Humans do not just see attribute similarity -- we also see relational similarity. An apple is like a peach because both are reddish fruit, but the Earth is also like a peach: its crust, mantle, and core correspond to the peach's skin, flesh, and pit. This ability to perceive and recognize relational similarity, is arguable by cognitive scientist to be what distinguishes humans from other species. Yet, all widely used visual similarity metrics today (e.g., LPIPS, CLIP, DINO) focus solely on perceptual attribute similarity and fail to capture the rich, often surprising relational similarities that humans perceive. How can we go beyond the visible content of an image to capture its relational properties? How can we bring images with the same relational logic closer together in representation space? To answer these questions, we first formulate relational image similarity as a measurable problem: two images are relationally similar when their internal relations or functions among visual elements correspond, even if their visual attributes differ. We then curate 114k image-caption dataset in which the captions are anonymized -- describing the underlying relational logic of the scene rather than its surface content. Using this dataset, we finetune a Vision-Language model to measure the relational similarity between images. This model serves as the first step toward connecting images by their underlying relational structure rather than their visible appearance. Our study shows that while relational similarity has a lot of real-world applications, existing image similarity models fail to capture it -- revealing a critical gap in visual computing.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表
We present PAMotion, a physics-aware diffusion framework for generating realistic full-body human interactions with multiple objects.Existing diffusion-based methods that jointly synthesize human and object motions often struggle to capture the intricate physical interactions--especially those involving complex hand-object contacts. To address this issue, in this paper, we begin with our key observation: in everyday, slow-motion scenarios, object accelerations inherently reveal the underlying physical interactions.If an object's acceleration aligns with gravity, it is likely in free motion with no physical contact from human or other objects; otherwise, it must be in contact--directly or indirectly--with the human body. Building on this intuition, PAMotion jointly models full-body human motion, object motion, and their corresponding accelerations, enforcing physical plausibility through a physics-aware interaction loss.In this loss, we softly penalizes violations of consistency between object acceleration and human-object contact states. PAMotion follows a coarse-to-fine pipline: we first synthesize global torso and object translations, then conditionally refine hand motions and object rotations, achieving both high-level motion-text consistency and low-level physical fidelity. Experiments on two challenging datasets HIMO and ParaHome demonstrate that PAMotion achieves state-of-the-art performance in generating realistic, physically consistent full-body manipulation sequences involving multiple objects. Our code is released at https://github.com/liyuheng520/PAMotion.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表