WildMatch: Weakly Supervised Image Matcher Adaptation for Wildlife Re-Identification

WildMatch adapts pretrained image matchers to wildlife identification using only identity labels, improving retrieval accuracy and learning transferable matching priors without keypoint annotations.

Turhan Can Kargin, Piotr Kubaty, Ekaterina Rostovskaya, Izabela Wierzbowska and 2 more

Published Oct 5, 2026 · ▲ 2 on Hugging Face · Code

SmoothOperator: Enhancing Representations for Fine-grained Open-set Recognition via Modulated Label Smoothing

SmoothOperator modulates per-sample label smoothing via embedding prominence to reduce over-alignment, boosting open-set recognition AUROC by up to 4.7%.

Thiru Thillai Nadarasar Bahavan, Yu Xia, Sachith Seneviratne, Halgamuge Saman

Published Oct 1, 2026 · 0 citations

Learning Steadily: Accumulating Relative Point Margin Scores for Face Image Quality Assessment

CARPM-FIQA accumulates relative point margin scores across training epochs to stabilize face image quality estimates, reducing variance and improving ranking stability near top performance.

Guray Ozgur, Tahar Chettaoui, Eduarda Caldeira, Marco Huber and 3 more

Published Sep 15, 2026 · ▲ 6 on Hugging Face

Do Glimpse Policies See Like Humans? A Behavioral Audit Reveals Dissociated Viewing Priors in Classification-Trained Active Vision

boheng liu, Ziyu Li, Chenghua Duan, Qing Li and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

HypMoE-ReID: Hyperspherical Mixture-of-Experts for Large Scale Person Re-Identification

Kunlun Xu, Haotong Cheng, Yufei Guo, Jiahuan Zhou

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

How Does Cutout Benefit Out-of-Distribution Generalization?

Kuo Shi

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

LogT: Logically Think with Images for Visual Search

Yanjun Fu, Quanzeng You, Jiadong Guo, Yujie Lu and 5 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

Can Pixels Alone Reveal Image Origin? Minimax Limits and Learnable Interfaces for Passive Provenance

Kai Yao

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

U-MOF: Uncertainty-Guided Parameter-Efficient Multi-Objective Fine-Tuning for Long-Tailed Recognition

Yuan Dong, Di Wu, Zhe Zhao, Liheng Yu and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

BasicLT: Basic-Level Abstraction and Selective Differentiation for Long-Tailed Recognition

Yuan Dong, Di Wu, Zhe Zhao, Liheng Yu and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Towards Better Generalization in Lifelong Person Re-Identification with Flatness-Aware Learning

Seungbin Hong, Sung Whan Yoon, Jae-Young Sim

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

CausalAffect: Causally Guided Learning of Psychology-Aligned Facial Affect Relations

Guanyu Hu, Tangzheng Lian, Dimitrios Kollias, Oya Celiktutan and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

LoCo: Selective Local Competition for Discriminative Open-Vocabulary Multi-Label Recognition

Zhuoming Li, Bo Han, Xiaoyu Wang, Yuheng Jia

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Neural Refraction Fields for Image Verification

Sage Simhon, Jingwei Ma, Prafull Sharma, Lucy Chai and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

ProAlign: Progressive Positional and Prototype-Guided Alignment for Aerial-Ground Person Re-Identification

Qiao Li, Jing Chen, Cong Wu, Kun He and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Uncertainty-Aware Listwise Reinforcement Fine-Tuning for Fine-Grained Visual Classification

Tan Zhi, Hulingxiao He, Yuxin Peng

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Mobility Helps Learning: Unsupervised Model Adaptation for Object Recognition via Movement

Yanan Ma, Yihang Tao, Zhengru Fang, Senkang Hu and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

TreemapMix: Dirichlet-Controlled Multi-Image Augmentation for Probability and Ordinal Supervision

Ejafa Bassam, Konstantin Garbers, Yingsheng Geng, Dalton Jens and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Cosine is Human: The Reproducibility Ceiling of Perceptual Similarity

Benjamin TenWolde, Virginia de Sa

Paris Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

Graph-Enhanced Attribute-Aware Modeling for Cloth-Changing Person Re-Identification

Yongkang Ding, Zi Ye, Tiantian Gong, Liyan Zhang

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Revisiting The Power of Closed-Form: Robust Deep Image Prototype Discovery via Scale Mixtures

Zhikang Xu, Jiarui Xing, Jian Wang

Sydney Poster Session 6, Thu, Dec 10, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

PuppetGait: Generalizing Gait Recognition via 3D Body-Aligned LVM Features

成伟 叶, Dingqiang Ye, Chuanfu Shen, Zirui Zhou and 4 more

Atlanta Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

Auditing Capsule Vision 2024: Within-Split Train-to-Validation Re-Exposure and a Kvasir-Channel Sensitivity Diagnostic

Eunseob Choi, Kyeonghun Kim, Hyuk-Jae Lee, Nam-Joon Kim

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

How Far Is Too Far? Object Recognition Declines Monotonically with Semantic Distance

Domenic Bersch, Hai Van Tran, Gemma Roig

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Intervention-Guided Image-Free Classifier Expansion for Fine-Grained Recognition

Xiangyu Wang, Changxin Rong, Yanze Gao, Lyuzhou Chen and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

FC-DGCN: Deep Graph Convolutional Network for Face Clustering and Recognition

Ling Ding, Di Jin, Zhizhi Yu, Liang Yang and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

DARE: Dual-Level Adversarial Learning with Domain-Aware Regularization for Whole Slide Image Classification

Yuxuan Jiang, Haichuan Dong, Manning Wang

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Re:Cognize - A Framework for Open-Set Sequential Character Re-Identification

Aaditya Baranwal, Madhav Kataria, Yogesh Rawat, Shruti Vyas

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Prototype Topology Consistency for Visible-Infrared Lifelong Person Re-Identification

Tan Shang, Zhijie Lu, Wuxuan Shi, He Li and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

PhysGraphNet: Physical-State Scene Graphs via Latent Graph Reasoning and Counterfactual Supervision

Zhengtao Yao, Runhao Li, Yan Wen, Guang Yang and 6 more

Atlanta Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

SFPR: Structural Fingerprinting for LiDAR-to-OpenStreetMap Place Recognition

Jiajun Zheng, Ziwei Shi, Yu Zang, Chenlu Lin and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Does Seeing More Mean Knowing More? Mono-Anchored Advantage Normalization for Multi-Source Visual Reasoning

Fanhu Zeng, Zhicong Luo, Zefan Wang, Li You and 2 more

Paris Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 2:30 PM–4:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

Scaling Full Conformal Image Classifiers

Targeted Full Conformal Prediction uses vision-language models to prune labels and scale full conformal image classification with stable coverage and modest overhead.

Julio Silva-Rodríguez, Ender Konukoglu

Paris Poster Session 1, Wed, Dec 9, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

Adapting in the Dark: Efficient and Stable Test-Time Adaptation for Black-Box Models

BETA uses a local steering model and prediction harmonization to stabilize black-box test-time adaptation with zero extra API queries and large accuracy gains.

Yunbei Zhang, Shuaicheng Niu, Chengyi Cai, Feng Liu and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

Selective Disk Bispectrum: A Complete and Rotation Invariant Image Descriptor

Selective disk bispectrum is a rotation-invariant descriptor that preserves all image information except orientation with reduced complexity, validated for noise-robust classification and multi-reference alignment reconstruction.

Adele Lantow, Nina Miolane

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Non-Colliding Biometric Identities for Digital Entities: Geometry, Capacity, and Million-Scale Virtual Identity Provisioning

Biometric identity provisioning allocates virtual face identities as non-colliding gaps within the real identity manifold, scaling to ten million embeddings and one million photorealistic images via gap-aware generation.

Yuyang Ji, Yixuan Shen, Anil Jain, Xiaoming Liu and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

SapiensID 2.0: Aligning Human Recognition Foundation Models with Human Perception

SapiensID 2.0 aligns human recognition with perception via soft-biometrics, noise disentanglement, and kinematic attention to achieve state-of-the-art re-identification and gait recognition.

Yiyang Su, Jie Zhu, Feng Liu, Anil Jain and 1 more

Atlanta Poster Session 6, Fri, Dec 11, 4:30 PM–7:30 PM, Hall C1 · Published 2026

ReefNet: A Large-Scale Dataset and Benchmark for Fine-Grained Coral Reef Recognition

ReefNet provides ~925K genus-level coral annotations and benchmarks showing vision models degrade under zero-shot and cross-source shifts despite adaptation gains.

Abdulwahab Felemban, Yahia Battach, Faizan F Khan, Yuqian Fu and 12 more

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

OFBD: Object-Focused Background Debiasing for Long-Tailed Learning

OFBD identifies background-biased representations as a cause of long-tailed degradation and proposes foreground-guided CutMix and background-guided feature rectification to improve accuracy and tail-class performance.

