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6 papers

cs.CV2026

Towards Data-Efficient Video Pre-training with Frozen Image Foundation Models

Svetlana Orlova, Niccolò Cavagnero, Gijs Dubbelman

Video foundation models achieve strong performance across many video understanding tasks, but typically require large-scale pre-training on massive video datasets, resulting in sub…

cs.LG2026

Searching on a Budget: HW-NAS with 10 Latency Probes

Francesco Capuano, Gabriele Tiboni, Niccolò Cavagnero +1

Existing hardware-aware NAS (HW-NAS) methods typically assume access to precise information circa the target device, either via analytical approximations of the post-compilation la…

cs.CV2026

Orion-Lite: Distilling LLM Reasoning into Efficient Vision-Only Driving Models

Jing Gu, Niccolò Cavagnero, Gijs Dubbelman

Leveraging the general world knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs) holds significant promise for improving the ability of autonomous driving systems to handle rare and complex…

cs.CV2026

PMT: Plain Mask Transformer for Image and Video Segmentation with Frozen Vision Encoders

Niccolò Cavagnero, Narges Norouzi, Gijs Dubbelman +1

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) pre-trained at scale enable a single frozen encoder to serve multiple downstream tasks simultaneously. Recent VFM-based encoder-only models for imag…

cs.CV2026

VidEoMT: Your ViT is Secretly Also a Video Segmentation Model

Narges Norouzi, Idil Esen Zulfikar, Niccolò Cavagnero +4

Existing online video segmentation models typically combine a per-frame segmenter with complex specialized tracking modules. While effective, these modules introduce significant ar…

cs.CV2025

Your ViT is Secretly an Image Segmentation Model

Tommie Kerssies, Niccolò Cavagnero, Alexander Hermans +5

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown remarkable performance and scalability across various computer vision tasks. To apply single-scale ViTs to image segmentation, existing method…