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

    Sep 15, 2026Guy Azran, Michael Navat, Sarah KerenBelief SpacePerception-Action Loop

  2. Assisted Spatial Cognition Through Vision-Language Models

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

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

    Sep 13, 2026Mingze Yin, Xiaohan Wang, Dian Li +8Mathematical ReasoningLarge Language Model Reasoning

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

    Sep 8, 2026Aoting Zhang, Mingze Gao, Dongbao Yang +5Image Quality AssessmentFine-Grained Perception

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

    Sep 7, 2026Shangzhe Di, Zhaokai Wang, Weidi XieImage GenerationVisual Perception

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

    Sep 1, 2026Genpei ZhangLarge Vision Language ModelsVisual Perception

  7. Towards Generalizable Visually Grounded Exploration of Household Devices

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

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

    Aug 11, 2026Nils LeuteneggerHuman Visual CortexResolution

  9. Chartography: A Benchmark for Professional Chart Understanding

    Aug 11, 2026Suhaas Garre, Chris Mutty, Sushant Mehta +1ChartReasoning Graphs

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

    Aug 7, 2026Moloud Damandeh, Meead SaberiPerceptual UnderstandingMultimodal Evaluation

  11. Algorithmic statistics of retinal images

    Aug 6, 2026Loan Huynh, Ronald Zambrano, Layton Aho +4Retinal ImagingOptical Coherence Tomography

  12. 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

  13. 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

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

    Aug 5, 2026Shijun Ding, Chen Qian, Weiwei Shang +1Collision AvoidanceObstacle Avoidance

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

    Aug 5, 2026Ningxin Pan, Hanyu Li, Yehui TangLarge Vision Language ModelsVisual Context

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

    Aug 5, 2026Haotian Yang, Zhile Yang, Huiyu Zhou +1Multi-View Diffusion ModelControllable Video Generation

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

    Aug 3, 2026Jin Cui, Chuanchang Su, Jiayi Lu +3Large Vision Language ModelsVision-Language

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

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

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

    Jul 29, 2026Mingkuan Feng, Zhengqi Wen, Jianhua TaoMultimodal TransformersVisual Perception

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

    Jul 27, 2026Zichao Lin, Yifeng Xie, Bowen Qu +30Visual PerceptionPerceptual Understanding

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

    Jul 27, 2026Shaofei LeiVision EncodersVisual Tokens

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

    Jul 23, 2026Rishab S. Iyer, Jiaxin Cindy Tu, Cesar Kadir Torrico Villanueva +10Brain Magnetic Resonance ImagingVisual Perception

  23. Detectors Learn the Wrong Thing: Shortcut-Resistant Adversarial Training Against Physically Realizable Attacks

    Jul 23, 2026Yuanhao Huang, Yilong Ren, Jinlei Wang +3Adversarial ExamplesDetection Framework

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

    Jul 23, 2026Ke Ma, Yifei Wang, Meng Wang +1Robotic DatasetsMultiple Vision Tasks

  25. Associative Emotional Learning in Convolutional Neural Networks

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

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

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

  27. Denoising Models Develop Human-Like Perceptual Illusion Representations Across Architectures

    Jul 19, 2026Gautam Ranka, Paras ChopraVisual PerceptionPerceptual Understanding

  28. Can Multimodal Large Language Models Understand OCT?

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

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

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

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

    Jul 17, 2026Zeyu Yun, Alexander Belsten, Dasheng Bi +3Human Visual CortexDiscrete Diffusion Model

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

    Jul 10, 2026Junfei Zhan, Haoxun Shen, Mingang Guo +2Large Vision Language ModelsVisual Perception

  32. 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

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

    Jul 10, 2026Pablo Diaz-Pereda, Alejandro Rodriguez-Ramos, David Perez-Saura +1Re-IdentificationMulti-Object Tracking

  34. On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning

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

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

    Jul 9, 2026Matthias Tangemann, Benjamin Lo, Zygmunt Pizlo +3Visual PerceptionVision Transformer

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

    Jul 9, 2026Ludovica de Paolis, Marco Baroni, Alessandro Laio +1Vision Foundation ModelsConvolutional Neural Networks

  37. 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

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

    Jul 3, 2026Rachel F. Heaton, John E. HummelVisual PerceptionMemory Retrieval

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

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

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

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

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

    Jul 1, 2026Ziyu Ma, Shidong Yang, Yuxiang Ji +5Fine-Grained PerceptionVisual Perception

  42. Structuring Sparsity: Block-Sparse Featurizers Capture Visual Concept Manifolds

    Jun 23, 2026Thomas Fel, Matthew Kowal, Mozes Jacobs +22Implicit Neural RepresentationsSparsity

  43. 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

  44. 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 DistillationObject Detection

  45. PerceptionDLM: Parallel Region Perception with Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

    Jun 17, 2026Yueyi Sun, Yuhao Wang, Jason Li +8Diffusion Language ModelsVisual Perception

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

    Jun 16, 2026Logan Mann, Yi Xia, Ajit Saravanan +6Vision-LanguageVisual Perception

  47. DifferAD-R1: A Difference-Guided IndustrialAnomaly Localization with Multimodal LargeLanguage Models

    Jun 15, 2026Dingrong Wang, Xian Tao, Zhen Qu +5Zero-Shot Anomaly DetectionLocalization Methods

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

    Jun 14, 2026Zinan Liu, Eric Zheng, Soumyaratna Debnath +3Spiking Neural NetworksBinary Spikes

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

    Jun 13, 2026Xinze ZhangUrban EnvironmentsBridging Geographic Bias

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

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

  51. CSFlow: Aligning Flow Matching with Human Contrast Sensitivity

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

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

    Jun 5, 2026Rishabh Jain, Naomi HarteVisual Perception

  53. Lighting-Aware Representation Learning under Controllable Lighting Variation

    Jun 5, 2026Lizhen Zhu, Charantej Reddy Pochimireddy, James Z Wang +1IlluminationLighting

  54. FS-DVS: A Frequency-Selective Dynamic Visual Sensing Paradigm for Enhancing Information Completeness

    Jun 5, 2026Feiyu Ji, Xiaokang Yang, Xiaoyun YuanVision SensorsVisual Perception

  55. MMBU: A Massive Multi-modal Biomedical Understanding Benchmark to Probe the Perception Capabilities of Vision-Language Models

    Jun 4, 2026Ryan D'Cunha, Alejandro Lozano, Xiaoxiao Sun +17Medical Vision-Language ModelsMultimodal Benchmarks

  56. Policy-based Foveated Imaging and Perception

    Jun 1, 2026Howard Xiao, Jan Ackermann, Boyang Deng +1Vision SensorsLow-Resolution

  57. Deep Psychovisual Image Representations

    May 28, 2026Wendi Ma, Aryaman Sharma, Wei Dai +1Visual PerceptionDeep Learning Framework

  58. Beyond Appearance: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Exploit Vertical Structure for Remote Sensing Natural Scene Understanding?

    May 25, 2026Jing Huang, Duanchu Wang, Junjie Yang +5Remote SensingMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  59. From Contrast to Consistency: Rethinking Event-based Continuous-Time Optical Flow Estimation

    May 25, 2026Rui Hu, Song Wu, Wen Yang +1Optical FlowVisual Perception

  60. Binding Visual Features Point by Point

    May 25, 2026Udith Haputhanthri, Declan Campbell, Rim Assouel +2Visual PerceptionCognitive Science