collaborators

5 papers

cs.CV2026

Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners

Valentin Gabeur, Shangbang Long, Songyou Peng +22

Recent works show that image and video generators exhibit zero-shot visual understanding behaviors, in a way reminiscent of how LLMs develop emergent capabilities of language under…

cs.CV2026

The Cartesian Shortcut: Re-evaluate Vision Reasoning in Polar Coordinate Space

Xia Hu, Zhenrui Yue, Brian Potetz +4

As current Multimodal Large Language Models rapidly saturate canonical visual reasoning benchmarks, a key question emerges: do these strong scores genuinely reflect robust visual u…

cs.RO2025

Robot Learning from a Physical World Model

Jiageng Mao, Sicheng He, Hao-Ning Wu +9

We introduce PhysWorld, a framework that enables robot learning from video generation through physical world modeling. Recent video generation models can synthesize photorealistic…

cs.CV2025

GaussianLens: Localized High-Resolution Reconstruction via On-Demand Gaussian Densification

Yijia Weng, Zhicheng Wang, Songyou Peng +3

We perceive our surroundings with an active focus, paying more attention to regions of interest, such as the shelf labels in a grocery store. When it comes to scene reconstruction,…

cs.CV2025

FirePlace: Geometric Refinements of LLM Common Sense Reasoning for 3D Object Placement

Ian Huang, Yanan Bao, Karen Truong +4

Scene generation with 3D assets presents a complex challenge, requiring both high-level semantic understanding and low-level geometric reasoning. While Multimodal Large Language Mo…