ji +5Fine-Grained PerceptionRecent Vision-Language Models

    AMAP, Alibaba Group, China · Monash University, Australia

  49. What Does the Brain See? Multiview Neural Representations to Demystify the Brain-Visual Alignment

    Jun 24, 2026Salini Yadav, Taveena Lotey, Pravendra Singh +1Electroencephalography DecodingVisual Perception

    Department of CSE IIT Roorkee, India · Department of CSE IIT (ISM) Dhanbad, India

  50. Do vision-language models search like humans? Reasoning tokens as a reaction-time analog in classic visual-search paradigms

    Jun 23, 2026Farahnaz WickMultiple Vision TasksVisual Perception

    1Independent Researcher

  51. M^2C-EvDet: Multi-Domain Multi-Order Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation for Event-based Object Detection

    Jun 23, 2026Wei Bao, Siqi Li, Shouan Pan +2Cross-Modal DistillationVisual Perception

    BNRist, THUIBCS, BLBCI, School of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China · School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China

  52. Dual-Stream EEG Decoding for 3D Visual Perception

    Jun 20, 2026Ninon Lizé Masclef, Taisija Demcenko, Antonella Catanzaro +1Electroencephalography Decoding3D Perception

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  53. Fast Human Attention Prediction for Fixation-guided Active Perception in Autonomous Navigation

    Jun 18, 2026Fatma Youssef Mohammed, Grzegorz Malczyk, Kostas AlexisViewpoint-Dependent Active PerceptionAutonomous Navigation

    Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Norway

  54. Visuals Lie, Consistency Speaks: Disentangling Spatial Attention from Reliability in Vision-Language Models

    Jun 16, 2026Logan Mann, Yi Xia, Ajit Saravanan +6Vision-Language Foundation ModelsVisual Perception

    Algoverse AI Research · University of California, Santa Barbara · University of California, Berkeley +1

  55. VL2Spike: Spike-driven Distillation from VLMs for Low-Power Visual Perception in Embodied AI

    Jun 14, 2026Zinan Liu, Eric Zheng, Soumyaratna Debnath +3Spiking Neural NetworksTime-To-First-Spike

    School of EEE, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore · Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto and Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Canada · State Key Laboratory of Extreme Photonics and Instrumentation, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China +1

  56. Comparing Human Gaze and Vision-Language Model Attention in Safety-Relevant Environments

    Jun 13, 2026Marta Vallejo, Siwen WangRecent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Perception

    School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, EH14 4AS, United Kingdom

  57. Bridging Geographic Bias in Urban Streetscape Inference via Lifelong Learning with Visual-Semantic Pivoting

    Jun 13, 2026Xinze ZhangUrban EnvironmentsGeometric Bias

    University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90007, USA

  58. From Senses to Decisions: The Information Flow of Auditory and Visual Perception in Multimodal LLMs

    Jun 8, 2026Wish Suharitdamrong, Muhammad Awais, Xiatian Zhu +1Multimodal Large Language ModelsLarge Audio Language Models

    Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI (PAI), University of Surrey, UK · Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK

  59. CSFlow: Aligning Flow Matching with Human Contrast Sensitivity

    Jun 7, 2026Malgorzata Galinska, Bart Pogodzinski, Jan Eric LenssenContrastive Flow MatchingConditional Flow Matching

    Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus

  60. The Lipreading Gap: Do VSR Models Perceive Visual Speech Like Human Lipreaders?

    Jun 5, 2026Rishabh Jain, Naomi HarteVisual Perception

    Sigmedia Group, School of Engineering, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland