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CVPR 2026 Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization2026Fine-grained visual recognition demands attention to subtle, localized differences that current multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often overlook when guided by generic prompts. We propose APO-Pair, a prompt-optimization framework that learns classification rules by contrasting image pairs. A multimodal agent views these pairs, judges whether they depict the same fine-grained class, and iteratively
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CVPR 2026 Findings Track2026Complex image restoration aims to recover high-quality images from inputs affected by multiple degradations such as blur, noise, rain, and compression artifacts. Recent restoration agents, powered by vision-language models and large language models, offer promising restoration capabilities but suffer from significant efficiency bottlenecks due to reflection, rollback, and iterative tool searching. Moreover
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2026Precise and real-time visual localization is critical for applications like AR/VR and robotics, especially on resource-constrained edge devices such as smart glasses, where battery life and heat dissipation can be a primary concerns. While many efficient models exist, further reducing compute without sacrificing accuracy is essential for practical deployment. To address this, we propose asymmetric visual
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2026Current visual grounding research remains limited for prac-tical applications, because existing tasks primarily focus on direct visual queries (e.g., “find the red car”) or reading visible text (e.g., “what is the title of this book?”), rather than supporting general questions about objects (e.g., “how comfortable are these earbuds?”). We introduce the novel problem of Visual Grounding for Object Questions
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NESP 20262026This study presents a systematic investigation of moisture-contaminated lithium-ion batteries through controlled perforations, combining performance analysis with an innovative early detection method. Performance testing revealed severe capacity degradation (<80% retention) and significant swelling (30-65%) in damaged batteries under both room-temperature cycling conditions and high-temperature/high-humidity
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