Shenghan Chen, Yiming Liu, Zhipeng Deng, Haolin Wang and 5 more

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Patch Rebirth: Fast and Transferable Model Inversion of Vision Transformers

Patch Rebirth Inversion incrementally detaches important patches during inversion to accelerate vision transformer model inversion up to 10x while matching dense accuracy via patch rebirth.

Seongsoo Heo, Dong-Wan Choi

Sydney Poster Session 3, Wed, Dec 9, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

X-Palm: Paired Multispectral-to-Smartphone Dataset for Cross-Domain Palmprint Authentication

X-Palm is a cross-domain palmprint dataset pairing controlled multispectral and unconstrained smartphone images that reveals severe performance collapse of existing models on real-world mobile authentication.

Seyed Jamal Seyedmohammadi, Pai Chet Ng, Angelo Genovese, Zhixiang Chi and 2 more

Paris Poster Session 2, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–7:00 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

Q-Probe: Scaling Image Quality Assessment to High Resolution via Context-Aware Agentic Probing

Q-Probe scales image quality assessment to high resolution via context-aware agentic probing, achieving state-of-the-art performance without cropping-induced biases.

Xiang Li, Xueheng Li, Yu Wang, Xuanhua He and 2 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

CurveBench: A Benchmark for Exact Topological Reasoning over Nested Jordan Curves

CurveBench introduces a 756-image benchmark for hierarchical containment reasoning over nested Jordan curves, showing top models achieve only 19% accuracy on hard cases.

Amirreza Mohseni, Mona Mohammadi, Morteza Saghafian, Naser Talebizadeh Sardari

Paris Poster Session 5, Fri, Dec 11, 11:30 AM–1:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026 · ▲ 8 on Hugging Face · Code ★ 1

Pinpoint: Grounded Worldwide Image Geolocation via Cross-Source Retrieval and Reranking

Pinpoint combines internet photos and street-view imagery in a retrieve-and-rerank pipeline to achieve state-of-the-art worldwide image geolocation without multimodal language models.

Nika Chuzhoy, Brian Hu, Amit A Arora, Jae Ro and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Closed-Form Linear-Probe Dataset Distillation for Pre-trained Vision Models

CLP-DD distills synthetic datasets for frozen-feature linear probing via a closed-form kernel ridge solver, achieving near-state-of-the-art accuracy with roughly 14x faster training and far lower memory.

Bincheng Peng, Miki Haseyama, Guang Li, Ping Liu and 1 more

Sydney Poster Session 4, Wed, Dec 9, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Deep Probabilistic Supervision for Image Classification

Deep Probabilistic Supervision constructs sample-specific target distributions via statistical inference on model predictions, improving accuracy, calibration, and label-noise robustness without hard targets.

Anton Adelöw, Matteo Gamba, Atsuto Maki

Sydney Poster Session 1, Tue, Dec 8, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Tool-IQA: Augmenting Image Quality Assessment with Simple Tools

Tool-IQA equips vision-language models with magnifier and gamma corrector tools for local inspection and calibrated image quality scoring, significantly outperforming state-of-the-art models.

Guanyi Qin, Junjie Zhang, Chunming He, Yibing Fu and 3 more

Sydney Poster Session 5, Thu, Dec 10, 10:00 AM–1:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026

Neurosymbolic Object-Centric Learning with Distant Supervision

DeepObjectLog integrates object-centric encoding with probabilistic logic to learn object-level arguments from global labels, achieving stronger out-of-distribution generalization on visual reasoning tasks.

Stefano Colamonaco, David Debot, Giuseppe Marra

Paris Poster Session 3, Thu, Dec 10, 12:30 PM–2:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026

PHOEBI: An Open-World Benchmark for Bacterial Identification in Phase-Contrast Microscopy

PHOEBI introduces a 120,000-image phase-contrast benchmark of bacterial mixtures; per-image classifiers collapse on unseen combinations, and anchor-based decoders over frozen features stabilize identification plus open-set rejection.

Aaditya Baranwal, Md Jahid Hasan, Shruti Vyas

Sydney Poster Session 2, Tue, Dec 8, 5:00 PM–8:00 PM, Hall 1-4 · Published 2026 · ▲ 1 on Hugging Face

Training a Predictive Coding Network on ImageNet using Equilibrium Propagation

An equilibrium propagation method trains a 10-layer predictive coding network on ImageNet, achieving 13.23% top-5 error near the backpropagation baseline and scaling both approaches to ImageNet for the first time.

Tugdual Kerjan, Rasmus Høier, Benjamin Scellier

Paris Poster Session 4, Thu, Dec 10, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM, Paris Poster Hall · Published 2026