Facial expression recognition (FER) in the wild is severely hampered by label noise and annotation ambiguity. Existing methods, including sample selection, label ensembling, and consistency regularization, primarily rely on ordinary label supervision and offer limited control over non-target predictions, leading to spurious activations and overfitting to noisy labels. To address this limitation, we propose a novel learning framework, named Complementary Label Exchange Learning (CLEX), to enhance robustness by exchanging knowledge from non-target predictions across augmented views. Specifically, CLEX comprises three synergistic components. First, Stochastic Non-Target Logit Exchange randomly swaps a subset of non-target logits between original and augmented views to couple error-prone predictions, creating robust consistency constraints. Second, Scale-Invariant Logit Normalization eliminates magnitude artifacts through Lp-norm normalization, ensuring that regularization operates over geometrically meaningful directions rather than being dominated by arbitrary scales. Third, Complementary Suppression Loss selectively penalizes spurious activations over a randomly retained subset of non-target classes, avoiding the uniform shrinkage that hampers discriminative learning. To further stabilize training, we incorporate attention consistency regularization that enforces spatial alignment between augmented views, while retaining auxiliary cross-entropy to preserve semantic localization capability. Extensive experiments across multiple benchmark FER datasets (RAF-DB, FERPlus, and AffectNet) demonstrate that CLEX consistently outperforms existing robust FER learning approaches.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) use their vision encoders to translate images into representations for downstream reasoning, but the encoders often underperform in domain-specific visual tasks such as medical image diagnosis or fine-grained classification, where representation errors can cascade through the language model, leading to incorrect responses. Existing adaptation methods modify the continuous feature interface between encoder and language model through projector tuning or other parameter-efficient updates, which still couples the two components and requires re-alignment whenever the encoder changes. We introduce CRAFT (Codebook RegulAted Fine-Tuning), a lightweight method that fine-tunes the encoder using a discrete codebook that anchors visual representations to a stable token space, achieving domain adaptation without modifying other parts of the model. This decoupled design allows the adapted encoder to seamlessly boost the performance of LVLMs with different language architectures, as long as they share the same codebook. Empirically, CRAFT achieves an average gain of 13.51% across 10 domain-specific benchmarks such as VQARAD and PlantVillage, while preserving the LLM's linguistic capabilities and outperforming peer methods that operate on continuous tokens.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表
Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) requires models to localize objects both spatially and temporally. Despite recent progress, existing methods struggle with complex and fine-grained spatial semantics in language descriptions, leading to error propagation from temporal to spatial grounding stages. We attribute this limitation to the lack of iterative refinement between temporal and spatial predictions. To address these challenges, we propose SARL-STG, the first RL-based framework for STVG. It progressively refines spatio-temporal grounding through multi-stage training with dynamic interaction between temporal and spatial modules. Specifically, SARL-STG contains: (1) a unified architecture that seamlessly integrates a pretrained MLLM for temporal reasoning with an open-vocabulary detector for spatial localization, (2) a hierarchical RL training strategy that progresses from coarse temporal to fine-grained spatio-temporal optimization, and (3) a spatial knowledge-injected reward mechanism that uses spatial grounding quality as discriminative signals for temporal refinement. To facilitate training at scale, we also construct STVG-Wild, a large-scale dataset with diverse spatio-temporal annotations. Experiments demonstrate that our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple benchmarks (HCSTVG, VidSTG, Charades-STA, etc.), significantly reducing error accumulation and enhancing both temporal and spatial grounding accuracy.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表
Modeling dynamic 3D environments from LiDAR sequences is central to building reliable 4D worlds for autonomous driving and embodied AI. Existing generative frameworks, however, often treat all spatial regions uniformly, overlooking the varying uncertainty across real-world scenes. This uniform generation leads to artifacts in complex or ambiguous regions, limiting realism and temporal stability. In this work, we present **U4D**, an uncertainty-aware framework for 4D LiDAR world modeling. Our approach first estimates spatial uncertainty maps from a pretrained segmentation model to localize semantically challenging regions. It then performs generation in a "hard-to-easy" manner through two sequential stages: (1) *uncertainty-region modeling*, which reconstructs high-entropy regions with fine geometric fidelity, and (2) *uncertainty-conditioned completion*, which synthesizes the remaining areas under learned structural priors. To further ensure temporal coherence, U4D incorporates a mixture of spatio-temporal (MoST) block that adaptively fuses spatial and temporal representations during diffusion. Extensive experiments show that U4D produces geometrically faithful and temporally consistent LiDAR sequences, advancing the reliability of 4D world modeling for autonomous perception and simulation.
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Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表
Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG) aims to localize target objects in videos based on natural language descriptions. While Multimodal Large Language Models have shown promise, a significant gap remains between current models and real-world demands involving diverse objects and complex queries. We attribute this to limited benchmark scope, causing models to exhibit category bias, oversimplified reasoning, and poor linguistic robustness.To address these limitations, we introduce OmniGround, a comprehensive benchmark with 3,475 videos spanning 81 categories and complex real-world queries. We propose the Forward-Backward-Refinement (FBR) annotation pipeline for high-quality labels and DeepSTG, a systematic evaluation framework quantifying dataset quality beyond superficial statistics. Evaluations reveal performance average drops of 10.4% on complex real-world scenes, particularly with small/occluded objects and intricate spatial relations. Motivated by these, we propose PG-TAF, a training-free two-stage framework decomposing STVG into high-level temporal grounding and fine-grained spatio-temporal propagation. Experiments demonstrate PG-TAF achieves 25.6% and 35.6% improvements in m_tIoU and m_vIoU on OmniGround with consistent gains across four benchmarks.
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cs.CV · cs.CL
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · 2026 · 正式发表